>>16948617I think what the anon means is that past gen 2 you aren't just some random kid who was in the right place at the wrong team. In gen 1, you never go after team rocket, you just stumble on them. You stumble on them at the casino, no one sends you there to go get team rocket. You go into saffron and discover, oh shit, team rocket is blocking all the doors i need to get into. Now I have to go beat the shit out of them.
Gen 2 they make it a bit more obvious what you're supposed to do (i.e; beat up team rocket) but nobody ever specifically tells you to, or says that you have to in order to save the world.
That changed in I gen 3 with teams magma and aqua (ridiculous and easily worst teams ever by the way). Every time they did anything, even something as small as stealing a dudes parcel, you were asked to go get them like an obedient dog, even by random strangers.
And they tell you exactly where to go and find them to go get them, either by telling you themselves or saying some shit like
>oh golly, I wonder what's going on in the cave on route 19 behind the tree? Be safe, (INSERT PLAYER NAME HERE)And then they just do that up till gen 6. What a shame, I rather liked it the old way to be honest. Not that I don't like feeling like a hero, but in reality, who asks a fucking 10 year old to go stop a huge gang of criminals?
Really?
