>>43549920>mixing gen 4/5 assets in a gen 3 engine; you could get away with using some gen 4/5 grass & ground textures but you'll need to carefully mix it into the vanilla tileset; but the gen 4 NPCs and gen 4-esque houses never look good in gen 3>professor chooses the starter for the player; it's an extra special pokemon just for you!>evil team wants to bring about a new world order for a flimsy reason (eg: "because humanity is evil/impure")>too much side chatter or long text dumps>player gets to capture the cover legendary after the 7th gym; the legendary is psychic or dragon>uninspired fakemon (eg: a water/psychic Dolphin fakemon that's super intelligent)>gym leaders that are only a challenge because they spam full restores>evil pokemon is only a bad trope when it's revealed they were brainwashed by a third partyIf I listed anything that the official games do as well, bear in mind that it's annoying when they do it too.