To some people quality is what matters over quantity,.
Yes, like the quality of the writing that's been getting better as the series progressed
and while newer regions has their share of anime only things,its undeniable that older seasons were sticking less with games
Except for Orange Islands, the anime pretty much stuck with the game format, i.e. Ash does Gyms, Ash defeats regional vilain team, Ash goes to league...
In the games, there's no rivalry like that of Ash and Paul, there's no pokemon ping pong, no contest circuits, the Main girl didn't challenge a gym leader or an Elite 4 member, etc. Sinnoh has strayed from the games plenty of times to reduce the number of Johto-like filler episodes and build stronger storylines.
aswell providing two subplots with Misty being involved with two gl(Danny and Rudy).Not to mention to most people fillers,and league itself were unpredictable liking this change of routine
So, your argument is "It's only good and unpredictable if Misty's in it..." I smell bias, a lot of bias. The Orange Island were good and unpredictable, they're actually my favourite part of the original series...
True most of gym bages in Kanto Ash won under unusual circumstances but thats exactly why people liked this.
Understatement of the century. And for your info, even to fans of the Original series (which I am by the way, I'm not saying it's crap, it's what got me hooked, but still there was a lot of imperfections when I look back on them now.) those "gym battles" (if they can truly be called that) were one of the weaker points of the Kanto Saga.
People have different tastes and there is nothing wrong with them prefering older seasoins over new ones.
There's definitely nothing wrong to them preferring the older seasons to the newer ones. When I first quoted your post, I didn't talk about your "subjective" arguments, meaning the ones that rely solely upon your personnal preferences, cause that you can't really debate. But when you say, the new sagas are too predictable cause Ash always battles for his badges now and they follow the games too closely. Well, that's more of an objective arguments cause you can compare game storyline with anime storyline, while it's true that more and more the gym battles follow the games, the the rest of the episodes stray from game storyline a lot and introduce things to the anime that aren't part of the game like Tag Team Tournament, like Pokeringer, like Pokemon Orienteering, like Pokemon Cosplay, like Pokemon Ping Pong, etc.
But I agree with the above poster, every region has its good points and its low points, there's no real clear "better region or saga"