(Most) Gamefreak animations are soulless
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Pokemon Colosseum Normal Battle
RSE Route 119
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Pokemon Colosseum Outskirt Stand
Should the winged Pokemon be grounded again or do you prefer them in the air?
I'm fine if they're in the air, *as long as they're not T-posing*
Grounded
ground them
DistantKingdom I don't want T-posing flying Pokemon. I prefer them grounded.
I like them in the air
According to all known laws of aviation, there is no way a Skarmory should be able to fly.
Obviously lol - but it makes a lot more sense for it to achieve flight by flapping it's wings.
The skarmory, of course, flies anyways
yoshimanrpg because it doesn’t care what gamefreak thinks
That was a Bee Movie reference, so I'm going to give you all a rather respectful, r/wooooosh
@@SSL_2004 r/wosh. Ha gottem.
Funny story, my mother used to hate when I played pokemon colloseum because she hated the idle animations and complained that the characters "needed to stand still" and that they "drank too much caffeine."
Harcion Gaming looooool
I'm just thinking of Shaw from the Hobbs and Shaw trailer saying "What is wrong with you?"
Harcion Gaming OMG she out there hating on those soulful hilarious animations!?
I agree honestly, but there's clearly a happy medium and it's closer to Colosseum than X and Y
Almost like they're in a fight
Average Gamefreak meeting: “So what if we did what we did 20 years ago, but worse?”
Should we hire more staff? Nah.
worse then 20 years ago? eh these really aren't that bad overall to be considered that
Jayden C They kinda are. They’re basically lazy, still character models with idle animation. I highly doubt SwSh will still played in a few years compared to older generations like Red/Blue or even Black/White. SwSh is just so incredibly forgettable and mediocre.
@@suned3128 No? The character models aren't all that lazy. I'm not even focusing on gen 8 but more so 6 and especially 7 in this regard as those games didn't feel lazy in comparison. gen 5 really didn't have any better character models. idle animations? Eh...there not all better then the 3d animations. And really a lot of pokemon work better in 3d then in 2d. Honestly I prefer Yellow then red/blue after actually playing yellow.
@@jaydenc367 "gen 5 didnt have better character models" ARE YOU KIDDING ME! Gen 5 added animation to the sprites, a massive leap forward. Before gen 5 pokemon were just single sprites (outside of the getting out of the ball animation). That is literally objectively wrong. Plus the animations added character to the pokemon. Gen 5 has the best animation for pokemon.
“If it’s got wings, it’s on strings!” - Gamefreak, probably
Old but gold
Gen 3: double battles Gen 5: triple and rotation battles Gen 6: what if battle, but in air
You just reminded me of how much I enjoyed gen5's new battle styles! I remember making a Triple Battle Rain team that got 96 streak wins on Battle Maison. Thank you for the nostalgia.
Zac Blac rotation and triple battles were cool
Gen 8: make them big
Also gen 6: what if we make strong pokemon even stronger Gen 7: what if we make a move like, really strong Gen 8: what if we make pokemon bigger. Like, more big. And strong.
At least gen 6 also had inverse battles.
Game Freak 2050: _Removes the Pokémon game for smiling animation_
*for voice acting
Ljh game freak 2070: removes Pokémon and replaces With guns.
bold of you to assume game freak is going to be behind pokemon in 2050
@Warney Disner I don't think this was the reaction you were going for, but you made me legitimately wish that LGPE had voice acting. I don't even like voice acting in video games, but I want to hear a professional voice actor's best attempt at saying "Eevee, use Baddy Bad!" without breaking character.
Uses the Hau animation still for the smiling
I was at the beach once, and I saw a seagull flying the direction opposite to the wind. When saw it was essentially floating in place, I said, “Hey, that looks like some bird Pokémon’s idle animation!”
Oh my god-
@@saphirethecat7948 lol
Throw a football!
that definetly happened
@@dukecookem... if you've ever watched birds fly, yeah that's pretty common, especially if they are flying against the wind.
When i got XY i was so excited to use Skarmory in my team but i just couldn't keep her because it literally was just a model floating in the air :l
As much as I love XY, I wish they fixed the animations. I don't know a lot about 3d animation but it's pretty easy to move wings once in a while, right?
Same but with ORAS instead
@@kirin1230 Same but with every modern pokemon
I felt the same way but with Xatu.
That was the same for me with tropius. Tropius was one of my favorite Gen 3 Pokémon.
These "blowing in the wind without flapping animations" would work if they were actually moving forward, but they're staying in the same spot, and even then birds flap their wings occasionally
@@caillousheeze Not to mention they don't flap the wings at all, not even once in a while
I actually think skarmory would work well with its animation but animate the flight to be more "jet-like". Like animate some streams of wind going across his body and wings and even his head to show aerodynamics
@@xyzzy-dv6te They usually do flap every once in a while. That's the flapping animation seen in the video. But the camera in-game loves to move around a lot so you might not catch when these "twitch/oh yeah I should do something while waiting for orders" animations go off. I'd rather more of them at least constantly flap (Swellow) or be on the ground. (Xatu)
Every flying Pokemon in a Gamefreak game: *Y'all mind if i just T-POSE*
Nobody: Flying type pokemon: *T*
It's not every flying Pokemon. He showed off like six at the beginning of the video with flapping wings, they just aren't the subject of the video.
You beat me to the T-Pose joke
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I just now realized that your music choice was tied to the location you could first catch that pokemon. Hats off to you my friend
The 2D animations in Gen 5 were SO GOOD. Archeops clumsily flapping its wings trying to stay airborne, Cofagrigus' shadow arms retracting inside its coffin, Zebstrika's stripes shining yellow when he attacks, Ferroseed constantly spinning 360 degrees and Ferrothorn trying to stay attached to the ceiling with its vines. Now all these Pokemon look lifeless in the 3Ds and Switch games...
Huh, all this time and I never realized Skarmory could flap its wings individually.
Agreed
It’s pretty sick
and you didn't know because they didn't show you
I feel they should reintroduce that, it makes it stand out in flight compared to other flying types
Skarmory has always been my favorite pokemon and I only just learned that
Don't worry. Skarmory was cut altogether!
FaffyWaffles *sobs
Alyssa is an example of the problem of cutting half the pokemon. In one way or another, someone will be affected by the loss of their favorite pokemon.
I miss him
I thought I saw him in the pokedex.
So was every other mon in this video except Xatu which probably should have been anyway
I actually like Electross's levitate animation. That's exactly how an Electross should get around.
It looks pretty menacing actually. Just imagine this thing floating smoothly through the air, leaping at its' prey. Grounded Eelectross feels clunky and harmless in comparison.
I want Electross to wiggle its little legs while it's levitating like that. It would be so cute to see its fins twitch from time to time.
It looks shit tbh. I get that Electross moves like this but they still could of done a better job.
Yeah, I like how it fluidly swims through the air. I love the idea of an aquatic animal swimming with electromagnetism, and it looks far more dynamic than 90% of the 3d models. Finding one in the mystery island cave and seeing this new version was what charmed me to the pokemon in the first place. Before that I always just found it wierd. I mean, it's a supposedly aquatic lamprey, but it's pure electric and only found on land in caves? And it has levitate but its Sprite just has it rearing like a cobra on the ground? I just couldnt get it before
@@corhydrae3238 i would like a mix of both. floating eelektross moving like that when attacking, but his bouncy adorable still self when not
DistiantKingdom: "Here is a proper animation from the era of the game cube" **Colosseum Music Intensifies**
Why is no one talking about the moving animation for over world wingull for sword/shield??? THEY JUST T POSE AND TURN RIGIDLY
True. Looking at its wings hurts me
Ik this isn’t a bird pokemon, but Steelix just floats mid-air and turns rigidly while Onix stays grounded
@@c3ntravaswani427 tbf, Steelix is known for levitating
Nando it is? Oh you’re right, it is. In Colosseum?
VJMPX seagulls don’t flap their wings all that much. Still it’s not enough in sword and shield but it’s not as bad as this list
Black and White did the sprite animations perfectly, I miss those
Ah black and white was the peak of pixel graphics for the game, imo.
@@ryannixon4138 at this point it might be the peak of animation in a main line game too...
@@azure4622 considering where were headed and how I honestly prefer b&w's pixel art to the current style...
@@ryannixon4138 same and i was hoping for full camera control since i was a kid too...
@@azure4622 that'd be rad man
A bird: needs to flap wings to fly Gamefreak: I’m gonna pretend I didn’t see that
The biggest loser: Gengar. Even though it had Levitate in Gen 6, it couldn’t participate.
and then it lost the levitate ability for some reason...
I actually never noticed how weird the floating thing was. Now the problem is not noticing it.
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Get some glasses, dude.
Tbh I always hated it and avoided every Pokémon that was effected. *sniff* they butchered my boah eelektross
@@rainworldfan7757 Electross could've been so much worse, Sure it's not grounded, But its animation still fits in the world And suits its personality.
Game Freak : we turn our flying Pokemon into kites
Makes you wonder how an actual kite Pokémon would behave in these games.
@@realar Mantyke and Mantine are Kite Pokemon. Mantine flaps its wings tho
@@realar Mantyke flaps lightly, but it still flaps its wings. Wait a minute, those aren't wings. Those are fins
This was a clever setup to sell pokemon kite merchandise.
These animations are all perfect, you just don't understand the aerodynamics here. The pokemon are actually gliding on hot air currents that constantly permeate from Masuda and Omori's mouths and their own rectums. If they flapped their wings, the raw stench of lies and unfinished work would get into their trainer's noses, further ruining the experience.
I just imagined gamefreak animators on their desks saying "Doing another animation? WHAT?!! Are you saying that we need to work?!!"
Its not really the animators fault. Its incredibly poor management and insane timelines that are making the animations so bad.
@@conorcasey4233 That's true, the developers shouldn't be blamed, it should be bad time management and having to release a game every 1~2 years
Gamefreak: *Partially owns and develops the highest grossing franchise ever* Also Gamefreak: *Doesn't properly animate characters*
Roger Dodger just give it to sakurai lol
What would a Pokemon game look like with effort?The gyms in Galar are all copy pasted. If the games weren't lazy there would be a indoor snowy ice gym with snowboarders flipping around and a water gym where the screen gets wet and a magma filled fire gym with the screen fogs up and you get sweaty.
@@EMDANAL Which were already things in past Pokémon games, especially Gen 5. Just further proves that they're moving backwards
N u guys still bought the game n will buy the new games. Money talks and you guys told them to continue their laziness and their incompetence.
@@chenxiongxiong6778 I didn't buy the game, nice try though
not having flapping wings would be fine if a pokémon was gliding, but these are all just staying in the same place.
Even if we were to assume that they were moving, animals that glide in real life need some kind of updraft to stay afloat, and don't simply turn around, they have to sway their body weight in a similar manner to a plane. Neither of which the animation of Wingull has and the overworld.The defenders don't seem to understand that It's not stationary because it's gliding, stationary because Gamefreak didn't want to make a new animation.
@@SSL_2004 wingull flaps sometimes though
When I first saw pokemon 3ds games and saw the "gliding" pokemon, I was like *wait, what...?*
The saddest part about this is that the flying and gliding idle animations could have easily been used in tandem to emulate how birds actually behave in the air but of course, between flapping its wings and stiffly gliding GF had to choose the one that defies all laws of gravity as their only idle animation
Anyone else notice that Xatu and Swellow have their wings out, yet you can see their wings at a resting position on their body?
2022 Gamefreak removes 1v1 battles so you can only battle with humans
FrozenVoltz 2025 there is no 1v1 battles.
Essentially Pokemon Masters but less literal
@@xlbthedemigod5662 2030: You can only initiate battles in "3 players vs 3 players" situations
2030 Gamefreak removes walking and battling altogether, now introducing Pokemon Stand and Pokemon Sit
2035 Gamefreak announces *Pokemon No Gameplay* and *Pokemon No Entertainment*
I really don't understand why Game Freak has good animations and doesn't use them😓
They are lazy and they don't want to work because it's 'HARD.'
@@SuperLazyTalk What future games bud :(
Who knows how they handle the animations in the game, most likely they don’t use the grounded animations because those are “Pokémon Amie’s/Care’s/Camp’s” and the faux flying animations are “Battle’s”, which is stupid considering there’s a decent many animations that could be used in Battle, not just those ones for those Pokémon.
@@zaxon4765 exactly
Because they don't have to put in effort. They know you'll buy it anyway lol
Skarmory actually has a second Idle animation, at least in Sun and Moon, where it flaps it's wings in a very interesting way, with the motions suggesting it has three seperate pairs of wings on each sides, suggested by the subtle latency of the red "feathers" rising to meet the steel feather, adding some interesting flare. Perhaps the other gliding Pokemon have these animations, too, I've just never seen them because I was to busy trying to either catch them or defeat them. And it's way more interesting to see airborne Pokémon actually gliding, and I think salamance is 10x as intimidating this way, and I think it's better than them just sitting there. It works with the smaller bird pokemon, doesn't really work with larger ones, especially considering that Pokemon with flight capabilities are probably more effective when they're swooping around, and flying in for the attack, like real birds and insects. Which they didn't used to. Still doesn't explain Electross, though. They could've incorporated that wavy-ness into his animations, while having him floating a bit in his idle. But now he just looks really weird...
Skarmory's always been able to flap the individual parts of its wings individually, though it's not shown much anymore. IIRC the games that it's demonstrated the most is in Gen V and Colosseum/XD: Gale of Darkness.
Out of all these flying animation videos no one talks about how golurk is just standing IN THE AIR
Wat
no it isnt?
*Gamefreak changes next Skamory Pokédex entree* Uses magnetism from the Earth poles to suspend itself without actually flying
>entree
@@originaluseername delicous
This is just what I assumed looking at skarmory. Somehow it was just levitating because there is no reason a bird should be t posing in flight. EDIT: If it's not moving.
They just remove it from the game
if it flapped its wings it would move vertically, it having its wings spread indicate its gliding, what would make sense for a still standing flying type.
Lol skarmory looks like Patchy the Pirates' parrot puppet from the spongebob specials
Closer2Zero I remember Patchy eating all of the cookie dough and lost his body.
Closer2Zero yet patchy still has better animation for being a puppet
And yet "a bunch of cheap walk cycles" would still show more effort in animation than what we've seen in Sword and Shield so far.
@@kartovalribs1872 with this like these, I am again and again reminded and please that I bought an oculus quest over a switch with my play money that I had extra for awhile
A Skarmory as pirate's parrot sounds cool as heck espcially if its a sailor trainer class
it looks like they’re gliding, but they aren’t going forward...
6:40 Does it look like Swellow has a second pair of wings under it's non flapping ones?
It does, lol.
It looks like all the flying animations are for the Pokemon when they're soaring or moving forward. Birds flap their wings for vertical motion but typically lock their wings and soar to move forward. And eels don't wiggle around like that unless they're trying to move forward. Why gamefreak thought it was a good idea to give pokemon forward moving animations while stationary, I'll never know
This, he compares a skarmory going up with a skarmory that is gliding in air with wings locked in place. These are two different types of flying used for different purposes. And honestly while i agree in most cases that the animations are shit in new pokemon games, i don't think the collosseum one is actually better. For me it looks janky.
HiroSenpai I agree and this feels like someone trying to hop on the “gamefreak do bad animations” bandwagon too. We’ve already heard everything there needs to be said about this. No one even tries to mention how bad the games get gameplay-wise
@@demifolk8940 I for one disagree. As the point of this video is the quality of the animations. While it is true that all of the animations seem to be made to imitate moving forward, all of them are obviously lazy attempts at simulating flight.
Why would a Skarmory be going forward endlessly? I could understand if it went something like flap wings, glide, flap wings, repeat, but there is literally no way Skarmory would be able to stay airborne as is lmao New one just doesn't make sense imo for the situation
@@titaniumstar500 yeah that was what I was saying too. Having pokemon locked in forward moving animations when standing still is a bad idea
Expression in animation is a lot better than flashy effects.
Flashy=High Quality
I personally disagree as I really like flashy effects when they are done right
I don’t know about that, flashy effects made the 2D games look pretty good. I haven’t played any 3D Pokémon game, but I’m impressed with how good they made all the visual effects look in the 3D games.
@@josedeleon6961 Good Animation = High Quality
@@josedeleon6961 You're taking a page out of DistantKingdom's book, but I want to argue that effects can be flashy in a bad way, take the SwSh mega charizard fire in v.redd.it/8x0df7d2vw931/DASH_1080 the fire essentially looks like plastic as it's forming up, not to mention it's in this grand "orb of energy gathers before being released into a massive attack" (which isn't so grand when a bunch of moves do it) Compared to that, the chinese mobile game's fire is a breath of fresh air, using the anime-style fire in an effective way that I'd call more satisfying along with the fact that there's way less noise.
Didn't even talk about my boy Scyther. The N64 had him down perfectly, and then Sky Battles happened. Though considering he got cut from Sw/Sh entirely, perhaps I should just consider myself lucky I got two more games with him.
Guess who’s back in the isle of armor
@@kekcrocgod6731 "Guess who got copy pasted"
Isle of armor go WHOOOOOOOSH
Lol this did not age well. Scyther is in sword and shield now lol
Oh my god, I just noticed that while Swellow is flying its wings are still stuck to the side of its body. All they did was stick an extra pair of wings on it and didn't even bother removing the stationary wings
I noticed that too. It's looks awful.
No no, that’s just Distant’s animation software glitching out, thankfully that’s not how it actually looks in the game.
The same goes for xatu too :/
@@M3G4T3RR4 Thank goodness it’s a glitch or else I never see Swellow again.
Skarmory: Can I have wings? Evolution: So you can fly? Skarmory: Yes. Evolution: Well, ok then. Actually t-poses in mid-air, LIkE A b0Ss!
Waluigi: TRIGGERED
You know I kinda wonder why they do this. If they are so afraid of the mobile market then why aren't they competing with it by blowing everyone away with new mechanics, great graphics and lively pokemon. Instead it feels like they're just doing the bare minimum in games these days and removing features
I think that the reason that they never seem to innovate is because this is working. The last Pokemon game sold well, these ones will sell well, and the next ones will sell well, regardless of how much of an improvement they are in the previous formula. The Switch was there golden opportunity to push Pokemon to the limits, but they're so afraid of failure, and or so pathetic, but they kept riding off of nostalgia. Notice that none of the defenders are trying to say that game freak made the right choice in removing the Dex, they all pretty much unanimously agree that it made the games worse, instead they're finding excuses. I seriously wish that we got a company who is passionate about Pokemon to work on the next main series game. But it's not going to happen, so instead look forward to Pokemon Sharpened Sword and Tempered Shield coming 2020 what's the National Dex re-implemented, not because they couldn't do it in Sword and Shield, but because they knew it wouldn't make a dent and wanted to make it the sequel sell better. Either or they're never bring back National Dex cuz they're that tone deaf.
@PokeHearts Fan They haven't lost any sales. At least, nothing notable. Pokemon games sell well just by branding alone.
Those mobile guys get to use their work aand mak more money than them lol
They've hit a high horse and think that a name is all a game needs to net in cash. And while they claim they noted our concerns, their responses and lack-there-of responses beg to differ. That's why we either don't buy the games unless they're used or marked down, or we plan another raid on 9/20 next year. Preferably the former.
They don't have to. They're playing is safe year in year out and it's been working. They know you'll buy it anyway.
If I'm being honest, I forgot Tropius existed
Did anyone else notice that Swellow appears to have 2 sets of wings in its sky battle model? It’s just regular swellow with wings slapped on the back.
same with xatu
I always hated how the flying types looked in the 3DS games but it never hit me it was because of Sky Battles.
Same I haaaaated swellows animation
Fun fact: you can use Gastly and Haunter in the Sky Battles but not Gengar because he hasn't an actual levitating idle animation. So what they did? They replaced his ability with fucking Cursed Body, why are the developer so stupid?
One word: Archeops Look how they massacred my boy One of my favoritegen 5 pokemon visually, but it just looks derpy and stupid flapping about there in gen 6 and on, like I always thought it is capable of flight, but doesn’t fly constantly
Yeah I avoid using a lot of Pokémon just because of their ugly sprites
not to be That Guy, but even in Archeops' dex entry it says it's barely able of flying well, so the fact it's flapping so wildly is a nod to the fact it can barely stay afloat
@@jackkolby909 And yet it can learn Fly lol
The comment above this one loves archeops lol.
Staraptor got the short end of the stick too, it looked menacing and intimidating in the 2d sprites where it was grounded, but when it's flying, they made it look absolutely stupid.
My favourite flying animation is Archeops, his animation captures that he's struggling to fly like the pokedex describes him as not flying well My least favourite is Salamence's. He's one of my favourite pokes and it's really disappointing that a Pokemon who basically willed itself to grow wings just... T-poses in the air...
The comment directly below this hates archeops lol.
Clayton Weyl the comment above mine is lying
This comment is in fact a comment
ce n'est pas non plus un commentaire
Comment is comment.
"The slight swaying back and forth really fits in with Xatu's personality" Clearly you've never owned one that LIKES TO THRASH ABOUT.
They could've at least cleaned up the body texture, Instead of duplicating its wings.
ON THAT NOTE, Bram, did y'all notice Swellow's wings are duplicated too?
@@ariamelisma it's less noticeable, So no I didn't notice it
I know I'm 7 months late, but when X&Y was released there was an interview somewhere that stated they did this on purpose cus they wanted to keep the "cutesy" style or something along those lines where it wont be as realistic as Battle Revolution. I remember being slightly disappointed but then Greninja.
Tropius is one of my favourite Pokémon, seeing how they slaughtered him hurts
Not gonna lie, when I saw what the did to Skarmory back in the day I refused to use him because of how stupid they made him look. Stadium 2 Skarmory was the best.
I see Xatu in Pokémon Go a lot and it pisses me the hell off cause of how god awful that model is.
Spar have you seen him in omega ruby, I didn’t like it and xatu is my favorite flying type (I think xatu is a flying type)
Bup Cereal Yeah man, they use that same shitty soulless model in Pokémon Go.
Spar I don’t play Pokémon go so thanks for telling me
@@bupcereal8384 Yep, Xatu is a Flying type
So basically Let Genius Sonority handle animation
Hell let them handle the games aside from concept stuff.
Nah, just keep making it as is, people will buy it regardless
TheArQu That’s why GameFreak is so lazy, they know they don’t have to use any effort because people will mindlessly buy anything and most people won’t criticize it whatsoever. Those people with that,”Rhee if you don’t like it don’t buy it” response any time you constructively criticize anything piss me off
@Peek- At -Ch'you Hit the nail right on the head. Right down to them taking content out of their games only to try and sell it back to you at the same price you bought the base game at.
Let Genius handle gameplay and animations and story. Actually, just let them handle the entire game.
Remember the time when they fit 2 regions in a single GB cartridge
Skarmory, one of my favorite pokemon designs, is completely shafted by it's animations. Hell, it stops flying in Pokemon Refresh for USUM, and at that point it's design clicks again and looks good. Skarmory hovering and flapping it's wings occasionally as an idle animation should have never been the way it battles
Pokémon: **is supposed to flap their wings** Game freak: how about *GLIDE*
Don't they have actual flying animations in the files?
For gliding you need to flap the wings once in a while and gliding in place is just absurd
@@xyzzy-dv6te yes in real life tho eagles need to flap before gliding
What about actually hovering? That makes more sense, considering the poses of the pokemon.
Yeah and also at 6:35 swellows wings are both stationary and “moving” makes it look like it has four wings but not using the lower wings lmao
The shit we let Game Freak get away with over the years... But I will admit I prefer their 'swimming' Eelektross over all other forms. THAT one they actually got right.
Swellows flight animation didn’t even bother to rid itself of its folded idle animation wings. They just gave Swellow _four wings._
Alternate title: stop playing sword and shield and just play pokemon colosseum
The Xatu one pisses me off especially since its supposed to look like a totem pole when it stands but instead they have it floating in an awkward position which goes against what the design itself was trying to convey.
dio: do you believe in gravity? game freak: no
Wryyy
pucci with c-moon: lmao ily dio but fuck gravity lol
Look at this, Weather. What a shitty game. None of the Pokemon are in it. I want to see Pokemon God Dammit. Where the fuck is Exploud.
Holy shit, you haven’t been rejected by the arrow!
How many poffins have you eaten in your life?
this video was AMAZINGLY done!!! thank you so much! i truly enjoyed myself
Also, if you look at Xatu's T-pose, they took the standing model, moved it's head up, made it horizontal, and gave it wings. I say this, because if you look, Xatu somehow has both its wings across its front like if it was standing AND has its wings out for flying. They gave him an extra pair of wings cuz they were THAT LAZY.
It confuses me so much that they go with the static, lifeless animations rather than the much more animated and alive animations that they made themselves??
This really confused me too. It seems like a waste of money? Even if it means that they cant handle those graphics, why up them in the first place if you can just have animation that feels more alive
Maybe they tried it out and found it was too much for the 3DS. Well it was made for 3Ds after all, but later they decided to reuse the models but didnt alter the animations.
I recommend looking into video game programming first before jumping to conclusions. You could have over 20 different animations per Pokemon. That times the Pokemon today would become a huge stress on the system.
@@eko2517 You make a very valid point actually, the only way we could get high quality animations is if we can cut out filler and boring Pokemon, like Chatot, Unknowns and the like. Isnt that a funny concept if they cut down Pokemon for higher quality animations? That sounds like such a good idea that will sure, get criticism but will overall improve the game! Pokemon that are obviously iconic like all those wacky Starters and the Pseudo legendaries! Or even the normal legendaries and the cool series Staples like birds or rodents or that stupid early bug type. *Oh wait, oh fuck I forgot! That's what they said they were going to do!*
Gen 5 shits on every of newer generations pokemon animations.
Elektross wanna be Wingull so bad
The animation would be fine if it's underwater. Like if Magikarp is underwater he can swim like Feebas for example.
@Epsilon how when it's clearly swimming and Wingull is just a static model?
@@ElectroBlastLuigi in the thumbnail
@@epsilon795 He should change the thumbnail. It's a poor example of what the video is about.
Eelektross is an electric fish that can levitate through a magnetic field, it does not live in water. Which is a pretty cool idea!
Eelektross actually looks terrifying in sky battles.
I’ll be honest, I’ve never actually taken note of how shit the animations are until I’ve now been shown better and proper quality animations Thanks Distant Kingdom for helping me see true quality animations!
in hindsight we probably set it aside because a main game has never been on a console, and we accepted the possible limitations of making the game on handheld systems. but when they tell you animation will be a focus of the new game, that make you pay attention to it, and makes you notice more of the flaws. then with people making excuses and game freak's explanations not adding up you get the debate people are having now
Well, the 3d animations are quite lazy, BW and BW2 had beautiful sprite animations that gave every pokemon life and personality.
@@rocketeer9183 well it means they'll step it up for gen 9 then
@@CanterlotCrusader Going 3D was a mistake
I personally loved the BW and BW2 animations as even on Pokemon showdown, I play with old sprites on as their so much more expressive and lively in a way and an example of such would Black Kyurem. I love how his BW2 sprite makes him look so fierce and then the movement when he slams his arms at ground shows the beast is full of rage and power in a way. I enjoy the BW sprites a lot more and that’s why when I play through those games again it’s always a blast!
It makes no sense that Gamefreak wouldn’t hire or poach developers capable of these types of animations knowing they were going to make the jump to a legit console. What a letdown.
Ben Leibowitz They don't want to hire more people and poach developers and want to keep the money themselves like greedy fat pigs.
Until it has been demonstrated that hiring more animators will yield a great ROI, they aren't changing anything. The sad truth is that the majority of the people who buy Pokemon games, would still buy SwSh even if every Pokemom was borderline T-posing their way through the entire game. The best thing you can do is let GF know why you aren't buying it, and not buy it.
@@ZenataUSA 100%, which is why I'm not going to buy Sword/Shield... but my fear is that the majority of Pokemon fans still will despite its glaring flaws, which will only give further incentive for Gamefreak to cut corners and get away with a shoddy end product because it won't hurt them financially.
@@ZenataUSA In all fairness, at least a game where it's just T-Posing everywhere would be amusing, if only because T-Poses are just funny by themselves.
Gamefreak doesn't have the say in that. The Pokemon Company does.
Why does swellow in recent installments with it's flying look like it's both tucked it's wings and got a second pair out of nowhere?
I think it is a software bug
Yeah it’s is from Dinstance kingdom
What makes this sad is how some Pokémon are actually visible in the overworld now. It adds so much character to Pokémon like Haxorus when it runs at you like the T-Rex from Jurassic Park, and then there is Wingull just T-posing in the air.
Some winged Pokémon just looked so much more menacing/cooler/better when they weren't always flying.
You. Are. A. Weeb.
Lol weeb
Hey gamefreak can we have the national dex back in a new game? Just never make this mistake again and we'll be happy. Gamefreak: “Yeah............. *But wouldn’t you rather have Gigamax Sky Battles instead?*”
I mean I dunno about you, I wouldn't be happy just because they put the mons back. They dont fix the other problems lol
The very Last korok more like : yeah, we know that you are passionate about the game so fuck you
@@ticluna5295 what passion they removed features, pokemon, graphics. There a souless company.
@@gearsoftime9375 I talked about the statements they gave the players regarding of all these shits. Basically some souless statemetnts that I feel like they give no shit to the problems
To be honest I would probably just keep letting the other shit slide if they just re-added the cut Pokemon and never did something that retarded again.
I grew up on Pokemon Heartgold. WHERE YOU COULD SEE A BIRD FLAPPING ITS WINGS EVERY TIME YOU OPEN THE GAME
Although it's probably too ambitious I've always wanted to see gamefreak make different idle animations for each pokemon based on it's nature Like a mankey who is calm could just be kinda pouting or stomping it's feet while a rash mankey could be jumping angrily and hitting it's head I know that there are so many pokemon and so many natures but I think the pokemon company could give gamefreak the resources to do it
Masuda: "I thought by removing half the Pokedex, the meta game would thrive. But you've shown me, that's impossible." "As long as there are those who remember what once was, there will always be those who are unable to accept what can be, they will resist." "I'm thankful, because now I know what I must do. I will shred the Pokedex down to its last pokemon, and then, with the money you've given to me, create a new one, teeming with life. Knowing not what it had lost but only what it had been given." Fans: "Born out of blood." Masuda: "The kids will never know it, because you won't be here to tell them."
This comment is the best SW and sh comment ever
This is the most accurate thing to ever exist
You make it sound like he's about to go on a killing spree 😂
@@zigmus00A do you not know what a meme is
@@gearsoftime9375 I don't either, please explain
Any other generation other than gen 1: *exists* Game Freak: "I don't even know who you are."
*literally every generation up to gen 5 joined the chat*
Any other Pokemon besides Charizard:
@@rubyfish6481 *every generation that isn't 1 or 7
I love gen 1 but I'm sick of so much pandering to them. The other generations count just as much as they do
My first actual game was X and I just realized I’ve never seen scarmory on the ground before now.
Bro, The music you used is bringing me nostalgia. New sub lol
Not buying another Pokemon game until they put some efforts into them
J Ag For me, I want all Pokemon in the games and effort put into them.
Amen to that. Im about to give away my old games.
Then you might as well stray away from the franchise because that's never gonna happen. The series jumped the shark after Gen 5 and is on a downhill spiral ever since. It's all about the money now.
J Ag same here
Almighty Keys Keep them, sell them in 20 years lol
Gamefreak is making their Pokémon Animation after a meme, while their games are memes in a bad way.
Feroseed was spinning and spinning in Black and White. Feroseed just stands there lifeless and only blinking.
@@Daniel328DT That was the animations I disliked the most. I loved how Ferroseed was spinning fast until it slowly stops spinning but now it just stands there doing literally nothing...
Yes
@Sir Embrum49 The Great Moth The fanbase is a joke
Tbh I prefer the swimming electross animation, it gives it a much more lamprey like movement and fits in better with its first stage
For Swellow's bad flying animation, the literally just pasted an open pair of wings over his closed wings. Look at it, he technically has two pairs of wings.
I just want another company to be given the mainline Pokemon games.
hysuka2 that's what I'm waiting.
scorny the scorbunny any company. A company that actually cares about the main core series and actually puts work and effort into them and care about the fans. All companies would take and die for Pokemon because Pokemon makes money.
@@craidsaber5986 Genius Sonority AKA the guys who made Pokemon Colosseum and Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness.
@@craidsaber5986 Hate to burst your bubble, but they did. Sonic Mania was not developed in-house by Sega, it's essentially an official fan game and look how often it was called good. They did it twice actually, but Sonic team did have a hand in Sonic Boom, and that neither harms nor helps my case
Game Freak partially owns Pokemon so they would need to willingly give up development or have some insane board room drama involving them being outvoted by Nintendo and Creatures which may not even be possible depending on how the company is setup. They have before handed off development to Pokemon games but those tend to be spin offs especially ones that aren't JRPGs.
Gamefreak: Laziness since 2013
Let's say incompetence. Since that's how it really seems to be since GF doesn't know how to optimize basic programming for their games and refuse to learn how.
@@KenOfSoda yup
More like incompetence in this case, they DO have the extra needed animations, but they reserved them for that one mode most people barely touch more than once or twice instead of using them where everyone goes every time, the Battles.
@Silky Falcon Apathy is another word.
Actually I forgive X and Y they were working with new hardware and have to make every model and texture animations maps NPCs move animations all the new content and the new 3D graphics . But after that they keep using the same trash since 2013 a switch game that looks like a 3DS game
No ones going to talk about the fact swellow's flying animation just adds new wings to the model so now it has 4 wings instead of 2?
T-posing shows dominance.
I bet there are millions of animators worldwide willing to work at Gamefreak to improve the quality of the series. "Do better then". Ok then, hire me.
Aline Piroutek Some of the fan animations in response to this ad hominem retort are genuinely good! If you google something along the lines of fan animations with the bring back national dex tag on KZhead; there's a good assortment to appreciate! 😊👍
@@spritelady4669 Sometimes I think they cannot make good things because people will get used to play a great production, that way the next game of them will be bashed if had Let's GO quality.
Do you really think they can afford to hire more animators with the limited budget they have.
@@gorongamer22 Actually yes. Certainly yes. They aren't cutting costs because they don't have money, they cut costs because don't matter the effort, the game is going to sell anyway.
@@gorongamer22 I can taste the sarcasm here
Moral of the story: let genius sonority make a Pokemon game
or rather the animations
Nah, just take Pokémon away from Gamefreak
Depressed Luigi Yes.
Moiz Wajahat I agree on that.
They recycled n64 models tho
when they did the sky battle thing they really should have designed two animations. one for land battles, and one for sky battles.
6:55 swallow are with his wings closed and openned at same tinlme
*hello everyone, thank you for your support over the years* *it was a hard choice to remove every single pokemon in the new Pokemon Door and Window* *we hope that this doesn’t affect your opinion on the game, as it was only so we could focus on high quality box art.* -Junichi Masuda the 3rd
Third version is Pokémon Mac?
Nah I'm going to wait for the sequel pokemon Gate
Can't wait for Pokemon Wall!
@@MaceJace And make the non-regionals pay for it.
This should be called No Pokémon Door and Window.
I don't want flashy animations, i just want the Pokémon to have emotions. Not stiff and lifeless and none of the moves or models Animations to be ported
Hyper Sheazo I couldn’t agree more!!
I think Pokemon with personality and emotion isn't flashy.
I think by flashly he/she means graphical effects
True.
Tbh some of the gold and silver sprites do more to give the Pokemon personality than any of the 3D models. It's pretty sad to think that even with all the new tech over the years gamefreak decides to go backwards.
Its kind of strange in gen 6 for flying Pokemon. They are either hovering and flapping their wings. Or they appear static but are actually soaring in space. Swellow is actually mid flight but is just stopped in place. Birds while soaring tend to not move their wings and will just glide. It seems that is the part that Nintendo froze. I agree this looks stupid and the hovering in place flapping their wings like Pidgeotto looks better even if most birds can’t actually do that in real life.
A lot of the “not flapping it’s wings” is to imitate the effect of it soaring through the air.
The effect is lost when depicted a few feet off the ground
Moral of the story: It takes roughly 16 years for a company to get complacent.
I've always hated how dead the Pokemon look in the 3D Game Freak games, and the bird/winged Pokemon have bothered me immensely since X and Y. It's absurd that they just recycled the same shitty animation for so many Pokemon, ruining their appeal for me and so many others.
N them fantards said they did shit from scratch.. all assets are reused. Even poke go has the same fucking animations.
i really love X and Y but i agree. They are pretty old game and the first try on the 3DS. Now the Switch is way more powerfull and yhose animation dosen't work. The pokemons in the overworld look soulless !!
Before I watched this I just assumed skarmory was literally a robot
I understand XY. It was their first 3D game, it was also really rushed. But why would they copy and paste the animations into SwSh?
@@microwave8931 idek, gamefreak need to get their shit together. I can accept X & Y for being bad because it was their first game for the 3DS but it's been 7 Years since X & Y came out. You'd expect they'd improved by now.
No one: Flying Pokemon: *T*
Pokemon animations in 2003: REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE Pokemon animations in 2019: ...
Just wait till he sees Xatu floating around like a goofball in the Wild Area lol
Xatu scares me when I see it like that
Except Xatu at least is psychic so like disobeying laws of nature fits it kinda
*Xatu asserts its dominance, in theatres never.*
@@BaconNuke Xatus and Natus use their psychic powers to see the future, they're supposed to fly with wings
@@usual9010 Still isn't a stretch to say their powers aren't at least a bit able to help fly
People probably will try to defend this with "its pokemon they dont have to be animated they are fake"
Last Challenger Or if you're like Lockstin of Gnoggin; you'll mock your audience and both sides of the Pokémon dex debate for having the AUDACITY of asking, wanting, or expecting a billion dollar corporation to step their game design and graphics up on a powerful home console. The responses to your original comment here will be interesting like most of the other comment threads. Time to grab some popcorn to watch the drama llamas unfold!! XD
"PoKeMoN aReN't ReAl ThEy DoN't NeEd To oBeY tHe LaWs Of PhYsIcS!!!1!1!"
@@spritelady4669 dex supporter: i think the game is bad game defender: i think the game is good gnoggin: wErE aLl gOnNa dIe oNe dAy aNyWaY sO jUsT sHuT uP
"Then your social life shouldn't be animated either"
@@spritelady4669 Isn't that the guy who was speculating that the franchise would end or ''reboot'' after Sun & Moon? He claimed GameFreak was making side games so they were gonna stop making Pokémon games :') The company that literally owns Pokémon as much as Nintendo and Creatures Inc is just gonna give away their share in a multi-billion dollar franchise and stop making Pokémon games, lol. It's nice to know he's still full of shit.