>>33595517I think people that like gen IV are a lot younger than that. I was born in '97, and while I definitely didn't start with gen IV on account of growing up poor and getting almost everything secondhand, to start with gen IV they would have had to be 10 years old, which is no doubt prime age for Pokemon but nowhere near the starting age (unless I'm an extreme outlier since I had a GameBoy Color when I was 5).
But I suppose since the post warrants it, I'll say that Sinnoh is a cool region but the games have their problems. For starters, the amount of HMs you have to have taught to your party at all times kind of blows. Also, yes, the battles were extremely slow, even in Platinum. In addition, we had to wait another gen for better online features, like the Dream World and online battling (PBR doesn't count because it was $60 and a different game). I understand the fire-type complaint but to be fair, for the setting of Sinnoh and its cold climate, it makes sense there's not a whole lot of fire types around. Speaking of the region, it's very easy to miss out on a lot of extra places if you don't explore much (I didn't even know Mira existed until a few years later). Contests got neutered, the Battle Frontier (or tower) really wasn't that good compared to Gen III. But there are still a lot of fun things about the generation, too. Shiny hunting was easier with the PokeRadar. The underground was a far better social experience than secret bases, so long as you had people to play it with. Dressing up your Pokemon was a cool feature, too. Ball Seals were and will never not be funny. The characters were pretty good, in my opinion. I think Barry was the perfect amount of genuinely good but still sort of annoying that GameFreak was trying to go for in a rival. I don't even really hate Team Galactic, although Cyrus' motives were fairly autistic.
Sinnoh isn't my favorite region (that'd be either Orre or Johto) but it's still not terrible, and a remake would do wonders.
