Talk:Japanese Godzilla Reboot (2016)/@comment-27208130-20141228054555/@comment-25285745-20150411171156

The day that suits are no longer used at all is the day that the Tokusatsu genre dies and Toho stops making Godzilla films. The reason that suits are still used today is because Toho kept using them because they were traditional to the series, nostalgic, and surprisingly efficient and convincing despite Toho's small budgets and timetables. At any time, Toho could have opted to replace suits with stop-motion animation during the Showa era, or animatronics in the Heisei era, or CGI in the Millennium era. But instead, they kept using suits and merely adopted aspects of these other effects styles to supplement the use of suits.

CGI may be increasingly common in the film industry, but that does not mean that every film studio is going to shelve whatever effects they traditionally use in favor of CGI. Even some major upcoming Hollywood blockbusters (Mad Max: Fury Road and Jurassic World) are going to use predominantly practical effects and CGI just as a supplement, just like the past entries in the series did. Godzilla should be no different, especially because the use of suits is one of the most defining characteristics of the series.