Pokemon never recovered from this.
Pokemon never recovered from this
game set in America
I know, let's make the antagonists medieval knights!
What?
Most of the mons were Kanto mon clones.
Anon Babble never recovered from this.
bw and bw2 are the best pokemon games and it's not even close to competition
anything earlier is nostalgia and everything after is stockholm syndrome
BW2 was the peak of the series. Though playing it, I do wish Fairy type was in it.
Correct Yawnfag, your asshole never recovered from this reckoning.
Think you meant to post the Alola games
I thought these were set in anime france?
Correct, we peaked at gen V
Black & White 2 was the last good pokemon game
Sad, really
I've been playing through Ultra Sun recently and I'm absolutely impressed by how beautiful Gen 7 looks.
Too fucking bad the actual game is utter fucking shit.
That was X/Y, Unova is based on Manhattan.
Every other npc was black or brown suddenly, it was so distracting
Kanto and Johto are Honshu in Japan
Hoenn is Kyushu
Sinnoh is Hokkaido
Unova is New York City/I think New York in general
Kalos is France
Alola is Hawaii
Galar is United Kingdom
Paldea is Spain/maybe part o Portugal?
Yeah it looks great cause it was the last game on 3DS so they finally got their shit together, but it's a pretty shitty game.
At least they removed HMs which was cool
Gen 5 is easily the peak of the series and it isn't even fucking close.
region based on Manhattan
there's just a random desert behind what's supposed to be NYC and ice mountains for some reason
It's still a video game in the end. BW2 adds that Volcano area you have to fly in a plane to.
Johto has the ice path, Kanto has the seafoam islands, Hoenn has the Shoal Cave as well as the Mirage Pass or whatever it's called
You gotta have things to mix it up, otherwise it'd be boring. Go walk around Manhattan and pretend you'd have a Pokemon adventure, it'd be boring as shit.
you say that yet the next pokemon game is literally just set in one city
No, I get that, but everything you listed had some cohesion to it in the map design.
Unova looks like they just took every region's greatest hits and just threw them at he wall carelessly for what's supposed to represent New York City.
Unova is New York City
No wonder it was filled with diversity
Z-A? I can't really comment on that. I'd say it's cause they're lazier but SV had some pretty diverse areas. Including a desert and a frozen mountain
I think that ones is gonna be more a limitation of the gameplay/mechanics/etc.
It's just inspired by NY, I don't think it's at all trying to be some one to one. The most NY part of it is Castelia city
Okay, but why would any coastal city just have a random desert right in its backyard? Makes no sense design-wise. Could have easily just put it off to the left side and it would make more sense.
Let me guess: you got your bussy blown out in Anon Babble, so you came to Anon Babble to try to get console-war trannies who are not aware of your schizo-lore to agree with you because they don't know anything about Pokemon and just want to virtue-signal about how they hate popular thing.
Man I remember this fucking desert.
I spent hours just sitting there wondering how the fuck I was supposed to get in some of the locked buildings there before giving up and figuring it was probably more event bullshit like that Darkrai haunting a dreaming girl in I think DP.
Why do trannies defend Gen 5 so hard?
They did the same thing in Hoenn. Mauville is pretty close to the water(it's just above the beach town) and it has the desert above it.
It's a video game my dude, it needs different biomes otherwise it's boring
That's Gen 6, the one with the fairy types, you're thinking of.
The last good games
It's a desert valley settled in a mountain basin and keepts it separated. It's hardly the same thing.
And no, it doesn't need every biome under the sun to be not-boring, because then it's just cliche and nonsensical.
It helps making the regions feel like a proper place instead of a videogame.
Once pokemon started adding the obligatory ice/lava/desert/borderline rainforest area every game it got fucking boring.
Sun and Moon are worse
I guess when they're designing regions they probably have to weight consistency in region design vs variety in gameplay. They've got to put certain mons somewhere. They can't really put Sandile or Maractus anywhere else
Same with ice areas. I don't know how Hoenn development went but maybe they designed Spheal and Snorunt and thought "shit where are we gonna place them" and then made Shoal Cave
That's easy though, they don't need to make desert Pokemon for a region based off a megacity.
If they really wanted a new gator/croc Pokemon, why not design it around sewer gators? Why does it HAVE to be from a desert?
Because the sand one is fucking sick. Maybe they had the idea to do that since BW2 lets you go in the sewers but they probably felt a "normal" croc/gator Pokemon would be too similar to the Totodile line
And again, maybe they designed the mons first before the region, and when they realized they made Sandile/Maractus/etc they thought hey why not just add a desert area into the region
Well that's a shitty way to go about things, isn't it?
Just goes to show how much of a skill issue the designers have.
I mean what's a better way to do it, design the region and then restrict yourself in what kind of mons you can make by needing them to fit thematically into the region, or just designing whatever mons you want and then designing an area in the region that you already have a general idea for to place the mons in.
I'm sure they probably had an idea of what Unova would be like and then when they designed certain mons they just added new areas. Like the ice mons as well.
Obviously, if you have an idea for a region in mind, say, something inspired from America, clearly it would be in the best intention do design Pokemon that synergize well with the region they're trying to adapt? So I'd say planning your region first, conceptually at least, makes much more sense than just making a bunch of new designs and hoping they fit well into the new world you created., which wasn't really the case with Gen 5.
A good example of where they had the right idea was with Rufflet and Braviary.
And there's cacti and such in America so even though the region is loosely based on NY they designed a lot of America-mons, and since cacti are typically a desert thing they decided to make other desert mons and just add a desert area.
You're right. This generation was the last time Pokemon was consistently good. They gave up when they switched to 3D, and now the games never reached the highs they once did.
And there are native cactus in New York that don't grow in the desert, so that's where the skill issue comes into play.
They recovered here
Black was the last time I was autistically obsessed with Pokemon. I had a complete living dex too. I want to experience that feeling again.
Whoops, wrong pic
you meant to post X & Y
tranny shark jumping type
"No!"
black and white 2 is the best gen imo
No those are god awful even the overowlrd movement feels off and the camera is too zoomed in, and the less said about lumiose the better
Gen 5 was fucking awesome, I have amazing memories of it playing with my friends, never again did any other pokemon game did even remotely the same.
Why do niggers shit on it?
muh pokemon look bad
Theres hasnt been a good set of designs since gen 2 (gen 3 actually but i know youre a contrarian)
Gen 4, actually.
Gen 5 was such dogshit. Thankfully Gen 6 saved Pokemon with PSS.
and the less said about lumiose the better
But we’re getting an entire game about Lumiose…
2645 hrs
Who the fuck plays a pokemon game for 2000+ hours , like what even is there to do after the 30 hour point?
Setting is neat but the story and locations start to drop off midway.
based on Manhattan
no Hypnos or Probopasses in the sewer
Pokemon is a multiplayer game where you battle other people online.
NTA but a few things are there for carrot on a stick (competitive grinding for people who don't use cheats, filling out regional dex, collecting shinies, post-game content for most games, etc).
new jersey is a desert
accurate
I thought it was much more enjoyable and complete as a game than fucking Platinum lol. Diamond and Pearl nearly aced the series. Heart Gold/Soul Silver, Emerald, B2W2 and BW are the only games worth playing
BW/2 were the last main games I played
never got a 3ds
for some reason now in 2025 I am extremely regretful that I dropped pokemon
Guess I'm gonna power through gen 6 to whatever we're out now
Gen 5 was the best gen
gen 6/7 were okay and had GODLY mutiplayer
Gen 8 and 9 are so bad in all fronts they cant really make anything from it that's not Marnie popular
And I dont even hate the Gen8/9 Pokemon designs
3DS games made Competitive Pokemon easy to get into and had amazing online, it grew insanely woth teh X/Y release and died with the Switch
True, there are entirely too many sandniggers.
It's a desert valley settled in a mountain basin and keepts it separated
Fun fact because of the volcano there shouldn't be any desert since the ash and smoke wouldn't produce the right climate for one.
Just skip to SV. It's not worth playing 6 to 8.
But that was one of the last good ones.