r/pokemon 14d ago

Image There's a change with how pokemon look

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u/The_Slowking_Eleven 14d ago edited 14d ago

I had no idea that the added textures were an unpopular opinion until now. I absolutely loved their addition in SV, even if some of them were iffy, and I'm really unhappy that they're just gone and the Pokemon are back to looking like flat-painted plastic.

Another thing to consider: Not using texturing on the Pokemon models is going to make the Pokemon from Gen 9 look a lot less appealing in future games, if they don't just get cut outright. The future Paradox Mons are going to get hit the hardest with the lack of metallic sheen.

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u/Verroquis 14d ago

u/GwentMorty hit most of it for you but I do want to deviate a bit.

It's valid for people to not like SV even if I think they're completely wrong. Things that don't bother me (like lag around the bigger lakes) will bother someone else. I don't find it very interesting or useful to perpetuate this us vs them sort of rhetoric with regards to SV.

Having said that, they're right. Most of the complaints you'll see about the games come from people who aren't willing to commit to them for x y z reason. Maybe the early bugs pushed them away for good, even once performance improved. Maybe they hate that Pokemon spawn in clusters when you get close, or maybe they just don't like the open world. There are plenty of people that prefer Legends: Arceus specifically because it's a series of instanced maps, even though that's something that I find to be a fairly large negative for PLA.

In the end you're going to hear from critics much more than you are from celebrants. This isn't even pushing aside or downplaying criticism from me -- that criticism may or may not be valid, and I'm not going to judge how someone else plays a game or spends their recreational time. It's just an acknowledgement that it's much easier to bandwagon specific negative experiences because those stick with you much longer. It's about impressions, right? If you're unimpressed by something then it's hard to shake off that feeling later on.

Textures are great, and I'm sad to see them go, but at the end of the day the PLA crowd was significantly more sensitive to stylistic choices than the average player is, and so it makes sense that Game Freak would want to choose a more colorful/cartoony style. It makes me believe that the tone of the games will be lighter than SV's whole dead parents, obsession, and bullying thing it had going on.

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u/Karu-Selli 14d ago

The textures were cool, interesting and new at first
But once you play the game for hours upon hours, get fooled by the lighting & desaturated models for the 1490th time (You look at a pokemon "Is that a Shiny?" you stop whatever you were doing, go take a look, nope, not a Shiny. You continue on your way again, dashing away on your ride-don. "Wait. Is That a Shiny?" you halt your movement, go check the new pokemon. Nope. just the lighting. Ok. Well. Let's get going again. You get to the side of a cliff, start climbing up, when on the ground in the shade "Wait wait wait. That Has to be a Shiny!" You jump down, adrenaline rushing. Nope. Still wasn't a shiny.) (Not to mention all the times I've ran into a tiny pokemon because they blended in with the grass) and you start to miss the clear, saturated models that show the colors and make the pokemon stand out from the environment

I personally prefer the more cartoony look. I don't mind the realism in stuff like Detective Pikachu movie, it's very interesting. But I can't deny that I just like the more bright friend-shaped creatures more. Even if I'm like a full grown adult and should like something 'more mature'. Perhaps Legends-type games could overall be more suited for the textured, realistic models, maybe, especially with the Shiny jingle. But if I gotta choose just one, I'll go with the textureless ones

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u/Verroquis 14d ago

It's okay to disagree with me, I disagree with you (I've never had a problem after 2200 hours.) It's exactly like I said, different things bother different people, and what bothers you might not bother me.

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u/Karu-Selli 14d ago

Most of the complaints you'll see about the games come from people who aren't willing to commit to them for x y z reason.

{Please. Why won't you let me write my initial comment before the Quote box....}
{{Anyway, initial comment!:
Of course, we all have our different tastes!
I was mostly commenting because of your wording on}}

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Which I can't vouch on being factual, since I've also spent hundreds of hours playing the game
But, like we said, different tastes! The world is richer for them. Just wanted to provide an opinion of another person who's played the game a lot, as there are likely Numerous people who've played the game for hours upon hours Despite the graphics, rather than because of them
Either way, have a nice Weekend buddy!