>>41171938>for GameFreak's level of commitment sprites are the way to goi don't agree, because game freak never did sprites right either. it's all well and good to be nostalgic for the gen 3 sprites, but realistically, nobody would be satisfied with those on the switch if that was what we were still getting. going back to sprites now would also be a colossal waste of resources after they had all those future-proofed models made for them, even moreso than the dex cut was.
another huge problem with returning to 2d is that good spritework is extremely expensive and time-consuming. just look at snk, who held out with beautiful high-quality spritework as long as they could until it almost bankrupted them. now they have to do 3d like everyone else. and their fighting games' rosters are nowhere near as big as the national dex.
the best realistic solution to how ugly the games are would be for game freak to hire better 3d animators and modelers. but with 16 million people already guaranteed to buy whatever they shit out, they don't have any incentive to do that either.
