Remember the good old days when there was only 150 pokemon

[scorptatious]

I'm sorry, but you clearly asked for this:

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[ZtH]

What do you mean 'miss the first 150'? They're still there, even the really dumb ones.

I don't know why people are so nostaligic for the original pokemon. Do they just forget Jynx? Ignore the total lack of creativiness that went into creating 'Seal'? What about Diglit who is just a cluster of silly doodles with no real indiction of what it looks like, and it's 'evolution' that is just three slapped together? The cartoon qualities of Mr Mime have yet to be surpassed, and Magmortar was a desperate effort to give Magmar some dignity.

The biggest reason to make more pokemon, after, y'know, it prints money, is to expand the world. Have you seen how many animals we have on our planet? Have you seen how awesome of f***ed up some of them are? Like many I'm still waiting for a platypus pokemon (unless that was Magmar, in qhich case what a jip!) Also:

I don't miss the older ones because they're still in the newer games.

The newer Pokemon give the game more variety in terms of content, everyone loves finding out what the new batch of Pokemon look like whether they're good or bad. And every generation has it's gems. Without the newer generations we'd have missed out on so many great Pokemon.

id say gen 1-3 were perfect, gen 4 was where it started to go down hill and gen 5 is where it crashed into a sewage plant

Serioulsy? 5th Gen as terrible? It's the first Pokemon game in ages where I've wanted to capture and train everything I saw. Even Klink! Which is more than I can say for mysoginistic clown Mr Mime!

While I agree with most of your statements there are a couple things in here that I disagree with. For one I've liked Jynx since the first time I used one in 2nd gen. When all else failed I could count on my Jynx to come in and sweep for me. Aside from that I have to disagree that magmortar gave magmar dignity. I feel that Electabuzz and Magmar were far superior in design to Electivire and Magmortar. Despite that though most of the people here are talking with nostalgia vision and its good to see someone who is willing to accept the new pokemon.

My personal new favorite is scraggy though its evolution looks kinda derpy.

OT: I will take the new pokemon over Lickitung any day of the week. Sure there have been some that are variations on old pokemon (see if you can google the image with the rattata equivalent from every gen) but lots of the new pokemon are interesting and unique.