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Pokémon Sword & Shield is going viral online thanks to the quality of its animations, which is ironic considering the pre-launch backlash
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Is this a joke?
And still with a high rate, so whatever
Every thread is doomed when it has Pokémon SwSh in the title
There are ways you can improve the animations without going the Colosseum route (updating the game's idle poses and having more keyframed canned attack animations is a start).
That being said I agree in general; the whole "Stadium" type battle animations suited those games but in general I can never imagine doing wild encounters when animations are as lengthy as those are.
The starter mid-evos being edgy teens is so charming. They really grew on me.
Not the OT or the trading thread?
I've used the camp feature a grand total of one time because I had to evolve my Eevee. I'm just afraid that my Pokémon are going to start to randomly evade attacks and heal themselves, which is something that has seriously hampered my enjoyment of previous games with the interaction feature.
Does this still happen in Sw/Sh?
Does this still happen in Sw/Sh?
I mean, when threads are started the way this one is, it's kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy, isn't it? The threads about playing the game or trading are fine, it's just threads like this one.
Yup, it sucks, because I'd like to use camp but I know I'd hate it if that stuff started happening.
It reviewed well, but not amazingly. And it's the lowest rated new generation.
The games are good, but there are a ton of issues with them. Going off of the thread topic, it's disappointing that the majority of these animations are locked to a completely optional side activity that will most likely never return in a future game.
The battle animations are incredibly hit and miss, so it sucks that this stuff is sectioned off.
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Dude, that's two threads out of how many? Because i lost count
You know it would have ended the same regardless f the tone. Opening a positive thread about the game is a recipe for disaster
I could have predicted some of the posts on the first page of this thread lmao
Camp is cool though and you're missing out on quality stuff by ignoring it. Has some jank but it mostly results in hilarious moments. Some stuff I'm not sure if it's scripted or glitched but when I had a Wooloo in my party it would help the other pokemon catch the ball that were maybe too slow. It wouldn't bring me the ball but would go get the ball then bring it back to the slower mons to give it to me.
Camp is cool though and you're missing out on quality stuff by ignoring it. Has some jank but it mostly results in hilarious moments. Some stuff I'm not sure if it's scripted or glitched but when I had a Wooloo in my party it would help the other pokemon catch the ball that were maybe too slow. It wouldn't bring me the ball but would go get the ball then bring it back to the slower mons to give it to me.
If it would've ended the same regardless of the tone, why be so confrontational in the OP in the first place?
This just strengthens my opinion that the middle evos for the Starters might be my favourite of any generation.
That one with the two dogs was pretty adorable. Some of this battle animations are really embarrassing though. Seeing all of these out of battle animations definitely helps me understand why that might be the case at least.
This, it always bug me since XY that each pokemon has a unique sleeping animation in pokemon Amie, but when during battle they don't even used them, but instead just shut their eyes close.
You know, when in this thread you have posts like this one
I can't help but to think "Ok, want to be disrespectful and confrontational? Bring it on!"
So honestly after 5 pages the only answer i can come with is "Why not?"
It has been really tiring since June, some people in the positive side is going to be confrontational, it's a fact.
I meam, that's not what's happening. If this was just a thread about the gifs, it would have been fine. But OP had to try and twist it into a lame "gotcha".
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Don't question how Pokémon clothes work but yes.
Supposedly it's fur.
I dont think people are tweeting these because they are elaborate high quality animations... they are tweeting them because they are funny / memeable? The first one is just a sheep rolling around.
I'm really not sure what the end goal is. I can't take this article seriously when I'm playing the game for myself and run across this type of performance and graphical quality all the time:
They can post all the videos of charging Bewear and waddling Sobble they want but there are obvious reasons why many people aren't "absolutely delighted" by the visuals, especially if you don't care about the camping feature.
No. People are pointing out that the animations are reused. They're doing this because improving the animations and overall presentation was the reason given to excuse the cut content.
If these were games that had content in line with previous entries, there would be very little issues in regards to the reused animations.
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Well to be fair resetera is basically the first church of nintendo and any minor criticisms must be hand waved.
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They're funny and cute because of the work put into them. That's the point of the thing.
Specifically because GF said they were going to put more work into them! Had they just been honest with everyone about that then no one would be here. Hell If they could have gotten some the animations from smash and reused them here I'd be estactic
The game is already very easy, and that would just make it easier.
As for the animations, I don't think anyone is saying they're all bad. Some, like the signature moves, can be quite good. They're just very inconsistent. And with camp, most of the animations and interactions are jank as hell, but it does make it oddly charming.
They could have options for animation speed, like in Fire Emblem. The main slowness with battles isn't even animations, it's the separate prompts for every little action/confirmation. Especially if you have an ability that causes an auto effect on the opponent.
The "thing" is updating overly simplistic reused animations. Obviously not everything looks bad, but some of them stand out as being noticeably simple, especially compared to the newer ones. It's like "power creep", but for animations.
Animations can be funny, cute and technically unimpressive at the same time.
The Belda argument has made it to this thread - we are done here folks.
I just wish there was more to do in camp.
No minigames like in XY (bring back Yarn Bounce!), the "talk to Pokemon" feature is generic and not tailored as far as I know to anything specific. Remember how HGSS had a bunch of unique dialouge based on where you were and what Pokemon was following you.
I do enjoy seeing my Dottler slowly waddle towards me though.
No minigames like in XY (bring back Yarn Bounce!), the "talk to Pokemon" feature is generic and not tailored as far as I know to anything specific. Remember how HGSS had a bunch of unique dialouge based on where you were and what Pokemon was following you.
I do enjoy seeing my Dottler slowly waddle towards me though.
Because I don't want to make an already easy game even easier. I don't want in-game opponents to randomly miss attacks because my Sylveon ate some curry.
To me it's a dead feature until post-game, which is unfortunate. I'm going to have to test it out with a random Pokémon, but if it carries over to raids etc. I'll probably won't use it at all. At least not with any of my main team members.
I do wish some of these camp animations carried over to battles.
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My daughter was getting a kick out of watching the bears chasing me in the Wild Area last night lol
The camp always looked like one of the killer features prerelease and some overworld pokemon can lead to amusing moments.
This thread was never about animations being technically impressive.
Also animations can be good AND simple.
This thread was never about animations being technically impressive.
Also animations can be good AND simple.
That's one of my issues that seems to be hand waved. A lot of these new features have existed in some capacity before, but was more full featured then, but no one seems to care when this is brought up because "Fun", which seems to end every argument
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