>>58999143
rotom dex was a mistake

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>>58999143
Tangentally related, but the death of the Pokedex as a cool futuristic digital accessory into LOL IT'S A SMARTPHONE SHAPED LIKE ROTOM NOW XD makes me livid as well. We used to have thought put into these designs, now they're all fucking bland. But I guess art reflects reality because we also stopped being creative with gadget designs irl as well since we've optimized to RECTANGLE WITH SCREEN as the penultimate formfactor...

God I miss BUTTONS.

>>58999143
It’s even worse when you realize that this is literally what Porygon was destined for, if anyone. Rotom gets completely character-assassinated and whored out, and Porygon gets completely forgotten.

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>>58999164
This is sadly the result of a handful of kids (like extremely small amount) getting fucking seizures during the episode Porygon aired in. They were forced to memoryhole Porygon similarly to how Jinx can never ever get a spotlight again. They're still okay with giving them merch and including them in the games, but they can never ever get the spotlight and have mascot level status because of their past controversies. And the topping on the cake was that it wasn't even fucking Porygon that gave kids seizures. IT WAS PIKACHU. PIKACHU WAS THE ONE WHO USED GIGAWATT SEIZURE AND MADE THE SCREEN FLASH RED AND BLUE IN QUICK SUCCESSON. PORYGON HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT. THE EPISODE JUST FEATURED PORYGON AND THE POOR GUY TOOK THE FUCKING BLAME FOR PIKACHU.

>YOU DID IT, PIKACHU! ;D

>>58999164
It would have made much more sense lore-wise for Porygon to be retrofitted into every device. One has to wonder why Sliph-Co just gave up after Porygon-2. Were they scared off by the Z glitch and thought the project should be shelved? An artificially made Pokemon is such a cool concept.

>>58999158
I mean, the older Pokedexes got lazier and lazier designs as time went on.
Gen 1 was like book + Game Boy and from there they were always sort of based on the current Nintendo handheld, but we we went from the original Gen 3 Hoenn Dex having a vaguely GBAish shape with a lid, to ORAS literally a GBA with greebles.
And whatever the fuck the Unova dex was supposed to be, always struck me as smartphone-esque.

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>>58999158
>>58999327
The smartphone is simply the logical conclusion of the handheld encyclopedic device. Technology caught up with science fiction in other words. The only believable improvement on it would be something like VR goggles or literal brainchips.

>>58999143
Rotom is Ishihara's favorite Pokemon. When you're the head of TPC you get some sway when it comes to your favorite.

rotom has always been a shitty mon. It was designed like a legendary encounter but it's not technically a legendary, but you still can't fucking use it in any of the games themselves because fuck you I guess, we here at gamefreak HATE letting you have a variety of pokemon to take with you on your journey, you'll use the starter, early route bird, designated shillmon, box legendary, lucario, and pikachu every game, and that's fucking it, retard.

>>58999758
the smartphone isn't even the most effective use of its own design principles, it's literally just that we're so used to it. I mean think about how much screen real estate is taken up by the touch interface, how you're almost constantly covering parts of the screen, how it's fiddly to do anything with precision, how tip-tapping away at the keyboard covers parts of the screen and is so inaccurate they have to have two separate layers of autocorrect, one that you can disable and one that they keep in the on-device kb software that you can't actually disable. It's retarded. We'll jump form factors again in the future, and it won't be directly to some silly scifi holograms or brainchips, don't be deceived.

>>58999143
Ok

>>58999143
>How the fuck did it turn into quirky chungus funny guy
Platinum
The answer is Platinum

>>58999164
>>58999183
Porygon has the personality of a cardboard, it's failed experiment, only good for neckbeards having fun torturing it by irreversibly glitching it the fuck out

>>58999143
>>58999158
Are you okay?

>>58999143
>How the fuck did it turn into quirky chungus funny guy who for whatever reason is ubiquitously added to every single person's smart phone and now hoverboard I guess.
It became Ishihara's favorite Pokemon, that's how. And his vision of Rotom vastly differed from everyone else's.

>>58999158
Frlgdex is so stupid

>>58999143
I used to love that nigga Rotom before he got shilled so much and lost all his aura.

>>59000079
A smartphone quite literally is the most efficient for a pokedex. Its literally a picture gallery with shorthand text and basic measurements + a map

>>59002598
>I mean think about how much screen real estate is taken up by the touch interface, how you're almost constantly covering parts of the screen, how it's fiddly to do anything with precision, how tip-tapping away at the keyboard covers parts of the screen and is so inaccurate they have to have two separate layers of autocorrect, one that you can disable and one that they keep in the on-device kb software that you can't actually disable. It's retarded.

>>58999143
Blame Alola

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>>59002620
>Uh yea an iphone pokedex would have on screen up down keys like an emulator instead of how phones actually fucking work in the real world
Retarded ass mulatto faggot don't reply to me again unless you got something intelligent to say

>>59001293
BUSTER WOLF!

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>>58999164
>>58999173
At least Porygon actually gets used for this in Masters

>>58999158
Blame the changes in a way how Japs interact with electronics.
The way how technology is portrayed in Pokemon always was kinda mirroring how Japan was using technology at the time. This is why in the 90s and early 00s you had all these funky gizmos doing just one thing, computer terminals connected to servers operated by one guy living in a cottage in the middle of nowhere, CRT TVs were everywhere etc.
Nowadays technology is lame and fucking gay because everything is consolidated to handful of devices that look and operate nearly the same. Just few boxes of different size running the same Android OS.
Rotom is literally just Android OS of Pokemon World.

>>59002664
Did you even read what I said? Here I'll trim it down for you:
>how you're almost constantly covering parts of the screen
>how it's fiddly to do anything with precision
>how tip-tapping away at the keyboard covers parts of the screen
this should make it a little easier to understand. If you still struggle with comprehension I'm sure your tard wrangler can read it out loud a few times for you.

>>58999143
Its funny how everyone on the internet seems to loathe sinnoh but gamefreak keeps shilling it the most right after kanto

Ohmori and his consequences have been a disaster for this franchise.

>>59002878
I think you're genuinely brain damaged if you think the slight inconvenience of the device needing to pull up a keyboard to type makes it a worse form factor.
Just say you're nostalgic for y2k era tech and futurism and move on.

>>59000158
How exactly?

>>59002905
Japs love Sinnoh. It's like their 2nd favourite region

>>59002719
MasterSEX has the best fanservice, so that's not a surprise. Too bad the game itself isn't fun.

>>59002905
loud retards on the internet are representative of nothing but loud retards on the internet

>>58999327
fuck you the unova dex was cool. top 3 in design.

>>58999143
I hate it so much. It has such weird fucking implications and it doesn't even really make sense. If there's anything good about Masters it's that they use porygon which is basically tailor made for that kind of thing if they MUST use a pokemon to sell as a phone.
I just headcanon it out like some other things

>>58999158
It’s a reflection of how lame modernity is.

>>58999143
To this day I hate Pokemon that have bizarre lore implications

>Rotom phones probably have to stare at their owners watching Youtube on their phones while taking a shit
>Did Cinderace evolve to play soccer, or did people observe Cinderace playing something like soccer and make the game?
>If Rotom works well as a phone OS, then why does Porygon exist?
>Is Jynx's dress part of its body?
>Why does the Rotom dex in Alola never shut the fuck up?
I'm sure I could think of more

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>>59000038
Every source I’ve seen says exeggutor is his favorite. Was there a more recent interview that says otherwise?

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>>58999143
>ywn experience the ominousness of gen 1 nor the mystique of gen 2 ever again

>>58999143
The Rotom dex was easily the most annoying feature of Gen 7 and was impossible to ignore it. I couldn't stand it.

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>>59006894
This is when Pokemon jumped the shark.

>>59007314
why did he keep trying to molest everybody
it made me feel gross when he called me "big boy"

>>59007314
Couldn't stand how Rotom is constantly begging for your attention, gives horny reactions when you interact with it, and pouts when you ignore it. Like a literal child that is trying to distract you constantly from what you'd rather be doing. What a garbage feature.

>>59007368
>hey big boy, wanna lick my electrode?

>>59002905
as a sinnoh hater no the fuck everyone doesn't sinnoh is always circlejerked everywhere

People used to think gorillas were mythical cryptids like Bigfoot. Now they're just another animal. Nothing stays mysterious forever.

>>58999158
to this day i still have no idea what the fuck they were going for with the XY pokedex

>>59008776
It's an Ipad for the XY pokedex, anon. That's why it's a touchscreen.