When did you realize Pokemon is not for you anymore?
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When did you realize Pokemon is not for you anymore?
When did you realize Pokemon is not for you anymore?
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Pretty much.
Yep
>TPC was insecure of CHARIZARD's masculinity that they feminized Typhlosion
you can't make this shit up.
When they expected me to buy a new console
so, 2002?
2001. Crystal was the first Pokemon game that could not be played on an original brick Gameboy.
This is a good answer because I suspect it may be true for a lot of people even if the console in mind is different
Sword and Shield.
The culling of the pokedex, needing an online subscription to play with other people and trade, another subscription to be able to use bank but newer, and I just wasn't having fun.
SV only reinforced it, I simply don't like pokemon after gen 7. But maybe that's a good thing.
>SV allows you actually play with people on the same world
>This would make one of best pokemon games to play with friends online
>Online is subscription
They fricking shoot themselves in both legs
damn good thing I play other switch games that need a subscription anyway and I’m not poor
I don't listen to the opinions of non-poor people.
>not poor = spending money on garbage
poor mentality
>playing other switch games that require online
moron mentality
when I saw an ice cream pokemon in the game
Magnets are okay but ice cream is not?
yes
kys
Gen 7. and I knew it would never be coming back when they announced dex cuts.
oh boohoo you don't like a single design
If you can't actually find at least 5 designs you like in Gen 9, then it's clear you have become jaded and you'd love them if they were from a generation you grew up with
there are a handful of new designs I like but it doesn't save the games from being utter dogshit now
Interesting challenge let’s see if I can find 5 Gen 9 mons I like
Okay let’s see here
Floragato
Espathra
Dudunsparce
Um is that really it? This dex can’t be this dogshit
Uh um, I guess also Clodsire if I’m being generous.
Damn anon, I couldn’t do it.
>Dudunsparce
shit taste
I feel like you might be jaded.
The design quality is always pretty consistent, if you really can't find 5 designs you like then I think nostalgia has overtaken you
How does this Delcacell evolve even further?
Use absorption on the android variants of Minun and Plusle
Kys
>he doesn't like Wo-Chien
opinion: ignored
I would pick the entire quartet as gen 9 designs I like. Only need 1 more to have 5 then.
Lokix
Ceruledge
Scovillain
Tinkaton
Kingambit
These are cool ig. It's not really the pokemon designs that i have a problem with in newer gens, i do think there's been a downgrade in this department as well but it's really no big deal especially with how much they throw old designs at you anyway, i wish that was the only problem with gens 6+
And i honestly much prefer an ugly new pokemon rather than a gimmick form of an old one
Sprigatito
Floragato
Meowscarada
Koraidon
Miraidon
Boom
>Smoliv line
>Espathra
>Glimmora
>Cetitan
>Dudunsparce
Found 5 I like but that really is about it, there’s so many gen 9 mons that suck
>H-Typhlosion is a waifumon
Now you're a homosexual if you don't like it
when I needed to buy a switch
Why did they decide to turn one of the coolest fire types into another bawd waifumon?
i refer you to
Ain't that the past form, as in typhlosion becomes the masculine fire badger over time?
Cyndaquil aren't native to Hisui. Typhlosion just turned out different because of the spiritual energy found there.
Gen 1 and the tv show starting after the games went on sale.
With SM
In retrospect gen 6 was bad too but SM were really the game where i was like man this isn't pokemon, it made me drop the franchise for a while and now i only play gens 1-5 games
exactly this. at least in gen 6 there was a feeling that things could still turn around. SM was the point where I realized the trajectory they were on was not going to change. never touched a switch game, I just come back to the old games for nostalgia once in awhile.
Explain exactly how it "wasn't Pokemon"
People said this about Gen 3-5 in the past too btw
it just isn't. why? because that's the way that I feel.
So its nostalgia
Good to know
nope.
>No gyms
>Rotom turned into an annoying cereal mascot
>HMs replaced by random pokemon you don't own carrying you around
>Focus on human characters
>All the casualization from gen 6 still present
SM objectively doesn't feel like a pokemon game. It's closer to other stuff like yokai watch.
turned into an annoying cereal mascot
I know I'm picking on just one of your complaints, but why is this always parroted by gen 7 haters? Who fricking cares this much about Rotom? It doesn't even disrupt gameplay much, there's maybe one time throughout the game where you're stopped dead in your tracks to listen to what it has to say. The rest of the game, its dialog is displayed on the bottom screen.
S/M are loaded with way too much unnecessary dialog, but Rotom is not a part of the problem.
>Who fricking cares this much about Rotom?
me
i loved it in gens 4 and 5
That's fine, but does this anger you to the point that you'd call it one of Sun/Moon's biggest flaws? I see it brought up on here more often than it should be.
>does this anger you to the point that you'd call it one of Sun/Moon's biggest flaws?
It's one of the things that made me drop it that's for sure
>It doesn't even disrupt gameplay much
nah frick off. i want to look at the town map.
SM were really shit
same, I didn't get what I was feeling with 6 but 7 really shoved it home when I got it...
The right is for me though fore
Lmao it’s the same homosexual, why did OP use that image? Oh right, he’s a shitposter too.
>Decidueye got changed as ancient Hokkaido's hero
>Samurott got changed as ancient Hokkaido's villian
>Typhlosion got changed as ancient Hokkaido's drag queen
What did GF meant by this?
>that anon who said TPC was trying to sabotage typhlosion was right
I thought it was Meganium that got sabotaged
Why do typhlobros get angry at this?
The original typhlosion is still there.
Isn't it trapped in Home?
no
gays hate when something they see as theirs gets changed for a straight audience.
Hisuian Typhlosion? Tops Johtonian Typhlosion.
fatty gays
Jesus Christ, How Horrifying
when Sun and Moon were coming out and Masuda made multiple comments about how providing content isn't worth it because mobile games after the absolute barren """games""" of X and Y. The only game I bought since Sun (which I never completed) is Legends Arceus as I quit this franchise for a long while and I developed such a deep hatred dor Masuda and his face at the time
>left doesn't include how they didn't bother fixing anything about the game
lol
When Exp share couldn't be turned off.
Funny enough I predicted the next thing to go would be Set Mode.
Next we'll be getting a traveling companion that heals your Pokemon after every battle like in DPPt, except for the entire game.
I haven't played the switch games, did they really remove set mode? jfl
Yeah. This is most annoying for afk money farming the academy ace tournament in Scarlet and Violet with a turbo controller. If you have more than one Pokemon with you, it will get stuck clicking into "do you want to switch => yes => this pokemon is already out => this pokemon is already out" every time. So you have to use just one, and if it ever gets defeated you'll come back to it getting repeatedly healed at the Pokecenter.
When palworld born better gameplay and designs than pokeslop
yep
I bought it, played it and never looking back now
Can't believe an indie company makes a better game than GF while they are the most profitable franchise
bw2 when I had to spend 10 minutes doing a fricking movie making tutorial
BW2 oozes soul
Yeah, I really felt the soul when the npc told me where to go for the 8th time in the game.
This, imagine not thinking Pokestar was soul incarnate
Damn, Brycen wore some sexy outfits in those movies.
Pokestar studios is great and probably the best side game in the Franchise moron
pokestar itself isn't the problem, it's the long ass forced tutorial for it that kills all the momentum of the game. R/S didn't make you mash A for 10 minutes in a forced introduction to contests, it was just something you could do if you wanted. that section in BW2 is such a drag especially on replays, and it's indicative of the design of the whole game and future games, until you get to SM where you're stopped every 5 feet for an unskippable cutscene.
>GBA boomer
Why do millennials have so much ADHD they can’t stand a few text boxes
The problem is that the moronic Pokemon fans cant read
The problem is that BW2 is a shitty game.
Around sun and moon and came back for 3ds trades and wanted to see the reaction to the online shutdown
Also wtf did they do to Typhlosion
Just don't use it, homosexual. Why do you have to b***h and whine about more options? Regular typhlosion is still available and ready for use.
Gen 5 when I saw that they removed the Battle Frontier and Secret Bases and Contests.
>SOUL SOUL SOUL SOUL
easiest way to tell a game is actually dogshit
When i came to this place and realize you homosexuals lusting over eevees and e-girl poke-girls I decided to do something else
Why are you still here? frick off
Boringgay
same for you, moronic puritan
>anon is so mind broken by his loser fetishes he thinks not being into zoophilia and pedophilia makes one a puritan
the internet is truly beautiful
During BW.
I found out I liked more Pokemon than the average fan
Dude, it's E for Everyone
>Leavanny
>Mantis
Get back to entomology class schizoid
No one said Leavanny is a mantis, ESL.
furgays and waifugays have done tremendous damage to this franchise
if you think Maractus, Druddigon, and Garbador are bad designs then you just have shit taste
all shit designs especially druddigon
>garbodor
>good design
pick one
It makes uggos like you seethe
ad hominēs are not good arguments
Taste is subjective and all an argument would be is a back and forth of "it's a good design" vs "nuh uh"
I can't think of a rebuttal so I concede this victory to you
it took the concept of exploded trash bag monster and did great with it without getting too graphic or artificial looking and being just the right balance of simple and detailed for plushies, fogures, and other merchandise. As a character designer myself, I think it's executed great, you're just a moegay
*/m/gay, picrel is what I consider great design
but also, why does it have afro puffs and look overweight? And why is there random teal and pink? I also really don't like the mouth and nugen eyes
>why does it have afro puffs and look overweight
exploded trash bag
>why is there random teal and pink
simplified aesthetics to allude to trash by utilizing unnatural colors without introducing too many colors that could clash with the colors already there. They're left simple blobs to not look too artificial or off-putting as Pokemon designs are intentionally highly marketable mascot designs at the end of the day
>nugen eyes
those are Magikarp eyes and meant to give the same feelings of derpiness in order to make the monster seem less malicious and more friendly. They want you to warm up to the trash bag monster as a friend
>mouth
when closed it's supposed to look like glass shards sticking out of the mouth but also looks like derpy nerd teeth to soften the appearance like the eyes do (pic rel). When opened it looks like a trash compactor which is fitting because it eats trash
>without introducing too many colors that could clash with the colors already there. They're left simple blobs to not look too artificial or off-putting as Pokemon designs are intentionally highly marketable mascot designs
Wish we could go back to this kind of design philosophy. In SV, there's too many colors in the monsters and the people and everything looks too artificial and off-putting.
looks like shit
>it took the concept of exploded trash bag
unova in a nutshell
Gen 5 fanboys always fought back against genwunners who claimed designs were worse and now they act exactly the same towards newer gens designs.
please point out the part where anon shat on newer designs
I like every one of these
wife
i genuinely fricking love stunfisk and i will NEVER apologise for it.
>be zoomer
>like Pokemon
>Pokemon fans like Pokemon
>enjoy Sinnoh
>Unova comes out
>enjoy it cause hey it's Pokemon and I like Pokemon
>look around
>everyone treats it like it's the worst thing on Earth
>realize I'm not actually a Pokemon fan
>play other games
I don't usually care for Typhlosion but the right one...
>boo hooo hooooo muh nostalgia so mean!
>boo hooo hooooo it's so unfair that older gens are memorable and loved, while only israelites shill for pozzed nugen goyslop!
Are you okay?
Ok now say it without crying
When I couldn't name a single new Pokemon I genuinely went nuts over
3DS era
>we've gotten to a point where literal gen 5 shills who grew up with the game think pic above is good design
I hate my generation
>I made a broken condom pokemon, no you don't understand it's supposed to look like a broken condom therefore it's a good design
>I wasn't born at the right time I hate my peers
Fricking loser
I would rather not live in a world where homosexuals and trannies are accepted, yes
Ok chuddy
People were defending the ice cream and trash pokemon since before your mom’s morning after pills stopped working
no they weren't, yet more baseless ad hominēs because unovatards can't form convincing arguments
>t. treize
sex with both
>typhlosion for heterosexual men
>cafe H typhlosion is just a feminine typhlosion with makeup and longer hair
>actually looks good
>in game H typhlosion looks like a sickly emaciated typhlosion
>looks terrible
why couldn't they have made it look like this in the first place? no one would have hated it then
Feminine or not, Typhlosion steals human women on the daily
Don't underestimate the charm of the dark pretty boy
Humiliation ritual of Pokemon
My last Pokemon was X. I play Pokemon GO and MMO. It's all I need now. Game freak can't make good games anymore.
Oh my god they feminized her
Come on now OP, you're complaining about Typhlosion's look in a frickin' mobile game aimed at japanese women. Literally everything is drawn cute in that game, from freaks of nature like Dialga to freaky lanky aliens like Inteleon.
Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
>T.
I didn't know it was possible to make me hate Inceleon even more, but Cafe found a way
meanwhile, in Pokemon UNITE
EWWWWWWWWWWWWW
>T.
[...]
>T.
the gorilla sucks too, all nustarters are gatbage
I fell off pretty hard after I played Ultra Sun and realized that it was literally just Sun but worse. Gen 7 is not a game that rewards replays, and as I played through US, all the flaws of the series in general started to become more apparent.
I haven't bought a Pokemon game since, because each new game has proven more and more that GameFreak really will just do the bare minimum and make bank off it. What really clinched it for me was when I tried replaying Emerald and FireRed a few months ago. That's when the inherent flaws of the franchise really showed themselves to me. The battle system is incredibly tedious and requires zero thought, the stories are generally dull and by-the-numbers, and everything seems so stiff and sterile.
It took me a while, but as I got older and started to play other video games - especially other RPGs - I've come to realize that Pokemon was never that good to begin with. It's ability to generate brand loyalty is insane, but the products never reach anything close to full potential, and they never will.
Pokémon does have some pretty cool moments like the Red fight, but it was never that good honestly, a lot of JRPGs are better, too bad people have shit standards everywhere, especially nowadays.
After HGSS and looking onto BW is when I clued in that the games wouldn't ever really improve. Features like the Pokeathlon and Following Pokemon that should've been expanded upon were thrown away for different flavours of gimmicks essentially and the cycle keeps on repeating.
I'm aware that this wasn't the time that had started it, it's just the moment that it became apparent to me personally. I still enjoy and find value in every release, I just don't treat the franchise as something that will ever have crazy ambitions, unlike other franchises that I enjoy.
In retrospect, I can acknowledge Gen 1 and Gen 2 as being the closest to that vision and Gen 3 onwards ushering in that kind of design philosophy. I don't hate the Masuda (3-6) games, but I tend to feel more impressed about the Ohmori games (7-9) as they tend to be bolder and try to expand the concept of different kinds of Pokemon adventures further than earlier entries.
When I encountered Missingno in Pokemon Red.
I tried to get out when I first saw advertisements for Ruby/Sapphire. Little Kid me had a fricking breakdown over the idea of catching every single pokemon again for a THIRD time with another hundred or so new mons.
I stuck with the spinoff games because it wasn't "fill pokedex, win gyms, kill evil team" all over again, there was no real rush to catch all mons, and the gameplay systems were different with PMD and Rangers.
A friend dragged me back in with Black/White but I skipped out when I saw BW2. I came back in with Arceus and Scarlet/Violet though.
I no longer give any fricks over catching them all but I did snap up the Gimmighoul Chest wifi eventmon because screw that 999 coins bullshit.
there was never any real reason to catch em all unless you were a completionist anyway, it was just a marketing gimmick
I was a stupid little shit who took everything literally. The slogan and Version Exclusives drove me up the wall.
If you don't like this then you also don't like meganium
Was it ever for you? that's the real Q
When I stopped about caring about humans in the Pokemon hentai fanart and started preffering lewds that don't feature any people but only the mons.
I'm still a fan, but S/V was tough to get through. I just didn't think it was very fun, and while I don't generally care as much about graphical fidelity if the gameplay is decent, the visuals and performance were bad enough that I had trouble getting invested. Also I'm a SWSH apologist, if that tells you how low my standards are. The NPCs were interesting, at least.
After gen 6
Though I still play pre-kalos pokemon games.
I only would be willing to give legends of arceus a chance but I also don't feel like buying a whole ass switch to play one game.
Why don't you emulate it?
Gen 4. I think gen 4 was the point that monsters started getting ugly and boring.
Gen 5.
who are these even remotely comparable? It would have worked if you put a dungeon on the right side.
>wtf why are you comparing getting a legendary to getting a legendary?
gen 7 when the game became a lame visual novel on rails with no exploration just annoying cardboard characters
Gen 6