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How much better would this game be with animated cutscenes?

Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 14:41:16 No.49510148 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>49510222 >>49510382 >>49510737 >>49510774 >>49510820

I'm so fucking tired of the stilted human models during any dialogue exchange.
Nevermind the actual graphics, THIS is what makes these games look and feel so cheap. Hell, I've even noticed recycled animation from fucking Sun/Moon. This was barely acceptable on the 3DS. It makes me cringe.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 14:53:39 No.49510222 Report

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>>49510148
The worst offender is the "black screen with sound effects" in place of an animation that's been a staple since SM. Almost all Pokemon related sidequest have this and it's so sad because having, for example, Geodude actually press the jars or Eevee eat its food would have made those quests much more meaningful

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 14:54:59 No.49510230 Report

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>>49510222
Yeah this aspect absolutely reeks of laziness, no exaggeration.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 14:55:55 No.49510233 Report

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Monster Hunter World had 2 hours of animated cutscenes. I wish Game Freak can make something similar…

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 14:57:54 No.49510245 Report

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>>49510222
Trips of truth. I was actually really getting into PLA last night, but when this happened during the Braviary quest, it completely took me out of it.
Imagine if a modern Mario or Zelda game did this. Everybody would give it so much crap.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:02:03 No.49510275 Report

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>>49510245
Or the Mr. Mime quest. You're telling me they couldn't show Mr. Mime running away each time you catch him? There's no excuse.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:05:23 No.49510301 Report

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honestly wonder if it's a time constraint at this point. the sidequests are cool and invoke a lot of individual lore about the pokemon involved but the lack of animations on them stands out hard.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:05:39 No.49510303 Report

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>>49510245
Exactly this. I just went through the Braviary stuff and it got me so mad. I can still understand for the sidequest but on the main story it's unforgivable. Specially when it's supposed to be a cool cutsene with the warden showing you Braviary flight for the first time.
Same for stuff like Gengar kidnapping Growlithe offscreen

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:09:14 No.49510331 Report

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>>49510301
What's weird is that some quests do have animations. Like when that one dude gets scratched by a Glameow.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:13:45 No.49510361 Report

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>>49510331
In most cases it would be as easy as using an existing animation (the move visuals, not just the Pokemon moving) at the result would be much better. It's like FX were forbidden during cutscenes

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:16:31 No.49510382 Report

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>>49510148
I really like the game but this was one of the most obnoxious things in the game. Between the plates just popping up out of nowhere in your hand and Sabi just hopping on to Braviary in a dark flash with no real animation, it was just annoying and inconsistent with a lot of other things they animated. I can accept the regular items just being something invisible that a character motions towards you to hand over because a lot of other RPGs do the same thing but I would think that they would step it up for the handful of important cutscenes.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:17:42 No.49510392 Report

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>>49510245
I can recall multiple times where BotW had this. The tranny questline in the desert had more than one, the crazy bitch with the flowers

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:18:44 No.49510401 Report

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>>49510233
2 hours seems excessive and would annoy the fuck out of people especially if they cant skip it. Id imagine more like the shorter cut scenes like in the console fire emblem games

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:24:38 No.49510441 Report

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>>49510331
yeah. it feels weird given that we're talking about a multi-billion dollar earning franchise but it always feels like Game Freak aren't given the time and or manpower to see their vision to the fullest and have to cut corners like this to get things -done- , esp compared to some of the recent thing's we've been getting in terms of animation etc.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:28:58 No.49510469 Report

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>>49510441
It's just weird that this game has so many other small soulful additions, yet they kept that shitty quality they introduced in Gen 7 where they skimp on the animations in cutscenes unless they're classified as "movies".

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 15:59:57 No.49510737 Report

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>>49510148
I've thought of a good way to fix this issue, no animations needed. Just make it so your character is able to walk around a small perimeter where the "cutscenes" is taking place, like how you're able to move around during battles.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:04:14 No.49510774 Report

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>>49510148
Kids these days can't use their imagination, I swear.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:05:30 No.49510790 Report

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>>49510222
here's the thing: if they wanted to just be lazy, it would be way better if they just didn't cut to black. It would feel about the same quality and it wouldn't waste the player's time. It is factually worse to just cut to black because it takes more effort than nothing and just looks and feels worse in all respects.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:07:01 No.49510804 Report

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>>49510774
That was a good argument back when technical limitations hampered how much the player could see on a gameboy screen. And even then the gameboy games would just as easily be able to show a Mr. Mime running away from you.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:09:33 No.49510820 Report

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>>49510148
This really isn't important at all, at least to me. The cutscenes do exactly what they need to do, there's really no point in putting more effort into them to achieve the exact same purpose. Same applies to the lack of voice-acting, it's totally unnecessary.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:16:29 No.49510880 Report

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>>49510820
So I guess animating and modeling the characters, world, and Pokemon was also unnesessary? The text box tells you all you need to know after all.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:27:54 No.49510969 Report

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Pokemon story is always padding anyway.

I prefer it being fairly minimal (Just let us know what's generally going on), so we can get on with the gameplay.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:28:05 No.49510970 Report

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I think the worst offender is the model's clothing patterns are all ultra pixelated or blurry.

Like they were all made super tiny and the game is scaling them up or something. Its not super noticeable most of the time but when the game hangs on character models in cutscenes, it starts to catch my eye.

The animations being lazy aren't anything new but at least the characters have more emotions than just spinning in place and wagging their hands back and forth.

I think a game like this would vastly benefit from having voice actors though too. Going from Monster Hunter Stories 2 and comparing it with this is like night and day.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:39:17 No.49511066 Report

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The lack of animated cutscene + no voice acting made this so hard to finish
I actually like playing the game but the text walls in front of family guy tier conversation animations was mind numbing

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:47:38 No.49511145 Report

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>>49510970
>I think the worst offender is the model's clothing patterns are all ultra pixelated or blurry.
This is the most baffling thing to me. I shouldn't be able to count the individual fucking pixels on a texture.
It's lik everything gamefreak does either falls in the camp of laziness or the camp of incompetence. And there's a very fine line.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:51:45 No.49511183 Report

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>>49510880
cutscenes aren't gameplay, they're just a method of conveying the story to the player. and in a series like pokemon that isn't remotely story-driven or character-driven, i just don't really care about how the cutscenes look. if anything i appreciate this kind of cutscene more since i can just mash through it and still have a general idea of what's happening, as opposed to an actual movie that i either have to watch or skip entirely and get dumped out on the otherside having no idea what just transpired.

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Anonymous Tue 01 Feb 2022 16:53:34 No.49511190 Report

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