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[kingwingin]

I don't get the visual complaints. I haven't played a pokemon since 2002 and this looks pretty legit. I'm in day one

 

[Hugare]

If you think that's bad. This sells for $50 on the PlayStation store.

The difference is that no one buys this turd

Now watch how many copies this remake will sell at $60

 

[hybrid_birth]

The difference is that no one buys this turd

Now watch how many copies this remake will sell at $60

True that.

They lost me as a pokemon fan.

 

[carlosrox]

Looks good to me. I dig the overall look but the chibi feels a tad overdone.

Never played the original so I'm totally in for this day one.


I expect to see a lot of crying over this and Arceus though.

 

[Beer Baelly]

This franchise will never get the treatment we deserve.

 

[worldwithpyramids]

The Pokemon HD art aesthetic is consistently trash.

 

[Pagusas]

*sigh* How is gamefreak such trash? How can you make that much money and not hire a good dev crew????

 

[beepboopbopflop]

*sigh* How is gamefreak such trash? How can you make that much money and not hire a good dev crew????

Not being developed by game freak

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Looks worse than the originals.

It's fucking pokemon. Can we get some innovation, budget and talent put behind a true evolution of the series please.

Arceus?

 

[Pagusas]

Not being developed by game freak

....EVEN WORSE!!! Imagine what any other devs could do with this, money and freedom.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

....EVEN WORSE!!! Imagine what any other devs could do with this, money and freedom.

TBF we don't know their budget. Sure the IP is huge but we don't know how much budget these people are getting to make a game in 1 year.

 

[ValiantTraveler]

I don't get the visual complaints. I haven't played a pokemon since 2002 and this looks pretty legit.

 

[_Ex_]

What's that? The Switch gets yet another port, instead of a wholly new game? I am shocked. Shocked over here I tell you.

 

[Komatsu]

I was expecting nothing, and still got disapointed

One of the world's biggest IPs, with games that rivals Kikcstarter projects in budget

I will never understand what happens with Pokemon and Game Freak

Nintendo is currently run by accountants and will do the bare minimum at all times to maintain their P/E up high - not a cent more.

They know that they can outsource this to a small shop that spent the last 5 years churning out assets for bigger devs (I am speaking of ILCA), give them a mobile game budget and still move millions of units at $59.99.

 

[FloatingIslands]

I don't see the problem here. That's how I imagine those 2d games would look like in 3D

 

[Captain Toad]

These graphics... Goodness. How can a series have so much success when the developers clearly don't care half as much as the fans?

 

[Captain Toad]

I don't see the problem here. That's how I imagine those 2d games would look like in 3D

Were you imaging this shortly after the PS2 launched?

 

[Saber]

TBF we don't know their budget. Sure the IP is huge but we don't know how much budget these people are getting to make a game in 1 year.

I'm guessing this as well. If anything might be a direct result of SwSh, where theres no reason to spend much budget when the little nets way better profit.

 

[harmny]

Worse than temtem

 

[Komatsu]

TBF we don't know their budget. Sure the IP is huge but we don't know how much budget these people are getting to make a game in 1 year.

Very likely no more than a billion yen (10 million USD) at the most, more likely something around 500 million JPY. That's more or less what it cost to develop the early 3DS games, with in-house staff, and ILCA is most likely significantly cheaper when it comes to production costs.

Nintendo knows they can sink 10 million USD on this and get 800 million in lifetime returns. It's ridiculous.

 

[paypay88]

As long as Nintendo has whales buying their every game they will continue to make turds like this

 

[LordCBH]

Unpopular opinion but I’m excited!

 

[FloatingIslands]

Were you imaging this shortly after the PS2 launched?

Lol, no haha
C'mon, it's not that bad

 

[Birdo]

At least it doesn't have that tilt-shift blur that Link's Awakening has.

 

[Kev Kev]

that topic title was quite the rollercoaster

...

i still ave no idea what this topic is about

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Looks like shit. I'll just stick with the originals, at least I actually like them unlike most people who will pretend to like Gen IV for artificial hype.

 

[Go_Ly_Dow]

looks like shit

lazy

 

[Kamina]

They better allow me to catch Darkrai and Arceus in these.
Never releasing the Member Ticket and the Azure Flute to activate the respective in-game events was bullshit.

Edit: I can understand some of the disappointment in here, but this is at least better than Sword/Shield.

 

[Saber]

They better allow me to catch Darkrai and Arceus in these.
Never releasing the Member Ticket and the Azure Flute to activate the respective in-game events was bullshit.

They already did a dirty move with Home, no way they will miss an opportunity to make people pay for these mons.

 

[Jeeves]

At least the soundtrack should be good...

 

[levyjl1988]

Remakes:

Pokemon Fire Red / Leaf Green - 2004
Let's Go, Pikachu!/ Let's Go, Eevee! - 2018

Pokemon Heart Gold / Soul Silver - 2009

Pokemon Omega Ruby/ Alpha Sapphire - 2014

Pokemon Brilliant Diamond / Pokemon Shining Pearl - 2021

Pokemon ??? Black / Pokemon White - 20??
(probably will roll Black/White 1 and 2 together with DLC)

Pokemon ?? X / Pokemon ??? Y - 20??

Pokemon Sun and Ultra Sun, Pokemon Moon and Ultra Moon is confusing and already have a title in front.

I can't wait until the remake of Pokemon X / Y as so much cut content from that game.

 

[CuteFaceJay]

Looks like HD version of the DS games so I don't mind that, I get why people might not like this as the Lets go games looked really nice. I think that's what people were expecting but with non of the BS Lets go games came with.

 

[SlimeGooGoo]

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[Captain Toad]

Yeah they complain, but they would also kill to have Pokemon games released on other consoles

Maybe, IF they looked like PS5 or Series X games. But, these don't even look like Switch games. They look like lazy mobile cash-in games.

 

[hemo memo]

This looks like a cheap indie knockoff.

 

[Vae_Victis]

My god, this looks cheap and quickly cobbled together.

The stylistic choice is debatable, but even if you accept that, this is technically and artistically pathetic for a billion-dollars franchise releasing on a mainline console in 2021.

A "remake" like this for $60 would have been fine on a Wii in 2007. But then again, look at Skyward Sword and it's pretty obvious Nintendo knows how much some of their fans can be shamelessly milked.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

I can see the headlines now: Nintendo's Pokemon Brilliant Diamond is anything But

And author's reaction upon rereading their epic, super awesome, clever headline:

 

[Rikku-X]

Would Sparkling Diamond not sound better, if you are going with Shining Pearl?

 

[jshackles]

How does this somehow look worse than Pokemon Let's Go?

 

[Komatsu]

I can see the headlines now: Nintendo's Pokemon Brilliant Diamond is anything But

What headlines? The entire gaming press is unabashedly slavish towards Nintendo. It'll get 8s and 9s regardless.

 

[Inanilmaz]

Pokemon games evolving ..just backwards

 

[Bernd Lauert]

Most people here seem to hate it, which means it's gonna sell at least 10 million copies.

 

[OrangeSun77]

I do not understand why people want pokemon to have 4k textures and super advanced graphics, the charisma of the series was always its artistic style, simple and clear with beautiful colors and designs

 

[Skifi28]

You'd think it would at least be let's go qualiy. Was this originally being made for the 3ds?

 

[rubenburgt]

I never finished diamond and pearl so might pick it up, but I do agree that it's baffling the little amount of effort they take with creating main Pokémon games. It's one of the biggest IP in the world.

 

[infinitys_7th]

Strange no Platinum remake mention. Are they gonna use Platinum as a base at least?

Did HG/SS use Crystal? Did AR/OS use Emerald?

Trying to separate out Pokemon from the 3rd version of each game to make two versions would take a lot of work, and developing Pokemon isn't about that. They already have two games they can use the skeleton of assets and planning from, after all.

 

[yet_another_alt]

It looks like it's a perfectly normal Pokemon game. What the hell are you lot expecting?

 

[RuneFactoryFanboy]

I really think Nintendo needs to get Game Freak some help to optimize their games. There are so many great things about their games, and it's all undermined by their cruddy presentation. The visuals and then performance of said visuals are pathetic for a franchise this large. To be clear I'm not talking about art style. When so many of Nintendos other in-house development teams clearly have it figured out, I don't understand how they let Game Freak struggle.

I loved Pearl when I played it years ago and I think keeping it chibi and top down is a cool direction. If the game looked as polished and pleasing as Let's Go I'd probably pick it up.

 

[Saber]

Did HG/SS use Crystal? Did AR/OS use Emerald?

In terms of story? No. In terms of content? Yes.
Unless you didn't played HG/SS and didn't notice the Battle tower and Move Tutors.

DP is very scarse in terms of content and post game. But Platinum added some nice features, quality changes and post game.

 

[Javthusiast]

Arceus?

If you saw the footage and thought it is something totally new and exciting for the franchise I don't know what to tell you.