Why aren’t later gens nearly as iconic as gen 1?
>>59028662because only Kanto can everyone agree upon is good and critics get called contrarians
>>59028662the world may never know
>>59028662Because gen 1 came first and nostalgiatards are coping. over 70% of this dex is steaming hot dogshit visually, mechanically, or both. And the games, well, RBYG were literally worse than a bethesda game, they were buggy unfinished trash where the type chart didn't even work right.>>59028670Right > Left and it's not even a contest. I say this as Gen 5's biggest hater. Scyther is a shit design and Scizor mogs.
>>59028662Because they weren't first. That's it
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>>59028662My man, the 90's just hit different.
>>59028662They tried to appeal more to girls later on
>>59028662I mean is this even a question? They've been around the longest. They started it all. Without them gens 2 and up wouldn't exist. Even people who don't give a shit about Pokemon probably still know about the gen 1 ones. That's literally it.
>>59028662Because Kanto mons were made for a video game.Later gens mons were made for plushies
>>59028662to me the Gen V dex is more iconic, guess which games I started with?
>>59028863Gen V is mostly just bootlegs of gen I.>Sawk/throh = Hitmons>roggenrolla line = geodude line>Woobat line = zubat line>Pidove line = pidgey line>Basculin = Magikarp>Seismitoad line = Poliwrath lineAnd so on and so forth.Mind you, that doesn't mean I (someone who played Blue version as my first game back in the 90s) think gen 1 is the best dex
>>59028875I'm well aware
>>59028863I don't think you know what iconic actually means. It's not a subjective value.
>>59028662I'd argue that gen 2 is still somewhat iconic with all the Pokémon we saw in the show and first three movies. Outside from that not so much. For example Togepi, Ho-oh, Lugia, Entei and Unown are pretty iconic.
>>59028880I guess you're right. What I meant was I don't ever really think about the Gen 1 dex.
>>59028875>Basculin = Magikarp>Seismitoad line = Poliwrath lineI'm convinced that the people who make retarded comparisons like this are false flagging unovatards
>>59028890Basculin is more just the generic fish than the mirror to Magikarp. Other one is true, though
>>59028905i'd rather see roggenrola than geodude for the 5th time d e s u
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>>59028905Holy illiteracy. Dumb brownskin.
>>59029003>no u>projection>still doesn't know how to greentextkwab
>>59029003>i'm whiter than you>so you're not whitehi rajesh
you can only be first once
>>59029043You see that a lot with ESLs on 4chan. It's like they think whiteness is a scale and not a you are or you aren't thing.
gen 1 is the first and is simply iconic because of thatif poliwag's line was introduced it would be shit on by /vp/ for being unimaginative and too simple. sandlash would be deemed edgy and lame because of the spines. and ninetails would not only have its name shit on, but be ridiculed for not being a better spin on japanese culture and mythology like ogrepon was
>>59028857excepting the 2nd duology's
>>59028863lol
>>59028662Gen 1 got first dibs on a lot of very common animals.Gen 2 and 3 also got a lot of first dibs as well.Gen 4 was weird since there were a lot of connections to previous Pokemon in the form of pre-evos and evos.Then came gen 5 and its soft reboot and a lot of new pokemon retread what we already had. Roggenrolla line replacing geodude, woobat line replacing zubat, purrloin/meowth, audino/chansey, timburr/machop, tympole/poliwag, etc etc etcAnd then beyond that we start having a backlog of 600+ pokemon designs and inevitably things start getting repetitive.I'm not saying every new gen is full of stinkers but when you go into gen 6 or 7 or 8 and we have fairly standard things like the regional rodent, the pikaclone, the regional bird, etc etc. The newer gens just feel a lot more standardized compared to the earlier gens. Following a standard isn't a good way of making something iconic.
>>59029731lol!
>>59029717>>59029731>>59030133are you okay
>>59029709Brendan’s design is so wacky. I’m not sure if I like it or not.
>>59029731>>59030133bodied that freak
>>59029731>Raichu in 11Finally getting the recognition it deserves.
>>59028662When gen 1 was designed they didn't know wtf a pokemon was so they basically just made them animals and dinosaurs. The didn't know if it was gonna work so they went all out and tried things.Now they make stupid jobmons because they have quotas to fill and differnt markets and demos to appeal to.
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>>59028682>Scyther is a shit designLol
>>59028662is this some sort of a gen 1 circlejerk generalrecently theres been these gen 1 circlejerk threads constantly been necrobumping on the catalogyou boomers really got nothing else to do
