>90's art Unique and refreshing. >Today's art

What are some things from Gen 1 and 2 that are still your favourites in the whole series? Anything.

Mine is the Kanto gym leader theme; I still don't think any gym leader themes have topped that.

>unique and refreshing

Toriyama rip-off style with water colors?

>>32089271
Sauce please.

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>unique and refreshing
That's debatable. Still, I agree, I definitely prefer the old style to the new.

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>>32089300

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>Toriyama rip-off style with water colors?

Besides the face, they're different in their own right.
PKMN's is a bit more angular and less detailed.

>>32089298
http://rule34.paheal.net/post/view/1724946

>>32089321
karen has downs

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>>32089483
Remember when they tried to make Red/Misty a thing?

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>>32089296
I enjoy it

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>>32089525

>>32089508
What are those fingers?

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>>32089557
one single finger melded into the shape of a hand

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Ken used to draw what characters do in their spare time.
Why doesn't he do that anymore? ._.

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>>32089578
I miss it too my man, pic related

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>>32089590
>Silver
>Houndoom

>>32089578
I think that he still does that on his Twitter

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>>32089578

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>>32089602
fuck that was the wrong image

Yeah I sure love Toriyama-wannabe art.

>>32089614
Still good picture anyways

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>>32089614
Anyone have more Gamefreak webpage images? They're some of my favorites of classic Sugimori.

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>>32089658
I miss seeing non-anorexic chu in official art.

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>The classic

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Yeah, the old art style made the protags look like kids, which they're SUPPOSED TO BE.
The new art makes them look 21 to be honest.

>>32089271

>Unique

It was almost an exact copy of Akira Toriyama's artstyle

>>32089726
More like the other way around. Those girls used to have rather big breasts. Now we've got characters like Lillie and Chicken who are practically flat.

>>32089366
Pokemon was worked on during 90 and 96, when DBZ was airing in Japan.

>>32089726
This picture really makes Pokémon just look like glorified cock fighting.

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Okay, but does anyone have the full pic in the OP?

>>32089881
See >>32089398

>>32089881
You'll get the hang of reading soon, champ.

>>32089271
to be honest that art style disgusts me

>>32089468
that caterpie is me after I see a shota

>>32089910
T. Ohmori

>>32089950

Skinnychu is better

>>32089965
I get it you like the new artsyle more than the old. No need to jerk yourself off over having an opinion. But go ahead.

>>32089950
stop bodyshaming pikachu

>>32089933
Damn that's nostalgic. I remember practicing drawing him so much that I drew him onto a Valentine's Day card for my parents in second grade. Good times.

>>32089848
Is that not exactly what it is, though?

>>32089271
>>32089300
>>32089321
The fucking angry eyes, everybody looks like an asshole, i love it

>>32090047
Gamefreak should be ashamed they allowed all the charm oldchu had to be dissolved by artstyle changes.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nQRuirRjTbM

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we /nostalgia/ now?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkkSRZxO9BQ

>>32089271
>today's kids will never know how popular Pokémon once was
>will never see Pokémon in the movie theater and get a free card
>will never get BK happy meal toys
>will never use a link cable to trade
>will never have in-game legendary events
>will never know when having legendaries was meaningful
>will never know about holo Charizard
>will never get another GSC-caliber sequel
>Mew/truck etc. urban myths will never happen again because now we're all smart enough to use the Internet

pic related

>>32090230
All that money wasted on double a batteries

>>32090240
Did the artstyle chang at all between bw and sm?

>>32090240
The only instances of Sugi art for Gen 5 was the MCs and N in BW1 if I recall, there might've been one or two others like maybe Juniper, but the majority of human art including just about all the offenders for Chespin Teeth in it was Ohmura

>>32090240
I think the style in that last one wasn't used until XY. In BW and B2W2 it seem more like a modified version of the bottom left one.

>>32090230
>>will never see Pokémon in the movie theater and get a free card

my local theater started with anime specials somewhere in 2015/16. like every two weeks or so something. one piece movie, some yugioh movie, first three one punch man episodes and stuff like that

pokemon go hype came
but no pokemon... entei is still the last with a theatrical release here

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>>32089578
Red's hair looks awesome here. Why is Old Red usually depicted with that bitchass Ash haircut?

>>32089300
why is rival-kun so yellow?

does he have malaria?

>>32090506
That pretty much is Ash's hairdo, just with some of it coming out of the hole at the front of the backwards hat.

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>>32090230
>Generation Z will never see a good Pokemon game
>Pokemon will never have good new Pokemon again
>Pokemon will never have good characters again
>Pokemon will never have good plots again
>Not even the spinoffs were spared (Stadium and Snap were sacrificed for garbage like Pokemon Ranger/Mystery Dungeon and eventually mobileshit)
>Nu-Pokemon shills are some of the most insufferable faggots on the internet

>>32090600
RIP Pokemon 1996-2002

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>>32089271
It wasn't really unique at all.

I still miss it though. Some of the modern character designs are good but goddamn do I hate Shauna face.

I miss '90s CGI renders, too.

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>>32090600

>that entire image

>>32090600
Go back to sleep old man

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>>32090600
>hating on PMD
Hey, I miss Stadium as much as you but PMD is the only thing keeping me interested in the newer games. Even PSMD, while only taking second place in my heart (it will take a lot to beat Sky and the flaws in PSMD like the break system and lack of randomized missions hold it back), was the only thing to come out of Gen 6 that I enjoyed, besides Origins and Generations.

Complain about the literal freemium games like Shuffle and Picross if you're going to complain about the bad spinoffs we've been getting lately.

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>>32090600

>believable characters
>only got one or two lines of dialogue in the entire game

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>>32090600
>Garbage like Pokemon Ranger/Mystery Dungeon

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>>32090959
>>32090979
>>32091020
>>32091065
>>32091067
>replying to blatant /v/tard bait
sure feels newfag in here

>>32090600
I wonder what kind of faggot you have to be to waste time making a list like this?

>>32090600
Literal autist in the thread.

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>>32089271
>those abhorrent eyes
nah I'll take the new art over the old any day of the week

>>32089271
>after the dp remakes, every gen will have had the modern animu art
i'm not sure how to feel
>>32090274
very, VERY slightly. but yes

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>>32090600
Good god that is some huge bait right there

>>32089300
So angular

>>32090600
At least he'says right about fan games

>>32089271
I don't know about you but those eyes from 90's art still seems more like anime eyes and it would be totally unrecognizable with digimon's art or that kind of cartoons. At least the new one is more detailed.

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Compare Gen 1 to the variety of eye shapes we have now

>>32089271
I don't know mate but those old artworks are really weird. The protagonist looks like a full grown man with a child's body.

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>>32089468
Lewd

>>32090061

Not really now that it's been established that Pokemon are sapient and enjoy the sport.

>>32091763
Why was everything so pissed in Gen 1?

>>32092080
Pocket MONSTERS

>>32089468
I'm so depressed that pokemon will never be like this again.

>>32090600
(You)

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>>32089950
WHY what? This is also 1998 Pikachu.

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>>32089950
>the tip of pikachu's tail isn't black in 1998
nice doctored photo anon

>>32092954
>this meme again

I can't get over the old style's eyes and washed out colors, and the proportions are somehow even weirder.

>>32089366
>less detailed.
No, in some arts are drawn with a lot of details only and for obvious reasons the character art are less detailed.

>>32089398
tnx man
disappointing

>>32089271
>Unique and refreshing.
>toriyama lite
You what.

>>32092121
Ironically they were the least monster of them all.

>>32090600
>nip devs
>affected by SJWs and feminism
silly /v/ermin

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>>32090274
>Did the artstyle chang at all between bw and sm?
Now they don't draw the bottom line of the eyes.

>>32089284
>buying evo stones
I been waiting for them to go back to this for years, though it sucks its still the basic ones and not the multiple artifact ones.

>rival as champ
Not so much something I prefer but I like how it subverted the formula before the formula was a thing. Again, I liked them doing it in sun and moon.

>non mandatory gym order
Though gen 4 did this too.

>the tweeeest that the last leader was tied to the villains
The closest thing we got was malva and she didn't do shit. At least giovanni, if you visited him again, gets a closure of sorts.

>>32090230
>will never get BK happy meal toys
I live in the third world and we got a bunch fir gen 5 which iirc also were in usa

>will never have in-game legendary events
Actual problem
>will never know when having legendaries was meaningful
To be fair, if all gens had the amount of legs gen 1 had they would be 35 now.

>will never get another GSC-caliber sequel
We got multiple better games, including a sequel

>Mew/truck etc. urban myths will never happen again because now we're all smart enough to use the Internet
I wish, you havent been much on the internet it seems

>>32090600
>>Fan Community

>>Pokémon
>Generally chill people all around, aren't intereted in starting arguments
>Can actually reflect on what made Pokémon great and acknowledge the innumerable flaws of the newer games

>>Nu-Pokémon
>Literal manchildren and cucks
>Will call you a genwunner the second you criticize their favorite gen
>Won't like a Pokémon design if it doesn't have spikes and lasers everywhere or isn't a waifumon pandering to their degeneracy

>OP has never seen any 90s anime and thinks the one he saw was super unique because it looks different from the current shit
wew

>>32090600
>Erika wasn't a walking trope

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>>32089300

I miss Erika's earlier colours.

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>>32090240
This is embarassing. The shitty attempt to emulate the style makes it worse
It reminds me of this

>>32093606
Agreed. I'm glad pokemon deviated from knock off Toriyama to its own original style.

>>32093662
He was trying to say the opposite of what you just said, so you disagree with him.

>>32094079
That's the point anon.
His post is more applicable to the older design philosophy of Pokemon than it is the newer one because it was just a shitty attempt to emulate Toriyama's designs.

>>32094087
Then he should have said "I disagree with you, I''m glad pokemon deviated from knock off Toriyama to its own original style [as opposed to the newer style being worse]."

>>32089284
Fuck SmashBros for not having Gym leader battle themes from gen1 and 3

>>32094092
You're not too smart are you.
That's literally the joke here.

>>32094094
Well it's not a very good joke.

OP here.

When a simple comment about how I liked the old art style turns into, uh, this.
>Personally, I'm proud

>>32093662
>>32094079
I posted the otaking pic because I hate seeing people who clearly have no idea what theyre talking about trying to comment on an artists work. Like the guy who did that sugimori critique clearly knows nothing about ohmuras involvement. Probably thinks sugimori designs every Pokemon too. Like his lack of knowledge on the subject is clear through his shitty art. To then use that shitty art to make a biased argument for or against a certain style is my biggest problem. It's not explicitly said but it comes across in his tone. Like that otaking pic where he's deliberately drawn one to look like ass and the slightly better. There no attemept to even understand why things have changed

On a side not I like both old and new Pokemon art, and I'm excited to see where it goes, especially with all these new people getting involved.

Thank you mods for removing the OP pic.

Reminder to everyone that we need to thank the mods and give positive reinforcement when they do something right rather than attacking them when they do something we dislike

What happened to the op pic?

Well, this thread has gone to shit.
>Abandon ship

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>>32090230
>trying to play GB using only street lights

worm light, bitch.

>mods are removing cropped porn now
>still won't touch the dozens of starterwar/comedy relief owl threads

Name ONE (1) thing wrong with this image.

>>32094225
I agree we sould give credit where credit is due, but nothing s wrong with op pic.

>>32090524
His liver doesn't work.

>>32089590
Artwork went downhill after Gen III.

>>32090600
>aren't interested in starting wars

>makes this huge ass list and calls it objective

>>32090600
>pokemon full moon
i think i wanna try this.

>>32090339
Pokemon GO Hype lasted for a month or so, if they would have released gen II earlier they might have squeezed at least another 1-2 months out.

>>32091763
DUDE EYES LMAO

>>32096616
>Pokemon GO Hype lasted for a month or so
Try several anon.

>>32096690
Several? It lasted for like 2 months. Afterwards, normies went back to the next trend and lone neckbeards continued to play.

>>32096733
>It lasted for like 2 months.
What world are you living in exactly? Normies didn't drop Pokemon Go entirely until like October or November

>>32096690
>>32096733
>>32096748
even for a mobile game i'm surprised Niantic thought people wouldn't get bored of "Ball-Throwing Simulator" after a few weeks

>>32089271
it speaks volumes about the incompetence of GF when furries can put out art that is better than the official artwork

>>32096812
pics or gtfo

>>32096748
They dropped it fairly quickly here (Florida).

>>32096795
If they would have had trading and trainer battles it would have had a longer shelf life.

>>32096853
>being too lazy to look at front page of any website with fanart

>>32096616
Did you know Harry Potter is trying to piggyback and make it's own Go?

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>>32097457
Harry Potter's been selling out in a lot of ways lately.