And they will probably be gaslighting each other too with pics comparing it to the new monorail Pokemon going 'see, we had bridge Pokemon before, stop complaining'.
It looks nice when it's not it that stupid form. I'm not against a bridge-inspired design but it should be bigger then.
Probably because it's all about nostalgia. People hate anything that don't remind them of their childhood or any change made to something that reminds them of their childhood. There is no objectivity with Pokemon.
There's a reason people generally say that the series either died after Gen2, Gen5 or Gen7. It simply coincides with when they stopped playing the series, which usually happened between consoles.
>There's a reason people generally say that the series either died after Gen2, Gen5 or Gen7. It simply coincides with when they stopped playing the series, which usually happened between consoles.
Gen 3 remains the only one to have a console all to itself. Feels good to be a Hoennchad
>People hate anything that don't remind them of their childhood
Lol look at this strawmanning homosexual.
I recently played my first DQ game for the first time (DQ 1+2). While both games suffer from some serious flaws (e.g. stupid disposable keys in 1, enemies that can wipe your party in 1 turn if the RNG screws you over), the gameplay is still very solid, and their highly appealing creature designs and scripts quickly make you realize the series was destined to be a runaway success.
Pokémon music has literally gotten 100x better since Silver. In fact Johto has some of the weakest tracks of Pokémon games. Probably tied with Kalos with how late they are compared to everything else.
Yes, Ruby AND Sapphire music which makes up a majority of the best soundtracks in the entire Pokémon series. Cope and seethe about it some more. I'll post this to make you feel better (it's STILL better than the slop made these days btw):
10 months ago
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>Yes, Ruby AND Sapphire music which makes up a majority of the best soundtracks in the entire Pokémon series
I really don't know what the frick happened, they started to experiment in gen 7 but it actually sounded GOOD >Team skull themes >Ultra recon squad >REGULAR necrozma theme >elite four >ultra beast theme >tapu theme
There's probably more but basically it had some good shit, then suddenly the series goes to switch and the music immediately goes to SHIT
I just don't get how it happened, what happened to the people who did work on gen 7?
>this is what has become of the beloved series I grew up with
People shit on gen 1 but they at least TRIED back then. Glad I stopped giving a shit after BW2.
They tried because they had to and it shows.
Gen 1 has some weird fricking designed like Abra and Hitmonlee. You don't know what your looking at but you like it because it looks good
Modern pokemon believes it's fine to shit on a existing design just to get attention from a Weider audience.
The joke being that no one bothers playing Pokemon aside from people who play pokemon so they just keep alienating existing fans
>they at least TRIED back then
sure thing chief >literal pokeball with eyes >a bunch of fricking eggs >a purple snake >a fricking cobra >a fricking pigeon >a fricking pony >a fricking crab
whatever helps you sleep at night genwunner
the first two are gigantimax and are supposed to be kaiju
a-exeggutor was the start but you can't blame the continuance of the trend on him
i haven't even played since oras so i'm not here to defend GF
the first two are gigantimax and are supposed to be kaiju
a-exeggutor was the start but you can't blame the continuance of the trend on him
i haven't even played since oras so i'm not here to defend GF
it always bothered me how intelleon and cinderace essentially stay the same size but get a large accessory, but rillaboom just gets big and grows a drumkit
It’s a marketing stunt. Give a classic pokemon an outrageous redesign. Watch social media shill your game for free. They’ve been doing this since Alolan Executor in SuMo.
"trash monster come to life" is, at least, a fitting concept for a game about magical creatures
a bridge that came to life doesn't make any sense. bridges don't move. the trash monster attacks with poison and noxious fumes, what's the bridge's signature move? coercing other pokemon into climbing onto it and jumping off?
>a bridge that came to life doesn't make any sense.
Because it isn't a bridge come to life, it's a metal dragon monster that can fold itself to resemble a bridge.
Website says it does it when it gets into conflict to center it's gravity (and presumably take attacks better and get some footing to fire off it's railgun-like attacks) in exchange for mobility.
If anything they play up the fact that it looks like a bridge as an incidental visual similarity that arose from this behavior rather than it being an evolutionary advantage in and of itself
>that's even dumber
If I remember right certain human inventions are influenced by Pokemon, so this is very likely a case that people saw Archaludon, went "That's a good idea for something to cross bodies of water", and made bridges. I honestly can't remember what Pokedex entry or person talked about this but it had to have been from one of the recent gens.
The line of little plushes the Pokemon store does where there's one for every single mon is releasing gen 6 soon, and I'm kinda thinking about how fricking vad those plushes are going to get as they get further and further along. Every Pokemon now is either overdesigned or not designed.
They went the complete opposite direction for pokemon. We never needed more pokemon, we needed better game mechanics. Legends arceus felt like a step in the right direction and everything was fresh, then they backpedaled and now we are back to shit.
lmao they're just using random things around the office
There was a Retsupurae joke from God knows how long ago (make your safe assumptions based on the last time you even heard that name) about the difference in level of creative bankruptcy between Pokemon and Mega Man. We've since closed the gap.
>tired of pokemon
The point was that it was an overblown fad and the second that it became too mainstream aka when the adults got involved kids will start hating it. This was true when everyone started to hit their teens.
How could it be a fad if it’s still going strong almost 30 years later?
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Anonymous
Pokemon is still popular with kids of later generations, and the teenage cycle continues. Now Pokemon has lived long enough to have nostalgic man children getting back into the games, and it will probably get even more longevity once the midlife crisis hits and you have more obsessive collectors than the nostalgic 20-30 year olds. This is how older fads like comic books are still alive to this day.
>Sitting at my desk >Boss is on my ass about new designs >Look around my desk in despair because I am unoriginal >See stable remover >Hmmm.....
Need a coffee cup Pokemon (if it doesn't already exist)
Which had a unique design, the gems on Staryu and Starmie are interesting.
The fricking bridge is just that, hardly anything else to it.
You want to make fun of gen 1 pick something silly like 6 eggs.
It's a mon that specifically evolved (as in, darwin kind) to mimic pokeballs for hunting/stealth benefit, rather than mon that randomly looks like a bridge. Why does gondon look like a bridge? Can it serve as a bridge? Can it pretend to be a bridge, then slam the thunde cage shut?
>it’s a mimic therefore it’s good
still a lazy design
they could’ve done something more interesting with it, like how dark souls handled their mimics
Yeah, because it's redundant. We don't need more than one mimic, it's literally perfect for that purpose. It's like saying all these not Pikachus are worth bothering with when Pikachu is clearly unreplaceable
10 months ago
Anonymous
amoongus was introduced in black and white. hmm, what else did black and white do for the first time in the franchise with the available pokemon? golly I can't seem to remember. fricking moron.
It's a mon that specifically evolved (as in, darwin kind) to mimic pokeballs for hunting/stealth benefit, rather than mon that randomly looks like a bridge. Why does gondon look like a bridge? Can it serve as a bridge? Can it pretend to be a bridge, then slam the thunde cage shut?
The actual lore was they just showed up one day hanging around abandoned electrical plants, and arguably weren't even organic living beings. That they look like pokeballs is purely coincidental, and in-universe they don't even actually look like them because they're 20x bigger than a pokeball. You'd only mistake one for a pokeball is because the overworld sprite for a pokeball item is significantly larger than a pokeball actually is.
Legends Arceus retconned them, to be some sort of tree fruit thing.
>Legends Arceus retconned them
they still look like the pokeballs used in legends. the only real confusing thing is that they imply, but dont make it clear, that modern pokeballs were actually based on amoongus, as opposed to amoongus just being designed to be a pokeball mimic
Admittedly there could be a story of someone walking on tbe pokemon by accident and noticing how sturdy it is or some shit, design still looks like ass though
10 months ago
Anonymous
it's also possible that pokemon dont evolve over millions of years like real life animals do. eevee literally evolves based on what elements its exposed to. so does magneton, nosepass, shelmet, karrablast, and chargabug. why cant they just be magical creatures that can adapt their biology into whatever things they're exposed to?
none of those are bad. you're just gay. a pile of shit? what are you referring to exactly? ditto? it's more akin to silly putty or something similar, some sort of sticky adhesive substance.
Grimer and Muk make sense because they essentially play off of slimes. Otherwise, yes, Gen 1's concept was the animals of the world all having special powers. That's what pokemon should be. I don't see a problem with things like Aegislash, but ice cream cones and literal bridges are just strange and jarring designs.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I give Ghost types a bit more leeway, like Aegislash is just a ghost holding the swords and shields. But shit like Klank, and Vanillite are just lazy designs. Though can't say too much about Archduralon, since Duraldon's Gigamax was a skyscraper.
Literally JRPG staple designs and some animals, which was the main point. Exeggscute and Exeggutor are fantastic because it goes from eggs to coconut tree. It's a neat and surprising visual play.
3 elemental legendaries and one legendary like Mewtwo and Celebii are fine, but box legendaries have overstayed their welcome. They should have gone away once the series hit DS
Anime tie in, the new anime is centered around the mystery of what the frick it is, pretty meaningless showing it to the foreign audience who the vast majority haven't seen the anime because TPCI are to incompetent to get it out in a timely manner but somehow the fansubbers are managing just fine, they even have started offering 2 different sub tracks for if you want honorifics or not the last few episodes.
let me make a list of things white people did >invented racism, colonialism and nuclear missiles >enslaved black people >started two world wars >colonized new world, raped & genocided the natives >destroyed the entire civilization of central america >declared wars on innocent muslims and killed them in the crusades >nuked japan >gassed israeli people and the disabled people >incited israelites and arabs to fight >invaded iraq for oil >sold drugs in china, attacked them when they prohibited it >literally not even 1 hour ago bombed niger an african country just because they don't want to be exploited by the west anymore
racism, colonialism and nuclear missiles
black people
two world wars
new world, raped & genocided the natives
the entire civilization of central america
wars on innocent muslims and killed them in the crusades
japan
israeli people and the disabled people
israelites and arabs to fight
iraq for oil >>sold drugs in china, attacked them when they prohibited it
not even 1 hour ago bombed niger an african country just because they don't want to be exploited by the west anymore
all incredibly based
>invented racism
objectively good >enslaved black "people"
based >started two world wars
allegedly >colonized, raped, genocided
probably on the very ground where you sit ungrateful c**t >destroyed central america
objectively righteous >declared war on muslims
understandable >nuked japan
for science >gassed disabled people
for the greater good >incited israelites and arabs to fight
2 birds 1 stone >invaded iraq for oil
strategic and intelligent... almost like the position of power was earned >sold drugs to china
commies deserved it >literally bombed Black folk
oh no!
what was the point of your list exactly?
To show all the good things we've done for the world, or to once again show how we do everything and you do frick all lazy Black folk
central america >objectively righteous
You're a dumb gorilla moron. It's precisely thanks to trashing brownies' natural habitats that you're now flooded with them. >>sold drugs to china >commies deserved it
Thanks to that Chinks now own Canada, Australia, and are well on their way to buying out Africa. I hope you're happy.
>invented racism, colonialism and nuclear missiles >colonized new world, raped & genocided the natives >destroyed the entire civilization of central america >gassed israeli people and the disabled people
And for that, we are heroes.
They didn't invent racism but made whole institutions around it.
In the end there's awful people all around the globe : the egyptians treated the israelites like trash, the arabs and israelites participated in slavery a lot, the precolombians sacrificed people, the chinese did the worst civil conflict ever, some african tribes are cannibals, the indians cast system was atrocious, etc...
Humans are capable of amazing feats and abominations.
>African country does what African countries do and has a coup. >Niger happens to be where France gets most of its Uranium from. >France happens to be big into nuclear power. >Coups are bad for business, France not getting enough uranium to meet demand. >France also happens to be currently supplying a lot of energy to other Western European countries who where to moronic to invest in nuclear. >If France can't supply enough energy to meet demand, countries will look to other sources, namely Russian gas. >Now France has to intervene to protect their bottom line, US has to intervene to protect the sanctions against Russia. >At first try to diplomacy, this doesn't work because Africans. >Now they start bombing things.
and that looked like hot garbage compared to any other game on the ds
pretending that gf has literally ever been competent is only a thing people started pretending in the past handful of years
>Contrarianism
gen 5 is the worst selling and worst reviewed game in the franchise and outside of this site it is usually thought of as the worst one
the trend to pretend it was good is a (relatively) recent invention
the moronic homosexuals can't even keep their story straight if everyone loved it or if everyone hated it and that's why the series "went to shit", despite everything bad about the series starting or ramping up in gen 5
10 months ago
Anonymous
>that's why the series "went to shit"
people have been saying this about every generation since 3
10 months ago
Anonymous
which is why that was in quotes
the only gen I'd even call universally bad is gen 8 and even that still had a lot of good designs even if it did have shit like the coal thing and duraldon
10 months ago
Anonymous
The hate for Gen 8 is incredibly fricking forced because of the nat dex shit, outside the wild area it has far and away the best aesthetic of the Switch games both in terms of character customization options and battle locales.
Also Gen 9's Pokemon power level is way too fricking high and makes online battling boring.
10 months ago
Anonymous
gamefreak has literally never once cared about comp balance and no one with sense does either >it has far and away the best aesthetic of the Switch games
the fairy mushroom area was kind of nice looking but that is the only compliment i can give any location
CC is a legitimate point though
10 months ago
Anonymous
The evolution of release Swsh>Armor >Tundra doubles meta was extremely diverse and fun. SV has a bunch of Pokemon made ludicrously overpowered on purpose from day 1. GF doesn't try to balance ALL Pokemon but usually it is less restrictive than this.
10 months ago
Anonymous
>gamefreak has literally never once cared about comp balance
they did. literally once. they nerfed darkrai's dark void both so that smeargle couldn't learn it anymore, and also so that its accuracy was way, way worse. both at the same time.
10 months ago
Anonymous
that was gen 4 actually, you don't remember when everyone shat on the new ugly evos, zoom zoom
10 months ago
Anonymous
I've likely been posting on this board since you were in diapers, I'm 31 and I've been playing the series since the start.
Wotter was relatively liked and smugleaf was the meme one to like, I don't remember anyone giving enough of a shit about tepig to give him a meme name, and they just had the prediction image of oshawott where it was some moronic squirrel thing with a nut on his head.
10 months ago
Anonymous
gen 4 had a relatively negative reception on release, which is why they tried the soft reboot, only for gen 5 to be so, so much worse that they immediately went back on the whole reboot thing
you would know this is you were above the age of 5 when gen 5 came out
10 months ago
Anonymous
gen 5 was far more enjoyable than gen blo4t and didn't need a definitive version like Platinum to barely save it. It was the first gen to release a sequel to continue on its greatness with W2B2 after all. people who hate on it were filtered and threatened by its progressive ambition. it reminds me of the backlash toriyama of dbz faced when he tried to improve the series by pushing gohan. but "fans" just want the same old tired song over and over. well that's exactly what we ended up with. DBZ got Buu saga and Super. Pokemon got the 3D 3ds/Switch era of shit.
10 months ago
Anonymous
10 months ago
Anonymous
did you know? this thing is supposed to be a sentient icicle that happens to look like ice cream! what? you didn't know that but you criticize it based on something you didn't know at all? surely no intelligent person would hate something they dont understand.
10 months ago
Anonymous
the only bad thing about it (and klang, for that matter) is it being 3 stage
remove one of each of the lines and it's a lot better
there is no fixing the simis though, other than just outright deletion
10 months ago
Anonymous
there's a reason why even amongst fans, they were voted some of the worst. simisear specifically i believe didn't get a single vote in an official poll
10 months ago
Anonymous
you're correct, simisear is the least popular pokemon in existence
it's possible it might have lost that title since, I'd assume people would vote for it now if only from the meme of it
10 months ago
Anonymous
if I'm not mistaken, i think a more recent poll put silcoon as the least popular pokemon
10 months ago
Anonymous
Yeah and OP pic is a metal dragon that happens to look like a staple remover and unfolds into a bridge.
10 months ago
Anonymous
and also we were talking about gen 5 specifically. what aspects of the bridgemon did you hate the most about its inclusion in gen 5 black and white version?
10 months ago
Anonymous
yeah and? I admit I didn't like the design at first but it grew on me after digging into its lore. one of my favored ice types since. baby keys and and jingle balls were far worse offenses
10 months ago
Anonymous
jingle balls is older than vanilluxe and both are far better designs than turner's baby lmao
the level of contrarianism towards gen 5 here is always a delight
10 months ago
Anonymous
>and didn't need a definitive version like Platinum to barely save it.
you're right, it needed TWO games to barely save it
but i don't need to argue my point, gen 5 is rightfully remembered as the moronic stepkid that was the end of 'classic' pokemon and the start of the shit we've had to deal with for ages now
>Give a pokemon game to the team responsible for the weebification of Nutendo and the people responsivle for some of our most hated pieces of fiction of all time
NO!
Anon, we know Pokemon games aren't played for the story (although gen V story was good, idk what (You) think), but with Xeno's team we'll get an optimized decent looking game at least.
>It's another "Ganker pretends that bad pokemon designs are a new thing and haven't been in literally every gen despite none of them having played the game in 20 years, if ever."
hey look I'm willing to admit that bad designs have always existed, but it just seems like they're growing in number as the years go by. we have a fricking keychain pokemon. a fricking ice cream cone for crying out loud. none of this egregious shit would be acceptable in digimon or yu-gi-oh or something, so why are you so eager to give it a pass here, in one of the biggest franchises on the planet?
>none of this egregious shit would be acceptable in digimon or yu-gi-oh or something
what crack are you smoking? digimon and yugioh have had far "worse" in clashing with their original ethos than even yes the fricking moronic bridge pokemon, but even then their original ethos was "Literally whatever the frick we have to throw into this"
and even THEN you have endless threads, even on here, complaining about how yugioh "just isn't the same" when it was man eating bug and BEWD, or at least was to them
they can get the reference and still think it's bad
i think bridge mon is shit but then again duraldon was already in the running for ugliest mon to exist so I wasn't expecting it to like, get any better
the dogs being dinosaurs is cool though, people can suck a dick if they don't like that
>they can get the reference and still think it's bad
yeah but most of them dont. like with rotom, they think the pokemons physiology is literally a refrigerator or an oven. they don't know that its rotom posessing an oven, and they critique it for that.
10 months ago
Anonymous
oh yea those level of people are moronic Black folk
gen 5 has some really atrocious pokemon but none of them are the iceam or the bag o/f garbage
I feel like genwun gets shit on so much for eggs and balls and literal pile of shit, but not enough for like half the evolutions just being the previous form but slightly bigger with angry eyes, or stapling on more heads/arms. Plus blatant copy paste filler shit like Nidos, 5 pink puffballs (honorable mention to Gengar aka purple angry clefable), 2 generic bird lines
Those are brought up less because they're hard to defend even for the people who think Gen 1 is some sacred cow. The most I've seen people shield designs like Poliwrath and Muk is essentially "frick you I like them".
There's also the fact that, at least in the case of "it just gets bigger", people don't really seem to mind it if the basis is appealing to them. The recent Pawmi line is probably one of the most egregious examples of it in the series but the first and third stages are among the most popular mons of the Gen.
I feel like genwun gets shit on so much for eggs and balls and literal pile of shit, but not enough for like half the evolutions just being the previous form but slightly bigger with angry eyes, or stapling on more heads/arms. Plus blatant copy paste filler shit like Nidos, 5 pink puffballs (honorable mention to Gengar aka purple angry clefable), 2 generic bird lines
The OG gens get a little leeway for having some lazy designs because they were the originals, basically the "prototype" for the entire franchise, back when they were still figuring shit out, had no status quo, no expectations, and fighting with the limitations of such simple handhelds.
Now, they've got a 10000000x better system, way fewer limitations, basically unlimited money, and entire focus groups there to tell them "no". If they make bad/shit designs, glitchy games, or lazy evolutions, there's zero excuse.
>but the first and third stages are among the most popular mons of the Gen.
I have no idea how, it's easily one of the worst Pokemon of the gen and unequivocally the most disappointing evolutionary line I've ever seen. You think something might happen when it evolves and nothing does, and then in order to get the final evo you need to run around for like 2000 steps in a single run without it going into the ball before leveling it and you get what is basically just it stood up.
Yes, are you kidding? Even Koraidon is fine, I just hate how awful it is as a Ride Pokemon because it looks like absolute trash as a bike. Some people would also argue the Net Navis are good designs too, and the same goes for people loving Roaring Moon while I don't care for it. Iron Bundle and Flamigo are whatever. Walking Wake looks like ass and Iron Leaves is whatever.
they've been doing that to maximize profit potential. There's no point in having 150 new pokemon if only 20 of them are going to make merchandise money
fidough is a cute dog with a pun name, that's about as Pokemon as you can get I dunno why people don't bring him up more often
annihilape and kingambit are also great, among a few others
the biggest problem with this and with the official one is that it still has a mammalian feline face. its weird. they could have given it more of a reprilian face.
Dude there have been bad designs since Gen 1. Fricking genwunners fricking complaining and being haters, just back the frick off and let Game Freak do what they know is best
They are incapable of making anything look "cool" anymore. It all has to look really fricking stupid so it generates more clicks and people talk about it.
Looks a million times better than what we're getting, just like with Sonic the fans shit all over the actual owners of the IP in terms of quality output.
>giant steel bell? alright >floating magnets? sure! >huge metal crab? of course >gears? ok. >a sword? pretty neat. >a possessed engine? I like it. >a magic space genie? its cute. >A FRICKING BRIDGE???? FRICK THIS GAME.
Too many colours. >Suicune: Blue, white, purple. >Entei: Brown, silver, red (with minor yellow and black accents) >Raikou: Yellow, white, black, purple, blue
If Raikou's mane was blue or white then he'd look a lot less weird, his whiskers could be black as well.
I've always found it to be weirdly ugly, and i fully expect it to remain the ugliest of the three paradox beasts as well. I bet entei will look the best.
Too many colours. >Suicune: Blue, white, purple. >Entei: Brown, silver, red (with minor yellow and black accents) >Raikou: Yellow, white, black, purple, blue
If Raikou's mane was blue or white then he'd look a lot less weird, his whiskers could be black as well.
When is someone going to make a real replacement to Pokemon that isn't woke? I don't care about anti liberal pro rightwing shit, but each indie "pokekiller" has all been woke and triggered the right into doa status so I just ask for a game that actually panders to hoe pokemon used to be?
Sonic like indies are cropping up but nothing's sticking with Pokemon
sonic's fundamental gameplay can be made fun in a dozen different ways. any pokemon clone is likely going to play exactly like pokemon but with different monsters, and all the same types but renamed. fire becomes flame, ice becomes frost, ground becomes earth, grass becomes plant. plus a lot of pokemon's initial success came from the fact that it started essentially alongside the anime as an extended commercial, and the TCG as a supplement to the games. A big part of the draw of pokemon also comes from the fact that a lot of people love it so there's always more people to play it with.
If you release a pokemon clone on steam with a small budget and no marketing, it will fail in a week when everyone all but drops it and there's no one to play it with and nothing to talk about. Also its the largest media franchise in the world. nobody's just going to come along and overthrow it. look at yokai watch. they even had a show, movies and spinoffs, and they're still super niche.
>sonic's fundamental gameplay can be made fun in a dozen different ways
2D Sonic games, Adventure, SRB2. Hell, even Shadow the Edgehog had its moments.
Yet Sega refuses to give fans what they want.
yet another case of "I don't get the reference therefore its.... LE BAD!" I bet you're the same moron from a few days ago who thought squawkabilly's name and design was stupid zoomer pandering
the body is the back half of a dinosaur so the "neck" is actually the dinosaur's tail, while the head is a Dunkleosteus skull and fins. the implication that the swirls at the bottom would be the dinosaur's innards, yes
They're intended to be abominations that went extinct because they were too ridiculous. Arctovish for example can barely eat because the mouth is on the top of its head despite being what is basically an apex predator.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Of all the things I hate about gen 8, these are up there with the worst.
Fossil pokemon are always so cool and they ruined them with kooky pseudofossils
10 months ago
Anonymous
in sword and shield, there are 4 fossils, each are one half of an extinct pokemon. you can give two of them to a scientist who will revive it, but it will always result in one of 4 different hybrid monstrosities like that one. you can't make a complete proper version of any of the 4 extinct pokemon though. but here's fanart of what they might have looked like originally.
I don't know what else to say but, huh.
10 months ago
Anonymous
How cool would it be if they stuck to this mishmash fossil thing but actually had a cohesive design but with different colours? Think pokemon fusions.
10 months ago
Anonymous
I mean they've done fusions before, with reshiram zekrom and kyurem, and solgaleo lunala and necrozma, and calyrex spectrier and glacrier. They would never do anything like what your image is suggesting though. In all instances of fusion, there's been a lore dependent reason as to why it happens. I really doubt they'd ever just start letting you fuse random stuff like reuniclus and venusaur.
10 months ago
Anonymous
It makes more sense to say the dex, or the character writing the dex entires, is making shit up to try and rationalize the moron scientist’s failed revivals. There’s no way these 4 Pokemon actually existed in the past.
10 months ago
Anonymous
in sword and shield, there are 4 fossils, each are one half of an extinct pokemon. you can give two of them to a scientist who will revive it, but it will always result in one of 4 different hybrid monstrosities like that one. you can't make a complete proper version of any of the 4 extinct pokemon though. but here's fanart of what they might have looked like originally.
Frick me, how did we get to the point where fan designs are better than official ones.
God Gamefreak sucks.
I think this is what it is called a joke since they seem to be making fun of jurassic park.
10 months ago
Anonymous
nah, its based on a real thing where scientists accidentally put together fossils wrong because they were using different parts from different animals.
in sword and shield, there are 4 fossils, each are one half of an extinct pokemon. you can give two of them to a scientist who will revive it, but it will always result in one of 4 different hybrid monstrosities like that one. you can't make a complete proper version of any of the 4 extinct pokemon though. but here's fanart of what they might have looked like originally.
10 months ago
Anonymous
Frick me, how did we get to the point where fan designs are better than official ones.
God Gamefreak sucks.
the body is the back half of a dinosaur so the "neck" is actually the dinosaur's tail, while the head is a Dunkleosteus skull and fins. the implication that the swirls at the bottom would be the dinosaur's innards, yes
I am completely serious when I ask: why is game freak doing this? I refuse to believe that this appeals to anyone. is it just complete lack of trying or what
They are obligated to keep designing new Pokemon every year for the merchandise train. And as others have said, it’s just led to them sticking faces on household objects and calling it a day. Or giving old Pokemon ridiculous makeovers so Twitter will get the name trending.
Real answer: GF has been working with increasingly smaller recourses since the series went 3D. Tighter schedules with no room for delays be it for quality assurance or just giving workers time to recoup made by Nintendo, Butting heads with Nintendo on what can/can't be done to the series. There's even a video going around on ex-GF employees saying how dreadful it was to work there.
I feel a bit disappointed that my turdmons (I spent like 5 seconds coming up with their design) have been done by GF in one form or another.
Nothing new under the sun.
I haven't played since Platinum. Someone tell me this is fake. Surely this can't be real? A fricking bridge? REALLY? What happened to the original pokemon? Banusaur was the best
I kept seeing this image cropped and thought that it was an actual bridge and people were angry because its not connected to anything.
I had no idea it was even worse.
it's very reliable at catching pokemon without even having to weaken it or anything
in terms of utility maybe, but its by far one of the ugliest by design. the only pokemon it would match with is manectric. by utility, the beast ball is more effective than anything besides the masterball, except for the caveat that it is only effective on ultra beasts.
that being said, I catch everything in premier balls.
I catch all my early game pokemon in pokeballs but i usually start trading them out after a few gyms. by the time I get to the end they're all in premier balls.
>but its by far one of the ugliest by design
Counterpoint: Timer Ball. It has that awful horn on it that only got more pronounced as the gens went by. >I catch everything in premier balls.
Pokeballs for me. Premier Balls only for shinies and occasionally legendaries. I even spent an unreasonable amount of time trading on Home to get legendaries in Pokeballs for SV and SWSH.
if you stand in place, it will start running around you on its own in a circle. that counts towards evolution.
I tried that, it didn't. It would just run up to me and stare at me even if I stood out in the open where it had enough space. I had to run around on foot in circles for like five minutes because the Pokecenter rooftop method via the bike didn't work since he would stop running in a circle and come to a halt after a few seconds.
>It would just run up to me and stare at me even if I stood out in the open
every pokemon has different behavior so maybe it doesnt do that. the dung beetle thing would do that for me.
If you can't make it look nice in a gba sprite, it's not a good Pokémon design. Nearly the entire Gen 8/9 dex fails at this. That bridge pokémon would have been instantly discarded, or adapted into something else
Pokemon is so heavily ingrained into younger generations that hope of it ever getting the hard reset it needs is virtually non-existent. Whoever still follows the series will eat up the nastiest dogshit GF throws at them so why bother putting in effort when you'll just get the same morons eating up whatever you make all the same?
Pokemon being anime-fied regular animals made sense. There was still a level of believability when you see a pikachu 'cause "Oh it's a rat that evolved electricity pouches for self defense". It clearly fits in in a grassy field or forest setting but like normal rats you could see it living in a city too.
Then you see a fricking suspension bridge and all I can think is "where the frick does this thing live and why is it like this"? What the frick would cause something to become a suspension bridge? Even if it lived in human cities as basically a living tool for humans why would it evolve into a bridge of all things instead of something that could help in construction or daily life?
My problem with newer pokemon designs, and not all of them, is that so many feel just very far removed from nature and I'm expected to believe that they're just regular-ass animals like a pikachu or pidgey is.
> There was still a level of believability when you see a pikachu 'cause "Oh it's a rat that evolved electricity pouches for self defense".
The canon is that Pokemons are literally aliens that arrived to Earth and extinguished all regular animals millions of years ago.
That's what Shudo said.
In fact, he said that his original idea for the third Pokemon movie would be about some scientists finding a fossil of a Tyranosaurus Rex and it coming back to life through the techniques used to bring back fossil Pokemon and how it would start rampaging and attacking Pokemons.
OK but what environment in space caused a creature to evolve into an exact replica of a human suspension bridge?
Well, Shudo died in 2010, so ask Gamefreak why they don't care about lore anymore.
thats all anime lore though, which is not consistent with the games. nothing like that is ever implied in any of the games as far as i know, except for the indian elephant reference in raichu's dex, which was recently retconned to say copperajha instead
Of all the shitty pokemon designs I think I hate Duraludon the most, what an absolute abortion of a design. Gen 8 is so fricking horrid design wise I couldn't even scrounge up 6 new pokemon I liked for a full team. Also I fricking hate Leon
I think this is a shit design but it's a step up from duraludon
mostly because anything would be a step up from duraludon, but still, it's an improvement
In 15 years the zoomers are gonna be here reacting to the newest pokemen like
>Deadass that bridge pokemon wasn't so bad after all no cap
And they will probably be gaslighting each other too with pics comparing it to the new monorail Pokemon going 'see, we had bridge Pokemon before, stop complaining'.
It looks nice when it's not it that stupid form. I'm not against a bridge-inspired design but it should be bigger then.
Probably because it's all about nostalgia. People hate anything that don't remind them of their childhood or any change made to something that reminds them of their childhood. There is no objectivity with Pokemon.
There's a reason people generally say that the series either died after Gen2, Gen5 or Gen7. It simply coincides with when they stopped playing the series, which usually happened between consoles.
>There's a reason people generally say that the series either died after Gen2, Gen5 or Gen7. It simply coincides with when they stopped playing the series, which usually happened between consoles.
Gen 3 remains the only one to have a console all to itself. Feels good to be a Hoennchad
>People hate anything that don't remind them of their childhood
Lol look at this strawmanning homosexual.
I recently played my first DQ game for the first time (DQ 1+2). While both games suffer from some serious flaws (e.g. stupid disposable keys in 1, enemies that can wipe your party in 1 turn if the RNG screws you over), the gameplay is still very solid, and their highly appealing creature designs and scripts quickly make you realize the series was destined to be a runaway success.
The Pokémon cycle is very real. There are people feeling nostalgic about Sword and Shield already.
Honestly it's probably because every subsequent game is shittier than the one before so the ones from the past look better by comparison.
You say that as if Pokemon in 15 years won't be measurably worse than the bridge.
That's what I implied (tried to). Or at least that's how they'd feel.
they wont be using that Black person speak in 15 years. it will be some other unintelligible garbage
>Muk is just some sludge
>Voltorb is just a pokeball
>Pidgey is just a bird
>Polygon is just polygons
>Jynx is just someone in blackface
Pokemon designs were never good and boomers need to die already.
All of those are good, thoughever
Zoomers are already aged out. It's gonna be gen alpha
Gen V was 13 years ago and people still rightfully shit on the Vanillite line.
Vanillite and Trubbish lines are good designs. Seethe homosexuals.
Fr fr remember that old ass ice-cream pokemon? That was just as un-bussin ON GAWD
cool
What is her moveset
>Thief
>Switcheroo
>Rest
>Draining Kiss
>Draining Kiss
>blackface pokemon
uuuuuuuuuuuhhhhh this is extremely problematic
its a shitty looking bridge too
>the designs didnt get worse, y-you just grew up!!
Looks like he's got his head in the clouds.
You little shit.
CARLOS!
If he gets unaware that would be funny, but GF are a bunch of hacks so all paradox pokemon have the same stats.
U PIECE O SHIT!
Ultros!
Bad designs are modern soul.
Lazy "joke" designs that exist to attract attention on social media are the exact opposite of soul.
as opposed to people spamming /b/ to get memes noticed?
we already have a giraffe pokemon
it got an evolution in the new game as well
and we have endless bird and mice pokemon
I think the toes bother me more than the neck
the one on the right looks like those Radar Dish things you climb in the Horizon series
imagine ditching such a based water color style, that and the music were the only reason I played Silver and now both suck ass.
Pokémon music has literally gotten 100x better since Silver. In fact Johto has some of the weakest tracks of Pokémon games. Probably tied with Kalos with how late they are compared to everything else.
I hope you aren't counting SV in the good music department.
>Pokémon music has literally gotten 100x better since Silver.
lol, lmao
What an awful mess of random electronic sounds and horns.
>something produced decades ago is leaps and bounds better than what's made today
>Ruby & Sapphire Music
kys zoomer
Yes, Ruby AND Sapphire music which makes up a majority of the best soundtracks in the entire Pokémon series. Cope and seethe about it some more. I'll post this to make you feel better (it's STILL better than the slop made these days btw):
>Yes, Ruby AND Sapphire music which makes up a majority of the best soundtracks in the entire Pokémon series
>no argument
I accept your concession.
>no argument
Not an argument.
It litteraly has the best song of the series
I really don't know what the frick happened, they started to experiment in gen 7 but it actually sounded GOOD
>Team skull themes
>Ultra recon squad
>REGULAR necrozma theme
>elite four
>ultra beast theme
>tapu theme
There's probably more but basically it had some good shit, then suddenly the series goes to switch and the music immediately goes to SHIT
I just don't get how it happened, what happened to the people who did work on gen 7?
They simply don't give even single shit anymore, it's as simple as that.
what emotions am I supposed to feel listening to this?
I'm a minute in, when does the song start?
>when does the song start?
This IS the song!
Ah yes who could forget such a great soundtrack?
>this is what has become of the beloved series I grew up with
People shit on gen 1 but they at least TRIED back then. Glad I stopped giving a shit after BW2.
You obviously didn't stop if you are here
They tried because they had to and it shows.
Gen 1 has some weird fricking designed like Abra and Hitmonlee. You don't know what your looking at but you like it because it looks good
Modern pokemon believes it's fine to shit on a existing design just to get attention from a Weider audience.
The joke being that no one bothers playing Pokemon aside from people who play pokemon so they just keep alienating existing fans
>they at least TRIED back then
sure thing chief
>literal pokeball with eyes
>a bunch of fricking eggs
>a purple snake
>a fricking cobra
>a fricking pigeon
>a fricking pony
>a fricking crab
whatever helps you sleep at night genwunner
The simplicity of a lot of the old designs is what WORKS, and I'm not even a ppkegay that plays these games anymore or likes gen 1 or 2 the best
Someone at GF has a fetish for long shit. This is ridiculous
the second one is kinda cool
is that a fricking longcat
the first two are gigantimax and are supposed to be kaiju
a-exeggutor was the start but you can't blame the continuance of the trend on him
i haven't even played since oras so i'm not here to defend GF
it always bothered me how intelleon and cinderace essentially stay the same size but get a large accessory, but rillaboom just gets big and grows a drumkit
I can forgive Cinderace because atleast his Gmax is cool.
I cant even tell what the second one is supposed to be.
its intelleon on top of a sniper tower, using its finger as a sniper rifle. the tower is actually its very long tail
They're both shit but the right one is shittier
It’s a marketing stunt. Give a classic pokemon an outrageous redesign. Watch social media shill your game for free. They’ve been doing this since Alolan Executor in SuMo.
>SuMo
go back
>We want the wigglet and alolan executor audience
I'd rather go back to keyrings and icecream cones, Jesus Christ.
Worse that's it's defensive mode, it's a fricking staple remover in it's main form
>Literal trash
>elliot_rodger_plays_pokemon.png
Elliot had season 1 Pokemon music in his Like list.
wiser words haven't been spoken since
did he ever do this? did anybody wind up getting one of these?
the most unhinged post I've ever seen here.
"trash monster come to life" is, at least, a fitting concept for a game about magical creatures
a bridge that came to life doesn't make any sense. bridges don't move. the trash monster attacks with poison and noxious fumes, what's the bridge's signature move? coercing other pokemon into climbing onto it and jumping off?
>a bridge that came to life doesn't make any sense.
Because it isn't a bridge come to life, it's a metal dragon monster that can fold itself to resemble a bridge.
that's even dumber
why would it choose to look like a bridge?
its called camouflage dumb bass
Website says it does it when it gets into conflict to center it's gravity (and presumably take attacks better and get some footing to fire off it's railgun-like attacks) in exchange for mobility.
If anything they play up the fact that it looks like a bridge as an incidental visual similarity that arose from this behavior rather than it being an evolutionary advantage in and of itself
to make money and make you consoom product
>that's even dumber
If I remember right certain human inventions are influenced by Pokemon, so this is very likely a case that people saw Archaludon, went "That's a good idea for something to cross bodies of water", and made bridges. I honestly can't remember what Pokedex entry or person talked about this but it had to have been from one of the recent gens.
Or they got the idea for staple removers from his mobile form
isn't that also what grimer was?
completely in line with muk and grimer
The line of little plushes the Pokemon store does where there's one for every single mon is releasing gen 6 soon, and I'm kinda thinking about how fricking vad those plushes are going to get as they get further and further along. Every Pokemon now is either overdesigned or not designed.
>bridge Pokémon
Gamefreak is creatively bankrupt
Nice AI shit.
They went the complete opposite direction for pokemon. We never needed more pokemon, we needed better game mechanics. Legends arceus felt like a step in the right direction and everything was fresh, then they backpedaled and now we are back to shit.
i cant
>Game Freak's artists are at the point where they're literally looking around their desks for Pokemon ideas.
There was a Retsupurae joke from God knows how long ago (make your safe assumptions based on the last time you even heard that name) about the difference in level of creative bankruptcy between Pokemon and Mega Man. We've since closed the gap.
lmao they're just using random things around the office
we hit that point ages ago
I kind of like it because it is that dumb.
What are these even used for anyway?
it's called a staple remover
you can probably figure it out from here
Oh, huh.
Alright then, if there's a stapler remover pokemon, where's the stapler pokemon?
Will be in the next DLC
You haven't worked a day in your life.
how well does staple removing pay
not that much, but I hear it is a rather fulfilling line of work
>t. guy hired only to remove staplers
it's not for removing staplers moron. thats what the garbage can is for.
Not every job is an office job mate
all our offices moved to paperless because MUH ENVIROMENT IMPACT
circumcision
you threaten your coworkers with them
As weird as this thing is its still far better then what it evolves from. Thank god duraludon can now be an ugly prevo instead of just an ugly pokemon
I'm getting pic related vibes, is it meant to be a throwback design?
It's meant to be mecha Godzilla
Is that a fricking lighter?
It is a fricking knife sharpener with salt/pepper grinder hands that perfectly fit togeather when closed
Bravo gamefreak
Has South Park ever dissed Pokemon?
>He doesn't know about chinpokomon
They made one episode and they made it seem like people would get tired of Pokémon quick but boy were they wrong
>tired of pokemon
The point was that it was an overblown fad and the second that it became too mainstream aka when the adults got involved kids will start hating it. This was true when everyone started to hit their teens.
How could it be a fad if it’s still going strong almost 30 years later?
Pokemon is still popular with kids of later generations, and the teenage cycle continues. Now Pokemon has lived long enough to have nostalgic man children getting back into the games, and it will probably get even more longevity once the midlife crisis hits and you have more obsessive collectors than the nostalgic 20-30 year olds. This is how older fads like comic books are still alive to this day.
>Still more effort than Origami King bosses
I mean what kid never looked at that and played with it because they imagined it was some kinda monster
What kind of mentally challenged kid would look at a stapler remover and think its face was on the opposite end of its teeth?
its not based on a stapler remover you moronic homosexual. it just looks like one.
>New Pokemon due in 1 hour
FRICK FRICK FRICK OH WAIT I KNOW JUST THE DESIGN
Rob Schneider
>Sitting at my desk
>Boss is on my ass about new designs
>Look around my desk in despair because I am unoriginal
>See stable remover
>Hmmm.....
Need a coffee cup Pokemon (if it doesn't already exist)
there's a teacup pokemon, but its more like a ghost that possessed a teacup
okay.. but how do you sexualize this?
imagine the blowjobs
Brother.....there's not a single ounce of creativity left at Gayfreak
tell me you've never played with those around as a kid if you had one of those
do it
I bet you can't
anyone complaining about this just ignores all the dumb shit from gen 1.
like?
Thats a mimic essentially.
Which had a unique design, the gems on Staryu and Starmie are interesting.
The fricking bridge is just that, hardly anything else to it.
You want to make fun of gen 1 pick something silly like 6 eggs.
>it’s a mimic therefore it’s good
still a lazy design
they could’ve done something more interesting with it, like how dark souls handled their mimics
It might be lazy but it's coherent. Cauldron is 50 things at once and none of them are good ideas.
>Thats a mimic essentially.
so is amoongus and even stunfisk, but I have no doubt that you hate those designs
Yeah, because it's redundant. We don't need more than one mimic, it's literally perfect for that purpose. It's like saying all these not Pikachus are worth bothering with when Pikachu is clearly unreplaceable
amoongus was introduced in black and white. hmm, what else did black and white do for the first time in the franchise with the available pokemon? golly I can't seem to remember. fricking moron.
It's a mon that specifically evolved (as in, darwin kind) to mimic pokeballs for hunting/stealth benefit, rather than mon that randomly looks like a bridge. Why does gondon look like a bridge? Can it serve as a bridge? Can it pretend to be a bridge, then slam the thunde cage shut?
The actual lore was they just showed up one day hanging around abandoned electrical plants, and arguably weren't even organic living beings. That they look like pokeballs is purely coincidental, and in-universe they don't even actually look like them because they're 20x bigger than a pokeball. You'd only mistake one for a pokeball is because the overworld sprite for a pokeball item is significantly larger than a pokeball actually is.
Legends Arceus retconned them, to be some sort of tree fruit thing.
>Legends Arceus retconned them
they still look like the pokeballs used in legends. the only real confusing thing is that they imply, but dont make it clear, that modern pokeballs were actually based on amoongus, as opposed to amoongus just being designed to be a pokeball mimic
Why do bridges look like a pokemon?
Admittedly there could be a story of someone walking on tbe pokemon by accident and noticing how sturdy it is or some shit, design still looks like ass though
it's also possible that pokemon dont evolve over millions of years like real life animals do. eevee literally evolves based on what elements its exposed to. so does magneton, nosepass, shelmet, karrablast, and chargabug. why cant they just be magical creatures that can adapt their biology into whatever things they're exposed to?
Chests in the game are pokeballs, so Voltorb was made to be like the mimic in Dragon Quest games.
a fish that's just the shape of star.
Literally a seal and a dugong
A pile of shit
Eggs
A rat
A rock with hands
none of those are bad. you're just gay. a pile of shit? what are you referring to exactly? ditto? it's more akin to silly putty or something similar, some sort of sticky adhesive substance.
See they’re so forgettable you didn’t even know
not forgettable, I just didn't know exactly what you were referring to. anyway I'd take grimer/muk over a fricking bridge or a staple remover any day.
>SIMPLE BAD
Nu-pokegays are incapable of comprehending soul.
Grimer and Muk make sense because they essentially play off of slimes. Otherwise, yes, Gen 1's concept was the animals of the world all having special powers. That's what pokemon should be. I don't see a problem with things like Aegislash, but ice cream cones and literal bridges are just strange and jarring designs.
I give Ghost types a bit more leeway, like Aegislash is just a ghost holding the swords and shields. But shit like Klank, and Vanillite are just lazy designs. Though can't say too much about Archduralon, since Duraldon's Gigamax was a skyscraper.
Literally JRPG staple designs and some animals, which was the main point. Exeggscute and Exeggutor are fantastic because it goes from eggs to coconut tree. It's a neat and surprising visual play.
>dugong
only bad one there is the eggs
>like?
A pokemon using 2 phillips head screws and a horseshoe magnet as part of its body for example.
Imagine that today.
while gen 1 had bad designs it doesn't excuse other gens for doing it either. this is a stupid argument you dumb Black person
>you see it was always bad but now it's the time to dislike it in order to defend the new!
pokegays, everyone
It feels like they made a Pokemon like this a dozen times by now.
xerneas
literally cobalion
I mean yeah, it actually is. paradox cobalion
Legendaries were a mistake, I don't get why they feel every single generation just has to introduce 8 of them
3 elemental legendaries and one legendary like Mewtwo and Celebii are fine, but box legendaries have overstayed their welcome. They should have gone away once the series hit DS
How many gens away are we from a toliet pokemon?
Diaperchu form when
there's already a toilet pokemon
What's it called?
Archaludon
i hate these stupid games so much
don't tell pewdiepie
>a my little pony turtle
what is going on
I- I just... I'm like just... I don't- whuh?
Anime tie in, the new anime is centered around the mystery of what the frick it is, pretty meaningless showing it to the foreign audience who the vast majority haven't seen the anime because TPCI are to incompetent to get it out in a timely manner but somehow the fansubbers are managing just fine, they even have started offering 2 different sub tracks for if you want honorifics or not the last few episodes.
it's not an anime tie in, it's the base form of terapagos. it seemingly changes into its huge form when it terastralizes.
are any of the new pokemons frickable?
Kek he's literally a black troon, how did Nintendo get away with this?
they didn't, specially thanks to how big it got overseas the black had to go and shows up as purple I think
>from lighter to literal bridge
what the frick gamefreak
>metal gear item to death stranding item
curious
I don’t mind it and duraludon with an eviolite might be fun to play
>eviolite
frick
>physical attacks will mean nothing
I’m excited to get back into competitive mon now
>535 bst
how frickin high are bridgeman's stats going to be? I hope they don't just shuffle the numbers around like they did with scizor
90/95/130/140/60/85
That's my guess anyway.
It'll be higher but it won't be much higher. There's a reason Scizor is literally the only evolution with the same BST.
>literally the only evolution with the same BST
is it?
Is that a taser?
It's the bridge in the OP pic
ITS A FRICKING STAPLE REMOVER HOLY SHIT ITS A CHOMPY CHOMP
heres your official new pokemon show btw
i'm so sorry for current day children who have to grow up with the blandest 3dslop imaginable
I can't tell what's real and what's not anymore...
i have homie fatigue
let me make a list of things white people did
>invented racism, colonialism and nuclear missiles
>enslaved black people
>started two world wars
>colonized new world, raped & genocided the natives
>destroyed the entire civilization of central america
>declared wars on innocent muslims and killed them in the crusades
>nuked japan
>gassed israeli people and the disabled people
>incited israelites and arabs to fight
>invaded iraq for oil
>sold drugs in china, attacked them when they prohibited it
>literally not even 1 hour ago bombed niger an african country just because they don't want to be exploited by the west anymore
These are, unironically, good things
racism, colonialism and nuclear missiles
black people
two world wars
new world, raped & genocided the natives
the entire civilization of central america
wars on innocent muslims and killed them in the crusades
japan
israeli people and the disabled people
israelites and arabs to fight
iraq for oil
>>sold drugs in china, attacked them when they prohibited it
not even 1 hour ago bombed niger an african country just because they don't want to be exploited by the west anymore
all incredibly based
>invented racism
objectively good
>enslaved black "people"
based
>started two world wars
allegedly
>colonized, raped, genocided
probably on the very ground where you sit ungrateful c**t
>destroyed central america
objectively righteous
>declared war on muslims
understandable
>nuked japan
for science
>gassed disabled people
for the greater good
>incited israelites and arabs to fight
2 birds 1 stone
>invaded iraq for oil
strategic and intelligent... almost like the position of power was earned
>sold drugs to china
commies deserved it
>literally bombed Black folk
oh no!
what was the point of your list exactly?
To show all the good things we've done for the world, or to once again show how we do everything and you do frick all lazy Black folk
central america
>objectively righteous
You're a dumb gorilla moron. It's precisely thanks to trashing brownies' natural habitats that you're now flooded with them.
>>sold drugs to china
>commies deserved it
Thanks to that Chinks now own Canada, Australia, and are well on their way to buying out Africa. I hope you're happy.
I have /misc/ fatigue
If god was real he'd kill all white people.
If aliens were real they're end our suffering by nuking all white people
show nose
>invented racism, colonialism and nuclear missiles
>colonized new world, raped & genocided the natives
>destroyed the entire civilization of central america
>gassed israeli people and the disabled people
And for that, we are heroes.
Please Jamal, don't trash a fellow nigs store out of rage
They didn't invent racism but made whole institutions around it.
In the end there's awful people all around the globe : the egyptians treated the israelites like trash, the arabs and israelites participated in slavery a lot, the precolombians sacrificed people, the chinese did the worst civil conflict ever, some african tribes are cannibals, the indians cast system was atrocious, etc...
Humans are capable of amazing feats and abominations.
>the egyptians treated the israelites like trash
hmmmm I wonder why...
Jews did most of these tho?
Most of these were done by israelites thoughbeit
QRD on Niger bombing?
>African country does what African countries do and has a coup.
>Niger happens to be where France gets most of its Uranium from.
>France happens to be big into nuclear power.
>Coups are bad for business, France not getting enough uranium to meet demand.
>France also happens to be currently supplying a lot of energy to other Western European countries who where to moronic to invest in nuclear.
>If France can't supply enough energy to meet demand, countries will look to other sources, namely Russian gas.
>Now France has to intervene to protect their bottom line, US has to intervene to protect the sanctions against Russia.
>At first try to diplomacy, this doesn't work because Africans.
>Now they start bombing things.
You now remember France calling Americans "fascist imperialists" for doing the same thing in the middle east
Ah I see
I doubt that second to last line though, i'm sure the diplomacy failed because they were trying to set unreasonable terms
I wish I could enslave them again or at least send them all back
>white people are forbidden now
There’s like 5 white people in that pic, stop being so fragile
>unironic usage of "fragile"
American detected.
I see 4 crackers in the group shot
>Red-lipped black girl
see /misc/ you can be included in the rainbow too.
Art style looks like a cartoon network woke PSA
this will appeal nicely to the 0.001% of black kids that like pokemon and have parents that can afford to buy them the toys
>All the white children in the back
Holy kino. Gonna have to give this a watch
Here is the real anime https://youtu.be/T5diZPGOLhk
thats also a real new pokemon anime however
That's crap, this is the real one.
>that dumblresque artstyle
AAAAAAAAAAAA KILL IT WITH FIRE
admittedly only one "calarts" spinoff in over 20 years is pretty good, but we all know you're never going to stop spreging out about this
One too many, shit eater.
looks cute
how did white people become the new black people? they're the extras in everything now
~~*how*~~ indeed, anon.
take the thong out yo bussy, Jynx
cute
why does the game look like garbage
>why does a pokemon game look like garbage
are you ok? did you hit your head?
no
so you're just a time traveler, got it
and that looked like hot garbage compared to any other game on the ds
pretending that gf has literally ever been competent is only a thing people started pretending in the past handful of years
the full circle of contrarianism attacking unova will never not be funny
>Contrarianism
gen 5 is the worst selling and worst reviewed game in the franchise and outside of this site it is usually thought of as the worst one
the trend to pretend it was good is a (relatively) recent invention
the moronic homosexuals can't even keep their story straight if everyone loved it or if everyone hated it and that's why the series "went to shit", despite everything bad about the series starting or ramping up in gen 5
>that's why the series "went to shit"
people have been saying this about every generation since 3
which is why that was in quotes
the only gen I'd even call universally bad is gen 8 and even that still had a lot of good designs even if it did have shit like the coal thing and duraldon
The hate for Gen 8 is incredibly fricking forced because of the nat dex shit, outside the wild area it has far and away the best aesthetic of the Switch games both in terms of character customization options and battle locales.
Also Gen 9's Pokemon power level is way too fricking high and makes online battling boring.
gamefreak has literally never once cared about comp balance and no one with sense does either
>it has far and away the best aesthetic of the Switch games
the fairy mushroom area was kind of nice looking but that is the only compliment i can give any location
CC is a legitimate point though
The evolution of release Swsh>Armor >Tundra doubles meta was extremely diverse and fun. SV has a bunch of Pokemon made ludicrously overpowered on purpose from day 1. GF doesn't try to balance ALL Pokemon but usually it is less restrictive than this.
>gamefreak has literally never once cared about comp balance
they did. literally once. they nerfed darkrai's dark void both so that smeargle couldn't learn it anymore, and also so that its accuracy was way, way worse. both at the same time.
that was gen 4 actually, you don't remember when everyone shat on the new ugly evos, zoom zoom
I've likely been posting on this board since you were in diapers, I'm 31 and I've been playing the series since the start.
Wotter was relatively liked and smugleaf was the meme one to like, I don't remember anyone giving enough of a shit about tepig to give him a meme name, and they just had the prediction image of oshawott where it was some moronic squirrel thing with a nut on his head.
gen 4 had a relatively negative reception on release, which is why they tried the soft reboot, only for gen 5 to be so, so much worse that they immediately went back on the whole reboot thing
you would know this is you were above the age of 5 when gen 5 came out
gen 5 was far more enjoyable than gen blo4t and didn't need a definitive version like Platinum to barely save it. It was the first gen to release a sequel to continue on its greatness with W2B2 after all. people who hate on it were filtered and threatened by its progressive ambition. it reminds me of the backlash toriyama of dbz faced when he tried to improve the series by pushing gohan. but "fans" just want the same old tired song over and over. well that's exactly what we ended up with. DBZ got Buu saga and Super. Pokemon got the 3D 3ds/Switch era of shit.
did you know? this thing is supposed to be a sentient icicle that happens to look like ice cream! what? you didn't know that but you criticize it based on something you didn't know at all? surely no intelligent person would hate something they dont understand.
the only bad thing about it (and klang, for that matter) is it being 3 stage
remove one of each of the lines and it's a lot better
there is no fixing the simis though, other than just outright deletion
there's a reason why even amongst fans, they were voted some of the worst. simisear specifically i believe didn't get a single vote in an official poll
you're correct, simisear is the least popular pokemon in existence
it's possible it might have lost that title since, I'd assume people would vote for it now if only from the meme of it
if I'm not mistaken, i think a more recent poll put silcoon as the least popular pokemon
Yeah and OP pic is a metal dragon that happens to look like a staple remover and unfolds into a bridge.
and also we were talking about gen 5 specifically. what aspects of the bridgemon did you hate the most about its inclusion in gen 5 black and white version?
yeah and? I admit I didn't like the design at first but it grew on me after digging into its lore. one of my favored ice types since. baby keys and and jingle balls were far worse offenses
jingle balls is older than vanilluxe and both are far better designs than turner's baby lmao
the level of contrarianism towards gen 5 here is always a delight
>and didn't need a definitive version like Platinum to barely save it.
you're right, it needed TWO games to barely save it
but i don't need to argue my point, gen 5 is rightfully remembered as the moronic stepkid that was the end of 'classic' pokemon and the start of the shit we've had to deal with for ages now
Gamefreak is lazy as frick. Give a pokemon game to the xenoblade team and be amazed at what a competent team can do.
>Give a pokemon game to the team responsible for the weebification of Nutendo and the people responsivle for some of our most hated pieces of fiction of all time
NO!
Anon, we know Pokemon games aren't played for the story (although gen V story was good, idk what (You) think), but with Xeno's team we'll get an optimized decent looking game at least.
nintendo is a japanese company and pokemon is a japanese franchise
>our
>the weebification of Nutendo
>weebification
>of a japanese company
what the frick am I reading
The sad thing is as moronic and comical as this is there's a small chance it's unironic
>our
speaking for all the morons I see
Everything including in the west is shifting towards being anime, you're gonna have to grow up and accept it.
you WILL be called senpai before you die
they need to give it to the people who made biomutant
101 something
Not buying a single Pokemon game until they give it to the ClayFighter guys
>cute
Best part of the presentation
Inbr this attacks that moments before disaster.
NO TERRAIN TOO TOUGH
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HI FELLOW POKEMONS
Reminds me of long-necked ladies I've been generating with the power of artificial idiot lately.
Move to Africa and try to join that one tribe if you want long neck waifus
You mean giraffes?
Kayan Tribe
share prompts and LORA if you used any
I can't believe Lamarck was right about evolution.
When is my boy Entei getting hit with the ugly stick?
sexo
Her breasts should have been at the least that big.
That's just Shamir but not a frigid c**t
>GF designs an attractive character
>mouthbreathing artists draw off-model generic cow tit shit
I just like a modest bust
This, they're porn sick or something, they're incapable of appreciating anything less than their fetish
i think they do it because they think its funny or that it will get them more attention both from coomers and people who hate it because its off model
I have it all filtered, so they're only hurting themselves
God, she's pure sex
Yummy. I wish the Perrine I knew looked like that.
MAH MAN
I don't even play these games anymore but I'm grateful for all the midriff art
thats some garbage anatomy lmao what hack drew this
She looks like one of the Kanker sisters from EEnE
women without tattoos are so hot brehs
Game Freak rn
>It's another "Ganker pretends that bad pokemon designs are a new thing and haven't been in literally every gen despite none of them having played the game in 20 years, if ever."
black & white was the beginning of the end
hey look I'm willing to admit that bad designs have always existed, but it just seems like they're growing in number as the years go by. we have a fricking keychain pokemon. a fricking ice cream cone for crying out loud. none of this egregious shit would be acceptable in digimon or yu-gi-oh or something, so why are you so eager to give it a pass here, in one of the biggest franchises on the planet?
>none of this egregious shit would be acceptable in digimon or yu-gi-oh or something
what crack are you smoking? digimon and yugioh have had far "worse" in clashing with their original ethos than even yes the fricking moronic bridge pokemon, but even then their original ethos was "Literally whatever the frick we have to throw into this"
and even THEN you have endless threads, even on here, complaining about how yugioh "just isn't the same" when it was man eating bug and BEWD, or at least was to them
it really is incredible how most of those peoples arguments literally just boil down to "i dont get the reference, therefore it is LE BAD"
they can get the reference and still think it's bad
i think bridge mon is shit but then again duraldon was already in the running for ugliest mon to exist so I wasn't expecting it to like, get any better
the dogs being dinosaurs is cool though, people can suck a dick if they don't like that
>they can get the reference and still think it's bad
yeah but most of them dont. like with rotom, they think the pokemons physiology is literally a refrigerator or an oven. they don't know that its rotom posessing an oven, and they critique it for that.
oh yea those level of people are moronic Black folk
gen 5 has some really atrocious pokemon but none of them are the iceam or the bag o/f garbage
We can stomach bad designs once in a while but this shit is just atrocious.
Dosent help that ugly and uninspired looking pokemon happen way more often
the problem isn't the existence of bad designs, it's the absence of good ones
if you look at the front he has prongs that make it look like it's a forklift
Unova confirmed!
This! It got a garbagebag pokemon! A Garbagebag Pokemon for cryin out fracken loud!!!
Legendaries will be: Twin Towers and Airplane
Already happened.
cringe
Real Gen 4 remakes when?
Never, the moment has passed. Tge idea and hype of a good gen 4 remake no longer exist. Enjoy the shitty ones we got.
cynthia sex
I feel like genwun gets shit on so much for eggs and balls and literal pile of shit, but not enough for like half the evolutions just being the previous form but slightly bigger with angry eyes, or stapling on more heads/arms. Plus blatant copy paste filler shit like Nidos, 5 pink puffballs (honorable mention to Gengar aka purple angry clefable), 2 generic bird lines
Nidos being 2 separate pokemon lines was just a jank way of implementing gender differences
Those are brought up less because they're hard to defend even for the people who think Gen 1 is some sacred cow. The most I've seen people shield designs like Poliwrath and Muk is essentially "frick you I like them".
There's also the fact that, at least in the case of "it just gets bigger", people don't really seem to mind it if the basis is appealing to them. The recent Pawmi line is probably one of the most egregious examples of it in the series but the first and third stages are among the most popular mons of the Gen.
>but the first and third stages are among the most popular mons of the Gen.
Not like competition is high.
The OG gens get a little leeway for having some lazy designs because they were the originals, basically the "prototype" for the entire franchise, back when they were still figuring shit out, had no status quo, no expectations, and fighting with the limitations of such simple handhelds.
Now, they've got a 10000000x better system, way fewer limitations, basically unlimited money, and entire focus groups there to tell them "no". If they make bad/shit designs, glitchy games, or lazy evolutions, there's zero excuse.
>but the first and third stages are among the most popular mons of the Gen.
I have no idea how, it's easily one of the worst Pokemon of the gen and unequivocally the most disappointing evolutionary line I've ever seen. You think something might happen when it evolves and nothing does, and then in order to get the final evo you need to run around for like 2000 steps in a single run without it going into the ball before leveling it and you get what is basically just it stood up.
why are you using a trip
if you stand in place, it will start running around you on its own in a circle. that counts towards evolution.
Is there a single good Pokemon design in gen IX?
the mexican fire crocodile
I don't like it
here we go.
frick off, namegay.
Honestly most of them are good.
Arboliva is pretty good, and Baxcalibur too.
Yes, are you kidding? Even Koraidon is fine, I just hate how awful it is as a Ride Pokemon because it looks like absolute trash as a bike. Some people would also argue the Net Navis are good designs too, and the same goes for people loving Roaring Moon while I don't care for it. Iron Bundle and Flamigo are whatever. Walking Wake looks like ass and Iron Leaves is whatever.
This dex list is smaller than my gurl's dicky.
they've been doing that to maximize profit potential. There's no point in having 150 new pokemon if only 20 of them are going to make merchandise money
so many of these look like fakemon jesus
I haven’t played anything past Sun/Moon but I am quite partial to little girl with big hammer
This one
and the two Battle Network rejects, that's literally it. What a fricking dogshit gen.
>good Pokemon design in gen IX?
Toothless's moronic cousin. It's endearing.
Glimmora is honestly one of my new favorites
loose green kitty
Don't give a frick what anyone says. Palafin is based.
I hope the DLC gives it a sidekick or villain counterpart. Like, level up Finizen at night with a Dark Tera Type and it becomes Homelander.
fidough is a cute dog with a pun name, that's about as Pokemon as you can get I dunno why people don't bring him up more often
annihilape and kingambit are also great, among a few others
still a better pokemon than anything from the misteak that was gen 5
20 minutes in blender
the biggest problem with this and with the official one is that it still has a mammalian feline face. its weird. they could have given it more of a reprilian face.
The long whisker things are more Suicune's thing.
Dude there have been bad designs since Gen 1. Fricking genwunners fricking complaining and being haters, just back the frick off and let Game Freak do what they know is best
They are incapable of making anything look "cool" anymore. It all has to look really fricking stupid so it generates more clicks and people talk about it.
Looks a million times better than what we're getting, just like with Sonic the fans shit all over the actual owners of the IP in terms of quality output.
hate it when that happens.
>i look outside
>i see a bridge in my backyard
its a problem that many people have that we need to solve
We should have a thread where everyone has to draw a Pokemon but it's an object on anon's desk.
The only good thing in modern pokemon are the milfs
This
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>the milfs
Here's your pokemilf sirs.
Nah, the tight emo bawds are fine too.
you think that's emo?
Emo, punk, who cares, I want to bone a tight, skinny girl with hair dye and other forms of visible daddy issues.
Tummy made for using as a pillow.
She looks like what if Nemona was white and had daddy issues.
Aren't most steel pokemon fricking weird and unnatural looking already though? What's the problem?
>giant steel bell? alright
>floating magnets? sure!
>huge metal crab? of course
>gears? ok.
>a sword? pretty neat.
>a possessed engine? I like it.
>a magic space genie? its cute.
>A FRICKING BRIDGE???? FRICK THIS GAME.
I don't get why Raikou is so ugly conpared to Entei and Suicune
Too many colours.
>Suicune: Blue, white, purple.
>Entei: Brown, silver, red (with minor yellow and black accents)
>Raikou: Yellow, white, black, purple, blue
If Raikou's mane was blue or white then he'd look a lot less weird, his whiskers could be black as well.
I've always found it to be weirdly ugly, and i fully expect it to remain the ugliest of the three paradox beasts as well. I bet entei will look the best.
Now he looks like an actual thundercloud tiger thing.
The purple cloud mane is supposed to imply thunderstorms.
so then why not make it black or gray
London Bridge is breaking down
At least these provide something to talk about. The coballion and virizion paradox versions are entirely uninspired.
Iron Crown is way better than Iron Leaves by a significant margin. The horns alone make it better than that.
When is someone going to make a real replacement to Pokemon that isn't woke? I don't care about anti liberal pro rightwing shit, but each indie "pokekiller" has all been woke and triggered the right into doa status so I just ask for a game that actually panders to hoe pokemon used to be?
Sonic like indies are cropping up but nothing's sticking with Pokemon
sonic's fundamental gameplay can be made fun in a dozen different ways. any pokemon clone is likely going to play exactly like pokemon but with different monsters, and all the same types but renamed. fire becomes flame, ice becomes frost, ground becomes earth, grass becomes plant. plus a lot of pokemon's initial success came from the fact that it started essentially alongside the anime as an extended commercial, and the TCG as a supplement to the games. A big part of the draw of pokemon also comes from the fact that a lot of people love it so there's always more people to play it with.
If you release a pokemon clone on steam with a small budget and no marketing, it will fail in a week when everyone all but drops it and there's no one to play it with and nothing to talk about. Also its the largest media franchise in the world. nobody's just going to come along and overthrow it. look at yokai watch. they even had a show, movies and spinoffs, and they're still super niche.
>sonic's fundamental gameplay can be made fun in a dozen different ways
2D Sonic games, Adventure, SRB2. Hell, even Shadow the Edgehog had its moments.
Yet Sega refuses to give fans what they want.
>Yet Sega refuses to give fans what they want.
blame yuji naka. the games started to improve when he left the company.
its so fricking joever for pokemon
Looks more like Ram seige weapon
>designs didn't get worse, you just got older
where is the rest of the green dino and why is a freaky yellow parasite spouting from its leftover guts?
it's a reference to how people used to put fossils together wrong and make weird amalgam animals
I look like this
Do you live in Castlemania?
you can use that idea and not have them look like complete shit though
he asked why it looked like that, I told him what the reference was. Didn't say it looked good.
You can laugh all you want, but D7-kun was more of a threat to the Mazinger than almost every other kikaiju. That horn can pierce super alloy z!
yet another case of "I don't get the reference therefore its.... LE BAD!" I bet you're the same moron from a few days ago who thought squawkabilly's name and design was stupid zoomer pandering
Your pathetic LE REFERENCE cope will never make that dogshit design look good.
still literally "I don't get it therefore its bad". frick off doug walker
Looks like shit, get over it.
Hillary lost, get over it
That's good, that fossil shit still looks horrendous tho.
ENTER
frick you dracovish is sweet. although i would have preferred a proper Dunkleosteus
What the frick is that body? Are those bones? Teeth? Is that a gaping second mouth? Are we looking at his innards? What the fuuuugggggg?
I'm so confused.
They're intended to be abominations that went extinct because they were too ridiculous. Arctovish for example can barely eat because the mouth is on the top of its head despite being what is basically an apex predator.
Of all the things I hate about gen 8, these are up there with the worst.
Fossil pokemon are always so cool and they ruined them with kooky pseudofossils
I don't know what else to say but, huh.
How cool would it be if they stuck to this mishmash fossil thing but actually had a cohesive design but with different colours? Think pokemon fusions.
I mean they've done fusions before, with reshiram zekrom and kyurem, and solgaleo lunala and necrozma, and calyrex spectrier and glacrier. They would never do anything like what your image is suggesting though. In all instances of fusion, there's been a lore dependent reason as to why it happens. I really doubt they'd ever just start letting you fuse random stuff like reuniclus and venusaur.
It makes more sense to say the dex, or the character writing the dex entires, is making shit up to try and rationalize the moron scientist’s failed revivals. There’s no way these 4 Pokemon actually existed in the past.
I think this is what it is called a joke since they seem to be making fun of jurassic park.
nah, its based on a real thing where scientists accidentally put together fossils wrong because they were using different parts from different animals.
in sword and shield, there are 4 fossils, each are one half of an extinct pokemon. you can give two of them to a scientist who will revive it, but it will always result in one of 4 different hybrid monstrosities like that one. you can't make a complete proper version of any of the 4 extinct pokemon though. but here's fanart of what they might have looked like originally.
Frick me, how did we get to the point where fan designs are better than official ones.
God Gamefreak sucks.
>it can't breathe unless it's underwater
well that was a lie
the body is the back half of a dinosaur so the "neck" is actually the dinosaur's tail, while the head is a Dunkleosteus skull and fins. the implication that the swirls at the bottom would be the dinosaur's innards, yes
>it has been TEN FRICKING YEARS since we got a proper fossil pokemon
I can't fricking stand it
fricking lmao the first 5 times I saw this screenshot I was assuming it was a badly done edit
I am completely serious when I ask: why is game freak doing this? I refuse to believe that this appeals to anyone. is it just complete lack of trying or what
They are obligated to keep designing new Pokemon every year for the merchandise train. And as others have said, it’s just led to them sticking faces on household objects and calling it a day. Or giving old Pokemon ridiculous makeovers so Twitter will get the name trending.
The fact that people keep talking about it is why they do it.
Because they hate working on Pokemon and they know their cucked fan base will let them get away with LITERALLY anything.
Real answer: GF has been working with increasingly smaller recourses since the series went 3D. Tighter schedules with no room for delays be it for quality assurance or just giving workers time to recoup made by Nintendo, Butting heads with Nintendo on what can/can't be done to the series. There's even a video going around on ex-GF employees saying how dreadful it was to work there.
So it all boils down to suits ruining everything. Probably the number 1 reason for anything good going to shit.
Please rate my original Pokemon characters (don't steal pls).
The coffee one is funny.
Sinistea's regional variant is looking a bit odd there.
Didn't honestly know this thing exists. My mon knowledge stops at Gen 5.
While not the Eiffel Tower specifically you can also argue G-Max Duraludon is tower-shaped enough though it is a skyscraper.
it's based on a real tower in the UK called The Shard
I can kinda see it with the sides being that sort of Olympic torch shape and the triangle panels being very reminiscent of how its windows are done.
I feel a bit disappointed that my turdmons (I spent like 5 seconds coming up with their design) have been done by GF in one form or another.
Nothing new under the sun.
Your pencil is still original.
For now.
I sure hope GF will credit me for my hard work and totally not just grab it for their own use like they are legally allowed to do.
well they already have an artist pokemon with smeargle
>Electrode used explosion
I haven't played since Platinum. Someone tell me this is fake. Surely this can't be real? A fricking bridge? REALLY? What happened to the original pokemon? Banusaur was the best
>Banusaur was the best
these are the types of people who are complaining about the new pokemon lmao
i don't get the design honestly. walking wake was cool
oh no
yo posting in this thread cus you guys are all fricking nerds lmao get a grip peace
I kept seeing this image cropped and thought that it was an actual bridge and people were angry because its not connected to anything.
I had no idea it was even worse.
is this the best pokeball of all time (not counting master ball)?
Why would it be the best?
it's very reliable at catching pokemon without even having to weaken it or anything
by that standard the dusk ball is the best
you can use quick ball day or night
It's not a guaranteed catch and becomes useless after turn 1, Dusk Ball is useful for the entire battle as long as it's night time.
in terms of utility maybe, but its by far one of the ugliest by design. the only pokemon it would match with is manectric. by utility, the beast ball is more effective than anything besides the masterball, except for the caveat that it is only effective on ultra beasts.
that being said, I catch everything in premier balls.
how the frick do you afford enough premier balls in early game
I catch all my early game pokemon in pokeballs but i usually start trading them out after a few gyms. by the time I get to the end they're all in premier balls.
>but its by far one of the ugliest by design
Counterpoint: Timer Ball. It has that awful horn on it that only got more pronounced as the gens went by.
>I catch everything in premier balls.
Pokeballs for me. Premier Balls only for shinies and occasionally legendaries. I even spent an unreasonable amount of time trading on Home to get legendaries in Pokeballs for SV and SWSH.
I tried that, it didn't. It would just run up to me and stare at me even if I stood out in the open where it had enough space. I had to run around on foot in circles for like five minutes because the Pokecenter rooftop method via the bike didn't work since he would stop running in a circle and come to a halt after a few seconds.
>It would just run up to me and stare at me even if I stood out in the open
every pokemon has different behavior so maybe it doesnt do that. the dung beetle thing would do that for me.
kys balltist
mannnn i aint play pokemon fo years, whats the big guy called again regihomies or somethin
what is the best objectmon gamefreak has designed?
Chandelure.
I like all of these
I always use porygon-z when its available. magnezone is cool too
Klefki
>opponent summons this pokemon
>instantly have to accept defeat without any options
Wtf this is unfair.
You will live to see all the things you loved from your childhood be ruined. And you're going to be happy.
Looks like fricking shit.
If you can't make it look nice in a gba sprite, it's not a good Pokémon design. Nearly the entire Gen 8/9 dex fails at this. That bridge pokémon would have been instantly discarded, or adapted into something else
did someone say bridges
realistically when will gamefreak start to answer for their laziness?
if any of the "pokemon killers" actually become as or more popular then pokemon
answer to who? they've already given bullshit excuses, look at sword and shield, and those still became the 2nd best selling switch games
never. Pokemon is literally the biggest media franchise in the history of the world and the fans show time and time again that they'll buy anything
Pokemon is so heavily ingrained into younger generations that hope of it ever getting the hard reset it needs is virtually non-existent. Whoever still follows the series will eat up the nastiest dogshit GF throws at them so why bother putting in effort when you'll just get the same morons eating up whatever you make all the same?
Pokemon being anime-fied regular animals made sense. There was still a level of believability when you see a pikachu 'cause "Oh it's a rat that evolved electricity pouches for self defense". It clearly fits in in a grassy field or forest setting but like normal rats you could see it living in a city too.
Then you see a fricking suspension bridge and all I can think is "where the frick does this thing live and why is it like this"? What the frick would cause something to become a suspension bridge? Even if it lived in human cities as basically a living tool for humans why would it evolve into a bridge of all things instead of something that could help in construction or daily life?
My problem with newer pokemon designs, and not all of them, is that so many feel just very far removed from nature and I'm expected to believe that they're just regular-ass animals like a pikachu or pidgey is.
> There was still a level of believability when you see a pikachu 'cause "Oh it's a rat that evolved electricity pouches for self defense".
The canon is that Pokemons are literally aliens that arrived to Earth and extinguished all regular animals millions of years ago.
where was anything like that ever stated
That's what Shudo said.
In fact, he said that his original idea for the third Pokemon movie would be about some scientists finding a fossil of a Tyranosaurus Rex and it coming back to life through the techniques used to bring back fossil Pokemon and how it would start rampaging and attacking Pokemons.
Well, Shudo died in 2010, so ask Gamefreak why they don't care about lore anymore.
thats all anime lore though, which is not consistent with the games. nothing like that is ever implied in any of the games as far as i know, except for the indian elephant reference in raichu's dex, which was recently retconned to say copperajha instead
Modern genwunners cling to it even though it was retconned almost instantly.
OK but what environment in space caused a creature to evolve into an exact replica of a human suspension bridge?
but can i frick it?
Of all the shitty pokemon designs I think I hate Duraludon the most, what an absolute abortion of a design. Gen 8 is so fricking horrid design wise I couldn't even scrounge up 6 new pokemon I liked for a full team. Also I fricking hate Leon
don't tell me you didn't like centiskorch or falinks
for me, it's klefki
for me, it's the pokemon that is literally a walking penis
palkia?
did you even have to ask?
Now this is where I cross the line. Ice cream cones are one thing.. BUT THIS???? ITS SO FRICKING OVER.
I think this is a shit design but it's a step up from duraludon
mostly because anything would be a step up from duraludon, but still, it's an improvement
A MAGNET
REALLY GAMEFREAK? ARE YOU EVEN TRYING?
>distinct silhouette
>doesn't just look like some magnet
pure soul
>distinct silhouette
essentially every pokemon has a distinct silhouette except for voltorb and jigglypuff as seen from above
and a fricking bridge doesn't have a distinct silhouette?
you aren't going to have to think for long if they play "Whose that pokemon" with him
Name it Sam.