NTA but sales numbers and critical reception can be diametrically opposed quite often. Sonic 06 is horrible but it was one of the Xbox 360s best sellers for a long time, outselling sonic Unleashed and Generations.
A game can sell super well but still be called an objective piece of shit.
Room temperature. Only normalgays are still convinced this mediocre, enshittified JRPG is anything special. If it weren’t for the creatures themselves this shit would be dead.
there isn't a single thing gen 5 does better than gen 6
I used to think at least the story is better but nah the story is dogshit in gen 5 too.
I think they’re about equal
Gen 9 has the best designs since gen 1
They’re solid but not the best
gen 5 is the worst looking gen in the series
this shouldn't be a hot take but I see tons of morons unironically praise this game's graphics for some reason. I think zoomers just automatically praise any game that uses sprites regardless of the quality of said sprites.
To be fully animated sprites on DS, best you could possibly do is maybe something between those images. That said, the best possible scenario WOULD have been a continual improvement upon B2W2’s visual style. Add battle backgrounds, give more variety to sprite animations, and improve the sprites themselves, etc.
>To be fully animated sprites on DS, best you could possibly do is maybe something between those images
Anon what the frick are you talking about. Mario and Luigi BiS alone blow this argument out of the water.
The problem is that they had too many Pokemon to animate, so they just half-assed it and settled on some looking decent and the rest looking like the sprite equivalent of a midday flash-animated cartoon from Canada
Uhhhh... the models were already made and ready. GF was either to lazy to do some basic data entry, or TCPI made them do the dexit in order to make HOME a money printer.
Checked. Pro-dexit brand monkey homosexuals blown the frick out. Imagine knowing shitfreak lied to your face and still sucking the shit right out of their bug-infested anus. Pokegays are an embarrassment.
If they could asset import one Pokémon model, they could do it for all 1020+ with barely any effort. It really is just a simple importing of assets at this point with a small amount of coding, which woul take no more than 10 minutes each. GF is either lazy with data entry (which could be done with a team of interns over a month) or TCPI is holding them back to make miney off of HOME.
>You have never even heard of "rigging," have you?
If rigging was such a difficult task then the ingame animations wouldn't be a completele copy of the XY animations.
When GF made all the models, they were rigged too, genius, along with their skins and basic animations were finished. All of it was ready and future-proofed so they wouldn't have to keep making new models for every Pokémon every game. GF is lying, or TCPI is lying. End of. Take your L already.
Also, explain this:
>You have never even heard of "rigging," have you?
If rigging was such a difficult task then the ingame animations wouldn't be a completele copy of the XY animations.
While I agree that Dexit had to come eventually, the idea of a fully 3D adventure with our bro-mon has been my, and probably many others, dream for decades. It being done as the chance of it was coming into realization was a definite sore spot. The salt on the wound was that neither the game before or after were particularly great, so there was no Dexit ending on a high note nor obvious proof that Dexit was good in the long run. The 3D models take up space argument doesn't even hold that much water seeing just how unoptimized S/M is with the whole "50 Lillies" fiasco. It's likely Sw/Sh has even worse optimization.
elite 4 rematches
manga
keep the focus on your its own generation (no, the "kanto clone dex" meme argument doesn't count)
yes, the story is better
difficulty (no, the "it's not hard, you just grew up" excuse doesn't work here)
>elite 4 rematches
I can rematch the e4 and mindlessly mash A them all I want in gen 6 just like in gen 5. npc rematches are fricking worthless content.
>keep the focus on your its own generation
you being asshurt at kanto pokemon existing doesn't mean gen 6 didn't focus on its own generation
>difficulty
clicking A to beat the NPC isn't harder than clicking A to beat the NPC.
there were actually more battles in gen 6 I had a non-zero percent chance of losing thanks to Sky Battles existing.
>you being asshurt at kanto pokemon existing doesn't mean gen 6 didn't focus on its own generation
It doesn't matter, Unova still does a better job than Kalos at this, even with this weak attempt to hide this flaw.
>Unova still does a better job than Kalos at this
In what way?
Because Mega Evolution has a shit distribution and both Z-Moves and Gigantamax "fixed" this problem.
Yes, Kanto pandering (region and characters) hate is overrated on this board, but species pandering is unbearable, especially the Lucario circlejerk moment.
>"doesn't matter" posting >misinterpreting the criticism to make it's critics looks dumb >"doesn't count because everything is shit, ignoring all nuance"
This is tiring after years anon. Are you okay?
>strawman posting >crying when people respond to what your post actually said >things that are literally equal are nuanced because....I said so
This is tiring after years anon. Are you okay?
More challenging level curve, better AI, and a mode that actually let's you fine tune difficulty instead of easy and easier with XY.
I don't care if you think the whole franchise is easy because you play like an autist speed runner instead of for fun, but Gen 5 is objectively harder than Gen 6.
>Kalosgays use the word under every breath, oftentimes moronicly >Nothing >A Unovagay uses it once, arguably in an applicable way >NOOOOOOO YOU CANT USE THAT WORD
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No, it's just as moronic when fans of other regions use it too.
The entire Pokédex should only ever be cutemon, and waifumon. “Cool” is entirely wasted on this franchise. Design focus should only be on the aspects this franchise is excels at, cute and sexy cute.
The level curve in johto games is fine. You're just supposed to beat the pokemon league with a team of level 33-37 mons, then the level of trainers in kanto will finally start to make sense.
There's nothing wrong with DPPT's distribution. Just use the Game Corner TMs and/or the Move Tutor for coverage, it's actually quite easy to make different builds of pokemon compared to some of the other games.
To add onto this, people use mons like Staraptor, Luxray, Lucario and Garchomp not because there's no other options (there very obviously is), but because these mons are so fricking damn cool.
You don't see people claim Kanto has bad distribution because people use Nidoking.
> it's actually quite easy to make different builds of pokemon compared to some of the other games.
People don’t tend to really consider that sort of thing, but I suspect they made the dex smaller than hoenns to account for this exact reason. Players are given less options for Pokémon but in turn are more easily able to customized each mons movepool. I always find myself making use of coverage moves in gen 4, whereas I don’t as much in earlier Gens due to resources like TMs being rarer.
pmd is one of the most unfun and boring spinoff titles in the entire franchise and there is absolutely nothing that warrants it having eleven different entries
Pokemon generally has good monster designs but will never have truly great monster designs because it is too focused on being marketable. Digimon, SMT, Dragon Quest, and even Yokai Watch will always blow Pokemon out of the water because they have found their niche.
praising a game for how much """postgame""" it has is fricking moronic 99% of the time and a lot of the time the """postgame""" ends up just being a detriment to the game.
>hurfff platinum locking off all its interesting encounters to moronic pokeradar/swarm/dual slot postgame gimmicks makes it good! >hurfff bw2 not even letting you fricking breed until the credits and having random NPCs nonsensically blocking half the routes makes it good!
this shouldn't be a hot take but I see tons of morons unironically praise this game's graphics for some reason. I think zoomers just automatically praise any game that uses sprites regardless of the quality of said sprites.
Daring today, aren’t we. These are all objectively debunked several times over.
this shouldn't be a hot take but I see tons of morons unironically praise this game's graphics for some reason. I think zoomers just automatically praise any game that uses sprites regardless of the quality of said sprites.
praising a game for how much """postgame""" it has is fricking moronic 99% of the time and a lot of the time the """postgame""" ends up just being a detriment to the game.
>hurfff platinum locking off all its interesting encounters to moronic pokeradar/swarm/dual slot postgame gimmicks makes it good! >hurfff bw2 not even letting you fricking breed until the credits and having random NPCs nonsensically blocking half the routes makes it good!
>elite 4 rematches
I can rematch the e4 and mindlessly mash A them all I want in gen 6 just like in gen 5. NPC rematches are fricking worthless content.
>keep the focus on your its own generation
you being asshurt at kanto pokemon existing doesn't mean gen 6 didn't focus on its own generation
>difficulty
clicking A to beat the NPC isn't harder than clicking A to beat the NPC.
there were actually more battles in gen 6 I had a non-zero percent chance of losing thanks to Sky Battles existing.
you get to share ONE (1) opinion with us, yawngay. not 3
Pokemon has never been particularly amazing compared to it's competition (even with the first gen notwithstanding as they were finding their footing) and by the time Gen 4 rolled around it was behind its' contemporaries in tons of ways that should've been called out. The fact that the quality has slipped so much as of late is 100% the fault of the completely uncritical masses who bought the games without question before, and the fact that people are now fuming about how the series' gone "downhill" while they get ignored by GF and sales continue to remain high is just karma.
I say this as someone who's been playing since Gen 2 and loves the series to death btw. I was 100% part of the problem, but unlike a lot of people I actually admit it.
Sinnoh is a better designed region than hoenn (and I love hoenn). It literally has all the same positives while having a better balance of water and land. I think what leads to people preferring Hoenn is that Hoenn is tropical and exotic while Sinnoh is quite simple and down-to-earth. None of the cities are as fantastical as places like Fortree, and none of the biomes are as unique as something like route 113. The environments and tilesets can get a little samey as well, especially in DP. But I think this is actually a positive thing overall, Sinnoh really benefits from the change in tone. Everything about it indicates it’s supposed to be a more grounded, believable region, right down to the focus on history and world-building for the Pokémon universe.
Tldr I think Sinnoh is actually a top tier region but people just don’t really appreciate the value of what its trying to be
tbh it's just the current trend to shit on Sinnoh, people will move on in a few years.
The road to Snowpoint City has yet to be topped in any pokemon game
>The road to Snowpoint City has yet to be topped in any pokemon game
Based, finally another man with good taste in routes. Route 216/217 were the first time the series attempted a snowy area and they got it perfectly. The experience of trucking through an open snowscape in a thick blizzard, only staying coordinated due to a few scattered trees, before eventually reaching an isolated town at the northern tip of the region is absolutely amazing, helped in no small part by phenomenal music. People b***h that Sinnoh have more snowy areas, but I’m glad it didn’t, it made first reaching northern Sinnoh that much more impactful
That's why i can't take seriously anyone who claims Sinnoh has "no variety", like, entering route 216 for the first time honestly feels like you're entering another region entirely.
tbh it's just the current trend to shit on Sinnoh, people will move on in a few years.
The road to Snowpoint City has yet to be topped in any pokemon game
>The road to Snowpoint City has yet to be topped in any pokemon game
Based, finally another man with good taste in routes. Route 216/217 were the first time the series attempted a snowy area and they got it perfectly. The experience of trucking through an open snowscape in a thick blizzard, only staying coordinated due to a few scattered trees, before eventually reaching an isolated town at the northern tip of the region is absolutely amazing, helped in no small part by phenomenal music. People b***h that Sinnoh have more snowy areas, but I’m glad it didn’t, it made first reaching northern Sinnoh that much more impactful
That's why i can't take seriously anyone who claims Sinnoh has "no variety", like, entering route 216 for the first time honestly feels like you're entering another region entirely.
apparently rare around here
regarding GS leaks: we weren't robbed. not even a little bit. the vast majority of the beta designs were very bad and the ones that weren't are no great loss
>There is no such thing a bad Pokémon design. >SV is great and would have been better if delayed to a more powerful console. >Paradox mons were not a mistake >Smogon is filled with overrated whiners who's only response is "Ban it!" to something that takes more than 3 brain cells to outthink
What the actual frick are you talking about? I use like 12 mons on rotation in playthroughs of Gens 3 and 4 and still end up slightly overleveled as long as I don’t skip any battles. If you wanna argue the exp share better incentivizes using other mons that’s one thing, but to imply that the old games were inherently grindy in ANY capacity is tantamount to shouting loud and clear for all to hear that you were, are, and always will be a mega-shitter who’s opinion is worthless. For that to be the case, you’d have to actively try and fail to use pokemon at the levels they’d be at pre-grinding, an occurrence only possible if you’re a certified supreme-shitter
I'll never understand why people make such a big deal out of linearity/non-linearity. this board acts like linear game progression is a crime against humanity and that it's the worst thing ever. the fact that people say SV is better than anything since the 2D era games or simply a good game in general is proof of that. SV is a rancid dogshit that fixed none of SWSH's flaws but it has the open world meme so it's automatically good in their eyes
Everyone treats Team Plasma as this understandable but misguided evil team when they're actually just a bunch of thugs who use people's empathy to steal their Pokemon.
What annoys is people are still saying this ten years later.
Gen 2 is overhated and complaining about the elite 4 level curve is for idiots who can't spend 10 minutes grinding in Victory Road.
Gen 3 and 5 are peak.
Sinnoh is very slow and boring. Has some of the most boring Pokémon and was the beginning of the power creep which instantly diamondized in future gens.
Mewtwo and Ho-oh are the best legendary Pokemon lorewise. Everything else is weird JRPG tripe.
>Gen 2 is overhated and complaining about the elite 4 level curve is for idiots who can't spend 10 minutes grinding in Victory Road.
Honestly, While I do agree that the level curve could adjusted better I never really got the complaints about Elite Four. Your pretty much expected to be underlevel but I never had much issues because my team tends to be in late 30s to early 40s. The only really difficulty is Lance and his hyper beams and outrages in gen 4
Anti bbnders are trash because they treat me like trash. They are also hypocrites who get mad at us autistic people for caring about our imaginary animals even though it's not a big deal in real life but they care about about "muh internet Fandom discourse" and the reply section of a corporate Twitter account.
>Removing HMs was moronic game design >Random encounters aren't "outdated" >Convergent Pokémon like Toedscool are good and what all regional forms should have always been instead of cluttering up existing mons >Dexit was a necessary evil that was handled in the worst possible way in order to grift people into a subscription service. Transfers between games should have stopped entirely >There's no good reason for Pokémon games to have dropped the tile overworld
Dexcut turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it actually is giving us time to spend with old Pokémon that we normally would have just cast aside in older titles where they all came back at once. That said, cutting moves is stupid as frick and GF should just work harder to make them function better and feel balanced. Cutting moves produces less diversity and cuts out actual strategies fo certain Pokémon who feel the brunt of the cuts
The easiest way to tell that the latest 2 generations are the worst to date is that people only make porn of about 3 pokemon from each gen. Horrible numbers, even gen 6 and 7 had a couple dozen decent options.
>room-temp
Gen V is the second best after KANTOOOO >warm
Despite all Ganker's "water and horns" shitflinging RSE are actually roughly as good as GSC. >hot
SwSh are good, and better than the past two gens
Pokemon needs a hard reboot if Game Freak refuses to hire more terminate positions to make the game. And we know Nintendo won't do anything as long as these games effortlessly sell over 15 million copes in three days.
I mean a hard reboot. Scrap every single Pokemon that currently exists, give us a roster of 210 completely new mons. This will also be the perfect opportunity to overhaul entire mechanics.
One day, technology will make technical limitations for game development a thing of the past; at least as we think of it today. When that day comes, it will be widely understood that Pokémon is the greatest concept for an entertainment franchise ever conceived.
just a good suggestion for TPCi: before they think of a new gimmick/move/ability/pokemon for the future games, they should always ask themselves first: >will Finchinator ban this on OU?
if not, go through with it. if yes, forget it!
Dexcut is largely irrelevant
Pokemon games should never get voice acting
Light dating sim aspects should be expanded on a little
Grass should resist Fighting
Gen 8 introduced some of my favorite Pokemon ever >Dracovish >Thievul >Dragapult >Toxtricity
And the games were fine too. Nothing to get too excited about, but getting to know and use those four made it more than worth it. I still use the same Toxitricity from my first Sword playthrough in SV. I'm looking forward to seeing my Thievul and Dracovish again someday.
Dex cut killed part of the mystic of Pokémon.
At least for me. I no longer feel compelled to collect them all, and I don't care about gimmicks I know will not be there for the next generation.
They should get rid of repetitive trainer battles and also rework the battle system. Focus on exploration and carching pokémon. Basically what they did with PLA but better.
I think battle facilities are fine in theory, cause they are not mandatory and they usually have some kind of gimmick that makes them interesting. Maybe they need some rework too, though, since just doing long winning streaks is not necessarily a challenge but more like a pain in the ass, specially considering sometimes you lose because of RGN.
I'd rather a T-Rated Pokemon game be inspired by Earthbound instead of doing shit like Reborn.
The Pokemon Company should just make an official statement about how that they'll never add the sound type.
It'd be cool if we got a Pokemon game where the Pokemon rebel.... against Team Plasma. Like imagine exploring Unova in a timeline where Team Plasma won in Black and White, only for N's plans to separate humans and Pokemon, ends up spurring the Pokemon to rebel with several trainers working with them.
If your first game was from Gen 3 your opinion on Pokemon games is completely worthless.
Every single fully evolved mon should be BST 500 at a minimum or have an ability that makes up for it.
Every Pokemon that sucks without it's Mega should have gotten it's Mega turned into a Permanent Evo
VGC is a trash format when it allows "Uber" legendaries.
TPC should turn a blind eye to Genned mons if the stats/moves/ability etc are completely possible/legal
Natures are bad for the game and actively make them worse
did you mean to say gne 3+? are you seriously singling out gen 3? what if my first gens were 1 and 4 at the same time >Every single fully evolved mon should be BST 500 at a minimum or have an ability that makes up for it
holy shit yes. also, no SFMAs >TPC should turn a blind eye to Genned mons if the stats/moves/ability etc are completely possible/legal
i have to agree with this too. if the set is still legal then complaining about genning and hacking is just pure autism
Coomerbait Pokemon are fricking cringe and a pleague on the franchise. Also literal 10 year olds in the anime shouldn't be wearing crop tops with booty shorts.
The gameplay doesn't matter, as evidenced by continuously shit games printing money continuously. Gen wars don't matter. Linearity or PvP balance or level curve or graphics or bugs or whatever the frick nerd bullshit complaint you have doesn't matter.
Plush. Cartoons. Comics. Cards. Fricking sleep apps. That matters. THE GAMEPLAY DOESN'T MATTER. You will continue to get expensive corporate slop that preys on the sunk cost of your childhood and you will buy it anyway.
Look at it this way. Marvel. Cars. Internet. Food. Life. Literally everything is falling apart and worse than you remember and it doesn't matter BECAUSE YOU WILL BUY IT ANYWAY. People defend mediocrity because the alternative is admitting to wasting your life on worthless addictions. The fans doomed the franchise. Pokemon Red and Blue was a statement about postwar japan and RPGs at that moment. Everything after is money. Enjoy your cope.
> The fandom is the worst part about this already mediocre franchise.
The fandom is the only thing keeping it alive. I would never have poured so many hours of my life into Pokémon if it weren’t for things like shoddy battle and showdown, Pokesav and PKHeX, countless romhacks and fan art and I even had a giant drinking game monopoly thing that was so fun to get smashed to with friends. Pokémon has the most passionate fans out of any game series I know. People put so much work into mons FOR FREE. Even /vp/ counts, as a consistently entertaining message board and probably the best place to shitpost about mons on the internet. I love the fans. I just wish some of the more fervent fans wouldn’t defend a corporation that doesn’t love them back. We deserve better.
It should be possible to raise any pokemon's base stats once it is fully evolved. They would follow the same base stat ratio, just keep going up until it hits a max (probably 600) that is the same for every pokemon. (Legendaries/mythics/whatever and gimmick mons like Slaking could be exceptions to this.)
So your Metagross has a BST of 600, so there you go, no effort required. Your Beedrill can get to BST 600 but it'll just take a lot of grinding/work/items/something to show you training your shitmon to be the very best that no one ever was.
I didn't think this was a hot take but I mentioned it to some pokemon players once and they lost their shit about how it would make strong pokemon worthless or something.
>oras shelly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> old shelly
I laught at people saying the older one was better, like they didnt even give a frick about her until oras came out. also I recommend to these gays stop using shigino sohuzi's fanart of old shelly like it was an official art for comparisons
>Main story is solid >Can choose between playing as best girl May or dating her >Exp Share can be toggled off for challenge runs. >Together with X&Y, you can get all national dex entries except for the mythicals which are not needed for the shiny charm. >Stays playable after bank shuts down due to full national dex access. >Strong ebay market for loaded cartridges if you want mythicals. >Dexnav >Great soundtrack >Has a battle facility >Megas >Soaring >Dive is actually good in ORAS >Solve mysteries >Delta Episode >You go to space!
XY were the last decent Pokemon games, despite it's faults it added a lot of new features and felt ambitious overall they clearly had a vision that they didn't get to fully realize, like clearly story was unfinished and while I'm not into pokemon for story it feels rushed out and that normally isn't good, along with End game content being very weak.
What makes is worse than most of the DS era is that it lacks that end game.
And the routes aren't complete hallways like SM/USUM they did try.
While on the lower end I still think they the best of the 3D era which is kind of pathetic shows how much heart was lost going forward.
Even ORAS tried a little unlike BDSP.
the people who say this either didn’t pay attention to the game or are just patterngayging redditors who think it’s automatically unfinished just because GF didn’t resell them a copy of the game with a different thing on the box
> What makes is worse than most of the DS era is that it lacks that end game
this is also a moronic NPC take
making 90% of the encounters geodude and zubat and locking all the good encounters to postgame like gen 4 doesn’t make the game better
adding a copious amount of npc roadblocks that magically disappear after the credits to the point where I can’t even breed or revive fossils until postgame like gen 5 doesn’t make the game better
Not even by today's standards gen 1 was trash even back then honestly, and Kanto is fricking nothing region.
What pisses me off the most is that we got three remakes and non of them have made Kanto interesting, Kanto needs a glow up desperately, FRLG are the closest we got and they just added a few islands and that was it.
LGPE had the chance to reimagine the region and they still reused the layout of an old Gameboy game that was outdated even back then.
I don't know if it's a Hot take anymore...
But Hoenn does have to much water and the issue comes down to so little variety in the water you have like one sunken ship and that's kind of it, not enough dive locations that have hidden dungeons or more sunken ships to make the amount of water feel justifiable.
While having what are multiple islands is cool the fact that the ocean has the least to explore and find makes it much more of a drag not mention the encounters are really shit, 90% tentacool, why does a region that has so much water have the most repetitive encounters in the water, at the starting route I at least could find 3 Pokemon but in the water it feels like only 1 Pokemon exists, like so many Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn mons could have been placed in water but they fricking did so little like why!?
Why are gen 6 defenders so autistic?
They feel like modern day gen wunners but even most Gen wunners realized RBY were shit but frick you it was the shit for them so they still like it.
This franchise is bad
not really a hot take
It is when SV made 10 million dollarydoos in 3 days.
NTA but sales numbers and critical reception can be diametrically opposed quite often. Sonic 06 is horrible but it was one of the Xbox 360s best sellers for a long time, outselling sonic Unleashed and Generations.
A game can sell super well but still be called an objective piece of shit.
Room temperature. Only normalgays are still convinced this mediocre, enshittified JRPG is anything special. If it weren’t for the creatures themselves this shit would be dead.
hoenn fricking sucks
meowscarda is garbage and skeledirge is better
This is just the truth
I think they’re about equal
They’re solid but not the best
To be fully animated sprites on DS, best you could possibly do is maybe something between those images. That said, the best possible scenario WOULD have been a continual improvement upon B2W2’s visual style. Add battle backgrounds, give more variety to sprite animations, and improve the sprites themselves, etc.
>To be fully animated sprites on DS, best you could possibly do is maybe something between those images
Anon what the frick are you talking about. Mario and Luigi BiS alone blow this argument out of the water.
The problem is that they had too many Pokemon to animate, so they just half-assed it and settled on some looking decent and the rest looking like the sprite equivalent of a midday flash-animated cartoon from Canada
I can't conceive the fact that this is actually kind of a hot take.
A real hot take.
Sword & Shield was enjoyable even though you can feel the cut content.
Also, Dexit was necessary and the people who cry over it are literally stupid children who don't comprehend what it means to work with 3D assets.
People who comment this don’t know how games are made or that all the models are from xy
moron
I may be moronic but I’m not wrong.
>posts texture when talking about models
Smartest nu pokemon shill.
Uhhhh... the models were already made and ready. GF was either to lazy to do some basic data entry, or TCPI made them do the dexit in order to make HOME a money printer.
Source: i'm a gamedev college graduate
Checked. Pro-dexit brand monkey homosexuals blown the frick out. Imagine knowing shitfreak lied to your face and still sucking the shit right out of their bug-infested anus. Pokegays are an embarrassment.
>"Gamedev college graduate"
>Thinks that 3D models are just drag-and-drop then work perfectly
Your "degree" is worth shit, bro.
he got quads so you better shut the frick up. dexit was a mistake
If they could asset import one Pokémon model, they could do it for all 1020+ with barely any effort. It really is just a simple importing of assets at this point with a small amount of coding, which woul take no more than 10 minutes each. GF is either lazy with data entry (which could be done with a team of interns over a month) or TCPI is holding them back to make miney off of HOME.
So STFU and GTFO, dexit shill.
You have never even heard of "rigging," have you?
And for the record, those are all remakes of the old games.
>You have never even heard of "rigging," have you?
If rigging was such a difficult task then the ingame animations wouldn't be a completele copy of the XY animations.
They’re still the same in terms of how much exp you’re getting.
When GF made all the models, they were rigged too, genius, along with their skins and basic animations were finished. All of it was ready and future-proofed so they wouldn't have to keep making new models for every Pokémon every game. GF is lying, or TCPI is lying. End of. Take your L already.
Also, explain this:
While I agree that Dexit had to come eventually, the idea of a fully 3D adventure with our bro-mon has been my, and probably many others, dream for decades. It being done as the chance of it was coming into realization was a definite sore spot. The salt on the wound was that neither the game before or after were particularly great, so there was no Dexit ending on a high note nor obvious proof that Dexit was good in the long run. The 3D models take up space argument doesn't even hold that much water seeing just how unoptimized S/M is with the whole "50 Lillies" fiasco. It's likely Sw/Sh has even worse optimization.
PLA is the best pokemon game since the DS era
This is objectively true
Also, SV is worst than SHSW
>This is objectively true
no, because it implies the DS era games are good.
>implying it’s not true
Dexcut was good.
What a bunch of scorching takes, this could be reddit you guys are so controversial!
ORAS doesn't have enough water.
SV is not only bad, but the worst Pokemon game by a wide margin
And that shouldn't be a hot take
Yeah, it's a mess of a game
SV was the first Pokémon game I didn't complete
The process of transferring was needlessly obnoxious prior to Gen 6
BDSP is the best remake
People who post hot takes that are this cold are ugly.
there isn't a single thing gen 5 does better than gen 6
I used to think at least the story is better but nah the story is dogshit in gen 5 too.
elite 4 rematches
manga
keep the focus on your its own generation (no, the "kanto clone dex" meme argument doesn't count)
yes, the story is better
difficulty (no, the "it's not hard, you just grew up" excuse doesn't work here)
>elite 4 rematches
I can rematch the e4 and mindlessly mash A them all I want in gen 6 just like in gen 5. npc rematches are fricking worthless content.
>keep the focus on your its own generation
you being asshurt at kanto pokemon existing doesn't mean gen 6 didn't focus on its own generation
>difficulty
clicking A to beat the NPC isn't harder than clicking A to beat the NPC.
there were actually more battles in gen 6 I had a non-zero percent chance of losing thanks to Sky Battles existing.
>you being asshurt at kanto pokemon existing doesn't mean gen 6 didn't focus on its own generation
It doesn't matter, Unova still does a better job than Kalos at this, even with this weak attempt to hide this flaw.
>Unova still does a better job than Kalos at this
In what way?
>flaw
Explain how it's a flaw.
Because Mega Evolution has a shit distribution and both Z-Moves and Gigantamax "fixed" this problem.
Yes, Kanto pandering (region and characters) hate is overrated on this board, but species pandering is unbearable, especially the Lucario circlejerk moment.
>"doesn't matter" posting
>misinterpreting the criticism to make it's critics looks dumb
>"doesn't count because everything is shit, ignoring all nuance"
This is tiring after years anon. Are you okay?
>strawman posting
>crying when people respond to what your post actually said
>things that are literally equal are nuanced because....I said so
This is tiring after years anon. Are you okay?
I should have known copy pasta was coming right up.
How is a game with 2 additional easy modes supposed to be harder?
More challenging level curve, better AI, and a mode that actually let's you fine tune difficulty instead of easy and easier with XY.
I don't care if you think the whole franchise is easy because you play like an autist speed runner instead of for fun, but Gen 5 is objectively harder than Gen 6.
>objectively
lmao and the autism reveals itself.
>Kalosgays use the word under every breath, oftentimes moronicly
>Nothing
>A Unovagay uses it once, arguably in an applicable way
>NOOOOOOO YOU CANT USE THAT WORD
No, it's just as moronic when fans of other regions use it too.
Fricking based.
Every single pokémon created at the time MUST be included in the game. Otherwise, the game is absolute dogshit.
>elite 4 rematches
fricking with e4 level 75 mons with level 50 mons is fun in the chauteau, and being poor in kalos IS a skill issue
The entire Pokédex should only ever be cutemon, and waifumon. “Cool” is entirely wasted on this franchise. Design focus should only be on the aspects this franchise is excels at, cute and sexy cute.
You're a gay.
The level curve in johto games is fine. You're just supposed to beat the pokemon league with a team of level 33-37 mons, then the level of trainers in kanto will finally start to make sense.
Using age-related buzzwords, saying flaws are meme arguments and using future games as a scapegoat do not take away the flaws of your favorite games.
I don't have any, all my opinions are cold as frick.
>PLA is one of the best pokemon games ever
>Gen 3-5 are the best
>Gen 6-9 are trash
Cold but gold. Everything you said was true.
I don't have any, all my opinions are cold as frick.
>gen 5 is shit
Objectmons are generally good.
Skitty.
Which mons are these from?
I don't know!
Isn't the red thing on the right from that mosquito ultra beast?
Pupitar or Gliscor on the left? The color reminds me of another pokemon too but I cant remember.
left one is the mlp abomination from gen 5
don't know what the other one is
Apparently it's the Capture Styler from Ranger. Only way I could've been able to tell was if I recognized the beam.
kys noncontributory massreply homosexual
My favorite generation is better than your favorite generation
Nate is underrated
Discordtrannies are now on moderation and banning the proofs.
ribbongays are the true discordtrannies
The duck isn't that bad. Actually it grew on me quite a bit.
Just a very bold final evolution but thematically it fits well into the game.
Alolagays are slowly becoming the worst part of /vp/, and I imagine they will become the worst part once gens 10 or 11 come out.
why's that?
There's nothing wrong with DPPT's distribution. Just use the Game Corner TMs and/or the Move Tutor for coverage, it's actually quite easy to make different builds of pokemon compared to some of the other games.
To add onto this, people use mons like Staraptor, Luxray, Lucario and Garchomp not because there's no other options (there very obviously is), but because these mons are so fricking damn cool.
You don't see people claim Kanto has bad distribution because people use Nidoking.
> it's actually quite easy to make different builds of pokemon compared to some of the other games.
People don’t tend to really consider that sort of thing, but I suspect they made the dex smaller than hoenns to account for this exact reason. Players are given less options for Pokémon but in turn are more easily able to customized each mons movepool. I always find myself making use of coverage moves in gen 4, whereas I don’t as much in earlier Gens due to resources like TMs being rarer.
Gen 9 has the best designs since gen 1
>Hot takes thread
>it's flooded with the coldest takes ever
A Fire-type OHKO move doesn't exist yet, so everyone has to settle with using Sheer Cold.
pmd is one of the most unfun and boring spinoff titles in the entire franchise and there is absolutely nothing that warrants it having eleven different entries
Pokemon generally has good monster designs but will never have truly great monster designs because it is too focused on being marketable. Digimon, SMT, Dragon Quest, and even Yokai Watch will always blow Pokemon out of the water because they have found their niche.
This. Ironically Pokemon designs need to appear less monstrous for "marketability" whereas the more "niche" franchises can go all out
praising a game for how much """postgame""" it has is fricking moronic 99% of the time and a lot of the time the """postgame""" ends up just being a detriment to the game.
>hurfff platinum locking off all its interesting encounters to moronic pokeradar/swarm/dual slot postgame gimmicks makes it good!
>hurfff bw2 not even letting you fricking breed until the credits and having random NPCs nonsensically blocking half the routes makes it good!
Daring today, aren’t we. These are all objectively debunked several times over.
it's impossible to defend no daycare or fossils before the post game.
entry war discussion is completely moronic in a series where every entry is fundamentally the same game
this isn't zelda. this isn't resident evil. it sure as frick isn't final fantasy.
it's the same fricking game. the series has been so stale you can literally port the battle system from a 2023 title into a 2003 entry with ease
gen 5 is the worst looking gen in the series
this shouldn't be a hot take but I see tons of morons unironically praise this game's graphics for some reason. I think zoomers just automatically praise any game that uses sprites regardless of the quality of said sprites.
you get to share ONE (1) opinion with us, yawngay. not 3
who the frick looks at the back sprites during battle?
Hoenn is really mediocre outside a few routes and most people praise it for nostalgia (or the BF)
Gen 5 has a good, solid dex and I'm tired of pretending it doesn't. Alot of the pokemon here are underrated as frick.
the most overrated ugly dogshit i've ever seen in my life
>overrated
What AU do you live on?
true, they're properly rated outside of this contrarian mutt troony board
>tfw it's muttschizo again
Okay, conversation done.
Anyone who can't criticize something without using some shitty nickname or buzzword is best disregarded.
Every rival, gym leader, elite 4, and champion should only use Pokemon that were introduced in their gen.
Zoomer take
Based
>t.
Not really a hot take
Gen 3 baby
it's been all downhill since gen 4
Powkemon was never good
pokemon had already lost what made it interesting by the time GSC came out
Pokemon has never been particularly amazing compared to it's competition (even with the first gen notwithstanding as they were finding their footing) and by the time Gen 4 rolled around it was behind its' contemporaries in tons of ways that should've been called out. The fact that the quality has slipped so much as of late is 100% the fault of the completely uncritical masses who bought the games without question before, and the fact that people are now fuming about how the series' gone "downhill" while they get ignored by GF and sales continue to remain high is just karma.
I say this as someone who's been playing since Gen 2 and loves the series to death btw. I was 100% part of the problem, but unlike a lot of people I actually admit it.
It's ok to gen and competitive Pokémon isn't meant to measure your ability to brainlessly press buttons and grind items for 1 hour
Diantha is way hotter than Cynthia
Sinnoh games are the only ones with actually well designed NPC teams
Sinnoh is a better designed region than hoenn (and I love hoenn). It literally has all the same positives while having a better balance of water and land. I think what leads to people preferring Hoenn is that Hoenn is tropical and exotic while Sinnoh is quite simple and down-to-earth. None of the cities are as fantastical as places like Fortree, and none of the biomes are as unique as something like route 113. The environments and tilesets can get a little samey as well, especially in DP. But I think this is actually a positive thing overall, Sinnoh really benefits from the change in tone. Everything about it indicates it’s supposed to be a more grounded, believable region, right down to the focus on history and world-building for the Pokémon universe.
Tldr I think Sinnoh is actually a top tier region but people just don’t really appreciate the value of what its trying to be
tbh it's just the current trend to shit on Sinnoh, people will move on in a few years.
The road to Snowpoint City has yet to be topped in any pokemon game
>The road to Snowpoint City has yet to be topped in any pokemon game
Based, finally another man with good taste in routes. Route 216/217 were the first time the series attempted a snowy area and they got it perfectly. The experience of trucking through an open snowscape in a thick blizzard, only staying coordinated due to a few scattered trees, before eventually reaching an isolated town at the northern tip of the region is absolutely amazing, helped in no small part by phenomenal music. People b***h that Sinnoh have more snowy areas, but I’m glad it didn’t, it made first reaching northern Sinnoh that much more impactful
That's why i can't take seriously anyone who claims Sinnoh has "no variety", like, entering route 216 for the first time honestly feels like you're entering another region entirely.
People who play Gen 1-3 using lower case letters in their names are homosexuals. Scream your pokemon's name like a man you fricking pussies.
A Lv75 Seviper can wipe the floor with Cynthia's team.
show us the battle
apparently rare around here
regarding GS leaks: we weren't robbed. not even a little bit. the vast majority of the beta designs were very bad and the ones that weren't are no great loss
gen 5 where the last games worth playing
XY are actually pretty good.
SwSh was a better game than S/V
100%, especially with the DLC
Pokemon games are all shit
i don't get these genwars it's like saying trash is better than garbage
The spinoffs are better than the mainline games
>There is no such thing a bad Pokémon design.
>SV is great and would have been better if delayed to a more powerful console.
>Paradox mons were not a mistake
>Smogon is filled with overrated whiners who's only response is "Ban it!" to something that takes more than 3 brain cells to outthink
Coomers are valid pokemon fans.
megas were really fricking lame; ORAS sucked (because megas were fricking lame)
Gen 1 is the worst gen.
typhlosion is objectively better than charizard, and of course ethawn is above all ships
Kino
Switch era is objectively the best era.
Old games aren't hard but they're very grindy if you actually want to use more than 2 Pokemon.
What the actual frick are you talking about? I use like 12 mons on rotation in playthroughs of Gens 3 and 4 and still end up slightly overleveled as long as I don’t skip any battles. If you wanna argue the exp share better incentivizes using other mons that’s one thing, but to imply that the old games were inherently grindy in ANY capacity is tantamount to shouting loud and clear for all to hear that you were, are, and always will be a mega-shitter who’s opinion is worthless. For that to be the case, you’d have to actively try and fail to use pokemon at the levels they’d be at pre-grinding, an occurrence only possible if you’re a certified supreme-shitter
>Gens 3 and 4
He said OLD games, child.
That includes FrLg and HgSs you knob.
pokemon is still good, you just got older
Pokemon is still good, but they really need to give the devs more time for what they've come to ask of them.
no the modern games have many aspects that make them worse than older games. this just sounds trolling, either that or you're coping
LGPE is the best and most fun Pokemon game since HGSS.
z moves are better than megas
Galar is the was the only soulful 3D game
I'll never understand why people make such a big deal out of linearity/non-linearity. this board acts like linear game progression is a crime against humanity and that it's the worst thing ever. the fact that people say SV is better than anything since the 2D era games or simply a good game in general is proof of that. SV is a rancid dogshit that fixed none of SWSH's flaws but it has the open world meme so it's automatically good in their eyes
Everyone treats Team Plasma as this understandable but misguided evil team when they're actually just a bunch of thugs who use people's empathy to steal their Pokemon.
What annoys is people are still saying this ten years later.
I THINK ALL POKEMON SHOULD BE ANIMAL + ELEMENT
ANYTHING ELSE IS WHACK AS FRICK
I always found anti-animalgays incredibly dumb when an elemental mouse was used as the franchise mascot
Gen 2 is overhated and complaining about the elite 4 level curve is for idiots who can't spend 10 minutes grinding in Victory Road.
Gen 3 and 5 are peak.
Sinnoh is very slow and boring. Has some of the most boring Pokémon and was the beginning of the power creep which instantly diamondized in future gens.
Mewtwo and Ho-oh are the best legendary Pokemon lorewise. Everything else is weird JRPG tripe.
>Gen 2 is overhated and complaining about the elite 4 level curve is for idiots who can't spend 10 minutes grinding in Victory Road.
Honestly, While I do agree that the level curve could adjusted better I never really got the complaints about Elite Four. Your pretty much expected to be underlevel but I never had much issues because my team tends to be in late 30s to early 40s. The only really difficulty is Lance and his hyper beams and outrages in gen 4
Anti bbnders are trash because they treat me like trash. They are also hypocrites who get mad at us autistic people for caring about our imaginary animals even though it's not a big deal in real life but they care about about "muh internet Fandom discourse" and the reply section of a corporate Twitter account.
this shouldn't be a hot take. pokemon are the namesake of the franchise. they are the most important aspect about the series
Calling people trash is mean and therefore a hot take
>Removing HMs was moronic game design
>Random encounters aren't "outdated"
>Convergent Pokémon like Toedscool are good and what all regional forms should have always been instead of cluttering up existing mons
>Dexit was a necessary evil that was handled in the worst possible way in order to grift people into a subscription service. Transfers between games should have stopped entirely
>There's no good reason for Pokémon games to have dropped the tile overworld
There was no excuse for the Dexcut, and Game Freak lied to your faces.
Tantrum thread is the other way, buddy.
I hate Taijiri's take on the series. A lot.
the physical special split was the beginning of the end for anything resembling balance in the competitive scene.
Dexcut turned out to be a blessing in disguise because it actually is giving us time to spend with old Pokémon that we normally would have just cast aside in older titles where they all came back at once. That said, cutting moves is stupid as frick and GF should just work harder to make them function better and feel balanced. Cutting moves produces less diversity and cuts out actual strategies fo certain Pokémon who feel the brunt of the cuts
Each new game is better than the last.
The easiest way to tell that the latest 2 generations are the worst to date is that people only make porn of about 3 pokemon from each gen. Horrible numbers, even gen 6 and 7 had a couple dozen decent options.
>room-temp
Gen V is the second best after KANTOOOO
>warm
Despite all Ganker's "water and horns" shitflinging RSE are actually roughly as good as GSC.
>hot
SwSh are good, and better than the past two gens
>SwSh are good, and better than the past two gens
I can agree with this.
With all it's flaws, SwSh is still better than Gens 6 and 7
Pokemon needs a hard reboot if Game Freak refuses to hire more terminate positions to make the game. And we know Nintendo won't do anything as long as these games effortlessly sell over 15 million copes in three days.
I mean a hard reboot. Scrap every single Pokemon that currently exists, give us a roster of 210 completely new mons. This will also be the perfect opportunity to overhaul entire mechanics.
>Cynthiagay
Jesus Christ, SHUT UP.
schizo?
No Home
Cynthia was never hard and Wallace is a more challenging champion than her
Wallace suffers from being monotype, of the same type the last gym leader had too.
pokemon fans really like walking now
Every long-time pokemon fan owes it to themselves and to this franchise to fap to a pokemon at least once.
One day, technology will make technical limitations for game development a thing of the past; at least as we think of it today. When that day comes, it will be widely understood that Pokémon is the greatest concept for an entertainment franchise ever conceived.
Sun and Moon are great games.
just a good suggestion for TPCi: before they think of a new gimmick/move/ability/pokemon for the future games, they should always ask themselves first:
>will Finchinator ban this on OU?
if not, go through with it. if yes, forget it!
friendly reminder that red shirt guy cucked out and played immortal and d4
Dexcut is largely irrelevant
Pokemon games should never get voice acting
Light dating sim aspects should be expanded on a little
Grass should resist Fighting
Gen 8 introduced some of my favorite Pokemon ever
>Dracovish
>Thievul
>Dragapult
>Toxtricity
And the games were fine too. Nothing to get too excited about, but getting to know and use those four made it more than worth it. I still use the same Toxitricity from my first Sword playthrough in SV. I'm looking forward to seeing my Thievul and Dracovish again someday.
Clefable is the biggest piece of shit that was ever created. I'd love to put a bullet right between it's stupid fricking beady eyes
Dex cut killed part of the mystic of Pokémon.
At least for me. I no longer feel compelled to collect them all, and I don't care about gimmicks I know will not be there for the next generation.
You never actually enjoyed the games. You're just a mindless consoomer who only cares about the next product.
There are only 151 Pokémon
Completely unironic
Pokemon Consierge looks terrible and I hope it flops
They should get rid of repetitive trainer battles and also rework the battle system. Focus on exploration and carching pokémon. Basically what they did with PLA but better.
I agree. Replaying older games made me realize I actually fricking hate NPC trainer battles and 99% of the time they’re worthless filler content.
Right? I feel like less battles make them feel more special. Specially if they are story-related.
i think they should do the opposite. bring back battke facilities and make a Stadium 3
I think battle facilities are fine in theory, cause they are not mandatory and they usually have some kind of gimmick that makes them interesting. Maybe they need some rework too, though, since just doing long winning streaks is not necessarily a challenge but more like a pain in the ass, specially considering sometimes you lose because of RGN.
Breeding, IVs, EVs, and other optimization is still a pain in the ass.
Bug types should be buffed. Significantly.
that's a hot take? i've seen people complain about bug types being shit quite often
I'd rather a T-Rated Pokemon game be inspired by Earthbound instead of doing shit like Reborn.
The Pokemon Company should just make an official statement about how that they'll never add the sound type.
It'd be cool if we got a Pokemon game where the Pokemon rebel.... against Team Plasma. Like imagine exploring Unova in a timeline where Team Plasma won in Black and White, only for N's plans to separate humans and Pokemon, ends up spurring the Pokemon to rebel with several trainers working with them.
Bug type should be the strongest type and frick over Fairies.
Ice and Water should be immune to each other.
I got plenty
If your first game was from Gen 3 your opinion on Pokemon games is completely worthless.
Every single fully evolved mon should be BST 500 at a minimum or have an ability that makes up for it.
Every Pokemon that sucks without it's Mega should have gotten it's Mega turned into a Permanent Evo
VGC is a trash format when it allows "Uber" legendaries.
TPC should turn a blind eye to Genned mons if the stats/moves/ability etc are completely possible/legal
Natures are bad for the game and actively make them worse
did you mean to say gne 3+? are you seriously singling out gen 3? what if my first gens were 1 and 4 at the same time
>Every single fully evolved mon should be BST 500 at a minimum or have an ability that makes up for it
holy shit yes. also, no SFMAs
>TPC should turn a blind eye to Genned mons if the stats/moves/ability etc are completely possible/legal
i have to agree with this too. if the set is still legal then complaining about genning and hacking is just pure autism
>did you mean to say gne 3+? are you seriously singling out gen 3?
I've seen a ton of very specifically bad opinions formed by gen 3 babies
Coomerbait Pokemon are fricking cringe and a pleague on the franchise. Also literal 10 year olds in the anime shouldn't be wearing crop tops with booty shorts.
Lucario is not hot. Neither female nor male, on or off model.
EVs are really dumb.
not much of a hot take but I hate that pikachu and charizard are STILL everyone's favorites. Also feel that way slightly less about the eeveelutions.
The gameplay doesn't matter, as evidenced by continuously shit games printing money continuously. Gen wars don't matter. Linearity or PvP balance or level curve or graphics or bugs or whatever the frick nerd bullshit complaint you have doesn't matter.
Plush. Cartoons. Comics. Cards. Fricking sleep apps. That matters. THE GAMEPLAY DOESN'T MATTER. You will continue to get expensive corporate slop that preys on the sunk cost of your childhood and you will buy it anyway.
Look at it this way. Marvel. Cars. Internet. Food. Life. Literally everything is falling apart and worse than you remember and it doesn't matter BECAUSE YOU WILL BUY IT ANYWAY. People defend mediocrity because the alternative is admitting to wasting your life on worthless addictions. The fans doomed the franchise. Pokemon Red and Blue was a statement about postwar japan and RPGs at that moment. Everything after is money. Enjoy your cope.
>was a statement about postwar japan
u wot
it was, unironically. a large part of it was criticizing rapid industrialization of rural japanese cities.
the early pokemon gens do touch on issues that were talked about in japan at the time and of course it flies over our heads.
Not really a hot take. The fandom is the worst part about this already mediocre franchise.
> The fandom is the worst part about this already mediocre franchise.
The fandom is the only thing keeping it alive. I would never have poured so many hours of my life into Pokémon if it weren’t for things like shoddy battle and showdown, Pokesav and PKHeX, countless romhacks and fan art and I even had a giant drinking game monopoly thing that was so fun to get smashed to with friends. Pokémon has the most passionate fans out of any game series I know. People put so much work into mons FOR FREE. Even /vp/ counts, as a consistently entertaining message board and probably the best place to shitpost about mons on the internet. I love the fans. I just wish some of the more fervent fans wouldn’t defend a corporation that doesn’t love them back. We deserve better.
I love the Gen IV cross evos.
same, froslass, gliscor, and migmagius are some of my all time favorite designs. only ones i don't like are ambipom, rhyperior, and lickilicky
the age of consent is 18
😮
The dex cut was necessary to avoid meeting the same fate as Yu-gi-oh
Game Freak should capitalize on the human characters more.
Like have a webseries of them doing random stupid things.
It should be possible to raise any pokemon's base stats once it is fully evolved. They would follow the same base stat ratio, just keep going up until it hits a max (probably 600) that is the same for every pokemon. (Legendaries/mythics/whatever and gimmick mons like Slaking could be exceptions to this.)
So your Metagross has a BST of 600, so there you go, no effort required. Your Beedrill can get to BST 600 but it'll just take a lot of grinding/work/items/something to show you training your shitmon to be the very best that no one ever was.
I didn't think this was a hot take but I mentioned it to some pokemon players once and they lost their shit about how it would make strong pokemon worthless or something.
That's literally what EVs are for
>heh, pokemon is actually......le bad
Wow we've got badasses around here.
I think the Jannies are alright. Don’t (You) me
Pokemon go is for npc
>Pokémon is for npc
fify
>oras shelly >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> old shelly
I laught at people saying the older one was better, like they didnt even give a frick about her until oras came out. also I recommend to these gays stop using shigino sohuzi's fanart of old shelly like it was an official art for comparisons
Masters EX is good
Gen 9 is the best nugen.
ORAS is the best Pokémon game.
>Main story is solid
>Can choose between playing as best girl May or dating her
>Exp Share can be toggled off for challenge runs.
>Together with X&Y, you can get all national dex entries except for the mythicals which are not needed for the shiny charm.
>Stays playable after bank shuts down due to full national dex access.
>Strong ebay market for loaded cartridges if you want mythicals.
>Dexnav
>Great soundtrack
>Has a battle facility
>Megas
>Soaring
>Dive is actually good in ORAS
>Solve mysteries
>Delta Episode
>You go to space!
XY were the last decent Pokemon games, despite it's faults it added a lot of new features and felt ambitious overall they clearly had a vision that they didn't get to fully realize, like clearly story was unfinished and while I'm not into pokemon for story it feels rushed out and that normally isn't good, along with End game content being very weak.
What makes is worse than most of the DS era is that it lacks that end game.
And the routes aren't complete hallways like SM/USUM they did try.
While on the lower end I still think they the best of the 3D era which is kind of pathetic shows how much heart was lost going forward.
Even ORAS tried a little unlike BDSP.
>like clearly story was unfinished
no it wasn’t
the people who say this either didn’t pay attention to the game or are just patterngayging redditors who think it’s automatically unfinished just because GF didn’t resell them a copy of the game with a different thing on the box
> What makes is worse than most of the DS era is that it lacks that end game
this is also a moronic NPC take
making 90% of the encounters geodude and zubat and locking all the good encounters to postgame like gen 4 doesn’t make the game better
adding a copious amount of npc roadblocks that magically disappear after the credits to the point where I can’t even breed or revive fossils until postgame like gen 5 doesn’t make the game better
discord post
Gen 1 isn't as good as we remember it, and the only reason it's important is because it's what started the series.
Obviously
Not even by today's standards gen 1 was trash even back then honestly, and Kanto is fricking nothing region.
What pisses me off the most is that we got three remakes and non of them have made Kanto interesting, Kanto needs a glow up desperately, FRLG are the closest we got and they just added a few islands and that was it.
LGPE had the chance to reimagine the region and they still reused the layout of an old Gameboy game that was outdated even back then.
I don't know if it's a Hot take anymore...
But Hoenn does have to much water and the issue comes down to so little variety in the water you have like one sunken ship and that's kind of it, not enough dive locations that have hidden dungeons or more sunken ships to make the amount of water feel justifiable.
While having what are multiple islands is cool the fact that the ocean has the least to explore and find makes it much more of a drag not mention the encounters are really shit, 90% tentacool, why does a region that has so much water have the most repetitive encounters in the water, at the starting route I at least could find 3 Pokemon but in the water it feels like only 1 Pokemon exists, like so many Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn mons could have been placed in water but they fricking did so little like why!?
Instead of doing Dexit, they should've just made less new Pokémon. Maybe do only like 50 new ones per generation.
they should just get rid of all the redundant abilities
Why are gen 6 defenders so autistic?
They feel like modern day gen wunners but even most Gen wunners realized RBY were shit but frick you it was the shit for them so they still like it.
Cartoon and recolored animals are the laziest designs and they should just stop making those
hoenn's water is fine because most of the water routes are optional
Not in emerald
All pokemon games after B/W2 are dogshit, with the exception of New Pokemon Snap.
Yes that includes Arceus, dogshit.
It's great that they are pandering more to female players now.
women don't play the games. they play Pokemon go and collect stuffed toys
It's a little sad that you don't even know how wrong you are.
oh, sorry, CIS women
>cis
Go back to twitter.
sorry sweaty, cis is a slur on X
Ah, so you're a falseflagging troony, got it.
No i'm making fun of you for being a moron.
Women don't play the mainline games
Again, it's a bit sad that you're wrong and don't even know it. I know a handful of real women who do. I recommend talking to people sometimes.
Gen 5 is the catalyst that started the downfall of Pokemon.
it was a failed reboot
You should not catch them all.
I did, and I regret it.
Charizard will not have a Terashill special form