there is a ghost
>>732294905a ghost with titstitty ghost...
GB
>ok, here is the plan for our sequel>we're going to add 100 new pokemon>but here's the catch, get this:>90% of them are straight up useless
>>732297208>But sir, some of these Pokemon are more viable than Paras>Take them and move them to kanto
>>732297208>We're going to hide all of them in very weird locations so nobody finds them.>This would be a such an issue that even get 2 players will mistake certain pokemon like Slugma and Skarmory for Gen III mon.GF was not confident in introducing new mons because they were afraid children would reject them.It was drilled into our heads in American marketing there were 150 with the super special secret 151st being mew. I imagine japan wasn't much different
>>732297208>only two 3 stage evolution lines>one of which is the pseudo legendary that you don't access to until the postgamebrutal
>>>/vp/pokemon ≠ videogames
>>732297703I thought the idea was that the new Pokemon were largely undiscovered until now, and that's why so many of them were so hard to come by. it was their first time making a follow-up to an already established setting, so I kinda get what they were going for, but it ended up being easier in the long run to just have each new region's new mons be common enough and say "Nobody in previous games ever acknowledged these mons' existence because I dunno" and fans clearly prefer it that way anyway.
>>732297208GS's development was a fucking mess. They promoted Ho-oh as soon as 1997 summer in Japan, but the games were in dev hell for the next 2 years. They cut so many Pokemon.https://tcrf.net/Proto:Pok%C3%A9mon_Gold_and_Silver/Spaceworld_1997_Demo/Pok%C3%A9monSome of the planned gen 1 evolutions would have been really cool.
>>732297208Most of these saw comp use at some point in their lives. Nothing is truly useless in easymode sp except shit like unown
>>732299363Can't believe they cut the other ghost types leaving Misdreavous (who sucks and needed an evolution) as the only new ghost pokemon of gen 2. GameFreak has always been run by fucking idiots
>>732299253That would make some sense since the Anime low key implied that Pokemon and animals are different, but I think that sort footing issue was more on the anime than the games and they definitely wouldn't limit themselves on the notion that in order to release new mons they had to drip feed to imply it was a discovery thing, especially considering that Kanto wasn't ever implied to be "the world".
>>732299363damn that was awful
Misdreavus: BratMismagius: Trickster but not really a brat anymoreFlutter Mane: ULTRA brat
>>732301534Mismagius is a WOMAN
>>732302082all ghosts are
im scared
>>732301534Why is it so smug
>>732305032you can't touch her
>>732305032winning 2 out of 3 world championships does that to a ghost
>>732305032She can outspeed and one shot your legendary and she knows it
>>732301534Bring in Trapinch, she's way too smug
>>732301534
How gussy taste
>>732294905In my home?
>>732307496
>>732307717In your bladder
>>732302082She is wife material
>>732297208I like Totodile, Furret, Crobat, Xatu, Ampheros, Marill, Politoed, Quagsire, Espeon, Umbreon, Murkrow, Misdrevus, Wobbouffet, Gligar, Steelix, Scizor, Heracross, Ursaring, Skarmory, Houndoom, Kingdra, Donphan, Porgon 2, Hitmontop, Suicune, Tyranitar, Lugia, and Celebi. A lot more than I tend to like in later gens. And as Agatha said, you should try to win with your favorites.
>>732297208>90% of them are straight up uselessOkay, but Gen 1 was literally just as bad in that regard.
>>732308115yeahmy wife
>>732308914The difference is Gen 1 was primarily designed to be a single player experience. It wasn't until Gen 2 that they started taking balance more seriously, introducing things like hazards and phasing that only made sense in multiplayer, nerfing the shit out of the psychic type (and buffing the fighting type), introducing held items to add an extra dimension to battles, etcAnd yet despite all this gen 2 still shit out an almost completely worthless dex
