Story/setting needs to be done before the rest of the development, usually, but in a good streamlined development environment the story/setting is already done before the rest of the developers are done working on the previous game. For example, they probably already finished the story of Sun&Moon before ORAS was released.
Design is a too broad term to say. Probably half of the design process needs to be done before the rest of the development starts. Again though, in a streamlined environment, they already finished this before the rest of the developers are done working on the previous game.
Those are what you call "features" in development. ORAS still introduced a good amount of new features to the game. Also: natures have been in the game for ages. All games since RS have that, so all games since RS didn't have to spend a lot of time implementing that.
ORAS probably had more new features/content than HGSS did.
That's not at all how it works.
Porting a game to a whole new engine like this will probably mean that they need to recreate the entire game.
Besides, once again: How is this different from almost every other game before this? The transition from DPPt to HGSS to BW/BW2 was all basically no work according to this logic, because it's all (nearly) the same engine as the previous game. They could have just copied code from the previous game and replace sprites and background...
Don't know what franchises you mean exactly, but most franchises have larger development teams. Gamefreak has a surprisingly small core development team for Pokémon.
Also: time between DP and HGSS was 3 years. Pt came in between but that's a director's cut, which legitimately does take a lot less time to create, just like Emerald, Crystal, and Yellow.
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My point is: they had to create ORAS almost from scratch just like how they have to create Sun&Moon from scratch. They only had a region (which they still had to rebuild) and a story. That's at most 10% of the development time. Probably less.
ORAS comes off rushed. XY had a lot of criticism toward its lack of content, so they added a lot more content to ORAS. They did add more content, but it seems a lot less well-thought-out. It seems like they tried to add as much content as possible without thinking it through.
thanks phoen that was very informative!
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there is literally nothing to snatch though... i talked to phoen cause i knew he knew better... go away with your drama
Grass starter in march, Fire in april and Water in may
Pokémons éxperimental era is upon us
not the best pokemon type on my birthday month tho. yas.
Ok but in all seriousness, they better not. There better be all 3 starters, the box legendaries, an updated trainer design and just all round slayage tomorrow.
metroid reboot
super mario galaxy 3 & hd collection with separate luma amiibo
zelda nx release date/wii u cancellation
pokémon snap 2
mother 3 vc on thursday
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hopefully he is right about these
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Metroid reboot
Super Mario Galaxy 3 & HD collection with separate Luma amiibo
Zelda NX release date/Wii U cancellation Pokémon Snap 2 Mother 3 VC on Thursday
I like this neogaf user
Hopefully he is right about these
not the best pokemon type on my birthday month tho. yas.
Ok but in all seriousness, they better not. There better be all 3 starters, the box legendaries, an updated trainer design and just all round slayage tomorrow.
The Direct tomorrow is for the summer and fall 3DS lineup I believe, basically confirming that leaked list that had "Pokemon Niji" on it. Why do we think we're getting more information for Sun & Moon?
The Direct tomorrow is for the summer and fall 3DS lineup I believe, basically confirming that leaked list that had "Pokemon Niji" on it. Why do we think we're getting more information for Sun & Moon?
What's Pokemon Niji?
We believe there'll be Sun and Moon because Directs never 100% stick to their description, and they just announced the games with nothing as much as a trailer, there'll surely be something there.
