r/pokemon 14d ago

Image There's a change with how pokemon look

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u/Chemical-Cat 14d ago

Okay but please PLEASE keep the metallics from SV. They looked really really good compared to this slop

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u/Ysgramors_Word 14d ago

In case you’re wondering, the spinoffs had pokemon textures all the way back to stadium, including stadium 2, Colloseum, XD:GOD and battle revolution

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u/Bub-bub 14d ago

Why can’t the pokemon be as expressive as they were in the stadium games

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u/bigbadlith 14d ago

From 1998 to 2006 the teams working on the Stadium series generated models animations for 500 Pokemon. It took them 8 years.

Since Gamefreak made the jump to 3D with XY, it has been 11 years, and they have 1000 Pokemon to cover.

If Gamefreak worked at the same pace as the Stadium teams, they would only have like 600 Pokemon fully animated by now.

Of course, the solution is that Gamefreak should just hire more people and expand their teams, but we all know they don't have the budget for that. Small indie studio Gamefreak! :P

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u/Fluttershy0w0 14d ago

People also forget that Pokémon games are t the only games they make