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Shut up 12 year old, you know nothing of Gen1.
I bet you've never played the yellow version.

I've heard this argument too many times now. Whenever the subject of origionality comes up, the first generation 1 critters to be criticised are Grimer and Muck, usually paired with Ditto. Now, let me explain why Grimer is a better design than Golurk, the ice cream thingies, and of course, everyone's favourite - the heaps of rubbish. First of all, Grimer is a BLOB MONSTER. What's so bad about that? Surely as a kid, we all imagined blob monsters lurking around consuming everything in their path (did anyone read the blob that ate everyone?). But who daydreamed about happy little ice cream monsters? Not me. How about piles of rubbish waddling around? Not that either. And the only Golem I'd ever praise is the good ol' fasioned generation 1 one. Why? Well, not because it's from the first generation, but because it has an interestung, yet simple design. It's based on a natural object, unlike many of the fifth gen. stuff (and yes, some gen. 1 creatures as well). Pokemon wearing clothes are also rightfully disliked, as it takes the 'wild' out of 'wild Pokemon'. I can't imagine many people having Mr. Mime as their favourite Pokemon, nor can I imagine Garbodor filling that slot, either.

Well, that lasted a bit longer than expected, but there you go; give poor little Grimer a break. I'd also like to mention that the fifth generation has introduced us to the best damned electric Pokemon ever to slither its way out of someone's imagination - Eelekross. What a beast.

The reason I like the orginals the best is because they were simplistic. Now all pokemon are like digimon with useless things on them.

Foongus & Amoonguss. It literally just spells "fungus among us"
Archeops. A shortened (and misspelled) version of Archaeopteryx, which it is a copy of.
Bisharp. Bisexual Bishop that is Sharp.
Braviary. Brave Avian (bird)
Cottonee. it is cottony.
Cubchoo. its a cub that sneezes (achoo)
Excadrill. it excavates and drills.
Litwick. a wick that has been lit.
Klang. the sound this pokemon would make if you dropped it.
Gurdurr. a Girder which he holds. also adds 'Hurr' into it.
woobat. its a bat that woos people.

Meanwhile, in G1:
Pikachu: Pika (the sound of an electric spark in Japanese) + chu (the sound a mouse makes)
Nidoran: "Nidoran may be derived from needle. It may also come from cnidocyte, a type of venomous cell responsible for the stings delivered by stinging animals, most notably jellyfish. Alternatively, it may be based on ni (two) or nido (two times/two degrees) referring to the two distinct evolutionary lines with similar names and traits. Also, the Japanese word ran is translated as orchid in English. Orchids are flowers that can be purple or blue, these being the same colors as the male and female evolutionary forms of Nidoran, respectively.

It just feels like they put more effort into the older generations.

I think that along the way the creators op the Pokemon series got a little lost in their imagenation on how to make the pokemanz.

Gen 1 has pokemon which resemble animals in the real world and they kinda lost that along the way, with dumb bullshit like icecream and a chandalier.

Grimer is a sewage monster, and I think that a 'blob' is a good resemblance to that.
And fucj yeah Ditto, that thing is just awesome.

Its not the pokemon that put us off the new generations. Its just the fact that they will never be able to replicate the joy we had with gen one, everything was new and exciting back then. The newer gens follow the same formula, meaning you know what its all about before you even start, and that takes away the magic. :(

hell i like all of the pokemon game exept fot the diamond and pearl

I prefer to see some abstract goo thing called a pokemon then an animated icecream or a chair or whatever comes next

cant shake the image out of my head of some virgin writing about pokemon in first person...

Its just that the creators seemed to have a theme for 5th gen: Everything is either so fucking overly cute that it just looks bad and you can never take it seriously, or they tried to hard to make it look cool and it turned out so ugly tha ot you cant bring yourself to catch it. The whole time I played 5th gen, I felt like I was playing a cheap hacked version off of some rom site.

I honestly don't think grimer/muk/ditto are that bad. see comment #33 I fucking love gen 1-3...But gen 4 and 5... I just think they are awful...

in my opinion generation 3 was the best. all the pokemon were so colorful, and super detailed. plus they had badass names, camerupt, sharpedo, salamance, metagross, flygon, blaziken. gen 3 was pretty fucking awesome.