Which franchises manage to get even more soulless with each new installment

>seething about a gen because its got better variety right from the get go
lel

>gloating about free grass/water types before a rock gym
such a big boy!

funny because Nosepass manages to be much more challenging than shitty ass Brock

The sad part is there is still a decent number f people who will brainlessly call you a genwuner if you criticize the new pokemon designs at all

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Challenging after getting a shroomish, wingull on top of the wurmple line that are the versions easy evolve bugs? True, it's even harder with the fire starter. It's not like Torchic has any tools to offeset such a challenge.

>sword and shield
Heard that game was shit anyways and won't pay up $60 for that.

Yes by default it is a better challenge, if you're talking about grinding for two hours then that can be applied to every other game making the whole argument pointless
In any case it's better than Onix resorting to shit like Bide and Tackle in RBY because they didn't even care to give a rock move

Maybe I'm not well-versed in how early Pokémon treated its starters in promotional material, but there's something I really dislike about how it happens now. There's always going to be some lame twitter poll from an official account of "Which Pokémon are you going to start your journey with?" like this is any different to any previous game and like Pokémon don't all feel completely interchangeable to use anyway since you can mash A to Champion in every game.

Does it really matter? Like if you ignore the anime, I don't remember marketing making a big deal out of the starters for a while. They dropped 2/3 of Johto's original starters after 1997 and replaced them with Cyndaquil and Totodile in 1999, and Cyndaquil was repurposed from a pre-existing Ice-type. But you don't even see the starter line that you and your rival didn't pick in the games itself, and the same is true in Hoenn. In Gen I, Venusaur was the single starter form not used by anyone other than you or your rival. DP were announced like 2 years in advance, and their starters weren't even revealed until just over a month before the games actually came out.

Now it's like the starters are revealed when the games are announced and are the most shilled thing in existence despite being irrelevant for most of the game.

I just wish they'd do something creative instead of repeating the same shit with the Professor giving them to you for free
RSE had you save the professor and that makes it more believable that he'd gift them to you

If you could change the trio, what three types would you start with?
I want Ice, Fire and Rock instead.

Different shading, that's literary it. Right might even be better overal but it's hard to tell by a still alone.

Street Fighter after 3.

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So left is cell-shaded where right gives more depth

you mean after 1

>worm in apple is bad because...it just is okay?

one looks good while the other doesn't

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This board is insufferable and a hive for mentally ill people (like myself)

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Here left looks better (as a still)

In Gen I, Oak gives you a starter with the intention of you and his grandson becoming Trainers, and your mother is aware of this judging by her line that all boys leave home one day. He sends you on an errand, but it's specifically to further that goal because you're picking up the Pokédex so he can send you on a journey to catalog every Pokémon.

In Gen II, Elm wants you to run an errand for him, and that's what your mother says. By the time you get back, he sees that the Pokémon he gave to accompany you has taken a liking to you and decides to let you keep it, making you a Trainer.

In Gen III, Birch gets attacked by a wild Poochyena and you need to save him in the moment by grabbing one of the Pokémon in his bag, at which point he lets you keep it.

In Gen IV, Rowan forgets his bag at the lake and you and your rival are attacked by wild Starly, forcing you to defend yourself with the Pokémon in the bag. By the time you are able to return it to him later, he sees that the two of you are capable as Trainers and allows you to keep them.

In Gen V onward, it's treated like Gen I where it's just arbitrarily time for you to become a Trainer and are given a starter by someone for the sole purpose of becoming a Trainer.

Might be that cell-shading is too taxing for the overal Fps on Switch if Gamefreak makes the game, a shame.