(01-16-2013, 12:05 PM)NICKtendo DS Wrote: You'll only see flaws you want to see.
There'll always be Pokémon you like and Pokémon you hate.
Deal with it.

You see, I don't like how Xerneas looks. That's me. There'll be people that like Xerneas. That's good. Pokémon is for everyone.
But here's an idea. Why don't I just pick Pokémon Y instead of X. Yveltal looks cool. But even if he wouldn't, I still have over 700 other Pokémon to choose from.
So stop arguing about designs. It's pointless. We have over 700 Pokémon now, so did you really expect all of them to be "good", let alone meet your standards? If you tell me all first 151 designs were good, you are a big, fat liar.

Pardon me for my rudeness, but it had to be said.

(01-15-2013, 11:28 PM)alvin and shrek in: chipshrekd Wrote:

(01-15-2013, 10:26 PM)Sevenstitch Wrote: I agree

(01-15-2013, 10:13 PM)Mighty Jetaku Wrote: "I just want to say Pachirisu seriously looks like a blue, squirrel version of Pikachu."

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just sayin'

This highlights my problem with Pachirisu. Pikachu has reasonably sized limbs; I can picture it running. Pachirisu cannot possibly propel itself along the ground unless it slowly waddles on its hind legs or it drags its massive head along the ground.

(01-16-2013, 02:49 PM)RokuGurin Wrote: Spheal with it.

(01-16-2013, 02:49 PM)RokuGurin Wrote: Kriven, hush.

If you hate that Game Freak is trying to be creative with their designs, then keep your nostalgia goggles on and go fawn over generation 1. Your whining won't change anything; Game Freak is going to keep on doing what they do. Don't like Pachirisu because of its spiked tail? Don't like Seviper because of the shapes on its body? Too bad, so sad. Spheal with it.

Frankly, I like the additional details they have for Pokemon. It makes most of them stand out. I mean they're supposed to be monsters! So why not go all out with creating them? Even animals in real life have crazy designs on them. Nobody bitches about that!

(01-16-2013, 10:12 PM)Tellis Wrote: there's people who don't think Tropius is rad as hell.

(01-16-2013, 10:12 PM)Tellis Wrote: It's not that you can't have opinions, it's just you keep claiming parts of your opinions as objective fact when Gen 1 has been shown to suffer from the same problems as the later ones, as well as later Gens also carrying many of the strengths that Gen 1 had.

If you were to chalk it up to the fact that preference over Pokemon designs is an almost entirely subjective matter, instead of relying on arguments that simply don't hold up on their own, then I think we'd be a bit more okay here. I, for example, disagree greatly with people who think Gen III had crappy designs but I can see why they'd prefer other designs, and I can accept that there's people who don't think Tropius is rad as hell.

Admittedly, RokuGurin didn't exactly handle that as gracefully as he/she could have, but no one's attacking you for your opinions. They just disagree and feel that the way you're defending them is a bit... misguided.

(01-16-2013, 11:00 PM)Kriven Wrote: I also think it's interesting that I'm being called out for expressing myself as being "objective" when a number of other posters have argued "creativity" as an objective point. Which it really isn't and never will be.

(01-16-2013, 04:16 PM)Baegal Wrote: I think I liked Gen V because they started to use pure gray again rather than lots of hueshifting, but maybe I'm the only one? Any thoughts?

(01-17-2013, 12:11 AM)Tonberry2k Wrote: Starting in gen 3 the designs started getting a little more complicated, but I think that has to do more with the fact that the games could now display more color, allowing for more intricate designs. It's just how it happens. It's like comparing Mario's design to, say, Bayonetta's. Mario is simple because he's a product of the limitations. Bayonetta gets to be way more detailed because she was designed when the hardware could handle... more.