POKEMON GEN 6 ANNOUNCED

[Kriven]

It's not that you can't have opinions, it's just you keep claiming parts of your opinions as objective fact when Gen 1 has been shown to suffer from the same problems as the later ones, as well as later Gens also carrying many of the strengths that Gen 1 had.

If you were to chalk it up to the fact that preference over Pokemon designs is an almost entirely subjective matter, instead of relying on arguments that simply don't hold up on their own, then I think we'd be a bit more okay here. I, for example, disagree greatly with people who think Gen III had crappy designs but I can see why they'd prefer other designs, and I can accept that there's people who don't think Tropius is rad as hell.

Admittedly, RokuGurin didn't exactly handle that as gracefully as he/she could have, but no one's attacking you for your opinions. They just disagree and feel that the way you're defending them is a bit... misguided.

But it is an objective fact that there has been a shift in design interest between the first two generations and the past three (almost four) generations.

Whether it's good or bad or not is subjective. But that there is a difference between the two (old and new) is not.

I also don't think it really has much to do with how I word my arguments at all. It feels, to me, like preferring the older generations automatically has one labelled as "Nostalgia-sir" and dismissed as an annoyance. My opinions have been no more or less misguided than anyone else's here. I think they're being interpreted that way because people are attributing large umbrellas to my point of view that I never opened myself. There are some good designs among the newer Pokemon, I never said they were all bad. Just like I never said that all of the old ones were good. You mentioned Tropius earlier, and I think that's a pretty cool design. I think Excadrill is a pretty cool design. But on the whole I have been largely disappointed with the direction the series has taken, and as someone who was a fan of the series from the very beginning, I feel a little betrayed.

For the record, Pokemon Ruby came out ten years ago already. I was only twelve then. I have some very nostalgic memories from those early tween-teen years. Even back then I felt something was "off" about the way the Pokemon looked in RSE. My opinions are not nostalgia driven. They are solely preference.

I also think it's interesting that I'm being called out for expressing myself as being "objective" when a number of other posters have argued "creativity" as an objective point. Which it really isn't and never will be.