When did Pokemon designs go to shit?

>head twice as big as the body
even the remake in the middle suffers from it

gen 3 was the last good gen though ( I like gen 4 too but god damn it so slow)

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Gen 3 is when the modern design style started to sprout though

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fuck you I like skitty

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still looks like a modern pokemon though
Torchic is weird because it has the proportions of one but at least it still has claws instead of weirdly round toes. This is definitely the missing link

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gen 3, then again in gen 6, then again in gen 8

5 and 7 were pretty good design-wise, though.

Based. Gen 2 still had the charm of Gen 1.

But user, pokemon ruby and sapphire came out in 2002

the character designs got a lot better though.

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neo-krabby is cute, but every new pokemon redesigned to look old is crazy fantastic. Welp.
Neo-Vulpix looks especially bad.

yep! Hilda a CUTE

exactly, most zoomers posting on Yea Forums right now were born around that time
it's the zoomer curse

how about fuck you to all these drawings and only have 2.5d sprites instead

FUCK 3D AND FUCK ART

Gen 3. Gens 1 and 2 had to be readable and instantly recognizable on extremely low-res screens which couldn't even display color. That meant designers had to keep their designs extremely simple--a single pixel could make a difference. So we got simple, appealing designs which didn't have stupid unnecessary details.

Gen 3 still had some decent designs, but that's when the unnecessary detail started creeping in.

Zoomer here, born in 98, first gen was gen 3, favorite gen was gen 4. HeartGold a best.

the detail is the least of the modern design problems

As I said, gen 3 babies ruined everything forever. it's called generation Z because it will be the last one.

Both a CUTE!

kek, the ability of boomers to be mad at the mere existence of my generation will never cease to make me laugh

That is not a white nose.

Fair, but I claim Hilda.
oh no NO NO

But she is a pig lover!

soul vs soulless

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First and second generations were earnest.
From the third generation onward it became a product.

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>newfags can't do this

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>472450884
>there are retards born in 1998 posting on Yea Forums now
newfags were a mistake

gen IV legendaries.
gen 5 else

x/y had a good dex tbqh

gen 1. they didn't start to get good until gen 3.

>Gens 1 and 2 had to be readable and instantly recognizable on extremely low-res screens
...and they looked horrible. many of the sprites weren't even accurate to the real designs.
>That meant designers had to keep their designs extremely simple
and yet genwunners screech that the newer pokemon are too simple. can't have it both ways.

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When they wanted to make more toys and be lazy with the 3D modeling.

had to fix the humpback you gave that poor boy

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where did they teeth go?

letting gaijin be the art director for pokemon was a mistake

That's a jews from southern israel.

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I guess it comes down to actually having soul.

Mew looks horrible, but most of the others look fine.

so in other words, it comes down to a buzzword because you have no real arguments?

>new Krabby
kek

That Krabby and Pidgey look cute as fuck.

I think 3 is still great, but it was definitely the beginning of the end

You're*

From gen 3 onwards when they started designing them with merchandising in mind.

>chameleon
>with four large visible canines
That just looks retarded.

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gen 4 was great
fuck contrarians

Why would a chameleon be a water type? It's clearly a newt.

>calartsing your unique high quality designs

reminds me of that time an r9k fag got cucked by his own father

Pokemon art direction have changed since gen 3 because most of money come from merchandising now. It's the actual appeal of Pokemon franchise, even if main games look like bad games it won't matter to people in head of pokemon.
Plush of Grookey and Scorbunny from E3 video are pretty cute, I really want to get them to be honest

He's british and Galar is based on Britain, take a guess. He's one who designed Golett and Poipole lines so to me he's pretty based.

Everything past 151

>t. genwunner

>He's one who designed Golett and Poipole lines so to me he's pretty based.
same here. it's a real shame that the one game where he's in charge of art direction is the one subject to all sorts of scrutiny and stigma way out of his control. get your shit together gamefreak

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>coiled tail
>two-toed feet
>can turn invisible
>>>not a chameleon
you're only pretending to be retarded right

Easier to make merch of the Calarts abominations than detailed, old designs/ Not to mention the new Calarts style abominations are just pure lowest common denominator. Absolutely safe, and free of all aggressive characteristic, as soullessly cute as possible to appeal to the modern hyper feminized world. Pokemon games aren't a drop in the bucket for Nintendo, they make all their money from the merch, only Game Freak cares about the game sales.

Since day one.

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