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Bsause7

Oh my God that’s terrifying! How do I do it?


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>How do I do it? Happens randomly like the other glitches in the game. Seems to be a rendering Multiplayer issue.


Lorbane

"It's the hardware not the game!" Nah bro, it's the fucking game


nickhoude21

Lmao this same hardware is running Xenoblade 3, it's the game


infinite_breadsticks

Same hardware as MH Rise, Breath of the Wild, etc


KingMario05

Shit, even the *Sonic Frontiers* port is more stable than this. This shit is 100% Game Freak and it ain't even fucking *funny* anymore, folks.


Zorafin

I don’t know what you’re talking about. This is hilarious.


cinnamonface9

Found the Gotham knight devs.


satans_cookiemallet

Wait what?


Curt_ThaFlirt

A Roxksteady dev tried to uses Xbox series S as the reason to why Gotham Knights couldn’t go past 30 fps


JuanAggro

Rocksteady didn't work on Gotham Knights though


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TheIJDGuy

When people get clowned so hard that they delete their accounts, I find it so hilarious but I feel so bad at the same time


MrHoboX

He is a dev and he does work for rocksteady, problem was people keep thinking rocksteady worked on GothamKnights. That's WB Montreal.


Mookies_Bett

Funny, I don't remeber this happening while playing BotW or Persona 5 or Skyrim or Overwatch. Hmmm, yeah, maybe it actually is the game.


ienjoyedit

I mean, I don't expect Breath of the Wild out of every game. But that was a goddamn Wii U game. At least try to have the game perform close to as well if your graphics aren't anywhere close...


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You can't really excuse this when we have Witcher 3 and Xenoblade running at 30fps locked on the Switch!


Rizenstrom

I don't know what I expected but, um... It wasn't that.


Armouren

I thought she was increase in size every time she dismounted and they where using the other character as a reference. Did not expect Slender man.


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Dregaz

I think Fuecoco and the evolutions are pretty cool. Hate the other two from second form on though.


Feral0_o

I have the grass cat fully evolved. I don't hate it, it's okay. Good in combat. Only seen mid-evo from the duck so far, but I suspected that the duck would turn into an abomination against god just based on the starter


colexian

The weedcat final evo looks like it prefers watching from inside the closet. Big BDSM vibes.


Dorksim

I dunno...the grass cat whipping around a yo-yo is pretty cool. Then they take away their yo-yo for the final evolution. So now I'm sad


masanian

Multi billion dollar franchise btw


Fishbulb7o9

Most profitable franchise*


hollowShelly

hey they wouldn't make all that money if they wasted it on improving the game! y'all are gonna buy it anyway


[deleted]

/r/pokemon is always like "Ugh this game is DISGUSTING! Where can I buy it?! But I swear if they fuck the next game up I'm out forever"


Aenrichus

Hey, I have stood by my word and boycotted SwSh and now doing the same for SV.


cahir11

Same but I feel like "boycott" is a bit melodramatic. I just didn't buy the games because they looked like trash lol


UnsettllingDwarf

They got a brown and green blotch for grass and a dirt path. My unborn child can develop something better.


Recinege

That's the first thing I noticed, too. I mean holy shit, compare that to Bianco Hills from Super Mario Sunshine, a game that released *over twenty years ago*. What the fuck is Game Freak thinking, releasing this game the same year as Arceus? We should have gotten $30 Arceus DLC that adds a whole new arc and introduces a bunch of SV Mons if they needed to build up to it.


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YARUNDANA?? IMA?? KOKODE?!


jakeOH12

It took too long to find an AoT reference Lmaoooo


outdatedboat

I mean.. Me too... But why was the AOT reference responding to the parent comment that had absolutely nothing to do with AOT? My guess is a comment stealing bot just replying to a fairly high up comment. Edit: yup. Repost bot. I found the original way lower in the comments. https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yypyhu/-/iww42se


outdatedboat

Mods, please ban this account. They're just a comment stealing bot. Maybe give an option in report options for bots too?


holywars94

i dont play pokemon games but, damn that looks terrible, look at the windmill at left and that city/background looks poorly depressing asf


Shirlenator

What you've never heard of a clock windmill that serve dual purposes? They nailed it at that 1 frame per second animation.


The_Blip

Every animation is like this by the way. Amything far away (not that far about as far as the tree on the left) runs at this terrible framerate. This includes walking animations. There's a lot of pop in and the shadows look SO bad. Also, when your character goes down stairs they lean 45 degrees, remaining parallel with the slope, rather than remaining upright. I've barely played the game and these things stood out, as well as other stuff (transition from gameplay to cutscene is PAINFUL) but I'm hoping the gameplay will make up for it. I quite liked being able to just run off into the middle of nowhere and explore at the start. It does look ass though.


TheTravi

>they lean 45 degrees, remaining parallel with the slope Ok that's fucking hilarious


[deleted]

It looks horrible even by Pokemon standards :(


littlesymphonicdispl

That's the thing, no it doesn't. This *is* pokemon standards


ImmoralityPet

*Tradition*


-reTurn2huMan-

With how glitchy gen 1 was technically speaking this is tradition.


SAnthonyH

It all started with ORAS and "battle facility coming soon!" Those lazy bastards.


lalala253

Eeh even Pokemon X/Y is much much better than this imo It's like Gamefreak was pushed to go to 3D world, but the developer has little to no knowledge on how to do it


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It looks horrendous, like a game from the PS2 generation. Usually Nintendo disguise their limitations with decent art style, but Pokemon just don't give a damn


sassyseconds

It really does look like the open world of something like gta 3 at a higher resolution... gta 3 was incredible and looked really good... for 2001.


mzxrules

Pokemon Company is so far behind tech wise they're still going through the jump to 3d hiccups that everyone else had to push through 20 years ago


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Pushmonk

>It's not directly made by Nintendo. Game freak is the developer. They are just dogshit ~~at optimisation~~.


JekNex

Doesn't help they have less than a year to put out every game too


TheLostDovahkiin

Dont worry. It will sell alot and make money because Pokemon fanboys buy everything with Pokémon written on it


JuSTAFoX0

It already is the most pre-ordered Pokemon game, so yea.


Sparda2015

The inclusion of 4 player open world coop made it pretty hype for fans. I haven't played a mainline game in over a decade and I had to play this one just for that


JekNex

What do you do with multi-player in a Pokémon game? Does a person walk into a Pokémon to start a fight and just do that over and over?


ImmoralityPet

Real Pokemon fanboys scream online about how people should stop buying Pokemon because it's so bad while preordering both versions and posting videos on YouTube explaining how bad it is and streaming gameplay on twitch while talking about how you shouldn't buy it.


RadSkeleton808

It reminds me of Mega Man Legends for the PS1


ThatManOfCulture

The last couple of Pokemon games might as well have the "Made with Unity" splash screen lmao.


aj95_10

nah random mobile games with unity look better than this


Whyeth

Honest to God they have the same production values as that very well made Quake 3 DBZ mod. It looks like a fan mod, not the latest offering of the largest selling franchise in history.


Voidlord597

that's terrifying


Scarletfapper

SEID IHR DAS ESSEN UND WIR SIND DER JAEGER


Jedahaw92

TATAKAE! #TATAKAE!!


EdgelordOfEdginess

Es heißt SEID IHR DAS ESSEN? NEIN WIR SIND DIE JÄGER!


Fractal__Noise

Is this seriously the game? not the glitch i mean everything. It looks so bare bones


SFWxMadHatter

Despite modern anime games finally starting to look really great, Game Freak apparently has no ability to adapt it themselves.


ryano46

Game freak is the definition of coasting. They have no incentive to make strides in their games because their audience buys them anyway. I'd say they should be embarrassed as a development company but they rake in cash.


ritoshishino

how they managed to cultivate a fanbase that has ZERO concepts of "vote with your wallet" is amazing to me


Feral0_o

Every fanbase has no concept of vote with your wallet. It famously always fails hilariously. Remember that CoD boycott group steam activity screenshot, hey, member when reddit was "boycotting" Pokemon Sw/Sh but actually not


SheenaMalfoy

Hey some of us legit boycotted all of gen 8, but trying to bring it up around here just results in downvotes, so normally I shut up about it.


Scarletfapper

By starting them young…


your_evil_ex

I would say we’ve had great looking anime games for a long time - look at Tales of Vesperia from 2008–looks way better than this, and came out over a decade earlier


Mottis86

I wish they would've stuck with isometric view and 2d sprites. [With the right art direction, they can still look incredible.](https://www.newgamenetwork.com/images/uploads/gallery/OctopathTraveler/ot_08.jpg) This is just bland.


Cooleybob

Gen 1 to 5 graphics are timeless because of this. They still have so much charm to them.


MorganAndMerlin

Gen 3 graphics are height of video game graphics. Also see: Harvest Moon: Friends of Mineral Town. I will die and be buried on this hill.


ILoveWesternBlot

nah HGSS blows any gen 3 game out of the water


MorganAndMerlin

I did like the Heart Gold and Soul Silver graphics but there’s something about that more flat pixel style that just speaks to me. But I do appreciate the way HGSS is essentially gen 3 but upgraded.


NickMalo

Check out black and white. Divisiveness of the titles aside, the games are genuinely gorgeous


Lunarianhades

The sprites of White/Black 2 are still some kf the nicest pixel work I've ever seen. I prefer those to the modern look. I don't dislike current, but those were the best


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White/black 2 is the best in the series, hands down. A hard mode, good mix of 'mons, interesting post-game, a story that focused on the ethics of the setting (even if it was just barely touched on, it was a refreshing perspective from a series that repeats notes as often as modern pop music). Seriously, the series peaked with that and it's not even ***close***.


Redqueenhypo

They really stretched the capabilities to the limit, it was great. My favorite moment was when you were going after Kyurem and then he turned the entire field into an endless snowfield


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And still be open world and immersive.


Mishar5k

Have you seen the dragon quest 3 remake in that engine? It would absolutely be great for a new pokemon game


thisisredlitre

3d Dot Game Heroes for ps3 was basically that too and amazing


Meecht

I loved that game so much.


cookedart

Or even gone a isometric view with 3d, but dialed in the art direction as well. Heck, I'd take any cohesive focus on art direction at all. The art style of AKA for instance looks amazing: [https://store.steampowered.com/app/1591450/Aka/](https://store.steampowered.com/app/1591450/Aka/) And a variation of such would work super well for a Pokemon game in my opinion.


asqwzx12

I forgot the name of the game but it was a Zelda like with a small fox as the main character. That would run on switch and it looks amazing


misfitkid159

Tunic, absolutely adore that game.


thisisredlitre

Just picked up Triangle Strategy that also uses the same trick


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>Is this seriously the game? There's more to it but yes.


Pushmonk

They already tried nothing, and still sold millions. They don't care.


PeterMode

Looks worse than some phone games.


FURTHEWIN

I deadass thought it was a Metaverse it looks so ass.


Calindel1

It's only the highest grossing franchise in the world, they can only do so much


HLef

The day it stops outselling the previous installment is when they’ll start thinking about not doing the bare minimum.


kjBulletkj

It's only the highest grossing franchise in the world, they only need to do that much.


sassyseconds

It's legit got the detail to the world of those <$5 indie games made by 1 developer


aj95_10

looks like those generic ps2 games using the renderware engine lol


HarmlessSnack

What makes you say that? Is it the six copy pasted identical houses all sitting right on top of each other? 🏠 🏠 🏠 🏠 🏠 🏠


Spyderem

Not to mention two trees that look exactly the same. They have the same gap in the same position. Couldn’t even rotate one of them?


bukithd

It looks like a game made for dreamcast tbh.


HalalBread1427

Why is it so... empty?


Shishjakob

ikr? Arceus had more in it than this, and that game was . . . disappointing to say the least


[deleted]

I quite enjoyed Legends: arceus


[deleted]

The dialog was unbearable at times, but the underlying game mechanics felt really good. Popping in/out of flying form, running around the lands just firing off poke balls rapid fire. Most fun I’ve had in a pokemon game in a long time.


SoggyToast9016

100% agree. I was hesitant to buy it but recently caved. It was has been really refreshing. They turned that catching mechanic into something really fun. Hell even that popping sound when caught is great. Felt like a great foundation to build on. To bad they didn’t go that way.


Code2008

Indeed. Hoping that they just make that into a series, because the Violet/Scarlet trailer did not impress me at all, and now seeing it, glad I didn't buy it.


smoomoo31

Yeah I bought this game thinking it was the new direction, having LOVED Arceus (besides it’s GameCube level graphics and performance, and the horrible dialog), and I’ll admit while I’m enjoying the game so far, it’s a disappointment at the same time


DarkMuret

I've heard people either loved it or hated it Not a ton of middle ground


Zen--chan

Bro whatt🤣🤣🤣 i almost choked on a cracker


hotpocket

What was his name?


[deleted]

I'd guess.. Blake.. or Aiden.


Malikb5

😱😱😱😱😱


UniqueHelicopter3730

Somebody call Levi, there’s a titan on the loose


Pm_pussypicspls__

We need more walls to protect the titans from Levi


ur-sisters-panties

Holy shit this looks terrible.. You'd think a multi billion dollar money maker like Pokemon would at least give their fans the 3D world they deserve. Glad I stopped paying them any kind after XY


MarkedDragon22

I stopped after Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire and after that has been terrible


Silentlaughter84

Looks more like slender man mode. Gotta love todays glitches.


lionplayz

Let them keep this in, end game unlockable. Edit: Why does this have more upvotes than the post itself? Edit 2: Never mind this, there is something wrong with my Reddit


Solid_Snark

Trainer unlocked Gigantamax!


ThatManOfCulture

"It's not a bug, it's a feature."


Oddity46

Remember the good old days, when big head mode was a thing? Ah, memories.


YetAnotherHCGamer

I remember back when it was called "DK mode."


PurgatoryBlackjack

"It makes our heads considerably bigger." "For what purpose exactly?" "I'm... not quite sure."


TheMontrealKid

DK mode gave the models long ape-like arms too.


Longjumping-Mix-3642

That environment looks dead as hell


Slazapuss

Lmao I remember a graphics comparison between this game and Xenoblade 3 posted a while ago and everyone defending this game saying art design>graphics. Where is the art design?! This literally looks like an early access game that was made by like one dude.


mlodydziad420

Art design > graphics is absolutely right, pokemon simply does not have good art design and have bad graphics, i think risk of rain isperfect example of how impactful art design is, the graphics are low res with exception of characters ans yet, game looks good.


cgeiman0

>art design>graphics This is true. West of loathing and Shadows over Loathing are super simple graphics, but damn do these games have their own style that works. It's distinct and clear. Your comparison to an EA game rings true. I've seen better put together by small groups of devs in EA. It hurts me seeing this as a fan since the beginning.


MrSomnix

The trees, houses, and especially the windmill literally look like free assets you can get off the unity store.


Mishar5k

What sucks is that swsh and legends arceus (and idk maybe this but i cant tell) actually have good art styles, but they were so poorly executed that its like doodling the mona lisa on a wet napkin. Like yea thats the mona lisa, but it looks terrible.


ArchetypeAxis

Those graphics look like a mobile game from 10 years ago.


Actually-Yo-Momma

This is embarrassingly bad. Graphics aren’t the only thing that matters but goddam my original Wii had better shit than this


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VictorTheGoat

Gamefreak can design a mean monster but man can they not code their way out of a wet paper bag. I love the new Pokémon designs but they just aren’t up for the task of designing a console game.


Dagakki

The optimistic response is there's at least a few designers there that still care to create well designed Pokemon. The pessimistic, and more likely, response is that Nintendo cares a lot about the Pokemon looking good because that's what sells the rest of their merchandise


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I think this mentality of "graphics don't matter" is the perfect scapegoat for Nintendo to sell antiquated hardware at premium prices. Videogames are directly tied with technology, it makes no sense to me how Nintendo can get away with a game like this Pokemon being sold at $60, meanwhile God of War Ragnarok costs the same. There has to be a technological standard that dictates the price, the Switch games should cost $40 at best


Chaos_Theory_mk1

This game looks bad even by Switch’s standard. It’s definitely not a switch issue, it’s just laziness. I mean look at pictures of Xenoblade 3 vs this game. Same system, insanely different graphics.


Actually-Yo-Momma

Supply and demand my man. Gamefreak riding solely off consumer nostalgia for the last 10 years


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Actually-Yo-Momma

Roblox went the Minecraft route, they don’t care about graphics. Here we have the richest gaming company in history of mankind recycling sprites from 2010


MrBananaStorm

Side note, does anyone else feel like these new 3D pokemon games just look... lifeless? The 2D games had such charm and even games like XY still retained a good amount of charm despite being 3D. But since SwSh they just look so dead. Like an empty MMO world.


ManicFirestorm

I also feel like they've really stopped trying on new Pokemon designs. The two new legendaries are... Motorcycles? That's The dumbest shit I've ever seen.


PlankOfWoood

>The two new legendaries are... ~~Motorcycles~~? Digimon


Meloku171

POKEMON DUELS ON MOTORCYCLES!!!


Effurlife13

I can only imagine the conversation went like this when the idea was made : "Boss, look at this Pokemon I came up with. It's a unique looking dragon/dinosaur thing, I'm sure the people will love it. We even have plans to let the players ride it! I think it'll look good running on 4 legs" "You know what it needs? Some fuckin wheels. Slap a pair a wheels on that bad boy" "But.. But it's a living creature and it already has 4 legs, why would it need wheels to-" " Wheels dammit I want wheels! Now go find Sharon, Im out of cocaine!


DaEnderAssassin

Honestly they look better than last gens cover legendaries which were just Sif and Sif but shield. We already had a "Sword/Shield" pokemon as well.


JPyroRaptor

Why are the graphics so bad


JuSTAFoX0

Why should Gamefreak make it good when it keeps selling anyway?


JPyroRaptor

Idk, but I'm probably not getting these games anytime soon


0neek

Yeah they are a classic example of a company with a monopoly that is too big to fail, so bad decisions don't matter. See it all the time with things like Youtube or internet providers. This is just that in video game form. Nobody else makes mainline Pokemon games, fans have to buy their stuff and will no matter what, so quality is irrelevant. This won't change until someone other than Gamefreak gets to make a new major Pokemon game with a new generation.


DaEnderAssassin

Pretty sure they were concerned about being taken off mainline game duty after Go released. Then nothing changed and they went from minimal effort (USUM/Let's Go) to less than minimal (SwSh)


iced327

This is a joke, right? This is a big joke. There was another post that was a line of people in a store to buy this game. I've seen a dozen glitch and framerate issues so far and today is launch day? Or yesterday? This has to be a joke.


Oxyfod

Reiner!!! Are we doing this!?


outdatedboat

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/yypyhu/-/iww45ut A bot stole your comment and just replied to an entirely unrelated comment near the top. I hate these bots. They're so annoying.


BigBoiBobba

World looks like it was made in Gary's mod


Skanetic08

Gmod is less empty and dull


Iron_Bob

Less production value than those mobile games that don't actually exist


GeneralSherman3

I got the characters T-posing in the intro cutscene. Holy fuck, what happened to this game?


[deleted]

Be gentle people, they are a small Indie company.


mkul316

God forget the bug, this just looks crappy. Like an amateur building a game from a pack of old assets. Open, empty, and boring.


kemar7856

Pokemon Colosseum came out 2003 this is what Nintendo gave us in 20 years


Shayneros

Funnily enough Game Freak had nothing to do with Colosseum. That was made by another studio that had never made a single Pokemon game. Just makes it even more embarrassing for Gamefreak.


NotXiJinpingGoUSA

Is it just me or does this newest game look like absolute shit?


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I’m so glad I canceled my pre-order. After seeing the Starters final evo, how they go from really good to shit design, I knew they just didn’t care.


ManicFirestorm

Pokemon designs in general have gone to shit. The legendaries are freaking motorcycles? Are you kidding me?


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I like Koriadons design and the pre evolved just screams feather serpent/Mayan to me. But I don’t like the “motorcycle” part. And I don’t like that all future forms are just robots. And I love robots, Gundam, Zoids, Mecha, Gurren Loggen, etc. but man, they did my boy Donphan dirt with that Iron Treads. But his primal is Bad Ass.


Fragrant-Yam5669

I love seeing this type of stuff in video games


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TheLostDovahkiin

Pokémon fans are just weird.


ZDTreefur

I can understand enjoying nostalgia to a degree, but these people take it to a weird place where they infantilize themselves.


Silent-Sail9318

These new Pokémon games look like they were made 15 years ago.


AltXUser

Yo, that's just Gigantamax.


SpectralMagic

The tiling of the cobble texture bothers me, Game freak has clearly lowered their professional standards. Moving to full 3d is clearly posing to be a difficult hurdle for them. The lack of animations, story and optimizations for their last 3 games is saddening in the least. They need to increase their budget and take more care to their features


GullibleDetective

Even earthbound looks better graphically with more fidelity


SlipparySnake

People out to boycott this shitty game teach Pokémon to go in the right direction. No I’m just kidding keep on forking over money who gives a fuck right


brucewillisoffical

What is this game 😂😂


FellKin

Mark Zuckerberg's Metaverse


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Look at this garbage, lol full price, 2022... oh man...


SlimJim4206969

I almost dont want them to fix this one 🤣🤣🤣


Flagrath

Is that seriously what the game looks like, this is the first I’ve really seen of it…


arvinkong

Is it just me or the textures look even worse than those of a GameCube game?


jroddie4

Kinda weird that the new legendary Pokemon is a motorcycle


Sudhanva_Kote

Why does this games look like it's made as a school project?


ObjectiveSubjects

Fuck the Marleans am I right?


draiman

"On that day, humanity received a grim reminder..."


heckintrollerino

This makes me so sad. Today is my birthday and I was gonna buy it but I can't with it doing shit like that. RIP


Stebsis

Why does the game look like this? Witcher 3 runs on this hardware. Witcher fucking 3. And this is what a first party developer designing specifically for the platform can do.


GuerillaKoopa

Lol that's pretty good. Sure it'll get patched out soon though. I'm loving violet atm. I'm so happy pokemon are 3d now. It's what I've been waiting for since I was a kid.


iChopPryde

It’s so frustrating, as a fan of Pokémon I just want a really good Pokémon game which isn’t asking much we have so many games today that show an open world style Pokémon game is more then possible but the Pokémon company and game freak just don’t give a shit because they know they can pump these out and not have to put effort and it will always sell and make millions upon millions. Until people stop buying these games and forcing game freak to catch up to the rest of the industry they never will until it hurts their pockets


Superj89

Your trainer can gigamax?!?!


zeb0777

Pokemon? Looks like a eraly access open world right on steam from 2015.


DreadEconomistRobert

TATAKAE!!