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Cries of Gen I pokemon

Yes or no?

  • Yes

    Votes: 13 38.2%

  • No

    Votes: 14 41.2%

  • I don't care

    Votes: 7 20.6%
  • Total voters
    34
  • Poll closed .
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This may be too trivial for some, but as you may know, the Generation I pokemon have retained their old, simplistic cries. Despite there being 151 Pokémon in Generation I, there are only 37 completely different cries. Some pokemon, like Charizard and Rhydon, share the same ones despite not being related by evolution, while others are the same but with different pitch.

Compared to pokemon from more recent generations with cleaner and more refined cries, they sound rather out of place. So, do you think that the Gen I pokemon should get new, updated digitized cries or retain their original ones?
 
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I'd like to see (hear?) them replaced with updates cries at some point. They really do just sound blatantly out-of-place.
 
I like them the way they are. Even if it is out-of-place and awkward sounding, it maintains consistency and adds a sort of charming feeling to it. It's like if you look at the Unova Pokédex and listen to the cries in order, you can see just how things have gradually changed and improved overtime.

Or, for all you aspiring fan fiction writers out there, inspiration to write a conspiracy-based fan fiction based on the logic that all the Kanto and Johto Pokémon make the sound of garbled audio, thereby hinting that perhaps all animals have gone extinct in those regions and the government replaced them with super-powerful robots before any of the citizens could know about it. That's why the Pokémon tower is so big; because it's a burial ground for not just the Pokémon that trainers lost, it's the grave sight for all the animals that existed prior to Pokémon, every single one of them, that used to populate the entire Kanto and Johto region. THE MAN is just hiding the obvious truth from us.
 
Can't change something that's been around for over 14 years. They gotta stay the same
 
I think they sound bad and should be updated. I mean, keep the same "sound" but... stylize it. I don't what word I'm looking for, but I think you get my point. Let it be the same cry but with better sound quality, with new sounds or instruments or something like that.
 
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No, they should keep the cries they've been given. Chances all Pokemon cries will change at some point, maybe replace them all with the pokemon saying its name.
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No, please. We don't need anime cries in our beloved games. Name-cries should stay anime-only and we should get realistic noises as their game cries.

On the topic of changing their cries, it's hard. I mean on one hand, it'd feel weird to change them after 15+ years and it'd lose that kind of nostalgic feel. But the cries are pretty bad, a lot of them sound like weird robot noises. And some Pokemon have the same or similar cries to one another, which is pretty bothersome.
Maybe they should have slightly altered cries like the ones in Pokemon Stadium?
 
Man, those cries are Awful. I seriously hope that they'll all get an upgrade in generation VI.
Animals don't change their cries, but then again, they don't change from 8bit deformed sprites to full 3D models either, so..
 
...i think they shouldn't go....their probably is a difference between charizard and rhydon, at first glance persian and horsea have the same cry but they really don't.....and the ones that are different are one i thoroughly enjoy(eeveelution family)....
 
The thing about a pokemons cry is it makes it unique from the rest of the pokemon. I dont think we should waste time chnging their cries now because we are used the pokemons cry now but its too bad they didnt give pokemon unique cries in the first place.

I think poliwag and ditto have the same cry...
 
Keep them. It's not like you can't turn the volume down if you don't like them.
 
The older cries do sound odd compared to the newer cries, but i think they should be kept the way they are. except maybe having the same tone,but less robotic-sounding
 
Jolty Febe said:
...i think they shouldn't go....their probably is a difference between charizard and rhydon, at first glance persian and horsea have the same cry but they really don't.....and the ones that are different are one i thoroughly enjoy(eeveelution family)....
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Nope, Charizard's and Rhydon's cries are exactly the same. Same frequency, pitch, same length, same cry.

Anyway, maybe they could use the revamped cries from the Stadium games. They sound pretty up to date.
 
It's a bit surprised they didn't use the Stadium cries. They must have intentionally been using the GB cries for the sake of nostalgia. Neither really bothers me, and I'm glad they didn't mix-and-match between them.
 
I do love the old Gen I and II cries because of nostalgia, but I do think it's time to update them. Yes they have an old-school charm that hearkens back to the "old days" of Pokémon, but they just sound really out of place now. Let's face it, the designers did the best they could with the GameBoy's limited sound tools, but technology has improved a lot, and so should their cries. As it is now, the differences are way too jarring, they honestly sound like they came from a completely different game series. This is especially odd with Gen I/II Pokémon who've received new evolutions in later games (e.g. the new Eeveelutions, they don't sound like they "belong" together with the classic ones).

They've been updated everywhere else from Gen to Gen, with new sprites, movepools, added natures, new evolutions, and even new types (in the case of Magnemite/Magneton) that reflect the changes in the games, so it seems odd that the old cries wouldn't follow suit.

That said, they shouldn't necessarily have completely new cries, just "update" the old ones. That is, keep the same sort of feel, but with the newer sound tools (and please, differentiate between Charizard/Rhyhorn and Poliwag/Ditto). It'd make them sound more fresh and blend them in with later generations, making them all feel like they properly belong in the same game. Plus, it'd add a whole new layer of nostalgia to the older games when we look back and hear what they used to sound like.

Interestingly, there's even precedent for this. Magnemite had his cry changed in Gen II thanks to improved sound techniques, remaining the only Pokémon to have done so.
 
I'd like if they got their cries remade. Keep them the same "form", but done with better... sounds, if that makes sense.

Like for instance, Articuno keeping its iconic singing-like cry, but instead of played by an square wave as if it were sung by a bird.


I don't remember the cries in Stadium... was it something like this?
 
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