Black & White's Starter Pokemon Officially Get Named

[SD-Fiend]

Snivy should work. It sounds pretentious enough, at any rate.

Seems like with each passing game the starters look worse and worse.

Just once I'd like to see a Pokemon thread where someone didn't talk about how Pokemon was better back when they were a kid.

Someone needs to do a study where they show a bunch of 8 year old kids who have never played Pokemon which starters are the best so we can finally decide once and for all if the starters are getting crappier, or if we're getting older.

I have a 10 year old brother. His first Pokemon game was Platinum. When I as him which Pokemon look the dumbest, he always says multiple ones from each generation. He actually thinks Jynx is the worst out of all of them.

So yeah, I'm tempted to believe most people who think the old Pokemon are better happen to be wearing rose-tinted glasses. Nostalgia can sometimes cloud your judgment.

I don't necessarily think all pokemon are getting worse...mostly just the starters.

Why though? How is snivy, for example, worse than bulbasaur? Bulbasaur is just dinosaur with a bulb shoved on its back. Not exactly the pinnacle of creative design.

Back then you could actually tell what they were though,

Bulbasaur: Dinosaur + bulb

Snivy: WTF!?

I think it's a skink

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Grass or Water this gen, hmmm?

Flareon is the only fire type for me. EVER.

To bad it's movepool sucks for it's stats, he's consistently been the bottom tier Eevee-lution over the past generations due to having a terrible movepool.

GIVE IT FLARE BLITZ DAMNIT!

 

[Danpascooch]

Snivy should work. It sounds pretentious enough, at any rate.

Seems like with each passing game the starters look worse and worse.

Just once I'd like to see a Pokemon thread where someone didn't talk about how Pokemon was better back when they were a kid.

Someone needs to do a study where they show a bunch of 8 year old kids who have never played Pokemon which starters are the best so we can finally decide once and for all if the starters are getting crappier, or if we're getting older.

I have a 10 year old brother. His first Pokemon game was Platinum. When I as him which Pokemon look the dumbest, he always says multiple ones from each generation. He actually thinks Jynx is the worst out of all of them.

So yeah, I'm tempted to believe most people who think the old Pokemon are better happen to be wearing rose-tinted glasses. Nostalgia can sometimes cloud your judgment.

I don't necessarily think all pokemon are getting worse...mostly just the starters.

Why though? How is snivy, for example, worse than bulbasaur? Bulbasaur is just dinosaur with a bulb shoved on its back. Not exactly the pinnacle of creative design.

Back then you could actually tell what they were though,

Bulbasaur: Dinosaur + bulb

Snivy: WTF!?

I think it's a skink

oh, of COURSE, a "skink"

How could I have possibly missed that!

(WTF IS A SKINK!?)

 

[SD-Fiend]

Snivy should work. It sounds pretentious enough, at any rate.

Seems like with each passing game the starters look worse and worse.

Just once I'd like to see a Pokemon thread where someone didn't talk about how Pokemon was better back when they were a kid.

Someone needs to do a study where they show a bunch of 8 year old kids who have never played Pokemon which starters are the best so we can finally decide once and for all if the starters are getting crappier, or if we're getting older.

I have a 10 year old brother. His first Pokemon game was Platinum. When I as him which Pokemon look the dumbest, he always says multiple ones from each generation. He actually thinks Jynx is the worst out of all of them.

So yeah, I'm tempted to believe most people who think the old Pokemon are better happen to be wearing rose-tinted glasses. Nostalgia can sometimes cloud your judgment.

I don't necessarily think all pokemon are getting worse...mostly just the starters.

Why though? How is snivy, for example, worse than bulbasaur? Bulbasaur is just dinosaur with a bulb shoved on its back. Not exactly the pinnacle of creative design.

Back then you could actually tell what they were though,

Bulbasaur: Dinosaur + bulb

Snivy: WTF!?

I think it's a skink

oh, of COURSE, a "skink"

How could I have possibly missed that!

(WTF IS A SKINK!?)

a lizard that has very tiny legs and moves like a snake

 

[Jake the Snake]

Snivy should work. It sounds pretentious enough, at any rate.

Seems like with each passing game the starters look worse and worse.

Just once I'd like to see a Pokemon thread where someone didn't talk about how Pokemon was better back when they were a kid.

Someone needs to do a study where they show a bunch of 8 year old kids who have never played Pokemon which starters are the best so we can finally decide once and for all if the starters are getting crappier, or if we're getting older.

I have a 10 year old brother. His first Pokemon game was Platinum. When I as him which Pokemon look the dumbest, he always says multiple ones from each generation. He actually thinks Jynx is the worst out of all of them.

So yeah, I'm tempted to believe most people who think the old Pokemon are better happen to be wearing rose-tinted glasses. Nostalgia can sometimes cloud your judgment.

I don't necessarily think all pokemon are getting worse...mostly just the starters.

Why though? How is snivy, for example, worse than bulbasaur? Bulbasaur is just dinosaur with a bulb shoved on its back. Not exactly the pinnacle of creative design.

Back then you could actually tell what they were though,

Bulbasaur: Dinosaur + bulb

Snivy: WTF!?

I think it's a skink

oh, of COURSE, a "skink"

How could I have possibly missed that!

(WTF IS A SKINK!?)

a lizard that has very tiny legs and moves like a snake

My biology teacher had a skink. It shat on everything

 

[Norix596]

I'm one of those who never played any pokemon after Red but I don't know about some of these designs. While it's obvious what they are in the same picture when one's red blue and green respectively, if you showed me a picture of that pig out of context I wouldn't have identified it as a pokemon. The Grass type looks good and I probably would have guessed what the water one was out of context. They seem to be running out of ideas to make the pokemon seem unique while still simple in design though. Back in generation 1 all of the Pokemon were very simple in design, and became more detailed with evolution or rarity, but these have a lot more illustration going into them than say Mewtwo or Scyther.

 

[Lazzi]

I'm still gonna nick-name them Mr. Snooty, Baconbits and Herp-A-Derp respectively.

I was going to call the pig Smithfield, but then I thought that the name would be too long.

 

[Lazzi]

Back then you could actually tell what they were though,

Bulbasaur: Dinosaur + bulb

Snivy: WTF!?

Snivy is a grass snake, I think. Though really, I don't see how it's any more obscure than Chikorita.

Apparently, that's supposed to be a sauropod. [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropod] Isn't it obvious?

I actually like Chikorita's design, it almost looks like it could be a real animal.......you know, if we had animal plant hybrids, lol.

Anyway, it kind of just looks like a green dog with a leaf.

We sort of have a natural animal plant hybrid IRL, Its a type of seaslug that eats algea and then incorperates the algeas chloroplast so that the slug can be create sweet sweet engergy all on its own.

http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/01/green-sea-slug/