Anyone else think pokemon graphics peaked in gen 4? Shit's

It's my favorite aesthetic too.

No, I honestly think they are the ugliest graphics in the series.

>>32558049
I honestly that's the only thing it has going for it aside from Battle Frontier.

DPPt have objectively the worst graphics for its system but HGSS has the best looking overworld and sprites in the entire series

>>32558049

DPPt don't really look that good to me, but HGSS looks better. DPPt really have this weird awkward middle ground for both graphics and sound, yet HGSS and Gen 5 avoid it minus pixels in the Gen 5 stuff.

>>32558063
this

I don't know about the graphics overall, partly because I'm a huge fan of the GBA era, but Machamp's HGSS sprite is the best they've ever done. It is leagues beyond every other Machamp. FRLG comes close but something about HGSS just takes the cake.

I don't know if this really counts as the graphics itself, but I really liked the palette changes that matched the city names on the Super Gameboy and Yellow Version.

>>32558049
pokemon really does look better with simple graphics
this trying to be realistic but not at all thing they're doing now is blech

>>32558049
Sinnoh got some aesthetics right but it was still early 3D, it was HGSS that really nailed the coffin

>>32558063
>>32558066
>>32558335
This. Gen 4, or at least DP (if not Pt) have probably the worst graphics in the entire series. If I remember correctly this was around the time Nintendo was getting shit on for the Wii being subpar as well, prompting the whole fun vs graphics ""debate"". It seems they tried to fix it in Pt a bit though it was mostly palette changes. I'd argue as well that HGSS perfected them, before Gen 5 complexness downgraded everything except front sprites. Not much else to say about objective facts.

>>32558049
No, they peaked in Gen III. Outside of battles, 3D has added nothing to the series.

I miss the games having a constant frame rate, no constant transitions between areas, taking ages to load every time I go through a door.

I cringe every time I open or close out of my bag because I have to stare at 5 seconds worth of black screen every single time.

I think the overworld looks great in gen 7. Everything else sucks though.

>>32558049
>>32558404

No, you just think that because it's what you grew up with. As someone who started at the beginning and played every generation, gen 4 is weak and the series has never looked better than it does on the 3DS.

>>32558049
My overall favorite is gen 3 graphics but gen 4 is nice too

>>32558335
I always thought gen 5 looked pretty awful, and this is from someone who loves gen 5.

no? gen 4 sprites are a step down from gen 3 and gen 5 enhanced the gen 4 style to actually be good

>>32558380
I think the battles look pretty based nowadays desu. It's just the overworld which imo has always been pretty bland.

>>32558702
Yep, playing through B2W2 right now and any time the camera moves everything turns into a stretched-out pixelated mess.

>>32558608
I started with Red and I think HGSS are the best looking Pokemon games by far.

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>>32558608
Sun and Moon look like shit mate

i like gen 5 the most tbqh. followed by 3/7 depending on what style you want i guess.

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>>32558049
Yes, but only HGSS. DPPt's graphics had that putrid green everywhere. Otherwise I wish they'd go back to pixel art.

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>>32559313
I smell cherries, someone been picking cherries?

>>32558049
Love fem gen 4 graphics.

Tbh the ones that never did it for me were gen 3 graphics.

HGSS was pure graphics kino

I think gen 3 had better graphics, the 2D in Fire Red was perfect

>>32559458
Gen 3 Fire Red, yeah, it was pretty damn good.
Gen 3 R/S/E may have been great games but the graphics were probably one of the cons.

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>>32558049
Say whatever you want about Unova but it looks fucking beautiful, easily the best looking region in the series

Sinnoh was ugly brown and green everywhere, half of the towns made me want to kill myself

>>32559487
Hoenn looks good, they went with more variety for locations which was a good thing

>>32559530
Oh, yes, it's design is great but compare the flat sprites to FR/LG's which have depth in mind.

>>32558608
This. HGSS perfected the spritework (Crystal is the second best), but the 3D is better, excluding certain pokemon. We just need games that maximize the 3D potential and make the models come alive more.

>>32559551
This. Hoenn's map looks meh even though the level design is top-notch.

sinnoh has the best battle graphics
unova has the best overworld graphics

>>32559313
>this pic
literally looks like shit

>>32558608
No, you just think that because it's what you grew up with.

>>32559517
I don't disagree on the region itself, but all of the pixel stretching in gen 5 really doesn't look good imo. I mean stuff like the way the sprites are animated in battle, and the zoom in when going into buildings.
Even the overworld suffers from this since they had it viewed from a bit of a different angle, so stuff on the bottom of the screen was stretched while stuff on the top was squished, rather than gen 4 and below where it's basically just a straight grid of tiles on the screen. Gen 6 and forward don't suffer from some of these issues so much since they could use more models than sprites, due to the improved hardware.

>>32558608
You are gay

>>32558049
The pokemon sprites are great. The pseudo-3D overworld looks like trash. The overworld in gen 4, 5, and 6 looks like shit. Pokemon sprites were great until gen 6.

>>32558608
You are gay

>>32558049
HGSS are peak comfy for me. The only thing that even came close was Village Bridge in Unova.

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>>32559458
>the 2D in Fire Red was perfect

>>32559970
>The pokemon sprites are great. The pseudo-3D overworld looks like trash.
Kind of like a reverse gen 5.

>>32558049
I didn't like it
heads are too big and look dumb with their little bodies
in the earlier games your entire character was a stubby little chibi, now you're lumbering around with this giant head and dumb hat everywhere

also the colours and enviroent sprites felt "off"
gen 5 was a massive improvement everywhere

HGSS looked much better in terms of environment but the characters still looked weird

>>32559427
yea gen 3 really hit the spot for me too
I liked the look of gen 2 as well but 3 was just so much "fuller" and more colourful while g/s was limited by the gameboy still

gen 1 is fine but very simple.

No, HGSS were better. And I unironically love the look of gen V's sprites. I think the hate for them is overblown. I honestly dislike the static sprites for Gen 4. Still better than the trash 3D models in X/Y though.

>>32558049
the graphics of 6 gen is pure shit

Gen 2 was the peak.

Didn't like Gen 4's sprites/models hybrid, then Gen 5 made it absolutely disgusting.

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>>32558066
>>32558365
>>32558425
>>32559364
>>32559436
>>32560031
>>32561020
This. Gen 4 had the best overworld aesthetics and only because of HGSS

>>32558049
If this was 2012, yes
3D is so much better than 2D though

>>32558425
For this game it wasn't because of the Nintendo DS but simply because game freak had major trouble transitioning to the DS and it shows in every aspect of DP

>>32558063
5
you're thinking of gen 5

>>32561804
The overworlds have been 3D since Gen 4. And XY looks worse than OP's image anyways

>>32561628
I wish gen 4 games had an option for an orthographic camera so there wouldn't be any warping. Maps always look nice but the warping makes it quite a bit worse.

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The thing is that even the 2D Pokemon games aren't the best example of what can be achieved with sprites. Look at what Minish Cap could pull off on the GBA. Game Freak is just lazy.

>>32558049
Nope. It sucks donkey ass.
Best graphics were in Gen II, after that gamefreak was too fucking lazy to care enough about graphics.
As
>>32562231
said, minish cap did incredibly better than Diamond/Pearl, and it was on gba.

>>32561908
>And XY looks worse than OP's image
Ahhh, the smell of a Sinnohfetus.

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>>32562248
How does this look good in any way? Even Gen I looks better than this

>>32562264
This isnt final screenshot, just some early image stupid

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>>32562264
Looks pretty okay to me.

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>>32558049
The mainline games looked bad because of the low-res 3D in the overworld, but the mystery dungeon DS games were visually amazing

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>>32558049
True

>>32558049
The 3D game feel so bland I prefer the sprite style, it somehow makes the games feel more full and mysterious.

>>32558602
This only happens to me when I'm playing with a flashcart.

>>32562330
Only the cutscenes, because the overwords graphics and sprites were literally reused GBA assets.

>>32561827

t. Sinnohfetus

>>32558049
>Anyone else think Pokemon graphics peaked when they literally weren't as good as they are now

Jokes aside, the only reason you think this is because of nostalgia goggles. Ill be happy to post a few comparisons between gen 4 and 5 and you can tell me which looks better.

I still think gen 3 sprites were the best

>>32564137
ew wtf

this is fucking disgusting

why is the right side trying to be a real game, while left side maintains that handheld aesthetic?

>>32564137
The bottom two Platinum screenshots look better than the BW/B2W2 ones.

Platinum didn't try too hard with the camera so there was no distortion and jagged edges.

It's a common mistake that more complicated and detailed graphics are the same as better graphics.

From a gameplay standpoint the increased focus on a three-dimensional overworld has added almost nothing to the gameplay, in fact it hinders it because it makes the games run slow and sluggish.

The Generation III games ran at a glorious 60 FPS at all times and are much more pleasurable to play because of that fact.

The battles are the only thing that have been improved by better graphics.

>best aesthetics
>not ORAS
You're just clinging to nostalgia if you think otherwise.

>>32564137
Even better, why don't you compare RSE with DPPt because even those graphics are better, and even you don't think they are, the fact that they would be so similar despite the DS's superior ability speaks volumes for how phones in DP was.

>>32564364
Even then I think the right side shows a more innovative Game Freak as it at least tried to do somethind different and jaggies aside it looks pretty dramatic. Gen 4 had a lot of things it kept around for traditions sake regardless of whether it made sense, which was dropped or properly adapted in future games.

>>32564850
>gen 1
>ghost house is part of plot
>gen 2
>ghost house is not important
>gen 3
>ghost hill is part of plot
>gen 4
>ghost tower is for Defog

>>32558049
Agree. Gen V has the worst sprites, and it looks very pixelated.

>>32562432
>Implying the GBA mystery dungeons were ugly

>>32564216
>>32564364
>reddit pattern writing
>has shit taste
It checks out.

>>32558049
With HGSS and BW/2

>>32558049
Why don't you go get spit roasted by timenasour and spacezilla?

>>32564216
>Handheld games are not "real games"
Fuck off to /v/ and never ever come back, disgusting subhuman scum.

>>32565308
>posted from an iPhone 7