I only see a problem with a few of those. Certainly nothing close to the Jynx or Mr. Mime level.
lord-of-shadow Send a noteboard - 14/05/2010 03:42:06 AM
Geodude being a rock does not at all excuse it from being a bad design 
I suppose I should differentiate between the two things we're talking about: bad design, and whether it is a design based off of an animal. I'd argue that the quality of the average Pokemon design has stayed roughly the same. At the same time, the designs have been moving further away from animals - which is a bad thing, and usually the bad design outliers correspond to the ones that don't resemble animals.
Legendaries: they've been on a steady downhill decline since the first games. No question.
Most of the ones you listed though? They're not so bad. Not any worse than generation 1 designs, at least.
Out of the list you just gave, only Ampharos, Smoochum, Porygon2, and Magby deserve to be singled out as bad ones. Aside from the legendaries, which do indeed suck and continue to suck more with each generation. And look! Three of those four are additional evolutions to generation 1 pokemon, and inherit all of their problems from their generation 1 counterparts.
I suppose I should differentiate between the two things we're talking about: bad design, and whether it is a design based off of an animal. I'd argue that the quality of the average Pokemon design has stayed roughly the same. At the same time, the designs have been moving further away from animals - which is a bad thing, and usually the bad design outliers correspond to the ones that don't resemble animals.
Legendaries: they've been on a steady downhill decline since the first games. No question.
Most of the ones you listed though? They're not so bad. Not any worse than generation 1 designs, at least.
Out of the list you just gave, only Ampharos, Smoochum, Porygon2, and Magby deserve to be singled out as bad ones. Aside from the legendaries, which do indeed suck and continue to suck more with each generation. And look! Three of those four are additional evolutions to generation 1 pokemon, and inherit all of their problems from their generation 1 counterparts.
This message last edited by lord-of-shadow on 14/05/2010 at 03:53:14 AM
New Pokemon starters (if anyone cares)
- 13/05/2010 02:40:34 AM
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Whatever happened to Pokemon with clear animal cognates?
- 13/05/2010 04:51:01 AM
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I'd say after gold/silver. Not counting the legendaries ofcourse. *NM*
- 13/05/2010 09:00:46 AM
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The water is supposed to be an otter... and I would assume its name will somehow be a pun on "clown"
- 13/05/2010 12:50:53 PM
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And why must all pokemon have a corresponding animal/plant? *NM*
- 14/05/2010 01:56:38 AM
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Because otherwise they look like crappy plastic toys from Wal-Mart. *NM*
- 14/05/2010 03:59:44 AM
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I'm not one of those cynics that hates all new pokemon - that's pure nostalgia speaking
- 13/05/2010 04:56:46 PM
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That's great. You've named 10 out of 150.
- 14/05/2010 12:20:24 AM
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I only see a problem with a few of those. Certainly nothing close to the Jynx or Mr. Mime level.
- 14/05/2010 03:42:06 AM
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Well, not exactly.
- 14/05/2010 05:41:17 PM
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