Apologies for the excess negativity but I thought it was obvious that this is impossible. 2D images can't be futureproofed in such a way that they work at both low and high resolutions
Sorry, I wasn't that clear. I meant that when they made the models future proof, they should've done the high-res textures with them too. The lower-res ones for the 3DS needed to be done separately, I understand that.
t's well known by now that GF starts developing a new generation right when the first games of the current generation are done. GF has already explicitly confirmed via(?) interview that development on Gen 9 has already started.
This is infuriating. No, seriously, I don't think people realize how thoroughly stupid this is.
Instead of properly exploring a generation and making deep games that stand on their own, GF is rushing everything to get a new gen out in 3 years. Again.
A new gen brings a new region that will need to be built from scratch, a ton of gimmicks because Gimmick Freak can print money off them and most importantly, new Pokémon.
Apparently, we've already reached critical mass, to the point Dexit had to be implemented. One would expect GF to y'know, extend the generation so they don't really need to add more mons soon. Maybe continue with the Remake tendencies and actually give them the polish they deserve instead of whatever was ORAS. They'd keep lining their pockets with that sweet, sweet money, but nooooo. Gimmicks need to be put out.
I dont expect there is going to be any amount of features that will satisfy dexit to some people, but a lot of what you've said directly contradicts what they have stated multiple times. And considering how tight lipped theyve been on ANY of their features, I understand the bitterness that comes from not knowing what they have in store. But I personally dont think anything short of a direct list of features that shows what was added in thenplace of the pokemon will placate people, and people will STILL be mad.
If they were truly so lazy, wouldnt they have been able to donit with the regular team, instead of doubling the core and having 800+ more workers on top of that? If this is the lazy route, what do you expect the hard route to be? Maybe 1.5k workers? And we just...add more people whenever a new gen comes along until we have all 1k mons on a single game?
Pretty much every person who has knowledge in the game industry I've seen has support of dexit, and have been surprised it hasnt happen before now. I think im gonna put my faith in them instead of a few college students, youtubers and forum members. We got less than 2 weeks, and im sure the game will be disected to its very code for every piece of info, we'll see whetger or not they were slacking or not.
No offense, but you sound really condescending on that last paragraph.
As for Dexit, deep down, everyone knew it would need to happen at some point. Here's the thing though. They blew it. There are thousands of people, if not even more, complaining about it and with good reason.
USUM had the full national dex. With all the gimmicks in the world. In an underpowered portable system. Despite all its flaws, it didn't need Dexit.
Now, the Switch is a much more powerful console no matter how you slice it. The inevitable, and I really mean it, 1K mons is just not reasonable, happened. Dexit is coming.
The initial excuse was actually good, despite the awful delivery. They claimed to be polishing the game and making it a better and more fluid experience.
Then we saw tons of reused animations. Don't get me wrong, this is good and industry standard. Not when you're claiming to having made new ones though. People ain't that stupid.
Ok, but maybe they were working on the graphics? Tree.jpg. The mere fact that there's an image placing OoT Link in the Wild Area and it isn't jarring is more insulting than anything I could say.
The list goes on for a while, and people have dissected them better than I could, I can link some vids if you're interested.
So yeah, game devs overall agree that Dexit was inevitable, but I've also seen some claim that so far, GF didn't really show anything that would indicate a major leap in the series or even features to justify the cut. In fact, I saw game devs laughing at those textures.
TL;DR - GF working on Gen 9 already because they're dumb as a sack of bricks and as greedy as a pirate.
Dexit still shows no results, just like GF left us hanging on the Battle Frontier in ORAS.