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#1:
I think later Pokémon designs (in particular in Gen IV, V, and VI) were on average better than in Gen I and II. I did start 20 years ago with Red, and my favourite Pokémon is Nidoking (and a bunch of my favourites are from Gen I). But, I gotta say, the designs became a lot cooler in later generations, and Gen I was not nearly as creative as some people want to pretend: a straight up rhinoceros, a rhino standing up (although Rhydon is one of my faves, lets be honest, his design is ultra simplistic), a bunch of eggs, a coconut tree with eyes, a big egg with an egg pouch, a regular butterfly, a regular bat, and the list goes on.
Like I said, I love tons of Gen I mons: Nidoking, Blastoise, Venusaur, Rhydon, Gengar, Arcanine, Poliwrath, Machamp, Magmar, Lapras, Dragonite, Snorlax, are some of my all-time favourites. But on average, I still think Gen I was a bit bland. A few good mons don't make up for a whole lot of boring ones.
I feel that a lot of the time, people end up criticising later designs to somehow appear as "Gen I original fans", which is fine to be one, it brought us all here the last 25 years, but later things are sometimes better than the original, or at least as good. Remember Aliens and Terminator 2?
#2:
Also, why do people attack trailers? Im not talking about people having discussions about what may or may not come up in a game, thats fine. But people flat out announcing "facts" from a few mins of early release footage.
And since when do graphics hold such high importance to us? We're playing Pokémon, not Monster Hunter or the Batman games. Let us chill together. Love the games, but there's a reason the main story is easy and simple and none of the puzzles are hard. We invented Nuzlockes for a reason too. These games are intended primarily for kids, not just for us people in our 30s still playing.
Sorry, that last one was more of a rant, but considering what I've been reading on some of these forums and on Twitter, it seems like this is a controversial opinion these days to be ok with Pokémon just being Pokémon and not a mind-blowing, 4K experience, all 898 Pokémon available at the ready, and a million features.
I think later Pokémon designs (in particular in Gen IV, V, and VI) were on average better than in Gen I and II. I did start 20 years ago with Red, and my favourite Pokémon is Nidoking (and a bunch of my favourites are from Gen I). But, I gotta say, the designs became a lot cooler in later generations, and Gen I was not nearly as creative as some people want to pretend: a straight up rhinoceros, a rhino standing up (although Rhydon is one of my faves, lets be honest, his design is ultra simplistic), a bunch of eggs, a coconut tree with eyes, a big egg with an egg pouch, a regular butterfly, a regular bat, and the list goes on.
Like I said, I love tons of Gen I mons: Nidoking, Blastoise, Venusaur, Rhydon, Gengar, Arcanine, Poliwrath, Machamp, Magmar, Lapras, Dragonite, Snorlax, are some of my all-time favourites. But on average, I still think Gen I was a bit bland. A few good mons don't make up for a whole lot of boring ones.
I feel that a lot of the time, people end up criticising later designs to somehow appear as "Gen I original fans", which is fine to be one, it brought us all here the last 25 years, but later things are sometimes better than the original, or at least as good. Remember Aliens and Terminator 2?
#2:
Also, why do people attack trailers? Im not talking about people having discussions about what may or may not come up in a game, thats fine. But people flat out announcing "facts" from a few mins of early release footage.
And since when do graphics hold such high importance to us? We're playing Pokémon, not Monster Hunter or the Batman games. Let us chill together. Love the games, but there's a reason the main story is easy and simple and none of the puzzles are hard. We invented Nuzlockes for a reason too. These games are intended primarily for kids, not just for us people in our 30s still playing.
Sorry, that last one was more of a rant, but considering what I've been reading on some of these forums and on Twitter, it seems like this is a controversial opinion these days to be ok with Pokémon just being Pokémon and not a mind-blowing, 4K experience, all 898 Pokémon available at the ready, and a million features.