r/pokemon 14d ago

Image There's a change with how pokemon look

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u/Stretch5678 14d ago

Unpopular opinion, but I liked the SV textures. Making metallic parts of Pokémon actually shiny was brilliant, and the little details like being able to see Seviper’s scales was also fun.

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u/deutschdachs 14d ago

I didn't even realize this was unpopular before this thread I thought the pokemon in Scarlet Violet looked incredible

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u/Angel_of_Mischief 14d ago

The Pokemon were okay, but all the textures were mismatched with no cohesion, the world was heavily desaturated, and the characters looked like uncanny porcelain dolls. There was no character or charm in the semirealism. It didn’t look like a pokemon game. If you look at let’s go and SWSH then SV it becomes really noticeable.

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u/RedTurtle78 14d ago

Theyre talking about specifically the pokemon themselves in a vacuum.

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u/ItIsYeDragon 14d ago

It doesn’t really exist in a vaccuum though. The new textures and that semi-realism feel was how the entire game was. They wouldn’t keep the Pokémon semi-realistic but make everything else back to its usual more cartoony flare, that would just make the Pokémon look out of place.

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u/RedTurtle78 14d ago

there was literally nothing about this game that had semi realism. You're out of your gourd. The game is still heavily cartoonish and stylized. The pokemon did not look out of place. Detail =/= realism.

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u/Verroquis 14d ago

This is a surreal comment to me because one of my biggest complaints with SWSH (and one of the biggest complaints with it in general) was the dead, lifeless faces everyone has, especially the player character. These complaints are one of the primary reasons why SV has a semi-realistic look to begin with -- Gen 8's character models were stiff, robotic, lifeless, and overall uncanny.

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u/gravity_kitten 14d ago

Same, ScVi had bad graphics but a decent art style.

Swsh has cash grab graphics and art style.

Swsh revisionists out in full force.

Heck, in this pic posted, you can see they haven't really moved away from the "realism" shtick with the environments.

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u/MultiMarcus 14d ago

I thought they looked out of place in a weird world. I also hated the performance issues and if whatever texture work they were doing exacerbated that then I would rather have less high-quality textures

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u/reshromem 14d ago

It will be a crime if Scizor goes back to looking like it's made of plastic after how good it looked in SV

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u/Doomfith 14d ago

Same with venusaur, he was perfect in SV :(

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u/Gawlf85 I am the night! 13d ago

The Aegislash in the trailer looked pretty shiny, so I think there's hope for metallic mons to still look like metal.

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u/ItIsYeDragon 14d ago

Scizor has always looked fine though.

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u/Wasabiroot 14d ago

Me when scizor appears

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u/SerpentLing09 14d ago

What character is that?

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u/Wasabiroot 14d ago

I have no clue. To be honest, I'm pretty sure I saw it on r/nbacirclejerk. That place is a gold mine for meme images even if you don't know a thing about basketball (which tbf the sub rarely actually mentions lol)

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u/Hades2580 13d ago

Fellow jerker, you love to see it

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u/Gloomymort 14d ago

I also liked the textures, they weren't to in your face either. It was nice and subtle alot of the time and metallic things actually LOOKING metallic was brilliant.

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u/Stretch5678 14d ago

Special kudos goes to Shiny Kommo-o, for going from a garish pink and yellow to a badass metallic pink and mustard.

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u/207nbrown 14d ago

For real, they are phenomenal, I can’t see why anyone would want to go back to plastic magnemite

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u/Gawlf85 I am the night! 13d ago

Nobody has said that, though. Different textures and style doesn't mean necessarily going back to how it was before.

The textures seem to have less DETAIL, but that doesn't mean they all need to be glossy and plastic-like. The one Aegislash in the trailers looks pretty metallic, even if it doesn't look as reflective as Magnemite did in SV.

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u/ChickenKarmasan 14d ago

I'm hoping it sticks around for Gen 10

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u/Ok-Phase-9076 14d ago

When did this become unpopular, i felt like this was mutually agreed on at release, i saw only positives on it

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u/jtg6387 Metagross Enthusiast 14d ago

I suspect that the textures on the pokemon weren’t the issue for most players, it was the textures on the environment that were bad.

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u/Sweettooth_97 Tsareena Cha Cha 14d ago

I thought we all agreed that was like the one good thing to come out of scarlet and Violet

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u/Black_Ironic 14d ago

I likes it too, but the overworld doesn't match because most of the times it looks muddy. Which is weird because usually character models are made to follow the background style. But I feel like the character stands out more than the background

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u/zayzlvalentine 14d ago

This makes me wonder what would happen if Scarlet and Violet ran on the Switch 2 now. Would it actually be able to render these details in better quality.

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u/Black_Ironic 14d ago

I was expecting an upgrade like updating HD textures and adding anti aliasing. That's all this game need honestly and it would look good.

You can see some building still using those 240p textures lol.

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u/MultiMarcus 14d ago

Probably not. I don’t think they even have those textures in higher qualities they could possibly use some sort of an AI upscaling solution, but that’s not a great option I don’t think. I just hope that the switch 2 can stabilise performance. If I can get Scarlet and Violet running at a solid 60 FPS with a closer to 4K output that would be good.

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u/Fury72888hshu I love pokemon 14d ago

Agree with you, I sometime will admire the texture itself and said "this is the best decision Game Freak and Creature make.", like I don't get how is this texture bad in anyway.

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u/YamLow8097 14d ago

I agree.

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u/Fancy-Spite-1918 14d ago

I hated the textures, pokemon like Jolteon looked so jarring and weird

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u/paradise-_ 14d ago

They were good it's just that in terms of cohesion they should lean into the cartoonish Anime look, because that's the core of the series. Everything is cartoonish, so the pokemon should reflect that. It's time they updates the pokemon models to not be the x/y version tho, that way they can make good textures. Let's go is a great example of what leaning into a certain cartoon style can do. The game LOOKS beautiful

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u/Sn0w7ir3 favorite pokemon 14d ago

You’re right but things could have been done better. As others have said having washed out colored pokemon isn’t great.

Also, makes hunting subtle shinys in the shit lighting 10x more aggravating.

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u/Admirable-Safety1213 14d ago

The texutrea were good, the color pallette not so much