Where did it all go so wrong?

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  1. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why are the legendaries in particular causing butthurt?
    There's plenty to dislike but I don't see the issue with the legendaries specifically.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They have giant balls and throat tumors and we aren't gay or smokers.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Scarlet pickers on the fence because although it has the version exclusive waifu, the trade off is that it has the worse bike.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        this, I want Ayla, but i dont want to ride this ill dinosaur thing. Woulda be fine if they made the legendaries optional quest completion objectives instead of mandatory travel slaves. Real trainers roughed it with a bike

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >bike
        They fricking run. The bike features are purely aesthetic and that is what pissed me off.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          only the orange one runs and it looks terrible
          from what I've seen the purple one actually functions as a bike. it still looks like a fisher price balloon animal but it looks less awful in motion.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            no, the Violet one actually is a bike pokemon.

            Explain OPs picture then.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              it stands when it isn't moving because little Pedrito is too short for his legs to touch the ground

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >bike
              They fricking run. The bike features are purely aesthetic and that is what pissed me off.

              If you don't choose purple lizard bike I'll just leave you in my dust

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              It's parked. The violet one rolling around while the scarlet one is just running is literally in the trailer.

              ?t=35

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          no, the Violet one actually is a bike pokemon.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >worse bike
        Yeah no, the red one has wheels and doesn't even use them. Violet got the better bike by default.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Scarlet has the better waifu
        >Violet has the better...everything else
        Truly a dilemma.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >...everything else
          [Citation Needed], beyond the difference in Legendaries, Violet seems to appeal more to straight women and gay male players.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >basing your choice on an npc you'll only see a handful of times
        Coomers are really something else.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >version exclusive waifu
        isn't that girl ugly though?

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      They're fricking motorbikes. This isn't Digimon where the monsters are data which can be shaped to look however you want, these are supposed to be living, breathing creatures who have adapted to their environment in semi-realistic ways.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        You realize that porygon exists? You realize that clefki exists? You realize that there are already a frick tonne of Pokémon that couldn’t realistically live in the real world and are just sentient objects, you disingenuous fricking mongoloid.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >I'll miss the point and make a moronic argument!!
          Corpos must be so happy to have you defending them for free.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            You know I’m right. Pokémon was never about creating a realistic world full of realistic creatures. They’re goofy Japanese cartoons and the fact you think it’s deeper than that is hilarious, grow up and stop playing kids games.

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              Nice gaslighting. I'd love to live in your head rent free. In fact. I think I will.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >I'd love to live in your head
                I get what you’re saying but it sounds a little pathetic, no?

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              >Pokémon was never about creating a realistic world full of realistic creatures.
              It was before it became a toy advertisement. And that happened around the time they drew art before making graphics.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                But from the beginning they were selling merchandise of the characters. It’s not like Nickelodeon where the money got so tempting they’d be stupid to not sell toys, gamefreak has been doing it since the start.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >But from the beginning they were selling merchandise of the characters.
                No they weren't.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                I know they sold cards before the games came out and at at the latest a year after the games came out they were selling plush toys and small figurines, after that point they went all out on selling anything with pikachu on it. I may be wrong but just from what I remember, early on the franchise was never about monsters who live in a somewhat realistic world, it was about collecting monsters and hunting for cool ones. What would they have gained from making Pokémon seem believable? Just get a dog if you want a real animal in a real environment, better yet, go collect beetles and fight them for the raw Pokémon experience.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >early on the franchise was never about monsters who live in a somewhat realistic world
                The first region was literally based on a region in Japan of the same name.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Wow so realistic.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                >no, that doesn't count!

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah pretty much.

              • 2 years ago
                Anonymous

                Read pic related. Pokemon were intended to be a part of the real world.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I find it ironic that you'd post a pic that perfectly represents what you just wrote.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            I don’t know what irony is, sorry I’m not gay and I do not care for you’re advancements.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >Porygon
          is explicitly man-made
          >Klefki
          >Trubbish
          well yes I would agree with you insofar as literal and figurative garbagemons have been dragging the series down for quite some time now

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        which niche does being a pokeball fit?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          The Mimic class of monster, a staple of all RPGs since Dungeons & Dragons.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Wrong, it evolved to be in Richard Gere's magic show

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Why are the legendaries in particular causing butthurt?
      I don't like the idea of a legendary being handed out that easily. Where's the legend? It's just a bicycle for a 10-year-old.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        If the legendary generally helps people travel across the nation then that would be a great reason to idolize it. It could be the national animal of the region.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >It could be the national animal of the region.
          It could have been, but that's not how legendaries have ever been portrayed. It just seems like too menial a task for a monster of legends. I wouldn't even be mad if it was just some regular Pokemon you got gifted.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      card games on motorcycles

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Agreed, the games looks and feel like shit . The legendary is the least bad part

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Because once everyone realized the legends were meant to look like motorcycles, the general consensus expectation was that the Scarlet legendary was going to be like a dirt bike while the Violet was going to be like a hover bike. As of the recent trailer, their bike forms were revealed and Scarlet’s looks fricking moronic because it just uses its arms and legs, completely defeating the purpose of being designed like a bike and having fricking tires in the first place

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It is a monster that happens to look like a bike when it is running about. This isn't se criptic metaphor, it literally is what is obviously is.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I just hate how different they look in bike form from how they look normally.
      Koraidon actually does have a distinct and clearly visible wheel in its throat, so fair. It's a bike. I get it. A real shame it doesn't actually appear to use its wheels as much as Miraidon does though.

      But that's also the thing. Miraidon does admittedly has a visibly bulbous throat, but unlike with Koraidon it really doesn't look anything like a wheel.
      But then you summon them for their bike forms and Koraidon and MIraidon alike adopt the same damn form pretty much and Miraidon has these giant fricking wheels all of a sudden that doesn't look anything like its normal form and just mimics Koraidon's look even though they don't normally look alike. But here they clearly do.
      At least Miraidon actually uses its rockets and wheels for propulsion instead of running around.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        It's just an air sac and its tail curled up. Why would it spin? The other one is a literal machine.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Finally someone else who thinks Miraidon looks weird when it suddenly gains blatant wheels.
        As for Koraidon, it can't use the wheels because they only look like wheels. With the only practical travel application being buoyancy.

        Why are the legendaries in particular causing butthurt?
        There's plenty to dislike but I don't see the issue with the legendaries specifically.

        They would be better without the hind wheels even if it means losing the obvious bike allegory. Koraidon's curled tail looks awkward and doesn't provide much when running. Miraidon has boosters that already do the work.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >As for Koraidon, it can't use the wheels because they only look like wheels. With the only practical travel application being buoyancy.
          that's great and all but it looks like trash

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            Take it to the designers. It's ridiculous how they gave the pokemon with fake wheels the most blatant big wheels while Miraidon has to bulge its neck to even hint at the theme and then conjure up energy wheels in bike mode.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          now it's a wheelbarrow

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >I just hate how different they look in bike form from how they look normally.
        It's upsetting how strange their bodies look just so they can accomodate wheels and a decent seat. Koraidon's hips look as wide as its shoulders in bike mode just so they can fit in that fake wheel.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/lfPPTKT.jpg

      Those are legendary Pokemon?

  2. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    so when it takes a shit does the ass wheel just spin rapidly, scraping the shit out and flinging it everywhere

  3. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Looks worse than a fricking Vita game, wtf.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Switch hardware is probably weaker than the vita. Probably weaker than a gamecube. Maybe even weaker than a DS. Who knows?

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Who knows?
        You can literally look up the specs on Wikipedia. What a moronic thing to say.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It literally can't run Xbox 360 era games like resident evil (they run blurry to frick and stutter constantly). The specs have to be a lie.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        The switch is quite a bit stronger than the Vita, actually.

  4. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    considering they keep making games and you keep seething i don't think it ever did.

  5. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    No matter what legendary you pick, for each one, there will have been an era in the past where both represented the future and there will be an era in the future where both will represent the past.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Whoa

  6. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >buying Pokemon games in 2022

  7. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >I don't see
    try looking at it

  8. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    It looks like one of those shitty chinese toy bikes you'd find at a dollar store.

  9. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    at least he uses his wheels

  10. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Why can't they just ride bicycles like in the good pokemon games?

  11. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Now we just need two Pokemon who have a single wheel each, and we FFXIII now.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I honestly always liked this design, Giger would be proud

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >icy female things scissor into a bike
      >ride said lesbian bike

  12. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    when you expected a children's game to take anything seriously, let alone manchildren tastes like yours

  13. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >See this
    >Think its Palworld mocking Pokemon's shitty designs
    >Turns out to be official

  14. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    MY HEART BEATS
    IN HYPER DRIVE

  15. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    post the webms already

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        jesus fricking christ this franchise is embarrassing.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Damn. That legendary has some huge ass nuts.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        How does this guy coom when his junk is just ballsack and nothing but it?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          He couldnt even if he wanted to he gets two tired

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Micro pp, macro balls. All cum.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          pokemon don't do that no matter how many fanfics you read or nsfw porn fanart you look at

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Genital sheaths and slits, moron Black person homosexual.

          Pokemon don't have human dicks. That's cringe. I bet you think humans are born circumcised too, fricking dumbass.

          I'm so amazing at raping fake animals and sucking animal dicks. You're such a worthless piece of shit. Never talk to me again, idiot.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous
      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Pokemon is Fricking Dead

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Why? Like frick. That looks fricking terrible.

  16. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Looks good for a 3ds game

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Damn dude you eviscerated them! Uh Yeah, that’s gonna sting in the morning!
      I tip my reddit gold to thee #roasted

  17. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    When it started pandering to reddit.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >wooper is reddit
      Actually have a nice day

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I for one think Woopa is adorable

      >wooper is reddit
      Actually have a nice day

      bro please the hard R

  18. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >Where did it all go so wrong?

    Generation VI. It's pretty much unanimous among all millenial veterans of the franchise.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      XY were clearly unfinished games, but had the best online out of any of them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Who cares. No one unironically plays mainline for online. We use Pokemon Shoddy/Showdown since ages ago.

        [...]

        Nice cherrypicked image Yawngay.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >No one unironically plays mainline for online.
          Plenty of people were in XY, because breeding was easy, and there were actual reasons to connect with other people(no transfers and the 3DS wasn't hacked). You could just put "6v6 OU" as your status and get random battle requests from people who saw you on their bottom screen. It was unironically the perfect Pokemon experience, and the closest to an MMO the series should ever get.
          XY are genuinely a "you had to be there" kind of game.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It went wrong after the mainline games left the gameboy era. You are blind to disagree.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      XY were clearly unfinished games, but had the best online out of any of them.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Soul. Soulless.

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Built for TPC (tepig wiener)

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        XY had the worst routes / exploration, story pacing, number of new mons, villains, and color saturation out of all the games
        It almost makes up for this by having the best online system with the PSS
        But anyways I agree with the other anon. XY was when things started to go downhill because GameFreak clearly cannot keep up the pace for yearly releases of 3D games

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >XY had the worst routes / exploration,
          You got that right!

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >XY had the worst routes / exploration, story pacing
          yeah I hate how there was actually a sizable amount of content between each gym

          they should have made it with unova where there's literally only 1 route between each gym and I can beat the entire game in 6 hours

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >sizable amount of content between each gym
            There’s basically nothing going on from gyms 3 through 7

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        Sprites were unironically better for at least 90% of the pokemon

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah. Most of the older gen pokemon before gen 6 were not designed with fluid motion in mind. Of the 10% that transitioned into 3D well, I'd say Phanphy/Donphan was one of them. But that's because Donphan in particular was always designed around being an elephant that can turn itself into a tire and roll around. Which was what made it so cool when it first appeared in the first Pokemon movie.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            >whoa! a Pokémon that I don't recognize! cool!
            anon watching the pokemon movie and perhaps never thereafter

  19. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    small indie company, please understand

  20. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    The new legendary is basically a skiddo. But uglier and doesn't learn milk drink.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      I don't even know why they bothered with that gimmick again either, when nobody fricking remembers that pokemon line. It was literally a pokemon that existed for the purpose of a gimmick. Even Fineon line is more remembered.

  21. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    >complain that vehicles aren't pokemon
    >get pokemon that are vehicles
    >complain that pokemon are vehicles

    I'm starting to think you guys just don't like Pokemon and regardless what they do, you're going to be upset.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      [citation needed] - clarification on the popular demand for a lightning mcqueen pokemon

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        People have been b***hing about the bike and the fact it wasn't just a pokemon ever since rotom was introduced

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          Have a (You) for your trouble, homosexual-chan.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Literally nobody asked for a pokemon with wheels stuck in its torso while it runs

  22. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    don't care, haven't played a pokemon game past gen 4, i just replay the old ones whenever i have the itch. keep me away from this modern /vp/ bullshit where every new game is a regression and the whole fanbase is comptards and pedos and furries

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      but anon showdown is kinda fun, it's the only thing I've touched about bogeymans other than romhacks since hgss

  23. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    i have never met anyone irl who gives a shit about the Black/White generation but everyone online insists it was the best

    what's the explanation

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      zoomers who didn't even exist when the series was at its best (pokemania)

      gen 1 and 2 is still considered the best among anyone who isn't an underagetard

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Gen 2
        >2 regions
        It's crazy to me we still haven't achieved this.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        as someone who played blue on gb first, I humbly submit that 2 is the best for my money (specifically Crystal for those animated sprites) and that it was the last gen where it was pretty much the old gen but better in every conceivable way

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Grown men and women wouldn't dare talk about Pokémon in public

      >...everything else
      [Citation Needed], beyond the difference in Legendaries, Violet seems to appeal more to straight women and gay male players.

      Well for one, Violet's default uniforms look a hell of a lot better than Scarlet's.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Grown men and women wouldn't dare talk about Pokémon in public
        Forgot about Pokémon go already?

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          *aside from Pokémon GO

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          *aside from Pokémon GO

          Acceptable zoomie bait doesnt count. Those frickers wouldn't dare discuss the intricacies of waifus and/or pokemon lore.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      x/y were next and that shadow colored everything before it in bright rose tint

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        anyone who was actually around when XY launched knew it was far better than gen 5.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      BW2 were the final games in the sprite era and had the greatest amount of content in a set of games up to that point. From difficulty modes to side quests to the medals system to the gym leader rematch tournament and even to stupid shit like Pokestar studios, they were packed with stuff to do.
      X and Y have redeeming qualities but were a massive leap in design / production philosophy and a lot of people were turned off by them

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >From difficulty modes
        that are unusable
        >to side quests
        that are actually just forced tutorials that bog the game down
        >to the medals system
        which are just ribbons but worse
        >to the gym leader rematch tournament
        which is just the battle frontier but worse
        >they were packed with stuff to do
        yeah there was so much to do like catching the zero new pokemon and exploring the 4 new routes in the copy/pasted region

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          I too hate everything and see value in nothing anon

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            nah I don't hate good games

  24. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Long as the franchise keeps creating amazing husbands, I will support it.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Shitdicks get the rope homosexual. You'll die from aids before the next game comes out.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >Shitdicks get the rope
        So all straight guys who love fricking women in the ass are going to be executed like animals, too?

  25. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They should have just gone full moron kino, just give us Pokemon battles on motorcycles like yugioh 5Ds instead of just throwing a bunch of moronic gimmicks with no cohesion or theme.

  26. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I want to frick that

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      It's clearly a machine anon

  27. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    didn't knew YLYL thread were allowed on Ganker

  28. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Started Pokemon black for the first time yesterday. Absolutely awesome.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Congrats, have fun anon.

  29. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    new fisher price toy just dropped

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      Almost like the game is made for young children.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      very original joke anon

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        thanks bro glad you took the time out of your busy day to originally reply

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          >busy day
          Wouldn’t be here if that were the case.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >joke

  30. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    Black and White were so astronomically good, that they realized that it would be impossible for them to ever make a better game than BW, so therefore, they just gave up.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      >Black and White were so astronomically good
      yeah how could game freak ever top this bros

  31. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    pokemon was never good

  32. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I don't understand wtf they were fricking thinking? Why the wheels? The creature looks fine without them and runs so why add those stupid things? It just baffles my mind but then again it's fricking JAPS they create the worst most awful and sometimes cringe fricking designed cloth, weapons, vehicles, ect. in all media

  33. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I literally didn't know what series this was until I read like ten posts in. So fricking funny how people used to defend new pokemon designs and say they weren't getting worse.

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      yeah pokemon designs used to be so much bette-

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        We're still in agreement anon

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        >actual monsters instead of bikes
        Yes.

      • 2 years ago
        Anonymous

        gen 3 was the start of the shitmon infection IMO but at that point it was mostly limited to the legendaries.
        always thought Dialga and Palkia looked like trash even when I was 12.
        that being said, it could be worse...

        • 2 years ago
          Anonymous

          It's cooler ingame.

          • 2 years ago
            Anonymous

            if you say so.
            personally it makes me think of that old image macro of a buffed shaved dude dressed up like a unicorn that says "YOU AREN'T THIS GAY BUT YOU'RE TRYING"

            • 2 years ago
              Anonymous

              I appreciate you saying "image macro" instead of "meme"

  34. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    when you all complained about HMs

  35. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    I simply hate designs that mimic manmade creations
    >Inb4 BUT MUH MAGNEMITE
    also not a design a like, but it's also not a legendary modeled after a motorcycle

    • 2 years ago
      Anonymous

      You don't like mimics?

  36. 2 years ago
    Anonymous

    They started to prioritize adding new Pokemon instead of just making the games better. Really all they need is 20 or so new Pokemon per gen.

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