Least favorite generation? Page 3

Started by Sheep August 2nd, 2020 6:20 PM
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Least favorite generation?

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I was shocked, however, that Gen 1 is getting votes. How can you dislike the original, the classic, the one that started it all?
It's not rare at all when the gen that started it all is the most unbalanced, lacking in a lot of areas and has a ton of programming issues.
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^ Nothing to do with respect. We can thank and recognize the first games for creating the formula, yet that doesn't mean we have to turn a blind eye on all its flaws. Every Gen has its issues and can be a least favorite for some.

First games allways get away with more things because since they're the first games you go with no expectations and have no previous entries to compare them with. As players grow up, they also get higher standars and a better eye for noticing flaws that as a seven years old playing Red/Blue they might have been completely unaware of.

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a seven year old playing Red/Blue
Haha that's definitely what I was at the time, and life was good and things were simple. That's probably what my love for Gen I really stems from. You make a lot of really good points.

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Too me Gen VII was kind of boring, although I like what they did with the trails and stuff, it was the Pokémon that I never appealed too, I love the Alolan forms along with the Galar forms as it is an interesting way to switch up how Pokémon themselves adapt too, but besides that I just never liked any of the Pokémon except for a few hand full of Pokémon. And DONT get me started on the Ultra Beasts, I get that they are from a different dimensions but jeez, I just feel like they could have done a better job with their designs.
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I might say something someone has already stated. If so, I'm sorry, but I didn't manage to read all the posts.

As unoriginal as that may sound, but I go with Gen VI. The games were obviously rushed, which is why they have a disorienting story. (if you have time, though, read this (the photos inside it contain a bit of strong language so pay attention). It explains some of the weird aspects of X and Y.)
I also dislike the anime as it is so overrated. Oh my Arceus, I see Serena everywhere. In my opinion, she's so famous just because of the love story with Ash. May has a great character development, so I don't see why the community just praises Serena as a goddess over May.

I don't however understand why people hate Gen VIII so much. Every game used to have narrow and small routes, with just a few trainer battles making them longer. But now, people have standards. The graphics in Pokémon have always sucked (compare Pokémon DPPt with other DS games. You'll understand.), and the story has always been bad: literally, Kanto and Johto have no story whatsoever, Hoenn has an evil team that wants to dry off or flood the world, in DPPt Cyrus just wants to reset everything and Kalos' story is just a mashup of random things (but again, read the text in the link above). I've excluded Unova and Alola games because their story was quite better than the other games, with Unova having a rival who is actually the enemy and an evil team with good purposes which were actually a cover-up for evil deeds, and Alola talking about multiverse and a mother which suffered so much to the point of making her kids want to escape (but Hau sucks). Hop is actually a rival that suffers: he will never be like his brother. When he loses in the final battle, he says that he fought a great battle, but in a fit of rage, and in the end, he refuses to pursue his task: he wants to be a professor. Rose fights for a stupid purpose to emphasize the fact that he has no reason to do that, and the DLCs expand on the history of Galar.

The only downside I can see in SwSh is the Dex(x)it, and it makes sense if one criticizes it, but not if one criticizes other aspects that have always been like that.
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