The uses of 3-D

Pokemon Black and White both feature 3-D viewing perspective that should be used constantly rather than rarely in D/P/Pl/HG/SS. Do you think the 3-D perspective might effect battle scenes (other than the full back sprites)? Also, with the Nintendo 3-DS in development, give some ideas on how the new console might change future Pokemon Games forever (as well as Pokemon Black and White.). 3-D is becoming more and more common everywhere, so let's talk about it.

Glaceon said:

Pokemon Black and White both feature 3-D viewing perspective that should be used constantly rather than rarely in D/P/Pl/HG/SS. Do you think the 3-D perspective might effect battle scenes (other than the full back sprites)? Also, with the Nintendo 3-DS in development, give some ideas on how the new console might change future Pokemon Games forever (as well as Pokemon Black and White.). 3-D is becoming more and more common everywhere, so let's talk about it.

I think it could change how moves look during battle, like when you use surf you could see it from a 3D perspective. It would make battling a lot more fun and creative. And obviously it will make the one player look over all better, I have already seen pics of the city in 3D and it looks pretty sweet.

One thing is that I don't want the sprite of your character to look like it's floating on air.

They should definitely use 3-D in battles, because the battles have had very little changes since the 2nd generation.

I would love to see a 3d dynamic punch. I am curious how they will put thet together.(cough! glowing fist then hits opponent and boom!cough!)

I'd be glad if the battle sequences were in 3-D instead of a bunch of sprites slapped ontop of eachother.

But that's not possible at all. To think, theres gonna be over 500 different pokemon and if they were all graphics no sprites, that wouldn't leave enough memory in the game card for well... anything. And if the pokemon were sprites and the moves were graphics wouldnt that look a little... weird? am i using the 3 dots at the end of a sentence too... much?

mrsolo3000 said:

I'd be glad if the battle sequences were in 3-D instead of a bunch of sprites slapped ontop of eachother.

But that's not possible at all. To think, theres gonna be over 500 different pokemon and if they were all graphics no sprites, that wouldn't leave enough memory in the game card for well... anything. And if the pokemon were sprites and the moves were graphics wouldnt that look a little... weird? am i using the 3 dots at the end of a sentence too... much?

That's a fair point, this could make things very hard. I hope they do something innovative with the battles though, I'm tired of a new Pokemon game coming out and the only thing new is that the sprite looks different. I really hope that is not the case with this game, although it very well could be.

unless they started spriting all angles of like everything. so you could rotate around the battle.

Honestly I believe that the full back sprite is good enough for me, I can't argue with that, but I assume and hope that many of the moves in the new game will be 3-D.

Glaceon said:

Honestly I believe that the full back sprite is good enough for me, I can't argue with that, but I assume and hope that many of the moves in the new game will be 3-D.

But wouldn't that look weird? like normal sprites with graphic over??

Well the back sprites do look 3-D...as far as the pics seem.

I'd think the sprites would do a motion when it did an attack or special attack. I'm only assuming.

The need to change the Pokemon's animations too. tired of distorted sprites when I release a pokemon.

But then again, the DS's poor graphics also play in. I've noticed that when you play a newer game on an older DS model, it goes much slower.

The only thing they could possibly do is make more motoin sprites, so instead of only two pokemon sprites, they could do like maybe 5 each. two for entering and three attacking.

Like one for a Special Attack, one for a Physical Attack and the third for a status related move?

that would sound cool but it would take up to much memory.I mean lets face it.all together that is 2420 animations for pokemon alone(there is 484 pokemon right?)

There's 493 pokemon now, and theres gonna be atleast 600 by white and black. So if there was 5 different sprites per pokemon there would be around 3000. so maybe atleast 3 per each. there's already 2 per each so now one attacking move.

Maybe they could make the Pokemon in Pokedex look 3D.

Ninetailed Fox said:

Maybe they could make the Pokemon in Pokedex look 3D.

I could imagine that. I would be on the pokedex all day.

It's confirmed that the sprites will move with certain moves. It'll work with the camera as well to make it look more in-depth. A 3-D Pokedex sounds cool, but I wonder how that would work.