While I like the additions to the later generations, such as the physical/special split as was mentioned above, the first two generations were the foundations, and without that you wouldn't even have a Magnezone or whatever you want.
That said, some Pokémon in the first generations were total stinkers...
Johto as a region, I think, was perfect. If you slapped in running shoes, the physical/special division, and all the new bells and whistles I think it'd blow Hoenn and Sinnoh out of the water, not just in terms of Pokémon but in terms of pure storyline.
However, I haven't been fond of starters since the first gen, but Torterra and Infernape certainly grew on me, and the new ways of evolving add a nice twist on things. As Drake said, now it's beginning to take shape as a group of Pokémon on the whole as opposed to segregating them into generations.
I disagree, both Johto Kanto are rather barren regions compared to Hoenn or Sinnoh. I think they would need to add a few new towns and other structures/things to do between the usual gym towns to really make the regions as full as Hoenn or Sinnoh. And I don't really see how Johto's story (which doesn't involve any legendaries except in Crystal, and only involves a few encounters with TR which never really gets resolved completely) is so much better than either Hoenn's or Sinnoh's. Plus, Sinnoh has the most story in the series by far. All sorts of sidestories with the legends, and a much larger and involved cast (we actually see gym leaders doing things outside their gyms).
I'm speaking only to the generations overall. Like I said before, I can't really rank the generations of Pokemon (except for my bias towards the water types of Hoenn). I try to avoid letting nostalgia affect my judgement though.
at least they looked similar. there is no way anyone could guess that huntail evolved from clamperl based on appearences. evolution is about little changes to a specie over a long period, not drastic ones.
i like the 1st/2nd gen pokemon pokemon best. 3rd had some great ones but also some stinkers as well and on the balance of things 1st/2nd gen rules.
I also disagree with this statement. Gyarados doesn't look a thing like Magikarp, Golduck's only similarity with Psyduck is that they're both ducks. Venonat and Venomoth? Dragonair to Dragonite? I could pull out plenty of non-similar evolutions from each generation. I don't think there's any imbalance within any generation, except maybe for the ones that introduced a bunch of new evolutions for older Pokemon (and I already know your opinion on that
).
Besides, who said a Pokemon has to look completely similar to what it evolved from? They didn't do it all the time in the first gen, and they haven't done it every time since then either.
To me, it seemed that 3rd and 4th gen's storyline was just defeating Team ______ in a series of events that leads up to them releasing some legendary pokemon... and when all he*l breaks loose, only the player character has to stop them/the legendary pokemon, thus saving the world.
2nd Gen was the best.
A few random encounters with Team Rocket is so much better? The encounters with Team Aqua/Magma/Galaxy were under similar circumstances (trying to discover how to control the weather, stealing other trainer's Pokemon, trying to get energy, going into their base) to the encounters with Team Rocket except these teams actually had a goal (other than "keep the team alive while we wait for our boss who disappeared several years ago").
It probably seems like I hate the 2nd gen, but I don't
. I do think, however, that a lot of bashing for 3rd and 4th gens is based almost entirely on nostalgia (although there were plenty of elements in 4th gen that disappointed me, they're mostly minor things that irk me personally).
