5th Gen What happened to the old simple Pokemon?

[Pyrax]

Unless they come out with pokemon yellow, red, blue for ds. :D

We already have that.
It's called "playing FireRed & LeafGreen on the ds's GBA slot."
Unless you happen to only have a DSi of course.

 

[Jerme]

a lot of 4th gens werent so bad.

rampardos~rhydon
carnivine

 

[MistahDude]

Just get past your freaking nostalgia and enjoy the present.

 

[dieter57]

i never liked most of the first gen anyway. to many of them looked liked real animals.

 

[GreenLanturn]

Idk some of the fourth gen pokes acctually looked really good and didnt go to over the top, like Turtwig, Honchkrow and Buizel, But some like Infenape, Rypherior, Empoleon just seemed wayy to complicated and stupid. So far i dont have high hopes for the fifth gen, the legendaries just look plain dumb IMO. Although as some posters have said, they are trying to move foward in designs, which to a point they are doing, and everyu generation has had its good and its bad, it just seems like theyre pushing some designs a bit to far to me. I cant wait for more 3d and improved graphics though, they look great so far.

 

[PaxAmericana]

we should have some new simple looking pokemon

 

[bustin]

if rhyhorn came out this gen people would have said its too complicated/over designed get over nostalgia and just wait for more pokes to be released, the pika clone is as simple as you can get as is the new bird pokemon.

 

[RYOUKI]

Better get used to change, people.

Yeah, complaining wont help.

I like these new changes, I like the fact that they make every new generation different from the last one and that makes me look forward to playing it. For better or for worse.

 

[Storm_has_formed]

If anything they went back to basics with this Gen (minus the Legendaries). Meguroko is incredibly simple. Tentacruel is more complex than the chinchilla.

This sounds like a whiny nostalgia geared thread to me.

well call it a hunch, but i think it is :p

 

[Yuoaman]

I just wanted to say this: Gator with Shades > Everything else.

 

[Planetes.]

I just wanted to say this: Gator with Shades > Everything else.

here's another chart for reference



Tippity Top-Munna

(yaaay)
Tier 1-God (in heaven not Pokemon World)
Tier 2-All major legendaries
Tier 3- Pokabu's final evo, Minor Legendaries
Tier 4-Lucario, Snorlax, Charizard, Ampharos, Meguroko (the croc)
Tier 5-All other Pokemon

Also I noticed the Gen 1 Pokemon's names were very simple to understand.
Where the hell did names like Ralts and Bastiodon come from, I remember when you spelled a real animals name with one or two letters wrong: like seel and dewgong.

 

[Jerme]

I just wanted to say this: Gator with Shades > Everything else.

how about a turtle with guns?

 

[Planetes.]

Well...you're true. The 1st and 2nd generations were the best.
3rd generation is too decent, I think. But diamond and pearl are just other than the first 3 generations were. Some POKéMON of 4th gen are cool (Shinx,starly...) but another ones are just weird hybrid creatures :(.
I hope they will make better ones on 5th gen...

half the 3rd generation are eccentric tropical monsters.
4th gen sucked, but they tried thinking out the box
5th gen will have a newer art style mixed with that of old (munna was referenced in gen I)
At least we won't have any more Venus Fly Traps, Volcano Camels, or Pachycephalasauruses

 

[Arolu]

I think this new Generation will be like the old ones.
The Legendary's and Pokemon that we have seen aren't over complicated just slightly tweaked to give them a better appearance. If you think about it, some of the Pokemon that are slightly 'overdressed' would look terrible if they were simple.

 

[o0PinkSquid0o]

Well, basicly this thread is just a cry of irritation as once again it seems that the new Pokemon will be exaggerated with random objects and signs infiltrated in their being/body(whatever you call it). I have seen the new pokemon starters and legendarys and find them together with the 4th generation massivly exaggerated and too "fancy". The reason I like Pokemon, is mainly because of the 1st and 2nd generation who had simple pokemon with no "ultra"-shields and random trees on their back. There are of course some exceptions in the 4th generation, but they are rare. Pokemon is getting uglier every generation.

I don't think they're exaggerated... Munna is just a pink blob, nothing exaggerated there (even tho I hate Munna) Gear is just a gear, no exaggeration, the new bird looks as simple as pidgey did...
I don't really see what you mean to be honest.

I think people like to find things to pick on, I think Gen V is looking awesome, obviously not as good as Gen 1 and 2 did but they're up there. I see absolutely nothing wrong with them (besides Munna and gear)

 

[tomotaku]

i like the screenshots from black/white
h t t p : / / w w w . p o k e m o n e x p e r t e . d e / a r t i k e l / i m a g e s / b w _ s c r e e n s h o t _ 2 2 . p n g
its not that kitchy at all..
probalby ill like it
but yea..the good old times)
edit: OMFG, no url?
lame

 

[GreenLanturn]

After looking at some more i do have to say no matter how stupid the version mascots, that dumb otter thing, and that weird little munna thing look. Some of them look quite cool.

 

[Zeph.]

half the 3rd generation are eccentric tropical monsters.
4th gen sucked, but they tried thinking out the box
5th gen will have a newer art style mixed with that of old (munna was referenced in gen I)
At least we won't have any more Venus Fly Traps, Volcano Camels, or Pachycephalasauruses

:O ! But Camerupt and Crani/Rampardos are beastly! Carnivine is so-so, but at least it helped make grass types seem more nasty...

 

[Nikorasu]

The stupid is strong in this thread.
would see that instead of mindlessly jumping on the hate bandwagon.

I'm just wondering how the last part was ever a valid argument. Can anyone please explain?

Generation 1 There is a total of 5 Legengdarys, including Mew.
Generation 2 There are 6 New legendarys, Including Celebi
Generation 3 (emerald): You can catch 10 pokemon all together (I think) But these include older gens.
Generation 4: You can catch 18 POKEMON D: That is a joke, and only 6 of them are from other gens

12 new legenarys... WE DONT NEED THAT MANY you just get bored of collecting them O_O

 

[Sage Harpuia]

Well, basicly this thread is just a cry of irritation as once again it seems that the new Pokemon will be exaggerated with random objects and signs infiltrated in their being/body(whatever you call it). I have seen the new pokemon starters and legendarys and find them together with the 4th generation massivly exaggerated and too "fancy". The reason I like Pokemon, is mainly because of the 1st and 2nd generation who had simple pokemon with no "ultra"-shields and random trees on their back. There are of course some exceptions in the 4th generation, but they are rare. Pokemon is getting uglier every generation.

Again another complain on new generations.
I will probably repeat something still said, but complains like yours continuosly shows up so:
1: I have nothing against personal taste: if you like some pokemon and others don't is am matter of subjectivity; however, I can't accept statement like yours that marks blindly a generation just because it's not the original:
2: "random things on their back" I think you was talking abaut torterra but I suggest to look to venosaur:

LOL they are so similiar

However you could argue that bulbasaur has the flower from the beginning, so I present to you...blastoise: when my wartortle evolved, I was expecting a turtle with beautiful ...ehm...waves, instead I obtained...random cannons(on his back)! The same thing with dragonair.

Talking abaut complexity there are simple and complex pokemon in every gen: in the first I would point out nidoking, magmar, rhydhorn and clefable spikes, the stripes of electrabuzz, arcanine, ariados and the others such gyrados, kadabra, kangaskan, scizor, hundoom, tyranitar.
Also, too much simpliciy can be negative: diglet, magnemite, coffing evolve throught fusion, staryu and grimer becoming bigger.

So in conclusion in all the geneation there are simple and complex pokemon and all the players should look carefully at the new ones deciding what are his favourites and not marking all as uncreative from the beginning.

EDIT: on legendaries, I have too agree that there are too many of them and a lot of unnecessary... they could recycle some of them instead creating new ones: for example at the place of regigas they could have put kyogre, and to the place of heatran, groudon, and use the awesome fire/steel combo for the starters, at the place of blaziken typing.