Imagine Pokemon game mechanics, Monster Hunter monster engine for the Pokemon, and Skyrim's world engine.

Scooby doo had shitty animation. does that mean it was a shit show?

Don't expect BF3 graphics on a Pokemon game. If the graphics look too good, then the Pokemon would have to look realistic, like Pikachu would look like an electrocuted rat

you can't make a new system and still have graphics that barely rival the PS2

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Pokemon IS a cartoon... you can't help it

To elaborate farther, all Pokemon games so far are completely unrealistic, yet the first games have shitty graphics while the newest games are... *cough* less shitty.

Graphics =/= Realism...

I agree, it is a sad excuse for a game, concept not bad, looks like it is executed poorly though. All I'm saying is you cannot make a Pikachu more realistic than it is.. You would have to change it completely to match the surrounding graphics. Same reason why Jack and Daxter is not realistic, because it is supposed to be a cartoon game.

didn't want realism, just wanted it to not look like a shitty game graphically. A game can look good graphically and still keep a cartoon feel. Just because a game has good graphics doesn't have to mean It's realistic. Some food for thought there.

We misunderstood ourselves then, but I did say that it can't have BF3 graphics and you never denied it, so that is where I got confused.