>>54765595Again you people are making this about an individual person and not the playerbase as a whole ignoring these mechanics because they're awful ways to gate obtaining the Pokemon. The biggest irony here is you going "play the game" like getting things from Honey Trees or whatever requires any active playing. If a Pokemon took effort to obtain, if the Pokemon required going to some hidden area, out of the way area and searching for it, that's fine, that's what other generations do, I can think of Marill in GSC, Bagon in RSE, the early Volcarona in BW2, etc.
The issue with Gen 4 is that you're literally just waiting for a chance to get the Pokemon you want, not only do you need to backtrack to an area you visited ages ago, you also now need to play slots and hope you got what you were looking for--oh, it's a Silcoon? Too bad, play again in another 12 hours. Oh, you want Drifloon? Wait till friday, retard, btw, it's not available the week you clear valley windworks, so wait another week to find one, dipshit, better not finish the game before then lol xD.
Are people gonna do that? No, they're going to forget that Pokemon and find another. Gen 4 puts players in this situation again and again and again and the end result is your standard sinnoh team.
No other game gates Pokemon quite like Sinnoh, and no other game couples this with notably awful distribution like Sinnoh.
