Why do you think Black and White has recieved so many bad remarks as oppose to the other main series games?
Is it because the pokemon seem much more fake than the others?
Do you think it's a bad game altogether?
Is it because the of lack of post-game?
Personally, even though i stayed with Pokemon since the original 151, I think there is room for change, technology is changing drastically around us. Black and White in my mind are some the best pokemon games i've played.
Everyone and anyone, put your opinions here.
Some people just love to hate things, especially when it comes to Pokemon. Nostalgia is great, but you can't run off of it completely.
There's effectively no postgame
Many non-Unova exclusive Pokemon become available.
Trainers like Cynthia, Morimoto are available to battle.
many of the new designs were lackluster
Strictly opinion only, with no evidence either. Compared to older Pokemon designs, these were very thought out.
there were yet again too many legendaries
Gen 4 and 5 both introduced 13 Legendary Pokemon. Gen 4's total new Pokemon were 107, which means 12.1% out of them all were Legendary, however plenty of old Pokemon were in these games as well.
Gen 5 introduced 156 Pokemon, with 8.3% being Legendary, so going by percentage, there were less Legends introduced compared to standard normal Pokemon. And since each of these Pokemon are limited to only 1 per game, there cannot be too many Legendary Pokemon unless you are hacking them all because 3 are automatically unavailable being Event Pokemon, and 2 of them are version exclusive, with the Kami trio needing both of them to gain access to the other. In-game, you can only catch 7 of the Legendary Pokemon without outside assitance, as compared to the 4 in Red/Green/Blue/Yellow. 3 is hardly a major increase out of 649 Pokemon.
No evidence of this, considering only consisted of totally new Pokemon at the start.
the Pokemon themselves were overly detailed with tons of spikes, armor, and markings
Which contradicts your earlier statement about them being lackluster, which usually translates into "They don't look like Pokemon". But Pokemon like Voltorb or Muk or any Gen 1 Pokemon was just extremely creative compared to Pokemon like the Tao Dragons, right?
there was no good battle facility (I.E. Battle Tower, Battle Frontier), no Safari Zone, no good rivals, the starters were boring, and the game was too bloody easy.
World Tournament in B2W2, B/W were all about the new Pokemon so no need for a Safari Zone (Plus older Pokemon appear postgame, which you complained about), what defines a "good rival"?, starters are no better or worse than any others, and "too easy" doesn't matter since these games allow you to set your own difficulty by the way you play.
Even the Online Random Matchup mode isn't any good because everyone uses a hacked team of max-stat WonderTombs and the like.
So you're blaming the game for sucking because people hacked it? Blame the hackers.
And I'm not saying this because of nostalgia. I started out with Sapphire Version, and I still don't like Black and White too much. Especially after HeartGold and SoulSilver. With HG/SS, Game Freak set a new standard for Pokemon games.
What standard was set with a remake? They took an old game and updated it. Don't get me wrong, I loved SoulSilver because my original Silver died on me, but I don't see where it set a standard, other than people expecting remakes every generation.
You had conveniences like the running shoes toggle
And that was amazing? That was probably only because the original G/S/C didn't have them. The running shoes were a great addition for keeping the longer routes from taking forever to clear. I don't see why anyone would not want them, nor how the ability to turn them off and on is such a big deal.
series mainstays like the Safari zone, fun options such as the Pokemon-following-you feature, great challenges such as Red, and a great roster of Pokemon.
I liked the Safari Zone in HG/SS, but it was too much work to get the better Pokemon having to leave items out and wait for days as they "leveled up".
Pokemon following was nice, but I feel extremely overrated. It's cool to see your Pokemon following you, but is it really THAT big of a deal that people deem it absolutely horrible that Gen 5 didn't have it too? Besides, the Pokemon following you rarely served a purpose other than just being there.
As said earlier, B/W has Morimoto and Cynthia, not to mention rematches with Cheren and Bianca. This was also the first time becoming Champion was saved for postgame, so there was plenty to do postgame, as well as plenty of powerful trainers to face.
"Great roster of Pokemon" seems like an opinion, considering there were plenty of interesting Pokemon introduced in B/W, while B2W2 focused on the return of the older ones.