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Age 28
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Middle of Nowhere, Missouri
Seen August 1st, 2021
Posted May 8th, 2021
The biggest improvement I would suggest is changing how you have the generations split. Because if the survey is judging generations and not regions then games like RBY,FRLG, and The let’s go games should not be grouped together. They may be the same region but they are all from different generations of Pokémon with increasing changes in mechanics and graphics that separate them generationally. Especially when you get to let’s go as that scraps a lot of mechanics that have been introduced over the years (Ignoring my annoyance with people counting those as main series when they should be considered side games, like colosseum or xd).
I wouldn’t say there’s too big of a difference between GSC and HGSS but the fact that one set of games was introduced pre-abilities and the latter were introduced post-abilities should be enough not to group then together when scoring, especially when scoring based on mechanics and visuals. I’m not even going to go into the differences between RSE and ORAS.
Now the groupings of games by region may work for scoring based in story, though the slight changes in remakes might slightly skew the results. With the fact that there are so many differences between originals and remakes visually, musically, mechanically, and in Pokémon variety (as remakes coming in later generations means more Pokémon available in one way or another), I feel it would be best to either shift the remakes into the generational categories that fit the time they came out or possibly exclude them altogether. Another option may be to just out a separate question like “If applicable, were any remakes in this generation better than the original?” under each generation.
I like the idea of a survey to properly gauge how people feel about the different generations (That way it’s not based on people simply saying ”gen # sucks because i say so”), but the grouping of remakes under the same generations as the originals can really mess with the accuracy of results.