3rd Gen Why do people hate the hoenn pokes so much? Page 5

Started by GreenLanturn June 26th, 2010 10:34 AM
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Superjub

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Crappy sprites, I mean, look at this abomination:
While R/S/E weren't my favourote games, I disagree with this statement. Can you honestly say that sprite is worse than this? Or this?

Anyway, I think the Hoenn Pokemon don't get that much criticism compared to the Sinnoh ones. Plus, Hoenn introduced Blaziken! :D

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People hate Hoenn because they are stuck in the past and can't get out due to wearing their Nostalgia Glasses.
Unlike most fans, I welcome change and new features. I think the hate is purely immature.

So all I have to say to the whiners is: "U mad?"
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While I am a nostalgia person, I have no problems with most Hoenn Pokemon. Feebas can go die in a fiery pit, but apart from that, I can't think of anything.
While Hoenn contains Pokemon like Wurmple or Plusle that seem to be somewhat inspired by older ones, it also has a lot of good Pokemon.
Most starters are very good ones (I find sceptile rather ugly, but I'm cool with the rest), Zigzagoon is one of my favorite derps, Nuzleaf is among the best things that ever happened to Pokemon, and Pokemon like Numel or Flygon are clearly among the better ones overall.
No, I wouldn't call Hoenn bad. If we're talking about Sinnoh however...

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I personally don't hate it, but it seems others hate it because they're too poor to buy repels before crossing the ocean.
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I enjoyed the Hoenn region the most, basically because there weren't lots of pokemon from the previous gens, compared to Sinnoh and Johto.

Hoenn Pokemon also got the greatest looks, they were cooler and more dangerous looking then the pokes of other gens.

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Personally, I just plain didn't like the Hoenn pokes as much as in Kanto and Johto. Its a matter of taste. And before you start hating on me and calling me "overly nostalgic," I like Sinnoh's Pokemon better, which is a newer game.

However, Hoenn did have very awesome geographical features. Unfortunately, it was lessened by awful tilesets.


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I personally think they should stop making a lot of new Pokemon now and just carry on creating new worlds etc. When there were only 150 around, everyone was so excited in seeing the NEW Pokemon (aka Marrill etc). Now it's hard to even remember / keep up because there's so many NEW Pokemon around.
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I don't think it's the Pokemon as much as it's the actual game that people hate.
I have a friend who hates RSE, yet his favorite pokemon is from that gen.
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*cough* Absol *cough*
But seriously, I think the Pokemon matured (Absol, Aggron, Salamence etc), but the environment didn't and got worse. The colours were awful and the game itself, apart from the sea, was too scripted. Cerulean cave and the mansion were my favourite parts from the older games simply because they balanced out the otherwise happy-go-lucky atmosphere in the games.
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Because it was a huge change from the previous generation, and whenever you have a change, there's always going to be a vocal minority that don't like it. Which I completely understand. Not everyone likes the same thing, so don't go hating on me thinking I'm hating on you. D:

Although personally, I have to say Hoenn was one of my favorites. I really enjoyed it and what it had to offer.
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i liked some of the hoenn pokemon, but to me it's evident that the creators are shifting from innovative to minimal/cutesy and gradually pokemon has stopped feeling like pokemon and more like a forcefully drawn-out franchise. it could be nostalgic bias fogging my brain, but what looks like a gradual lapse in creativity over the years is disappointing.

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Because they're wearing their nostalgia goggles too frequently. Anyone in there 20s are likely to be the 'haters' of the Hoenn region.

I actually have a great deal of nostalgia for Hoenn, so I'm not really one to talk. I was only 10 at the time of its release, and Pokemon was still all the craze at school.

What seems to piss everyone off the most is the many water routes. I actually liked them.

Sinnoh is the real turd for me. Bad region layout is bad.
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I like hoenn but not as much as the older gens. I personally think that most hoenn pokes are better than the sinnoh pokes due to the fact that new pokemon are getting uglier and uglier..! try to scoop out the image of the new starters for pokemon black and white..! aren't they horrible..?

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i thought the pokes were great, i think people just mostly hated all the things that were removed from the games
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Metagross and Flygon say hi.

Anyway, I'm of the camp that thinks that every generation has its good and bad Pokemon. So I really don't hate on any generation's Pokemon (Playing through Hoenn is another matter entirely, however).

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Agrees with the "nostalgia goggles". Although I think in some cases it actually stretches to "nostalgia-brained". No offense, it is an extreme minority who come under that classification.

I liked Hoenn's quirky pokemon, such as Spinda, Kecleon, Slaking (they gave him the stats of a legendary, crippled him with Truant, then introduce double battles and Skill Swap to fix him again. And tbh, stick a Hyper Beam on him, and he recharges on his Truant turn, having just KO'd his opponent anyway), etc.

Things like Volbeat and Illumise, Minun and Plusle, etc. that show relationships between different species were really a nice touch. Not to mention 3 legendaries that anybody who hasn't looked on the internet will not have discovered even now....

But, then again, I'm so biased, I actually like the water routes, colour palette, etc. so maybe you should all ignore me 8-(
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I don't like people with nostalgia goggles you can say you preferred 1 generation over another but just plain hating 1 mean you got nostalgia goggles.
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I always hated gen 3 for some reason, I just thought it was bad... BUt now Hoenn is really cool! Especially its cool pokemon!
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