[looping8]

My favorite is about the latest Pokemon game that has a fully rendered ocean at all times, which ruins the game's loading time and is, if I remember, never explored.

[cipheredStones]

A Tumblr post which goes into how truly insane this is, and offers a possible explanation for how it got to be that way:

https://www.tumblr.com/sunspotpony/712834929488216064/so-i-d...

[Dah00n]

Well that was a fun read until it forces you to log in :(

[lubujackson]

This is what happens when you let the intern make the ocean with no oversight. "Hey, the ocean is too curvy." 100x Earth -> "Better?"

[TheCapeGreek]

The Switch era of Pokemon games, aside from some interesting spinoffs, has really been slapdash work. They know it'll sell, so it's always minimum effort. The biggest upset is still that newer games no longer support having all pokemon in them.

It's not like it's a massive effort to support those mons - they haven't been doing significant 3D model updates since the 3DS era already.

[gambiting]

It's so frustrating seeing as Pokemon is literally the biggest franchise in the world, bigger than Mickey Mouse(!!!!!), and yet the switch games feel like they were put together by a team of 10 programmers on a budget. I know Gamefreak doesn't own pokemon, but jesus christ whoever approved the latest games for release should be fired.

Or actually, maybe they should be given a promotion because despite all the bugs and poor performance the game still sold incredibly well, so why spend any more money and time on development if it clearly doesn't matter.

I can't decide.

[rowanG077]

It's definitely a lot of work to have all pokemon. They all need stats. They all need a habitat. They all need a moveset evolution. And if you fuck up even one a ton of fans that really like that pokemon are upset. It's disappointing but I really understand why they don't do all pokemon.

[2muchcoffeeman]

How is this still a problem? We’ve been building large open worlds for ages now. At what point did some developer decide to always render the ocean and this never got addressed?

[beebeepka]

Or the Crysis 2 ocean designed to slow down and GPUs at the time because they did not overdo tesselation. Good old nvidia and crytek.