>>46273539"Eventually" would have been years, possibly decades from now. I understand that 1000 creatures feels terribly overwhelming, but with the amount of corners GF has cut in their implementation, it's actually very manageable. The models are going to be reused for a very, very long time and so are many of the animations accompanying them. If they ever wanted to update they could easily get away with doing it incrementally, which would also save them work with making newer species look "too good." Same mostly applies with movesets, they don't have to rebalance them all every single gen.
At the rate new generations have been releasing and the amount newer gens have been adding to the roster, it would take nearly another three decades to even approach hitting 2000 species. And this doesn't even mention the fact that there's an entire separate company that eats, shits, and breathes making Pokemon models, so it's not like GF's staff is overwhelmed with the task. They don't even have to mess with it.
They not only cut them in the worst possible way, but they did it with the worst possible timing with absolutely no necessity to do so. If they were actually making brand fucking new models from scratch, it could be forgivable. But they're not new from scratch, they're the old meshes with a new coat of paint meaning most of the world was already done and they just couldn't be fucked. And it just HAD to be the gen that went HD. It just had to. After nearly a decade of them looking like dogshit on the 3DS, worse than the fucking stadium games because high poly models look awful filtered through 240p. They just had to sully the series' transition into 3D, in the worst way possible, while giving a giant middle finger to everyone who cared about collecting Pokemon long term.
Holy fucking shit I'm still mad.
