I have zero interest in new ""'Pokémon""". In my eyes it's a franchise that ended a long time ago
>>58183850Pokemon is now just corporate slop for manchildrenAll new pokemon are basically memes, jokes/puns, neopets or real life people's references.
>>58183850Gen 5 was the last gen
>>581838774*
>>58183850>in my eyesDiscarded.
>>58183850I just play Showdown and romhacks now. I'll never buy another Pokemon game because of picrel.
>>58183850For me it fully ended after Gen 7. A combination of the dexcut and just not liking the direction of the designs/art style/worldbuilding. HGSS, B2W2, or USUM can each be considered “the end” in their own ways I feel.
>>58183877Pretty much this. But Gen V is also the gen that started all the shitty trends we have in newer games, like the early game being a giant unskippable tutorial or the characters and story being more important than anything else.
>>58183877Gen 5 is the tipping point with traits of both sides. Granted when it was new, Gen 3 held that position.
>>58183850Honestly Arceus and SV renewed a lot of love for me. SV ran like dog shit and looked like dog shit but I’ve put hundreds of hours into it. Great game. And I am really looking forward to ZA, it looks fun. I’m really enjoying Game Freak trying a bit harder to experiment with these more recent games. It’s a lot more exciting to not really know what a game is going to be like until I play it for myself.
>>58183850why are you here then
>>58183850Yeah I’m kinda losing interest in the series too.
>>58183891>No PWT(celebration of all regions)Nah, B2W2 the series swan song
>>58184037>you can’t talk about a franchise unless your actively consuming current product
>>58183850My last game was Pokemon Sword. It was so fucking bad I haven't played anything new since.Recently replayed Red and Emerald though
>>58184259>I have zero interest in the franchise but I still somehow spend time on the board about the franchise to shitpost about it
>>58184437You think our love for the old games just vanishes?
>>58183850You and at least a million other people who only came back for GO and then completely jumped ship when they started adding Gen 2 Pokemon.
>>58184458>I have zero interest in the franchise but you think my interest in the franchise just vanishes?Next time just skip the bullshit and admit you were feeling insecure about gen 5 again so you wanted to start another genwar
>>58184501>I have zero interest in new ""'Pokémon""">Anon lacks so much reading comprehension he thinks this equals to me no longer liking any pokemon ever released
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>>58183850Yeah i can kind of understand how genwunners feel even though i don't agree with them, i only care about anything related to gen 4 and maybe gen 5 and generations below either way newer pokemon could disappear and i wouldn't care
>>58184529You don't even know if Op is a genwunner. He could be a gen 4/5 fan like you and his statement would still apply
>>58184542Holy fucking shit are you illiterate. Try lead supplements at this point.
>>58184520>I have zero interest in new pokemon>but I spend all my time on the pokemon board focused on new pokemon to genwar over new pokemon
>>58184520>the franchise ended>n-no wait the franchise didn’t end actually I still care about parts of it
>>58184559>You can't be a Star Wars fan unless you are still spreading your ass accepting whatever Disney is currently shitting outGet fucking real some of you act so willfully stupid I refuse to believe you're actually this fucking dumb
>>58184569>I have zero interest in new star wars and I’m going to claim star wars ended but I’m going to keep shitposting about how much I have zero interest in new star wars while hanging around on the new star wars basket weaving forum
>>58184553>>58184572So when something ends you're no longer allowed to geek out and talk about it ever? Should all Lord of the Rings forums only allow for the discussion of the Amazon's Rings of Power tv show? And you can't you possibly ever lament how a property you love keeps being dragged through the mud with more and more garbage to keep the profits rolling?
>>58183850The last pokemon game I somewhat enjoyed was the new snap
>>58183850I felt like this at a point but now I feel like pokemon is in an upwards trajectory
>>58184596>it ended>it ended I swear>I don't have any interest in the thing that apparently ended I swear>that's why I keep starting genwars and seething over the thing that totally ended
I fear new gens got you revved ;(
>>58184006I get the fact that long ass tutorials a problem, why hate on the story and Characters getting more featured? Cuz then it sounds like you just want an excuse plot then
>>58183850Don't forget you're here forever
games get uglier and more inclusion garbage, new games like honkai anima are coming
>>58184458>you think my love for genwars just vanishes?God I wished.
>>58184006>or the characters and story being more important than anything else.You're right about tutorials but this is a thing since Gen 3, when you first had to stop doing whatever you did to go to Team Magma or Aqua's HQ to beat them. It just became unbearable in 5.>>58185146>Cuz then it sounds like you just want an excuse plot thenNot him obviously but that's correct, I couldn't give less of a fuck about the story of a bunch of kids talking about how much they like Pokemon and the next town they're going to next. I just want to get lost innawoods with my team and beat whatever I find.
I hate crybabies so much it's unreal. Don't like it? Fuck all the way off
>>58183850I only care about fangames and romhscks now desu, the official slop just lacks too much
Whole lotta projection itt
>>58183850my childhood best friend's story isn't over yet
>>58184259This image is now the majority here on nu-/vp/.
>>58183850No? Why the fuck would I be here if I felt like that? I'd move on and find a franchise I find more appealing, being a nostalgiacuck is just kinda sad and pathetic.
>>58184437OP did say he doesn't like the newer stuff, that doesn't mean he can't talk about the old stuff.I know what he means because I feel the same way kek
Gen 8 was the final nail on the coffin for me
>>58185153There is a high probability jewtendo will sue Hoyoverse because some "IP expert" said the mounts in that game are "clearly infringing" Pokémon's gay ass mount patent.I used to respect Pokémon for trying because nobody else was bothering to make good alternatives, but seeing TPC try to sue better alternatives has fatigued me and guaranteed the loss of my Legends ZA sale. And Nintendo already lost me on the Switch 2.
I've been "over" pokemon for more than 5 yearsIt's a romhack life for me now
>>58186735>some "IP expert" said the mounts in that game are "clearly infringing" Pokémon's gay ass mount patentI'm going to take a guess that Hokina Anima has has more than five ridable monsters while SV only had Koraidon and Miradon because Game Freak is too fucking lazy to put in effort into something that isn't Kanto fellatio.
>>58186645>that doesn't mean he can't talk about the old stuff.But that's not what he's doing. He got assblasted about Unova again and felt the need to seethe about the new stuff out of jealousy. Again.
Ogerpon is pretty cool though
>>58183850I've been playing since 1999 and I loved SV. Your loss, I guess.
Same happen to me but not only with Pokemon, I can't remember the last time was excited for a videogame
>>58185107>the most literate nu-pokemon fan
>>58187557I can only pity you, there's at least 3 games I'm hyped to play this year alone (though delaying the purchase of a gaming laptop as long as possible so one may be a next year job, unless it's ported to Switch 2), as well as a few others I'm keeping an eye on to see if buying will be worth it.Mind, I didn't grow up with the internet as a babysitter, so I didn't impact my brain development to the point I lost all interest in the things I've historically been interested in.
>>58187585>excited for new games in 2025>about to buy a fucking gaming LAPTOPBitch, you've got zero rights to pity that anon. He's in the process of moving on to other, more fulfilling hobbies while your brain hasn't developed past the age of 14.
>>58187591He's hanging around a board centred on a specific video game, on the arsehole of the internet, you dense monkey bastard. He's no more "moving on" to jack shit, but more pissing, moaning and seething pokémon left him the fuck behind, same as all you spergy cunts who just wish it'd be like your childhood again, THIS is the kind of shit discord was made for, set up a nice wee support group to cope and sneed about how you hate nu-pokémon. Problem is you fucks been raised by social media to believe the world NEEDS to hear your opinion, so can do nothing but shit yourselves in fear and anger every time some cunt shows up that doesn't share your childish worldview of things. Yeah kid, I'm not a doomer fuck povvo like you, squealing the industry hiked everything, because of public demand leading to spiralling costs. I'm also not a dumb cunt and partly why I'm stalling on the laptop buy is I'll ABSOLUTELY get a better specced one for around about my budget maximum in January sales. Sorry life left you behind too, I guess.
>>58187616tl;dr your autistic rant.You can move on from something and still revisit it occasionally. Doing it here comes with the added bonus of shitting on the manchildren who browse this shithole 24/7.
>>58183850most honest thread on the board here the others only care about cumming to the girls and the pokemon that kinda look like girls
>>58183850Nah I don’t even acknowledge half the series exists
>>58183850>>58187623Pokemon games were never good. Pokemon anime was never good. It was always about the waifus.
It ended after 3DS. Z-A is a game which had an extra year of development and takes place in a single city, yet they couldn't do something as simple as tiling the windows on a building to line up correctly. It couldn't be any more clear that they don't give a shit about what they're making anymore.The days where they would pack in secrets and little touches like the apprentace NPC at Emerald's battle tower or the ambient sound effects in HGSS are long gone
>>58187670When the 3DS was new everyone said Pokemon ended with the DS. Before that gen 3 was the last good gen, etc. The real fact of the matter is that this series has been a soulless husk ever since Pokemania died. Pokemania was the whole reason we were ever interested in the first place. Now that initial sense of wonder and the mystery of the original 150 Pokemon is gone. No more speculation or excitement about Mew and Mewtwo, no more looking forward to finding new undiscovered Pokemon like Ho-oh, even Ash, Brock and Misty are just gone. The series is now in the hands of zoomer phone kids who only care about funny memes and shiny hunting. The adventure is gone, just like our childhoods.
>>58187684You're right that people have been saying similar things for a long time, but I just feel personally that the swtich era was the last nail in the coffin. Spin-offs arepretty much exclusively mobile gacha garbage now, so there's nothing to play even when mainline is lacking.
Reject modernity. Embrace romhackery
>>58188217That's even worse than playing vanilla. They always go overkill on difficulty, make shitmons OP, random pokemon extra types for no reason, force you to level grind, disable speedup and have the edgiest nonsense stories imaginable. It's obvious by the way those games are made that Gamefreak are the only people that can be trusted with the IP, which is why it's a shame they haven't made a good game since GSC.
>>58188232>They always go overkill on difficulty, make shitmons OP, random pokemon extra types for no reason, force you to level grind, disable speedup and have the edgiest nonsense stories imaginableNo they dont
A full thread full of whiny limp dicked retards who cannot accept their precious nostalgia childhood is gone. Sad and pathetic. I just threw up in my mouth a little reading so much spineless self-pitying arguments of how the franchise ended and still you miserable autistic rest of abortions are here posting about it because you are such huge cowards that all you can do is complain and whiny like the little bitches you are instead of hanging yourselves and spare the world of such tiny dick energy. Disgusting.
This reads like a parody mocking a modern pokemon fanboy
>>58183850Not hating on Gen 7 but I believe that started the downfall
>>58189438Gen 5 went 2 steps forward on some things and 2 steps back on others. It's Gen 6 that started the unequivocal downgrade
>>58183850No, it's not just you. I just wish they would put effort and care and creativity back in the games. But they know millenial nostalgia is so powerful they don't have to try to make bank. It's just the way things have been running for the past (almost) decade. Funnily enough, I think the same thing is happening to Nintendo as a whole.
>>58189520>Gen 5 went 2 steps forward on some thingssuch as....
>>58185146It’s fucking pokemon faggotThere’s no reason to play these games for the story, even the “good” ones (like gen 5) are still only passable/decent by the standards of vidyas/JRPGs in generalI play pokeymans because I like exploring the wilderness battling people and catching monsters. The immersion to me is far more important than the plot
>>58183904This was the specific decision that made me never buy anything from gen 6 and never play any new pokemon games since then. I hate that retarded faggot Masuda so much. He betrayed us. Actions have consequences, he lost me as a customer to the pokemon franchise permanently because of this one thing.
>>58189755This. I didn't buy Gen 5 for the same reason.
>>58183850>In my eyes it's a franchise that ended a long time agoGet your eyes checked then.
>>58189789except for the pokemon, gen 5 has the best designs in the series
>>58189780>Battle Subway>PWT>Black TowerThankfully it had a rich set of facilities to count as the battle frontier, unlike that garbage maison in gen 6. Gen 5 truly was the last good generation.
>>58189791>Thankfully it had a rich set of facilities to count as the battle frontierexcept it didn't
>>58189755>Battle Maison>Battle Institute>Inverse House>RestaurantsThankfully it had a rich set of facilities to count as the battle frontier, unlike that garbage subway in gen 5. Gen 6 truly was the last good generation.
Oh I also forgot to mention join avenue, pokestar studios, and contests. Man, gen 5 was really packed.
Parroting is an admission of defeat.
>>58183850I tried to go back to Pokemon, Digimon and Yu-Gi-Oh as an adult. I played gen 3 for the first time with Emerald and liked it, so I was 'Great, even as an adult, I can still like Pokemon', same for Digimon. For Yu-Gi-Oh, while I do respect the franchise, there was too much new rules and I didn't like the anime throwing a random right card to win for each battle, like Chain Destruction with the guy with 3 Exodia.So I went for the last Pokemon game at the time, which was XY and I hated it for many reasons. I saw nothing in the new gens to make me think 'Hey let's try this one'. I didn't even played them with an emulator. I did a few fan games, like Pokemon Wilds even if sadly there are no updates. I did enjoy Yokai Watch 1 and 2 and the Persona games, Ni No Kuni was fine, I didn't play Palworld because I don't like sandbox games and I do enjoy the Digimon games from the last 15 years (Digimon World is still my favorite, but I couldn't finish World 2, I didn't go far with World 3 because I had other games to play but I intend to play it).
>>58189798lmfaoo
I'm just the opposite; I can't go back and enjoy old Pokemon games. Even just a generation or two back is too annoying. The QoL each gen brings is just too nice to give up. Plus I just get bored replaying the story modes.
There are people here who haven’t played a game since like XY. That’s over 10 fucking years ago>staying on a board where the last time you indulged in it properly was a decade agoIf this is you, nigga why the FUCK are you here? It’s like you stop following basketball in 2012 but still shitpost on /sp/ all the time arguing about shit you wouldn’t even KNOW
>>58189813Thank you for admitting defeat.
>>58190139Nigger who are you to tell me what PROPERLY indulging in the Pokemon franchise is?Unbound, Clover, Mariomon are all higher quality and more representative of the IP than the absolute shit gamefreak has made from gen 6 on. Romhacks and fangames ARE the entire point of the franchise now, they are the present and only future Pokemon has. You won't find a future for Pokemon from Nintendo.
>>58183877gen 7 and 8 were awesome. fug u.
>>58190207>8lol
>>58185264>you first had to stop doing whatever you did to go to Team Magma or Aqua's HQ to beat themDoesn't that apply to Gen 1 & 2 then also?
>>58190171No one getting your shitty romhacks shill.
>>58190277Since they're objectively better than the official games, you just admitted nobody should play any of the nintendo/gamefreak games either.
>Since they are [HEADCANON]
>58190290Romhacks have every pokemon from all generations. It's a fact that dexit was only done by gamefreak.
>It's a fact that [the best thing ever] was only done by gamefreak.OH MY STANTLER
>>58190171Based
>gamefreak shills unironically defending dexit
>>58190305I'm afraid you are revved :(
>>58190305I love DexitRemoving bloat is goodLimiting choices is goodYes I like removing moves too
>>58183877fpbp but 7 and 9 were leagues better than 6 and 81 > 2 > 4 > 3 > 5 > 7 > 9 > 6 > 8
>>58190338>I heckin LOVE having less features with zero quality in return whatsoever!
>>58189547>forwardstory, gameplay, graphics>backonline features, region design
We got quality back thougheveralbeit, Blastoise actually shoots from its cannons now.
>>58190383>Doing the BARE MINIMUM n64 games did decades ago is equal to the national dex getting cut Below rock bottom standards.
Yeah somehow Gens 1-8 couldn't do it but thank god Paldea saved Pokemon yet again.
>>581903483 > 2 > 1 > 4 > 6 > 5 = 7 > 9 > 8 > 10
>>58190404>Nostradamus entered the chat
5>4>1>2>6>3>7>9>8
5 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 7 > 1 > 6 > 9 > 8
>>58190139Based Romhacktards aren’t real fans
>>58190374how is making the story more annoying and intrusive, making the game more linear and braindead, and making the sprites worse a step forward in story, gameplay, and graphics?
>>58190471it makes me like it more
6 > 2 > 3 > 4 > 7 > 1 > 5 > 9 > 8
Playing romhacks is basically a confession you don't have any friends to trade with and no money to travel to the competitions and participate in the social aspect of the games.
1 >>>> 2 > 3 > 5 > 4 > shit > the rest > 8
>>58183850My clear cut is gen 5. There is the dexcut and the gimmicks start to feel forced instead of fun. We know have megas, regional forms and gigantamax versions of Pokémon and z moves and tera attacks for special moves. It feels too much.That said, I sort of enjoyed gen 6 to 9. It just feels different. 6 had amazing competitive, I loved gen 7 games (really fun nuzlockes), I like gen 8's characters and gen 9 also has amazing meta (once I got over my hatred of teras).
>>58183850then go play your chud romhack of gen 5 again and let the real players enjoy the franchise
>>58189535Blackpill: They do, they're just not focused on making sure (You) eat the bait and get hooked anymore, as they've already got you by the short'n'curlies.
>>58187622Yeah, except that's about as likely as Taylor Swift dumping Kelce and swinging by my arsehole of Ireland to hook up with me instead. As long as we all still breathe, there's a POSSIBILTY of that happening, but we all know reality tells a much different story. Fuck off and make a discord already kiddiwink. Curate the entrants, so you can build a nice wee support group to cry about Pokémon leaving you behind, but don't pretend you're a blow-in visitor. ACTUAL blow-ins and newfags are obvious.
>>58187684>>58187724both true, and more than OP’s idea of “series is basically over atp, pack it up guys,” acknowledging the issues yall mention more reasonably lends itself to “i’ll just check in every so often if i feel like it, or have been away long enough”like SV got so PR thrashed when they dropped that i skipped, but then wow, look at that: i’ve got covid and am about to be laid up for a while, and hey the DLCs are both out now and people like them, sure, i’ll bite
>>58190338This. SwSh was the best game in the series, in part because of Dexit. Every other series with large rosters rotates characters/monsters in and out, it only makes sense for Pokemon to do the same.Also8 > 6 > 7 > 3 > 4 > 2 > 1 > 9 > 5
>>58187684Pokemania didn't happen until Pokemon Go though?
>>58191628He is talking about the original Pokemania.
>>58185150shut up demonic cult npc
>>58191637So was I. Gen 1 can't be called Pokemania because it only got dumb kids interested, whereas the true Pokemania (Go) got kids AND adults obsessed with Pokemon.
>>58191680It DID get adults interested though, Japanese trains were FULL of kids and adults playing the games, OG Game Freak staff have mentioned that in lots of interviews about the early days of the rise of Pokémon.
>>58191680>Gen 1 can't be called Pokemania-Except it was.
>>58190368>I love bloat which tons of options when half of them don't matter! I don't understand game design at all!Low IQ take>>58191626Nah SwSh was shit but because of other reasonsSV > SwSH
I find Gen 1 and Gen 2 way too slow now and the remakes change too much to feel the way the old games made me feelNew games feel way too derpy and squeak clean (not family friendly I mean everything looks like it was bought brand new and unlived in)Trying Gen 5 for the first time and it's pretty kino but desu the knowledge that it'll be a pain in the ass to get them off of here and into future games makes it feel kinda futile.
>>58191863Gen 1 is the fastest gen bro
>>58191841How is having optional choices of pokemon a bad thing? Nobody is forcing you to use national dexmons in the game. It just sounds like you're an autistic, ADHD ridden retard that is overwhelmed by basic shit like that.
>>58193020There are about 400+ optional choices already b.
>>58193020>Why would you go to a proper grocery store instead of Walmart?Curated limited content > poorly managed big amounts of contentQuality > quantityEtc
I still think there’s two main points where the series notably got worse: when it moved to 3DS and especially when it moved to Switch.3 > 4 > 5 > 2 > 1 > 6 > 7 > 9 > 8
>>58193137There IS NO QUALITY in the dexit games you dumbass chucklefuck.
>>58194172WrongThey improved the models in SV (actual 3D facial structure instead of just flat textures)They removed retarded moves like Hidden PowerCope and seethe
>>58183850Everyone agrees this series is in shambles
