If only people knew just how impractical sprites truly are...
If you think the games are horrendously rushed now, you don't want to imagine how they'll be when they gotta waste a truly enormous amount of time and money making sprites for damn near everything. Did people forget how sprite frames work or something?
I feel like people can be a little hypocritical when it comes to sprites.
Recycle a 3D model, and folks will call you lazy. Reuse some sprites, and people won't bat an eye.
After that, there's the question of taste and whether or not newer graphics fall into the Uncanny Valley, which IMO is a valid reason not to like modern graphics.
...except for the fact people tend to focus on the best artwork of the industry (E.g., Street Fighter III) or modern sprites that very vaguely reminds folks of the 8-bit and 16-bit eras despite not fitting that well with the sprites or consoles like the NES or the Super Nintendo. And besides, sprites are also a taste, you are no less valid for preferring 3D models over pixel art.
And besides, just because a sprite is newer doesn't mean I should like it better.
I said it several pages ago, I don't mind the overworld sprites for the first few generations overall. Generations I and II? Really simple and cute.
Generation III has some bad cases of inconsistent coloring, also the Regis' overworld sprites were comically inaccurate. But other than that, Brendan's and May's might be my favorite overworld sprites for any playable character, alongside FRLG Red and Leaf.
Meanwhile, Black and White might be more recent games than Emerald, and yet I hate the overworld sprites here. They are taller I guess, but also about as wide as the Gen IV ones. As a result, they went from stubby to noodly and stretched, which may work for, say, Elesa, but not Hilbert.
And looking back, I think I know why Gen III has my favorite overworld people: no mouths. I don't know why, but putting mouths on every chibi map sprite just doesn't work for me.
And this is my expanded opinion on overworld sprites.
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