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Bolt the Cat
Bringing the Thunder
Does he make concept art for something unrelated to a new game?
BCVM22
Well-Known Member
He's an artist. He makes art. He drew a piece for the Super Smash Bros. for Wii U/3DS campaign - not even the game, just the publicity campaign. He drew the cover art for the latest 3DS Sega compendium. Is it that odd that he would be doing a little bit of publicity art for the 20th anniversary of the franchise that made him famous?
R_N
Well-Known Member
He's done character/concept art for the films and the tcg (& I'm talking new artwork, not just the reuse of the usual artwork)
Having him do a rendition of Red for a new special 20th anniversary figurine wouldn't be out of the question.
Also, like, he's still an artist for hire. He did the artwork for those sega 3d collections, too.
AuraChannelerChris
"I know what you did last Tuesday."
Sugimori has taken some freedom as an artist as of late.
Look at this strange yellow bird that was spotted in Sinnoh last week.
Look at this strange yellow bird that was spotted in Sinnoh last week.
Tuoko
Well-Known Member
I'd prefer we get Kanto sequels instead of remakes. Another Kanto remake just wouldn't really have much to offer besides "KANTO IN 3D!!!11111" and Mega Evolutions for Blue and Giovanni.
That Chocobo still looks like a Pokemon to me. xD
Sugimori has taken some freedom as an artist as of late.
Look at this strange yellow bird that was spotted in Sinnoh last week.
That Chocobo still looks like a Pokemon to me. xD
SlowPokeBroKing
Future Gym Leader
This x1,000,000
Like, I loved ORAS because Sapphire is the first Pokémon game I ever played and I love the nostalgia with the updated graphics and mechanics, but a SECOND remake for any game is too much.
Honestly, Gold and Silver were basically the Kanto sequels. What about a sequel to GSC and RBY? Like, we start out in Kanto as we would in RBY but then be able to advance to Johto, like a reverse GSC? Updated gym leaders, rosters, Elite Four, Champions, story, Team Rocket, all the good stuff.
That sounds wayyyyyy better to me than a RBY remake.
Bguy7
The Dragon Lord
I fully agree that a sequel sounds like a much better idea and is preferable to a remake, but I wouldn't agree that there's no point in doing a remake. It's been just as long since a Kanto game came out as since the original Hoenn game came out. If enough time has passed for a Hoenn remake, then enough time has passed for a Kanto remake. Just as much that was added to Hoenn could be added to Kanto, at least that's the way I see it.
Bolt the Cat
Bringing the Thunder
The problem with GSC is that cramming two regions into the same game has an adverse effect on the region design and content. They only have a finite amount of time and money they can use to work on the game, so if they have to account for two regions, they can only do half as much extra content and the two regions will end up feeling barebones just as they were in GSCHGSS. It'd be preferable to have a game solely focusing on Kanto that can flesh out the region more than GSC, FRLG, and HGSS did. If they're revisiting Kanto again they should focus on modernizing the experience, add new areas, fix the design of some of the older ones, throw in new Pokemon to give the Kanto Dex some much needed variety, add extra content and sidequests, and flesh out the storyline.
Kein
AKA Silktree
Iwata made it possible, but the idea was already in place. CoroCoro said as early as April 1997 that the world map would be "several times bigger than that of the previous games". I also recall a 1997 magazine saying that the player would be to travel all over Japan, which was probably an exaggeration, but still goes to show that Game Freak considered more than one region to begin with.
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Alexander18
Banned
In about 14 days time, corocoro is going to come out and reveal the news for the movie. My guess would be Eternal Floette or Zygarde appearance in movie. I think that March, April or May is when the next main series game is announced.
IrieFuse
Unify To Thrive
honestly I'm starting to get hyped for whatever is next. I mean in all honesty we have the XY&Z anime, I'm pretty sure that all but confirms what's next. but why red is being given this treatment when we haven't seen kanto since gen IV is weird to me. I would be so excited for FRLG remakes or sequels or whatever. or a Z version or XZ & YZ, whatever's next I'm getting hyped and I think they're going to announce something big soon. I'm just surprised they don't advertise a reveal any time soon
R_N
Well-Known Member
He's getting this treatment beacuse it's the 20th anniversary and the prevailing theme thus far has been HEY REMEMBER THE GOOD OL DAYS (and also these event pokemon) and he's the original protagonist
also he was in gen 5, technically.
Alexander18
Banned
Kanto has already been remade. They are celebrating the 20th anniversary with RBY on virtual console. Anyway, Z or whatever the next Kalos game is the likely candidate. The announcement can be come out of the blue at any time.
_Suicune_
Well-Known Member
I went to EBgames today, and the guy there said they won't have Mew codes until the middle or end of the month. He did seem to talk as if it would come to NZ though. Not sure why it would be delayed like Hoopa was, but not for Australia too this time.
UltimateNinja
gen 9 lover
Kanto and Johto are still smaller than all the other regions, so making a game about these two regions would work out and even two bigger regions could be in one game. Mapping those together isn't much of a work. GSC Kanto was barebones, because the Kanto of RBGY wouldn't fit into the cartridge. In HG/SS, they could do that and they included most of the things that were missed in GSC minus two of the caves.
And yeah nowadays mapping the regions and designing them isn't the hardest work. Two big regions shouldn't be much of a problem.
I do recall Masuda(?) saying that they can include all the regions into one game if they want. But they'd rather not... unless it can be done in an interesting way.
If we could come up with a way to really make that interesting, then it’s something we’d implement – but for me, personally, as a theory, I think it would be more fun for us all to enjoy different locations and then share that experience together than all have the same experience in the same region. — Junichi Masuda
Source: Q&A session on Twitter back in 2014
They wanted each game to have just one region so players would be able to focus and fully explore its environment, get to know its people, as well as the Pokemon that live around it, and learn about its culture, myths and legends.
I think this is one of the reasons why the recent regions are no longer connected, and is now based on different countries.
If we could come up with a way to really make that interesting, then it’s something we’d implement – but for me, personally, as a theory, I think it would be more fun for us all to enjoy different locations and then share that experience together than all have the same experience in the same region. — Junichi Masuda
Source: Q&A session on Twitter back in 2014
They wanted each game to have just one region so players would be able to focus and fully explore its environment, get to know its people, as well as the Pokemon that live around it, and learn about its culture, myths and legends.
I think this is one of the reasons why the recent regions are no longer connected, and is now based on different countries.
Bolt the Cat
Bringing the Thunder
This too. I think it's best to give each region its own distinct experience, shackling Kanto and Johto together prevents them from giving the regions a sense of individuality.