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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:11:17 No.38354474 View View Reply Original Report

Why are they all so incredibly charming, memorable and charismatic? What's their secret?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:11:57 No.38354482 Report

Quoted By: >>38354519 >>38360610

Mix of good designs and nostalgia

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:16:23 No.38354519 Report

Quoted By: >>38362619

>>38354482
A varied yet unified vision

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:19:07 No.38354547 Report

Quoted By: >>38354552

mons like mr mime and jynx look way better in this style, shame that theyre so creepy now

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:20:36 No.38354552 Report

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>>38354547
they have always been creepy and that's part of their appeal

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:20:58 No.38354557 Report

Quoted By: >>38354789

>>38354474
they came first. that's it.
if you swapped any gens release date with gen 1 everyone would still scream they liked whatever is now gen 1

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:22:21 No.38354565 Report

Quoted By: >>38360610

>>38354474
Some good designs and cool art style but mostly nostalgia

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:22:21 No.38354566 Report

Quoted By: >>38354598

>>38354474
I think part of it has to do with the mons actually looking like monsters. The other 80% is nostalgia

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:25:52 No.38354598 Report

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>>38354566

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:31:02 No.38354639 Report

Quoted By: >>38361211 >>38361265

>>38354474
lots of unique creatures, of course they take inspiration from animals and mythology but they are different enough that they manage to be their own thing rather than just a "cartoon version of X"

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:36:05 No.38354693 Report

Quoted By: >>38354707

>>38354474
easy
>starters look like monsters
>dex is full of monsters
>most pokemon are based on real life things like mythologies, hazardous environment, kaijus, scary stories, folklore, etc.. which gave each pokemon a personality
>Pokemon aren't too far from real life animals, which is a good to attract children and most people
>most pokemon look they are out to kill you

compare it to today shit Pokemon
>starters are LGBT memes and nothing but furry bait
>most pokemon are random shit either waifumons or furrymons
>most designs are cartoony versions of toddler's imaginations (ice cream and keyrings)
>Pokemon feel like cheap Sonic and digimon knock-offs
>most pokemon look they are out to friend you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:37:14 No.38354707 Report

Quoted By: >>38354731

>>38354693
explain how a fucking nigger leaf monkey is lgbt

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:38:46 No.38354731 Report

Quoted By: >>38354744

>>38354707
Was pointing at Gen6 ~ Gen7 starters.
We didn't get to see Galar's final form starters yet.
one of them is definitely going to be a waifu and the other gonna be a bara or furry bait.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:40:01 No.38354744 Report

Quoted By: >>38354784

>>38354731
explain how robin bird is lgbt furry bait

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:43:48 No.38354771 Report

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>>38354474
My waifu since 1999

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:45:40 No.38354784 Report

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>>38354744
it's a faggot in a fursuit, just like Incineroar.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 21:46:17 No.38354789 Report

Quoted By: >>38360620

>>38354557
Wrong. Lots of monster series tried and died in the 90s due to poor designs. Pokemon wasnt some sacrosanct exception, the designs propelled the series toward success. If another gen had started the series theres no guarantee it would have lasted and theres no way of knowing.

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:10:15 No.38355013 Report

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Soul

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:12:40 No.38355041 Report

Quoted By: >>38355110

You cant have 800 creatures without most of them being shit.
With just 100 is easier to make them better.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:17:01 No.38355110 Report

Quoted By: >>38355250

>>38355041
If instead of making a new batch every couple of years they kept refining the originals by now we would have pokken tier gameplay for all the 151

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:18:55 No.38355132 Report

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Ah yes, Kanto, the region of ambiguous crab monster........

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:21:25 No.38355168 Report

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>4 friends makings shit the way they want
>the 4 agreed with the shit each other created
>ask a real manga drawner to draw the pixel shit they created
>drawner got like art degree and experience for drawning hentai and masturbating all day
>make them look better

>2 years later
>urge to put more 100 just because
>not finished design because lack of time
>new monster look like fluffly toys and teddy bears
>not even good programed in battle

>4 years later
>now they have like dozens of employes doing theyr shit
>nintendo and other marketing inc ordering to to certain kinds of monster
>cutest sell more
>angry looks dont sell toys
>the elite four barely do something
>autist satoji stay home all day playing with bugs and hot gluing them
>the elite four is no more together

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:27:57 No.38355250 Report

Quoted By: >>38355298

>>38355110
Johto was a big mistake.
They should dedicated most of the new 100 by creating more pré-evolution and evolutions/alternateevos of the previous pokémon, in order to balance almost every evolution line into being good enought in battle.
Insted they just created new weirdos and forgetables slot fillers.

Stantler, Qwifish, Delibird, Dunsparce, Corsola, Mantine, etc...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:29:06 No.38355266 Report

Quoted By: >>38360599

>>38354474
Nostalgia. They look like shit, really.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:32:20 No.38355298 Report

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>>38355250
Imo instead of creating new shit they should have added the 39 that were scrapped from the original 190

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:37:48 No.38355364 Report

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Im making my own magical monster game. What can I learn from pokémon designs? Dos and Don'ts?

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:41:15 No.38355393 Report

Quoted By: >>38355760 >>38361852

>>38354474
>Implying gen 1 isn't the worst gen

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:44:59 No.38355428 Report

Quoted By: >>38355448

>voltorb
>incredibly charming

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 22:47:24 No.38355448 Report

Quoted By: >>38355623

>>38355428
correct

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 23:04:35 No.38355623 Report

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>>38355448
Holy shit why haven't I ever put that together

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 23:06:18 No.38355649 Report

Quoted By: >>38355674 >>38355777 >>38356754 >>38357220 >>38360636

>>38354474
You seem to have forgotten that grimer is the actual worst pokemon design.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 23:08:28 No.38355674 Report

Quoted By: >>38355697 >>38355777

>>38355649
you mean the repulsive(yet charming) manifestation of pollution that fits perfectly with the game's theme of scientific and technological development?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 23:11:42 No.38355697 Report

Quoted By: >>38355720

>>38355674
This has to be fake no one can be this stupid

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 23:13:34 No.38355720 Report

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>>38355697
But its true?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 23:17:41 No.38355760 Report

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>>38355393
it isn't you literal retard

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 20 Apr 2019 23:18:53 No.38355777 Report

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>>38355649
>>38355674
>This has to be fake no one can be this stupid
anon...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 00:38:32 No.38356754 Report

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>>38355649
is he a slug? Or a lizard?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 00:52:02 No.38356865 Report

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>>38354474
WHEN WILL WE GET WATER COLORED OFFICIAL ART WORK BACK REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 00:53:22 No.38356881 Report

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>>38354474
i got into pokemon during 2012 when i was 16 and while i like kanto overall and can tell you the names of every one of them i often forget about most of them until they're brought up. too many strange poison and bug types for my liking.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 00:58:48 No.38356922 Report

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diversity, uniqueness, and a big spoonful of nostalgia

honestly though diversity is the most important part of Pokemon. There's ALWAYS something for everyone, whether you're into slime blobs, anime dogs, objects with faces, robots, badass beasts, cutesy creatures... Pokemon has everything!

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 01:25:48 No.38357201 Report

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>>38354474
They're great because they look like they were designed to be monsters you could find in the wild, not designed to be toys on a shelf.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 01:29:26 No.38357220 Report

Quoted By: >>38357896 >>38357973

>>38355649
Poliwrath is the literal worst pokemon design from the first gen, and possibly all gens.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 02:48:48 No.38357896 Report

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>>38357220
Have you ever realized that all stone based evolutions are just anabolized version of the previous?

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 02:53:13 No.38357933 Report

Quoted By: >>38360336

for one the starters are not fursuits

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 02:55:50 No.38357973 Report

Quoted By: >>38358165

>>38357220
Poliwrath and Poliwhirl are frogs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 03:16:30 No.38358165 Report

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>>38357973
>frogs
>poli
>not frogwhirl or frogwrath

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 08:53:38 No.38360242 Report

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>>38354474
KANTOOOOOOO

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 09:13:18 No.38360336 Report

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>>38357933
so much soul

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 09:16:33 No.38360357 Report

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Sugimori water colors were soulful. In the late 90s, any kid could go into a Borders or a Barnes and Nobles, and pluck a colorful pokemon book off the shelves and look at the cool art inside, making you feel that much more immersed the next time you played on your Gameboy

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 09:48:13 No.38360568 Report

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>>38354474
its this intangible little thing called soul

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 09:55:45 No.38360599 Report

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>>38355266
seething unovabortion

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 09:56:17 No.38360602 Report

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>>38354474
It's this intangible thing called You Were A Kid

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 09:58:15 No.38360610 Report

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>>38354482
>>38354565
these

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 10:00:36 No.38360620 Report

Quoted By: >>38360625

>>38354789
Pokemon picked its mascots right, and showcased the cutest/coolest ones, instead of making their mascot some cthulhu's sperm abomination.

But it's an outright lie to say that ALL the designs are equally great.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 10:01:38 No.38360625 Report

Quoted By: >>38361774

>>38360620
Forgot pic

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 10:04:25 No.38360636 Report

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>>38355649
At least it's not as boring as Goldeen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 10:04:54 No.38360638 Report

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Gen 1 has the least good designs and the most awful designs of any gen.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 10:06:27 No.38360642 Report

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>>38354474
>What's their secret?
Simple designs

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 11:36:51 No.38361050 Report

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>>38354474
KANTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 12:16:06 No.38361211 Report

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>>38354639
dolphin, rabbit, koala, fish, hippo
chameleon, dog, rabbit, bear
mantis, hamster, frog, gorilla, baboon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 12:18:48 No.38361223 Report

Quoted By: >>38363827

>>38354474
Designed as monster first unlike the gen 6-7 ones which were made for toys

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 12:28:40 No.38361265 Report

Quoted By: >>38362591

>>38354639
Raichu is kangaroo rat + element
Lapras is my mom’s plesiosaurus
Agreed on the rest

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 13:52:44 No.38361657 Report

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Nostalgia

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 13:58:17 No.38361685 Report

Quoted By: >>38361851

>>38354474
Probably because Gen 1 (and 2) don't go for photorealism, their designs are simple and distinct from what they're based off, compared slowbro to hippowdon or tyranitar to tyrantrum for example

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 14:18:46 No.38361774 Report

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>>38360625
Golem, Hare, and Tiger were cool, but putting Suezo at the forefront of all advertising was a huge mistake. Stuff like pic related was pretty damn lazy too.

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 14:32:11 No.38361851 Report

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>>38361685
>slowbro
>tyranitar
Based on monsters/yokai
>hippowdon
>tyrantrum
Based on animals

The only problem I see with modern designs is that there is less myth-inspired ones and more based on "animal/plant/object with a twist". While the latter design philosophy isn't bad, most of the time it'll produce less chimeric designs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 14:32:32 No.38361852 Report

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>>38355393
If it was that bad as you say, how the hell did it manage to become the most successful and lucrative franchise in the media industry?

No matter what you me (and I personally hate constant remaking of gen 1) or anyone else thinks about gen 1 Pokémon it's still a fact that they're the most recognisable of all Pokémon and Game Freak is well aware of that, so is using to gain more profit.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 14:43:12 No.38361928 Report

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>>38354474
Being the first ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 16:37:35 No.38362591 Report

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>>38361265
Yeah because plesiosaurs are totally known for their shells and horns

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 16:40:31 No.38362619 Report

Quoted By: >>38362633

>>38354519
That´s morbid and aberrant, he is smiling as he experiments with a mutated being

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 16:42:51 No.38362633 Report

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>>38362619
that's like every single science based character and trainer class from gen 1 minus oak, bill and fuji

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 17:45:29 No.38363047 Report

Quoted By: >>38363131

whats your favorite gen 1 mon?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 17:56:19 No.38363131 Report

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>>38363047
Gengar, thought the best overall design is probably Lapras

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 19:19:20 No.38363741 Report

Quoted By: >>38363813

>>38354474
They were the first. If the gen V dex was the first or woud have the same nostalgia attached

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 19:28:41 No.38363813 Report

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>>38363741
If gen V's dex was the first the series would have never made it to a fifth generation

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Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 19:29:44 No.38363822 Report

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Simple, yet charming, fuckable designs.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 19:30:31 No.38363827 Report

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>>38361223
they were always designed for toys since day one

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 21 Apr 2019 19:40:22 No.38363897 Report

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gen 1-4
>pokemon
gen 5->
>digimon

as if art directors got a stroke.

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