*sigh* It seems you can't even show love for the older gens without somebody using the "N" word. Seriously why do people use the word nostalgia as if it's some kind of slur or insult? It's really immature and I'm sick of it.
You find it funny that some people think that the older designs are better and more creative? You're right, people having different opinions from you is HILARIOUS!
You can make anything sound lame by describing it in such an apathetic way. The same way you said gen 1 had a "freaking pile of sludge", I could then say gen 6 has a "freaking key chain" or a "stupid floating sword".
Besides not everyone judges a design by it's "creativity". I for one judge a Pokemon's design simply off of whether I think it looks good. The inspiration of the design or whatever the Pokemon is based off comes second to whether it looks cute, cool, badass or whatever other adjective, so long as I think it looks like a good Pokemon. If I think it looks good then I will give it my kudos. If I think a Pokemon looks like crap then I will say so as well. It's all subjective.
I don't see why so many people think that after 6 generations and over 700 Pokemon that it's completely unfathomable that some people might say that they're running out of ideas.
And I know some people have been saying that since like gen 3 or whatever, but even then that's their opinion. And no one person speaks for everyone else so don't lump everybody into one group. I'm not saying you did that by the way but a lot of people do that to discredit people who don't agree with them.
I don't believe he ever said that he wanted all future entries to be exactly the same as the originals were. He simply listed a few of the reasons and features that he misses from the older games.
I for example miss the 8 bit music the gameboy era of Pokemon games but I don't want all future games to go back and try and recreate those kind of sounds because it would be out of place.
Yeah those games did have a fair amount of kinks and issues. It's almost as if they were the first installments of the series or something? ~_~
Really because the way that you dismissed his opinion as being overly nostalgic seems to contradict this.
...I was wondering when someone was gonna come along and rip my post apart.
Look, all I'm saying is that just because someone thinks that the newer games/pokemon are bad doesn't mean that they are actually bad (since a lot of people seem to enjoy them). I just don't like it when some people believe that their opinion is a fact.
I use the term nostalgia googles because an awful lot of people who dislike the newer generations do so only because of nostalgia (not saying you or the TC is like that, but you never know). There's nothing wrong with prefering the older generations, so long as its not because of some blind, nostalgia-filled hate for the newer stuff.
I am aware that this topic is completely subjective, and I never said that the newer generations don't have any bad pokemon. I said every single generation has good and bad Pokemon designs (which I didn't say was solely based on creativity). But I agree, after 6 generations and hundreds of Pokemon, its not unthinkable that they'd be running out of ideas. And I'll admit my use of the word "laughable" wasn't the best of my word choices.
It didn't sound to me like he was saying that he missed certain features, but maybe I just misinterpreted what the TC was saying.
The reason I brought up that I don't wanna go back to Gens 1 or 2 is because a lotta Genwunners (not pointing fingers here) run about acting as if Gens 1 and 2 didn't have any problems when they in fact did have problems.
About my last sentence in my first post: I'm not the kind of person who's a douche and dismisses other people's opinions. Sure, I might not agree with your opinion, but that doesn't mean I'm gonna stubbornly be like "you're wrong and you can't think that way".
My post wasn't really directed at anyone in particular. It was a sort of knee-jerk reaction because this kind of thread often attracts the "gen 1/2 was the best gen but I have no reasons to back it up" kind of people (who are one of the 3 types of people I don't like in this world).
OK?