Repels are how I handle it, but it feels like the opposite of fun game play. Exploration seems aimless and any time you don't have lots of land marks it becomes easy to get lost especially your first go around. That's my only gripe with Emerald though.
Of course the guy bitching about Unova is also sucking off Hoenn. Unova may have a bunch of Pokemon in similar roles as Kanto Pokemon, but not only are they not even close to half the Unova Dex but it's not really doing it any more than Hoenn did. People are quick are complain that Blitzle is Electric-type Ponyta, but if you think that then that means Electrike is just as much Electric-type Growlithe.
I played it recently and it really isn't any worse than other dungeons. Going thru a cave is no more fun, I can't say why the water routes get brought up more often as an example of a tedious segment but it might have something to do with the routes themselves being too simple. Aside from Route 118(I think), the one with a current maze that you have to go thru multiple times to get all the items and trainers, every other water route on that side of the map is the same. Other than the occasional beachhead, you only have generic swimmers and diving segments to break up the monotony and they are a complete meme, more should have been done with them. My fix would be to add more land with a larger variety of trainers and interesting landmarks(sort of what Sevii Islands do in FRLG), cut off various routes and force the player to use dive to make the sections more interesting at the cost of making them more linear, and I would add more secret areas to actually incentivize exploration. For example, more caves like the ice themed one near Mossdeep with various rare Pokemon or items would be way off the beaten path and only available for those who look for it, meanwhile the mandatory path to the next destination would be shorter and more linear.
They were really good in competitive, so they're likely still malding that they got btfo in a match from 15 years ago.
Gen 5 isn't all that different in the plot department, you're still a child wandering into a cult, it's just a little more dramatic about it. It's also pretty rich to call gen 5 the diet pepsi of gen 1 when most of gen 1's designs look like Dragon Quest monsters right down to the Dragon Ball eyes.
They're all cool looking except for Terrakion, the thing looks like a buff bull with a man face.
Nigga the issue is that Gen V literally tries to be Gen 1. III and IV try to do their own shit. The issue with Gen V is that it’s all nostalgia bait. The entire dex is literally “let’s try to recreate Gen 1.” Gen III isn’t trying to do newer versions of old evolutionary lines the entire time. Unova is 70% trying to make a new Kanto. Unova is the beginning of trying to be Kanto again and again.
Funny, because Conkeldurr has always been one step ahead of Machamp ever since it came out.
The thing is that they were originally supposed to be ONIs, akin to something like this
Nigga design wise Gen V is awful. You can cope and dilate about it and even seethe when I point it out, but I am not just right, I am correct that they are shit.
I can appreciate Voltorb/Electrode for their usage as mimics but they still annoy me because the same people whining about trashbags in BW seem to forget that Kanto had the highest concentration of objectmon (as seen with Dear Feeder).
Alright, enough generalizations. Here's every Gen V Pokemon. List all the ones that are direct parallels to Gen 1 Pokemon.
None. If Unfeazant is a direct parallel to Pidgeot what does that make Staraptor? If Garbordor is just American Muk then what does that make Swalot? If Zebstrika is Rapidash but Electric then Manetric really is just Arcanine but Electric. A Pokemon can't be original if it has even a mild parallel to a Gen 1 Pokemon.
I mean, I was trying to bait the other guy into giving me his proposed list of rip-offs so I could go through and tell him he's stupid and wrong about all of them, but it seems my plan has gone awry since you decided to give me a Dumb sticker before completely agreeing with me down to the exact arguments I would have made.
If you and @Computer God Autism are going to be disingenuous faggots, I’m just gonna call you faggots and move on.
Gen 5 is fun if you are a faggot who likes the gay ass elements for a children’s collectathon rpg. The sprite work is okay, but the designs just suck.
You came into a thread where multiple posters were talking about how much they loved Gen V and claimed that the games objectively appealed to no one. You should probably just move on anyways, it should be clear to you more than anyone that you're wasting your time here trying your best to insult the games.
My argument is more that it was a bad attempt at trying to court Gen 1 fans and give new players a similar experience.
And I'm saying that arguing they were trying to court Genwunners with BW while giving an entirely different generation a similar experience is the product of schizophrenia.
My issue is the stated design was to mimic gen 1. It makes most of them uninspired. Some of them are okay if they were in a generation that didn’t feel like a lesser quality gen 1. I can go into this more later on.
Sir you are in the Pokemon thread.
