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Whats with all the 3rd Generation Hate?

Anti-Pop Culture Warrior 13 said:
Which brings up why 4th gen ultimately fails as a metagame-it is 90% Offense. they've added the utterly broken specsmence, broken sandstorm 9yeah, regirock got A LOT better). sad part is that that is one of the only changes the defensive side of battles.

I personally think all pokemon having one or even two powerful STAB attacks id total overkill. you need about 4 walls at the very least to be able to wall everything in D/P, and you need more offense. Let's not forget nasty plot Azelf which is also basically broken.

What else? electivire, improved CBmence and CBcross, choice scarf attackers like medicham, specs Zam and gengar, specsmence...you simply can't stop all of those pokemon. I actually ran an all sweeper team awhile ago and it almost never lost. That's how offense-orriented the metagame is, which ultimately ruins it.
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Lots of those pokes can be stopped with prediction or a poke and totally destroys it. Azelf is NOT broken. Spiritomb destroys it. SpecsMence says Hai to Blissey and Cresselia >.> Walls are as important as ever ._.;
 
Dragonzilla25 said:
wow i totaly disagree w/ u, i honestly dont care about pre-evos they are a waste of pkedex space, evos are too unoriginal and most of the evee evelootions stink...the lati twins loooks robotic????
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I'm not like all other fans who hate eeveelutions.And the reason I wanted pre-evos and evos is so there are bigger pokemon families and I care about the evos so people care about old pokemon.
And yes, in my opinion some of the legendarys look robotic, I mean Groundon looks like its made from metal.
 
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I thought the designs overall were just awful. Most of the Pokémon looked like Digimon to me, and while I love both franchises, very few of the 3rd gen monsters actually gave me a Pokémon feel. It's not so bad now because I'm used to them, but I really didn't like the third generation too much at first.

Designs are what got me into Pokémon and are a big part of why I'm still in the fandom. So to have an entire generation in which only 5 or 6 Pokémon really stood out? It was pretty bad for me. :|
 
Shiraishi said:
Lots of those pokes can be stopped with prediction or a poke and totally destroys it. Azelf is NOT broken. Spiritomb destroys it. SpecsMence says Hai to Blissey and Cresselia >.> Walls are as important as ever ._.;
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Woah, Azelf has about one solid counter. Heracross has literally two (CBcross). Specsmence has maybe 3...ask any good player, they'll tell you there is NO way to stop all of these offensive juggernauts that have been added. In ADV it was managable though every team had a few weaks. Now if a certain pokemon you can't counter (because you can't have 10 pokemon on a team) pops up you've lost the battle. that destroys the fun.

Out of curiosity, have you played ADV at all? Not to be a flamebait thing, I'm actually just wondering ._.
 
Shiraishi said:
If you mean netbattle, nope..I never did ._.; Even if I wanted to, I don't know how I could grasp the metagame. When I played FR/LG I used a brave Mewtwo in battles..the horror..
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That's why you don't understand my position. Having played in both metagames, I (or anyone else) can tell you howmuch more startegy goes into ADV since there are only a handful of terrifying pokemon vs. the 50 or so there are in D/P.
 
i have no idea wat is with the 3rd gen. hates! my favorite region is Hoenn (3rd gen. R/S/E games)
 
It's weird. The 3rd gen had some really, really cool pokemon and then really, REALLY, bad, horrible pokemon that shouldn't have even been thought of. Combine those two groups together and they even out in the 'meh' type area.

Seriously, what's cooler: Luvdisc or Salamence? I think we all know
 
Brock_Lee said:
It's weird. The 3rd gen had some really, really cool pokemon and then really, REALLY, bad, horrible pokemon that shouldn't have even been thought of. Combine those two groups together and they even out in the 'meh' type area.

Seriously, what's cooler: Luvdisc or Salamence? I think we all know
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lol, I couldn't agree more. Why they made Nopepass is beyond me...and lol luvdisc, that doesn't even see use in the NU tier :0
 
I think the 3rd gen hate just came from the people who were like "They're making ANOTHER Pokemon game?! With like 200 MORE Pokemon?! Geez, when are they going to stop?!"

But Pokemon will live on forever~ Like Mario and Zelda and stuff XD

I love 3rd gen <3
 
GenIII is something I dislike because Hoenn lacks pow, the pokemon generaly have rubbish designs or are just lackluster, too many legendary (Not like GenIV doesn't suffer from this crap) and the whole "Save the Planet" shtick is boring as.
GenI remakes>GenIII
 
Eirikr said:
GenIII is something I dislike because Hoenn lacks pow, the pokemon generaly have rubbish designs or are just lackluster, too many legendary (Not like GenIV doesn't suffer from this crap) and the whole "Save the Planet" shtick is boring as.
GenI remakes>GenIII
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That kind of contradicts itself considering the R/B remake IS in 3rd gen ;)
 
Netbattle is how I became a person who was less of a noob in battles. >_> DP was the reason not to hate the 3rd Gen anymore, since the only thing I didn't like about it before was the fact that it had unevolved Pokemon that sucked. Luvdisc, Spinda, Roselia, etc. A lot of them evolved in DP though. Also, I don't hate Spinda. I think Spinda is cool. But like most cool Pokemon, it sucks. =\
 
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