Actually Vanillite isn't really ice cream, it's more of ice. I suppose the white thing covering Vanillite is actually snow, since it can make ice crystals and make it snow yada yada. If the covering is somehow melted, you'll notice how different from an ice cream Vanillite is.
They are unique maybe, but they are definitely uninspired. I dont know if you're an artist but as one you should understand what people mean when they say that. Uninspired in the sense that they don't have inspiration obviously, and just take a ummm shampoo bottle and make a Pokémon out of it, for instance.
And they are haha, and that's not a surprise because there are already over 600, there's just a limit. There are not many options left really, that are original.
...Feraligatr and Nidoking are considered "complicated"?If I may, I'd like to share this picture.
And yes, I am one too. The thing is though that there is already a pollution/sewer/goo/whatever Pokémon which are Muk and Weezing, that concept was used already. I'm not saying the concept is a bad one (however they took 'trash' way too literally for my taste with Garbodor), I actually like it a lot, but since it's very specific, it shouldn't be used more than twice, or thrice at most, but they are just recycling old ideas now (for the worse) because they are uninspired.
I suppose that's a fair point, but if you view 'they' as 'everyone Game Freak has employed/is employing' then you can argue from that that they aren't running out of ideas. Not too surprising a few people might be low but well, that's what the money they get is for in part - getting other people to do more thinking. (And one often wonders about the claim that there have been 1000 Pokemon designed ages ago and some of those still being released every new gen).
Each to their own, but I didn't feel that technology is too specific a theme so Gear did not bother me or come off as a already-done concept. There are a heck of a lot of devices that could imo offer something different to those already established, and design wise I have to say Gear looks quite different to Electrode (a Pokeball) and Magneton (magnets, not gears). I would go as far as to say that it could be argued as a category rather than just a concept; although certainly not quite as broad as plants/animals currently offer, broad enough in my books.
What I'm saying is there isn't really much complicated (design-wise, that is) Pokemon in the first two generations. Reason being, there are still a lot of stuff--mostly living beings--to base Pokemon from. I suppose 649 isn't still enough to cover every animal on earth, but I believe it is enough to cover most of the common ones.
It's not exactly a good thing if Pokémon start to look like something else, no lol. However good that thing may be in itself.
I can scribble a bunch of lines on a sheet of paper and it will be difficult for somebody to emulate, but that doesn't make it complicated. I believe that complication comes from the amount of features on a Pokemon and even things such as their behavior and what they're derived from.
Yeah, people don't seem to notice that Game Freak's just keeping up with the times. No kid wants simple krabs and fish anymore. They want cool monsters with lots of exotic features and colors and cute ones with large manga-esque eyes.
You clearly don't really seem to get the artistic aspect of it. Like I said, try to draw one without a reference and you'll see what I mean when you notice you actually don't even know how to draw Gyarados' face or Nidoking's arms, without looking it up before. It doesn't matter if they are anatomically correct even, it's about getting all the lines and details right, there are many and that's what makes it complicated (that is not necessarily a bad or good thing btw). I don't see how a Pokémon's behaviour has anything to do with it's design, from an artistic standpoint??
