is this really going to be your only schtick in this thread, as if this particular generation molested your mother and killed your father somehow?
It's getting lame dude.
People do love to call gen 5 & 6 the beginning of the end for the series, and I kinda am that type of person too but I also used to think the same of gen 3 before that, at least when I was a snotty little kid.
Every generation but 4 introduced something new to the combat mechanics; gen 5 was the first to introduce a gimmick that was then discarded for the next game (3 on 3 battles), while gen 6 introduced a massive retcon to pre-existent pokemons in order to introduce a new type. I used to hate them both because I was a retard sperg and retard spergs hate change, but honestly I would have moved on and maybe even returned to try new entries in franchise if game freak took the opportunity to balance up other old pokemons instead of leaving them to power creep, instead of just use mega-evolutions, a temporary gimmick to be discarded later, for doing that.
Regional variants introduced in gen 7 did adress the problem but never really with it too, instead of fixing your gen 1 pokemon being shit because game freak sucks ass at balancing, you instead get a replacement with a different design.
Unova revived my love after Diamond killed it. I didn't even want to play Platinum, because G4 just sucked.
But, then I saw how crazy the opening cinematic for G5 was...
Gen 4 was something I loved, but I never played diamond & pearl, I know those games are shit and that platinum is just better, and even without them, Explorers of sky and the gen 2 remakes do exists, and while I do have complains about HGSS, I always have to admit its just nitpicking fueled by my nostalgic memories of stealing my old brother gameboy to play pokemon Silver when he was away, whenever my brother would find it out, he would end up beating me.
I would often walk around the map and catch pokemons or use his Lugia, and sometimes save. One day, I saved his game in front of the grass and seconds later found Entei, immediately catched it with the masterball but my mom caught me before I could save a second time and forced the gameboy out of my hand. The next day, my brother came back at home from school with a smug face because of the big fire lion legendary that he caught.
I never told him what happened because I always feared he would beat me for it...
