Pokémon Games Have Always Been Better Than Their Graphics

As fans learned more about the upcoming Pokémon Sword and Shield at E3 this year, a portion of them turned against the titles. Back in February, a Pokémon region based on the United Kingdom enticed players, and they constructed thousands of memes around the premise. Now, though, a subset of the Pokémon community is complaining about two elements of the titles: the lack of every single Pokémon ever created, which developer Game Freak addressed but does not plan to change, and the graphics and animations. The latter gripe is especially odd since the Pokémon franchise has never had especially good graphics or animations.

[rolando123]

So true! I’ve never cared about the graphics

[AspiringProGenji]

Still doesn’t excuse that the first ever Pokemon console game we have all wished for since forever still looks like a 3DS game

[-Foxtrot]

Yup

All those wish lists, unreal engine 4 fan tech demos, fan concept art for the first big console Pokemon game. Instead we get an upscaled 3DS game.

[Neonridr]

and feels like it fits in perfectly coming off of Sun/Moon.

[PhoenixUp]

They were still good looking games for the platforms they were on

It only became a topic on concern with Sword and Shield because we can compare it to other console contemporary RPGs

[lellkay]

Oh look it's the Pokemon defense force.

[King_Noctis]

I dont think people play Pokemon game for graphic.

[Lexreborn2]

I stopped playing BECAUSE of the graphics. After you spend thousands of hours looking at the same generic interface with slight improvements from blue to diamond. It grows stale so I dropped playing them until X came out then I dropped them again for the foreseeable future.

With the amount of money this franchise makes releasing two copies of the same game for full retail of the platform. And only making small upgrades to remake an “old version” in the “current” engine. Is just greed to me.

So I’m good if others keep playing/buying cool for them. But I won’t be the one anymore

[Neonridr]

cool story..

[Lexreborn2]

@Neonridr I’m sorry is this not a post discussing Pokémon’s graphics? Guess you can’t handle an open discussion where people express their experiences huh?

[AspiringProGenji]

Im in the same boat but it wasn’t because of the graphics. I just got tired of the formula and how GF was playing it too safe. I couldn’t beat Black and White because it was too linear and boring, and too bad I missed BW2 which was apparently much better, then tried X and Y and I forced myself to finish it. I wasn’t much of a fan. I also skipped S/M and so far I Don’t feel like missing anything. With S/S I am still on the fence...

Pokemon needs to evolve and it is a shame that the first proper Console Pokemon game is just a touched up 3ds game. For shame GF

[KeenBean345]

Whilst that is true it's no excuse for keeping the same graphics on a system capable of so much more. I love pokemon but Gamfreak have become beyond lazy and are just milking it now.

[AK91]

But the gameplay has been more of the same and had very little imrpovement since the firs tentry. This argument would make sense if they went forward with the gameplay and RPG elements but they have not.

[Neonridr]

let's wait until the game releases so we can properly judge it. All anyone seems to care about is Dynamaxing and the fact that the entire pokedex isn't in the game. Griping about things to gripe about I guess.