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Time to take off the nostalgia glasses, people. I'm tired of people holding Generation II up as the pinnacle of the franchise, so now I'm going to explain exactly why GSC are the worst Pokémon cames so you can all become better people.
>Johto is the worst region in the franchise
And by a good margin. It's easily the smallest, with the fewest regions, most of them being short and linear. But what is arguably worse is the Pokémon diversity throughout Johto. The new Pokémon show up less often as Kanto staples with staples Which leaves the whole experience feeling stale. How is it a new adventure when I'm still running into Ratatta and Pidgey on the first route?
Actually take the first Route in GSC as an example. The tall grass ancounter rates are:
55% Pidgey
40% Hoothoot
5% Ratatta
That's a 60% chance to run into a RBY Pokémon as the first thing you do in a new game. And the trend continues throughout.
>The "story" is painfully dull
Team Rocket? Again? It just feels like cheap pandering to make them the antagonist a second time round, especially when their driving motivation is the find their leader who disbanded three years prior. It's just pointless and almost undoes the efforts of the player in Red/Blue/Yellow.
Silver is also a poor rival. His talk about hating the weak rings hollow when he is constantly losing to the PC. At least RBY mitigated the Badass decay by having Blue constantly be one step ahead of the player when it came to earning badges. And Black/White's Cheren goes one step further by having it become part of his character development.
I don't like Lance either. Why is an Elite Four member getting promoted to Champion? Having someone new come to take the role would have been better than "that guy I beat in the first game". Also, his cape is stupid.
>Johto is the worst region in the franchise
And by a good margin. It's easily the smallest, with the fewest regions, most of them being short and linear. But what is arguably worse is the Pokémon diversity throughout Johto. The new Pokémon show up less often as Kanto staples with staples Which leaves the whole experience feeling stale. How is it a new adventure when I'm still running into Ratatta and Pidgey on the first route?
Actually take the first Route in GSC as an example. The tall grass ancounter rates are:
55% Pidgey
40% Hoothoot
5% Ratatta
That's a 60% chance to run into a RBY Pokémon as the first thing you do in a new game. And the trend continues throughout.
>The "story" is painfully dull
Team Rocket? Again? It just feels like cheap pandering to make them the antagonist a second time round, especially when their driving motivation is the find their leader who disbanded three years prior. It's just pointless and almost undoes the efforts of the player in Red/Blue/Yellow.
Silver is also a poor rival. His talk about hating the weak rings hollow when he is constantly losing to the PC. At least RBY mitigated the Badass decay by having Blue constantly be one step ahead of the player when it came to earning badges. And Black/White's Cheren goes one step further by having it become part of his character development.
I don't like Lance either. Why is an Elite Four member getting promoted to Champion? Having someone new come to take the role would have been better than "that guy I beat in the first game". Also, his cape is stupid.
