>>44107250>Thing was widely loved when it was new and stopped being widely loved when the novelty of being new wore offWow, so amazing. Pokemania was more fun but I've always preferred gen 3-4 era of pokemon when they actually had to earn their popularity with effort. Not to mention it actually thinned the amount of pokemon fans in a good way, after pokemania ended all the people who only liked it for being popular were filtered so all my fellow pokemon playing friends were actually fans of the series too.
I'm sure it isn't a universal experience but I hate pokemon for the fact that 90% of the people I knew who played it clearly didn't care for the games very much and were the type of person who only collected cards to show off and maybe played up till brock, just so they could participate in the new fad
I was a hardcore fan from the get go, pokemon spoke to me on another level because it emulated my personal experience being a kid so perfectly. I collected bugs and pretended to battle them in my early years before I played video games, and loved exploring my local forests and caves since my local suburb was, at the time, brand new, and the town was still mostly forest and farmland, as the area was still being built. My investment and love for pokemon was fundementally very deep so it sucked when supposed fans just couldn't relate
