Is he right?
yes
>>58372836the type of shit you spout when you believe everything is relative
no
>>58372836gimmickshit ruined the series thoughgiving pokemon regular pre-evolutions and evolutions helps them keep up with the ones that are already balancedimagine if you could catch a hawlucha prevolution early on instead of having to catch a hawlucha after you've already fully evolved your fletchling
>>58372836Kinda?We never get new pokemon for remakes or for the final third title of a generation. ZA isn't quite a remake, and it isn't quite a third title to X and Y, but it's close enough that I never had any expectations of new mons. It's not a new generation of pokemon but adding to a previous gen.Comparing it to megas is dumb though since megas are the regional gimmick of ZA. That's comparing apples to oranges.
>>58373534The eternal cycle of 4chan.
>>58372836no this is moronic. X and Y sucked for many other reasons.
>>58372836No, as he is creating a false equivalence. Megas are not new Pokémon
>>58372836no it's just one guy who has been doing this for years
>>58374042
An argument could be made that adding new Pokemon indefinitely bloated the franchise beyond recognition. But it's not a right or wrong thing.
I don't think the quantity of Pokémon really matters beyond a certain number, new or otherwise. The quality comes from how the game utilizes them in interesting ways, particularly in how you're able to interact with them through mechanics.A Pokédex of 151 doesn't really bother me, nor does the Kalos Pokédex having 457 Pokémon. What does bother me is that the Kalos Pokédex bloats the game by barely doing anything interesting. It's not engaging catching>Weedle/Caterpie>Pidgey>Zigzagoon>Fletchling>Bunnelby>Scatterbugon Kalos Route 2, they're all found the same way as Rattata and Pidgey on Kanto Route 1 and feel interchangeable as a result.But for Sinnoh Route 201 in DP>Starly (grass encounter)>Bidoof (grass encounter)>Doduo (post-game swarm)>Nidoran-F (Poké Radar)>Nidoran-M (Poké Radar)>Growlithe (Dual-Slot mode)with Platinum adding your starter as a story thing (this doesn't matter too much since it takes from Verity Lakefront) and Kricketot as a morning/night encounter which is a good way of introducing time of day as a mechanic.If your argument is "I have more variety for my team and that's a good thing", I really don't care. Pokémon is more interesting when you're limited and you have to recognize the design decisions. Giving the player access to five different ways to counter the next Gym Leader is boring, and I don't care about how you're doing three or four runs of the same games every year.I would argue that the way you obtain Mega Stones should also be interesting since Mega Evolutions are their own designs. Ideally the method in which you obtain them should involve doing something with that Pokémon and/or its line. SM making Mega Stones either Battle Tree exchanges or event distributions is such a letdown after Gen VI at least gave them all something.
