How would you rank the different eras of the Pokemon franchise?

Genwar thread

splitting them by director is the simplest solution
so 1-2, 3-6, and 7+

>bw not in classic
Hi Yawnie

>>57962233
How would BW be in classic when it's a self-admitted reboot of the series and its conventions?
Not to mention the amount of things it has more in common with the 3DS games than any of the prior ones.

stop making these dogshit threads

>>57962248
Do you think only one person is making genwar? How small do you think this board is?
Open your small brain RETARD

>>57962233
>[game that isn't classic] not in classic
why am I supposed to hate yawnchad again?

>>57962218 (OP)
>you've lived long enough to see the games that boomers swore ruined the series be grouped up as part of the golden era
Crazy, I wonder if in 20 years Pokemon will have degraded enough that even Sword and Shield will be considered part of the good old days.

>>57962262
Then why are ADV in classic?

>>57962218 (OP)
>How would you rank the different eras of the Pokemon franchise?

>oldgen
Gen III > Gen IV > Gen I > Gen II

>

>nugen
Gen VI > Gen V > Gen IX > Gen VIII > Gen VII

>>57962662
because Classic Pokemon means first 4 gens while Vintage/Retro Pokemon is the first duology

this is how the majority of the fanbase thinks of it

>>57962761
Gen5 isn’t nugen buddy

>>57962767

>>57962789
>plass
lmfaoooo bw2 mogs that dogshit so hard

>>57962233
Kinda hard to not notice the clear line in the sand between Gen IV and Gen V.
The first four gens very rarely cut stuff out when going from one game to the next, all the mechanics were iterative.
Then you get to Black and White and there's no berry farming, no fishing, no contests, no Battle Frontier, traversal HMs got a huge cut, no following Pokemon, barely any touch screen features and it' the first time a large portion of the game is dedicated to a one-off gimmick (Entralink and the Dream World), narratively the games are also scaled back compared to Diamond and Pearl, while the first four generations were a continuous raising of the stakes.
It's hard not to look at HeartGold and SoulSilver as the ultimate culmination of everything they had been building up since Red and Blue, while Black and White is very much going for its own thing separate from that initial run of games.

>>57962218 (OP)
1-2
3-5
6-7
8-9

>>57962218 (OP)
1-2
3-4
5-7
8-9

>>57962218 (OP)
1-2
3
4-5
6-7
8-9+plass

>>57962800
parroting is an admission of defeat

>>57962795
>It's hard not to look at *Platinum as the ultimate culmination of everything they had been building up since Red and Blue

>>57962800
this is the frame

>>57962218 (OP)
The only way to properly split the franchise is by system.
Gen 1 and 2 are a pair
Gen 3 is on its own
Gen 4 and 5 are a pair
Gen 6 and 7 are a pair
Gen 8 and 9 are a pair

>>57962218 (OP)

>>57962810
Gen 4 was not released on the DSI.

>>57962808
Nah HeartGold definitely made a lot of improvements over Platinum.
Portable berry farming is an obvious one and then on top of that it brings back basically every single mini game they've ever had in a Pokemon game and even Pokemon following you from Yellow.
It's the ultimate classic Pokemon experience, no stone's left unturned (except maybe uh... the Sinnoh mining game I guess? Did people like that thing?)

>>57962820
>Nah HeartGold definitely made a lot of improvements over Platinum.
Yeah, such as...........................................................................
>It's the ultimate classic Pokemon experience
its the same shit as the games they're based on (if not worse in many aspects), which are the worst of the classic series

>>57962817
the DSi is an iterative upgrade, not a new console. The Game Boy Color is also mostly an upgrade rather than a new system.

>>57962829
>literally cannot use the cartridge feature Gen 4 was built on
doesn't sound iterative nor like an upgrade to me, bub

>>57962828
>Yeah, such as
faster and more efficient engine
auto running
better bag UI
following pokemon
better breeding QoL

>>57962828
Well on top of the things I already mentioned HGSS also has Gym leader rematches with unique story events and in-game trades tied to them when you beat them.
I really don't see how anyone can argue they aren't the most feature complete Pokemon games, anything you could possibly ask from the first four gens is included in HGSS.

>>57962218 (OP)
Game Boy Era > 3DS Era > Switch Era >>>>>>> DS Era
I honestly can't believe how lazy they got with the DS games, they're all just clones of gen 3 with no innovation or even technical improvement. Even the graphics are worse somehow.

>>57962839
Terrible b8

>>57962831
Sure, what about the rest of the game?

>>57962810
3 and 4 are the obvious pairing. 5 is obviously on it's own

>>57962800
>>57962929
based and truthpilled

>>57962218 (OP)
1-3 old
4-5 middle
6 and onwards is nugen

Wouldn't rank them because I don't really care. KANTOOOOO is gay, though.

>>57962932
>6 and onwards is nugen
5*

if we're going by three groups
>gens 1-5
games with creative passion and effort
>gens 6-7
games made just to forward the franchise
>gens 8-9
slop quota fillers

>>57962225
Thanks captain obvious

>he's samefagging now to try and convince people gen 5 belongs

>>57962218 (OP)
Classic era (gens 1-2)
Golden era (gens 3-4)
Last hurrah (gen 5)
Start of the downfall (gens 6-7)
Modern slop era (gens 8-9)

>>57962243
>How would BW be in classic when it's a self-admitted reboot of the series and its conventions?
So was Ruby and Sapphire which you didn't bother to do your research for. Either you're Yawnie or underage, I'll let you call it.

>Post-Modern Pokemon
Funny expression

>>57962218 (OP)
>Classic Era
Gen 1
Gen 2
>Golden Era
Gen 3
Gen 4
Gen 5
>Modern Era
Gen 6
Gen 7
>Dogshit Era
Gen 8
Gen 9

This is the objective list. Anyone who disagrees is a faggot.

>>57962795
>Then you get to Black and White and there's no berry farming
Stopped reading there, get better bait.

>>57962766
How can they be classic if they're on the Game Boy ADVANCE?

>classic
First, it's called Pokemania. Second, it only includes gens 1 and 2. Gens 3-5 are what are widely considered to be the golden era of the series. idgaf about XY onward.

>>57962820
>except maybe uh... the Sinnoh mining game I guess? Did people like that thing?
I mostly agree with the sentiment that HGSS feels like the natural culmination of all the prior games, however I do think not having secret bases was a huge blunder.
They were a big part of Gen 3 and 4 and it's technically a feature that started its life in Gen 2 with the room decorations.
Not saying the game's like awful because of their absence, but it is one aspect in which it feels like the game's lacking compared to Platinum.

>>57962795
You're the only nigga I ever see complaining about the lack of Berry farming, planting fruits isn't as exciting as you think it is

>>57963794
Removing berry farming isn't really THAT big a deal on its face, it's just a symptom of the ripple effect created by the actual problem of removing contests from the game.
No one was farming berries to recover 30 HP mid battle, it was about the contest stat raising.

>>57963805
And no one played Contest either, I bet you haven't at all and are just pretending you did to make it sound like such a huge deal.

>>57963644
>s-stop pointing out gen 5 cut features for no reason it’s hurting my made up narrative

>>57963837

>>57963843
Maybe if you don't mention a feature nobody used in the prior generations, then I'll take your bait.

>low quality game I need to shill removed a feature out of sheer laziness?
>um…uh…nobody used it!!!
This cope is getting old.

>>57963859
I don't know Yawnie, Gen 5 is perfectly playable without having to farm berries.

>>57963837
i remember back in the day when contests were THE pointless feature nobody bothered with. now suddenly they're a vital part of the experience.
contests have always sucked. nobody cares about them. and i know nobody cares about them because the gen 3 game everyone always says is the best, Emerald, shoves them to a lategame town in favor of battle tents.

>>57963862
“i-it’s playable!! so that means it’s a classic game!!”
lmao

>>57963863
Contests are a mostly post-game activity since that's really the only time you'll have access to berries that can improve your Pokemon adequately, so it doesn't really matter how late they unlock.
Regardless of how you feel about them, I don't see why less extracurricular activities in a game would ever be a bad thing, especially since they don't really interact with the rest of the game at all outside of Feebas.

>>57962218 (OP)
Gen I and II cannot possibly be in the same era as their remakes

>>57963863
There was never really a reason to play contests unless you were a ribbonfag. Besides, it's just a schizo claiming anything that was cut from Gen 5 makes the game "le Sonic 06 tier bad", regardless of how minuscule the thing that was cut mattered.Not that Gen 5 is perfect; it's not. But planting fruits isn't a reason to bitch about Gen 5 existing.

>>57963880
>Besides, it's just a schizo claiming anything that was cut from Gen 5 makes the game "le Sonic 06 tier bad",
Nope. It just makes it not a classic game. Stop inventing strawmen just because you’re assblasted that people are correctly criticizing gen 5.

>>57963880
Gen 5 isn't a bad game for not having contests, it just makes it clear that it's a game with different priorities than Gens 1-4.
So it doesn't make sense to group it with those games.

>you need contests to be a classic
Gen I and II are modernslop confirmed
CAPTCHA: 4YANW

>>57963897
>I am physically incapable of engaging with what the posts are actually saying and meed to be as disingenuous as possible because it’s the only way I can make gen 5 look like it fits in

Maybe you should just samefag another zero-substance post claiming gen 5 is classic anon, it’s clearly the only thing you’re good at

>>57963837
The main reason I never did contests was because the literal and metaphorical berry grinding sucked, I always did all the entry levels

>>57963912
Why should I? It's not like you're giving valid reasons as to why Gen 5 isn't classic.

>>physically incapable of engaging
What the fuck does that even mean? You want me to literally jump towards words on the screen?

>>57963924
>It's not like you're giving valid reasons
they are though

>>57963929
>proceeds to prove the post's point
KEK

>57963944
No one agrees with you, yawnfag, you don't need to pretend when everyone knows you just samefag

>4chan
>thread mentions gen 5 in any way
>instant derailment
>reddit
>thread mentions gen 5 in any way
>all is fine

you're still only here why?

>>57963954
He likes to samefag and pretend other people agree with his dogshit opinions, can't do that if you have an username.

>>57963953
>now starts projecting instead of refuting the arguments
damn you've really gotten desperate huh?

>>57963954
4chan requires you to have actual arguments. On reddit you can just downvote all the posts that shit on the "gen 5 le good retro game" narrative and pretend they don't exist.

>>57963973
>On reddit you can just downvote all the posts that shit on the "gen 5 le good retro game" narrative and pretend they don't exist.
no wonder I prefer that site then lmao

>actual argument
>while its all just subjective opinions about how contests were good and everyone liked them
Keep samefagging.

>>57963873
>especially since they don't really interact with the rest of the game at all outside of Feebas
that's why they're bad. it's completely disconnected from the rest of the game.

>>57964007
Agreed, Pokestar Studios and Pokemon Musicals are some of the worst things this series has ever introduced

>>57964007
Yeah it's much better if you have to interact with a weird mini game in order to get basic advantages in battles like Hidden Abilities and friendship benefits :^)

>>57964021
this but unironically

>>57963996
>>while its all just subjective opinions about how contests were good
Again, you keep attacking strawmen instead of what was actually said.

I group them like so
>GB era
>GBA/DS era
>3DS era
>Switch era

I combine GBA and DS because gen 3 and 4 had really good interoperability

>>57963805
I always horded leppa berries personally, they're busted

>>57962233
Gen 5 will never be classic
Calling gen 4 classic is too generous too

>>57964064
You don't know what strawmen is.

>>57964153
leppa berries are the one berry that can't be replaced by an infinitely purchasable item
>oh but pokemon can hold berries
which is nice but you'd be better off with almost any other held item

>>57964287
Point out who in this thread was claiming Gen 5 is bad because it doesn’t have contests.

>>57964320
I use them out of battle, they're ethers. PP is the one resource in most games you typically have to go to a pokemon center for. I don't think there's a single game with purchasable ethers or elixirs.
I legitimately love sun and moon purely for the the berry growing island for this reason

>>57964338
You've been saying how gen 5 was bad because it didn't have berry farming unike the previous gens for months you faggot, but I know that you're just going to say "erm actually we were discussing about contests and not berry farming!" because otherwise you would be proven wrong. This is why no one likes to argue with you btw, you're disingenuous and act like a retard on purpose.

>>57964352
>PP is the one resource in most games you typically have to go to a pokemon center for. I don't think there's a single game with purchasable ethers or elixirs.
yeah that's what i just said. leppas are the one berry you'd actually want to farm.

>>57964483
Oh, I thought you were talking about them as held items, my bad
Some of the ev manip ones are helpful in certain situations too.
Honestly if it weren't for how annoying berries are to grow in a lot of the games, (especially gen 3 where my clock batteries need replacing), I'd use them way more

>>57962218 (OP)
First half of Masuda era > Tajiri era > Latter half of Masuda era > Actual physical shit in a sewage tank > Ohmori era

>>57964402
>muh boogieman
Point out who in this thread was claiming Gen 5 is bad because it doesn’t have contests.

Indians are paid to bump these threads

>>57962218 (OP)
4 > 5 > 3 > 2 > 1 >>>>>>>>> DOGSHIT >>>>>>>>>> 7 > 6 >>>>>>>>> 9 >>>>>> 8

The series went to shit with Gen 6.

>>57964822

>>57965002
>The series went to shit with Gen 6
5*

>>57964829
uh oh jannyjeet is gonna cry about this post

>>57965016
Point out which post I made in the thread says that.

>primary version is red
>the gen is good
>primary version is blue
>the gen is bad
It's that simple.

>>57965019
i can't imagine being this petty

>>57965069
>black is blue

>>57965126
Yes. Cope and seethe.

>>57962218 (OP)
Classic
>RBY
>GSC

Neo Classical
>RSE
>FRLG
>DPPT
>HGSS

The void (not classic, not nu)
>BW1/2

Nu/modern
>XY
>ORAS
>SM/USUM
>LGPE

Neo modern
>SWSH (+DLC)
>BDSP
>PLA
>SV (+DLC)
>PLZA

>>57965069
>black is blue
>when reshiram's overdrive mode involves it glowing red
Once again, Yawnie proves he doesn't play the games.
>>57965130
Zekrom glows blue. Oops.

>>57965130
What does BW2 have to do with BW?

>>57962218 (OP)
GameBoy era (Gen 1-3)
DS era (4-7)
Switch era (8-9, soon 10)

>>57965130
Black 2 is blue because you capture Zekrom, which is the opposite of Black 1 (N's dragon).

>>57962262
>yawnie still being the local lolcow
THREE BULLETS

>>57962218 (OP)
If only two categories, then either 1-4 and 5+ or 1-6/7 (without LGPE) and 7/LGPE+

If 3 categories, then definitely 1-4, 5-7 (no LGPE) and LGPE+

>>57962761
>gen 7 hater
based as fuck, the only gen more overrated than gen 1 and 5 is gen 7

>>57962810
>>57962829
Since you cannot play Crystal on the GB, only on the GBC+, it counts as a proper new system

Meanwhile intl. Yellow, Gold and Silver were "Super Gameboy" games, i.e. regular Game Boy games, but with additional features if played on newer hardware (GBC+, SNES + cartridge Adapter).

The "DSi games" fall into the same category: Generally they are just NDS games, but have additional features if played on an NDSi or 3DS, and thus are not their own category.

RGBYGS: Game Boy
Crystal: GBC
RSEFRLG: GBA
DPPtHGSSBWB2W2: NDS
XYORASSMUSUM: 3DS
LGPESSLASV: Switch

Following that logic, a split by system would be weird, as you would end up with the following:

Gen 1 + GS
Just Crystal
Gen 3
Gen 4/5
Gen 6/7 (sans LGPE)
LGPE + Gen 8/9

While the last 3 categories more or less fit, it doesnt really fit for the first 3 categories.

>>57962218 (OP)
Golden Era (Gen 4 and Gen 5) > the rest

>>57962932
typical off by 1 error.
1-2 old
3-4 medium
5-6 new
7+ trash

>>57962218 (OP)
By getting it right first.

>classic
Gens 1-2
>golden
Gens 3-5
>silver
6-7
>modern
8+

>>57965357
I also forgot to add that's not what post-modern means, dumbass.

>>57962218 (OP)
Gen 7 goes in post-modern
First woke LGBT nig pandering game

>>57965352
>yet another off by 1 error
gen 3/4 is the golden era
gen 1/2 is the oldfag era
gen 5/6/Alola is the start of the downfall
LGPE+ is the slop era

>>57965362
gen 5 already had nigs in it

>>57962218 (OP)
The Eras Are:
>Gens 1-2
>Gen 3-4
>Gen 5-6
>Gen 7-8
>Gen 9-10
They're always a pair.

>Captcha: SDDDY

Boomer Era
1-3
Golden Era
4-6
Trash Era
7-9
This can't be debated.
>b-but gen 6 bad!!
Peak of online.

>>57965367
Gen 7 gave us a nig professor, a nig champion, multiple nig gym leaders, a nig rival, a nig professor oak, etc. Gen 5 only had nig hoopsters.

>>57965368
based and truthpilled

>>57962233
idk who that is, I showed up from the front page but if you were over the age of 12 when BW released you'd know that it and HG SS were the "new generation" of pokemon games. Crystal, then Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald were that as well, but they were still close to the classic games

>>57965365
nah gen 3 tards will never be part of the golden ds era, they can dream though

>classic
Gens 1-2
>golden
Gens 3-4
>silver
5-7
>modern
8+

>>57965365
3 and 5 both hard mog gen 4
3 has amazing exploration and gameplay but worse story
5 has amazing story and gameplay but worse exploration
4 has worse exploration, worse story and worse gameplay

>classic
Snap and Rumble
>Modern
Gens 1-7
>oldgens
8 and 9
>GOAT
Rangers

>>57965387
>>>idk who that is!
>ad hominem
Ok yawnie

>>57965432
>GOAT
>Rangers
Holy based

>Gen 5
>The same as everything after it
It plays exactly the fuck like Gen 4, the fuck are you on about? There's more different about Gen 1+2 to 3 than there is between 4 and 5. Conversely, there hasn't been a major fundamental mechanical change since Gen 6 introduced fairy and basically completely changed the type chart (and to a different extent gave each type an identity beyond just what damage they do/take, Ghost, Grass, and finally fixing Electric type's thing it had going on and in Gen 7 Dark type come to mind). Yeah there's a lot more balance changes, they're more willing to change stats and abilities completely instead of just changing a movepool, but on the other hand that design philosophy change just puts Gen 5 in the same camp as Gen 4 and arguably 3 again where they just didn't fucking do anything but change moves and add abilities rather than just replacing them.

>>57965463
This.
5 plays very similarly to 4, and 7 very similarly to 6

>>57965486
To phrase it slightly differently, Pokemon Champions could essentially have come out when Gen 6 launched and there would be extremely minor differences like what stats/abilities some Pokemon had or Dark type being immune to Prakster which are really just a minor balance patch at the end of the day. If it came out during Gen 5 they'd have to rework a lot to add Fairy, but if it came out during Gen 4 the only thing they'd have to add when moving to Gen 5 is what an extra bit (not even a byte, just a bit) to make sure that the data for hidden abilities work. Now there's a lot of evolution for how Pokemon games worked up to Gen 4, every generation basically played entirely differently due to some fundamental system changes. You could argue Gen 4 is the end point, but between the aforementioned changes to the type chart and extensive additions to what types can do regardless of said chart (again, bringing up the Dark type, it's kind of odd they didn't do that in Gen 6 but I suppose GF just didn't realize how good Prankster was) Gen 6 is really the last time a major change was made. The most interesting way to illustrate this point is the Sword proto we have lying around just used the Mega button for bigmaxing which if we're being honest every gimmick since then is just the same type of button but it just happens to do a different thing. It's like if Gen 0 didn't have the fucking bag or whatever but Gen 1 added it, the new items are new but the concept of items itself isn't.

>>57965423
Nuclear truth

>>57965463
>It plays exactly the fuck like Gen 4
how do I do contests?
how do I farm berries?
how do I create secret bases?

>B-BUH FAIRY
by this dumbfuck logic Gen 1 and 2 also need to be split up.

>>57965572
Dream World
>inb4 alolabort yawn wannabe admits he wasn't alive back then
Why do you care so much about games that released decades before your mother forgot to swallow?

>>57965580
>b-b-buh the dead flash game
only has berry farming and it would have existed in the actual game if they actually bothered to properly iterate on gen 4

Golden age
>Gen I and II
Silver age
>Gen III and IV
Classic
>Gen I/II/III/IV
Overhead chibi
>Gen I/II/III/IV/V
End of the Beginning, Beginning of the End
>Gen V
Middle years
>Gen V and VI
Game Boy (inclusive)
>Gen I/II/III
DS
>Gen IV and V
3DS
>Gen VI and VII
Switch
>LGPE, Gen VIII, and IX
Dark years
>Gen VII and SwSh

don't forget gen 5 also cut pokeradar, old rod, good rod, and ribbons being attainable in-game while gen 6 brought them back

gen 6 feels more like a sensible continuation of gen 4 than gen 5 does desu

Gen 5 just doesn't feel like Pokemon.

>>57965463
From a design standpoint, Unova is closer to Kalos than it is to what came before it. Look at the design philosophy that's tied to HMs and world traversal. You're only ever required to learn Cut to use one time in BW because it's meant to act as a tutorial for teaching moves while all content behind other HMs is completely optional. Previous games would require you to use HMs on even regular routes and have optional sections everywhere in addition to that. Maybe you take the bike shortcuts on Route 212 to avoid the swamp, maybe you use Cut, maybe you never take Route 212 and you go the long way around.

>>57965600
Pokemon has been dogshit for longer than it's been good.

>>57962761
>hoennfag
>is retarded

>>57965639
I remember watching Somecallmejohnny's first Pokemon video way back in the day where he said something like
>for the record we're on generation 5 now, god I feel old
and I can only imagine what that must feel like now.

>>57965588
DW also had secret bases

>>57965600
Agreed, it feels like an actual good game

It feels like.. a browser flash game.

>>57965388
hoennfags always try to lump gen 3 in with whatever seems most popular at the time. sometimes that's the gameboy gens, sometimes it's the ds gens, and sometimes it's some weird schizophrenia involving prime numbers.
the truth is that gen 3 doesn't do anything exceptionally well, so their only recourse is to find a scapegoat region they can deflect to. see the bitching about sinnoh's HMs or lack of fire types, for example.

>>57965706
>the truth is that gen 3 doesn't do anything exceptionally well,
5*

>>57965706
Exploration
>>57965713
Story
no "munna kick" or "too much water" ever will make this untrue.

>>57965706
Hoenn is straight up the best designed region.
Sinnoh doesn't even let you take two steps without running into a full heal settlement, it feels weirdly small because of this.

>>57965745
i disagree, i like how "small" sinnoh feels. all the routes being connected makes it really easy to traverse. if I'm in Pastoria and I want to go to Oreburgh or even Jubilife, I don't feel like I have to fly.
the first half of Hoenn does eventually open up, but the detour to Dewford segments the early game way too rigidly.

>>57965754
I kinda like that though, thanks to Dewford and Slateport afterwards you really feel like you're covering a lot of ground, then eventually you get to Mauville and Verdanturf and it's like
>holy shit I did all that to get around these rocks in the tunnel
The scale of the region is very well emphasized - it also helps that thanks to the Berry Master's house you're not really being asked to go back and forth as much in an average Hoenn playthrough, while in Sinnoh I'm just constantly running back and forth checking on honey trees and different berry spots, the whole thing ends up feeling like a big neighborhood rather than a real region to me.

>>57965768
a matter of personal preference, it would seem

>>57965722
>Story
*kicks munna*

>>57965768
>also helps that thanks to the Berry Master's house you're not really being asked to go back and forth as much in an average Hoenn playthrough
What am I missing here, because returning to the Berry Master’s house in Hoenn requires flying back to a town, fast traveling, running through grass, and surfing lol. It’s obnoxious

>>57965805
>Hoenn requires flying back to a town, fast traveling
didn’t mean both

>>57962218 (OP)
there are many alternative divisions which include the same gens:
>Pokémania
Gen 1
>Classic
Gen 1 and 2
>Pre-Split
Gens 1 2 and 3
>Japan era
Gens 1 2 3 and 4
>Pre-3D Models
Gens 1 2 3 4 and 5
>Pre-Dexcut
Gens 1 2 3 4 5 6 and 7

Personally I always divide it as the Golden Age (Gens 1 and 2), Silver Age (3 4 and 5), Pre-Dexcut 3D (6 and 7) and Post-Dexcut 3D (8 and 9)

Just started a new BW save and I named my rivals as Yawnfag and Yawnfag's Mom so that I can beat them over and over again.

Just started a new bw save and can’t find the berry farms

>>57965805
Hoenn lets you just stick to one spot for those grindy overworld activities while Sinnoh has you doing laps around the map to check your berry spots and honey trees.
Mechanically it could be argued which one is better but I think Hoenn does a better job of making sure you don't familiarize yourself too much with how close together everything is, like I said here >>57965768 Sinnoh ends up feeling more like a neighborhood than a region for me as a result of this.

This doo thinks he can name his rivals in BW lol

>>57966011
You can't name your rivals in BW.
>>57966020
Entralinked

>>57962233
>I need to talk about the man who fucks my mom in every thread.
kys cringe faggot

>>57962218 (OP)
>the classic/Pokemania/Golden era
Gen I
>the silver era
Gen II
>the peak era
Gen III
Gen IV
>the cancer shit faggot era for subhumans
Gen V
>the Meh era
Gen VI
Gen VII
>the directionless era
Gen VIII
Gen IX

>57966054
>57966042
Hi Yawnie

>57966042
U first yawncucc

>>57962218 (OP)
>>57962766
>>57965137
>>57965372
>>57965368
This is the most natural way to group the games, since there's an actual solid reason here as to why certain games feel more similar to certain games than others. And it also prevents people from reclassifying eras. A problem with "Classic Pokemon" is that more Pokemon games become "classic" as times goes on.

>>57962218 (OP)
If Gen 5 is modern, then so is Gen 4. You can't try to seperate them when they're on the same system. I know that this post is ragebait for the unovaborts and all, but it's important to make this clarification so that sinnohfetuses don't get a big head over themselves.

>>57966021
I guess if all you’re doing is turning the game on to pick/water the berries and saved at the Berry Master’s house. Otherwise, having to fly back to Maulville and swim over to Route 123 is the same distance you’d travel farming someplace like Solaceon or Floaroma and their adjacent route(s).

>>57966461
No it isn't because GSC is also the Masuda era.

>>57966472
RSE and DPPt are the second duology. They are thematically and aesthetically contiguous.

>>57962218 (OP)
Classic era had SOVL, but modern era had the best gameplay because of all the fun gimmicks. (Type gems, megas and Z-crystals)

>>57967336
ripping off the previous gen =/= thematically and aesthetically contiguous.

>>57967417
not once has anyone ever complained about any of this, not even 2nd Fire/Fighting starter in a row

>>57967523
>fans ate the slop up back then therefore it's okay

>>57967531
they "eat the slop up" even to this day whereas johto for example *has* been deprecated

>>57966461
Tajiri is only sole director for what we've seen up to the Spaceworld '97 demo. Masuda finished working on Bushi Seiryuuden in early 1998 and went to help out GS since they didn't have any new music, and he found the team in utter disarray. The game was essentially scrapped, and rebuilt using what they could salvage with Masuda being "co-director" from that point. Red and Green, which were simple Game Boy games, took 5 years of development under Tajiri. Gold and Silver were also taking ages, constantly having their release date pushed back. But it's Masuda who turned Gold and Silver into what they ultimately became, and he did it in under 2 years.

Tajiri hasn't been credited as director since Gold and Silver. Masuda practically took over, and it's because Masuda could get stuff done. Tajiri may have had a vision, but he didn't have the skill to effectively pull it off.

>>57967654
Junichi Itsuno salvaged the disaster which was PKMN2 but even his midas touch wasn't enough to prevent them from being the worst games in the series. At least he kept the series alive enough to return to form with PKMN3 and PKMN4.

>Classic Era
games before I hit puberty
>Modern Era
games after I hit puberty

Incredible how we got the best Pokemon games (BW2) followed up by the worst ones (XY)

>>57968011
Incredible how we got the best Pokemon games (HGSS) followed up by the worst ones (BW)

same shit every fucking thread ^^

>>57968013
parroting is an admission of defeat

>>57965437
>doesn't know what an adhom is
you're as bad as whoever this faggot you're obsessed with is at the very least, and a prime example of why I avoid this shitass containment board full of schizophrenic, dysgenic furry adjacent niggers

>57968101
Ok yawny

>>57968016
shut the fuck up pussy ass bort
go back to weddit

>>57968283
sanest sperm be like:

>>57962227
Tajiri > Masuda >>> Ohmori

>>57962227
more like
1-1.5, 2-6, 7+

Why is there a cringe faggot calling everyone who criticizes Gen 5 a yawnie?

Why is yawny still seething after getting btfo again

>>57968847
this
>>57968873
because borts have no other way to cope with gen v being the most hated gen amongst non-zoomers

>she started samefagging when no one agreed
Keek!

>>57968907
I'm disgusted by that pathetic faggot. Imagine having a micro brain full of shit and not being able to understand that more than one Anon considers Gen 5 to be one of the worst gens that have ever existed, I hope he puts an end to his misery with a bullet between his eyes.

ok yawnie
go to bed

>>57968894
is the btfo in the room with us right now?

>Yawnie talking to himself to cope with the btfo
Oh no no no

I wouldn't say there's a "classic" era and i certainly wouldn't put gen 4 or later in it. This is how I think of it looking back.

Fetch me a castelia cone thx

>>57968968
Aren't DP DS lite too? They received a special DS lite edition

>not having bw2 on the list
Shit b8

>>57968980
Something tells me your uncle gave you BW2 so you wouldn't rat him out after he raped you.

Why she keep samefagging lol

>>57968977
It feels barely any kid had one whne the games first released but ya your right. I was in middle school at the time so maybe the younger kids had them and i just didn't notice.

>>57968993
>she
Cringe reddit faggot

>she thinks reddit made the pronouns
Keek newyawnie

>>57969029
>Cringe reddit faggot calls everyone "she" because his shitty brain can't understand basic English.
Hey cringe faggot, why don't you (you) me? Don't you have the balls? Are you so faggot and pathetic that you're afraid of anonymous online discussion? According to your IP you are from south America, uh... I wonder what you look like.

she got your ass now sagie

>samefagging
Why she want the yous so bad? Meds n bbc Yawnie

>she thinks regular user can view IP
Keekin

LMAO, it's a Latinx!!!

> replying to urself
Keekin

blood is begging for yous atp :skull:

>>57962218 (OP)
>oldgen
gen 1
>nugen slop
gens 2-9

>>57962233
Cope