“The First Ones Were The Only Good Pokémon Games”

e-lodicolo:

joshishollywood:

I mean there’s nothing really wrong with preferring a game for sheer nostalgia and I won’t ever fault you for that

But outside of nostalgia you have to understand how absurd such a statement is

Here’s just some of the balancing issues the first games had, which I will admit to copying and pasting directly from Bulbapedia:

  • Psychic-type Pokémon having virtually no match, due to their moves being resisted by no types other than itself, and their only weakness being Bug (that had only three damaging moves, Leech Life, Pin Missile and Twineedle). This made it easy for the player to catch a Drowzee relatively early into the game, evolve it and teach it the movePsychic, allowing it to easily defeat any opponent bar Sabrina.
  • The item backpack only had 20 slots, and every stack of items (including Key Items) took one. This forced the player to constantly store obsolete Key Items, TMs and HMs into the PC in order to make space for the new ones, as well as forcing them to choose either to bring certain ever-useful items with them (e.g. Item Finder, Bicycle) or deposit them to free up bag space.
  • Except for the Elite Four, there were no Trainers that could be rebattled, meaning that, barring winning expensive TMs at the Game Corner and selling them or using Pay Day many times, the amount of money that a player could earn before reaching Indigo Plateau was limited.
  • The Special stat working as both Special Attack and Special Defense meant that Pokémon with a high Special stat had a decisive edge in battle. An example is Venusaur, with a Special base stat of 100, using Grass-type (and therefore Special) moves, and being weak to mostly Special types (except for the Flying and Ground type).

On top of the reasons listed above in that beautiful post, I will include this handy dandy picture listing even more things wrong with Gen 1

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    I agree with all of this because there are these Gen 1 fans who call Gen 1 the best Pokemon generation of all time and...
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    i agree with all of this, but when i say it it’s mostly because i prefer the pokémon in the first gens. and plus, in the...
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