Do you like the Gen 1 Pokemon sprites, /vp/? /vr/ is having

>>29700663
>nidoran

>>29700663
Yeah I like them,mostly because nostalgia tho.

>>29700663
>That poliwrath

Haunter is outstanding. Gotta be one of my favourite iterations of it.

>that thread

I guess not even /vr/ is safe from the cancer

>>29700663
Yeah, a lot of them have a lot more personality than later sprites and leagues more than most models. Nidoking, Haunter and Poliwhirl are good examples of this. Some of the derps are memorable enough. Don't get me wrong, I love the new games but you can tell that a lot of love went into these sprites.

>>29700663
I like them, but yeah I'm pretty sure it's sheer nostalgia for games from that era.

A lot of JRPGs then had hilariously funky spritework styles, like say Lufia I, DWM, and so on.

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>>29701490
Nah, poliwhirl is my favorite pokemon and that sprite is kinda ugly as it makes the eyes stick out of the head too much.

If you want personality the crystal sprites have it.

I perefer Yellow, because nostalgia.

>>29700663
Let's see how I feel about them now. Picking ones from nostalgia/really stands out.

Damn, that Blastoise looks extremely menacing. I only ever saw the backside.
Pidgeotto is plump as hell.
I still love that Pikachu sprite. Cute little fatass.
>that Golbat
Arcanine looks about as glorious as these sprites can get, in that it still looks goofy.
Seriously, what is going on with Geodude?
Fuck yeah Haunter. Looks great.
Fucking Exeggutor. Some of these sprites probably gave kids nightmares.


Yeah, I still like them. Would point and laugh at more of them than I would as a kid, though.

>>29701683
I like it because the body isn't perfectly round, the later sprites make it look like a ball with arms and legs. But that's just my opinion.

The backsprites is where the real shit is.

>>29700663
>Omastar is one of the few Pokémon I think is actually intimidating looking
>sprite is a tapdancing smug bastard
Not really sure how to feel tbqh.

>>29701785
Charmeleon.
>>29701818
Omanyte looks pissed, glad it lightens up when it evolves.

>>29701785
The backsprites always bothered me, even as a kid.

>>29700663
I don't like all of them but it's weird to me that kids were disappointed by that Blastoise sprite. It's very nicely imposing.

Kakuna was cool af

>>29700663
Pinsir's eyes are really beady

>>29701844
It's about as imposing as a blimp.

>>29701904
Blimps are pretty imposing, man

I'm not gonna lie a lot of these are horrifying especially the backsprites... brrr

>>29701923
Some of these look so... Bad.

Also wtf Bellossom and Medicham

>>29701987
no they're all good, since they look more monsterous like gen 1 did, not just cuddle pets

>>29702018
>more monstruous
>when 90% of them just look lobotomized

>>29702018
Even Shroomish?

>>29702044
it makes gen 2-6 much more gen 1 friendly

>>29702060
so much better then his debut

I always loved the 'raise the roof' grimer

>>29701987
They're supposed to look shit like in gen 1.

>Ivysaur is bipedal
Well well well lookie here boys

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>>29702018
>Palkia
>Sawk
>Zorua
>Shroomish
>good

>>29701923
>that furret
>that bellossom
>that fucking skiploom
>that fucking STEELIX
>THE FUCKING QWILFISH
>THAT VIGOROTH
>THAT SLAKING
>THAT FUCKING MEDITITE AND MEDICHAM
>THAT WISHCAST
>THAT CHIMCHAR
>THE FUCK THAT HUNTAIL
>THAT FUCKING CARNIVINE

>>29702124
no pokedex says ivysaur can't be bipedal and the pokedex is canon

>>29701923
>swoobat
My god.

>>29700663
The best part it's most of them doesn't even fit their concept artwork, it's like Sugimori drawn them after seeing those sprites. Look at this Gastly and this Dratini. Articuno and Moltres too.

Nidoking an Nidoqueen looks pretty good.
I really like this Arcanine.
WTF is with Machop line? The same goes with Geodude line.
I forgot about that giant Exeggcute.
One of my favorites is Mewtwo. He looks like the monster he is.

>>29702146
THAT
FUCKING
RAIKOU

>>29701756
To be fair poliwhirl is a ball with arms and legs, the more cartoony details like the gloves and swirl make it so memorable. At least that's why I feel poliwhirl is a great design.

I get GF was still designing the pokemon aa they made the sprites so I getvthe quality and I suppose the amateur like look does give them some character but even then ones like machop line, golem, and pinsir who doesn't even have the correct eyes are down right terrible.

>>29702140
Palkia was never good to begin with.

>>29701923
Ducklette you OK buddy?

rg sprites > rb sprites with some exceptions

>>29700663
A lot of them are surprisingly neat in quality and artistic direction, like the refinement of nidoking or the interesting perspectives used for cloyster and dugtrio. These are sadly outnumbered by the literal hundreds of god awful shitstains

>>29702200
He did.
They said so in an interview, gens I and II were done first as pixel art.
Gens III-VI first ilustration then sprite/model.
Gen VII concept -> model -> Art

>>29701923
SLUGMA!? MARCARGO!? LUGIA!? POLITOED!? CROBAT!? JESUS TYPHLOSION

>>29700663
>Sees Chansey sprite
RAAAAAAAAAAGGGGGGEEE!
>then
Oh yeah, just fly to Cinibar.

>>29702267
What's interesting is that in the the japanese release of gold and silver you can see details later removed on pokemon. In the international releases they were edited to appear as the official artwork depicts them.

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>>29701923
>Whirlepede
>Huntail
>Lopunny
>Female Jelliscent
>TF IS THAT SHIT BETWEEN GENESECT AND CHESPIN

>>29702267
This makes a lot of sense now.

>>29702300
Early froakie?

>>29700663
pokemon gen 1 best bro

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>>29702300
Come on. It's a Tentaquil.

>>29702267
I've actually heard that rendering a character in game before doing official art is/was common for Japanese game developers, not just GameFreak

Their primary objective was to see if it can fit to the limitations of the hardware, and draw art based on it afterwards

I think this is true as of the PS2 era tho

>>29700663
Yellow sprites are top tier

>>29700663
They look like shit.

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>>29702300
>Being this new.
Let me learn you a thing.

>>29702391
Of course, the beloved Pokemon, Tentaquil. How could I be so retarded?

>>29702421
It's fine, just don't make this mistake again.

>>29702267
But the sprites in the OP are from RBY, when the designs had been finalized and the sprites redone, but they still looked off-model.

Some of them, like Blastoise, look better in Red/Green than they do in Blue.

>>29702300
Anon, it's Tentaquil. Gamefreak put its data in the gen 5 games but never actually released it for whatever reason.

>>29701923
That steelix oh sheeeeeeeit.

>>29702267
I guess that's why in Gold and Silver, Raikou didn't have its faceplate.