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Interesting topic, Pokemon Unite seems to have worse graphics than many games from the 90s
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Because fans are more dedicated and creative than Gamefreak has been in the past 8 years. Their last truly innovative games were the Unova sequels and everything after that has been average or mediocre at best. Fan-made games at least picked up the slack.
Just to be clear, the "look better" in the thread's title is talking about visual elements of fan games, right? I love fan games, but I don't think that's really a fair comparison- most fan games I know of use existing assets. Sometimes they'll repurpose them or reskin them, but editing existing works, even if it improves it, isn't quite on par with creating works from scratch IMO.
I'd say the biggest fan games out there right now are Uranium, Prism, Sage, and Reborn, judging by the relative size of their communities and amount of news about them. And I think they all look good, but I don't think the difference is that huge.
Pokemon Prism looks a lot like GSC:
Pokemon Reborn is a little different, but still pretty similar to RSE:
And Uranium and Sage look like DPPt:
Which makes sense- these games generally try to emulate the canon games' style. So it's a little weird to talk about vast improvements graphically to begin with.
The only big game I can think of that uses a unique artstyle is Ethereal Gates/Sea and Sky, and even then I wouldn't say it's hugely different from the main games' style.
more people with love worked at it longer time to make it work somehow? gamefreak, nintendo and pokemon company should hire such people and not attack them
more people with love worked at it longer time to make it work somehow? gamefreak, nintendo and pokemon company should hire such people and not attack them