I heard a rumour ages ago that masuda intended for Ho-oh to be the only legendary and gold was going to be the only game, but some other dev threw a fit and wanted them to keep the two game versions thing going, so Lugia was shoehorned in ad a last resort for the silver version
I mean, you can kinda tell, the games mention HO-OH so much, it’s pretty much got way more lore, it’s entrance is more majestic etc etc
Any truth to that? That this birb was meant to be the only game
there kinda is some truth to this, actually, but it's mostly speculation-truth than truth-truth.
at the start with the spaceworld demos, there was only the gold version, and after the spaceworld leak, lugia wasn't in sight.
there are also theories that one of these two guys was supposed to be the silver mascot, up until lugia was drawn for the pokemon movie, and became the silver mascot instead.
That isn't a theory. Nothing resembling evidence exists. You could just as easily claim the skeletal dinosaur was scrapped Silver mascot that that point.
Proof it isnt?
that's a fricking viking boat
I assume 2 versions was probably always the plan since it worked so well for gen 1, but it's true that Lugia was added far later than Ho-oh. Lugia was originally designed for the 2nd pokemon movie by the anime's writer independently of the game design team, and when the design team saw it they decided to add it in the game (incidentally, this is why Lugia is psychic-type despite its association with water: the devs asked Lugia's designer what type it should be, and he said psychic because he wanted it to be really strong and psychic was infamously the god-type in gen 1). Had that not happened gen 2 likely would have just had Ho-Oh as the legendary in both versions, like how Mewtwo is in gen 1, and the trend of "box-legendaries" may never have started (though I feel gen 3 probably would still have had different legendaries in the two versions and depict them on the game boxes, given how important they are to the game's story).
>when the design team saw it they decided to add it in the game
No, they were forced to because shudo created it for the movie. That direcrly led t9 Sugimori pitching a fir over it and Game Freak mandating from then on only they were allowed to create pokémon. That's whyTPC begged for Mega Graminja in Gen 6 only to get an easily-replaced arsepull form change instead.
GSC would have been kino if the box monsters were Typhlosion, Feraligatr and Meganium
This and they could have changed the colours to Ruby (Typhlosion) Sapphire (Feraligatr) and Emerald (Megsnium)
the real question now is; what would they of been called? Pokemon Gold was already Pokemon Gold in the 1997 SpaceWorld Demo.
do you know english
this website requires you to be 18 to use it, go back to middle school before you get banned
it's only got one typo. there's really no reason for your post? chill the beans, lol
if you know that gold was already gold by then, you'd also know that silver was already silver too.
Masuda wasn't the director for GS, also Lugia came to be because of the movie and Satoshi wanted it as the second legendary. That's it.
>ho-oh's open beak
hnnnnng
I hate it here
No, it was always Pokemon 2: Gold and Pokemon 2: Silver