What gen do you actually like that isn't allowed to be appreciated around here without immediate backlash?
What gen do you actually like that isn't allowed to be appreciated around here without immediate backlash?
What gen do you actually like that isn't allowed to be appreciated around here without immediate backlash?
The most underrated gen is Gen 2, despite being one of the best
gen 2 has and always will have the best pokemon designs
Johto dex is dogshit outside of a few solid designs like Heracross. There's a reason Game Freak doesn't like to use Johto Pokemon.
Gen 2 is shat on because it's the objectively most soulful generation. You have to work extra hard to bring it down, but it's always superficial critique in the end.
The jig is up mysterBlack person, "Jotho" lost.
you have your own thread
and you shat up this one
, get lost moron
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Gen 3 has its trolls but Emerald is generally safe to post. It's great yet doesnt attract envy like Platinum or HGSS
I feel like posting Emerald often attracts turbo autists who have a weird obsession with shitting on the battle frontier and saying that "nobody ever used it anyway" as an argument for why the game isn't actually better for including it.
The funny part is that, even if you exclude the Battle Frontier, Emerald probably has one of the best adventure in Pokémon. R/S weren't anything special but being able to fight both team Aqua and Magma was incredibly kino
Yeah, it's just a really solid game and been my favorite in the series since I was a kid
this is why gen 2 gets shit on so frequently
>proving their point
No, i think you just proved his point.
>act like smug pricks
>get told to frick off and that your games ain't shit
>"heh...they hate us 'cause they ain't us"
>RIGHTFULLY act like smug pricks
>get told to frick off and that their games ain't shit (objectively wrong)
>"heh...they hate us 'cause they ain't us" <- logical conclusion
what the FRICK is this cope hahahaha
jothoBlack folk lost
cringe
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Gen 2
i like gen 7, oras, and dp. i fricking hate black and white 1
USUM and ORAS
Gen 2, everything positive about it is ignore so because can screech "Kanto's Backyard", "Identity", shitmons, and where's HOUNDOOMERINOOOOOOOOO".
I couldn't care less about level curve or shitmons or whatever. Your shitty Johto fanfics and fake as frick nostalgiahomosexualry are why you get backlash.
For me, it's Gen 5.
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>literally proving their point
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you will get immediate backlash for every gen
Idk about immediate, but you can tell even in this very thread which gen causes seething on /vp/ by mere mention.
Gen 2 and Gen 5
I like both Gens 2 and 5. In fact they're my two favorites.
It feels strange given that fans of those two seem to be the most at odds.
This guy gets it, but
>HG/SS art
Nothing wrong with Gen 4, but that kinda takes away from your point.
Even as one of those people, I'll admit it is fricking weird. On the surface, it's not THAT different fron Gen 5.
Something about it just feels...missing. I also hate Fairy types, but that's not the biggest deal. Maybe the Legends game will help things. OR/AS were fine, as tragic as losing the Battle Frontier was.
>Something about it just feels...missing.
it's too focused on repackaging and reselling the old
>but that kinda takes away from your point.
not really, people shit on johto regardless of the gen. The remakes are my favorite games but it doesn't change the fact that if you try and talk about gen 2 be it the originals or remakes people have constant meltdowns and try and start gen wars over it.
Gen 2 is the gen I can and have replayed the most so all the people spamming about its 'problems' have literally just been going blue in the face for nothing when I'm organically still drawn to it the most as a Pokemon experience anyway
Galar is very charming
I notice any mention of gens 4, 5, or 6 immediately start flame wars.
Gen9, but you get one or two dedicated trolls shitting the scarlet and violet threads everytime.
>you get one or two dedicated trolls
no, the games are just THAT bad that many people enjoy shitting on them
Gen 4, 5, and 7
The board only allows positive posting of 2
>The board only allows positive posting of 2
Gee I wonder who's behind all the genwar shitposting then.
Gen 2 fans
Correct.
>The board only allows positive posting of Gen 2
What the frick are you talking about. The content threads shitting on Gen 2 are are coddled by the Jannies
I really liked playing Sun and Moon and also enjoyed Sword and Shield. Yeah they have tons of glaring defects but they also have plenty nice moments that people just ignore because in this board you can only see things as black or white no pun intended
Gen 1
I love b2w2 only
I like gen 9
I've been playing Y lately and I've been having fun. The hate for XY seems kinda overblown to be tbh.
gen 7, deserves absolutely none of the hate it gets. it's a top 3 generation easily.
Pretty much all of them in some form or another.
You can't like ANYTHING Pokemon-related without immediate backlash, but you also can't dislike anything Pokemon-related without immediate backlash either because then the bipolar homosexuals go "HURR WELL WHY ARE YOU EVEN HERE IF YOU DON'T LIKE POKEMON".
... that's because it's different people who like different things, not because people don't have consistent opinions
I like gen9.
4. I like Sinnoh a lot
Me too
Sinnoh and Almia was the peak of pokemon. The addition of the poffins, GTS, pokegear, item/moveset, well designed pokemon, well designed routes, excellent story, postgame battle arenas and island, and the underground were all top notch. The bloat set in with BW when they added in more than they needed and removed important aspects that added to the gameplay. There are subtle gatekeeps to distract away from Sinnnoh with muh fire types and slow gameplay. This helps keep cart price down for the time being.
gen 6
it’s so flawless people have meltdowns over it
Any of gen 6+ especially the switch gens.
Gen 3. Emerald is peak pokemon to me.
5
bw is mediocre but i kinda appreciate the forced regional dex and b2w2 i would consider comparable to hgss and emerald which are my two favourites
>Gen 1 haters
No one seriously hates RBY
>Gen 2 haters
Zoomers who couldn't experience PEAK
>Gen 3 haters
Pokémaniagays who haven't grown up
>Gen 4 haters
BWgays trying to bring it down
>Gen 5 haters
Boomers
>Gen 6 haters
BWgays trying to be part of "classic pokémon"
>Gen7 haters
Anti-e-girlcons
>Gen8-9 haters
Anyone with a modicus of taste
>No one seriously hates RBY
Zoomers act like gen 1 is just completely unplayable.
Yeah but it's all trolling against boomers, they tacitly respect RBY for being the first game and bringing all the classic pokémon. Besides, RBY is mostly known nowadays for memeshit on youtube like speedrunning or video essays, so they feel included.
GSC, on the other hand, attracts literal vitriol. They were born too late.
Indeed, Boomers hate Gen V for being different even though it's quite solid on its own.
Then, GenV-gays are desperatly trying to be part of "old" pokémon by distancing themselves with Gen 6.
The reality is that it's a transitional generation. A hybrid. The mutt generation, it's fitting for Unova
>gen 2 vs gen 5
every time
And gen 5 always wins. More proof that Jan is the king of /vp/.
Larp posts
>BWgays trying to bring it down
I like Gen 4. Wdym?
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>Gen 1 haters
No one seriously hates RBY
>Gen 2 haters
Zoomers who couldn't experience PEAK
>Gen 3 haters
Pokémaniagays who haven't grown up
>Gen 4 haters
BWgays trying to bring it down
>Gen 5 haters
Boomers
>Gen 6 haters
normal people
>Gen7 haters
Anti-e-girlcons (so normal people)
>Gen8-9 haters
normal people
>trying to divide the DSchads
DS games are mild as frick. They only look good in comparison to the 3DS games onward
>They only look good in comparison to the 3DS games onward
and also in comparison to the GB and GBA games
insanity of the highest degree. tell us your favorite books and musical works/songs/albums so we can adequately judge your taste
>favorite books
lotr
>musical works/songs/albums
first 4 metallica albums and secret treaties by BÖC
>encounter different opinion
>have mental breakdown
def leppard is the shit. pyromania does not have a single bad song, or even a single mediocre song, every track is 10/10.
>shitallica
you're making me look bad
>metallica is le bad
>hell yeah def leppard is the shit
fricking hipster you probably like Tropius or some shit
this is my favorite song
judge me
Doesn't every single Gen get shit? It's so easy to react
gen 6, even though the elite 4 was underwhelming, the whole game was amazing to me, pokedex, music, graphics, characters, etc. I grew up with gen 2 and i thought i grew out of pokemon with other gens but gen 6 pulled me back
Hoenn
I've been playing since Yellow but Hoenn is most burned into my brain
Hoenn is soulful as frick. most of the criticism it gets is really artificial. I think you'd be hard pressed to call yourself a Pokemon fan if you can't appreciate Hoenn to some extent. to me it's the quintessential experience, I understand if it's not everyone's favorite, but how you can hate it is beyond me.
> This is what Hoennbabies believe
Just say it was your first pokémon game buddy.
Hoenn offends the resident Johtoschizo. They want Johto to be the most soulful region and when people call Hoenn soulful it drives them insane, because that should be THEIR title! All gens are good and bad in different regards, but the Johtoschizo is the most annoying poster on these boards.
>how you can hate it is beyond me.
Pokémon attracts the biggest autists.
Hoenn is kino.
hoennbabbies are the new johtoddlers
9 was a massive improvement over 8
i'll never understand this when both games share a lot of the same flaws
>dexcut
>move cut
>forced exp share
>raids (dexnav and even SOS were better)
>n64 textures
>poor render distance for models in the overworld
>press A to win gimmicks (dynamax and tera)
>no post game
>DLC scam
>toby fox (the raids theme for SV especially sounds terrible)
>the skip cutscene button only skips a handful of scenes
>forcing pokemon to forget transfer exclusive moves
and then there's things that SV does that not even SWSH did
>trainer customization gimped to the point where girls can't wear skirts
>no set mode
>no optional battle animations
>no overworld effects for abilities
>no battle facilities
most of the shit you listed aren’t even flaws
>WAAAAH I CANT USE ODOR SLEUTH ANYMORE THIS MEANS THE GAME IS BAD FOR SOME REASON
out side of the biggest issues of dexcut next biggest with SWSH is the fact that its literally a hallway. Even the 3d games on lesser hardware weren't this bad. Just based on that fact SV is better since its not a fricking hallway.
>SV is better since its not a fricking hallway.
the shitty open world meme that you homosexuals wiener suck so much doesn't make the game better
oh, that also reminds me, SV towns are just as barren if not more barren than SWSH's
wow, nice exploration
Shitty open world is still better, SVs story is also more interesting then chairman moron being too impatient to wait a day. It also has better music.
>Shitty open world is still better
no it isn't. it's so poorly implemented that the game might as well be linear
it is fricking moronic that skipped gyms don't have levels that scale up with the player's
if i beat seven gyms then the last one shouldn't be using level 15 pokemon
>SVs story is also more interesting
if you have the praise the story of all things then the game is shit
gamefreak has their priorities all wrong if this is where all the effort goes into
>better music
the toby fox raid theme in SV is the worst thing to come out of both games
if you think the sada/turos theme/battle is bad I don't know what to tell you, you're an unsalvagable moron of a human being
>you're an unsalvagable moron of a human being
that pretty rich coming from somebody who willingly shills for SV, the worst games in the series
Sorry bro SWSH is the worst in the series actually. Like I said you're an unsalvagable moron.
also i don't know why you brought up sada/turo because i said the raid theme which is this
>SWSH is the worst in the series
if it was still 2019
because the raid music is a remix of the area zero/sara turo stuff which is all toby fox
oh frick yawngay's here
Go b***h somewhere else
None, I have impeccable taste.
I love SV with all of my heart despite its obvious flaws (namely graphics and performance) and I'll stand my ground no matter how many mindbroken schizos who never played it are triggered by it.
>I'll stand my ground
have fun with the next games declining in quality and having worse graphics and performance than SV i guess. gamefreak and tpc make millions because poeple like you keep praising the game
Gen10 being worse would not make me dislike SV though. If anything it would do the opposite. I just really like the story and characters in gen 9, and the gameplay is fine too. The open world formular is a nice twist to the usual Pokémon formula and certainly better than the hallway shit we had before.
>Gen10 being worse would not make me dislike SV though
so you're okay with gamefreak never improving and being stuck with the same handful of games forever? damn, that's sad. you're proud to be a shit eater. if you like trash heaps like SV then you'll probably lap up gen 10 anyways because you have no standards
You're putting words in my mouth. No, if gen10 is even worse, I will probably not buy it unless people are saying that the story is at least on par with SV.
I care more about story and overall gameplay flow than graphics and performance. That's my standards.
If good graphics are all it takes for you to consider a game good then maybe you're the one who should overthink his standards. I honestly rather play an ugly game with something good or unique going for it than a soulless triple A graphix wankfest with no substance.
He says still deepthroating GF and giving them a hundred dollars for a game that's less optimized and with less content than previous entries on weaker hardware.
Thank you for making everyone that comes before you suffer.
More content doesn't mean the game is better. Although I do wish they would implement some sort of battle tower again.
I still think gen 9 is a massive improvement over gen 8 which I truly wish I hadn't bought. If they can manage to continue at least some sort of upward trend in gen 10 then I'm not gonna feel bad for giving them money. But we'll see.
>SV is both though
It's not. Do you know why the graphics are still so amateurish? Because GF doesn't operate like a typical triple A studio for some fricking reason. Most of the money is with TPC, GF only gets a part of that. But I think GF wants to stay on a smaller scale on purpose because they don't want to muddle their vision by hiring tons of outsider devs. GF knows exactly what Pokémon should be like and probably doesn't want other people influencing them too much. (Happened a lot with long running franchises, I mean just look at Blizzard.) I don't fully agree with that practice, they should definitely hire people who handle stuff like environmental design, performance optimisation and graphics. They've been struggling with those since the 3D era.
But I do think that they are trying to preserve the soul of Pokémon and genuinely try to create something they want to create instead of just making cashgrab slop. What's holding them back are the moronicly tight deadlines.
Anyway, I'll just get accused of fellating GF again. Point is I prefer soulful garbage made by incompetent people who care to pretty looking slop that no one but shareholders truly cared about when it was being created.
>You can't enter houses ahymore. In a JRPG
>"it's soulful actually, GF has a vision and wants to stay a tiny studio and-"
Man.
Not being able to enter most buildings anymore is a bit of a downgrade, yeah. I miss that. Again, I would blame shit like that on time constraints rather than incompetence because it's not like that's difficult to make.
I would still have a properly developed cast of main characters than random npcs sitting in a house saying inane things.
>I'll badly summarize the plot to make it seem bad
Ok.
If you genuinely think the plot is disjointed and has no buildup then you have abysmally bad media literacy.
It's obviously not a masterpiece in storytelling but it's leagues better than what the previous games did.
>I would still have a properly developed cast of main characters than random NPCs sitting in a house saying inane things.
Most Pokémon NPCs make the world feel more alive.
It's not that I dislike stories in JRPGs. But it's Pokémon. It's mediocre. Yes it's still "leagues better than what the previous games did" but it's still MEDIOCRE.
And once you have experienced the story once, it loses its punch and you now have a mediocre game with a mediocre story and little replayability.
If they want to make story games now, then they should do a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2-like game and focus on it, instead of this weird mix where we get the worst of both worlds
>little replayability.
It has the most amount of replayability since you can change the order of the challenges and with its large roster easily make multiple different teams every time.
Why does any of that shit matter when Game Freak has been forcing its shitty MULTI-EXP for two gens now?
Oh you want to make the game a little more difficult? Too bad
One step forward. Three steps backward.
>Oh you want to make the game a little more difficult?
Go to Area 1 and catch a level 5 mon then. Problem solved.
>Just give up your bros mid-game, haha :^)
No post game? Just catch random new mons and fight the league with them without training. It's like a battle tower
>Just catch new bros mid game like the games are intended to be played :^)
Correct. Maybe try doing the Pokedex for once instead of speedrunning the game with your started. Zoomers ruined Pokemon.
.
That's the thing though.
You could rotate your bros in old games
You could also keep them for the whole ride
The fact you /have/ to give up Pokémon to avoid destroying the already easy-difficulty means you have less options to play the game, not more
>You could rotate your bros in old games
At the cost of having to painfully raise a whole new team by levelling them individually. Not really a choice unless you're a masochist with too much time on your hands.
That's where the current multi-exp could come in handy but Game Freak is afraid moronic kids might lose a battle so we can't desactivate it.
>The fact you [make your own difficulty]
Yeah thats how you make kids games more difficult. Read about Nuzlockes.
The difference is that you now have to give up mons to make the game's difficulty normal instead of HARD like nuzlockes do
But it's useless to argue with Game Freak shills
You got really fixated on that "have" to drop when its merely a suggestion for your own moronic problem. But yeah its impossible to talk to people who shill early gens...
>muh bros
Just rotate your bros. I had like 20 bros by the time I finished the game.
The era of "I'll carefully plan a balanced team of 6 Pokémon that I'll use the whole game" is over. Now it's all about being more flexible and having different kinds of teams
>Most Pokémon NPCs make the world feel more alive.
I do agree with that, but those NPCs don't have to be inside of buildings, they could definitely just he standing outside. Them being in buildings doesn't add much to the worldbuilding aspect. Plus, I always found it immersion breaking how every interior looked the exact same. People living in copypaste houses (from the inside) doesn't make sense.
Anyway, I do also hate the random NPCs just standing around in SV with just a speechbubble over their head with some sort of insane shit like "I'm hungry!", especially since there's usually multiple NPCs saying the exact same thing. Also extremely immersion breaking. Would be better if you could just talk to them.
>Yes it's still "leagues better than what the previous games did" but it's still MEDIOCRE.
I'd say it's a grade above mediocre when you consider it's a game that can also be enjoyed by kids. The writing has a surprising depth that most kids wouldn't even think about. In the context of being a Pokémon game, I think the writing is really good. But yes, it can't compete with JRPGs that have stories written with adult audiences in mind. You can't really compare those.
>And once you have experienced the story once, it loses its punch and you now have a mediocre game with a mediocre story and little replayability.
I actually replayed my copy of Violet twice. I had fun experiencing the story again (especially the ending) and the open world format makes it fun to frick around and build weird teams since you can go roughly everywhere from the start.
>If they want to make story games now, then they should do a Pokemon Mystery Dungeon 2-like game and focus on it, instead of this weird mix where we get the worst of both worlds
Yeah that sounds sick actually.
This lmao.
People - both pros and antis - love to focus on the performance issues while the real problem is that the game is so fricking barren.
Empty open world. Useless towns. No Postgame.
Glitches like this are soul.
S/V glitches aren't fun but hinder your normal playthrough. RBY glitches are the opposite. You never see them unless you willingly want to (inb4 some moron says he actually surfed on the corner of Cinnabar island for minutes as a kid)
Millions of people brought Pokémon yellow and GF still went above and beyond for GSC, yeah
>S/V glitches aren't fun but hinder your normal playthrough.
never happened to me in 500h playtime
people blow this shit massively out of proportion
>Empty open world. Useless towns. No Postgame.
Blud just described Johto and Kanto.
Thing is, 3rd versions are long gone.
Platinum was the final one, as bw2 were sequels and usum were frick yous.
Yellow added a following pokemon with a unique cry, a plot that was more in line with the anime with Jesse and James showing up, you got all three starters, and also Evee was plot relevant.
Crystal improved the graphics of GS, had moving sprites, and added new story content with Suicune.
Emerald, well I never played RS but I did play fire red and it lacked day and night as well as moving pokemon sprites, which Emerald added(not that night actually looked different mind you) then advanced Steven's story and gave us the battle Frontier while reworking the plot heavily.
Platinum, well I never played the other two so I don't know what it added beyond the Frontier.
Thing is the 3rd versions had effort put into them and are arguably the game of their respective generations to play because of their improvements.
Something GF hasn't done in ages.
>this sub n64ass looking game with worse performance than a gba game that's as buggy as RBY? Acceptable
And this is why, thanks to people like you, pokemon will only get worse.
Because a dude had a sick dog once in like twenty minutes at the end in a disjointed plot that goes nowhere and has no buildup.
Now eat your sandwiches Manolo. Oh wait you can't, not animated.
>thanks to people like you
nah its thanks to people who bought third versions and showed gamefreak that they are willing to buy cashgrab garbage albeit you could say that from gen 1 too
Now this is a devious deflection, especially since 3rd versions never sell anywhere near as much as the first two.
>honestly rather play an ugly game with something good or unique going for it than a soulless triple A graphix wankfest with no substance
SV is both though, also what the frick is your problem that you can excuse this sort of bullshit binary choice from the biggest ip in history? This is mental gymnastics at its finest.
The good ones aka gens 1-5
Before the bandwagon because of PLZA, I really liked Gen 6. I thought XY were great games with well thought out pokemon diversity and we're my favorite games to do monotype runs or nuzlockes.
Y was a fun time for me. Don't get the hype for plza though since the last Legends game was ass.
Gen 5. Can't say a single positive about the Unova titles without someone throwing a shitfit.
Paldea is going to become Alola v.2 I just know it
Which is fine because both are top tier Gens
no it isn't fine because gamefreak realizing that people like those games means they'll contine to think that cutting the natdex, making the game freeze all the time due to bad performance and DLC scams are okay
SV is an absolutely awful that does less than the bare minimum. it cuts just as much if not more content than SWSH and LGPE
Maybe the reason I always liked Alola was #1 never getting US&M and #2 S&M just felt like an improved XY with loads more content.
> Paldea is going to become Alola v.2
Definitely yeah. homosexuals are gonna defend it and claim it "not like the other nugens" because the human characters pandered to them
>"not like the other nugens" because the human characters pandered to them
Isn't that just true though
They're not like other nugens cause it focuses more on human characters
Focusing on the human characters is part of what makes nugen games shit
Why? It's a JRPG and the stories are all about Pokemon in their core
No, romanceshit between ugly SV characters isn’t pokemon related content
There's no romance between SV characters lol
There’s implied romanceshit, as well as other equally cringe stuff that has nothing to do with pokemon
>There’s [headcanon], as well as other equally [headcanon]
Ok? I don't care about your shipping fanfics, there is no romance
My vibe is gen 6 XY in particular. Megas weee my favourite thing. I liked the 3d, I liked the legends, I liked the general vibe of the game. I am currently replaying it and it’s honestly bringing back some of the best feelings.
I have actually played every gen recently so I have a good grasp on them all. The other controversial game is black and white. I can tell you right now these games are fricking terrible. At first I was hit with the amazement of the sprites, music and comfy environments. But my fricking god there’s a million fricking routes, with little secret areas and a million trainers on each route no matter how small they are.
Disgusting. There’s also a very small pool of Mon that I actually like too.
Another controversial game is sun and moon. I fricking love that c**t. It makes me feel sunkist.
6 as the huge amount of Pokémon you can choose from makes every playthrough different
Gen 5
We would have quality pokemon games if you frickers didn't complain about trashbags and ice cream.
>There’ [FANFIC]
Yawn.