If Generation 1 was Generation 5,what would people say?


*Voltorb revealed*

"WTF is this? It is just a Pokeball! Nintendo is running out of ideas!!!I am quitting Pokemon!"

*Electrode revealed*

"...what?!?! It is just a bigger Voltorb! Very original Game Freak,very original..."

*Magnemite revealed*

"It's just a Magnemite which floats...wtf! Gear was sooooooooooo much better than this!"

*Geodude revealed*

"...it's a rock with hands...awesome Game Freak awesome...thanks for ruining Pokemon.I miss the days of Smugleaf..."

*Zubat revealed*

"It's just a blue bat! Very original..."

*Grimer revealed*

"Dude it's a bunch of sludge with a face!"

*Muk revealed*

"Wtf they just made a bigger Grimer! I quit Pokemon **** you guys!

Discuss.

*Pikachu Revealed*

"Great, another Pachirisu rip-off."

*Tangela revealed*

"Oh look,now they are ripping off McDonald's characters.GameFreak is losing it..."

*Nidoran revealed*

"WTF? Poison Bunnies? ROFL at GF's attempt to make more Pokemon by making male and female Nidoran different."

*Gastly revealed*

"LOL it looks like a poison of **** that's giving off poison vapors.I'm so witty and outrageous"

*Pidgey revealed*

" 'Pidegey' as in 'Pigeon'? 1st generation did way better with Mamepato.WAY better.This stupid bird doesn't even look like a ****ing pigeon!"

*Mew revealed*

"WTF It's just a floating cat!"

*Jigglypuff revealed*

"It's just another Munna..."

Don't forget their reactions to Gen. 5 Pokémon in 1995!
*Giaru revealed*
Oh look, a gear Pokémon! It's soooo original and cool!

I must say that I agree with this. Yoshi and I were discussing this more in depth and I actually came up with an idea to make a skit about this and put onto YouTube. It would go something like me playing Black on an old Game Boy as if it was 1998. Unfortunately, this could prove to be a big challenge for several reasons:
1) Almost no music to work with
2) Almost no Pokémon to work with
3) No cards to work with (except printing some fakes I see online)
4) No figures or anything similar to work with

It might be a few months before I/we start, but the idea is to tell people to take off their nostalgia goggles.

Also, topic moved to Older Pokémon Fans.

*Charmander and its evolutions revealed*
Great, another uber Fire starter. Like we needed it with Infernape and Typhlosion and Blaziken and Giant Fire Pig.

"Giant Fire Pig"? Don't you mean Boaruption?

Every generation has Pokémon that aren't really that original, including the earlier ones as much as the later ones. I think when people were newer to the franchise, they were eager to look for Pokémon in general, without a whole lot of concern for what they look like. In later generations, people get more cynical and begin to look strictly at the designs, focusing more on what is done wrong than on what is done right. People looking at this generation as the beginnings of Pokémon would see plenty of originality in what is present, simply because there aren't past Pokémon to compare it to as a 'derivative' or a 'clone' design.

I agree with this whole heartedly.

This thread portrays a 100% true fact. And GreenLiquid explains it further quite well.

Okay if gen.1 and gen.5 changed places who would be the talking Pokemon for team rocket.

This point has been brought up before by the artist purplekecleon. Here's the picture; WARNING: A tiny bit of cussing, though we should all be old enough in this thread. Sorry that it's so big.

I hate when this happens. They start talking as experts and then, they buy the games. :\

I can't begin to describe in words the amount of awesome that is this thread.

Honestly though. It's the same thing every generation. There are always going to be Pokemon designs that you don't love, but there are going to be enough for you to go through the game with. Don't complain so much about the game and buy it on release date and end up loving it. If worst comes to worst, just use Pokemon from past generations and enjoy the new attacks, animations, and KO'ing these new monsters that you so hate.

Well, if Gen 5 were the 1st generation, then Pikachu wouldn't be the mascot, and what about Eevees evolutions, and all other evolutions and pre-evolutions that were introduced in the later generations........

Wait! Umbreon, leafeon, Espeon, and glaceon have a pre-evolution? and it evolves three new different ways?!?

Great, now Ash and Chiramii have this new electric mouse thing called Pikachu? Lame!

And what happened to those 30 Hihidaruma that he caught forever ago...

Pichu Evolves!!!!!!!!!???????!!!!!!!

Pink blob, eh? and It transforms? ...

Well, those were some ideas.

-Pichu

What you're saying is you're tired of hearing people complain about the newer Pokémon, right?

That would be VERY odd! The Anime would certainly have different characters and Pikachu would not be as popular and Team rocket wouldn't either. It would make me sad but that's just my opinion.

*ditto revealed*

Great, a Zorua clone. -_-

*machop revealed"

WHAT THE FU**, LUCARIO WAS MUCH COOLER!

Also, wouldn't the names be getting unoriginal if they were switched?

Piplup- "That's a nice, original name!!!" (Unless I don't know something about that name.)

Squirtle- "A squirting turtle. Nice job Game Freak."

All I know is that Charizard would still be one of those "great, I've been waiting for something like this for a long time!" pokemon for me, just like Reshiram's typing currently is for me.

Zoura would be Ash's first (and face of) pokemon.

@Charizard FINALLY, A STARTER THAT ISNT FIRE/FIGHTING

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What the hell is this? A Pokémon that was genetically constructed from the Legendary Event Pokémon? :l

Great. This is just Deoxys in reverse. Thanks Gamefreak. >.<

* Poliwag evos revealed
"WTF they look exactly the same!"

Pigeot is just a bigger Pigeotto! ****ing Nintendo!

*Voltorb revealed*
Oh crud. Tamegatake has been COMPLETELY stolen.

*Zubat revealed*
I'm soooooooooooooo not using the Koromori replacement!

*Larvitar revealed*
What the- it's another Kibago!

*Geodude revealed*
Dangoro was sooooo much better than this! What has Nintendo come to...

Whoa.. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY NEW POKEMON?! Thats it, Nintendo is officially milking the franchise...

It would be wierd to see all the originals be last, that's for sure.

This thread is very true, though I think it is a bit exaggerated. The way I look at it isn't that the new designs are too lame, and think they're too... un-lame, for lack of a better word. They've got lots of features both physically and in terms of their abilities that you just don't see on the older Pokémon. The simplicity is what I like, quite honestly. Though I must admit, there are some Pokémon that, had they been released in Gen. I or II, I would like a lot more. I can't say I'm unbiased, and I see and agree with the point of this thread, but I can't say that, at least in my case, it's completely true.

If Gen 5 and Gen 1 were switched, what would happen to Pokemon Snap?

I don't think people would ragequit Pokemon due to lack of originality, if that were the case, a lot of people would've stopped playing at Diamond/Pearl.

I miss when there were more legendary Pokemon. Now we only get two.

WOW! now Umbreon has a pre evolution! This is awesome! And I love the style of these new Pokemon! The realistic style drawing is amazing! And it's telling us the story of red and how he became champion! And it's about time the rival became champion! The music is awesome too! not the best in all areas but it's still great! I can't believe those nastalgic losers who still haven't gotten past gen 1! Although this is going to create more nastalgic loser hipocrits that say that nasalgia can't work both ways...

Many thanks to Koolboyman for doing a lot of work with me on this:

Pretty good work, wished there was more but then you guys be making something similar to a game that's already officially released on the DS systems.