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probably

i liked gen 5, gen 6 is when i think the games actually went downhill

though I did still like, gen 7? the hawaii games. i know other people did not like those as much

but i liked them

also the ORAS remakes were fun, really nice postgame. though the games were definitely easier than the original gen 3 games

every pokemon generation has its own bad designs

so i dont care as much for that argument

I know not everyone here played S/V, but I think that's the most fun I've had with pokemon since being a kid and playing gen 4 but admittedly I'm not into the competitive side of the games at all, so idk how that factors in

Mega Evolution was still the only gimmick they've added I've not disliked gigantamaxing and terastallization were both stupid

i never cared for comp pokemon either

idk anything about S/V so i guess i cant say its bad but i'm not really in a rush to play another pokemon game

If we leave the main series games, the most recent pokemon game i enjoyed was the Legends arceus game

and i havent bought a new pokemon since then

I think someone could argue S/V is an objectively bad game, and I wouldn't even disagree but it was fun

I think that most people here who played scarlet and violet will say that the game is really fun

Not saying it’s like a good game but it was very enjoyable?

its more fun than gens 6 and 8 for sure

I have a lot of issues with S/V. I did enjoy it, and I like that they at least tried something new with being open world, but I don't think they did it very well.

yeah, agree with Umbreon

It's kinda just big and empty

gyms 6/8 are a mess

the towns have literally nothing in them

I think most people had fun with legends arceus and ZA? So I wouldn’t mind if the open world concept was just here to stay

I haven't played ZA. I thought it was generally disliked more than Arceus.

ZA is a city that looks the same everywhere

and the combat is really annoying

I didn't finish Arceus, but it was a neat spin-off game

The only real problem I had with ZA is pokemon had problems targeting sometimes

I'd rather they go back to linear games with little-to-no story personally. Their overuse of dialogue is what killed gens 6-8 for me.

actually, I should include 5 in that too. 5 has way too much dialogue too.

i like the dialogue

That's fair. I like it on my first playthrough, but it makes replaying the games difficult.

that makes a little more sense as criticism. at first i was confused by it

All pokemon needs is a skip dialogue button 😔

i dont really replay games very much so

its not a consideration for me

if i do replay a game its been at least a year or more since

Well, my criticism would moreso be that you can't do much before being constantly interrupted. I just want to explore the world, catch pokemon, defeat gyms, etc, but when you're constantly interrupted by your friends going, "HAVE YOU SEEN NEBBY, LET'S GO TO THIS MEADOW" it just gets annoying. If it happened every once in a while, I'd be more fine with it, but you get constantly interrupted by extended dialogues/cutscenes.

And I think S/V for that reason is a step in the right direction. You are completely free to run around and do things, and even when you do a story area, the dialogue doesn't waste your time.

hm

and this is not only an issue in the first island like many people say

I dont remember feeling that way about the dialogue in gen 5/6/7

In gen 6, Tierno/Trevor/Shauna interrupt you a lot in random routes. It's not as bad as gen 7, but it still gets on my nerves.

Its been too long since i've played 6 though so i cant really articulate what it was i did not like about it, but dialogue wouldn't have been one of my criticisms

I really think they just increased the amount of dialogue in literally every game in a significant amount

It's especially a weird criticism coming from me, who enjoys visual novels haha

gen 8 has Hop "worst character in fiction" Retard blocking you from progression with dialog every 5 steps

ZA for some reason has invisible dialog trigger walls blocking you from exploring the open world for no legitimate reason

Arceus was great if you ignored combat

It was fun throwing balls at shit and exploring

I'll get around to playing Arceus some day

Yeah, I loved arceus

i'm biased and voting every game i played and nothing else

There, since people are discussing pokemon, we can have this be out poll for the day

does good game mean "i played it and liked it" or actually a good game

I'm taking it as the first

Whatever you want to interpret that as

because i think the open world games are objectively bad

but i think they're a lot of fun

if I asked you "hey is this pokemon game good"

how would you guy instinct respond

Well, scarlet violet specifcally

games are meant to be fun

they are?

first I've heard of it

John Nintendo said that

i will vote for gold and silver only because the remakes of them are not on the list

FUCK

Thats what I get for doing this by memory and trying not to forget any

Huh, so he did.

Actual rance 03 spoiler

Fuck. I just went with TinyBomby's interpretation as canonical. Now it is what ever I want? This changes everything but I'm too lazy to revote.

hey. I didn't say what game this was

i can't tell if you're being serious and this is actually a rance screenshot

Anyways. Voted X/Y cause that's the only one in Part 2 I played.

It is a screenshot he took in game

Technically not entirely, I did edit in "John Nintendo" in Paint.