Sparrowsabre7 said:
Onyx Oblivion said:
why don't people tend to play the newer ones? i've been asking myself this question for a long time now. are they afraid of what people will think? its the show that has sunk into the depths of suckiness. the games are still fun for the same reasons that we remember them. hell, with online matches, they're even better.
It's because they think all the new pokémon are lame and derivative. And they're right (OMG FACTPINION) just kidding
, but I do think the original ones (and the Gold/Silver generation) were the best, the new onesdon't even look very pokémonesque for some of them (Blaziken for example, looks more Digimon like)
You do have to take personal taste into consideration for something like this but the moment you mention "look like Digimon" you lose all credibility. That argument has been made since pokemon #152, Chikorita, meant as little then as it does now. Its like pulling out the Hitler card in a debate.
All of the new pokemon are still being designed by the same guy and, in my opinion, have gotten better with each generation. Except G/S/C, though I'm sure the entire internet will disagree with me there. But if they took off their rose colored glasses for a moment they'd realize how mediocre G/S/C was. They stuffed as many new and arbitrary features in as they could and didn't give a thought to polishing up any of them, and I feel the pokemon suffered from the same design philosophy. Quantity over quality. Ironic since it added the least number of new pokemon of any generation. The whole second generation strikes me as being unplanned, as if they didn't expect pokemon to be as popular as it was and suddenly found a demand to keep it running. So they rushed a second generation out the door. With the 3rd generation they were starting to get into it but suffered from trying to milk the franchise too much, and with the 4th generation they're now getting the hang of it.
