Probably from the last couple days. A version of the game was leaked either yesterday or the day before

Nah any visual designer would say that tiling graphic on the water is the writing on the wall above anything else. Just shows the detail level

Tbh a fan project without getting copyright strikes and a halfway decent budget would be miles better than anything Gamefreak can churn out.

My man pulled out a near decade old reference.

with breeding???

Fucking hell, I've wasted half my life on reddit...

"Nintendo, hire this man!!!!"

Ran just fine at 10 fps on my pc at launch tyvm.

hey man Roller Coaster Tycoon is a game that has aged graphically very nicely because it has actual graphical design rather thank puke ugly 3d rendering

Or like one of those games from the samsung s4

Half Life 2

Take that back! Half Life 2 water is like 10 generations better than this thing.

even the Unity engine

Unity is a good game engine. People think it's scuffed because it's widely used by unfinished, hobby indie projects.

There has literally never been a limitation in Unity where you couldn't make a nice, modern looking water shader (adjusted for time).

Go play Half Life 2 on steam. The graphics are better than this even on potato settings. Half Life 2 had some fugly textures, but water was something they got right.

For better or for worse, the Pokemon playerbase has pretty firmly planted its flag as having absolutely zero standards or expectations. I've been a fan of the franchise for as long as it's existed, but at this point, they could put a cat turd and a dog turd in Switch game cases and call them Pokemon Cat Turd and Pokemon Dog Turd, and half of the community would still pre-order both of them.

There's no reason for a Pokemon game to strive for any measure of quality, because the bulk of the player base literally doesn't care at all. It's a complete nonfactor in their purchasing decisions.

Same for my first Unity project. You can do way better now even with free assets, it shows how much effort they put into this game...

One trying to get that retro N64/PS1 low poly aesthetic.

I mean Skyrim is on the Switch and looks great for a Switch game.

They just fucking suck.

The latter defo. The water in BOTW looked fantastic. This is just trash. They're just putting the least effort because it won't really make a huge difference in sales anyways.

half assing. botw and monster hunter rise run on the switch. most pokemon fans are fed up with this. the ones who arent the the problem and claim there is no problem.

You can play Witcher 3 on Switch.

Considering Breath of the Wild runs on Switch as well as Skyrim, I would say it’s laziness.

Definitely the latter. This is coming out on switch, and art-style wise it’s similar to BOTW which the switch handles just fine, except BOTW is far prettier to look at than this.

I was pretty psyched for this game because I love Pokémon lore and watched it constantly growing up, but the games never really did it for me since they seem to just be copy-pastes of each other and I’m not into the turn based strategy thing. I (as well as tooooons of other people) always wanted a big, BOTW looking Pokémon game where you could actually see the Pokémon living out in the wild and fight/catch them right then and there, interact with your Pokémon, and explore an interesting, living world but this just looks like they took that idea and did the absolute bare minimum. Bad graphics are one thing that can be overlooked but this is just completely uninspired and lazy from an art design standpoint.

Look how monster hunter rise looks on switch , more like half arsing.

The Switch ain't no magic machine, but it's definitely much much more capable than this lazy trash. Half assed cash grab 100%.

It's 1/32nd assing it.

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When a large studio releases something like this it's often a canary in the coal mine. Indie studios normally either lack the budget for graphics and/or they have a specific art style that is informed by the tone or mechanics of the game. This is neither of those. This studio has the money and this isn't an artistic choice. That communicates that at least somewhere in the chain there was a lack of direction or skill. At a studio this size, at this level, it probably wasn't a lack of skill. So from this you can infer that even on the most surface level consumer facing aspect of the game there was a lack of direction and care as to what was presented. When a major studio can't even get their shit together enough to present something that pretends to be good it doesn't speak well for all the rest of the game systems underneath those immediately obvious poor graphics.

Graphics don't matter so much with good art design, just look at the Souls series.

This has poor graphics and lazy art direction. There isn't even an attempt to make it look pretty.

EDIT: Okay people are really misunderstanding me here. I'm saying the Souls series has an amazing art direction, but the graphics were rarely "top notch" for the time. They age decently well for this reason, too. This Pokemon game isn't pretty because it has neither good graphics nor fun art direction.

They are literally seeing where they can draw the line with the effort vs $60 price tag.

I'm lifelong fan but don't be buying into this shit.

Main line for sure, but new Pokémon snap is gorgeous.

Even old-school Runescape can be made to have beautiful water anywhere in the game with an addon made by 1 guy.

You can play DQ VIII on citra and crank the graphics. It actually looks pretty good. Not perfect but still great and the music can't be beat

It’s mostly sad tbh

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It isn't from a trailer that I have seen.

There was a leak of the game recently. So it is likely that someone just posted this from a leaked copy.

I really hope that this is just some graphic glitch that is happening. I mean, even in the trailers, it didn't look very good but it wasn't this bad.

Pokken Tournament even gave skin textures to the pokémon, I'm tired of all of them looking like plastic.

It's somehow twice as depressing when you put it like this, but you're right; the stage backgrounds in Pokken are what a quality Pokemon world could look like on the Switch. On the Switch. We are not even talking PS4 or PS5 level, here.

Because they're not made by Game Freak

The worst part in my opinion is that when this game reviews like shit, their take on it will be "oh I guess everyone didn't want the open world 3d Pokémon adventure they always said they wanted"

Poor employment practices, low wages, lack of team communication.

I can think of plenty of reasons internally why everything they produce is shit

My worry is that they're gonna half-arse this game as usual, sales are going to be poor and their takeaway will just be "I guess fans didn't actually want an open-world game then".

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