Pokémon X/Y Announced

[felipepepe]

VS.

TBH I like the frog and the firefox, but I have no idea wtf that grass thing was supposed to be... IMHO, the game designers should return to "less is more", every pokemon now seems to have lots of patterns and details that add nothing...

 

[Broseph]

There's something very distinctive about the Pokemon design of the first two generations compared to the rest that I can't put my finger on. The art style is just plain better. Every generation has had at least a few gems, though.

 

[Damned Registrations]

In particular, the first generation starters evolved into godzilla like monsters. A dragon, a huge tortoise with massive cannons grafted to it, and a massive dinosaur/prehistoric plant thing. None of those would look out of place in a more serious game as boss monsters or the like. On the other hand, kungfu fire chicken/monkey leaves some sanity to be desired. A lot of the pokemon from later generations don't look like things that would be dangerous in any way at all. They just look goofy or cute. Even the goofy/cute stuff from the original still looked like it could at least hunt on it's own, aside from a few random things like Psyduck (and even that evolved into a creepy anthro platypus thing). Now half of everything is like Psyduck.

 

[visions]

/Brofisted a post about Pokemon design. -10.000 KKK

I only know how the first two batches look but I used to like the dinosaur/reptile looking ones the most. Rhyhorn looked like a particularly badass mofo.

 

[Jasede]

Well, there won't be any porn of the water starter, I can tell you that.

Also I thought you were making some joke with the thread title... Ididn't think they'd actually name it that.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

Oh. But that wouldn't be of any benefit, either.

Well, there won't be any porn of the water starter, I can tell you that.

You must be new here.

Also why is it that new Pokemon design is just putting eyes on objects? How long has this gone on?

1996

 

[felipepepe]

Also I thought you were making some joke with the thread title... Ididn't think they'd actually name it that.

I wonder how long until XX/XY jokes...

Now half of everything is like Psyduck.

Probably a mix of suits desperate after toys sales, 'cause "cute sells", and Digimon coming allong and making monsters 10x more grimdark & """"adult"""" that pokemon:

Nintendo won't allow them to try and beat stuff like this, so they decided to go the other way around...

 

[SoupNazi]

There's something very distinctive about the Pokemon design of the first two generations compared to the rest that I can't put my finger on. The art style is just plain better. Every generation has had at least a few gems, though.

I actually spent like 5 minutes staring at the picture and wondering why you're right. It's like you spoke out of my mind, and at first I thought it was just nostalgia (Pokemon came quite late into my country, so when it did I was into it and lost interest somewhere during the third generation), but I think it's the eyes.

It seems like they abandoned the traditional "anime" eyes and now they just look sort of like shirt buttons. The first six (the fire one from second generation not included, but I think that's just this picture) seem like they could display various emotions and just change their faces. Something along those lines. They seem to have actual character. You can sort of tell how they're playful, like children, or something, whereas the new ones just look static.

I mean, WAY too much thought put into thinking about Pokemahns, but still.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

The first two generations had to deal with limited hardware. The 'mons couldn't be too detailed or you wouldn't see shit on the tiny gameboy screen. One could argue this led to "better" designs, as the artist couldn't go balls to the walls with them he had to make characters that could be easily recognizable without filling them with frills and spikes. On that note:

Spoiler

TBH I like the frog and the firefox, but I have no idea wtf that grass thing was supposed to be

A mole? That's more Ground than Grass, but eh. Could also be a squirrel, that green thing on its head looks like those stereotypical "thief hoods" that appear on comedy mango / animu, and squirrels like to steal food from others.

 

[deuxhero]

^The name says it is a anthropomorphic chestnut

Water starter looks like shit again, a fucking frog? Gamefreak is running out of ideas so fast they can't even give proper names to the versions

Although that frog-thing does look great compared to whatever the hell the grass starter is and the KAWAII ^___^ fire one

I actually like the water starter. The illusion of glasses and beard with use of psychic type moves suggest it will be a pretty cool Wizard Frog. That said, I'm waiting for the final forms to judge the starters because gen 5's were pretty much the opposite of my thoughts on the initial forms (Pure derp Oshawott vs. actually cool Samurott).

Also of note: The PC's glasses seem to be rigged separately from the rest of the model and glitches away at one point (during the vine segments), and they are completely absent in some scenes. This, combined with the oddly angled scene in front of a mirror and a dresser at the start has been taken as evidence of trainer customization (note that the Pokemon fandom is a little crazy when new games, making huge theories out of any little detail, let alone new gens, are announced, though this one seems to be pretty widely accepted)

Oh, and it seems Nintendo and or GF didn't like how people desperately claimed Gen 5 wasn't in New York and made sure to scream as loud as they could (including literally showing it on a map) to say the game is in France.

 

[felipepepe]

The first two generations had to deal with limited hardware. The 'mons couldn't be too detailed or you wouldn't see shit on the tiny gameboy screen. One could argue this led to "better" designs, as the artist couldn't go balls to the walls with them he had to make characters that could be easily recognizable without filling them with frills and spikes. On that note:

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I complelty agree with this theory, that cleaned-up Garchompo looks great and would fit perfectly in Gen 1.

 

[Damned Registrations]

Never thought about this before really. It makes sense though, as I've been made to notice the difference in music as well for a long time now. 8-bit tunes were the shit.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

You have been awarded a trophy: felipepepe's Golden Fist


Because there were no Brofist achievements past 1,000.

Spoiler

 

[thesoup]

I'd kind of compare the pokemon's design to Star Wars. Gen 3+ all have a bunch of shit thrown all over the place and it looks bad despite the better tech. Like the prequels.

 

[Broseph]

Dear God, these Youtube comments... why do I always find myself looking at them?

123LittleBastard 4 seconds ago
Have you heard of Black Ops II. THAT was an innovating game unlike you baby toy!

 

[thesoup]

www.pokemmo.com
Anyone playing this?


we could totally battle against each other

 

[deuxhero]

I prefer simulators, the battle system is great at competitive stuff.

Annoyingly, Pokemon Showdown ties most settings to your cooklies and not your account last I checked, but import from text makes the issue less major.

 

[Chromie]

Flies in the face of all the "turn based RPGs aren't popular/don't sell/are too difficult" stuff too. Have fucking fully grown adults talking about TB as if it's completely incomprehensible and unpopular unless you're a complete nerd/grognard, meanwhile Pokemon sells 200+ million units and is aimed at 7 year old kids who understand it just fine.

I always love bringing this up.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

The analysis is okay, but the real fun are the answers. So many twisted panties.

 

[corvus]

I always love bringing this up.

I like that OP, could be a Codexer.

An rpg is what you define it as.

 

[Clockwork Knight]

dukedanieldantethe2nd:

Just gonna leave this here.​

 

[Broseph]