Where did I claim any of this?
You said Gen 4 took Gen 2 and tried to do it better. You said Gen 2 were the original sequels but Gen 4 failed in this regard. That reads as if you were claiming that Gen 4 was somehow linked/a continuation of Gen 2.
I wasn't talking about sales. Can you even read? Well, in my opinion, DPPt had the least improvements. That's my point.
Then care explaining what you mean by "successful"?
You can't base opinion on fact. DPPt and HGSS had significant improvements so you can't say they didn't.
Prof.Oak, Blue, Gym Leaders, Elite 4.
OK, Professor Oak - how is he "better" than any of the other region professors, speaking game-wise?
Blue - your standard rival. He may have been one of the better rivals out there, but he's still a rival, something all the games have, so as a character, he may be cooler/stronger but not any more important than the other rivals.
Gym Leaders and Elite 4 - None of the other games have them, right?
Nobody's. I'm comparing the games as a whole, one of the negatives of RBY in my mind is that, being the first, it is quite basic compared to newer games. Obvious, expected and can't be helped, but it's a factor.
Yes, it's a factor, but the fault is the game's because the game didn't have it. There's no one else to blame.
Yes, in fact I talked about that in an earlier post. I get the feeling you're trying to find a meaning in my posts that aren't there.
You said "only true sequel" implying that the others were sequels but weren't sequels through and through but now I assume you mean that you rank Gen 2 highly because it was the only sequel in the Pokemon games?
DPPt's use of a touch screen is vastly inferior to HGSS's, so I count that as a con because they could've done more with it.
Sure, I'd have loved some more touch screen action, but its absence, in no way, detracts from the actual gameplay. HGSS came after it, so they obviously would have improved some aspects then. No Pokemon main series game has relied on the stylus and just because it's on the DS doesn't mean it must do so or it's a bad game.
It's called an opinion, genius. DP's graphics, while more advanced, look bad aesthetically. The colour scheme is ugly, the 3d Models are rough on the edges and there is a lack of detail. Once again, HGSS vastly improved on this, which makes DP look worse.
OK, so apparently DPPt's graphics are worse than the thinly-detailed, black and white and in-battle blurry graphics of RBY. I admit the colour scheme appeared a bit dark to me which I didn't like, but the graphics don't look bad aesthetically. General graphics and sprites are 99% of the time better than Gen 3. The 3D may not be perfect, but this is the DS and this is Pokemon. The semi-3D is a step up from the 2D of the GBA. And lack of detail? Surely, you jest.
And yes, I agree, HGSS looks better, but doesn't change the fact that DPPt was good as well (though it had its problems).
I'm not wrong, and you are certainly not in the position to tell me I'm wrong. For a Game Boy game, RBY looked good. GSC looked better. RSE/FRLG were nice-looking GBA games. DPPt weren't good looking DS games. That's my point, and more importantly, my opinion. I never presented it as anything else.
OK, they may have looked good for their times, but if you say "DPPt had the worst graphics", you're comparing them to the other games. And when you do that, DPPt graphics are superior to all the previous gens. I think that RSE were good-looking and GBA games and even DPPt and HGSS were good-looking DS games, but I guess that's a matter of opinion.
1) Don't forget Uxie, Azelf and Mesprit, they were still an integral part to the story. My point is that they have been increasing these numbers a bit. And, yeah, I think Mewtwo should have had more of a roll in the RBY storyline as well, I never quite understood that, seeing as he's one of the Pokemon that has a direct tie in to human kind.
Hmm, yeah, they have increased them but despite the Lake Trio being in the plot, you don't actually have to battle them if you don't want to. As for Mewtwo, I was surprised and disappointed when they didn't even include him when they made FRLG, and that's after basing a movie and a special on him and his relation with Giovanni.
3) Promise of power, sure I suppose, that thought has crossed my mind. But power over humanity is one thing, completely restarting the world is another entirely. In history, there have been several dictators like that, but they were living in the real world. To help this man, they would really have to be okay with the whole thing, have no ties to anyone or anything, and probably thus be as psychotic as him. My end point here is that I find gathering all these mentally unstable people in one place to be a tad unrealistic considering how few there would be as deluded as him.
What I think is that they really didn't know Cyrus' true motives - all except his three commanders who were ruthless enough to accept and go by his plan. The grunts were pretty simple and they went about it by a task-by-task basis (for which they were employed) - like if we catch so-and-so Pokemon and do this or do that, it'll be a step forward to gain power. I guess Cyrus could persuade them well enough to join Galactic and carry out those tasks (still with that limited knowledge) like how Hitler managed to do with Germany. So they weren't really mental like him, but thought of his plan on a lower level. As with Hitler, their were many who stood beside him but didn't share all his ideologies or not to the extent that he did.
P.S. Just to make it abundantly clear, I don't hate any of the generations, even though I posted in this now supposed 'concentrated hatred' thread. I still play pokemon to this day, and they're all good games in their own way, but this doesn't mean that you can't like some more than others.
Heh, even I like all the games - good thing everyone who posts here doesn't have concentrated hatred against the games.
As for the issue of non-linearity with regard to gyms, I think a bit of freedom is good, but if their are too many options, it makes the later-challenged gyms easier, which I don't like. So, the balance that DP found with having the ability to choose between only two gyms was a good middle way, incorporating the best of both worlds.
) Also, it's not being sociopathic that makes you a threat, it's the motives, sociopathic only leads to these motives at times. Even if you're sociopathic you can end up a pretty good person. I think a poster earlier on got what I was trying to say. The problem is that, basically, he's turned into a cult leader, since he must only be attracting crazies. But see, the thing is, the only other way he could have gotten his lackies on board with the plan is with charm, and I seriously don't see any of that in him. As you even pointed out, the grunts mean nothing to him, so why would they even join him at all? It's not what he's doing I have a problem with, it's how he's doing it. If he were alone in this venture I truly think that I would have had a better time believing him.
