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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 02:55:51 No.46648001 View View Reply Original Report

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Why are gen 2 sprites so goddamn good?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 02:57:31 No.46648015 Report

Quoted By: >>46648084 >>46648933 >>46649032 >>46650036

>>46648001
Agreed gen 2 did my man the king justice

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 03:02:28 No.46648044 Report

Quoted By: >>46648080

>>46648001
They look clean, do specific things, and use a lot of different sprites of the pokemon, which is often in contrast with gen 3 which just moves the pokemon around or expand and compress them.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 03:10:07 No.46648080 Report

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>>46648001

Basically what >>46648044 said. All of the sprites do a specific action as if they are actually attacking, swiping their claws, flapping their wings, flaring their spikes, etc. Their mouth movements even fit with their cries.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blMULnCTM1Q

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 03:11:35 No.46648084 Report

Quoted By: >>46648115 >>46648969 >>46649024

>>46648001
>>46648015
>To this day these are the best animations a mainline pokemon game had
gamefreak is a joke

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 03:15:39 No.46648115 Report

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>>46648084
prease understandu

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 03:18:04 No.46648136 Report

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>>46648001
It's not even close

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 03:23:59 No.46648180 Report

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>>46648001
I love gen 3 but standardizing the designs of Pokemon so they always look the same and without deviation was a fucking mistake.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:14:19 No.46648909 Report

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>>46648001
Imagine them with 3 colors instead of 2

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:19:36 No.46648933 Report

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>>46648001
>>46648015
>>46648115
Beautiful

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:20:49 No.46648939 Report

Quoted By: >>46648950 >>46649034 >>46649942 >>46650034 >>46650036 >>46650362 >>46650477 >>46651163

because they had soul.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:22:34 No.46648946 Report

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>>46648001
I guess they wanted to put extra effort into them after how ugly the sprites in Red, Green and Blue were? Like they thought about those old sprites and felt motivated to seriously outdo themselves.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:23:44 No.46648950 Report

Quoted By: >>46648957 >>46648981

>>46648939
It sounds like you just dont like what pokemon are actually supposed to look like

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:24:10 No.46648953 Report

Quoted By: >>46649043

before they were totally ruined by anime cringe

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:25:13 No.46648957 Report

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>>46648950
yep, just like people who dislike 3d models

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:26:50 No.46648966 Report

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>>46648001
Nostalgia goggles

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:27:51 No.46648969 Report

Quoted By: >>46648973 >>46648984 >>46649032

>>46648084
>>To this day these are the best animations a mainline pokemon game had
Someone didn't play BW/BW2

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:28:55 No.46648973 Report

Quoted By: >>46648982

>>46648969
gen 5's animations are objectively horrible. You didn't exactly disprove his point.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:30:48 No.46648981 Report

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>>46648950
I like what pokemon actually look like but I don't want them to look like that all the time. It gets dull.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:31:03 No.46648982 Report

Quoted By: >>46648989 >>46649004 >>46649032 >>46649060 >>46649234

>>46648973
Imagine calling this horrible

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:31:49 No.46648984 Report

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>>46648969
Everyone agrees the animations in BW and B2W2 are terrible.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:32:42 No.46648987 Report

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>>46648984
>Everyone agrees
You and 3 other people voices in your head

Emerald has the worst "animations"

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:32:52 No.46648989 Report

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>>46648982

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:35:54 No.46649004 Report

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>>46648982
>that awful fucking pixelation
Like I said.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:40:59 No.46649024 Report

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>>46648084
Out of the 2D games, yeah. I don't know how you can argue these animations are better than gen 6-8's in any objective manner though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:41:51 No.46649032 Report

Quoted By: >>46649039

>>46648969
Yeah, Crystal and Gen 5 are definitely the best two in the series for sprites/animations.
>>46648982
based and cute
>>46648001
>>46648015
two of my all time faves right here

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:42:53 No.46649034 Report

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>>46648939
Gen 4 snorlax was based. Agree with the rest though.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:44:09 No.46649039 Report

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>>46649032
you shouldn't compare crystal's sprites to gen 5

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:44:53 No.46649043 Report

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>>46648953

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:44:56 No.46649044 Report

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>>46649004
Gee what is pixelart

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:45:55 No.46649047 Report

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>>46649043
Gen 2 pikachu is still the best.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:46:54 No.46649049 Report

Quoted By: >>46649146 >>46649192 >>46650389

>>46649044
>pixel art is an excuse for the spritework to be horribly made

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:49:26 No.46649060 Report

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>>46648982
>massive head
>tweening
>has the worst evolution progression of any starter

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:50:41 No.46649067 Report

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>>46648001
Gen 2 remake sprites were god-tier too.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:52:52 No.46649077 Report

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>>46649067
KEK

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:53:24 No.46649081 Report

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>>46649067

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 05:59:26 No.46649095 Report

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>>46649081
>some extra lore was added
Oh the horror

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:06:07 No.46649119 Report

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>>46649081
What's the big deal? The only real bad thing I see is the censoring of the gym pervs. I guess blocking the way to Kanto until you talked to Elm was annoying, but that was pretty minor. The Eusine and Suicune shit was added in Crystal, btw.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:11:21 No.46649146 Report

Quoted By: >>46649165

>>46649049
You're one of those people who cherry picks anime tween frames as 'proof' of bad animation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:11:24 No.46649147 Report

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>>46648984
>Everyone agrees
You forgot to yawn before making that claim.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:15:43 No.46649165 Report

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>>46649146
It is bad animation, because it's noticeable even when the sprite is moving. It looks bad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:22:05 No.46649192 Report

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>>46649049
>half pixels

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:33:25 No.46649234 Report

Quoted By: >>46650036

>>46648982
Gen 5 starters were just so fucking horrible

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:37:35 No.46649244 Report

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>>46649081
Off the top of my head the Eusine dialogue and Lance healing your Pokemon is in the originals. There is more hand-holding but it's funny the anon who made this is so low IQ he didn't dounle check against the originals

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 06:38:06 No.46649246 Report

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>>46648001
Because the GBC was the main handheld during sprite arts golden age. I mean they made a 3D Donkey Kong game, then ported the animations into 2D. I don’t like DK but Damnmmmn. That’s a flex. Making a 3D game and porting it in 2D by min maxing the memory of the cartridge with hacks. GBC and GBA will be sorely missed and never truly relived even with attempts at Pixel Art style games.

Rant over.
TL;DR Pokémon GBC sprites had absurdly good shading and highlights.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 09:50:40 No.46649928 Report

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Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 09:53:58 No.46649942 Report

Quoted By: >>46650375

>>46648939
Gen 4 Mewtwo looks so bad, looks like it was starved and is way too skinny

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:02:02 No.46649968 Report

Quoted By: >>46649980 >>46650005

>>46648001
Yellow and GSC have the best sprites in the series

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:04:25 No.46649980 Report

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>>46649968
>yellow
NO!!!!!

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:09:14 No.46650005 Report

Quoted By: >>46650375

>>46649968
>Yellow

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:16:36 No.46650034 Report

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>>46648939
Gen 3's sprites are still great. The GBA games not having nearly the atmosphere of Gen 2 is more likely why the pokes feel much less expressive.
But we also got XD's great animated 3D models as the tradeoff.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:17:05 No.46650036 Report

Quoted By: >>46650078 >>46650278

>>46649004
>>46649234
funny how boomers are so hypocrite to criticize other sprites for pixelation and dont realize their own suffer the same fate
>>46648001
>>46648015
>>46648115
>>46648939

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:20:23 No.46650048 Report

Quoted By: >>46650061

>>46649928
Why were the gen 3 johtomon sprites so horrible?

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:23:04 No.46650059 Report

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>>46649081
>implying gen 2 made any more sense with Ho-Oh
>this old guy gave you a gold feather? I guess that means I can let you in the tower now
The kimono girls testing if a trainer was pure of heart was a way better way of telling that story

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:23:07 No.46650061 Report

Quoted By: >>46650147

>>46650048
Because the johtomons were barely in the games and got the least attention

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:26:18 No.46650078 Report

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>>46650036
Gen 2 sprites make heavy use of dithering to imply color blending. Gen 5's sprites make no use of dithering because it doesn't work with the shitty flash tweening so you just have chunks of clashing color robotically moving around.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 10:43:20 No.46650147 Report

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>>46650061
That's for sure

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 11:16:11 No.46650278 Report

Quoted By: >>46650366

>>46650036
>rybitch's opinion

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 11:44:13 No.46650362 Report

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>>46648939
I prefer most of the top row ASIDE from Mewtwo and Ampharos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 11:46:36 No.46650366 Report

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>>46650278
Kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 11:48:22 No.46650375 Report

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>>46649942
It’s a genetic experiment gone wrong of a Pokemon based on a fetus. I think it actually looks fine.

>>46649980
>>46650005
In hindsight, maybe if them do. But when you’re a kid at the height of Pokemania, going from the RB sprites to ones that more accurately represent the Pokemon from the official art/anime — and in color — it blew your mind.

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 11:53:32 No.46650389 Report

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>>46649049
You're one of those dumbfucks who uses in-between frames as an excuse for an anime being poorly animated aren't you

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 11:54:31 No.46650391 Report

Quoted By:

>>46648001
scyther is better

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 12:14:58 No.46650477 Report

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>>46648939
I like how the old sprites took up as much space as possible, really made them look nice on the small screen

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 14:06:02 No.46651058 Report

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>>46648001
>Only 2 colors + Black and White
>Dynamic poses reflecting the pokemon's personality

That's the secret

Anonymous

Anonymous Tue 23 Mar 2021 14:21:24 No.46651163 Report

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>>46648939
I just noticed a lot of gen 2 sprites have consistent lighting, coming from (in this picture) the top left whereas later gens don't have any lighting the Pokémon is just bright.

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