MasterWarlord
Smash Champion
I’m mainly curious as to what generation 2 did to kill Pokemon, as I just really don’t see enough reasons. Yes, there are new Pokemon, but generation 2 still has many, many old Pokemon throughout the game – it revolves around the old Pokemon more than the newly introduced ones. Rattata is the Rattata of Johto – Sentret is only on a single route or two. Johto would be quite a barren place if the original 151 Pokemon were nowhere to be found. There’s enough familiar territory in Gold and Silver for veterans to not get scared off.
Now, generation 3 was practically unrecognizable when it first came out and was trying to distance itself from the past Pokemon games. There were only a handful of old Pokemon in the game while the new ones were without a doubt the main ones in the spotlight. That’s not all, though – all of the hard work we’d done over the past 2 generations were thrown out the window with the new games not being trade compatible to these games. While those are the main things, the other thing I really regret about generation 3 and onwards is how there was never a real “Stadium” game on par with gens 1 and 2 – Colosseum’s mode that tries to emulate Stadium is impressively bare bones and has no Rental Pokemon.
Speaking of Colosseum, yes, the old Pokemon were brought back through it, but only the Johto Pokemon – not the Kanto Pokemon that holds Pokemon’s formerly gigantic fanbase. Even for those who were happy to see the Johto Pokemon come back, it was hardly worth playing through such a mediocre title. Eventually the original 151 were brought back – in the exact same game that we played at the start of all this. Ignoring the fact that we’re not stupid enough to pay money for the same game god knows how much later, this game is compatible with only Colosseum rather than the Stadium games.
Yeah, I’m a pretty big Pokemon fan and I actually do like gen 3, but I refused to buy Sapphire until Colosseum got me somewhat used to the 3rd gen Pokemon. While I love gen 3 now, I can see plenty of reasons why everybody felt so alienated by it. Pokemon didn’t entirely die in the mainstream during the days of gen 2, but gen 3 made the Pokemon name much less recognizable.
Now, generation 3 was practically unrecognizable when it first came out and was trying to distance itself from the past Pokemon games. There were only a handful of old Pokemon in the game while the new ones were without a doubt the main ones in the spotlight. That’s not all, though – all of the hard work we’d done over the past 2 generations were thrown out the window with the new games not being trade compatible to these games. While those are the main things, the other thing I really regret about generation 3 and onwards is how there was never a real “Stadium” game on par with gens 1 and 2 – Colosseum’s mode that tries to emulate Stadium is impressively bare bones and has no Rental Pokemon.
Speaking of Colosseum, yes, the old Pokemon were brought back through it, but only the Johto Pokemon – not the Kanto Pokemon that holds Pokemon’s formerly gigantic fanbase. Even for those who were happy to see the Johto Pokemon come back, it was hardly worth playing through such a mediocre title. Eventually the original 151 were brought back – in the exact same game that we played at the start of all this. Ignoring the fact that we’re not stupid enough to pay money for the same game god knows how much later, this game is compatible with only Colosseum rather than the Stadium games.
Yeah, I’m a pretty big Pokemon fan and I actually do like gen 3, but I refused to buy Sapphire until Colosseum got me somewhat used to the 3rd gen Pokemon. While I love gen 3 now, I can see plenty of reasons why everybody felt so alienated by it. Pokemon didn’t entirely die in the mainstream during the days of gen 2, but gen 3 made the Pokemon name much less recognizable.
