>>53777973>Why do people like to take away the feeling of exploring the world with only you and your pokemon and the training part of the idea of being a pokemon trainer?You're still exploring the world with only you and your pokemon, but now you aren't forced to do tedious bullshit when you want to swap out a team member or when you get a new one.
>HMs and training pokemon while keeping a good rotation was a good part of the games.HMs were going to be items in gen 1, then they changed it in the final build. They waste a slot on your pokemon's moveset and aside from Surf the rest were super niche and never really served any purpose. Especially Flash, which is why it became a TM not an HM. Also, you couldn't have a "Good rotation" in any game pre gen 6, because doing so means you spend 30 hours grinding that pokemon up on wild encounters.
>gen 7 is awful due to the lack of HMs,Gen 7 is awful for many reasons, namely the fact it shoves 30 minutes of shitty baby tutorials and cutscenes at you at the start which is why I haven't even wasted time finishing it, but if it removed HMs then it did something of value at least.
>gen 9 is saved by the rideable pokemonFollowing pokemon > Ridable pokemon.
>which is superior and feeds into the gameplay loop better.No, it's inferior and a time-waster. Any game feature that wastes my time deserves to be cut, because I have more important things to do with my time than waste it on trival bullshit like grinding, crafting, etc.
>>53777982>gen 2 graphics are fantasticThey're completely off-model just like gen 1 and pixelated dog shit, and HGSS did them all better. Gen 2 is obsolete because HGSS do everything crystal does but better.
