The Worst Parts of Every Pokemon Generation

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[@JPRPokeTrainer98]

Be sure to leave a like if you enjoyed! What do you think could be improved in every generation?

[@devinwilson92]

JPRPokeTrainer98 gen 2: needs more available Pokemon even before post game,regular trainer rematches should happen, hms removed dead giveaway same with walking with our Pokemon,

[@devinwilson92]

Gen 3 and 6 need more of a challenge Gen 4 needs to keep the battle frontier Gen 1 needs to find another way of level training our Pokemon since we can't fight wild Pokemon anymore which sucks due to catching mechanics and I don't think berries will simply do it

[@vaporterra]

Gen 1: Better Ghost and Bug type moves available, better Wrap and CH mechanics, and have a post game besides Mewtwo. Like Pokédex completion unlocking some events. Gen 2: Make Kanto more challenging and interesting (addressed in remakes) Gen 3: Find a way to fit all 386 Pokémon into the Hoenn region even if a metric ton are shoved in the Safari Zone. Gen 4: Colosseum and XD sequels. Slow surfing and huge gap between Gen 2 and 3 :( Gen 5: Make the 7 sages battle bosses and Hugh more interesting other than a vengeful edgy teen. Gen 6: Needs more post game. Gen 7: Useful TMs not being available until post game and also just bogging down the story in points of the game that didn’t need it as much as others.

[@naturalharmoniagropius4486]

Devin Wilson That was the Lets Go stuff and promoting Pokemon GO. So don't worry about the wild battle stuff

[@beaksters]

JPRPokeTrainer98 you messing with mah gen 5

[@kob6912]

The best part of gen 6 is that when you’re sitting on the balcony with Shauna a butler comes out and gives you the tm for PROTECT

[@lisanguyen673]

It took me way too long to get that.

[@FishManChannel]

condóm, madam?

[@lordlory9976]

@@FishManChannel mercì,madame

[@ShyBoy6ty9]

*reads your comment* Literally handed to you on a silver platter! *Reads comments* Oh... Oh! OH!!

[@nyeemdavis5453]

Baron_O'Beefdip then I read your comment saying exactly what I did and I go Oh...oh! to your comment

[@astra7555]

The worst parts of every game is..... Caves.

[@omaricoleman7810]

PTSD flashbacks of zubat and geodudes

[@ebolachan8198]

At least they had every Pokémons in it

[@greenfoods7142]

Astra *A WILD ZUBAT APPEARED*

[@RoostBR]

Green Food Gaming *_CANT ESCAPE THE BATTLE_*

[@andreaesc]

Tea

[@MikuFutaba]

"Kukui, Hau, and Lillie show up every 15 steps" Hop: _write that down, write that down_

[@CaelVK]

Alolan and Galarian Barry

[@dwanedibly8129]

@@CaelVK At least Barry could actually put together good teams that require switching and strategy. I'm pretty sure I've swept Hau and Hop with whatever Pokemon I led with every time, including Nuzlockes.

[@kirin1230]

I didn't find the cutscenes in gen 7 bad. Gen 5 was pretty painful to spam through the dialogue, but I think gen 7 has better pacing.

[@tommygun641]

Player: uses a super effective move on his pokemon Hop: "ha, i knew you'd go the super effective route" "proceeds to not adjust his strategy in any way, shape or form"

[@MikuFutaba]

@@tommygun641 Hop: "I've been studying my type advantages." Also Hop: *sends two water types out in a row against a grass type*

[@slackerofhell]

Me: Plays Diamond for 2 minutes and saves Diamond: Saving A LOT of data

[@chupacadabra5161]

Can we get Dialga to speed things up with its time powers?

[@mellinghedd267]

*saves before a battle* “Oh dang I should switch which Pokémon I have in the first slot” *saves* *reads moby dick* *climbs everest* *learns Latin* “Saving complete!”

[@Foxy_Playz05]

Turns out the reason why it saves a lot of data sometimes is when you use the PC Box and move pokémon around

[@gypsysprite4824]

this is why you should always use emulator for the gen 4 games .. it still takes like 5-10 seconds to finish saving with speedup

[@slackerofhell]

@@gypsysprite4824 I don't have the ability to use an emulator

[@kylescup878]

"Im pretty sure the term hm slave was popularized by bidoof" Zigzagoon: Am i joke to you?

[@kurosinesenshi]

That is the truest I feel.

[@TrossardWasUnavailable]

Starly: Am I a joke to you?

[@mybob356]

@@TrossardWasUnavailable why starly?

[@thingys]

Sentret: am i a joke to you?

[@TrossardWasUnavailable]

Starly is sad until Staravia it has good stats

[@netnet_in_a_sweater9351]

Me a 9 year old, on my birthday: Oh boy I cant believe believe I got pokemon X! Also me on my birthday: Oh the credits

[@christopherherr7561]

Holy hell, it's been 6 years since X/Y came out!?

[@lorekeeper8117]

Christopher Herr Wait, Wait, wait, WHAT?! It’s been six Fricken years?!

[@Jo-er8qy]

Lunar Eclipse Im 25, Venezuelan, loved Pokemon since ever and just recently have been able to play Pokémon Y in the Citra. My life stopped around fith generation.

[@Gatitasecsii]

You're not old enough to have a youtube account, sorry.

[@Wreckbot_]

or you could be me and be absolutely terrible at the game and barely beat it in a few months because you've never picked up a pokemon game before still fun games though

[@TangerineTux]

Gen 1: “The Bag is full!”

[@onthaticeburgess109]

TangerineTux fr

[@gallantmon4]

Gens 1,2 & 3 you mean?

[@TangerineTux]

@@gallantmon4 Gens 2 & 3 weren’t quite as bad in this regard. For one thing, there were multiple pockets in the bag. Also, you could still see what item it was, so you could decide whether it was worth making room for.

[@gallantmon4]

@@TangerineTux Well yeah they have the multiple pockets in the bag they just retained the 20 item limit per pocket I think.

[@TangerineTux]

@@gallantmon4 Still better than 20 items for the whole bag :D

[@shannongrummisch8881]

5:57: “The Unova region is linear” Galar region: *sweats nervously*

[@kerrywien6775]

The Current Gens from Generation 5 onwards are Linear, Generation 5, Generation 6, Generation 7 and Generation 8 are Linear, but Generation 5 & Generation 7 are the Most Linear because the Story is damn good, so the progression are the most Linear in Both Generation 5 & Generation 7, Logic right ? Generation 8 is Linear too because the story is good, but it’s not as Linear as Generation 5 & Generation 7.

[@HomeCookinMTG]

I’m just gonna say that not being linear causes an issue where the middle gym leaders all have to be around the same strength, look at the johto games, The mid game sucks lol.

[@oliverleonard7730]

@@HomeCookinMTG Kanto has the same problem - after you arrive at Celadon you can do pretty much every gym in any order except the last one.

[@HomeCookinMTG]

@@oliverleonard7730 you CAN do them in any order, however in 2 the 6th gym leaders Ace is a higher level than the 7th gym leaders. And not a single trainer in the post game other than blue and red have stronger Pokemon than elite four.

[@sehajkaler9285]

I guess Gen 4 is slow... but anybody else rack up like 400 hours and would still play it all over again?

[@isaiahwiebe5660]

Sehaj Kaler im with u bro, but first time I would just finish the game and then the second time around to tried completing the pokedex and stuff

[@warchiefv5207]

I hope there’s a remake for the switch

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

@@warchiefv5207 YES

[@riivulet]

Gen 4 is my favorite generation of pokemon! There's probably a lot of nostalgia taking over that opinion since diamond was my first pokemon game, but even so, I love the pokemon in that region more than any other region, except with maybe gen 5 making it competitive. I could replay that game over and over again any amount of times.

[@theneedforspeeder9575]

500h+

[@runner4life551]

Summary: Gen 1: broken game mechanics Gen 2: lack of Pokemon diversity Gen 3: characters are stale Gen 4: pacing is slow Gen 5: region/game is linear Gen 6: way too easy Gen 7: too many cutscenes

[@mosa1363]

I always struggle to find 6 pokemons in Johto.

[@harrisontashjian752]

So gen 3 remake of gen 1 is best

[@GumCow]

Thanks. Am I the only one who likes cut scenes in pokemon? Added a great visual to the story

[@DeeznutztheOG]

CrashHopper I liked the cut scenes and definitely added more narrative to the story

[@GumCow]

@@DeeznutztheOG Same

[@MrWereWolfGirl]

I am just glad that Defog never made it past Sinnoh.

[@GunGun-cf3ss]

Tropius would like to know your location

[@ericasawyer8985]

🤣🤣🤣

[@KazShiro]

Didn't defog after gen 4 do what basically rapid spin did

[@blubbfisch98]

@@KazShiro Yea, it's quite relevant in competitive play

[@surfinggarchomp2820]

i love gen four but did they really think lowering acurracy of all stats would be fun?? its not even an interesting challenge, like lowering atk or something COULD be. it just slows the game down

[@capybara6997]

**points out the problems of gen 1** Gen oners: **tough guy snapping**

[@nekorina9011]

This comment is severely underrated oh my god

[@andrewpenn1145]

Then they immediately get nuked by the entire rest of the fanbase.

[@ksquidplaysminecraft]

Ngl, little kids whining about GeNwUnNeRs is even worse. Think about something else lol why are these people living rent free in your head.

[@josephfunnykins3349]

Ngl I don't really see toxic generation 1 fans anymore. I see more bad gen 5 fans

[@IceSpoon]

As I 90s kid who can recite you the first 151 Pokémon by Pokédex order....Gen 2 is the best and those genwunners who don't love Gen 2 (despite Gen 2 being the ideas that weren't ready in 1996, just look at Scizor and Lugia) are fake genwunners.

[@playnthink1210]

"The Alola games hold your hand tighter than when your parents do when they see people like me at the mall." - JPRPokeTrainer98, 2018

[@jamesedwards1284]

Play N Think than*

[@isidorodaviddoro1920]

Lol

[@toblerone1729]

Doesn't Let's Go do that too? On top of making spoilers about your next encounters, as well?

[@evaleeconklin9226]

When you see 649 likes: "Say, they got the gen 5 national DeX done"

[@Autumn-ko4pr]

666 likes i can't like im sorry

[@xdude228]

Generation 4, specifically Platinum, was also probably the peak of intentional difficulty. Rather than moves or stats being broken engine-wise, you had stuff like Cynthia's maximum-meta team with a level 62 Garchomp beating people into the ground that probably only had mid-50s pokemon, unless you specifically picked up a Piloswine and evolved to Mamoswine just to counter it.

[@BushDidMT-T]

Her garchomp was like 70 or 75 in diamond and pearl

[@xdude228]

@@BushDidMT-T According to Bulbapedia in Diamond and Pearl it was 66. She trades out Gastrodon for Togekiss and her Garchomp goes down four levels to 62 in platinum, likely after Game Freak realized it was already far too powerful and needed fixing. If it had been 75 on the first encounter I guarantee almost nobody except perfectly min/maxed teams would have been able to beat her without grinding for days beforehand.

[@lukebarber3899]

@@BushDidMT-T I swear it was 75 in a different game... maybe black and white where you battle her and it has the sickest music

[@Latias38]

@@lukebarber3899 Yea, her team is on average lv 75 in black and white 1, (and overall way harder than her DP iteration in things like movesets) although in BW2 her team does get slightly easier

[@Espeon804]

I could had sworn her Garchomp knew Flamethrower...

[@thescorch1163]

Gen 1. unbalanced Gen 2. bland Gen 3. laid out poorly Gen 4. slow Gen 5. linear Gen 6. not enough new pokémon Gen 7. handholding Gen 8. cut the dex in half

[@thescorch1163]

StormedTech There’s 728 moves and 891 pokémon so they are going to have low quality animations

[@MrZahsome]

@@uberdawn Yeah I'm sure the amazing Flash will sure be missed! Oh man I'm so mad they removed Flash! It was my Starter's best move! Awh man! What's next? They remove Karate Chop?! Oh man they removed that too! Now I can't beat the game with the amazing Flash/Karate Chop combo! Nooooooo. 🙄

[@maddie.-.1192]

The wild area tho 😤 I love the free camera movement it just feels so nice to play a Pokemon game like that.

[@arunnumapathy7003]

Gen 8’s flaws are pretty big imo, intensely easy, cutting the Pokédex initially sucks, a lot of animations from recent gens got worse somehow, like the Pokémon refresh animations that are now complete trash

[@80sForever29]

Comparing Sword and Shield to other great RPGs on the Switch is a joke. Now you're paying 60 dollars + 30 on DLC for a lower quality product.

[@hassen8tr649]

"the alola games hold your hand tighter than your parents do when they see people like me a at the mall" relatable

[@thenateyoulove]

the dung defender 😊

[@user57614]

Ultra moon is harder

[@crimsonmaelstrom573]

No argument here

[@noxtrin3315]

The biggest problem with gen 3... 7.8/10 too much water

[@Eeveethegamer26]

Technically ORAS is gen 6

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

damm that got me harder than it should have

[@EveryYeen]

Noxtrin going in water is like entering a cave except no zubats and you only encounter water types. (When I think of it, what’s even the point in fishing rods??)

[@noxtrin3315]

Orion Adams UH its a reference to IGNs review of ORAS

[@Alhalmeya]

and no fire pokemon

[@Megzsy98]

Oh and I noticed ORAS literally throws legendaries at you like they’re candy and the whole thing that excites me about legendaries is that they’re hard to get.

[@vera_ah]

Yep been playing for the nostalgia but then you just get handed a legendary pokemon no shade to latios or latias

[@Tsubakiihime]

B2W2 did that too, since gen 5 those 2nd installment games are meant to catch new players up and give them a way to access those older legends without having to jump through insane hoops to get them.

[@jonathanfield3841]

M Elizabeth I liked how you can get a lot of legendaries. However I wished they made you do a puzzle or something since that’s fun. Hence why the REGI’s are considered the best TRIO of all Gens. The puzzles make it unique

[@drbagel9188]

Deoxys was so hard to catch tho. Since I had used my masterball on kyogre I had to ultraball rayquaza and Deoxys and it took so long cause every time I messed up I had to go through the cutscene. It was so bad that my second time playing through I saved my master just for Deoxys

[@alexherrick9256]

TsubakiiHime at least B2W2 did it tastefully by putting them in dungeons. Gen 6 lazily shoved them in using hoopa rings.

[@benderisgreat95able]

Gen 8: "Hold my half empty beer, I'm gonna ruin this franchise's whole career."

[@dragonMaster24921]

*Ooof*

[@dragonMaster24921]

@Callum Booth because people dont understand quality products

[@salisburybavo]

@Callum Booth because the real quality games (mario odyssey, botw, smash,...) came out in previous years. This year, no big games were released, apart from lm3, wich comes from a franchise with a smaller fanbase than pokemon, and mario maker 2, a game that already proved it will release epic updates with tons of new stuff. So your argument doesn't prove anything. Game freak should be ashamed to release such poor quality on such a strong console.

[@salisburybavo]

@Callum Booth the only hope of Pokémon becoming good again, is that GF gets some competition, and people buy their games instead. The problem is 12 year olds will see this new franchise as a rip-off, even if the company put more care in it than GF did. (looking at games like Temtem) I honestly believe Pokémon is doomed

[@dragonMaster24921]

@Ghoul Gaming everstone my dude since gen 3 geodude can have one.

[@darko-man8549]

Gen 6 would have been fixed so much if: A) ALL gym leaders (Edit: all gyms after the first with mega stones) and Elite 4 carried a mega & you occasionally came across a trainer carrying one

[@Max-rz8br]

I see your point, but ALL gym leaders? I wouldn't really want to take on Viola's Mega Heracross with my level 12 Froakie and my level 10 Fletchling.

[@darko-man8549]

@@Max-rz8br okay fine agreed, all after the first Mega stone

[@Max-rz8br]

@@darko-man8549 I still agree with you, though. I'm pretty sure that the last 5 gym battles were the easiest ones. They just really missed a Mega (and of course, full movesets on their Pokémon).

[@darko-man8549]

Max indeed. I think Megas can be summed up as missed opportunity overall.

[@Wheeler07]

I would give Korrina a mega Lucario in her gym battle, but only use a Lucario and a Mienfoo to make up for the use of a mega in the third gym. Then, I wouldn't give Ramos or Clemont Megas because mega evolution doesn't really fit with them. Then, Valorie would be the first since Korrina to have a mega, and she'd have mega Mawile. Olympia would have mega Alakazam. Wulfric would have mega Abomasnow obviously. As for the elite 4, Seabold would have Mega Blastoise, Malva would have mega Houndoom, Wikstrom would have mega Scizor, and Drasna would have mega Altaria.

[@gundilf8826]

Without a doubt, my least favorite thing about Pokemon X and Y is that the game basically hands you a complete Pokemon team without you even having to lift a finger. 80% of the time that I asked my friends what their team was they would say WITHOUT FAIL: Their Kalos Starter Their Kanto Starter Lucario with Mega Stone from 3rd Gym Leader Lapras (given by game so you can Surf) Talonflame (Route 1 Bird Pokemon) Xerneas/Yveltal (Game prevents you from NOT catching it)

[@Axeloy]

Can’t forget about the free torchic in the beginning of its release

[@longbeard4744]

50% of that was my team. Chestnaught Blastoise Tyrantrum Umbreon Talonflame Goodra Chestnaught and Blastoise was given as a starter. Caught a Fletching in one of the routes along with Eevee and Sliggoo and revived a fossil to get Tyrunt. To this day I still play Pokemon Y because it can be nostalgia.

[@SuperSpruce]

You are 66% correct; wow

[@migs2675]

83% correct. I didn't have Lapras.

[@GeteMachine]

@@Axeloy Speed Boost & Mega Stone on a fighting type/special attacker? How much more easy do they need to make it?

[@satanicdomain8178]

Gen 2 has difficulty settings Typhlosion is piss easy Feraligator is easy And my boi Meganium is hard mode

[@austinbrown8449]

Satanic Domain I always picked chicorita for a challenge. This time I did the glitch to get all 3.

[@pradiptarath5270]

@@austinbrown8449 how did you do the glitch can you plz tell me that

[@austinbrown8449]

Pratik rath look it up

[@whitefri2z]

@@pradiptarath5270 Google/KZbin is your friend ;)

[@Autumn-ko4pr]

@@austinbrown8449 I did that too, seeing my rival's puny one starter and destroying his team with my three starters was amazing.

[@nicholasfarrell5981]

"Steamroller through with your starter Pokémon." Yeah, Whitney says hi.

[@PeruvianPotato]

During my Meganium troll run, I actually won first try because I kept on soft resetting for a Female Chikorita

[@aggerktm]

just get that ingame traded Machop from Goldenrod Mall and Whitney will be a breeze lol

[@margalocaris]

I'm really grateful that you did not just leave Hoenn at "Too much water".

[@ExtremeAce]

Thanks for not bashing on "Too much Water" and "Garbage and Ice-Cream"

[@Rebel3000]

7.8

[@gold_leader9288]

ExtremeAce249 the same people who bash on Garbage and Ice Cream are the people who think the pile of sludge and and pokeball Pokémon are ok

[@hdckighfkvhvgmk]

@@gold_leader9288 pile of sludge they actually made conceptually better than literal trash, But the pokeball one is still stupid AF.

[@mikaeruu0309]

@@thebulletdragon2876 at least it's a mushroom and not a literal ball..

[@mikaeruu0309]

@@hdckighfkvhvgmk the literal trash actually looks cute tho 😭

[@daltonfreeman6551]

JPR: *gets to my favorite gen* me: here we go with the water thing aga... JPR: "the character's are boring" me: "oh! ...oh... yeah..."

[@leviewings4689]

Wrong! I believe that there is not enough water on the Hoenn map! Hence why I bought AS and as soon as I encountered Archie I lost and never played the game again!

[@eeveemaster8902]

@@leviewings4689 thats amazing

[@uknownada]

Gameplaywise the water is easily the worst part of Gen 3, though. It was a pretty common criticism of the game but everyone likes to pretend like it wasn't because they don't know how to read IGN reviews.

[@shinyhuntersmo4982]

Jpr?

[@dwanedibly8129]

@italkcrab Gen 8 in a nutshell.

[@destendgem]

So what you're telling me, is if someone made a version of X & Y that was actually difficult, and a version of the Gen 7 games that had a skip cutscene button, they'd be the two most popular points on the internet?

[@josephercanbrack8393]

Platinum is still my favorite to this day, but I agree that the pacing does feel sluggish at times, especially in Diamond and Pearl. To me, Platinum was everything I wanted: Difficult at times, a decent post game, memorable characters, and endless replayability with the VS seeker. I still remember smiling after I beat the Elite Four for the first time and rechallenged the very first trainer. His Starly was a nearly level 60 starraptor, and I was happy for him.

[@MachineMetropolis]

I'm not really a Pokémon fan, being someone who played gen1+2 when they were new and then got older and moved on. I've tried the newer ones since then and D/P/Pl is as fun as gen 1+2 were back then, it's really good.

[@mr.fister4738]

I don't want to bash your favourite game, but I don't get why people like Gen 4 I absolutely hate it. Pacing is soooo sloooow, i'm uninterested in every character because they are boring imo. Cyrus is the only one who actually makes the game exciting. I don't care about the legendaries, the story is boring and the regional pokedex is horrible. I hate the big amount of HMs and i don't want to explore the region because I hate going back to the pc to get my one Starly that knows defog. Personally, I think the region doesn't have any notable places and the atmosphere is relaxing but also boring. I do get though when people say they like the atmosphere. Though I have to say I love some of the Gym battles and Cynthias battle was pretty great aswell. A challenge is always nice

[@hommefataltaemin]

Generally when people call the game slow I don’t think they mean pacing? They mean battle speed, saving the game, etc, instead of plot speed. The game just runs really slow and clunky like compared to others. I’ve not heard many people complain about the plot speed itself other than a few people who just hate the whole game in general.

[@hommefataltaemin]

@@mr.fister4738 damn you really left this long ass comment bashing someone’s favorite game when no one asked and it has very little to do with what they commented about

[@kyrike1989]

Some here are saying that Game Freak is focusing too much on their child audience these days and how children aren't the core audience anymore. I disagree. I don't think the problem is that they support a younger audience too much. I believe the actual problem is that they underestimate the younger audience too much. Game Freak seems to forget that children were perfectly capable of beating and enjoying Gen 1 even with all it's difficulty and broken behaviour. In America kids don't care as much about Pokemon anymore, but there are still many who do. In Japan the audience is still extremely large among children. The problem isn't the kids abilities, the popularity of Pokemon, or a shift in the ages of the core audience. The problem is Game Freaks perception of their child audience. They think they'll pull in more people by over simplifying the games. That may be true for some in the short term, but long term they will damage their core fanbase (as we've seen the beginnings of recently). People aren't attracted to Pokemon because it's easy to digest like "X amount of mobile games" out there. They play Pokemon because it's incredible to go on a journey with naught but your creatures by your side on an uphill battle to be the best and collect them all. That is the appeal, to believe it is something different is to doom the brand. Personally I believe the current direction of the mainline Pokemon games is primarily the doing of Junichi Masuda given his statements on the matter in recent years. I can only hope he realizes his error before it's too late.. or someone else takes a step in this ring

[@pokente]

I completely agree, Pokemon, regardless of graphics or simplifiers will always be great.

[@placebo4874]

I disagree and you contradict yourself. Pokemon is about collecting all pokemon and winning battles, that much you said, but for that there is no need for it to be challenging. Simple as that. And to be clear I DO like challenging gyms/leagues better, but I could easily handle any of it, I am no longer 10. Also do kids still play their friends? That was the most fun in pokemon for me and for that i didnt need a hard AI.

[@kyrike1989]

@@placebo4874 You disagreeing with half of my statement is not me contradicting myself. You're correct in saying there is no "need" for it to be challenging. Heck, if it's only about collecting Pokemon and battling then there's no "need" for the not so challenging gyms or elite four to begin with. That wasn't my point. The fact that you yourself, an older fan of the series, attest to enjoying more challenging gyms is proof that their inclusion would benefit the playerbase. Especially given your tastes are not rare within said playerbase. Yes, we are no longer ten, but those Pokemon fans that are near that age are not going to up and stop playing because the game made a return to a higher difficulty. Plus I'm not arguing it be standard, just an option for older/more experienced players. Also yes, kids still have friends to battle, that doesn't nullify my argument. I remember specifically growing up making semi competitive to actual competitive teams and having no one around who was half decent to play against due to my location. So no, what I said still stands. You can disagree, but these are my points. Do you have further thoughts on it?

[@angon4xd824]

*Junichi Masuda* will not be in charge for the next pokemon games, including the 2019 core pokemon game. I really appreciated his work but now it’s time for some new blood

[@kyrike1989]

@@angon4xd824 I hope you're right. Can you link me to the source of this info?

[@vanderan]

The supposed linearity of Gen 5 never really bothered me. Maybe it's because I'm way more forgiving for that sort of thing for a good story, but frankly, it made the game a lot more simple and fun to play in a weird way.

[@epic2448]

@@gold3987 dude literally same gen 5 is a fresh experience because it's only current gen Pokemon before post game along with the fact that some of the Pokemon are suuuuuuper cool. People like to have on some of them like vanillice but overall done if the best Pokemon designs went into that game imo.

[@epic2448]

But yet still people say it's a bad game

[@epic2448]

It's decently challenging as well

[@onthaticeburgess109]

Epic L

[@onthaticeburgess109]

Epic no

[@cornmaized]

The fact that the “my wife died yesterday” is an actual cutscene that is real about sums up sun and moon

[@TylerjWebb]

Wow I never realized how linear gen 5 was... I guess because it has other strengths and such a strong post game it never ruined my experience. Black 2 and white 2 had a lot of optional content and was one of my favourite generations to complete the Pokédex.

[@jrlaps521]

Plus it is a linear path story wise, but there’s still plenty of areas to explore off the main path unlike later regions

[@purpleclaws202]

​@@jrlaps521yep. Every gen 5 has many flaws and many things to love. It's still my personal favorite

[@TheJayeagle]

Gen 8. The day of the great community divide because of the not every Pokemon thing.

[@pieV3000]

Also how bad it graphically looks

[@kimhellrose7357]

@@pieV3000 At least the main character doesn't have Vietnam flashbacks every damn second of their lives

[@itstoughtobehumaninaworldv1872]

Not to forget the Pokemon immigration rule, you cannot take with you, your old Pokemon.

[@Dave_Chrome]

Lmao the games not even out yet, hold your horses people. For all we know there may be greater flaws, or this whole National Dex fiasco was just an excuse to fill post launch content updates with all the Pokemon, since stupid update culture exists in gaming now.

[@TheJayeagle]

@@Dave_Chrome Even if that is true, it doesn't change the fact that the community is divided.

[@jzlplys9864]

I love everyone who loves Gen 4

[@darkfawful1901]

JzlPlys #Gen4Rocks

[@ikeasotbarnslig5228]

Ikr, other than the slow pacing and Bidoof, Gen 4 was practically perfect •w•

[@darkfawful1901]

Maddieplayz9630 Bidoof is the god of all pokemon

[@unlimitedduckgamer]

Bidoof > Arceus

[@joaoguimaraes543]

I love you to

[@GoonTune97]

I will say that as a Pokémon crystal fanboy I'll let you know one thing. You can get the evolutionary stones early. You have to use the phone to talk with specific trainers and then they will occasionally call you when they find the Stone. You can get the Firestone as early as the 3rd gym from the psychic type trainer right before the Sudowoodo fight. Which is ironic because the first patches of grass before mahogany town have growlithes in them. Fun fact.

[@TheLateMrBones]

My problem with gens 6-8 are the lack of new Pokémon. Sure you can make arguments like that for the other gens but it feels like there are barely any new Pokémon being introduced in these specific games.

[@donaldjgumpofficial5754]

It's because there aren't. Gen 2 has 100 which was the lowest for a while and the last 3 all have fewer than that.

[@jesaea]

@@donaldjgumpofficial5754 Gen 7 doesn't reach 100 new Pokemon? Geez

[@dragonslayer7724]

Those gens could've used more 'mons (especially gen 8 with the nat dex incident) but the 'mons they do have are actually pretty cool heck, unpopular opinion, but gen 8

[@lorekeeper8117]

Me after I beat Kukui: hey can I save so I Can play another game or charge my DS faster? Game: haha Nope, take this cutscene! Me: ...

[@squirtleislife1312]

I accidentally killed the damn chicken and had to do the last battle again

[@alvinkim3961]

LMAO i just kept my 3ds on charge and went to watch youtube videos while waiting for the cutscenes to end ...and come back 3 hours later after I forgot

[@ericasawyer8985]

🤣🤣👏🏾💯

[@ericasawyer8985]

@@alvinkim3961 😂😂😂😭😭😭

[@platina1502]

I...actually like the slower pacing of Gen 4. Makes the adventure feel bigger, longer and beating it gives ya more of an accomplishment feeling and hey Routes takin more time is a reason why Gen 4 music and areas are so iconic But not everyone likes that, I understand

[@platina1502]

@@B-Side.72 You mean that the pacing would be faster? 'Cause that's what you'd prefer; or well "better for you"

[@bojackthetrustworthy736]

ZearibIn i swear to god,when I used to play Gen 4 a long time ago without the gen 5 being released it was pretty much okay because it was the only Pokémon I’ve got under my hand but when I started playing gen 5 and then coming back to the game,it was such sufferings:’),The game was way too slow,the dialogues felt slow,the encounters you had,the fights and just because overall the difficult completing since I had started a new one..I was unable to continue the story I didn’t even reach the league because with all my nostalgia,the game has become too painless and difficult...,I’ll do admit way too long and difficult games aren’t made like that anymore

[@Rylan_Korpi]

Yeah it was my first game and some thing should be speed up BUT not the health bar or routes I agree. Make it difficult. Make experienced players fear they might jot make it out of a cave or not.

[@itstoughtobehumaninaworldv1872]

The Gen 4 is more centered on the entirety of Pokemon worldbuilding, the slow pace is what actually made it good.

[@Dave_Chrome]

@@B-Side.72 Play Platinum, they quite literally speed up many animations and polish aspects of the game.

[@BreninWatson]

“My wife died yesterday” 😂😂

[@philz78]

I really liked that gen 4 was slow. Having to use many vms on each route and stepping through the deep snow on the way to snowpoint town felt like a real journey for once and was not like a stroll through your backgarden like the routes in gens nowadays are.

[@onthaticeburgess109]

Phil Zerza stfu

[@WildZevahc]

Evil Maddox lmao

[@aoc1331]

@@onthaticeburgess109 kinda how I feel about these comments. Gen 4 has been blowing my attention span for 8 years. I'm still on the 5th gym

[@ivo2781]

That's one thing I loved about gens 3, 4 and 5 Gen 3 has you swimming through deep ocean around a volcanic island Gen 4 gives the sense of a real journey, it is long, slow and feels hard Gen 5 has you wandering about deserts and ruins, and depending on the season you can even struggle through snow All of them feature a kid or a teenager alone on a dangerous journey, fighting to proceed, free to explore Now we have some smol bois having a walk on their garden with their babysitters, literally

[@onthaticeburgess109]

Ivo stfu

[@Pokemonleafmon]

I find it so fascinating how each generation has their own particular flaws and strengths. Its irritating because they ARE flaws, but the fact that they all have different ones make you realize how different they all truly are from one another. Now I feel like I need to think of the greatest strengths of each of the generations...

[@VeranaXS]

maybe something like this? gen 1 has that familiar feeling even if you never played pokemon, which just draws people in gen 2 by far the best post game gen 3 idk gen 4 idk gen 5 best story gen 6 megas gen 7 something new and different

[@mathewricafrente5984]

WhoCanusMaximus Here's 2 pros for Gen 6 if you need help thinking of one: It ended and everyone hates it like it was Sonic'06.

[@meko750]

Gen 1: Invented the series. :P Gen 2: Day and night cycling, better balancing, returning to Kanto. Gen 3: Introducing remakes and differences between versions. Gen 4: Physical/special split. Gen 5: Incredible story and post-game. Gen 6: Finally becoming 3D. Gen 7: No gym battles (I love gyms, but it’s a nice breath of fresh air)

[@Pokemonleafmon]

Perfect. Couldn't have said it better myself

[@Twinklethefox9022]

VeranaXS thx to gen 5, you could use tms over and over again

[@karmadiya1587]

I liked the last roast on the gen “my wife died yesterday”

[@NameName-yj7lp]

I think that actually cannon- there is a guy who is near the black sand beach that you get to fight and he just talks about his dead wife

[@freetriptobahamas8640]

Not funny

[@karmadiya1587]

@@freetriptobahamas8640 this was a year ago why does this matter now?

[@adityagandhi9882]

@@NameName-yj7lp yes

[@coby4480]

10 year old me picking up a pre-owned Diamond: Oh boy! I can’t wait to see how this game turns out! Me 3 years later: It’s... it’s over...

[@lucianofrancesco4742]

Gen 7 was so close to be awesome... Imagine SM story, USUM gameplay and overall less cutscenes. Easily one of the best pokemon games together with Platinum and BW2!

[@Wheeler07]

nah nah nah. BW story with USUM Gameplay

[@Graceisanutjob]

Include Ultra Necrozma in that and you get the perfect game

[@dragonslayer7724]

@@Graceisanutjob The most challenging fight I think I've ever had, alongside the final boss of Legends Arceus (not arceus) legit necrozma took me months

[@johnnakhadray6414]

Generation 4 is my favorite generation but YES 100% yes the games are so slow. 😫

[@Bj-vd2tp]

John Nakhadray thats why Plat was made

[@jayesper4390]

I hate that comic where the Genforer is thrown from the building... Makes me want to break the guy's fall, go right back up myself and break the offending party's face.

[@natedunn51]

I prefer gen 3, unless emulating with a speed up to make the games run faster

[@desnes5865]

I think its better when its slow because you can enjoy the music

[@johnnakhadray6414]

deSnes That is nice, but if you’re trying to grind up levels it can make for an annoying experience. Some people can argue that it makes the game harder and challenging but I feel like it just makes it a chore.

[@efnfen]

"People who talk about this on Twitter have nothing better to do with their time." "Welcome to my ten minute KZbin video about this topic."

[@evanever]

Hey, depending on his cpm, this video probably made ~$1000 - not really a waste of time when it's a job.

[@olliwinger]

efnfen im like 100% certain that remark was a joke haha

[@socho1]

Thanks for listening to my TED Talk!

[@cggcgg4612]

Long Schnozzed Tribesman He didn’t say it’s ok he said that he’s not being a hypocrite because this video made lots of money so it wouldn’t be a waste of time.

[@joeysblackchild6948]

@@cggcgg4612 no.

[@Marcomanexists]

My biggest issues with each generation Gen 1: Uncountable amount of glitches and bugs Gen 2: The levels of wild pkmn are too low Gen 3: A lot of backtracking and travelling + there really is a lot of water Gen 4: It’s really slow + the Pokédex isn’t diverse enough Gen 5: Too many barricades that stop you from exploring Gen 6: Extremely linear region and started the trend of cutscenes & tutorials Gen 7: Really easy, excessive cutscenes Gen 8: Super easy, way too many cutscenes & underwhelming

[@levirocha2976]

Gen 7 easy? Lol

[@isaaclanier1507]

The cutscenes are awesome and there should be more cause they flesh out the story a lot

[@desiterdane4286]

@@isaaclanier1507 Are cutscenes good when you first play the game? Yes but if you decide to replay it, it's annoying and boring as hell and people who play the game for the gameplay rather than the story are also gonna be annoyed

[@hugofernandes2347]

@@isaaclanier1507 but the story sucks tho, the cutcenes add almost nothing to the experience. The characters have no personality

[@isaaclanier1507]

@Hugo Fernandes the story is the best of any main series game. The cutscenes only improve the story dramatically.

[@fourtwenty1813]

"I will bash your favorite generation" "Ok" "Unova is too linear" "SKREEEEEEEEEEEEE" (It was my first game don't judge me)

[@TheDouble094]

I hate the whole idea of making a game easy. Im not saying make it darksouls, but if you handhold through the game. Is it even a gamr then.

[@rqyhae3340]

It becomes a movie you need to press buttons to continue.

[@dergereatl8796]

I would like a challenge mode, or ingame nutzlocke or randomizer( everything after you won the league once)

[@TheSirButthole]

Exactly why is it so hard to add a easy and difficult mode. I mean it’s not like almost every other game in the world has it. I miss the old times where you had to grind hard to prepare for a gym battle. Back then I was scared entering an arena. Now it’s like I came into a new city and enter the arena before even considering going to the poke center.

[@blastoff438]

Make it like dark souls, only then I will recognize it as a 'game'.

[@hugoduarte8530]

So true. And in gen 7 they even told you which moves were effective on which Pokémon. Even if most players know the types effectiveness by now, let new players find out mid-battle that an earthquake doesn't do anything to the opponent's pidgeot

[@galacticaschuyler9580]

As much as I love Sun and Moon (as well as the Ultra games), I wish cutscenes were skippable after the first playthrough-

[@itsninjaboy7985]

Agreed

[@thejman36]

The hand holding is annoying as hell. Its like Game Freak thinks everyone playing a Pokemon game is 10 years old and playing one for the first time ever. That and the Hawaii 2.0 gimmick got old really quickly...

[@jibrail99]

Gen 3 is and always will be my favorite gen of all time because it's my first! I love all the starters, all the legendaries, the region, all of the new pokemon, the music, may, and i replayed the Hoenn games the most! i know it has some flaws, but that's what makes it my beautiful flawed baby gen! now i suddenly have the urge to play in Hoenn again, i guess it's time to replay emerald!

[@jjc4924]

Am I the only person that doesn't like Gen. 3?

[@jibrail99]

@@jjc4924 wtf are you on about? of course there's people that dislike gen 3. every pokemon gen have its haters, and every gen have its fanatics. smh

[@jjc4924]

Whoa! Slow down there, buddy. You don't have to be rude. I don't necessarily hate Gen. 3. But I don't like it as much as some people do. Because I found it to be the only Pokemon game that is lacklustering and boring.

[@fellowkrieger457]

The music was great.

[@bdbdkdfotbrveiw]

When he talked about steamrolling the game with amphaross, gyarados and your starter hit me in my soul😂 I did that when I was a kid completely without thinking about it

[@AlmostLakai94]

Seriously though 😂

[@alangrat]

"MA WIFE DIED YESTERDAY"

[@lunch7213]

Alon Graf “This is mah wife”

[@qin2500]

i like gen 5...

[@Raiko01]

We do not care. @anthony qin

[@angelomarasigan4347]

Missing her? Why don't you join her today?

[@freetriptobahamas8640]

Not funny. Angelo definitely not funny

[@Astromontana]

You nailed my biggest complaint with gen 4. The snow and mud just drags this game to a crawl along with the slow engine and pacing. Also with gen 5 I have a bigger problem with the late evolutions. Who wants to use a Mienfoo or a Pawniard until level 52?! I wouldn't mind as much if the main story had levels up until at least 70 but it doesn't. Gen 6 just felt incomplete. It's just felt like there was supposed to be more to the story and Kalos in general but Gamefreak had to cut it short for some reason. Xerneas and Yveltal felt shoehorned into the story at the last second and Zygarde got completely shafted. Also what ever happened to AZ's Floette? It has it's own signature move so it must've been planned to be distributed at one point.

[@ForestFairy1]

I can agree with everything you said. Gen 6 has always felt like it was rushed.

[@Galavantworks]

ForestFairy1 more like abandoned with the quickness

[@Trex10100]

THIS

[@tragic_light]

ElectabuzzKing At least it kinda prepares you for the challenging post game in BW/BW2 with the high level you have to get to.

[@zxb995511]

Those late evolutions in Gen 5 are probably my most hated thing in all of pokemon to be honest.

[@whatface1278]

“My wife died yesterday” I died when i heard that

[@blubbfisch98]

You're his wife?

[@whatface1278]

@@blubbfisch98 I didn't hear it yesterday

[@smileyent.3055]

3:30 wow didn’t need such a personal attack

[@Kyle8B]

For pokemon...can we just have a DISABLE TUTORIALS option? Because after 7 generations...I think a good portion of us know how to use pokeballs and fight... Heck, add in a skip cutscene option as well for good measure...maybe I want a shiny starter but don't want to wait for 5 years to finish the 4 cutscenes to reset my game and try again...

[@angelomarasigan4347]

Nope. Because new players need guidance lol

[@Kyle8B]

that's why I said option. So you have to manually disable it in a options menu.

[@Kyle8B]

Well here is a general list of all the stuff Gen 7 had you do: Intro stuff (moving in and whatnot, introduction to professor) Ok let me take you to this patch of grass Select item, select Pokeball, throw Pokeball, wait, catch. (how hard is that...?) Ok now let me take you to this trainer school where you can skip the next 30 lines of dialogue telling you about hm's, tm's and type advantage. Oh, btw we won't tell you which people are trainers so better click on them all and initiate the 5 lines of dialogue on each of them. Oh btw here is the new stuff you have to learn. Did you forget about the pokemon snap tutorial they had and forced you to do? It was unnecessary and should have just been a side thing you could skip... I have a tolerance for that stuff but even I was getting fed up at that point, and that was still halfway through the first island...I would kinda like to skip the old stuff I've known since I was 5 and get on to the new stuff just a tad quicker...Especially since it seems like every generation's introduction is getting longer and longer... Gen 7 has the longest intro area of every game right now, with the longest amount of time before you even get your first pokemon. Skipping the first tutorials of the first few games was not necessary because the games were not *too* deep, but with more stuff being added the tutorials get longer and longer and you start seeing the old tutorials first going through the same exact information they have gone through for nearly 20 years. The ultra versions helped fix it a bit, but it's a noticeable trend. I just want an "I am a veteran of pokemon" option and skipping right to the new tools and features It's not even that hard to implement, it's just a boolean check when they are about to do a tutorial and an "Oh you already know that stuff? Great! Let's move on" Maybe a slight quiz or something just to be sure if they are really worried about it That being said I enjoyed it still, I was just annoyed that it took me an hour to get through all the basic information before I could really play the game. It's like they put the manual down and forced you to read it all before playing the game. And god forbid I have the other game in addition and have to redo all of that again...

[@kas579]

Kyle B if your reset your game then it would turn the help option back on so u would be doing the tutorial again

[@Kyle8B]

It never resets your chosen text speed, when you soft reset. So I don't see why it would reset the option.

[@private9402]

I kinda like how alone you feel in R/G/LG/FR. I mean the whole world is literally against you, even your only “friend” - your rival - tries his best to put you down at every turn. You literally play as an 11 year old poke-nerd that uses his crazy-ass-determination, his smarts, and his love for Pokemon to take down the pokemafia (rocket). You single handedly save your rural little region from the grips of the corporate elite and their lack of humanity. Then, because you’re so pokejacked and talented you go right on and fulfil your dream of defeating the elite 4. You even help an old lonely man that spent his life loving Pokemon instead of raising a family of his own; Oak, the mentor that kickstarted your journey and so desperately wanted to complete his Pokédex as a boy, you help him fulfil his life long dream. You complete the Pokédex. You tame the untameable. You defeat the undefeated. You exorcise Marowak’s demons. You clear roads of sleeping Pokemon because nobody else dares shift a Snorlax. You liberate mount moon. You defeat a TM Thief. You lay the groundwork for Bill’s Pokemon transfer system. The whole game is about you, alone, having the power to achieve your dreams and help others, against all odds. All you need is willpower, self-belief, determination; and a little help from your friends. Only then will you find success; becoming seasoned, and comfortable. Having achieved your goal to be the very best, you pass on your beloved Pokemon - to the pal park - for the next generation to enjoy. Or, frolick about sight seeing on Alolan beaches.

[@ididzelda]

Oak did raise a family of his own. He has a grandson and he's been your rival since you were a baby. Erm, what is his name again?

[@ericlaw1993]

@@ididzelda I don't think he meant oak, I think he meant Mr. Fuji

[@jaydenpopa3188]

This made me cry

[@hershlingounden7464]

A 10 year old...

[@ahhh1336]

ididzelda oh wow you worded it so well, i didnt even think about that but thats such a huge factor!

[@grapes4832]

As a person who played pokemon when I was really young, the higher difficulty really makes the games more memorable....

[@liamlalonde3347]

I know Gen 4 is considered super slow, but besides the fact that I love what it introduced and the designs of the Pokémon, my biggest reason for making it my favourite generation is because It's based on Hokkaido, Japan. It's the Japanese equivalent to Canada. It's foreign (relative to me, in Canada) but familiar (since it's so similar IRL to where I live, in Canada). Whenever I play through the game again, I always have images of Hokkaido in my mind, and all the great things that part of the country has. Applying those thoughts to the Pokémon equivalent makes the region feel so much better.

[@NicolasDominique]

Just typing the generations I played: Gen 1: Utterly broken moves - my Slash Sandslash was beast. Gen 2: Lack of diversity of pokemon - basically it was catching the same squad over and over. Gen 3: Two the same bland bad guys - "I will land/water you!" and "Oh no, what have I done. Fix pls ;-;" I still like the Hoenn most. Gen 4: They made it so slow, that even running is like crossing snowdrifts. Gen 5: THE PATH IS CLOSED. But at least they "tried" to make it look legit (better than being blocked by few Psyducks with headache; potion won't help, find aspirin, pls)

[@eldiablo7818]

Nicolas Dominique Gotta agree

[@LuckyDayz]

Nicolas Dominique Pysducks are know for getting headaches so it a weird kind of block.

[@Quils9]

If I recall correctly, in B2W2 there was a route blocked by a bunch of random dudes and when you speak to them they just say something like "we are here dancing for no reason and one day we'll disappear for no reason", but to be fair that was hilarious.

[@wesleywinklaar]

Quils I have no problem with it when it’s amusing. Also especially when you remember it’s set in the US. I can see those people doing something like that.

[@captaintheiten4528]

Nicolas Dominique want my X? I don’t want it

[@MiniBagel]

By the time I reached level 50 with all my Pokémon in Alola I was fighting level 35 wild Pokémon

[@Axeloy]

Exp share change was the worst change ever

[@josephrunyon8081]

Kalos, I had level 100’s by the third gym from the Battle Chateau

[@RobotGuy405]

@@josephrunyon8081 You were obviously playing that for tens of hours then

[@josephrunyon8081]

Ethan Swartz Meh, if you fought the kimono girls they all had audino. Those were easy xp if your used the writs correctly

[@harveyrichard3663]

I kept running into the level limit in my first run, and so when I’d try to do the next trial some of my Pokémon wouldn’t always listen and it was o o f

[@1creeperbomb]

"gen 4 is slow" *Laughs in wall hacks*

[@leorodgz2050]

Guess what? if you combined the troubles of the 5 first generations you obtain the 8th generation 😂

[@jamesdudeck231]

Not gonna lie the two features that will massively improve any future Pokémon game that game freak needs to add are a difficulty setting so you can make the game harder or easier, and I’m not talking about just having things be higher lv, I mean that the A.I. Gets smarter and more strategic battle types like double battles become more common and you have to actually put a good team together to beat the game. And the second feature is to be able to skip all tutorials. Would save so much time and pain.

[@rambofan334]

Double barrels?

[@arieFrenzyKill]

ha! they're probably going to give the a.i 99 full restore

[@iEmoz98]

True. Would like to see a Pokemon game that requires different team setup for different oponents like most mobile Gacha games out there. These Pokemon games can be beaten all the way with the same Pokemon's you use to defeat the first gym.

[@hiimacrazyguy]

James Dudeck True! It would be cool if easy difficulty was like gen 6 and very hard difficulty was like "You need an iv'ed/ev'ed balanced team of 6 to even get a chance"

[@franciscocataldo9238]

Play the ultra sunMoon hacks Supernova and Penumbra, the challenge is very nice

[@thebiggoohuna7604]

So are we all going to ignore the fact that in gen 7 Rotom gives you information you already know or you've told by him or others a million times, and he doesn't stop, you never ask him no he just does it when he decides he wants to which is like every couple of minutes.

[@MrLP3xp3rt]

This Pokemon is So annoying

[@tribii1]

That's my second least favorite thing about that damn. No one, not even your PokéDex, will LEAVE YOU ALONE.

[@michaeljara8552]

And Rotom even acknowledges it. It says something along the lines of "Now it's time for me to give you information you never asked for! Did you know you can use Pokeballs to catch Pokemon?!" Wow no way. Thanks Rotom! Now can I please access my map???

[@kierenbuckley370]

Gen 7 is the worst in every way hate those games

[@lantalis997]

You actually paid attention to it? I always ignored it.

[@Dunkdastar]

Bro, this vid is amazing. Your great keep it my dude

[@LinkDemonwing]

two years later... galar: you need to pay to see the worst part of galar

[@Conorator]

Extremely biased, the DLC is objectively better than a lot of the base game

[@EvilCheeseMoon]

SS and HH will always be my favorite games for the sheer amount of content in those games also the music is amazing.

[@IFalled]

I feel like HgSs has the problem of keeping all the actual design issues of Gen 2, while only barely fixing the moveset issues.

[@masoudshairzadeh6820]

Ty it’s better than platinum

[@blazing910]

Hg ss are my favorites for way too many reasons

[@fellipedias1902]

Hh?

[@SageSea1]

Good games, but i prefer platinum

[@sweetmemes7977]

I agree with what you said with gen 7. I think they focused too much on the tropical, tourist land that they ended up trashing the free roaming for a lot of things. However I will say that I did enjoy the hidden areas that there were such as most of vast poni canyon.

[@niknaython1979]

Pokemon literally peaked at Gen 5. Then it took a nosedive in Gen 6, tried to get back up and clean itself off in Gen 7, and now its trying to pretend that it never fell in the first place (despite the glaring cuts and bruises) in Gen 8.

[@katsisvi8097]

Gen 6 had an amazing story, fresh graphics, great map, and cool new pokemon. I think it was a fantastic generation, it was just waaaaay toooooo eaaaaaasy.

[@squirtleislife1312]

@@katsisvi8097 I'll give you the graphics and the map. The pokemon designs are something subjective, but the new amount of pokemon is pretty underwhelming. The story is weak, not as bad as gen 8, but the villain team reaches team aqua and magma levels of stupidity

[@NamNam-yd8hc]

nothing in gen 5 screams peak pokemon game. the game's linear most of the characters of boring, and the overworld sprites were not good like at all the battle sprites make up for that. But the "peak" pokemon shouldnt have these issues

[@katsisvi8097]

Young SootSoot I whole heartedly disagree. Gen 5 felt like Pokémon, just as all the prior gens did. It was just organized differently. It was challenging, perhaps one of the hardest games, it had well designed, original pokemon, it had a fantastic storyline, the map was beautiful despite only being half unlocked, and it was a very enjoyable, well paced journey. Even if it wasn’t the peak, it was up there in the golden age of Pokémon.

[@NamNam-yd8hc]

@@katsisvi8097 well there were a couple of of had fights like lenora and elisa but not enough to really stand out like usum or emerald. I'd wouldnt say any pokemon games has all around bad designs. You can tell a lotta time goes into making one singular pokemon but each gen has its stinkers too. Such as beartic being bear with ice beard or stonejourner just being stonehedge. The storyline had only a couple of interesting characters like N or Cheren but a lotta things felt off. Like binaca's dad changing his entire outlook on letting his daughter go out on a pokemon adventure because elisa said so? i would be fine if he took a little bit of caution but he took a complete 180. I thought the question of is collecting and fighting pokemon ethical or not interesting. But it was not as grey as people made it out to be. The only good people who believed pokemon battles werent ethical were like couple plamsa grunts and N. I wouldnt say the map was beautiful but i definitely wouldn't call it ugly. I agree the pacing was different then most pokemon games but from my obviously limited knowledge on BW2 i can only tell you with half certainty that the pacing went back your normal mons game.

[@casuallavaring]

Gen I - Glitches everywhere Gen II - that damn INTERNAL BATTERY Gen III - pokémon spread out across the games, some are REALLY hard to get like event pokémon Gen IV - Slow Pacing, barebones regional pokédex (D/P) Gen V - Linearity Gen VI - Lack of postgame content Gen VII - same as Gen VI Gen VIII - They really cut corners on this one

[@DamyonsMusicHut]

I think I can speak for a lot of people when I say that Game Freak is severely underestimating their audience. To me, Pokemon is a lot like the best seasons of SpongeBob, or the Simpsons, as in that it's something enjoyable for both children and adults alike. This is true for quite a lot of these older franchises, and Pokemon isn't an exception. Me and my father still play the Mario series despite both of us aging with it, and I'll likely be playing Mario games until the day I pass. And yet Mario games of today are still of a similar difficulty to the games of Nintendo's past, the only real difference being that they're more streamlined and fair now. So, why should Pokemon be an exception? I think Game Freak is worried about challenging people, that it might scare them off, and yet they're forgetting that the challenge is a part of what makes Pokemon so fun to begin with.

[@FreezingTheMind]

You're comment is spot on. I feel like Gamefreak actually thinks Pokemon is becoming less desired and kids don't want to play it as often when meanwhile, Pokemon is just as you said, one of the most revolutionary series and still is. It's fanbase is still gigantic. I hope that Gen 6 and 7 taught them that people really want them to go back to a normal game experience like Gen's 1-5.

[@azharp9391]

I agree. I watched a video on KZbin (his channel name is TheActMan) that goes something along the lines of "what makes a video game fun?" or something. Well, to get to the point, his main reason of why games are fun are because of the challenge. No challange = no fun, and challenging = fun

[@midasra1132]

Yes because let's go eevee /pikachu was way too easy and wasn't a challenge

[@GayLoveKicksAss]

Yes! Your comment is spot on! 👏👏👏

[@Slit-throat]

Idk man odyssey is a cake walk compared to mario 64..

[@brambleberryproductions1235]

Oh look someone actually pointing out a genuine flaw with Gen V instead of just bashing on the Vanilite and Trubbish lines. Neat. Gen V was my first, and so is my favorite, but even I admit that game has some issues. Thanks for seeing something differently. It was refreshing.

[@benjaminpeterson455]

Am I the only one who actually LIKES the Vanilite line?

[@quorryraphael9980]

@@benjaminpeterson455 nope I've seen several people that like it, and I personally don't have a problem with any of the designs. Gen 5 is my fav

[@indynile]

Vanillite and Trubbish aren't even bad Pokemon like Garbador is pretty good tbh

[@hayden-tz6gd]

Scarlett Acid same, I grew up with gen5

[@johndeobulatao8628]

Ethereal Scorpio he was a good poison type

[@east2westfan]

I see 0 lies in this video and I don't see how you don't have more subs, definitely liking the channel so far. You just earned a new sub my guy

[@allikitos]

I grew up with generation 1,2 and 3. I'll never forget the eerie soundtrack when battling Dragon Trainer Lance the champion and the first random legendary beast encounter in the grass.

[@ArcticSounds]

Gen V is by far my favorite, I have like 300 hours in White 2. I appreciate you didn’t go after the Pokémon design like a lot of people do. I agree about the linearity too

[@thanosgaming7153]

Jacen dude same, and like, sure they arent the best designs but look at magneton, Grimer literally just grows bigger. A lot of Pokémon aren’t designed the best, that doesn’t make the whole region bad, but imo in gen 5 I loved the story I just wished it was a little more focused on the other characters, maybe not like sun/moon but give them a couple moments in the sunshine.

[@kernium]

We got animated sprites no ? That's why I love sprites in Gen 5.

[@pirahna0145]

i just loaded up white and it said i have 420 hours......

[@srrossiter1947]

@@pirahna0145 nice

[@nameman9997]

Also, due to a bug in gen 1, physic was actually IMMUNE to ghost

[@OmPrakash-pc1ec]

What?

[@nameman9997]

Bhartiya Gaming Party it was a glitch, physic was supposed to be weak to ghost and gen 2 onward it is

[@superslobro]

@@nameman9997 when I read bug I thought of the type and got really confused. I read it as something like: "Also, due to it being a bug in gen 1, psychic was actually immune to ghost"

[@nameman9997]

SuperSloBro yeah. In gen 1 physic was weak to bug but immune to ghost

[@horstgunther9521]

Name Man bro u mean „psychic“ which is basically the exact opposite to „physic“ :D

[@monkeyman4455]

“Hey kid, want a free poke finder you’ll never use?”

[@henryknippling2408]

Things like the black tower and the pwt are reasons why I love the the gem 5 sequels that and the sheer amount of legendaries that you could catch. It’s insane like if you had already bought the first gem 5 game and then bought its sequel you could have all the the gem 5 legendaries minus the mythical if you weren’t lucky. The Regis trio and regigigas, cresselia, heatran, the lake trio, Latios and latias, oh and they literally just give you a goblet for beating black tower. What’s that want to battle lance, Cynthia, red, and Steven sure thing go right ahead!

[@TheJaystar101]

In a nutshell without watching video: Any long cave with lots of zubat.....

[@NokoFace]

Repels exist for a reason tho.

[@BlueTheSquid]

@NokoFace Yes, until you realize that in the earlier gens, a lot of Pokémon would *still* attack you, regardless of repels.

[@tastybritches6644]

@@BlueTheSquid only if they were a higher level than your first pokemon.

[@apopheniapareidolia]

@Video catcher that were retarded if someone did that.

[@MyViolador]

im here just to feel old

[@deleted9637]

MyViolador ur old

[@benevolencev7204]

MyViolador shut up you old man !

[@MyViolador]

finally

[@QuestionYourWorld]

I know that old feeling. Red/blue released when i was in second grade.

[@RetrocadePodcast]

Same. I was #1 in the world at the TCG nearly 20 years ago...old now. Tired zzz

[@militantpacifist4087]

We all know that the only problem with Hoenn is that it’s too much water and it has a score of 7.8/10 in tourism.

Well, for me gen 4's HMs make the experience pretty nice for exploration. You never know if you've already finished exploring places like Victory Road, Mt. Coronet or even Eterna Forest and the snow routes. Sure, mud was annoying as hell (especially in the Great Mash, who was the genious that put it there?) but the exploration and mystery feelings it gives rewards it completely. I like gen 6 as a catch'em all challenge. I feel XY with gen 7 Exp. Share and Mega Evolution being availiable until finishing the 7th Gym and maybe some tweaks to some trainers like giving them a 4th move and Lysandre having 6 Mega Evolutions because he made a machine or some thing like that would have made the whole generation one of the best ones. Lucario shouldn't have been a gift until maybe a postgame rematch with Korrina and the Kanto starter's Mega Stone could have been a reward after beating the professor in later game. Also, a small DLC to expand a bit on southern Kalos, give Zygarde a proper story, expand Dexio and Sina's roles, and bring us things like Safari Zone, Contests, and Secret Bases would have made XY probably the best of the 3DS era.

[@thewhatness]

To me, worse than Kalos' incredibly low difficulty, I think it's worst feature is its abysmally hollow emptiness. At a glance, it seems like a big region, but you can explore all of it and beat the game quicker than any other entry in the series. Not to mention, there are straight up segments of the game that hinted at areas that might be playable in a potential sequel that we never got, and it feels even more that the region was released before even being properly finished. And it suffers for it by feeling really shallow, in my opinion.

[@matadeverdoemden]

thewhatness Let's not forget the seriously underwhelming battle music that were mostly blocked by the excessively loud in-game sound effects! Overall, a very boring experience with very forgettable gym leaders and Elite Four members.

[@jonathangillooly9361]

That game deserved a sequel as much as gen 4. I mean any game that includes a legendary that goes with the main two but is seldom mentioned deserves its own game if not a good spot in the post game

[@KikiKagePro]

Yea, Kalos just felt very unfinished and the plot was just not interesting. Which is sad because you could make a thrilling story in regards to the pokemon that are basically the incarnates of life and death. I wish they did more with that generation. It deserved to be better than what it was.

[@Golemoid]

I bought a 3DS for XY. I sold both the console and the game before i even beat it. It was bad.

[@MasonOfLife]

There was a lot of soul to the game, but it lacked a lot of meat/content/stuffing. Keep the soul and include more in the guts (characters, things to do, enemy team, post game). I think Sun and Moon did that part well, (only too many text boxes)

[@backfloop]

4th gen was my favorite (dppt specifically), so I gotta say.. I was never bored with it and I felt like I always had something to do and some action going on. About the balancing, I agree but there's always been some moves that are much better than others and that's simply unavoidable. The lack of fire types I completely agree as I love fire Pokemon. Great vid man

[@evaleeconklin9226]

Dude I got the events and now have 12 pokemon to catch

[@elektrik_exekutioner6822]

Just started playing through Moon a couple of days ago. It really feels like you're trapped in a tutorial for eternity.

[@kristan2927]

The way he dragged Alola 😭☠️😭☠️

[@CameronDrums81]

I knew gen 7 wasnt for me when the whole time I was thinking "Jesus christ just let me get through the story so I can actually have fun with this."

[@thejman36]

I've played every other pokemon game and I'm playing gen 7 for the first time. Might be the only one I never end up finishing.

[@BL33NB]

@@thejman36 I tired several times, on sword its already hard but i just skipped them, i could never play them for more then some time...

[@EsotericSanity]

I actually quit playing the main games during Pokemon Sun. I believe I was close to the end, but I just wasn't having fun so i stopped playing it, never finished it or bought any of the games that followed :(

[@irradiated6126]

the cutscene after beating kukui in sun and moon was so painful it lasts forever and then it immediately throws you into a battle with tapu koko

[@thatonepersonnoonecaresabo3163]

Yeah. That whole segment felt painful. The Tapu-Koko(?) at the end was also a kick in the teeth for me. Like the devs wanted to say: "We couldn't fit this thing into tye main story or the postgame, so here you go I guess." It actually made me so mad that I didn't do the postgame and just gave the game to my sister.

[@Danzilla1996]

@@thatonepersonnoonecaresabo3163 Lol, I reacted pretty similarly. It pissed me off royally.

[@MarMarcy]

I didi admit it was long and since my game is little bit laggy and it took me forever to beat Kukui i was praying for the cutscene to be over. The one thing that kept me from ignoring it was the music

[@vikki4714]

I remembered that I was at someone’s house, I just beat Kukui(I was bad at Pokémon at the time and it took me a lot of trys so I Was very very happy) and then my ds was at the urge of dying, I couldn’t save cause the 10 minutes of credits. It died, curse the long cut scenes.

[@bennyd6284]

I liked gen 4's pace. Of course that's just me. It felt very large scale and i enjoyed taking my time with it.

[@crimsonmaelstrom573]

I enjoyed it too. Instead of being super fast paced and giving you zero time to explore, gen 4 let you play at your own pace and immerse yourself in everything that Sinnoh had to offer

[@starmovies5523]

The flaws are relative. Gen 4 is my favorite gen because of it’s “slow” routes and ways. It really feels like your on a proper route instead of walking 3 steps to aready be in the next town. Nice video!👍

[@crimsonmaelstrom573]

Yeah. The ability to explore an ACTUAL ROUTE was the best part of Gen 4. Sinnoh was easily the biggest region because of how large the routes were

[@TheDiamondSwordsmen]

Before Video: I can't even think of a single bad thing about gen 3! Gen 3 was the BEST no question! Amazing pokemon, new abilities, double battles, it's just perfect! After Video: ... Yeah, you right.

[@BogdanLubura]

Bullshit

[@DannOfSteel]

My only gripe with it is that it had almost no new fire types.

[@countengladx7156]

Gen 3 had the laziest designs overall imo

[@fenistereinc.5797]

@@countengladx7156 But was better than Sinnoh as a region

[@merc822]

There's so many event Pokemon and the clock system was nearly pointless

[@GraceBerlin1]

My favourite Pokémon games are from Gen 4. • one of the best starters trio ever (like, all three are so good for a play-through and have a cool design for each evolution) • over all, Gen 4 Pokèmon are so cool • yes, the game is utterly slow, but that never really bothered me 😅 • I love the story, especially in Platinum • the music 💕 • for me Sinnoh is one of the coolest regions in Pokèmon • Cynthia is just the best champ who ever existed 💁🏼‍♀️ • so many good memories, because it was my first Pokèmon game

[@hammer12482]

Gen 3 has best starter trio. Emerald has best post game

[@roo177]

Gen 4 and gen 3 are my favourite starter trios

[@ryanhansen9779]

Cynthia is SUCH A BOSS! WE LOVE HER TEAM!

[@CarnageAnarchist]

Ryan Hansen Steven,Red,Blue are far better

[@PancakemonsterFO4]

Grace Berlin I never saw the game being slow as a problem, it’s still better then getting forced into a cutscene everytime you progress in the game. And team galactic is still one of my favorite antagonist teams not to forget that the legendary designs are awesome

[@Mr._Sherwood]

I feel like the Physical-Special split hurt as much as it helped. Back in Gen 2, Typhlosion was a monster, with its ridiculous Special Attack paving the way for basically 99% of its moveset. Since gen 4, a fair few of its moves, like the elusive Thunderpunch (which of course you can't buy anymore) or Flame Wheel go off of its Attack, which while still respectable isn't quite as good as it's insane Special Attack. Same goes for Ampharos but double, as it gets Thunderpunch too but it's nowhere near as good physically as it is specially. The split helped in many regards, don't get me wrong: for one thing it let special sweepers the world over dominate with Hyper Beams galore, but replaying HeartGold, the first main game I played, shows that time hasn't been the kindest to some of my old faves. Also, Gen 4's level spikes just annoys me; who decided it was a good idea to have a level gap of like 15 between the first Elite 4 member and the Champion?

[@Chtsht23]

Whoa. The intro threw me for a loop. I stumbled across an old one here.

[@gard9151]

Gen 7 would have been better off as a visual novel

[@m.m.2341]

A visual novel needs a good story. Gen 7 has many cutscenes with no actual interesting dialogue. That's the real problem.

[@solstice003]

M. M. Gen 7 is a good story though, that's why there were cutscenes to improve upon its story. Most hardcore players don't care about that though

[@m.m.2341]

@@solstice003 No the story is terrible.

[@solstice003]

M. M. Maybe you just wanted to get through it as fast as possible. If you say that, then I doubt you pay attention to any story in the game

[@jonathanhadiprasetyanto521]

@@m.m.2341 the actual story is decent

[@Megumidah]

Gen 5 will forever be my favourite But I totally agree with the map problem

[@cartooncentral263]

Megu-dah gen 5 was horrible.

[@Henvag]

Comedy 3000 I disagree

[@unaware5002]

@Winston nah man gen 5 is thee best

[@reliq1931]

@Rockin' Roll Didnt like X and Y in terms of Pokemon design, me and my brother were kinda sad seeing swords and keys as pokemon....

[@michellebarrett6849]

@Rockin' Roll so a set of keys, a ball, the same ball but upside down, a pile of slime and etc are better?

[@totallyanonymousbish9599]

My God I could play Platinum over and over again❤️

[@Igor-gw4io]

Same lol