General Pokemon Discussion

[GrooveMan.exe]

Princess is kidnapped. You go rescue her and tap that ass. NSMB interpreted that slightly differently.

Although I admit that I've drifted off topic. My point on saying that since the only thing that changes between each Pokémon game is the map and the battle mechanics, it stands to reason that each Gen is an improvement over the last.

The only thing that gets in the way of that theory are the Pokémon available. I do concede that the amount of Pokemon available in Ru/Sa was restricted, although they were all hard-coded into the game, but then since DPPt has access to the most Pokémon, that should make it the best incarnation anyway. :V

I think I understand what you're getting at, and I agree that each gen is an improvement of the last in most ways. I'm just saying that newer games aren't objectively better than older games.

Oh it's not always the case. This theory only stands if we get more content AND any mechanics changes are for the better. It's true enough that we get sequels all the time that are worse than the originals. I just don't feel that's the case with Pokémon (or NSMB).