>>39044573I was getting older, Pokemon was becoming less cool, and when my cousin got the game and showed me that you couldn't catch or bring over Pokemon from the previous games I dropped the series hard for a long while. Hell I dropped it so hard I didn't even realize there was remakes until like 2009 or '10. Cater that with the stagnation of the Anime. Johto arc didn't even end with him getting a fully evolved starter for fucks sake.
That and I was a firefag and I thought Blaziken was lame compared to the other starters. In fact most overly humanoid type Pokemon generally look shitty. Didn't really care for almost any of the new Pokemon designs to boot. I felt the design changes coming in Gen 2 and they were really apparent in 3. I wasn't looking at Pokemon anymore. They felt like they belonged to another series.
Did get back into the series later with the remakes. Played FR and SS multiple times over. Punched my way through Black, then I got to X, and just stopped.. It felt like a chore. The fun was zapped. It was all to the same with increasingly more Pokemon who's designs I just didnt care for, and I thought the stories were tired, and already over done by every other Saturday morning kids cartoon from the 80s/90s.
