Count me into this group xD

Ooh, I've a story related to this that I must share.
The other day, I was on Facebook, browsing as usual to see what was up with my friends. Well, one of them was mad that Guitar Hero was being shelved for the time being. She then posed the question of why they were still making Pokémon games, then commented how they "stop making digimon stuff when they realized it sucked." Which basically indirectly says that Pokémon sucks through her opinion. Being the type of Pokémon defender I am, I decided to whip out the facts on her. I reply that Black and White were the fastest selling DS games. She then sassed me on how she "knew a lot of people that are sick of the pokemon series cuz they suck." I almost gave up at that point. I tried a last ditch attempt in the form of this paragraph:

I'm with this, too. It's just annoying to see "OMG 151 IS TEH WIN!1!1" or "What? These pokemon look stupid. My 5-year-old cousin could do better!" almost everywhere.

The only statement I disagree with here is that the best names are Volcarona and Snivy. I'm not saying that they're bad, but I've seen better. And Nintendo of America might want to take the public's opinion sometimes. And, yeah, the pokemon nowadays don't really look like pokemon anymore, but kinda more like they're from Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest. But hey, I love those games. The monster style in those games are great, too. Just the best thing to do with these conservative haters is laugh at them and enjoy the game yourself.
Like a boss.

I know, right? I mean I don't see why they even bother to hate on pokemon if they don't like them. Why don't they just leave it alone? We don't need them, we obviously have enough fans. But, I guess since this beautiful world has blessed us with differences, everyone has a different opinion. But like Idno said, just laugh at them and their need to hate on a children's video game...(not saying it's bad for us to play it, though)

Hmm, people just don't get it anymore; I love Pokémon, I "EVOLVE" with the franchise (Really it's the only way to go)

I love Pokémon and all additions, nothing is going to change that and Game Freak makes these games for us (the true fans) as they know that we are willing and accepting for any and all new additions.

That being said, I don't have any respect for those that think that we should have kept with the original 151; Come on! Ho-Oh (Dex no. 250) was in the FIRST episode of the Animé, which did indicate that there would be new additions no matter what.

My typical counter-argument for these nuts is something I recall from (I think) Junichi Masuda's blog. There were over 500 designs drawn up before 151 of them were selected to be put into Pokémon Red and Green. Of the 350+ remaining designs, I'm sure we have seen them implemented in later games. Those who argue that the "original" designs should probably learn that there are most likely quite a few later 'mons that were in the original designs.

If I get these kinds of comments on my videos, I just ignore and delete them.

What I love is that people who complain about the new Pokemon have one of two arguments:

1. These new Pokemon are so unoriginal! They look exactly like the old ones!
2. These new Pokemon are too different! They look nothing like the old ones!

Personally, I think this Gen has some of the best Pokemon. My favorite is Gen 3, and I don't really like any of the Gen 1 Pokemon, but let's not get into that.

Before presenting any other argument against such ignorant people, I'd like some person or group to come up with original designs for around 700 unique Pokémon (counting the different formes). If these people have any sense, they would've immediately realized how difficult a job this is.

To quote the furred fox cat guy thingy;

I showed my friend some of the new pokemon and he said "It's terrible!" to every single one. Then I showed him how equally unoriginal the first 150 are and he ended up complimenting them all.

example:

I show him Tepig.

Friend: "Oh, come on! It's just a fire pig! It's terrible!"

I show him charmander

Me: "Oh come on! It's just a fire lizard! It's terrible!"

Friend: "What are you talking about? It's awesome!"

I show him Sigilyph.

Friend: "What the hell is that thing!? It looks like Forretress with an extra eyeball and little wings!

I show him Cloyster

Me: "What the hell is that thing!? It looks like Gastly with a bunch of spikes!

Friend: "What are you talking about? All those spikes look really cool!"

I know he's probably trolling, but the guy keeps dissing the new pokemon, going on and showing me all these webcomics on how the new ones suck.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...kesMeFeelAngry

Personally I find the whole "the English names suck" argument completely baseless as they always go back to the Japanese names.

You see the problem here is that the people saying this don't speak any Japanese (at least they may think they can, but they'd butcher the language if they tried) so the names don't make much sense to them, but it's Japanese, so it's cool right? Wrong - ask an actual Japanese speaker (I am not of this category, but I've heard this from them) and they'll tell you the Japanese names are as senseless and weird sounding as the English ones in Japanese. So in the end, this argument just flows from an over glorification of Asian culture from a group of people that understand nothing or very little about it.


As for the new art style I can't say I like it that much, seems really hit or miss with how the new ones turned out - some turned out great while others are a bit meh, every series has it's meh ones so it's understandable that some won't turn out so great. While there seems to more meh or just plain pointless subjects (icecream cones ftl) this time around that doesn't mean the entire series is bad. Often the "new ones suck" argument just stems from excessive nostalgia - nostalgia's great, just don't let it be the only basis for your argument.