If they kept stuff like the expanded dex, Ultra Necrozma and the other Ultra Beasts and kept the base story of S/M, IMO Gen 7 could have been much better than it was. Say what you will about the story of S/M, but I never understood Lusamine being toned down between games. Took all the oomph out of her being the antagonist.
You used it as something to paint gen 4 as a bad generation, but 5 did it as well.
Do unovafags really
Pokemon has had issue across each and every release.
I never played gen 5.
I'm not quote getting what you mean. Just like, Team Plasma's aesthetic?
I agree and disagree. I don't think people give USUM enough credit for adding more options and making battles generally harder in similar ways that Emerald and Platinum improved on RS and DP, but at the end of the day it suffers from a lot of the same problems SM did but the story is worse, and the story was one of the good things you could say about SM.
Did I say gen 4 was perfect or did I say your criticism of gen 4 also applied to gen 5.
Yeah, I was speaking about Team Plasma (first game) with its weird all-seeing eye cloaks/medieval uniforms/secret circle of old bearded white men you battle towards the end of the original Black & White storyline.
The storyline wasn't amazing, but compared to Sword/Shield & Scarlet & Violet, Ultra Sun & Moon is a masterpiece. Gamefreak basically abandoned plotlines in the newer generations. To the point where Wind & Waves is allegedly just going to be an open world MMO.
I think I agree, but I'm trying to compare archetypes like the pseudo-legendaries, and it breaks down. Like, yes Dragonite is less detailed than Garchomp...but Tyranitar is just as detailed as Garchomp. Meanwhile, Salamance is pretty simple, like Dragonite.Gen 1 and 2 pocketmons are pretty simple designs because of GB and GBC limits. Gen 3 are a little more complex designs because of less limits with GBA. But once you get to 4 or more, the designs seem more complicated and maybe even overdone, especially in the "3D era" and at least in the Switch vidya (Gen 8+). Or it's just me seeing it that way.
I think it's more of an overall trend. Like Lanturn and Eternatus follow the trend, but Tyranitar and Finizen don't.
I think you're really misremembering B2W2's story. I don't remember anything about Colress being a veterinarian, just that he was a scientist researching how to best draw out a Pokemon's power. The other members certainly weren't his students. It was implied he joined B2W2 because he knew Ghetsis somehow, but he explicitly wasn't interested in the Pokemon liberation thing. Even when he defects from the villains at the end, it's in a purely rational way where he basically says "Ah, judging from the results of your battles against us, I have concluded that the power of friendship is in fact the most efficient way to draw out a Pokemon's power. I have no more need to work with Team Plasma then."
Also another reason I believe people were fine with third versions back then was that pokemon was still consistently good so you knew the third version will be as good if not better. There's also platinum which turned the worst games in the series (base DP) into one of the best (platinum).
I think I confused Colress' BW2 story, with his storyline in the Pokemon anime (which for some reason was significantly changed from the games).
In the anime, N leads a group of former Team Plasma members that is trying to take down Colress' Neo Team Plasma. In the anime, Neo Team Plasma is definitely more sinister/Colress is written like an actual terrorist organization leader/he openly tries to murder Ash & friends.
I don't think it was because of the hardware limitation, Digimon always had way more complex designs and it was made for v-pets toys. No design in later gens gets as complex as many of the early digimon designs by much. I believe it is more of a marketeable strategy. How easy is to make a plush or toy of it? How about illustrations to implement in other products and so on.Gen 1 and 2 pocketmons are pretty simple designs because of GB and GBC limits. Gen 3 are a little more complex designs because of less limits with GBA. But once you get to 4 or more, the designs seem more complicated and maybe even overdone, especially in the "3D era" and at least in the Switch vidya (Gen 8+). Or it's just me seeing it that way.
The games are slow and always were. There were two times I played in normal speed: when I played Crystal in a ancient java phone who wouldn't allow speed up and when Diamond came out. That was even worse since it was actually 80% speed since my emulator was trash and I had to constant save to not crash. The normal speed game is absolutely boring, there was never the case for being this slow. Nowadays I play almost all my romhacks at 400% speed. I only slow down in puzzles that use ice or bike.
Well since we're going over different versions of Colress, he's also different in the manga from how he acts in either in the game or anime. In the manga he's a scientist who's resentful of the mainstream scientific community not acknowledging his work, so he joined with Ghetsis for the chance to perfect his Pokemon mind control device and show it off by committing acts of terror with it. Instead of acting stoic like the games, he acts like a manchild with really dramatic body language, and he easily starts seething when someone insults his inventions. He defects from Team Plasma at the start of the climax because it becomes clear that his mind control device isn't actually working on Kyurem and their plans start to unravel, so decides to just bail but gets stopped by the male MC (who in the manga is a federal agent sent undercover to arrest him and the rest of Team Plasma).
It got fucked from the earthquake. Most BW and B2W2 media did.
I think its a mixture of low budget and the people at game freaks being lazy fucks.
I think in the anime, Colress also gets arrested by the Pokemon Interpol/Looker.
Aren't voice actors in Japan unionized? I'd imagine the games relatively low budgets (if the leaks are to be believed) would be the explanation.
