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Pokémon Direct announced for February 26th, is 5 minutes long
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MegaManTrigger
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Though there is a world of a difference between seeing how regular battles unfold and seeing the 3DS struggle to render and animate 5 models during horde battles. Which makes me think it's the hardware that's the problem (especially in conjunction with having extremely high quality models).
It doesn't need to be blocky, but it doesn't HAVE to be so high quality either. If the hardware is stable enough, then by all means, go crazy. But when the 3DS isn't that powerful, it doesn't make sense to put in high quality polygon counts.
And the frame rate doesn't have to be correlated to the type of game it is. The problem is that it's an annoyance. Instead of stuff like horde battles going along smoothly, time is waste seeing slower animations (this is especially true if you try to EV train off hordes) because of the hardware struggling with 5 models at once.
I feel like they went with such detailed models so that they wouldn't have to change it for the next couple of gens. Do the hard work now rather than later. And since they're already done, might as well use them. Its not like pokemon games depend on precise frame rates. It might be annoying to some players but its not an important bullet point people buy these games for that they would highlight '60fps!' in a future game.
Eventually they'll have to... maybe. Maybe Gen 8.
KelpPlankton
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This was exactly what they said the 3D models being so high-quality was for. They have higher resolution versions of them on-hand too for future use.
Basically they let the 3DS games suffer worse framerate with the knowledge that they could make future Pokemon titles faster, later on, since they wouldn't need to redo those models for a long time.
AnkiRendan
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I wish they would redo some of those models though, because they look like crap.
Like Haxorus.
Like Haxorus.
renegade_dewitt
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ONLY 13 HOURS AND 22 MINUTES REMAINING!
There we go then.
Lets dispel once and for all with this fiction that Game Freak doesnt know what they're doing. They know exactly what theyre doing.
Killer Queen
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This is the best recent GAF meme.
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
Moon and Sun really pulled traffic lol
MulderYuffie
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I hope so but if X and Y are anything to go by we will be lucky if we get to 800 Pokemon.
At this point I wouldn't even care if they didnt put new Pokemons. Personally I would be all in for other radical changes, like get rid of the f...ng HMs, I'm tired of those slaves...
Blackquill
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I too really want changes... But I know how I can be a fanboy for Pokemon and buy the game no matter what (I just hope for more new Pokemon than Kalos)
You Ev train with animations turned on?! God damn your patient
Boss Doggie
all my loli wolf companions are so moe
yeah when I EV train I turn off animations too.
You took that out of context.
It was in regards to me getting either XY or ORAS. I want to catch as many Pokemon as possible in either version.
It was in the Japanese twitter announcement.
Ah OK. Thanks!
I'm sure the Pokémon Company will have some terribad NicoNico stream at some point with more info.
Just be glad they didn't announce it a full week in advance lol.
The announcements for XY and ORAS were short and we'll probably get addition info pretty soon after.
BodiesWithoutOrgans
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So thanks for supporting Pokemon for 20 years then trailer then it's over
morimoto: thank you for supporting pokemon for 20 years. we are pleased to announce that the fad is over and the series is canceled.
Massive Duck. C.M.
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I was actually kind of disheartened to see the leak. Like why even bother one day before the direct
WhiteRabbitEXE
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Is there any reason to assume that the broadcast couldn't possibly be different lengths in different regions? I don't think it has happened before, but I mean, theoretically it could be possible the non-Japanese Directs get a couple extra minutes tacked on for Detective Pikachu or something, right?
I want it to be Psyduck only.
Starwolf_UK
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My hope for the high quality models is that in future gens they can spend more time on the animations. The taking damage and fainting animations are sort of there and lack memorable ones like Pokemon stadium had 16 years ago. Some of the attack animations are neat though.
Also if this next game is on 3DS on the same engine remember to flick the New 3DS switch this time. As homebrew proves to us just using the extra processing power on the New 3DS makes battles run a lot better.
Also if this next game is on 3DS on the same engine remember to flick the New 3DS switch this time. As homebrew proves to us just using the extra processing power on the New 3DS makes battles run a lot better.
Ask NOE the question of why they had to file the trademark a day early. If it is anything like patents filing it 20 seconds before the direct would offer the same protection them just the same. Not that I can see anyone but Nintendo or TPC getting a PoKéMoN Sun trademark.
TheSlySoul
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Yeah, specially when both Cyber Sleuth and Yokai Watch beat the pants out of X/Y. It will take lots to impress me now.
TheSlySoul
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Honestly if they do not show any trailers, 5 minutes makes sense. Release the trailers on YT.
Detective Pikachu has already released in Japan so I wouldn't expect it unless the western directs are a little longer.
The XY reveal trailer was less than two minutes long IIRC and the ORAS one was even shorter.
TheSlySoul
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Yeah, Detective Pikachu and Sun/Moon will fit but probably Pokemon Go will be just info.
Every Direct they released videos that did not make the Direct so I bet it will happen.
Pokemon Go info is coming at GDC so I wouldn't expect that either.
TheSlySoul
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Ah, so probably Pokemon Rumble World then.
A game that has been out almost a year?
Exclusive would not be smart. Enhanced would be.
NeonZ
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There'll be no detective Pikachu in those 5 minutes. It's a worldwide Direct and the game is already out in Japan.
Worldwide Direct doesn't mean that it's exactly the same Direct worldwide.
Probably a response to my post.
I was just wondering. Detective Pikachu doesn't look like a big game, so I don't think they would spend much time on that, hence why I was speculating 2 or 3 additional minutes for US/EU.
It wouldn't surprise me or be unexpected if in the end it were just 5 Minutes fully focused on Sun/Moon, but I think it's fair to expect more, since we have more to cover than Japan.
Robin64
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That probably wouldn't make as much money as another 3DS entry.
What's to say they can't make both a Wii U version and a 3DS version, akin to Smash Bros? Hell, they could even add features to the game that require both versions to be owned, thus bring in more money.
Psyduck is legendary.
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