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[levyjl1988]

The division of video game depictions in Anime vs In Game

Pokemon Red/Blue depiction of Pallet Town.

In Game:

What we played...

-Pallet Town

Anime:
What we watched and imagined it to be...

-Pallet Town


Growing up with Pokemon we had to fill in the blanks of what the video game was trying to convey especially with the technological limitations at the time.


Anime

-Lumiose City

In-Game
At least they are trying to get the scale right...



I personally hated games where you were the size of the town in the overall map, it felt lazy as the proportions were way off as if you were the size of the town itself.

When are we going to get that GTA V, Witcher 3 open-world with the aesthetics of the anime, with a full Pokemon dex with that sense of awe and scope?

 

[Birdo]

They need to get the company that made the Ni No Kuni games to make a Pokemon game.

They look like a Ghibli film come to life.

 

[kraspkibble]

never as long as Game Freak are around.

They are incompetent developers stuck in the past. It's 2019 and Sword/Shield is the best they can do. Don't even dare blame it on the Switch hardware. That's not the problem.

Pokemon makes a shit load of money and Game Freak have got far too lazy. They think they can just half ass it and all will be fine. The sad thing is that Sword/Shield will still probably sell really well. Unless people start putting their money where their mouth is then nothing will change.

 

[SegaShack]

Pokemon Puzzle League and Yellow are both based off the animated series.

 

[Gargus]

never as long as Game Freak are around.

They are incompetent developers stuck in the past. It's 2019 and Sword/Shield is the best they can do. Don't even dare blame it on the Switch hardware. That's not the problem.

Pokemon makes a shit load of money and Game Freak have got far too lazy. They think they can just half ass it and all will be fine. The sad thing is that Sword/Shield will still probably sell really well. Unless people start putting their money where their mouth is then nothing will change.

Well it is in part to the switch hardware because it's weak in every aspect. Because Nintendo doesn't care about hardware, they care about gimmicks.

But it's mostly game freaks fault for just shitting out games without trying to push things forward. And its equally Nintendo fault because they dont care about anything really besides jerking off the same old franchises over and over again that they have been jerking off for decades. They do not innovate or move ahead, the rate they occasion they do its quickly forgotten and they go back to the same old shit.

But let's be honest here. If the pokemon games were so truly and utterly shit then why do they keep selling? Answer is because a whole lot of people like them. So why would they change what's working for them? Sure it seems like a lot of people are unhappy to you with them but you also travel in a circle of like minded folks but there are millions and millions of people out there that do like them, and they out number you and your like minded comrades.

 

[OutrageousFacts]

Well it is in part to the switch hardware because it's weak in every aspect. Because Nintendo doesn't care about hardware, they care about gimmicks..

Pokemon Sword Shield looking like absolute shit is not in any part Nintendo's fault nor the Switch hardware's.

@op:

I'm 34. And at this point I don't believe I'llive long enough to see Gamefreak making that dream Pokemon game that most fans really desire. Gamefreak behaves as if new hardware has to drag them by their hair to improve the quality of Pokemon, but it's always the minimum effort. I'll give a road map of what I expect Pokemon generations to be like:

- current gen (Sword Shield): Upscaled 3DS-graphics
- gen+1: PSVita-graphics
- gen+2: Upscaled Wii-graphics plus fully free camera
- gen+3: Switch-graphics with limited areas
- gen+4: PS4-graphics with open world, but little interaction
- gen+5: PS5-graphics with raised level of interaction
- gen+6: Dream Pokemon-game

That's between 18 and 30 years until we get the Pokemon-game we wish for. So much stuff can happen between then and now. I'm not going to keeo waiting.

Fuck Gamefreak. All hail Monolith Soft.

 

[Starlight Lotice]

They don't want to mix the Anime with the Games to be honest for one obvious reason.

The Anime has moves that are not possible in Game for instance, which I would have loved to see.

The Games are also not supposed to show GTAV levels of detail, or else it'd take ages to get these games out.

Game Freak certainly need new blood in the Company to make the games....40+ is not enough anymore.

 

[Afro Republican]

They do, it's called Pokemon Yellow and Pokemon Puzzle fighter on the N64, and that's all you're going to get.

 

[Afro Republican]

If Gamefreak wants Pokemon to evolve and really take the series somewhere take the GameCube game formula, expand the story, add more pokemon, bring back random battle, keep the steal system with a consequences system, and allow for more rpg elements.

 

[Virex]

It would unfortunately put GameFreak in a position where they will have to actually put effort into making it. And that is a lot to ask of GameFreak

 

[bigDdestruction]

Don't watch the Pokemon anime anymore but the clips i've seen get me way more excited than anything I've seen/played in Sword/Shield. Gamefreak really should just take idea's from the anime.

 

[Inanilmaz]

Lets be honest we would do the same, sitting on our asses and do little to nothing when the main games would sell always 15M+. I would even add a message at the end credits where i write: well done buying my low effort product, shitheads. And it would not even have any effects on the future sales

 

[-Arcadia-]

A game that looked like, or somewhat like those anime screens, would be amazing. I had never even considered that a direction for Pokémon’s evolution, but it makes so much sense.

 

[Zephir]

No thanks, I like to win the Pokemon League

 

[Lanrutcon]

Never.

If Gamefreak had to develop a Pokemon game on a current gen console they'd piss themselves and spend 3 years coming up with excuses.

You get developers that push the envelope, and then you get asshats that re-use assets from a fucking 3DS game in 2019.

 

[Codes 208]

I dont want a game that takes 10+ seasons just to win the elite four

 

[GymWolf]

Lol they can't even depict a ps2 tier graphics, what you ask is a little absurd my friend...

 

[JimiNutz]

When Game Freak get sucked into a black hole and disappear from our universe leaving Nintendo to take ownership of the franchise.

Or

When rabid fanboys stop buying the games and sales dramatically decline.

 

[RaZoR No1]

Probably never...

IMO Pokken is a game which probably is as closest we can get to an anime PKMN fight

 

[Shifty]

When Game Freak start treating the series as a piece of expressive work instead of a money-making vehicle.

Magic 8-Ball says "the outlook is grim".

 

[Saber]

Probably never, because GF its a bunch of imcopetent lazy developers that couldn't even have take the mouse cursor away from their own credits.

 

[ThatGamingDude]

I don't understand people who are hating on Game Freak for doing what works for them
People will lose their shit over Pokemon not updating their Engine etc, but flock and praise this game



People are weird

 

[deriks]

If we have more years of development and a good direction, we can get

I don't understand people who are hating on Game Freak for doing what works for them
People will lose their shit over Pokemon not updating their Engine etc, but flock and praise this game



People are weird

Goose Game was made by four people, looks amazing as it is, it's not an expensive game and it's fun as hell

 

[Breakfast at Noon]

Needs a new team I feel the current team is in a comfortable rut and can't be arsed.

 

[JordanN]

It's technically closer to your classic RPG vs monster battler, but Blue Dragon had full HD towns that resembled anime in 2007. You know? On the Xbox 360 that came out nearly 2 generations ago.

The tech was always there. It's the actual talent required to make these games and Gamefreak doesn't care.

Take the redpill and just support other developers who put in the effort instead. If anything, the reason why we don't see more games like the above is because people rather support brand names than actual new IPs that actually try to be different or innovative.

 

[ThatGamingDude]

If we have more years of development and a good direction, we can get

Goose Game was made by four people, looks amazing as it is, it's not an expensive game and it's fun as hell

Goose game is also incredibly more simplistic in terms of an engine, scale, and story as well

Other people would argue that it does look amazing as is, and compared to games with microtransactions or paid expansions/DLC would see it as a cheap buy

Just food for thought

I for one don't mind how it looks in hand held mode, but was very disappointed to see it's not really bumped up when it's docked

 

[Fbh]

To play devils advocate for a bit. Based on what I've seen from the new game, at least towns do look a bit better and more complex as far as looks and overall layout goes. They seem to have moved past the flat square area of most previous games.

But as for when you'll actually get a legit open world game on the Scale of the Witcher or GTAV? LOL never. Gamefreak lacks the talent and manpower to make anything on that scale and neither them, nor Nintendo, nor the Pokemon company have any interest in investing the sort of money such a project would require (even though they could afford it).
They continue to sell really well and even get good reviews with what they are currently doing so they have no incentive to put in the extra money. And I bet if they ever see a drop in sales and the media stops giving them the small indie dev treatment, they'd rather just go all in on mobile.

 

[Whitecrow]

I find their lack of ambition a shame, given the franchise they have in hands.

 

[Saber]

I find their lack of ambition a shame, given the franchise they have in hands.

The franchise is the very reason for the lack of ambition. Doing what they do its a dream to any company.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

When are we going to get a good Pokemon game for the switch is my question :|

 

[Whitecrow]

The franchise is the very reason for the lack of ambition. Doing what they do its a dream to any company.

Only when the company is lazy. But not all companies are like them.

If I had Pokémon on my hands, I would have been paying devs for years to develop an MMO, and cover me and fans with Pokémon glory.

 

[Jossps]

its up to the devs mate but in a way, I agree on some parts

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

The anime is terrible though.

We should be getting a game based on the manga.

Yes.

 

[OutrageousFacts]

The anime is terrible though.

We should be getting a game based on the manga.

Yes.

It should be based on the correct manga, though:

❤

Edit: Oooh, DGrayson knows! Naughty boy! XD