I think it is understandable to think Pokemon is, in some ways, declining.
There is a no ways to even imagine that Pokemon is declining. If an individual doesn't like it, that is fine. But to say it's declining would mean it's on some spiral to becoming a has-been. And considering it's still raking in money, it isn't declining.
But some people may be feeling Pokemon is starting to fall into a sort of pattern,
Or maybe they were too young to realize the pattern set when Game Freak made FOUR games (Red, Blue, Yellow, and Green) that shared 98% of the content. Or when the sequel to these games had half of the content from the previous games in the new ones, and still kept much of the same plot elements.
Maybe Pokemon is falling into patterns, or is starting to feel a little mundane. A lot of it's subjective,
It is not subjective. Pokemon has fallen into a pattern/formula since Day 1.
Because the haters think that, if they complain hard enough, all the Pokemon games past the 2nd generation will disappear.
I just find it funny that so many of them still play it. Not the reasonable people who prefer Gens I/II but like Gens 3+, but the people who HATE Hoenn and beyond but still buy the games on the first day of release.
You do realize there are also people that think it should have ended at 125?
125?
You do realize that some of the people complaining about the fifth generation starters are actually obsessed with torchic, mudkip and treecko? There were a lot of 3rd gen freaks that hate chimchar because Infernape bests Blaziken.
They aren't "freaks." They're likely people whose first generation was Hoenn. They have nostalgia fans just like every other group.
Also, it's common among fandom to dump on everything new when it's first released. Most of them will get over it, maybe even like it.
So as you are continuing to lump everyone in as nostaligc freaks of the kanto/johto days there is a growing number of kids obsessed with the 3rd gen, claiming that was Pokemon's glory days.
Yes. So that means that the ones who bash the 1st and 2nd gens as being lame and stupid and the worst gens are also idiots as well, amirite?
Uh, yeah, that's what the posts in this forum indicate. There are a lot of people (again, here, not in the real world) who think Pokemon was ruined forever approximately when they got into middle school or high school.
I think it is very interesting that the last two threads of this nature have actually been started by nostalgia bashers,
The Concentrated Hatred thread was started by a nostalgia whiner. It was later merged with another nostalgia whiner thread, and then a THIRD thread was merged into that.
but now we have nostalgia bashers making threads like this all the damn time.
Two threads in a few months doesn't invalidate the dozens of "Too Many Legendaries?" and "Sinnoh doesn't have a certain magic" and "OMGZERS THEY CHANGED THE GRASS" (yes, people actually complained about how the grass looks in HG/SS).