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Things Your Least Favorite Gen Did Better Than Your Favorite Gen

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:25:24 No.28601164 View View Reply Original Report

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Alright. We all have a favorite gen and a least favorite gen. But here we find something that our least favorite gen genuinely did better then our favorites and discuss our thoughts on the matter

I'll start:

>Favorite: Gen 2
>Least Favorite: Gen 4

I gotta admit, although i fucking adore Johto, and like Pineco and Forretress as Pokemon they are pretty terrible examples of bagworms. Gen 4 admittedly did a much better take on bagworms. Your turn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:28:27 No.28601230 Report

Quoted By: >>28601263 >>28601315 >>28603894

>>28601164
>pineco = bagworm
Simply no

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:29:34 No.28601251 Report

Quoted By: >>28601311 >>28601620

>>28601164
>Favorite: 4
>Least Favorite: 1
Better Pokemon designs overall and better atmosphere

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:29:56 No.28601261 Report

Quoted By: >>28601311

Forretress is not terrible in any way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:30:01 No.28601263 Report

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>>28601230
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pineco_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:32:04 No.28601311 Report

Quoted By: >>28601378 >>28601382

>>28601251
What do you like more about gen 4 then? Characters or story? Something else?

>>28601261
Oh I know. I like Forretress. He just is a really bad representation of a bagworm is all.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:32:11 No.28601314 Report

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>>28601164
Least favorite: 1
Favorite:7 (already)
It's why Pokémon exists today

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:32:13 No.28601315 Report

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>>28601230
>Bagworm Pokémon
OP has tremendously shit taste but it literally is the bagworm pokemon

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:35:14 No.28601378 Report

Quoted By: >>28601426 >>28605303

>>28601311
The core gameplay overall. Platinum's the closest we got to challenging in a vanilla game not counting horribly implemented difficulty modes along with the best meta in the series, along with having overall better level up movepools so chunks of mons weren't horrid to use ingame like in gens 1-3.

Also I kinda like Sinnoh's leaders, they were nice.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:35:30 No.28601382 Report

Quoted By: >>28601397 >>28601426

>>28601164
>Favorite: 5
>Least Favorite: 6
online and breeding

>>28601311
she's a grenade, not a bagworm

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:36:07 No.28601397 Report

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>>28601382
>she

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:37:46 No.28601426 Report

Quoted By: >>28601481 >>28601496

>>28601382
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Forretress_(Pok%C3%A9mon)

>>28601378
Yeah. I can respect that. The Pokedex killed gen 4 for me but I was actually a big fan of the leaders.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:40:12 No.28601481 Report

Quoted By: >>28601940

>>28601426
>bulbapedo
yeah no thanks, i'm not falling for it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:41:08 No.28601496 Report

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>>28601426
My favorite is ironically from Gen 4 but most of the mons feel forgettable to me aside from the starters and cross-gen evos.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:45:10 No.28601573 Report

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>>28601164
>Favourite: gen 5
>Least favourite: gen 6
Battles in gen 6 are way faster, which I appreciate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:46:47 No.28601601 Report

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Favorite gen: 5
Least favorite: 1
At least it created Mewtwo

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:47:31 No.28601620 Report

Quoted By: >>28601836 >>28601858

>>28601251
>Better Pokemon designs overall and better atmosphere
>better atmosphere
But gen 4 had the best atmosphere of the entire series

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:58:32 No.28601836 Report

Quoted By: >>28602188

>>28601620
OP here. Personally atmosphere is one of the main things that made me love Johto so much. People don't praise Johto for it's atmosphere as much as I think they should. Ruins Of Alph??? That shit almost gave me goosebumps when my child-self went there. And Mt. Silver felt like such a big deal to me. And so many characters and towns felt like they had so much history, you know? That being said Gen 4 might be second place for best atmosphere in my book. Dat Valley Windworks tho. So good.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 01:59:41 No.28601858 Report

Quoted By: >>28601893

>>28601620
Gen 1 and 2 just felt more real to me

Not everyone was some nice guy other than the evil team. You had your nasty people and you had your nice people. Also Kanto and Johto have the least linear games in the series which I really appreciate.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:01:01 No.28601881 Report

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>>28601164
Favorite: 4
Least Favorite: 6

Uh... the graphics :^)

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:01:52 No.28601893 Report

Quoted By: >>28601934

>>28601858
Gen 1 and 2 had the best rivals too, which helps drive the atmosphere pretty heavily since they're so prevalent.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:03:00 No.28601925 Report

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>Favorite: 2
>Least Favorite: 5

I liked the gen 5 mons more. Gen 2 had some of my favorites, but it also had the largest amount of forgettable mons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:03:27 No.28601934 Report

Quoted By: >>28602006

>>28601893
>2
>Good rival
As much as I like Gen 2 I fucking hated Silver. Blue is a much better example of an asshole rival

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:03:33 No.28601940 Report

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>>28601481
Plus if Forretress was supposed to represent a grenade it fucks that up even worse.

B) Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:05:59 No.28601989 Report

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Favorite gen: 1
Least favorite: 5

DON'T ASSUME

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:06:35 No.28602006 Report

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>>28601934
Silver is my favorite Rival out of all Gens. He's one of the only rivals you ever see any real character development from (him and Wally), the way he becomes a part of your story is a nice change of pace and very unique. The subtle implications that he is Giovanni's son is awesome as fuck. Who's your favorite rival and why?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:08:42 No.28602057 Report

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>>28601164
Forretress is GOAT.

I wish it were as good as Ferrothorn.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:13:07 No.28602142 Report

Quoted By: >>28602341

Favorite: 3
Least favorite: 2

While I really don't like how the time mechanic limits when you can catch certain pokemon, I have to admit it's stupid how Gen 3 keeps track of time but never actually changes to night in game.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:13:25 No.28602145 Report

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>>28601164
>Least fav: Gen 6
>fav: Gen 4/5

Better GTS and trading.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:15:22 No.28602188 Report

Quoted By: >>28602341

>>28601836
I mean, HGSS counts as Gen 4 too. And I loved that Johto because it felt "this is what I grew up with fully realised."

Snow on Mt Silver or 3D Ruins of Alph made those games for me

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:15:36 No.28602189 Report

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>>28601164
Fav is gen 2, least fav is gen 4.

They added third stage evolutions to mons instead of just baby ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 02:22:56 No.28602341 Report

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>>28602142
Yeah that disappointed the shit out of me. To this day I still don't know why the didn't do that. I personally loved having to find pokemon during specific times, but if you can't tell I kind of blow my load for all things gen 2.

>>28602188
Fair enough, but although the remakes heavily enhanced the series for me the atmosphere was set back in the originals and just visually improved upon in the remakes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 03:35:20 No.28603755 Report

Quoted By: >>28604910

>favorite
3 or 5
>least favorite 1

Atmosphere in general. It's easy to see why gen 1 is so loved by people who played them as kids back in the 90's, no other games in the franchise are as good as creating a world so varied in emotion. It retains the innocent and carefree feel of exploring a foreign region while also throwing in darker subplots like in Lavender town, the old school Gameboy soundtrack added to the creepiness that newer games could never replicate, Lavender Town sounds far more haunting in the originals than the remakes which is huge in building up atmosphere. Team Rocket felt more villainous than any other rival teams simply because of how straight they were played, there was no vague master plan or endgame for them, just organized bouts of crime for their own personal gain and amusement. Legendaries felt more mythical because of the lack of concrete lore, bits and pieces could be find, but when you played the games without the anime skewing your view on them, the five legendary Pokemon felt all the more powerful due to hoe shrouded in mystery they were. Lots of the mechanics are outdated and the lack of content compared to all later games in the franchise hurt it but that sense of adventure you get from playing it can't be beat.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 03:40:17 No.28603850 Report

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>>28601164
>Favourite: Gen 5
>Least Favourite: Gen 6
Berry farming XY>Dreamworld Berry Farming

I mean why not just have the berry farming in the in game world? Especially since I can't even use fucking Dreamworld anymore. Although the concept of expanding your farm like in Dreamworld could make XY's concept on berry farming even better.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 03:42:27 No.28603894 Report

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>>28601230
>doesn't know their Pokemon and the basics about them
Casuals

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 03:53:30 No.28604097 Report

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Unova is my least favorite, but when I go back to replay HG I miss a bunch of features.

Especially being able to press X to back out of 2 menus at once.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 04:34:46 No.28604910 Report

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>>28603755
Yeah I know what you mean. A lot of people whine that they don't get a lot of answers from information in the Pokemon world but I've personally always preferred a world that encourages you to investigate it. If something is supposed to be a mystery to the character, it works so much better if they make it a mystery for the player as well.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 04:49:17 No.28605228 Report

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>Favorite:4
>Least favorite:6

4 just gave some need evolution.
>mamoswine
>weevile
>yanmega

6th just added megas and hid some needed evolutions behind and item
>mawile
>Adino

But 4th gen games are slow as hell
And 6th gen has knock off. So thats good

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 04:50:41 No.28605250 Report

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>>28601164
>Favorite: Gen 3
>Least Favorite: Gen 2
I like Tyranitar more than Salamence and Metagross, so Gen 2 had a better pseudo overall.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 04:51:42 No.28605269 Report

Quoted By: >>28605439

>>28601164
I've actually wondered: why did they make Pineco and Forretress bagworms? And why did they proceed to make a better example of bagworms in gen 4?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 04:53:23 No.28605303 Report

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>>28601378
>Platinum's the closest we got to challenging in a vanilla game not counting horribly implemented difficulty modes along with the best meta in the series
This is fact and everybody should accept it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 04:58:22 No.28605379 Report

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>favorite: gen 4
>least favorite: gen 5

Gen 5 battles went by faster, which is good. Too bad the rest of the game goes by slow anyways thanks to the insane amount of npc text.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 05:01:37 No.28605439 Report

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>>28605269
I'm guessing they were trying to be clever with making a Pokemon that disguised itself as a pine cone and thought that the closest real life equivalent was probably a bagworm. Forretress is probably based on the same thing but using a nut instead.

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Anonymous Sun 18 Sep 2016 05:07:15 No.28605538 Report

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My favorite gen is 5 and my least favorite is gen 2. My favorite mon of all time is Furret; naturally, Furret is way, way better than Watchog.

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