>>55274435This is retarded shit believed by people who weren't there. Gen III was hyped because pokemon abilities were hyped. The graphical jump was hyped. Everything about playing gen III was an improvement on gen I and gen II. You stupid motherfucker.
How about gen IV and the jump to the DS? Also hyped because it introduced the physical/special split for moves. Gen IV was peak pokemon gameplay at the time, and people bitching about pokemon god being retarded weren't paying attention to the last 3 stories in the main series. All the pokemon game stories are irrelevant, and when a pokemon games tries to have a deep story, it's cringe, contrived, bullshit. Pokemon will always be about they aesthetic and gameplay.
Here's a real revisionism: BW were always hyped by the community. People walked away from the franchise for gen V, and it's hard to say why. I personally was disinterested in every starter, but that's obviously not going to be the reason BW seemed to flop despite being, arguably, the peak of the whole series.
Gen VI and onward were truly awful gameplay experiences, and they sacrificed the aesthetic and style that the pixel art brought to the game. The jump to 3D models as opposed to further advancing the pseudo 3D styles with pixel artwork is the most horrendous misplay from gamefreak and the pokemon company to date. It's plainly bad. It looks awful, is clearly resource intensive, and the reason every gen using these shitty 3D models is released incomplete and filled with bugs and glitches. We will never get another polished main series release of pokemon because of this jump to 3D.
