But only the bad they want to hear, same as with the good. Unless it fits their narrative they won't engage or click content. So their little bubble gets even more bias and that's all they will see making it even worse
I know its a meme, but the worst thing about Emerald IS too much water. Stephen got replaced by Wallace, Juan now runs the 8th gym, and you have Archie and Team Aqua to fight. So 3 of the big end game battles are against water specialists.
Legends Arceus is the only (and I mean ONLY) Pokémon game that has allowed me to complete the Pokedex without getting another game/console or having to find someone to trade. That in itself is enough reason to make it the best Pokémon game to date. That and the fact that I'd rather do 10 backflips each day for 30 days to evolve a pokemon than having to trade.
Yeah, at this point they only get away with 2 versions out of tradition because everyone's just accepted that that's how Pokemon is. Spin-offs like Colosseum, XD, and Arceus (and soon Z-A) prove that Pokemon very much can work with just one game instead of one game and then a 3% different game that a considerable amount of fans feel pressured into also buying.
@@Caroniver_Robocacci Trade evos. You need a second console and second copy of the game to evolve Pokemon that you can obtain in the game. Catching a Machop is like downloading a free-to-start game.
I think my biggest problem with X and Y is how unfinished it feels like the world just feels so small, there's all these little things scattered around the map that feel like they're supposed to lead to something bigger (the mysterious ghost girl, the abandoned hotel, zygarde, the power plant door, the event mythicals, the 'chamber of emptiness' location which is nothing but a cave with a mega stone in it) and it's just not there there's hints and teases, but not much beyond the base story, and the post game is almost non-existent aside from the looker storyline and the extra town
No, the worst part of Pokemon: Let's Go is the fact that you're restricted to *a single joy-con.* (And the Pokeball, but _nobody_ can afford that anymore.) No pro controller, no dual joy-con grip. You only get one. In tv mode. In handheld mode, you get to use the entire controller _and_ can actually aim by tilting the system. Why they didn't add an update or option to play like that with the pro controller, I'll never know. But that annoyance makes me not want to play as much. And Arceus help you if your joy-con starts drifting...
I've seen the Pokéball for around 20 bucks on ebay but they're used and thus no Mew. Seriously, what were they thinking of making one Mew per Pokéball and not one Mew per save file...
I don't even have joycons anymore I just have pro controllers and I can't play the game at all anymore. I'm not spending 80 dollars to play a mediocre at best game. Edit: this is the only game I've run into with this problem as well.
Yeah .. my switches joycon started to drift and since it's a switch lite I had to buy another switch item and a pro controller just so I could play my games again... All but let's go Eevee ....
I understood that complaint about the Alola games, but when I finally played SwSh a couple years after release, I was baffled that they have the exact same issue yet no one talks about it. Your journey of doing all the tough fights that leads to the elite 4 is constantly interrupted by an obnoxious brat that fancies himself your rival or something, as well as a female NPC who doesn't battle but wants you to go with them visiting historical sites that are somehow related to the legendary pokemon. ...which game did I just describe?
@@TheBlackMage9For real, sword and shield had a lot of dialogue and battle moments where I'm just spamming to get back on my own. I will say I was more into the USUM story and it didn't bother me.
@@luniveonyeah but the ultra wormhole riding completely makes up for that imo, great mini game that thanks to the boosted shiny odds and the ability to hunt all legendaries up to that point between the two games is even better.
The issue of Dexit isn't "not being able to catch every pokemon", that happened all the way back in RSE. It's that pokemon were outright removed from the underlying code and thus literally do not and can not exist in the game without modding. It also is the reason Pokemon Hostage (Home) and Pokemon Ransom (Bank) are such a big problem.
Why are you calling bank and home that, the only thing that makes sense is hacked and illegal pokemon. And spinda, but that's one pokemon (weak albeit). Bank has more an issue of having to log out and log in after everything. In no way are they hostage and ransom, never heard it that way either.
@@luniveonThe fact that you have to keep paying to keep them until they are available in a new game. If you transferred a living dex from Gen 7, a lot of them have been stuck in Home for years
@@MarshallLeeA And what ones are not available? I haven't heard any issue about Hoenn and home ever. If there still is an issue, I guess that's one thing, but I don't know many casual people who have a whole living dex from RSE.
@@luniveon The list of Pokemon trapped on Home is currently around 10: Spinda, Patrat and Watchog, the 3 elemental monkeys from Unova and their evolutions, and Furfrou. The list has slowly been whittled down, with each new major game release and dlc/expansion. Though I think the primary issue is not *always* being able to take out your favorite Pokemon from past games into the newest game. Up until Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, you theoretically could transfer almost any single Pokemon from as far back as Ruby and Sapphire to every other game in the same or later generations. If you had a team you really liked, you carry that team with you to every newest installment and use them in the Battle Frontier, Pokeathlon, Pokemon Contests, Battle Subway, online play, or whatever other new mode that game had with your old friends, but now.. unless your Pokemon happens to be supported by the latest game, they are trapped in the past, unless (or rather IF) a dlc/expansion comes out that adds support for that Pokemon. SV has had the greatest amount of Pokemon availability (compared to the number of total Pokemon) since USUM, with a total of 185 out of 1000+ Pokemon not allowed to exist in the game. Ideally, the next game would just support them all again, but that is doubtful.
That's still a stupid and whiny problem IMHO. I understand familarity but when you have a franchise with over 1,000 pokemon to choose from, forms and all, there will come a point where they can't bring everyone back and balance them to the latest generation rules and stuff. And while one could complain about having to pay for a service to keep your pokemon you might never use again in years, I'd argue it's better than losing your pokemon completely especially when you're not paying a lot of money for a yearly service.
I think Gen 7's biggest problem was the frickin' online... everything. That carnival looking thing that I forgot the name of. I lost track of how many times I tried to connect to a friend to trade or battle, with EVERYTHING setup right (game up to date, internet connection detected, etc.) and it just... wouldn't work. Period. Meanwhile, I'd pop in the aging Y or OmegaRuby and have no problems whatsoever. ...At least until they stopped paying attention to hacking and the whole Trade system got janky.
The Festival Plaza was pretty awful, I have no idea why they decided that splitting up the menus into physical, difficult to navigate stands was a good idea.
Tbf he was obviously biased towards gens 3 and 4 - for him to struggle to find flaws with Emerald, DP or Platinum was just being nostalgia blind. I love all of the Pokemon generations, but none of them are perfect, and all have their own egregious flaws
Nah, Kanto and Johto have worse dexes. At least Sinnoh only had ONE specialist with only 2 possible team members that fit their type. Kanto had 2 with 1 each, and Johto had 3 with 2 each (and Morty and Lance didn't even get both Pokemon of their types!)
@@EricWalkerUk Kanto - Only 1 Ghost, only 1 Dragon, Ghost and Dragon specialists on the Elite Four. Johto - Only 2 Ghosts, only 2 Dragons, Ghost Gym Leader with 4 of the same 'Mon, Dragon Type 8th Gym Leader, Dragon Champion. Sinnoh (DP/BDSP) Pokedex > Kanto (RG/B/RB/Y/FRLG/LGPLGE) Pokedex > Johto (GS/C/HGSS) Pokedex.
@herowither12354 true to be fair about ghost and dragon haha - btw I'm not saying gens 1 and 2 are the best anyway. Although I definitely wouldn't put DP on a pedestal either. When people like gen 4, it is because platinum and HGSS are so good.
the worst thing the ultra games had wass the Bossfight Ultra Necrozma is the WEAKEST Legendary fight we've had. and thats saying something given he was HYPED UP all game only to hive him die turn ONE after listening to his music theme (brilliant theme btw) It's a shame he was piss easy, should have been a LOT HARDER a bossfight given the hype the games had for him.
The reason why I disliked BW back then is bc that is when they started shiny locking legendaries. These days, they shiny lock all legendaries, starters, mythicals, and gift Pokemon. They are turning a once free shiny hunt into a loot box shiny hunt in Pokemon Go.
Not just GO, they also wanted to cash on SwSh/BDSP sales where the legends are shiny locked. Btw if you'd ask me, being unable to rename Mystery gift pkmn is a bigger scam
@lucideirune1635 I understand you feeling about shiny hunt. Those I do not think major Pokémon players are shiny hunter like you. Those I think old players like me who been around gen 1 Pokémon. I would love to see the game have an option mode form easy to hard mode.
@@Dark40061 There is a huge community of shiny hunters and it does affect them when they have to pay and go out to shiny hunt. Rural shiny hunters especially are badly affected by this. They also influence newer players and get them excited about shiny hunting in gens 1-4. This is how I got into shiny hunting in gen 4 bc of these influencers.
@@lucideirune1635 I understand that, I probably would been shiny hunter if I was around gen 2. I’m more for 6 perfect IV and I just got 6 IV ditto from Pokémon let’s go
My Pokemon hot take: As a kid I never had the games until Black, I was always a fan of the anime and I had a bunch of the Pokédex books. I think forcing the new gen till post game was great. It highlighted the new pokemon more. Black being my first game, I didn’t want to go in knowing every single Pokemon
As someone who had played every game since gen 1, I agree - I liked the distinct feeling of the region and having to construct a team with all new Pokemon
The worst thing about Emerald is that it introduces so many mechanics in the Battle Frontier that works on background info that YOU the player have NO CLUE about and then proceeds to be tongue and cheek about explaining it to you in game. On top of that it goes out of it way to be outright tedious in the most unfun ways.
@@BusinessSkrub Looks like nullpoint's not the only one with lack of literacy. Never said you specifically, I said "people like you". Obviously, you as an individual are not that important 😆 They scrapped it because it sucked? If only the same logic applied to you 🤷
@@BusinessSkrub The thing is that by now, the games are _much_ better at explaining hidden mechanics (although they're still a bit cryptic about others) _and_ it's significantly easier to make competitive-ready Pokemon, _including_ the ones you've used during the game. You have Hyper Training to maximize IVs. You have Mints to change Natures. You have Mirror Herb to easily pass down Egg Moves without actually breeding a new lvl 1 mon. It's still somewhat tedious, but nowhere near as much as it used to be. Now yes, a lot of facilities in Battle Frontier weren't the best _(looking at you, Battle Palace :v),_ but I think the general idea is fine. Online battles sort of replaced it, but the two could easily co-exist. There's also the unfortunate issue of the ever decreasing attention span of people, which makes them less likely to engage with such a grindy part of the game. Another issue is the time required to create all those trainer teams for the facility, which could be problematic given the short development time the games have. *tl;dr the Battle Frontier would've been much more accesible nowdays, but the real life circumstances make it unlikely to come back*
I recognize the problems with GS/HGSS and objectively speaking I agree with your assessment of their worst qualities, but I have never forgiven the remakes for replacing Kris.
She's still a villain there, just not the main one. She never got infected by Nihilego, but she still did lose her husband, so she's still crazy but not as crazy, and gets a hero complex instead
Forget Lusamine they ruined Lillie’s character arc. They removed her from several scenes (like the one where you go to the island to get the flute) so that she would be less relevant. And then, her big character development moment gets completely scrapped for a generic “I forgive you” situation so that you can fight a big dragon as the climax. Absolutely butchered the plot for me.
@@epicphantom589 nah the REAL worst part about this sequence is this the Final boss aka SAID Light Dragon at the end? ABSOLUTLEY PISS EASY, bro dies in TURN ONE after 3 seconds of listening to his BRILLANT Theme. Lusamine in the games this was a SEQUEL TO was a harder bossfight than the literall LIGHT DRAGON of Alola Ultra Necrosmas the most DISSAPOINTING legendary BY FAR, given how WEAK he is as this.
Honestly the worst thing about Gen 1 is probably the sprites. In terms of the technicals and glitches, it’s rough but it still works, but some of those old sprites are AWFUL.
Red and Blue sprites are pretty alright overall with a couple stinkers thrown into the mix, but the overwhelming majority of Red and Green's sprites are an affront to Arkoos and humanity
Don't worry there are ppl who would defend this saying that it was a joke. This joke is outdated & they didn't give us Gengar via other methods like in SwSh. Poor Mindy she was unable to redeem herself. Then they've introduced Blossom who gave us a Gengar in SV
@@luniveon Even if it was funny, they should have given Gengar though other means like they did in SV. U can get Gengar via 3 methods--Raids,Trade from NPC & Wild
I always loved gen5, had a ton of fun in these games with one of my friends back then, also the bug types they added were just so top designwise to me, when i first saw scolipede on a trainer i backtracked all the way into the forest to grab myself a venipede and evolve it xd
I really liked how Black and White had a Pokedex that was exclusively the new Pokemon before the post game. One of the things I hate the most about the newer Pokemon games is that they make fewer brand new Pokemon and put more focus on the regional variants and the current gimmick (which gets worse with each generation).
I tried to like Brilliant Diamond, I really did, but it's like they forgot what the point of a remake was. They couldn't even be bothered to implement some of the bare minumum Platinum QOL fixes, like the back button on the Poketch.
Same here, the walking and collision felt discombobulated. I’m very much accustomed to walking diagonally/using a joystick/circle pad to move in a Pokémon game but here it feels like you’re walking on soap. The most fun I had with it was shiny hunting Turtwig on those lowered shiny odds and got him on 607 resets (although it also made me wish the Switch had soft resetting like past consoles did).
Priced like LGPE,PLA & most Switch games @60$ But Artstyle, Cutscenes, Story, Lack of Move tutors, Lack of Gimmicks (Megas/Dmax,Z moves), Overworld mons(except for the GU) like Base DP It's worst game that took only 2 things from Pt(Rotom room & Dex) ignoring the rest especially the story, Villa,Improved Gyms & Elite 4 rooms, Up & Down Poktech buttons. Why should I play it over Pt? Bcoz Fairy typing+ Some QoL updates that's it, nothing else That's BDSP in a nutshell. FRLG,HGSS proved that u can innovate & expand despite being faithful
I usually look past the flaws of other newer games because I still have fun with them, but BDSP just infuriates and upsets me as someone who started Pokemon with Diamond back in 2007. Everything about BDSP is just wrong and I can’t forgive the game for the mistakes it remade
It’s so crazy too because I kept telling any person I saw on the internet in favor of a remake that we didn’t need one- back a few years before they came out, and that it would turn out poorly. I said that more out of spite, and that because I thought that D/P/PT was overrated. And lo and behold, the remakes turn out to be something that many fans hated
The worst thing for BW2 is the key system's requirement, you need TWO copies of B2 to start a game with Challenge mode, and that is terrible. If they introduced the key system, but removed that requirement, BW2 would be flawless games.
Like who in the world would set a difficulty setting as a version exclusive feature?. Also the Challenge mode is bugged too. The items are the only difficult part, the +5 Levels are Fake Levels(who have the same stats as the mons which are 5 levels below them in the regular mode) but give u Exp equal to the current fake level. There are yt videos explaining this bug & even Bulbapedia too
@@e94youtubeAnd it’s a postgame feature, which you need to sacrifice your save file to use! How have Nintendo not thought to have multiple save slots on a Pokémon cart?
21:22 - from what I remember, there was a pokemon Z, or at least dual enhanced versions planned as shown in datamines from 2014 under the name CALOS_RESERVE (ID's 28 and 29), as much as Masuda says there was never plans for it. of course, that ended up getting scrapped. 21:50 - Sun and Moon do remind me of yokai watch, but mostly because of the concurrent anime's artstyle likely taking inspiration from it. 22:23 - this is made worse if you have an old 3DS model like most people did when Sun and Moon were new. double battles are honestly unplayable just because of how much they bog down the system. it's also apparent on those models because if you close out of the game, the system has to restart whereas that is not the case with New 3DS models. that, and the absurd amount of slow cutscenes that drag out don't help with that whatsoever.
100% watching the cutscenes for the first time, alright still not a huge fan but id give it a chance, but replaying them is kinda painfull with the amount of interruptions that happen... games would be sooo much better with a skip feature
Truth. Also, no matter what is going on, your avatar is smiling blankly. At least in 6th gen and 8th gen, your character REACTED. But nope, only in a handful of scenes does your avatar react in gen 7. It was SO frustrating. Like playing a robot.
I think what made X and Y so easy, also had a lot to do with the affection mechanic introduced in gen 6 as well... Just by investing a tiny bit of time and getting a pokemon to affection level 2, gives them an increased 20% EXP, and if you get a pokemon to affection 5 you get: 20% more EXP. 25% chance of enduring a fatal hit, even multiple times in the same battle. Chance to heal status effects for free during battle. Increase the miss rate of any opponent move not guaranteed to hit by 10%. Double their crit rate. So on top of the EXP-share being partywide now, every pokemon you get to level 5 affection gets INSANE buffs as well. So it felt like the first generation in the series MADE to make the player feel overpowered, since there's just so many ways to make your level 7 Pidgey so much stronger than a normal one, without them even seeing battle once!
I hate how gen 2 is so often seen as the best. It has those annoying phone numbers (brought back in Emerald too), the gym leaders are weird an imbalanced (Falkner has no Johto Pokémon for example), many new gen 2 Pokémon are only in Kanto after the league despite being weak, not to mention all the outdated mechanics (HGSS is better though).
One of my favorite things about black and white is being forced to only use gen 5 pokmeon and i usually only use new gen pokemon in new releases nowadays
Crystal has to be the WORST third version of all time. What were the changes? Add Suicune as the box art and give him his own story, add Celebi,but only for the Japanese version, and remove several Johto mons. Not touch any gym roster's team, and most egrigiously: THEY TOOK OUT MAREEP!
I mean, Crystal’s main selling point was the girl protagonist. That change is bigger than any other third version on a fundamental level because it gave half the potential player base the ability to be themselves. It makes sense that Crystal stayed similar in that regard, hewing closer to how Harvest Moon used to do girl versions.
Pokemon animations when entering battle, more sprites and more colourful aesthetics changes compared to G/S. Also it was the first game with unique music for legendary pokemon battles. Most major interesting changes are aesthetic imo.
@@ZingoBananaa honestly the people who shit on gen 1/2 are mostly just kids. Gen 1 yeah deserves a lot of it but not at all gen 2. Just clearly tells me that person was not born at the time.
When playing gen 2 I always go to a Chuck, give Jasmine the medicine, let her go back to the gym, then head over to Pryce doing the lake of rage events and grabbing that badge before going back to Jasmine. It works better level scale wise and it feels like you have given her time to get back into a battleing mood.
@@-RIWIS- You know like 3/4 of the pokemon got renamed to more english sounding names right? Originally the Bulbasaur line had absolutely no dinosaurs reference in their names. Also, they changing Boobar to Magmar is hilarious lol
My main complaint is you can't even complete the Pokédex without the second version of the game or paying for the ability to play and trade online, which is something that used to be free. It's not like they don't already make enough money. It feels like money is more important for them than player satisfaction.
DP being slow isnt the biggest issue. Its the fact that 50% of new pokemon are locked to the post game. DP, and by extension, BDSP, are objectively horrible games.
I'll be honest, but I despise pokemon blue the most out of the pokemon games I have played. I fought every single trainer, and grinded as much as I could, and I still was hilariously was underleveled. I understand a challenge, but this was too much, and is the main reason I refuse to play pokemon yellow
At least in gen 1 and 2, the stat exp system and the poor opponent AI go a long way to evening the odds even if there’s a 10-15 level gap. Because of the battle mechanics in those games it’s kinda better to ignore opposing levels, you’ll be surprised how well you do
Ive been shiny hunting gastly in soul silver since September 19th 2021 and i still havent got it. Ive only saved 50ish hours but it could easily be 5x that amount. Someone wish me some luck please
One problem with a lot of third versions is not including all the Pokémon, both Platinum AND Emerald suffer from this. Platinum removed the DP exclusives: Murkrow, Misdreavus, Stunky and Glameow (which is stupid that's 4 Gen 4 Pokémon families you've removed, WHY? and Emerald (which was not nearly as bad) Removed Roselia, Meditite and the already rare, and pretty useless Surskit. Really Meditite is the only one they removed I'd care about.
I was lucky I had ruby and emerald because I realized zangoose was my favorite pokemon playing emerald then found out I had to trade one over because it's not in emerald.
I still remember the day I got a game boy color and pokemon blue for Christmas. Don’t know what possessed my parents to buy that for me, since they knew NOTHING about video games, but i love them for it.
I honestly think the original intended order of the Johto gyms was Price, Chuck Jasmine. The reason being price and chuck have the same level pokemon, you get whirlpool after the rocket hideout, prices badge allows you to use whirlpool and the whirl Islands are between olivine and cianwood city.
I understand the point is to criticise what you can, but I feel that a lot of these criticisms are applying the modern context onto 20+ year old games, i.e. a lot of these were either not real issues at the time or otherwise excusable (Gen 4's engine is inexcusable, though). Also, Gen 1 is transcendent. People play it FOR the flaws now. RUclipsrs have made entire careers off of Gen 1 due to its quirks.
@@Awzn123 Things like no longer needing HM slaves is nice, being able to access boxes from the menu rather than going to a pokemon center is also a plus, even things like reminding and forgetting moves without heart scales is a personal favorite and even a easier entry for competitive for people who want to get into it or train their mons for
@@luidaguilar5233 oh I agree gen 9 has the lowest barrier to entry from any other generation. Now you don’t even have to breed Pokémon to give them good IVs, there’s mints to change natures, I forgot the held item but also if you have a picnic with both Pokémon from the same egg group/chain and the Pokémon you wanna teach an egg move all you need is the item and and an empty move slot
The problem with Emerald was Team Aqua and Team Magma barely had any differences in Pokemon most of the Team Aqua people didn't use water type Pokemon and the final fights with them were a joke
Eh, not really agreeing with the issues in SV. The most concerning and awful thing about it is... it not being a jrpg anymore. Like there's barely any story; it's more of three side quests you do because your "friends" kinda force you to. There's no routes, and no trainers force you into battles, so level progression is dead. And so are all the gyms/boss pokemon/team star that you can just stumble randomly in and either finish in seconds or get your butt handed to you. Main focus shifting to "exploration" and mindless Pokemon hunting + raids is literally peak braindead gameplay...
@@herowither12354 I see you're one of those kind... Just for you: if RP is for "old school" role playing, then almost every game in the world is Role Playing since you assume the role of the characters like Link, Samus, Alucard or anyone really.
@@bugcatcherjacky1334 you could AT LEAST finish reading the sentence before rage posting: "there's barely any story; it's more of three side quests you do because your "friends" just force you to". Side quests about your friends ccan have their own stories, sure, but.. there's no OUR story. In 1 gen - WE jump out of the city to go on OUR adventure 2 gen - Elm give US a quest and tell uss that IF WE WANT we can battle gyms to get cool and strong popular character 3 gen - we go to wisit our dad who pretty much CALLANGES US to go get stronger and come back to him with all bages needed for his jym 4 gen - despite Barry annoyance and insistence WE ARE same dreamy fool who WANTS A POKEMON, so we can run around the region 5 gen - WE THREE EAGERLY WAITED for Juniper to gift us pokemon to leave for an adventure 6 gen - first time we are forced into the adventure btw, BUT MOM SETS US OFF to see new region we moved in for our sake 7 gen - first time it's barely our story, we given pokemon and set of... just because. It can be argued that both mom and Kukui wanted US to experience Alola but most of the story is about Lilie, Gladion, anyone but us 8 gen - similar to Sinnoh. Hop may be more of the "driving force" but we are eager idiot who wants to experience Galar and get pokemon from the champion himself. Story still mainly about US 9 gen - OK, so... we want to go to school. Director give us pokemon because it's required there. Nemona FORCES us to be HER rival. We study in school and when given "free roam assighment" that meant to hel uf "find our own path", it's not US who wants anything, it's NEMONA TELLING US to become a champion, Arven and Penny BEGGING us to HELP THEM and by the end we done... NOTHING FOR OURSELVES, NOTHING BECAUSE WE WANTED IT.
I feel like the worst part about Sword and Shield is the map. It's linear to the point of being a one-dimensional line (Wild Area notwithstanding) and you don't get to explore the cities at all. Unova and Kalos were linear as well (Alola was too somewhat, mostly due to plot railroading) but at least their routes had some internal complexity and they all had fully-optional locations. Not so for Galar. Dexit, meanwhile, would have happened anyway at some point due to how many Pokemon there were.
@@deweypatch The National Pokedex was actually removed in Sun & Moon. But since every Pokemon was still able to be used in that game, it wasn't really that noticed.
S/V is even worse with exploring cities. I found myself skipping 90% of the cities (unless they had a gym, in which case I just went straight to the gym and out) because other than the occasional food or clothes store, there was absolutely nothing to see in the cities. Sure, there were some items but what's the point of cool looking buildings if you can't enter?
@@jamiecinder9412 Don't remember Wyndon, but you essentially got a crap ton of houses you can approach but none you can enter. Unless they're restaurants or clothes stores Like literally the first town you get to there's not a single building you can enter lol
VS something like Tatsugiri, which might just seem like a sushi Pokemon given dragon type for lols, but is based off of Koi and Lungfish. Koi are associated with dragons in many east Asian cultures, and Lungfish are also called Dragon Fish. And Curly Form is referencing a mythological being with the body of a Carp, and the head of a Dragon.
That's my biggest gripe with Pokémon fans. People will complain about the trash pokémon or the gears like we didn't literally have a pokéball in the very first gen. And it's incredible evolution: The upside down pokéball 😂 90% of the first gen's pokémon aren't specifically creative and are quite literally taken from the animal world (Zubat, Vulpix, Growlithe, Beedrill, etc) or are as basic as the most generic fantasy creature (Rapidash as a unicorn, Charizard and Dragonite as very average dragons). Most pokémon in later games had a little something to them to stand out, so the complaints about them are very non sensical. But it's very human to complain about new things. Be it the next generation of youngsters, a sequel to a great movie or even just a new video game. Given enough time, even those so called "bad" games suddenly are seen as masterpieces (Gen 5 for example, I remember when everyone, myself included, hated it).
9:04 Wait, so the biggest issue with Ruby and Sapphire is that.. it's hard to complete the national dex? Compared to the previous 2 complaints of general glitchiness and lack of polish, bad level curve and poor pokemon availability, I feel like this is such a minor nitpick that doesn't permeate through the game itself in the same way that the previous 2 complaints did. Not the overexposure of water types, the lack of balance with the starters (Mudkip is so overpowered compared to the other two options), the nonsensical story that wasn't properly resolved until Emerald, or lack of fixed learnsets (that still wasn't really fixed until gen 4) making certain pokemon like Gardevoir have insane natural level-up moves, while leaving so many other pokemon not even learning a move of their own types. I feel like these games got off a bit light, is all I'm saying. EDIT: 11:20 Wait what, you couldn't even come up with a single valid complaint for Emerald? How about champion Steven, one of the coolest champions in the series, alongside Cynthia and Lance, being replaced by... Wallace. The water type 8th gym leader. Who is otherwise unimportant, and completely irrelevant to the storyline. Even in Emerald, Steven does more than Wallace does, and Wallace's replacement for the 8th gym leader is even more forgotten about than Wallace himself. The Hoenn bias is strong with this one
Wallace is a pretty good champion... gameplay-wise that is and even then, it's only in a vacuum. His team is actually quite well put together for a mono Water team... but it's in a region that already has way too much water and like you've said, he replaced someone much more fitting for the champion role in terms of prominance in the story and just general "vibes".
I still can't get over that BDSP is literally just copy pasted. There's no concrete evidence that I've seen, but all of the glitches, even the most minor things like Suction Cups not working outside of battle, are the same. A new glitch has even been reverse engineered in DP after being discovered in BDSP recently.
Small nitpick: 9:57 Gold and Silver actually take place three years after Red and Blue! This was referencing IRL where Gold/Silver released three years after Red/Green. "While all the things I listed are minor, it definitely adds up." While that is true for gen 1 and people say that nowadays, they clearly didn't warrant an outcry back then. Guess they got a pass for being the first in the series. Definitely agree with your Gen 2 and 3 complaints. While I find completing the national Pokedex an issue in Gen 3, I found the idea of connecting all of them together pretty interesting, especially with that being one of the main points of Pokemon. The N64/GB era started it, and the GameCube/GBA era perfected it.
9:19 It didn't so much fix the glitches as much as they weren't there to begin with because they ran on the gen 3 game engine, which is also why they have the updated mechanics. That's generally how the remakes work, with the obvious exception of Let's Go which didn't really have a game engine to play off of and instead adapted the most recent mechanics as of Gen 7 as well as implemented Pokemon Go catch mechanics. It's also not very clear if BDSP actually does use a modified gen 8 game engine or not.
Without watching the video first: Gen 1 - bugs and glitches and shit just not working. Gen 2 - leveling curve and pokémon distribution. Gen 3 - I don't know, I wasn't around for it. Gen 4 - same Gen 5 - the dex Gen 6 - the stupid easy gym leaders and elite 4 and lack of any focus on the games main gimmick. Gen 7 - island challenge being bad compared to gym challenge (though that's subjective). Gen 8 - dexit Gen 9 - we've gone full circle and a back to glitches and bugs.
Gen 5 dex is an issue? Lol the post game has all the mons we need right? Gen 8 had other issues too->Exp share being forced, Lack of a good Story............ Gen 9 had loads. As per my count I got 15 issues with SV
@@e94youtube the fact that you can't catch old gen Pokémon in b&w until post game, period HATED that. Like papasea said, people's attitude towards them now is WAY different than it was back then.
@@WolfmanXD Well that's purely a subjective opinion bcoz some ppl like to use only new mons & some like to use their old fav mons right away Gengar is my fav mon & I waited till the post-game. That's fine. The difficulty in any game lies in the post game after all, so it's manageable BW was kind of a reboot to the series which could be a fresh take
@@e94youtube yes, yes it is subjective, I agree. But when a LARGE majority of the community felt that way, it's definitely a step in the wrong direction.
@@WolfmanXD U are right, but I am just saying that it's not an issue if u can manage until the post-game. Before the post-game all games are pretty easy right? Some feel like it's refreshing to see new mons & some miss seeing the old mons. I am fine either way. But if the majority doesn't like something-->BDSP for example, then it needs to be fixed like u said It's a typical J Masuda moment. He loves 151 like crazy, no wonder he's the game director who thought the game should have a 151 dex if u cut the 4 mythicals
im kinda surprised you didnt mention the GLARING fire type problem in gen 4. the only fire types you could catch in diamond and pearl were either your starter chimchar or ponyta, which does a number on team building
Honestly, my least favorite thing about Gen 1 is the fact that most of the battles in the game don't even have custom movesets, aside from the occasional Gym Leader TM thrown in there. While this doesn't sound too bad, you gotta remember that most Pokemon's level up movests are atrocious, making most of the fights in the game a complete joke.
I recall playing Yellow and running into a Trainer on Route 6 or smthn, with a Butterfree, and because it's at Level 20, based on its moveset it has ALL THE POWDERS and kept paralyzing and poisoning and putting my Pokémon to sleep, and I just couldn't not battle that guy at all because my poor team was so underleveled....
HGSS improve upon crystal in droves dude. Fully restored cut areas of Kanto, new areas like the Johto Safari Zone and Sinjoh Ruins, rebattling gym leaders, adding 3rd and 4th gen mons being obtainable in Kanto and Johto routes in post game. Went deeper into the storyline of Team Rocket’s return… how can you say this game didn’t do much? Smfh.
Challenge Mode in Black 2 and White 2 is bugged. Despite increasing NPC Pokémon levels and the number of Pokémon Gym Leaders have, their stats are the same as that in the Normal Mode, but not the experience they yield. It actually makes the game easier if you know what you're doing.
@@Ahhhhhh30 Idk, the idea of having to stop an abusive mother who wants to destroy the world for the sake of an alien Pokémon that's poisoning her, sounds like an appealing story.... Meanwhile SwSh doesn't give a shit and recycles the same information it's already told you over and over again, and then suddenly decides to turn Chairman Rose into a villain at the very last minute. _Extremely_ dumb, and it's the reason I didn't bother to keep playing SwSh-I just couldn't take it seriously after finding out how stupid and nonexistent the story is.
I would say for Emerald, I would say that gym leaders get rematches but not the elite 4 or Wallace. For Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, I would go for the fact you can't do any post game until you see every pokemon in the dex.
I feel like the only reason they added the Alolan Pokemon to Let's Go is because without them, mega Gyarados would literally be the only Dark type Pokemon in the game.
21:49 Sun and Moon are nothing like Yo-Kai Watch. Yo-Kai Watch is closer to Dragon Quest Monsters 1 and 2. You don't control the Yo-Kai directly (Dragon Quest games have an option to let the CPU control your party), you use food to get a chance at recruiting Yo-Kai (DWM 1 and 2 just used meat so this is actually a bit closer to Digimon World 2's gift system as in Yo-Kai Watch there's different kinds of food and each Yo-Kai has a different favorite) and different from even DQM, the main story is gated behind and the sidequests are full of what feels like a bunch of chores even by JRPG quest standards. Like some of the quests literally involve you doing chores your character's parents task you with. Yo-Kai Watch 4 at least improved the battle system but I'm not far enough along yet to know for sure if the quests are much better.
Yokai Watch’a death is what happens when you destroy friendly competitions! I hope you assholes learned your lesson but chances are, you haven’t and will continue to do it again.
A problem with Emerald if you're a shiny hunter is that the RNG calculation is broken and doesn't give you a different seed every time you reset like it's supposed to. This does make RNG manipulation easier, but it also largely destroys soft resetting for the starters and legendaries as a viable shiny hunting method. It's especially annoying given that Emerald is still to this day the only game where Mew is huntable.
actual emerald critiques: the final gym leader and champion changes are odd. and the team magma/aqua storyline is more convoluted than you think. plus the pokemon used by team magma and aqua are very generic and lack diversity.
What I like: Black and White story, Platinum map (NO HM NEEDED THO), XY Lumiose city side missions/boutiques/restaurants/popularity level/noblesse level, Scarlet and Violet rivals(DLC included), Sword and Shield CHARACTER models and Stadiums, Gold and Silver +1 Regions, BDSP water textures and difficulty, Pokemon Arceus plot twists and final battles and gameplay, Alola alternative gym leader system to the second region or to the first while having the other region with the traditional one. AND PLEASE... LEVEL SCALING GYM BADGES IF THEY HAVE NO ORDER.
BW2 isn't a fair comparison to USUM, BW2 are sequels, not third versions, USUM are third version, which are aiming to do something completely different. A sequel is it's own thing, a third version is an enhancement of the story that's already there while fixing issues. like the big one for me, you can save much closer to getting your starter in USUM than SM, As someone who soft reset for a female Poplio that was a very appreciated change
You can actually get Espeon and Umbreon in FRLG Max out the friendship for eevee, talk to Gary’s sister and then trade it to yourself or a friend around 8am for espeon and 8pm for umbreon
Except, friendship resets if you trade a Pokemon so you'd first need to trade it to Ruby or Sapphire (since they have an internal clock), which can't be done in FRLG until the post-game. So no, you can't get Espeon or Umbreon for a FRLG playthrough before the post-game.
@@luisgarcia1337 what was the point in telling me this. I didn’t mention the post game. I didn’t say you can get those mons during the main play through. I just mentioned it was possible in game at some point
The reason why negative videos do better has to do with human physiology and how our brains are predisposed to focus on the negative. It’s a quite interesting rabbit hole if you want explore it, it would also I think be beneficial to you as a content creator because you will better understand how to use that negativity basis to your advantage.
Scarlet & Violets biggest flaw imo, besides performance, is the NPC trainer and gym leader designs. I have no idea how they have always nailed art direction and designs for NPC's in previous games but failed so hard in this one. All the gym leaders in Sword & Shield are memorable and look really cool, and they even nailed the designs for NPC trainers. Some NPC's from Scarlet & Violet are memorable, some ironically for being boring, but what about the designs of random NPC trainers? Boring.
That's the biggest flaw? Let me list some SV flaws. Btw SV are great games however: 1. FPS drops+Glitches are common & a lot of visuals are kinda bad(N64 like) 2. Shiny locks to old Legendaries 3. Missing Linking cord from PLA 4. Forced Battle Style: Switch. It's literally the default option for Ranked battles 5. Gym tests/puzzles are a joke(in my opinion). Just look @ Simon says Psy Gym, Ice gym snowboarding & Hide and Seek of Electric gym 6. Move animations are ruined Behemoth Blade gimmick is ruined, Spirit shackle is ruined, Regidrago & Kyogre having the same animation for their moves are kinda bad too The worst ones are Solgaleo & Lunala being unable to activate their 3rd eye 7. Lack of a Battle facility 8. BBA is based on Unova but lacks half of the Unovan mons--> Watchog & the Elemental monkeys could have made a Switch debut 9. Terastralization couldn't be kept in reserves & it took me a while to know that Tera crystals can charge the orb. Not to mention the fact that changing the Tera type is a Grindy & a less fun method 10. The games continue to follow the same steps from the prev games: Forced Exp share & an obedience system that restricts u from catching higher level mons 11. Literally everything is locked to the Gym badges=Sandwich ingredients, Held items, Obedience, Mints, Vitamins, Pokeballs(Although u can find some on the ground). Also Ability patch being unavailable for purchase sucks 12. Limited Trainer customisation compared to the previous games 13. Victory road(call this path whatever road u want) & E4 rooms could have been a lot better instead of being completely bland 14. The DLC being sold separately for each version is a scam especially when u consider the paradox exclusive mons which require u to spend 95$ extra 15. Lack of level scaling. U are allowed to take your own path, but why does the game punish u with higher level bosses. The Nemona battles are scaled, what happened to the rest ? Also this is the reason why most youtubers & players in general take a similar path unless u grind hard/ do overlevelling. Fun fact: Even a fan game like Crystal Clear has implemented level scaling very well
@@e94youtube you really put a lot of time and effort into that reply, i really respect that. I also agree with all your points, besides some that seem to push the "make pokemon more of an open world game" thing that was really popular a few years ago. While i like ideas like level scaling and open areas, i think the format of pokemon works way better when you have smaller separate areas (routes) with different biomes and encounters. There's a reason Crystal Clear works so well. SV tried to make everything, including cities, be one big open seamless map, and even though there were different areas they all felt bland. And big problems with this were performance issues, no interiors to buildings, boring NPC's and less detailed environments. All of this could be solved with a few loadscreens dividing the different areas, and the routes themselves could still be open. Most of the things you listed are gameplay issues, and i agree they could be better, but my comment was specifically about the aesthetic and design decisions. Because that is, in my opinion, the biggest draw for me to pokemon. The thing that differentiates pokemon from a lot of other similar rpg games is not that the mechanics and gameplay are more polished, or that the world is bigger and better, it's simply the feeling of playing it. I used to love seeing the new fun designs of trainers and pokemon, and enjoy exploring a small but neatly designed world. Even if it was a bit linear. SV lost all of that, and all of it just looks bland and boring. While i do like the design of some new characters, most of them just look... off, compared to previous games. Compare the designs from older games, like the ones from Yusuke Ohmura, Megumi Mizutani and take. Apparently they worked on SV as well, but none of their specific designs are listed and none of them look anything like their previous work. Some of them are even credited to character design in Legends Arceus, and this time their specific designs are listed, and those look great.
@@ZingoBananaa I never commented on the designs or personalities of the characters. Just saying the major flaws of SV. Tbh 2,3 of those flaws are repeated from SwSh. 1. There's no reason for SV to have a forced Exp share. I'm pretty sure they did this to make the games more easy in order to get ppl into the Ranked matches/VGC which has its own paywalls 2. S DLC & V DLC being sold separately is a bigger scam that keeps going on for eternity. I wish someone pointed this out, but nope. We proved to be too gullible & then they say that Pkmn doesn't have any microtransactions when they've been milking us from Day 1 of Gen 1: RBY
@@e94youtube i feel like we're focusing on different things... i still agree with you, but you want to talk about gameplay and the business side of the games, while my original comment and what i really care about when it comes to pokemon is the design aspects. You maybe don't think those things are as important, and that's fine, but imo it is for me to even care about the franchise.
XY is hated for being easy. U can turn the Exp share off, Box the Lucario/Lucaronite & turn on the Battle Style Set mode, it's actually simple. Unlike SwSh where the exp share is forced & even worse in SV where they removed the set mode too But again I would say that XY were only considered as good games bcoz Megas, New artstyle & Trainer customization carried it. Post-game content, Missing Move tutors, Lack of Zygarde plot & most importantly only 3 ppl use Megas=Rival,Champion & Evil Team Boss Lysandre Also BDSP is still the worst game in the entire series, so that's a fun fact or a well known fact
@@Lilithlily5 Lot easier to softlock yourself and essentially corrupt your save. Reason being it retained it's grid based world but utilized omni-directional movement due to gen 8 coding. There were also moves and abilities in the game that just didn't work, cause again. Weren't in the gen 8 coding. Then there was the drastic jump from Gym Leaders to E4 with perfect competitive mons. It was a lot of issues, multiple had to be patched out, the latter of the 3 dividing the community until eventually everyone just agreed BDSP are horrid games. DP had the excuse of being new and didn't destroy saves so easily it needed week 1 patching.
@@Lilithlily5 It's the worst game bcoz it's a copy pasted version of the Original DP with only some current Gen QoL mechanics unlike the other remakes which improve upon themselves/take risks like LGPE did. Heck BDSP's dev time was less than an year so obviously we had to accept this decade old Chibi artstyle which is a downgrade compared to ORAS,.LGPE
The issue that i had in platinum is the slow hp-bar god damn it, you could go to the toilet and back and the chansey that i fight against isnt fainted yet 12:55
28:28 I see it as more comparable to Monster Hunter or Monster Hunter Stories even if it's not quite the same as either. I honestly think it was even a response to MHS2 originally releasing as a Switch exclusive after the first game was originally a 3DS exclusive (although it did quickly receive a mobile enhanced port) but that's just me.
Folk complaining about Johto have a very 2015+ mindset of games, they see games as something they wanna pick up and then be done with. Gold and Silver were meant to be played over time and not rushed through or speedrun. People doing only nuzlockes and challenge runs complain about non-issues to their specific wants.
I'd say Black & White's biggest problem is the levels that pokemon evolve at, like way too many Gen 5 pokemon evolve at level 40+ The biggest issue with dexit is that it means gamefreak can now sell returning pokemon as DLC which is insanely scummy
"But you guys seem to like it when I focus on the bad..."
There it is: the problem with the internet
The 3DS games live rent free in his head
Never have I read something so true in my life. Especially within the Pokémon fandom
But only the bad they want to hear, same as with the good. Unless it fits their narrative they won't engage or click content. So their little bubble gets even more bias and that's all they will see making it even worse
This is literally just society
Human nature buddy
I know its a meme, but the worst thing about Emerald IS too much water. Stephen got replaced by Wallace, Juan now runs the 8th gym, and you have Archie and Team Aqua to fight. So 3 of the big end game battles are against water specialists.
To be fair, Archie really isn’t a water specialist, he’s more of a dark specialist
It's as easy as making the 8th gim a GRASS type, Swamper needs to be stopped
@@josecorzo5517 💯
Yeah, I’d say it’s still one of my favorite pokemon games though
Never @@josecorzo5517
Another thing about Gen 2 is that only half of the Johto gym leaders have Johto pokemon
it's even worse than that, out of the 23 Pokemon used by the gym leaders, only four of them are new to Gold/Silver
Thats not an issue, Johto was an expansion of Kanto not a true new region like it would be standard later.
I hate the Johto gym leader's teams! Besides Whitney they're all awful!!
Crystal Legacy tackles that issue, great romhack
@danielcarrilho5217 it is an issue because Gold/Silver introducing a lot of new pok3mon and making them barely appear is lame
Legends Arceus is the only (and I mean ONLY) Pokémon game that has allowed me to complete the Pokedex without getting another game/console or having to find someone to trade. That in itself is enough reason to make it the best Pokémon game to date.
That and the fact that I'd rather do 10 backflips each day for 30 days to evolve a pokemon than having to trade.
Yeah, at this point they only get away with 2 versions out of tradition because everyone's just accepted that that's how Pokemon is. Spin-offs like Colosseum, XD, and Arceus (and soon Z-A) prove that Pokemon very much can work with just one game instead of one game and then a 3% different game that a considerable amount of fans feel pressured into also buying.
It's also the only game without evolutions that cost $400.
@@herowither12354 what?
@@Caroniver_Robocacci Trade evos. You need a second console and second copy of the game to evolve Pokemon that you can obtain in the game. Catching a Machop is like downloading a free-to-start game.
@@herowither12354 That's one way to think of it, I guess. You could also just try having friends.
I think my biggest problem with X and Y is how unfinished it feels
like the world just feels so small,
there's all these little things scattered around the map that feel like they're supposed to lead to something bigger (the mysterious ghost girl, the abandoned hotel, zygarde, the power plant door, the event mythicals, the 'chamber of emptiness' location which is nothing but a cave with a mega stone in it)
and it's just not there
there's hints and teases, but not much beyond the base story, and the post game is almost non-existent aside from the looker storyline and the extra town
Yeah she me of this was in the recent leaks
No, the worst part of Pokemon: Let's Go is the fact that you're restricted to *a single joy-con.* (And the Pokeball, but _nobody_ can afford that anymore.) No pro controller, no dual joy-con grip. You only get one. In tv mode. In handheld mode, you get to use the entire controller _and_ can actually aim by tilting the system. Why they didn't add an update or option to play like that with the pro controller, I'll never know. But that annoyance makes me not want to play as much. And Arceus help you if your joy-con starts drifting...
Oh, yeah.
I've seen the Pokéball for around 20 bucks on ebay but they're used and thus no Mew. Seriously, what were they thinking of making one Mew per Pokéball and not one Mew per save file...
@@obnoxious_alien Simple: to sell more copies. Hopefully they can be hacked at some point to restore the Mew on used ones.
I don't even have joycons anymore I just have pro controllers and I can't play the game at all anymore. I'm not spending 80 dollars to play a mediocre at best game.
Edit: this is the only game I've run into with this problem as well.
Yeah .. my switches joycon started to drift and since it's a switch lite I had to buy another switch item and a pro controller just so I could play my games again... All but let's go Eevee ....
My biggest issue with emerald is changing the champion for no apparent reason. Steven is so much better as a champion than wallace
Probably did it to push Steven’s battle to post game to have a Red-like boss. But eh, did we need a water final gym AND water type champion?
'The core is there but the shell is not' is a surprisingly common trait for big games now a days
The inverse is a worse problem to have, but I finally see how bad this can be.
I was so confused why people said Sun and Moon has too many cutscenes then realized they meant dialogue and not the cinematic ones
I understood that complaint about the Alola games, but when I finally played SwSh a couple years after release, I was baffled that they have the exact same issue yet no one talks about it.
Your journey of doing all the tough fights that leads to the elite 4 is constantly interrupted by an obnoxious brat that fancies himself your rival or something, as well as a female NPC who doesn't battle but wants you to go with them visiting historical sites that are somehow related to the legendary pokemon.
...which game did I just describe?
@@TheBlackMage9For real, sword and shield had a lot of dialogue and battle moments where I'm just spamming to get back on my own. I will say I was more into the USUM story and it didn't bother me.
@@Hunter-pn9dl USUM had inferior story to SM tbh
@@luniveonOh yeah. They borderline ruined Lillie's character development in USUM.
@@luniveonyeah but the ultra wormhole riding completely makes up for that imo, great mini game that thanks to the boosted shiny odds and the ability to hunt all legendaries up to that point between the two games is even better.
The issue of Dexit isn't "not being able to catch every pokemon", that happened all the way back in RSE.
It's that pokemon were outright removed from the underlying code and thus literally do not and can not exist in the game without modding. It also is the reason Pokemon Hostage (Home) and Pokemon Ransom (Bank) are such a big problem.
Why are you calling bank and home that, the only thing that makes sense is hacked and illegal pokemon. And spinda, but that's one pokemon (weak albeit). Bank has more an issue of having to log out and log in after everything. In no way are they hostage and ransom, never heard it that way either.
@@luniveonThe fact that you have to keep paying to keep them until they are available in a new game.
If you transferred a living dex from Gen 7, a lot of them have been stuck in Home for years
@@MarshallLeeA And what ones are not available? I haven't heard any issue about Hoenn and home ever. If there still is an issue, I guess that's one thing, but I don't know many casual people who have a whole living dex from RSE.
@@luniveon The list of Pokemon trapped on Home is currently around 10: Spinda, Patrat and Watchog, the 3 elemental monkeys from Unova and their evolutions, and Furfrou. The list has slowly been whittled down, with each new major game release and dlc/expansion. Though I think the primary issue is not *always* being able to take out your favorite Pokemon from past games into the newest game.
Up until Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon, you theoretically could transfer almost any single Pokemon from as far back as Ruby and Sapphire to every other game in the same or later generations. If you had a team you really liked, you carry that team with you to every newest installment and use them in the Battle Frontier, Pokeathlon, Pokemon Contests, Battle Subway, online play, or whatever other new mode that game had with your old friends, but now.. unless your Pokemon happens to be supported by the latest game, they are trapped in the past, unless (or rather IF) a dlc/expansion comes out that adds support for that Pokemon.
SV has had the greatest amount of Pokemon availability (compared to the number of total Pokemon) since USUM, with a total of 185 out of 1000+ Pokemon not allowed to exist in the game. Ideally, the next game would just support them all again, but that is doubtful.
That's still a stupid and whiny problem IMHO. I understand familarity but when you have a franchise with over 1,000 pokemon to choose from, forms and all, there will come a point where they can't bring everyone back and balance them to the latest generation rules and stuff. And while one could complain about having to pay for a service to keep your pokemon you might never use again in years, I'd argue it's better than losing your pokemon completely especially when you're not paying a lot of money for a yearly service.
The only issue platinum has is the fact that murkrow and misdreavus are unavailable
Until the postgame?
And Mareep for Crystal lol
You can't get Stunky or Glameow either. I never really did understand the logic behind that.
Which makes the Dusk Stone useless outside of selling.
I think Gen 7's biggest problem was the frickin' online... everything. That carnival looking thing that I forgot the name of. I lost track of how many times I tried to connect to a friend to trade or battle, with EVERYTHING setup right (game up to date, internet connection detected, etc.) and it just... wouldn't work. Period. Meanwhile, I'd pop in the aging Y or OmegaRuby and have no problems whatsoever. ...At least until they stopped paying attention to hacking and the whole Trade system got janky.
The Festival Plaza was pretty awful, I have no idea why they decided that splitting up the menus into physical, difficult to navigate stands was a good idea.
Yeah, I hate Festival Plaza! The PSS is superior and I wish it was kept for Gen 7
Worse gen 4 (pearl/diamond) problem. 2 fire type lines despite a fire elite 4 member
The Bug type Elite 4 was hell for me due to picking Turtwig
@@Dyno_98Believe in Turtwig and you will wreck those fools. 🐢
Talking bad things about Diamond and Pearl and not mentioning the literal worst Pokédex in any Pokémon game? Bold
Tbf he was obviously biased towards gens 3 and 4 - for him to struggle to find flaws with Emerald, DP or Platinum was just being nostalgia blind. I love all of the Pokemon generations, but none of them are perfect, and all have their own egregious flaws
Nah, Kanto and Johto have worse dexes. At least Sinnoh only had ONE specialist with only 2 possible team members that fit their type. Kanto had 2 with 1 each, and Johto had 3 with 2 each (and Morty and Lance didn't even get both Pokemon of their types!)
@@herowither12354 platinum had a better dex, but DP only had two fire types in the national dex. That alone puts the dex below any other generation
@@EricWalkerUk Kanto - Only 1 Ghost, only 1 Dragon, Ghost and Dragon specialists on the Elite Four.
Johto - Only 2 Ghosts, only 2 Dragons, Ghost Gym Leader with 4 of the same 'Mon, Dragon Type 8th Gym Leader, Dragon Champion.
Sinnoh (DP/BDSP) Pokedex > Kanto (RG/B/RB/Y/FRLG/LGPLGE) Pokedex > Johto (GS/C/HGSS) Pokedex.
@herowither12354 true to be fair about ghost and dragon haha - btw I'm not saying gens 1 and 2 are the best anyway. Although I definitely wouldn't put DP on a pedestal either. When people like gen 4, it is because platinum and HGSS are so good.
My main problem with johto games is that there are basically no wild Pokemon before the league over level 30
Yea, level curve is terrible
Agreed! You have to grind in Victory Road 😭
Yes, it forced player for built their team only 4 pokemon and 2 hm mule.
However UltraSun & UltraMoon did add some cool minigames, and was very much faster to get going than Sun&Moon.
the worst thing the ultra games had wass the Bossfight
Ultra Necrozma is the WEAKEST Legendary fight we've had.
and thats saying something given he was HYPED UP all game only to hive him die turn ONE after listening to his music theme
(brilliant theme btw)
It's a shame he was piss easy, should have been a LOT HARDER a bossfight given the hype the games had for him.
@redacra9thedragondog777 isn't ultra necrozma considered surprisingly difficult
Plus, legendary fights are never difficult.
@@AllMight6his first fight is reeeally easy(before his final form)
The reason why I disliked BW back then is bc that is when they started shiny locking legendaries. These days, they shiny lock all legendaries, starters, mythicals, and gift Pokemon. They are turning a once free shiny hunt into a loot box shiny hunt in Pokemon Go.
Not just GO, they also wanted to cash on SwSh/BDSP sales where the legends are shiny locked. Btw if you'd ask me, being unable to rename Mystery gift pkmn is a bigger scam
I refused to play those games as it kinda forces you to use new pokemon. I've grown attached to a good amount of gen 5 pokemon.
@lucideirune1635 I understand you feeling about shiny hunt. Those I do not think major Pokémon players are shiny hunter like you. Those I think old players like me who been around gen 1 Pokémon. I would love to see the game have an option mode form easy to hard mode.
@@Dark40061 There is a huge community of shiny hunters and it does affect them when they have to pay and go out to shiny hunt. Rural shiny hunters especially are badly affected by this. They also influence newer players and get them excited about shiny hunting in gens 1-4. This is how I got into shiny hunting in gen 4 bc of these influencers.
@@lucideirune1635 I understand that, I probably would been shiny hunter if I was around gen 2. I’m more for 6 perfect IV and I just got 6 IV ditto from Pokémon let’s go
My Pokemon hot take:
As a kid I never had the games until Black, I was always a fan of the anime and I had a bunch of the Pokédex books. I think forcing the new gen till post game was great. It highlighted the new pokemon more. Black being my first game, I didn’t want to go in knowing every single Pokemon
Thank you honestly its so annoying seeing ppl complaining about not being able to catch old pokemon in a new game
@@demannisinclair8202 for me, I just didn’t see an appeal in getting old Mon when it was my first time playing Pokemon
As someone who had played every game since gen 1, I agree - I liked the distinct feeling of the region and having to construct a team with all new Pokemon
@@idunnoay not a common take. I’m glad someone understands tho.
Black was my first too but I’m a spoiler seeker. I wanna know everything lol
yellow's biggest fault is the fact that you travel alone. While the anime is based on a trio.
The worst thing about Emerald is that it introduces so many mechanics in the Battle Frontier that works on background info that YOU the player have NO CLUE about and then proceeds to be tongue and cheek about explaining it to you in game. On top of that it goes out of it way to be outright tedious in the most unfun ways.
@@BusinessSkrub I'm pretty sure _there are one or more facilities dedicated to using your own pokemon._
@@BusinessSkrub People like you are why nobody gets to have Battle Frontier gameplay anymore
@@BusinessSkrub Looks like nullpoint's not the only one with lack of literacy. Never said you specifically, I said "people like you". Obviously, you as an individual are not that important 😆
They scrapped it because it sucked? If only the same logic applied to you 🤷
@@BusinessSkrub 🤷
@@BusinessSkrub The thing is that by now, the games are _much_ better at explaining hidden mechanics (although they're still a bit cryptic about others) _and_ it's significantly easier to make competitive-ready Pokemon, _including_ the ones you've used during the game. You have Hyper Training to maximize IVs. You have Mints to change Natures. You have Mirror Herb to easily pass down Egg Moves without actually breeding a new lvl 1 mon. It's still somewhat tedious, but nowhere near as much as it used to be.
Now yes, a lot of facilities in Battle Frontier weren't the best _(looking at you, Battle Palace :v),_ but I think the general idea is fine. Online battles sort of replaced it, but the two could easily co-exist.
There's also the unfortunate issue of the ever decreasing attention span of people, which makes them less likely to engage with such a grindy part of the game. Another issue is the time required to create all those trainer teams for the facility, which could be problematic given the short development time the games have.
*tl;dr the Battle Frontier would've been much more accesible nowdays, but the real life circumstances make it unlikely to come back*
I recognize the problems with GS/HGSS and objectively speaking I agree with your assessment of their worst qualities, but I have never forgiven the remakes for replacing Kris.
USUM's biggest issue is how they ruined Lusamine's character by trying to make her not actually the villain.
She's still a villain there, just not the main one. She never got infected by Nihilego, but she still did lose her husband, so she's still crazy but not as crazy, and gets a hero complex instead
Forget Lusamine they ruined Lillie’s character arc. They removed her from several scenes (like the one where you go to the island to get the flute) so that she would be less relevant. And then, her big character development moment gets completely scrapped for a generic “I forgive you” situation so that you can fight a big dragon as the climax. Absolutely butchered the plot for me.
@@Chris-jx4ij she's still a villain here even if she's not the main antagonist. And at least she showed some signs of redemption here
Agreed!!
S/M for the story
US/UM for all the extra features.
@@epicphantom589 nah the REAL worst part about this sequence is this
the Final boss aka SAID Light Dragon at the end?
ABSOLUTLEY PISS EASY, bro dies in TURN ONE after 3 seconds of listening to his BRILLANT Theme.
Lusamine in the games this was a SEQUEL TO was a harder bossfight than the literall LIGHT DRAGON of Alola
Ultra Necrosmas the most DISSAPOINTING legendary BY FAR, given how WEAK he is as this.
Honestly the worst thing about Gen 1 is probably the sprites. In terms of the technicals and glitches, it’s rough but it still works, but some of those old sprites are AWFUL.
Red and Blue sprites are pretty alright overall with a couple stinkers thrown into the mix, but the overwhelming majority of Red and Green's sprites are an affront to Arkoos and humanity
Golbat’s sprite in RB is a personal favorite of mine 😊
@@ALDO_GOODENS Golbat's Red & Blue sprite is legitimate nightmare fuel, lol. Scarier than anything in the Gastly line.
Issue for dp and platinum - Mindy. Just.. MINDY
Don't worry there are ppl who would defend this saying that it was a joke. This joke is outdated & they didn't give us Gengar via other methods like in SwSh. Poor Mindy she was unable to redeem herself. Then they've introduced Blossom who gave us a Gengar in SV
@@e94youtube well, it wasn't funny, and to the majority of people.
@@luniveon Even if it was funny, they should have given Gengar though other means like they did in SV. U can get Gengar via 3 methods--Raids,Trade from NPC & Wild
@@e94youtube Mindy doesn't deserve any sympathy
@@sylbiee I can understand how u feel, but who is responsible for giving her Haunter the everstone? It's GF
It never bothered me that Black & White started out with only new Pokémon. Whenever I play a game I always keep my team comprised of new Pokemon
I always loved gen5, had a ton of fun in these games with one of my friends back then, also the bug types they added were just so top designwise to me, when i first saw scolipede on a trainer i backtracked all the way into the forest to grab myself a venipede and evolve it xd
For black and white 1, the white forest/ black city has less people if you take longer to beat the game
No way really???
Why’s that?
@@AGZharkit’s supposed to encourage you to use Entralink to invite NPCs to your city/forrest from other peoples games
3:00 Venusaur is a Bull Frog, with a flower to lure bugs to eat.
I really liked how Black and White had a Pokedex that was exclusively the new Pokemon before the post game.
One of the things I hate the most about the newer Pokemon games is that they make fewer brand new Pokemon and put more focus on the regional variants and the current gimmick (which gets worse with each generation).
Brilliant diamond was the first time i regretted getting a pokemon game
I tried to like Brilliant Diamond, I really did, but it's like they forgot what the point of a remake was. They couldn't even be bothered to implement some of the bare minumum Platinum QOL fixes, like the back button on the Poketch.
Same here, the walking and collision felt discombobulated. I’m very much accustomed to walking diagonally/using a joystick/circle pad to move in a Pokémon game but here it feels like you’re walking on soap.
The most fun I had with it was shiny hunting Turtwig on those lowered shiny odds and got him on 607 resets (although it also made me wish the Switch had soft resetting like past consoles did).
Priced like LGPE,PLA & most Switch games @60$
But Artstyle, Cutscenes, Story, Lack of Move tutors, Lack of Gimmicks (Megas/Dmax,Z moves), Overworld mons(except for the GU) like Base DP
It's worst game that took only 2 things from Pt(Rotom room & Dex) ignoring the rest
especially the story, Villa,Improved Gyms & Elite 4 rooms, Up & Down Poktech buttons.
Why should I play it over Pt? Bcoz Fairy typing+ Some QoL updates that's it, nothing else
That's BDSP in a nutshell. FRLG,HGSS proved that u can innovate & expand despite being faithful
I usually look past the flaws of other newer games because I still have fun with them, but BDSP just infuriates and upsets me as someone who started Pokemon with Diamond back in 2007. Everything about BDSP is just wrong and I can’t forgive the game for the mistakes it remade
It’s so crazy too because I kept telling any person I saw on the internet in favor of a remake that we didn’t need one- back a few years before they came out, and that it would turn out poorly. I said that more out of spite, and that because I thought that D/P/PT was overrated.
And lo and behold, the remakes turn out to be something that many fans hated
The worst thing for BW2 is the key system's requirement, you need TWO copies of B2 to start a game with Challenge mode, and that is terrible. If they introduced the key system, but removed that requirement, BW2 would be flawless games.
Like who in the world would set a difficulty setting as a version exclusive feature?. Also the Challenge mode is bugged too. The items are the only difficult part, the +5 Levels are Fake Levels(who have the same stats as the mons which are 5 levels below them in the regular mode) but give u Exp equal to the current fake level. There are yt videos explaining this bug & even Bulbapedia too
@@e94youtubeAnd it’s a postgame feature, which you need to sacrifice your save file to use! How have Nintendo not thought to have multiple save slots on a Pokémon cart?
@@jbcatz5 What can I say😂
Easy mode is harder, hard mode is easier, both are locked to *_after_*_ postgame._
@@nullpoint3346 Yeah thanks to the bug
21:22 - from what I remember, there was a pokemon Z, or at least dual enhanced versions planned as shown in datamines from 2014 under the name CALOS_RESERVE (ID's 28 and 29), as much as Masuda says there was never plans for it. of course, that ended up getting scrapped.
21:50 - Sun and Moon do remind me of yokai watch, but mostly because of the concurrent anime's artstyle likely taking inspiration from it.
22:23 - this is made worse if you have an old 3DS model like most people did when Sun and Moon were new. double battles are honestly unplayable just because of how much they bog down the system. it's also apparent on those models because if you close out of the game, the system has to restart whereas that is not the case with New 3DS models. that, and the absurd amount of slow cutscenes that drag out don't help with that whatsoever.
They should've added a skip button for the cutscenes at least in usum
felt like i was playin a dam movie or atleast a auto skip buttton
Real. USUM would have been my favorite games to replay, if I could just skip the dialog.
100% watching the cutscenes for the first time, alright still not a huge fan but id give it a chance, but replaying them is kinda painfull with the amount of interruptions that happen... games would be sooo much better with a skip feature
Truth. Also, no matter what is going on, your avatar is smiling blankly. At least in 6th gen and 8th gen, your character REACTED. But nope, only in a handful of scenes does your avatar react in gen 7. It was SO frustrating. Like playing a robot.
Thank you I’m not the only one who genuinely thought the cutscenes killed it for me I want to play a game not watch a movie 😤
Legends Arceus IS considered mainline by GameFreak, wish it made it to your list
I’m one of the few people who absolutely loved Black & White from launch day when I got them when I was 11
I think what made X and Y so easy, also had a lot to do with the affection mechanic introduced in gen 6 as well...
Just by investing a tiny bit of time and getting a pokemon to affection level 2, gives them an increased 20% EXP, and if you get a pokemon to affection 5 you get:
20% more EXP.
25% chance of enduring a fatal hit, even multiple times in the same battle.
Chance to heal status effects for free during battle.
Increase the miss rate of any opponent move not guaranteed to hit by 10%.
Double their crit rate.
So on top of the EXP-share being partywide now, every pokemon you get to level 5 affection gets INSANE buffs as well. So it felt like the first generation in the series MADE to make the player feel overpowered, since there's just so many ways to make your level 7 Pidgey so much stronger than a normal one, without them even seeing battle once!
I hate how gen 2 is so often seen as the best. It has those annoying phone numbers (brought back in Emerald too), the gym leaders are weird an imbalanced (Falkner has no Johto Pokémon for example), many new gen 2 Pokémon are only in Kanto after the league despite being weak, not to mention all the outdated mechanics (HGSS is better though).
One of my favorite things about black and white is being forced to only use gen 5 pokmeon and i usually only use new gen pokemon in new releases nowadays
Crystal has to be the WORST third version of all time. What were the changes? Add Suicune as the box art and give him his own story, add Celebi,but only for the Japanese version, and remove several Johto mons. Not touch any gym roster's team, and most egrigiously: THEY TOOK OUT MAREEP!
I mean, Crystal’s main selling point was the girl protagonist. That change is bigger than any other third version on a fundamental level because it gave half the potential player base the ability to be themselves. It makes sense that Crystal stayed similar in that regard, hewing closer to how Harvest Moon used to do girl versions.
Thank you! Particularly about Mareep
I mean, there is a Battle Tower. Definitely not the worst with capital letters. That's dramatic. Ultra Shit and Ultra Manure exist.
Pokemon animations when entering battle, more sprites and more colourful aesthetics changes compared to G/S. Also it was the first game with unique music for legendary pokemon battles. Most major interesting changes are aesthetic imo.
@@ZingoBananaa honestly the people who shit on gen 1/2 are mostly just kids. Gen 1 yeah deserves a lot of it but not at all gen 2. Just clearly tells me that person was not born at the time.
When playing gen 2 I always go to a Chuck, give Jasmine the medicine, let her go back to the gym, then head over to Pryce doing the lake of rage events and grabbing that badge before going back to Jasmine. It works better level scale wise and it feels like you have given her time to get back into a battleing mood.
I love how he said whatever Venusaur is supposed to be like man has never seen a toad in his entire life
Late but pretty sure Venasaur is a frog.
It... it has "saur" in the name, as in DINOsaur... it's not a frog.
@@-RIWIS- does that mean Weedle is a weed
Venasaur is a frog lol
@@wolfkitten7446 watch how it moved when it follows you. It hops like a FROG.
@@-RIWIS- You know like 3/4 of the pokemon got renamed to more english sounding names right? Originally the Bulbasaur line had absolutely no dinosaurs reference in their names. Also, they changing Boobar to Magmar is hilarious lol
I do wish Post-Gen 1 evolutions and pre evolutions were available in Let’s Go through.
My main complaint is you can't even complete the Pokédex without the second version of the game or paying for the ability to play and trade online, which is something that used to be free. It's not like they don't already make enough money. It feels like money is more important for them than player satisfaction.
DP being slow isnt the biggest issue. Its the fact that 50% of new pokemon are locked to the post game. DP, and by extension, BDSP, are objectively horrible games.
It being slow was definitely an issue, because after a while, you actually crack at how slow it is. The terrible Dexes didn't help either.
Great video, your recent videos and shorts are real sharp with the split screen shots and editing.
every time you mention how old each game is, i feel a new grey hair appear
Perfecting the dex in legends arceus is a nightmare. I know that because I did it :/
It’s not really a nightmare per say it’s fun to do but it does take alot of work
do you actually even get anything for perfecting it? i only caught every pokemon, perfected only a few of them, to get to arceus, so idk.
@@twiphe4375 if you get the entire dex to rank 10 (not perfect), you get the shiny charm. The shiny odds are boosted if you perfect any dex entry
@@Volonid I was honestly burned out from doing it in 4 months
Well yeah, if you just did it relentlessly. But I did mine over the span of a year and a half with breaks
I'll be honest, but I despise pokemon blue the most out of the pokemon games I have played. I fought every single trainer, and grinded as much as I could, and I still was hilariously was underleveled. I understand a challenge, but this was too much, and is the main reason I refuse to play pokemon yellow
At least in gen 1 and 2, the stat exp system and the poor opponent AI go a long way to evening the odds even if there’s a 10-15 level gap. Because of the battle mechanics in those games it’s kinda better to ignore opposing levels, you’ll be surprised how well you do
So basically the biggest problem with Black and White is... It was too bold? If anything I think that was a good idea.
Ive been shiny hunting gastly in soul silver since September 19th 2021 and i still havent got it. Ive only saved 50ish hours but it could easily be 5x that amount. Someone wish me some luck please
Original Gold and Silver are still the greatest pokemon games ever made.
One problem with a lot of third versions is not including all the Pokémon, both Platinum AND Emerald suffer from this. Platinum removed the DP exclusives: Murkrow, Misdreavus, Stunky and Glameow (which is stupid that's 4 Gen 4 Pokémon families you've removed, WHY? and Emerald (which was not nearly as bad) Removed Roselia, Meditite and the already rare, and pretty useless Surskit. Really Meditite is the only one they removed I'd care about.
mr crab💰
emerald removed zangoose too
I was lucky I had ruby and emerald because I realized zangoose was my favorite pokemon playing emerald then found out I had to trade one over because it's not in emerald.
Dont forget, no mareep in crystal, never forget
I still remember the day I got a game boy color and pokemon blue for Christmas. Don’t know what possessed my parents to buy that for me, since they knew NOTHING about video games, but i love them for it.
The worst part about red is, the game is mostly in red witch hurts my eyes
I honestly think the original intended order of the Johto gyms was Price, Chuck Jasmine.
The reason being price and chuck have the same level pokemon, you get whirlpool after the rocket hideout, prices badge allows you to use whirlpool and the whirl Islands are between olivine and cianwood city.
I understand the point is to criticise what you can, but I feel that a lot of these criticisms are applying the modern context onto 20+ year old games, i.e. a lot of these were either not real issues at the time or otherwise excusable (Gen 4's engine is inexcusable, though). Also, Gen 1 is transcendent. People play it FOR the flaws now. RUclipsrs have made entire careers off of Gen 1 due to its quirks.
This video literally points out all the ways that Gamefreak sucks at their job.
Yup, crazy when you give Pokémon to other directors, they do so much of a better job with it.
0:15 as some that has been pokemon target audience since 98 the newer games bring that much needed quality of life
Some what?
@@RockYoMomsWorld they’re better gen 1 and 2 were held together with some gum hopes and dreams once you look at the code
@@Awzn123 Things like no longer needing HM slaves is nice, being able to access boxes from the menu rather than going to a pokemon center is also a plus, even things like reminding and forgetting moves without heart scales is a personal favorite and even a easier entry for competitive for people who want to get into it or train their mons for
@@luidaguilar5233 oh I agree gen 9 has the lowest barrier to entry from any other generation. Now you don’t even have to breed Pokémon to give them good IVs, there’s mints to change natures, I forgot the held item but also if you have a picnic with both Pokémon from the same egg group/chain and the Pokémon you wanna teach an egg move all you need is the item and and an empty move slot
The problem with Emerald was Team Aqua and Team Magma barely had any differences in Pokemon most of the Team Aqua people didn't use water type Pokemon and the final fights with them were a joke
Eh, not really agreeing with the issues in SV. The most concerning and awful thing about it is... it not being a jrpg anymore. Like there's barely any story; it's more of three side quests you do because your "friends" kinda force you to. There's no routes, and no trainers force you into battles, so level progression is dead. And so are all the gyms/boss pokemon/team star that you can just stumble randomly in and either finish in seconds or get your butt handed to you. Main focus shifting to "exploration" and mindless Pokemon hunting + raids is literally peak braindead gameplay...
Pokemon has never been a JRPG. It's Japanese, and it's a Game, but there's no real oportunity for Role Playing.
Barely any story?
Have you ever finished the game? Tried Arven's route? There's a story literally every single time you beat a Titan, tf.
Heck, even Team Star gives you plenty entertaining moments
@@herowither12354 I see you're one of those kind... Just for you: if RP is for "old school" role playing, then almost every game in the world is Role Playing since you assume the role of the characters like Link, Samus, Alucard or anyone really.
@@bugcatcherjacky1334 you could AT LEAST finish reading the sentence before rage posting: "there's barely any story; it's more of three side quests you do because your "friends" just force you to". Side quests about your friends ccan have their own stories, sure, but.. there's no OUR story.
In 1 gen - WE jump out of the city to go on OUR adventure
2 gen - Elm give US a quest and tell uss that IF WE WANT we can battle gyms to get cool and strong popular character
3 gen - we go to wisit our dad who pretty much CALLANGES US to go get stronger and come back to him with all bages needed for his jym
4 gen - despite Barry annoyance and insistence WE ARE same dreamy fool who WANTS A POKEMON, so we can run around the region
5 gen - WE THREE EAGERLY WAITED for Juniper to gift us pokemon to leave for an adventure
6 gen - first time we are forced into the adventure btw, BUT MOM SETS US OFF to see new region we moved in for our sake
7 gen - first time it's barely our story, we given pokemon and set of... just because. It can be argued that both mom and Kukui wanted US to experience Alola but most of the story is about Lilie, Gladion, anyone but us
8 gen - similar to Sinnoh. Hop may be more of the "driving force" but we are eager idiot who wants to experience Galar and get pokemon from the champion himself. Story still mainly about US
9 gen - OK, so... we want to go to school. Director give us pokemon because it's required there. Nemona FORCES us to be HER rival. We study in school and when given "free roam assighment" that meant to hel uf "find our own path", it's not US who wants anything, it's NEMONA TELLING US to become a champion, Arven and Penny BEGGING us to HELP THEM and by the end we done... NOTHING FOR OURSELVES, NOTHING BECAUSE WE WANTED IT.
I feel like the worst part about Sword and Shield is the map. It's linear to the point of being a one-dimensional line (Wild Area notwithstanding) and you don't get to explore the cities at all. Unova and Kalos were linear as well (Alola was too somewhat, mostly due to plot railroading) but at least their routes had some internal complexity and they all had fully-optional locations. Not so for Galar.
Dexit, meanwhile, would have happened anyway at some point due to how many Pokemon there were.
@@deweypatch The National Pokedex was actually removed in Sun & Moon. But since every Pokemon was still able to be used in that game, it wasn't really that noticed.
S/V is even worse with exploring cities. I found myself skipping 90% of the cities (unless they had a gym, in which case I just went straight to the gym and out) because other than the occasional food or clothes store, there was absolutely nothing to see in the cities. Sure, there were some items but what's the point of cool looking buildings if you can't enter?
@@bugcatcherjacky1334 So, everywhere in Pokemon is like Wyndon now, huh?
@@jamiecinder9412 Don't remember Wyndon, but you essentially got a crap ton of houses you can approach but none you can enter. Unless they're restaurants or clothes stores
Like literally the first town you get to there's not a single building you can enter lol
@@bugcatcherjacky1334 Wyndon was the city in Galar where the Pokemon League is. Most of it was a big set piece...
People complain about modern pokemon being uninspired. You know, like Pidgey, Spearow, Muk, Electrode, Magneton, etc.
Who on earth said that?? Modern Pokémon are DEFINITELY inspired
VS something like Tatsugiri, which might just seem like a sushi Pokemon given dragon type for lols, but is based off of Koi and Lungfish. Koi are associated with dragons in many east Asian cultures, and Lungfish are also called Dragon Fish. And Curly Form is referencing a mythological being with the body of a Carp, and the head of a Dragon.
That's my biggest gripe with Pokémon fans. People will complain about the trash pokémon or the gears like we didn't literally have a pokéball in the very first gen.
And it's incredible evolution: The upside down pokéball 😂
90% of the first gen's pokémon aren't specifically creative and are quite literally taken from the animal world (Zubat, Vulpix, Growlithe, Beedrill, etc) or are as basic as the most generic fantasy creature (Rapidash as a unicorn, Charizard and Dragonite as very average dragons). Most pokémon in later games had a little something to them to stand out, so the complaints about them are very non sensical.
But it's very human to complain about new things. Be it the next generation of youngsters, a sequel to a great movie or even just a new video game. Given enough time, even those so called "bad" games suddenly are seen as masterpieces (Gen 5 for example, I remember when everyone, myself included, hated it).
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Now i know why my shiny golbat wasn’t evolving before pkmn league 😅
That really broke my young pkmn heart
Pokémon Scarlet and Violet is terrible in all of its aspects, don’t even try me.
9:04 Wait, so the biggest issue with Ruby and Sapphire is that.. it's hard to complete the national dex? Compared to the previous 2 complaints of general glitchiness and lack of polish, bad level curve and poor pokemon availability, I feel like this is such a minor nitpick that doesn't permeate through the game itself in the same way that the previous 2 complaints did. Not the overexposure of water types, the lack of balance with the starters (Mudkip is so overpowered compared to the other two options), the nonsensical story that wasn't properly resolved until Emerald, or lack of fixed learnsets (that still wasn't really fixed until gen 4) making certain pokemon like Gardevoir have insane natural level-up moves, while leaving so many other pokemon not even learning a move of their own types.
I feel like these games got off a bit light, is all I'm saying.
EDIT: 11:20 Wait what, you couldn't even come up with a single valid complaint for Emerald? How about champion Steven, one of the coolest champions in the series, alongside Cynthia and Lance, being replaced by... Wallace. The water type 8th gym leader. Who is otherwise unimportant, and completely irrelevant to the storyline. Even in Emerald, Steven does more than Wallace does, and Wallace's replacement for the 8th gym leader is even more forgotten about than Wallace himself.
The Hoenn bias is strong with this one
Wallace is a pretty good champion... gameplay-wise that is and even then, it's only in a vacuum. His team is actually quite well put together for a mono Water team... but it's in a region that already has way too much water and like you've said, he replaced someone much more fitting for the champion role in terms of prominance in the story and just general "vibes".
Couldn't you fight steven at the post game?
I still can't get over that BDSP is literally just copy pasted. There's no concrete evidence that I've seen, but all of the glitches, even the most minor things like Suction Cups not working outside of battle, are the same. A new glitch has even been reverse engineered in DP after being discovered in BDSP recently.
Small nitpick: 9:57 Gold and Silver actually take place three years after Red and Blue! This was referencing IRL where Gold/Silver released three years after Red/Green.
"While all the things I listed are minor, it definitely adds up."
While that is true for gen 1 and people say that nowadays, they clearly didn't warrant an outcry back then. Guess they got a pass for being the first in the series.
Definitely agree with your Gen 2 and 3 complaints. While I find completing the national Pokedex an issue in Gen 3, I found the idea of connecting all of them together pretty interesting, especially with that being one of the main points of Pokemon. The N64/GB era started it, and the GameCube/GBA era perfected it.
The glitches were also less known back then, gen1 games were considered impressive from a technical standpoint.
9:19 It didn't so much fix the glitches as much as they weren't there to begin with because they ran on the gen 3 game engine, which is also why they have the updated mechanics. That's generally how the remakes work, with the obvious exception of Let's Go which didn't really have a game engine to play off of and instead adapted the most recent mechanics as of Gen 7 as well as implemented Pokemon Go catch mechanics. It's also not very clear if BDSP actually does use a modified gen 8 game engine or not.
Without watching the video first:
Gen 1 - bugs and glitches and shit just not working.
Gen 2 - leveling curve and pokémon distribution.
Gen 3 - I don't know, I wasn't around for it.
Gen 4 - same
Gen 5 - the dex
Gen 6 - the stupid easy gym leaders and elite 4 and lack of any focus on the games main gimmick.
Gen 7 - island challenge being bad compared to gym challenge (though that's subjective).
Gen 8 - dexit
Gen 9 - we've gone full circle and a back to glitches and bugs.
Gen 5 dex is an issue? Lol the post game has all the mons we need right?
Gen 8 had other issues too->Exp share being forced, Lack of a good Story............
Gen 9 had loads. As per my count I got 15 issues with SV
@@e94youtube the fact that you can't catch old gen Pokémon in b&w until post game, period HATED that. Like papasea said, people's attitude towards them now is WAY different than it was back then.
@@WolfmanXD Well that's purely a subjective opinion bcoz some ppl like to use only new mons & some like to use their old fav mons right away
Gengar is my fav mon & I waited till the post-game. That's fine. The difficulty in any game lies in the post game after all, so it's manageable
BW was kind of a reboot to the series which could be a fresh take
@@e94youtube yes, yes it is subjective, I agree. But when a LARGE majority of the community felt that way, it's definitely a step in the wrong direction.
@@WolfmanXD U are right, but I am just saying that it's not an issue if u can manage until the post-game. Before the post-game all games are pretty easy right?
Some feel like it's refreshing to see new mons & some miss seeing the old mons. I am fine either way. But if the majority doesn't like something-->BDSP for example, then it needs to be fixed like u said
It's a typical J Masuda moment. He loves 151 like crazy, no wonder he's the game director who thought the game should have a 151 dex if u cut the 4 mythicals
im kinda surprised you didnt mention the GLARING fire type problem in gen 4. the only fire types you could catch in diamond and pearl were either your starter chimchar or ponyta, which does a number on team building
Its not just a fire issue. It's a fire, ice, and electric problem
Honestly, my least favorite thing about Gen 1 is the fact that most of the battles in the game don't even have custom movesets, aside from the occasional Gym Leader TM thrown in there. While this doesn't sound too bad, you gotta remember that most Pokemon's level up movests are atrocious, making most of the fights in the game a complete joke.
This right here! Pokémon Yellow, thankfully, massively improved gym and elite four teams and movesets
I recall playing Yellow and running into a Trainer on Route 6 or smthn, with a Butterfree, and because it's at Level 20, based on its moveset it has ALL THE POWDERS and kept paralyzing and poisoning and putting my Pokémon to sleep, and I just couldn't not battle that guy at all because my poor team was so underleveled....
@prayagsuthar9856 oh my God, yeah me too 🤣
3:46 I was shiny hunting in legends arceus while watching this and thought that was a shiny
HGSS improve upon crystal in droves dude. Fully restored cut areas of Kanto, new areas like the Johto Safari Zone and Sinjoh Ruins, rebattling gym leaders, adding 3rd and 4th gen mons being obtainable in Kanto and Johto routes in post game. Went deeper into the storyline of Team Rocket’s return… how can you say this game didn’t do much? Smfh.
Challenge Mode in Black 2 and White 2 is bugged. Despite increasing NPC Pokémon levels and the number of Pokémon Gym Leaders have, their stats are the same as that in the Normal Mode, but not the experience they yield. It actually makes the game easier if you know what you're doing.
People say that the dialogue of SM and UsUm is bad when SwSh is right there, boring ass story
both are garbage
SV isn't any better
@@DawnLong-s3k at least sv has a good story
@@Ahhhhhh30 Idk, the idea of having to stop an abusive mother who wants to destroy the world for the sake of an alien Pokémon that's poisoning her, sounds like an appealing story.... Meanwhile SwSh doesn't give a shit and recycles the same information it's already told you over and over again, and then suddenly decides to turn Chairman Rose into a villain at the very last minute. _Extremely_ dumb, and it's the reason I didn't bother to keep playing SwSh-I just couldn't take it seriously after finding out how stupid and nonexistent the story is.
I would say for Emerald, I would say that gym leaders get rematches but not the elite 4 or Wallace.
For Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, I would go for the fact you can't do any post game until you see every pokemon in the dex.
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I feel like the only reason they added the Alolan Pokemon to Let's Go is because without them, mega Gyarados would literally be the only Dark type Pokemon in the game.
21:49 Sun and Moon are nothing like Yo-Kai Watch. Yo-Kai Watch is closer to Dragon Quest Monsters 1 and 2. You don't control the Yo-Kai directly (Dragon Quest games have an option to let the CPU control your party), you use food to get a chance at recruiting Yo-Kai (DWM 1 and 2 just used meat so this is actually a bit closer to Digimon World 2's gift system as in Yo-Kai Watch there's different kinds of food and each Yo-Kai has a different favorite) and different from even DQM, the main story is gated behind and the sidequests are full of what feels like a bunch of chores even by JRPG quest standards. Like some of the quests literally involve you doing chores your character's parents task you with. Yo-Kai Watch 4 at least improved the battle system but I'm not far enough along yet to know for sure if the quests are much better.
Yokai Watch’a death is what happens when you destroy friendly competitions! I hope you assholes learned your lesson but chances are, you haven’t and will continue to do it again.
A problem with Emerald if you're a shiny hunter is that the RNG calculation is broken and doesn't give you a different seed every time you reset like it's supposed to. This does make RNG manipulation easier, but it also largely destroys soft resetting for the starters and legendaries as a viable shiny hunting method. It's especially annoying given that Emerald is still to this day the only game where Mew is huntable.
actual emerald critiques: the final gym leader and champion changes are odd. and the team magma/aqua storyline is more convoluted than you think. plus the pokemon used by team magma and aqua are very generic and lack diversity.
I really liked the dialogue in Sun/Moon.
same it's only a problem in Usum since they ruined the story in that game
So the worst thing about pokemon platinum is that it doesn't have a worst thing about it
What I like:
Black and White story, Platinum map (NO HM NEEDED THO), XY Lumiose city side missions/boutiques/restaurants/popularity level/noblesse level, Scarlet and Violet rivals(DLC included), Sword and Shield CHARACTER models and Stadiums, Gold and Silver +1 Regions, BDSP water textures and difficulty, Pokemon Arceus plot twists and final battles and gameplay, Alola alternative gym leader system to the second region or to the first while having the other region with the traditional one. AND PLEASE... LEVEL SCALING GYM BADGES IF THEY HAVE NO ORDER.
BW2 isn't a fair comparison to USUM, BW2 are sequels, not third versions, USUM are third version, which are aiming to do something completely different. A sequel is it's own thing, a third version is an enhancement of the story that's already there while fixing issues. like the big one for me, you can save much closer to getting your starter in USUM than SM, As someone who soft reset for a female Poplio that was a very appreciated change
You can actually get Espeon and Umbreon in FRLG
Max out the friendship for eevee, talk to Gary’s sister and then trade it to yourself or a friend around 8am for espeon and 8pm for umbreon
Except, friendship resets if you trade a Pokemon so you'd first need to trade it to Ruby or Sapphire (since they have an internal clock), which can't be done in FRLG until the post-game. So no, you can't get Espeon or Umbreon for a FRLG playthrough before the post-game.
@ I never said, not once, that you can do it before the post game.
@@luisgarcia1337 what was the point in telling me this. I didn’t mention the post game. I didn’t say you can get those mons during the main play through. I just mentioned it was possible in game at some point
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Oh God, Volo even stands like Cynthia, I didn't notice until now
Scarlet & Violets biggest flaw imo, besides performance, is the NPC trainer and gym leader designs. I have no idea how they have always nailed art direction and designs for NPC's in previous games but failed so hard in this one.
All the gym leaders in Sword & Shield are memorable and look really cool, and they even nailed the designs for NPC trainers. Some NPC's from Scarlet & Violet are memorable, some ironically for being boring, but what about the designs of random NPC trainers? Boring.
That's the biggest flaw? Let me list some SV flaws. Btw SV are great games however:
1. FPS drops+Glitches are common & a lot of visuals are kinda bad(N64 like)
2. Shiny locks to old Legendaries
3. Missing Linking cord from PLA
4. Forced Battle Style: Switch. It's literally the default option for Ranked battles
5. Gym tests/puzzles are a joke(in my opinion). Just look @ Simon says Psy Gym, Ice gym snowboarding & Hide and Seek of Electric gym
6. Move animations are ruined
Behemoth Blade gimmick is ruined, Spirit shackle is ruined, Regidrago & Kyogre having the same animation for their moves are kinda bad too
The worst ones are Solgaleo & Lunala being unable to activate their 3rd eye
7. Lack of a Battle facility
8. BBA is based on Unova but lacks half of the Unovan mons--> Watchog & the Elemental monkeys could have made a Switch debut
9. Terastralization couldn't be kept in reserves & it took me a while to know that Tera crystals can charge the orb. Not to mention the fact that changing the Tera type is a Grindy & a less fun method
10. The games continue to follow the same steps from the prev games:
Forced Exp share & an obedience system that restricts u from catching higher level mons
11. Literally everything is locked to the Gym badges=Sandwich ingredients, Held items, Obedience, Mints, Vitamins, Pokeballs(Although u can find some on the ground). Also Ability patch being unavailable for purchase sucks
12. Limited Trainer customisation compared to the previous games
13. Victory road(call this path whatever road u want) & E4 rooms could have been a lot better instead of being completely bland
14. The DLC being sold separately for each version is a scam especially when u consider the paradox exclusive mons which require u to spend 95$ extra
15. Lack of level scaling. U are allowed to take your own path, but why does the game punish u with higher level bosses. The Nemona battles are scaled, what happened to the rest ? Also this is the reason why most youtubers & players in general take a similar path unless u grind hard/ do overlevelling.
Fun fact: Even a fan game like Crystal Clear has implemented level scaling very well
@@e94youtube you really put a lot of time and effort into that reply, i really respect that. I also agree with all your points, besides some that seem to push the "make pokemon more of an open world game" thing that was really popular a few years ago.
While i like ideas like level scaling and open areas, i think the format of pokemon works way better when you have smaller separate areas (routes) with different biomes and encounters. There's a reason Crystal Clear works so well. SV tried to make everything, including cities, be one big open seamless map, and even though there were different areas they all felt bland. And big problems with this were performance issues, no interiors to buildings, boring NPC's and less detailed environments. All of this could be solved with a few loadscreens dividing the different areas, and the routes themselves could still be open.
Most of the things you listed are gameplay issues, and i agree they could be better, but my comment was specifically about the aesthetic and design decisions. Because that is, in my opinion, the biggest draw for me to pokemon. The thing that differentiates pokemon from a lot of other similar rpg games is not that the mechanics and gameplay are more polished, or that the world is bigger and better, it's simply the feeling of playing it. I used to love seeing the new fun designs of trainers and pokemon, and enjoy exploring a small but neatly designed world. Even if it was a bit linear. SV lost all of that, and all of it just looks bland and boring. While i do like the design of some new characters, most of them just look... off, compared to previous games.
Compare the designs from older games, like the ones from Yusuke Ohmura, Megumi Mizutani and take. Apparently they worked on SV as well, but none of their specific designs are listed and none of them look anything like their previous work. Some of them are even credited to character design in Legends Arceus, and this time their specific designs are listed, and those look great.
@@ZingoBananaa I never commented on the designs or personalities of the characters. Just saying the major flaws of SV. Tbh 2,3 of those flaws are repeated from SwSh.
1. There's no reason for SV to have a forced Exp share. I'm pretty sure they did this to make the games more easy in order to get ppl into the Ranked matches/VGC which has its own paywalls
2. S DLC & V DLC being sold separately is a bigger scam that keeps going on for eternity. I wish someone pointed this out, but nope. We proved to be too gullible & then they say that Pkmn doesn't have any microtransactions when they've been milking us from Day 1 of Gen 1: RBY
@@e94youtube i feel like we're focusing on different things... i still agree with you, but you want to talk about gameplay and the business side of the games, while my original comment and what i really care about when it comes to pokemon is the design aspects. You maybe don't think those things are as important, and that's fine, but imo it is for me to even care about the franchise.
@@ZingoBananaa My gripe was that the characters & mons could be subjective but the issues I mentioned are kind of universal issues
Congrats on the shiny torchic! It took me a week straight to get a shiny treeko when i decided to replay it
XY is hated for being easy. U can turn the Exp share off, Box the Lucario/Lucaronite & turn on the Battle Style Set mode, it's actually simple. Unlike SwSh where the exp share is forced & even worse in SV where they removed the set mode too
But again I would say that XY were only considered as good games bcoz Megas, New artstyle & Trainer customization carried it. Post-game content, Missing Move tutors, Lack of Zygarde plot & most importantly only 3 ppl use Megas=Rival,Champion & Evil Team Boss Lysandre
Also BDSP is still the worst game in the entire series, so that's a fun fact or a well known fact
How are BDSP worse than the original Diamond and Pearl? Like yes, Platinum is still better, but the remakes are absolutely better than the originals.
@@Lilithlily5 Lot easier to softlock yourself and essentially corrupt your save. Reason being it retained it's grid based world but utilized omni-directional movement due to gen 8 coding. There were also moves and abilities in the game that just didn't work, cause again. Weren't in the gen 8 coding. Then there was the drastic jump from Gym Leaders to E4 with perfect competitive mons.
It was a lot of issues, multiple had to be patched out, the latter of the 3 dividing the community until eventually everyone just agreed BDSP are horrid games. DP had the excuse of being new and didn't destroy saves so easily it needed week 1 patching.
I agree for the XY bit, but not for the BDSP bit
@@phil2160 Name one Pokémon game that's more lazy than BDSP despite being sold @ the same price
@@Lilithlily5 It's the worst game bcoz it's a copy pasted version of the Original DP with only some current Gen QoL mechanics unlike the other remakes which improve upon themselves/take risks like LGPE did. Heck BDSP's dev time was less than an year so obviously we had to accept this decade old Chibi artstyle which is a downgrade compared to ORAS,.LGPE
The biggest issue I have with the early games is how SLOW they play. They are basically unplayable now unless you speed them up through an emulator.
The issue that i had in platinum is the slow hp-bar god damn it, you could go to the toilet and back and the chansey that i fight against isnt fainted yet 12:55
Diamond and Pearl had that issue, Platinum fixed it and sped it up.
@@LuckyMattit’s still slow just not as slow as
3:05 A frog lizard with a banana plant-style rafflesia on its back (Banana plants are not trees and bananas themselves actually are berries).
28:28 I see it as more comparable to Monster Hunter or Monster Hunter Stories even if it's not quite the same as either. I honestly think it was even a response to MHS2 originally releasing as a Switch exclusive after the first game was originally a 3DS exclusive (although it did quickly receive a mobile enhanced port) but that's just me.
I think the coolest part of USUM is how you can have literally every Pokémon nearly. I spent a lot of time completing that dex.
Folk complaining about Johto have a very 2015+ mindset of games, they see games as something they wanna pick up and then be done with.
Gold and Silver were meant to be played over time and not rushed through or speedrun. People doing only nuzlockes and challenge runs complain about non-issues to their specific wants.
I'd say Black & White's biggest problem is the levels that pokemon evolve at, like way too many Gen 5 pokemon evolve at level 40+
The biggest issue with dexit is that it means gamefreak can now sell returning pokemon as DLC which is insanely scummy