09-13-2009, 05:25 AM
trust me, i went through all the growth and memories with r/b/y/g/s/c that everyone else did. fuck, i've never even played r/s. i skipped straight to emerald, and only really played that until after fr/lg were released. i remember my friends and i tried to open our own mini gyms and we bough badges which were actually just beads and if we beat each other we gave out one of our badges. it was our little neighborhood league. i remeber getting both gold and silver for my birthday and letting my brother have gold and we made a checklist of all the pokemon we would catch and try not to catch the same ones as each other.
i too eventually fell out of the pokemon craze at that point as most everyone else did. hell, i dont even think i scored nearly as much time in ermerald as i did in r/b/y/g/s/c. i think i only even had 1 play through.
even beyond all those memories i can safely let my professional opinion pierce my "aww but i grew up with it and love it" opinion int hat emerald and 3rd gen in general gave pokemon the epic, unique touch that it desperately needs. maybe it wasnt a nostalgia grind, you never got to beat ash's ass at the end to measure your proverbial height on the proverbial doorway mold to understand how much you have accomplished along with your pokemon.
when that is all you can give a game credit for then there is somehtign wrong. there is a beginning and an end but no meat in thw middle. that "meat" could be your "growth" as a trainer as you beat others but there isn't an instance i can think of in which it was genuinely any different from grinding levels in the 3rd and 4th generations of pokemon.
i just think that a lot of love for 1st and 2nd gen comes from them being familiar fond memories but seriously guys its not that big of a deal. its okay to think thats those things are fine and dadny but we need to take off the training wheels and diapers and recognize that just because something is fond and dear to you does not make it superior.
in conclusion, regardless of how much "personal" growth the first two generations had, it doesn't justify nor substitute them being better than an actual plot with a legitimate beginning, middle, end, protagonist, antagonist and plot events.
i can and will say this again and again and again, the 3rd generation is the best generation of pokemon games, and while i have such a boner for HG/SS, i believe that the 10th anniversary of r/s/e when they remake those games will be the most cherished moment in pokemon history for me.
i too eventually fell out of the pokemon craze at that point as most everyone else did. hell, i dont even think i scored nearly as much time in ermerald as i did in r/b/y/g/s/c. i think i only even had 1 play through.
even beyond all those memories i can safely let my professional opinion pierce my "aww but i grew up with it and love it" opinion int hat emerald and 3rd gen in general gave pokemon the epic, unique touch that it desperately needs. maybe it wasnt a nostalgia grind, you never got to beat ash's ass at the end to measure your proverbial height on the proverbial doorway mold to understand how much you have accomplished along with your pokemon.
when that is all you can give a game credit for then there is somehtign wrong. there is a beginning and an end but no meat in thw middle. that "meat" could be your "growth" as a trainer as you beat others but there isn't an instance i can think of in which it was genuinely any different from grinding levels in the 3rd and 4th generations of pokemon.
i just think that a lot of love for 1st and 2nd gen comes from them being familiar fond memories but seriously guys its not that big of a deal. its okay to think thats those things are fine and dadny but we need to take off the training wheels and diapers and recognize that just because something is fond and dear to you does not make it superior.
in conclusion, regardless of how much "personal" growth the first two generations had, it doesn't justify nor substitute them being better than an actual plot with a legitimate beginning, middle, end, protagonist, antagonist and plot events.
i can and will say this again and again and again, the 3rd generation is the best generation of pokemon games, and while i have such a boner for HG/SS, i believe that the 10th anniversary of r/s/e when they remake those games will be the most cherished moment in pokemon history for me.