So we all agree the kanto pandering is a corporate psyop right?
always has been
It always seemed like something aimed at the west specifically. Japan was never that crazy about Gen 1 specifically.The fact that it more or less started when Pokemon began doing global releases and non-Japanese regions is probably no coincidence.
>>59630053It STILL regularly places as most popular pokémon game in the great lists of top Japanese video games lad. Fuck, it's Kanto and Sinnoh, Gen 1 and Gen 4 the most favoured by the Japanese internet.You spergs dismissing its effects, because it wasn't your childhoods won't change that.
>>59630029>>59630053It was an extreme counter reaction to the reception of B/W. And it worked. It also probably tied into the age demographics of the original children who played R/B on release.
>>59630067>It was an extreme counter reaction to the reception of B/W.Which was largely a western thing. Japan never hated BW.
>>59630067>>59630071Burgers are REALLY obsessed with their le first generation. Power Rangers, Transformers, that other franchise...
>>59630093That's because burgers don't have a culture of their own
>>59630067>it worked.Debatable. XY and SM didn't sell much better than its predecessors in the long run.
>>59630029gen 3 sucks ass but not as much as gen 4gen 5 is the best gen
>>59630032Fippy bippy
>>59630029Just because you're an early zoomer does not mean everyone else is.Majority of Pokemon's main fans were millennial kids now in their 30s. Japs got there early while everyone else in the world showed up in 1999+ with most dipping out after Gen 2.Not our fault your childhood started with Hoenn/Sinnoh or worse, Unova.
>>59630029What makes Hoenn the most well loved region in all of Pokemon apparently? I personally think it's just alright.
>>59630116They sold drastically better than BW considering how much smaller the 3DS's user base was.
>>59630288Apparently we the audience love how much water there is :^)
>>59630342Water tastes good so i can see why
>>59630029Corpos never learn, extreme overexposure just makes people start to hate whatever's being shilled that hard.
>>59630288>I personally think it's just alright.Everyone does, it's the most mid region overall and therefore wins by default.
>>59630029>is the most profitable media franchise in history a corpo psyop ?
>>59630029It's not 2016 anymore, they haven't done much pandering in the last several years.
>>59630288
>>59631181Gem
Hoennbabies be like "Yup, Skyrim is the best Elder Scrolls has ever been."
>>59630029I've never met anyone who had anything good to say about Hoenn and Sinnoh. Unova should have been the poster child of the series.
Gen 3 does have the most replayability, it's easy to just grab and go since there's not too much hand hold-y bullshit and endless dialogue through the start of the game, and the speed of things feel generally quicker than.. most gens. Especially gen 4 holy slog
>>59630053>Japan was never that crazy about Gen 1 specifically.Are you retarded
>>59631453Hoenn occupies the same ordinal number as Morrowind
>>59631463>I've never met anyone who had anything good to say about Hoenn and Sinnohmaybe because you are a zoomer in a classyear that was old enough to play HGSS/BW/BW2 with wonder but grew out of said wonder by the time ORAS released, and think your peers' opinions are not anomalous
>>59631500myth
>>59630274Old fart
>>59632766>my-ACK!
>>59632766>my-ACK!!!
>>59631181ORAS was better.
>>59630029No, just the SHIT EATING FAGGOT DOG
>>59633188zoom zoom zoom
>>59630290That's cope. I could just as easily argue BW sold drastically better because the DS was on its last legs. SM couldn't even profit of the attention from Go.
>>59631453Hoenn is Morrowind / Melee / Halo 3 / Final Fantasy X / every other good game from right before the iphone.
>>59634229most of these don't make senseone example isGen 1: Duel MonstersGen 2: Battle CityGen 3: first half of GXGen 4: second half of GXGen 5: 5DS
