Winter Spirit Ultima

Doge is gonna be next, they made a comparison photo recently and it looks sooooo old.

D:

Stick a Santa hat on your current one.

That’s what I did with this one from last year.

Same. I ended up with the same one from last year, which I still believe it's pretty cute. A bit more and I thought I wouldn't find it again.

This all seems super cool but my phone still isn't compatible with this game so I can't enjoy any of this awesome shit, DeNA. Whatever happened to that other version of the game you said you'd look into making for all of the tons of folks in my position, hm?

ok cool

but where the hell is Silver 

he's one on the very few characters still not found outside his original games

The original was great but the sequels seemed to steadily decline in quality, still sad to see it end.

Aw man, always was a Christmas thing for me to watch them. Wonder what he'll do now?

Hot dogs are healthier than I thought.

Game Freak right now:

I’d be shocked if there wasn’t (and I hope Tyson gets to do it too)

That was probably already in the cards tbh

@Celestia I don't wanna imagine it with the initial design

In other news, people continue to completely underestimate how complicated game design is.

https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/186632316431/what-do-you-think-about-the-pokemon-sword-and

https://askagamedev.tumblr.com/post/186632974686/ok-but-the-models-for-the-older-pokemon-in-the

Odd more of the average public are now complaining about the reused models as if that is news. It was obvious from the start the models for the old Pokemon were the exact same as the last few games just by looking at the trailers. Oh well... better late then never with the larger side of the public realizing how low quality these new games are.

Pretty sure it's not about the fact that they were reused, but the fact that they specifically said that they made new models as an excuse about time and effort only for that to not be true at all.

It's not surprising that they're reused, though, since LGPE reused models from SM, SM reused models from XY which, in turn, reused models from Battle Revolution in the first place and just dressed them up to look different.

It's not about the models; companies reuse assets all of the time.

It's the fact that they lied about it, and kept lying about it despite the contrary.

@Waveshocker Sigma It's such an odd thing to lie about. Reuse of models is nothing new and outside of a select few I'm sure most wouldn't have minded if GF were upfront about this. Why lie?

I legit have no idea what GF has been thinking on the majority of things they've been doing this time. I know that they don't want to be known only for Pokemon anymore, but if this is some ploy to get themselves out of having to make it, this is the wrong way to do it.

PR for this game has been really bad, eh?

As far as I know, a single Famitsu interview was the only time they said anything along those lines, and I don't know if it's been properly translated? The summary I saw that went around had a point about needing to redo models, which could honestly be taken a number of ways. But news sites of course ran with "every single one was remade from scratch."

I may have missed another statement or something though, and even if not I'm not denying the possibility that's what they wanted people to take from what they said...in which case yeah, they lied, which is pretty bad. See previous statement about their PR being horrible.

Also wait, aren't the current models general models they made during XY's development (hence them being used in pretty much everything from that point on)? I never heard anything about them being the Stadium thru Battle Revolution models, which IIRC look pretty drastically different, at least mons from the earlier gens.

They probably lied, because they did not want to admit that they screwed up which is common for developers.

So they try to make it seem like they have more control than they actually do.

It looks a million times better, so I can easily believe.

Too Infinity and Your Mom

heard it's right under disney+ at #2 in the US

It seems to be the top trending thing in the UK...

I have a feeling this is about to blow up on Richard. The world is a different place than 10 years ago, when this stuff comes to light it can spell terrible reprecussions.

Turns out I might have been right all along for always calling him "Richard Jackass" in my mind.

Wow. 

Noooooooooo