Really depends on how many pokemon actually got unique animations, and even then I think got changes when the use certain moves, and they have done this before. I.E. look at Mega Swampert. It has a unique animation when it uses Earthquake. And Scorbunny has it's own animation when using Flame Charge.
New games are far more profitable. They're probably allergic to the idea of free patches.
Yes, but this is Game Freak we're talking about. The developer who would rather release paired third versions over releasing a patch or DLC.
You are telling me that to give some pokemon (not even all of them) one more animation they cut off half of the pokedex? Then why didn't we get just 50 pokemon in x and y? They had to create 700 3d models + all the pokemon animations back then...Now they had the models and they had the animations, so what exactly changed that made it so difficult to create, I don't know, let's say 100 new animations?
for SwSh? probably not challenging. but the reality of the situation is that they're simply ripping off the bandaid now rather than later (ie., cutting pokemon before it's too overwhelming).
i wouldn't expect it tbh. between the PR for USUM and their more recent statements, it sounds like they'd rather just do a main series game and a remake every so often rather than crank them out like they have. GF is probably moving towards a more "GaaS" model.
What do you want people to say about it, exactly? People can't respond to comments that Masuda hasn't made yet. People are responding to the statements that he just made, which don't mention Home at all.
No, it was for the Gamecube.
Okay, that corroborates my idea of it being a toolchain problem. In fact, it's starting to sound EXACTLY like example #3 I gave earlier.imgur said:
Only if they are reviewing the assets as they appear in the final compiled package (i.e. as the fan dataminers did). The funny thing about compiler toolchains is that once it's working, basically nobody subjects the compiled result to a review. So if the compiler has a small flaw (like compiling the same source asset duplicitously) this is literally invisible if all you do is review the source files at the project level.
One word: "accretion" (or in simpler terms, clutter). The Pokedex grows invariably 'heavier' with each generation -- it's not just animations and sound effects, but movesets, power creep, legality checks (No Guard Fissure Machamp anyone?), which grows continuously more complicated with each new expansion. Eventually something has to yield. It's like when Sakurai mentioned how every new character in Smash Bros. needs (among other things) a corresponding Kirby hat; it's part of the reason why trading-card games rotate what cards are allowed in which formats.
I wan't people to say nothing since he hasn't said anything yet. I'm pretty sure it's more than possible to save judgment than take everything face value
But he did say something. He made a statement on the official site. Why shouldn't people be allowed to comment on that? And why should people be saving judgement after two directs, E3 gameplay, and several official statements? Aren't people allowed to draw conclusions based on the information they have at hand?
We're talking about Home.
No, we're not. There's been two instances of people talking about Home here:
For this particular one, this is brought upon by GameFreak themselves.
They never did a quality downgrade with an actual price upgrade to my knowledge.
The sentence you qutoed from me was literally talking about how Masuda was planning on talking about Home at a later date.
Yes, and you were complaining that people "weren't holding off on judgements", and "taking things at face value". But nobody had done anything like that for Home.
I was responding to Pax Unda
