Designs sure shat the bed in the last few gens.

Designs sure shat the bed in the last few gens.

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It actually went downhill starting in Gen 3, the cape was really cool in Gen 1/2. Poke Maniac went from maybe someone who was too into battles to a fricking furgay

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't mind the mascot suit fanatics but I agree that the older maniac was way cooler. The mascot suit shouldve been a different class.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        The suits couldve been like, a movie actor class or performer. Or take the cape design and call it Battle Maniac

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I don't think it's supposed to be a cape so much as a big baggy coat. Maniacs are clearly positioned along with Super Nerds as otaku stereotypes, so it makes a little more sense that later gens tried pivoting them to a cosplay theme.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >last few gens
      you clearly mean since gen 3

      FPBP

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      the gen 2 sprite is probably my favorite. he's totally the shitter who would say shit like "now you've unleashed my rage!!" and other weird anime-ass quips without an ounce of irony

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They should've kept his school shooter trench coat instead of the cape. It shows that he's some nerd but also still makes him look cool. Though I guess the cape is more chuuni

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the evolution of this design is actually pretty hilarious. it progresses into making fun of charizard fanboys, before gamefreak realizes that they're the charizard fanboys and backpedal

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Do people not understand that the gens 1 and 2 pokemaniac are meant to be smelly chunni otaku? Its not a cool cape, its an edgelord trying his hardest to look like the cool villain from his favorite manga series.

      As for why they became furfriends, the class obviously parallels those who gamefreak consider the smelliest losers still interested in their products.

      He's supposed to be a kaiju fan, who obviously tend to be weird otaku, and gf would obviously have quite a few kaiju autists if they were gen x ers making a monster game in the 90s. It's joke poking fun of themselves. The fursuit is meant to be those rubber suits kaiju actors wire

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        not everything is about "muh kaiju"

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          This time it is

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          His name is literally fricking "Kaiju Maniac" in Japanese.
          かいじゅうマニア -> Kaijuu Mania -> Kaiju Maniac -> PokéManiac.
          Broken down since you're a sped.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            does this make slowpoke a kaiju

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              According to the Egg Groups, yes. In Japanese, Monster is Kaiju and Poké Maniac is Kaiju Maniac. It's also why Poké Maniacs specialize in Pokémon from that Egg Group.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                His name is literally fricking "Kaiju Maniac" in Japanese.
                かいじゅうマニア -> Kaijuu Mania -> Kaiju Maniac -> PokéManiac.
                Broken down since you're a sped.

                This time it is

                [...]
                He's supposed to be a kaiju fan, who obviously tend to be weird otaku, and gf would obviously have quite a few kaiju autists if they were gen x ers making a monster game in the 90s. It's joke poking fun of themselves. The fursuit is meant to be those rubber suits kaiju actors wire

                based intellectuals

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      obsessed

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Do people not understand that the gens 1 and 2 pokemaniac are meant to be smelly chunni otaku? Its not a cool cape, its an edgelord trying his hardest to look like the cool villain from his favorite manga series.

    As for why they became furfriends, the class obviously parallels those who gamefreak consider the smelliest losers still interested in their products.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Remove the rain coat and look confident, this dude could pull the look off

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. It’s literally just different flavors of otaku cringe.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They should make a chuuni class that's a trainer that only uses stereotypical "cool"(in the japanese sense) and "edgy" mons, like Lucario, Scizor, Arcanine, the Charcadet family, and so on.
      It should be a kid around 13-14. Maybe Gladion can be the blueprint for the design. Or maybe they can literally be the "Middle-schooler" class, and could wear a gakuran school uniform with some edgy accessories to stand out. Like headphones, maybe headphones could work.
      They could have a wienery expression when battling and then have their childish side come out in their loss animation.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I actually like this
        It would give more personality to trainer types if the pokemon they had were more thematically consistent instead of usually being either broadly type based or sometimes just arbitrary

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      The problem is that designing a character who is supposed to look like a cool manga character, actually looks like one when you draw him in a manga style

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I look like this

      They should make a chuuni class that's a trainer that only uses stereotypical "cool"(in the japanese sense) and "edgy" mons, like Lucario, Scizor, Arcanine, the Charcadet family, and so on.
      It should be a kid around 13-14. Maybe Gladion can be the blueprint for the design. Or maybe they can literally be the "Middle-schooler" class, and could wear a gakuran school uniform with some edgy accessories to stand out. Like headphones, maybe headphones could work.
      They could have a wienery expression when battling and then have their childish side come out in their loss animation.

      >only uses stereotypical "cool"(in the japanese sense) and "edgy" mons, like Lucario, Scizor, Arcanine, the Charcadet family, and so on
      And I do this

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why did GF abandon the biker class, was it considered too mean for kids? Didn't even return in Lets Go

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They didnt want to make animations for someone riding a motorcycle

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >Bikers were killed for 3D
        frick

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They abandoned bikers because they abandoned bikes.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >they abandoned bikes
        They made a bike Pokémon in Gen 9. They made super versions of said bike Pokémon as the game's mascots. Now I hate Game Freak even more for not giving us Galarian Bikers on clown bikes in the water and Paldean Bikers on or with Cyclizar.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gen 9 ruined the pattern of him becoming more degenerate

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      He looks like a guy who collects and reviews funko pops now so I'd say it still fits the theme

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The charizard impression the RSE one is doing is pure soul

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    The idea changed entirely, that’s why
    Maniac more of a freak
    Whereas by Gen 3 they wanted an obsessed fan

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    When did pomf start recognizing SW97?

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Literally me

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    gen 2 and RSE sprites are the best here

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    It is a reflection of modern society.

  12. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They were so cool and edgy..what happened?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They became furries. Furries should not be allowed anywhere even in fiction.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >They were so cool and edgy
      No they weren't. They were chunni tryhards.

  13. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    They've been shitting the bed sine Gen 5 when they just did "gen 1 but worse" for 90% of the designs.

  14. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    ace trainer but then they dropped them completely

  15. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Let's Go has the best one tho.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's the worse, I can at least buy the idea of someone going out dressed like gen 9's guy

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Gen 9 guy should've a different model for each gen. Would be so much cooler.

  16. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Why is geb 4's not even in a real pokemon suit like the others

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't want to insult CHARIZARD anymore

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      They didn't want to insult CHARIZARD anymore

      >only costume available was a clearanced out ROCK RHINO at Spirit Halloween

  17. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    the legpee one is pretty good

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      How?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        It's disturbing

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Dear frick you're right

  18. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    He's just like me, until gen 6

  19. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gen 8 still had some good npc designs but everything in Gen 9 looks like shit.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      now post her howling

  20. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Yes.

  21. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      People complain about jobmons but no one talks about job trainers. Thing that was cool about lot of gym leaders is that their just cool dudes who trained hard. They werent defined by their jobs.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I absolutely love that Brock is just a guy. He's the guyest guy that ever guyed and he's the first obstacle in your adventure.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Let's just look at Gen 1
        >Brock
        He is just a dude, it seems
        >Misty
        Swimmer, dresses pretty professionally for it in most art of her
        >Lt. Surge
        Vaguely military
        >Erika
        I don't know what she is, but I'm sure some fricking weeb will tell me
        >Koga
        Ninja, if that's a job
        >Sabrina
        Doesn't really have a job, but the Dojo right next door is self explanatory
        >Blaine
        Scientist
        >Giovanni
        Mob boss, if that's a job
        It's about half and half, depending on how you count it.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I guess its less about *having a job* and more about that job being their whole character. Blaine is a scientist yes, but like- he is also just like. A guy.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >I don't know what she is, but I'm sure some fricking weeb will tell me
          she's this weird thing they have over in nipponland called a "woman"

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Women? We have something like that here...just well, a lot uglier.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          is blaine a scientist in the games or just the manga

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Go play the kanto games kid.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        This is gross. And what's worse is that flattening the gym leaders makes them already more boring than the title of "Type ace" already makes them. RSE was the start of this and of the pixel games, it by far has the worst gym leader line up.

        Let's just look at Gen 1
        >Brock
        He is just a dude, it seems
        >Misty
        Swimmer, dresses pretty professionally for it in most art of her
        >Lt. Surge
        Vaguely military
        >Erika
        I don't know what she is, but I'm sure some fricking weeb will tell me
        >Koga
        Ninja, if that's a job
        >Sabrina
        Doesn't really have a job, but the Dojo right next door is self explanatory
        >Blaine
        Scientist
        >Giovanni
        Mob boss, if that's a job
        It's about half and half, depending on how you count it.

        >Obviously missed the point

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        One thing I like about most of the Johto Leaders is that they were basically "Boss" versions of existing Trainer Classes, which is why they felt far more naturalised into the world.
        >Falkner
        Bird Keeper
        >Bugsy
        Bug Catcher
        >Whitney
        Lass
        >Morty
        No equivalent, but could pass as a Cooltrainer (M) or a Channeler/Medium in function (spiritually-attuned Ghost user).
        >Chuck
        Blackbelt
        >Jasmine
        No equivalent, but in the Gen 2 beta she looked more like a typical miko, so could've been related to the Kimono Girls (which was a generic class at the time, I believe). Still, she could pass as the nicer and less mean Gen 1 Lass.
        >Pryce
        Gentleman
        >Clair
        Cooltrainer (F)
        And it extends to the new E4s, as well:
        >Will
        Juggler/Psychic hybrid
        >Karen
        Beauty

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Karen is the final boss Beauty
          hot

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I absolutely love that Brock is just a guy. He's the guyest guy that ever guyed and he's the first obstacle in your adventure.

        Let's just look at Gen 1
        >Brock
        He is just a dude, it seems
        >Misty
        Swimmer, dresses pretty professionally for it in most art of her
        >Lt. Surge
        Vaguely military
        >Erika
        I don't know what she is, but I'm sure some fricking weeb will tell me
        >Koga
        Ninja, if that's a job
        >Sabrina
        Doesn't really have a job, but the Dojo right next door is self explanatory
        >Blaine
        Scientist
        >Giovanni
        Mob boss, if that's a job
        It's about half and half, depending on how you count it.

        I feel like there's a direct correlation between having a good amount of "guys who guy" and the game's quality as a whole. Maybe it has something to do with how detached the modern generations are from the original vision.
        Like, you'd never see someone like Brock anymore. Every gym leader in Kalos, Galar, and Paldea has another job outside of being a gym leader.

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          I think Alola strikes a nice balance with the trial captains/kahunas. Some are clearly fully invested in their roles while others seem to just be having fun or don't really give much of a shit and have better things to do.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            This is true, just wish they weren't stuck in such a shitty game.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Still by far the best games of the 3D era.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Gen 7, specifically the Ultra games was the last time I felt like they tried, I never played them but I hear the first versions were garbage.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Other way around, SM are kino and USUM are souless cashgrabs.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Well at least we can agree the Gen had a good pair of games.

  22. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
  23. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    There was one super nerd in the FRLG rock tunnel who always irritated the frick out of me as a kid

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why did he piss you off?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        I don't remember tbh, I think it was Ashton though

  24. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gen 6's is the best, just look at fricking sperging a RAWR out

  25. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    NPC designs definitely have gotten a lot worse especially in Gen 9, but one that they did very well is the Dragon Tamer

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >no cape
      It is shit

  26. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Gen 2's was the best tbh, the big coat looks sick
    I think turning him into a weird furry was a mistake

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