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Am i wrong for feeling like this?

Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:38:16 No.55111930 View View Reply Original Report

Quoted By: >>55111947 >>55111981 >>55111989 >>55112057 >>55112067 >>55112099 >>55112200

Pokemon was never a looker but it used to have some artistic integrity, i have most if not all locations of previous games stuck into my mind, SV however look so bland in comparison despite having a huge world and unprecedented freedom i can't remember shit about it.
It feels like the whole map's level design was generated by an algorithm

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:39:39 No.55111947 Report

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>>55111930
wtf is that ugly bloody tampmon on the right

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:43:19 No.55111981 Report

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>>55111930
yeah yeah, the games are bad. You bought it anyway.

I can't think of any 2023 game with memorable locations. Granted, I didn't play much, but besides maybe Elden Ring (which didn't impress me), is there ANY modern game that just WOWs in terms of geography, backdrop and general map design? AAA games all kinda look the same (which has always been the case, remember brown and bloom?) but what about indies? The best looking game on the Switch is arguably Odyssey but that was years ago. Even Tears looks disgusting.

What [current year] game sets the standard that Pokemon should beat?

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:44:14 No.55111989 Report

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>>55111930
get a better argument

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:44:51 No.55111997 Report

Quoted By: >>55112032

It's pretty common for open world games to be generated and then populated and redefined with more specific detail. It is most likely the case that this was done for SV but then routes, paths, caves etc were manually created within that and the landscape reshaped to make them work well.

The thing is you're comparing apples to oranges game design wise. Not every location in open world games is designed to be memorable. An open field with little going on is an inherently valuable part of open world design because it juxtaposes the more purposeful areas like the hub cities and major routes between them. When you walk through Alola, everything is a set path and as such, is constructed to be visually unique, but if every aspect of every location is visually unique in an open world, you end up with an open world with no down time, something desperately important to the appeal of openness.

The format needs refining for sure, SV is a step and not what should be the end result of open world Pokemon, but I don't think the goal should be "all locations should be memorable" but that the scale needs to be balanced better with the definition to maintain both unique and memorable places that Pokemon is known for, and the variance that openness needs.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:46:29 No.55112010 Report

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>>55111947
https://legends.pokemon.com/en-us/pokemon/zoroark

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:49:34 No.55112032 Report

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>>55111997
>muh open world
except i can play actual good open like San Andreas and despite all these years i instantly recognize each location, as well as all the missions
>>55111981
this is true, today's games are more worried about """"content"""" than offering a memorable experience

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:55:36 No.55112057 Report

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>>55111930
I remember more from SV than from Galar.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 21:58:20 No.55112067 Report

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>>55111930
>it used to have some artistic integrit
Nigger, don't you remember how until the 3D games literally every single tree in each game looked the exact same?
Game Freak have always been a bunch of lazy fucks in technical terms with their games, is just being lazy when it comes to tech can't be hidden so easily when making a 3D game, if at all.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 22:00:50 No.55112079 Report

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>>55112067
>That pixel art on the GBA
time to go download Summon Night

oh, and burn in a fire, racist scum. You're a waste of air.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 22:05:30 No.55112099 Report

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>>55111930
ehh I mean people were comparing RSE to Golden Sun and the 3DS games got compared other games. Pokemon has always been viewed as meh when it comes to visuals. The stylization is kinda there but PLA was when it was at its peak. I will agree towns are super forgettable though also the names are meh

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 22:24:33 No.55112200 Report

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>>55111930
No this also applies to other games that had linear narrative but were then made open world, I mean the Witcher 3 is great but not the vast length of it, mainly barren and empty or some nest to bomb for the 22nd time.

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 22:26:39 No.55112210 Report

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>>55112079
Cry

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Anonymous Fri 22 Dec 2023 22:51:07 No.55112332 Report

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>>55112032
San Andreas is a shit example of what you're saying because it has tons of samey empty wilderness though, especially in the forests outside Los Santos and the desert outside Las Venturas. And that is genuinely a good thing.

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