In 1998 my buddy Ka-Ho gave me a red pocket game boy in the morning before school with the pokemon red cartridge already in it. I started playing as he looked over my shoulder, as he also played the blue cartridge on a silver pocket game boy. I went to give it back to him as the bell rang for roll call. He just said "No, keep it"! He gave me a gameboy and pokemon red just so he'd have someone to trade pokemon with lol. I have great memories of playing red by an open window at night as a spring breeze blew the curtains open and night birds chirped and called. I felt like I might have been camping on a route somewhere, hearing pidgey and spearows in the trees. The mid to late 90s to 2001 will always hold a special place in my heart. I miss it so much and I wish constantly we could revive some of what made that time better than now.
I remember when me and my sisters all got Pokemon Red and/or Blue for Christmas one year (I got it along with a Game Boy Pocket and Super Mario Land), it was the height of the Pokemon craze, it was just everywhere. Honestly, the fact that they are still making new Pokemon to this day, and that the mainline games still sell like gangbusters is proof of its lasting appeal. Still, as jaded and disillusioned as I am with the more modern Pokemon titles, I have a soft-spot for Red and Blue; they're broken, unbalanced, and glitchy as all Hell, but that's part of why I love them. There is a charming simplicity to it all, right down to the adorable in-game graphics, not counting the Pokemon's battle sprites, though even those have their own weird appeal, too. All the music in this game is seared into my soul, too, and the sound effects on top of that. I'd also like to applaud how the game manages to balance out its storylines, and how they all dovetail nicely into each other, though I guess since we're avoiding spoilers on this channel, I'll avoid talking about it here. Yes, there was clearly greatness to be had with the Pokemon series from the very beginning, in spite of its flaws.
Your part about Blue challenging you to have a better team just made me realize that he was helping you the whole time. If it weren't for him, you'd get to the Elite Four without ever knowing how to create a balanced team, because you could just find one or two Pokemon of the appropriate type to get through each gym. In the end, while he was a jerk, he was also your rival, and a rival, unlike an enemy, is something to be grateful for.
6:46 The dual rival thing started in gen 3 with Wally. He also was the first “nice” rival that isn’t super competitive like blue or silver. Brendan/may are difficult in the early game but they don’t even get a fully evolved starter by the final time you battle them in game. Wally has a much stronger team than your other rival when you last battle them in victory road and it’s also one of the most varied teams you fight in the entire series. His influence as a rival can’t be understated even if he did kind of start the trend of the weak and less powerful rivals. He is by far the best one to fit the “weaker” rival trope because he actually has interesting progression unlike your main rival Brendan/may, who fit the more competitive rival trope.
8:57 You can see Articuno through binoculars in one of the gate houses, if memory serves. Its the gate house which separates Lavender town with the route South, or the next gate house, near Snorlax. (Again, I'm tryring to recall 20 year old memories.)
Being very young at the time, I didn't realise Pokemon Gen 1 was an RPG, even when I was looking at how many experience points each of my creatures had. Even to this day, it's prob still one of my favourite games. Good video, and with also good quality of capturing footage of the Game Boy game as well.
Back in the pre-internet era, methods for evolution (stone, trade) or where a certain Pkmn is located are things we take for granted today but it takes figuring out to know them at that time. How are u supposed to know that a fox rabbit thing u picked up in a building can turn into 1 of 3 different typings via a bunch of rocks w/o a manual or someone telling u? That's beauty of it. You gotta take your sweet time, explore & search wherever u can in the game, even places that were not intended.
yes and no. a lot of it is common knowledge because we all shared it with each other back in gen 1. including the stuff that didnt work, like using strength on the truck by the ss anne. there was so much that was wild and worked, we all believed most any crazy story about a rare pokemon. @Genghis420Khan
The internet existed in some form for decades before pokemon existed, but I think they mean before it was widespread. I knew one guy who had it at home in 1995 and that was it. Then we were allowed to use it one day in high school (maybe 1997 or 98) but my buddies immediately tried looking for pictures of dead bodies so I walked away. The internet genuinely didn't interest me until I got my first PC in 2001. So for a lot of us, gaming really was about exploring for yourself or hearing what to do from irl friends. Occasionally you might buy a guidebook/magazine. That's how it was in small town Australia at least.
Damn bro you have such an interesting concept for videos.. Pretty much perfect... I can't believe you're under a million.... One day your channel's gonna explode... Keep it up
What if Gen 1 came out sooner in 1989? As the GameBoy's launch titles. And had more features like a female protagonist and breeding? Plus the player becoming Champion first.
BRO liked, subbed, bell notification click. and a comment to tell you that your videos are awesome. cannot believe that your sub count isnt three times higher
Gotta say, your video quality is amazing! Currently replaying through fire red right now and been collecting as many Pokemon games as I can for the last year ( To play! Not to resell) and this video definitely is only scratching that nostalgia itch even more. Keep up the great work!
I always called the rival in red/blue “Fartface” or “butthead” lmao. I’d be like.. “ ohh here comes butthead..his theme songs playin..time to kick his Pokémon into oblivion. Lol great times.
Adding that clip of Metroid 2 during the part about sound is great, because that game really has fantastic sound design, and also gets very creative in emulating the sounds of living creatures on an 8-bit system. Also, I'd love to see a sort of reimagining of many of the concepts brought up here one day. Sure, there are plenty of sequels and remakes, but what I'm thinking about is taking the memorable highlights and seeing what could be done with them with the technical capabilities of today. Like, the whole concept of a rival is fantastic, so what if they had something like 10+ different rivals, all with unique strategies (one focusing on status effects, another on having beneficial natures, etc.) traveling the world in real-time. Or what if you took the League concept and made every gym into a similar gauntlet? Once you enter the challenge you're forced to battle multiple trainers in a row without the opportunity to heal, and each challenge has a themed twist, like allowing you to pick berries between each fight, forcing both trainers to switch out their Pokemon every three turns, or use specific items, or being able to pick which trainers to fight based on clues (kinda like Norman's gym in gen 3). I love Pokemon, but it'd be so interesting to see what they'd come up with if Game Freak just went "okay, let's ignore all the traditions and legacy we've built over the years and just think about different ways to take those great ideas we had at the start and turn it into something new".
I seriously don’t understand how this channel has 4.5K subs and 230 viewers. I seriously find these very helpful when purchasing games and overall entertainment. It seems like you enjoy doing these videos too! I’ll make sure to share your channel to my friends and discord servers. Keep it goin!
Thanks Sadvato! And I hope my channel can help you find some new potential games to play. That's a big goal of these videos. We all want other people to play our favorite games, right?
Another great video, you guys have covered so many of the games that have been important to me over the years. Maybe you could do something like Resident Evil or Silent Hill in the future?
The part about how the mechanics were super easy to understand (1:50) reminded me of something I learned from another video. Nongamers may find mechanics that gamers are used to difficult to understand. This is important to keep in mind when recommending a game to casual players.
Ground type isn't immune to electric because it doesn't conduct electricity (sandshrew looks like he would conduct electricty just as much as most other pokemon). If that were the case, it would probably make more sense to make rock type immune to electricity. Ground is immune to electric attacks because they ground the electricty.
blue is what i affectionally refer to as a neppo prick, he's had years of training ahead of you [as seen by the manga] and he's so spoiled by his grandpa that if his grandpa that when told no blue just wait one sec and ill give you a mon, he throws a temper tantrum. he's a neppo baby, a bully, and a prick and we love him for it because it sets him up to do alot of growing by the end of the story.
Love the video. Great idea posting this on reddit. One thing though.. the first legendary bird you see is Articuno. It's in the seafoam islands before you even get access to victory road. In fact seafoam isles are on the way to blanes gym so you would only have around 6 badges at that point.
Glad you enjoyed it! And you're definitely right in that players have the option of seeing Articuno first (in fact, once you have surf, there's nothing stopping you from getting Zapdos too). I suppose I just never take that route to Cinnabar, going straight south from Pallet Town instead, so I wasn't thinking about crossing Seafoam Islands while I was working on this video.
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutGamingThis is part of what makes pokemon great, particularly gen 1 at the time. We all had different experiences, and shared them with each other and it helped us find all the stuff. Even the things that werent there. someone did find a working mew glitch years later, once the game was solidly into sequel titles. turns out hacking was not the only way. i love the sense of discovery and unknowns in pokemon titles, and still play all of them without guides to this day. its just once i finish the game i need the internet to help as there isnt a nation of classrooms full of grassroots grapevine networks connecting young minds to hidden areas anymore. Even so, every pokemon game always has things you can find out from others that you never would have on your own.
Friends and I used to get together and race to the end of pokemon. I'd win Brock with character by catching piggeys and just sand attacking the crap out of Brock and misty. While power leveling charmander
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutGaming yeh I did! kinda makes me sad even though these games are highly flawed they're still way better than recent gens in my opinion, pokemon has been so trash for me for over a decade now
@@liammbiscwit in kanto (and johto to an extent) you had to go out of your way to find them, the story didn't pretty much force you to catch it. gen 1: mewtwo, hinted at but only catchable in an optional postgame cave gen 2: lugia/ho-oh, story tells you about them, but you need to go out of your way to find it gen 3: groudon/kyogre, you meet it in the story gen 4: dialga/palkia, you meet it in the story gen 5: zekrom/reshiram, you have to catch it to battle N gen 6: xerneas/yveltal, you meet it in the story gen 7: lunala/solgaleo, optional but they are part of the story the entire time gen 8: you can't not catch eternatus gen 9: koraidon/miraidon, literally given to you at the start of the game
@kaotic300 un comparable because there wasn't a story line legendary. You'd have to compare it to non box legendaries. And it's no different from any other gen, it's just in a cave post game. Simple. Those legendaries in new games are the exact same but because of the Internet we know everything before the first playthrough. Kanto is barebones and super lacking (let it off being the first games, but its far from good) even new game, if you only used in game content and not outside sources, then you'll have to go more out of your way or just the same as older games
@@liammbiscwit one of the things i liked about kanto is that the legendaries are not part of the story. sword/shield got it right by having zacian/zamazenta in the story but only making them catchable in the postgame (didn't like that it forces you to catch eternatus before the champion battle)
Will do! I've been poking around at some of the later generations, but I wasn't sure if people would get sick of them if I went straight through every generation without uploading anything else, ha ha.
I think it’s because of the uncertainty. Something that will never have the same strength again. Internet didn’t exist and information was scarce. Just to wonder how depth the game could be made you want to play and explore. Want to enjoy a game and make the game feel more memorable? Play without watching or reading anything about the game. Ark captured the nostalgia in me. Played thinking I made awesome discoveries while there was videos telling of the locations I thought they weren’t known and OP….500k people know where I am at
For me, the first 2-3 generations are so good because of how simple they were. Back when we had roughly less than 200 pokemon in gen 2 and most designs were unique to where you wanted to catch them all. Nowadays, we have so many clones that it's boring. How many pickachu clones do we need? Why do we still have the same type quota each game? We have the same 3 element starters, the same regional bird, regional normal type, same regional bug type, regional pikachu clone, the same boring rivals, etc early on in every game. Back then, they were fun and unique concepts. Now, it just feels like the same game recycled over and over with a fresh coat of paint. And that coat of paint isn't even great because of how crappy the graphics, textures, and pokemon and trainer models have become over the years. The games are declining in quality where as before they were new, fresh, and innovative.
I have to disagree with Gen 3's rivals cause they drastically fall off, and it isn't fixed for one of them till Gen 6, and in Hop's defence he actually changes his team around a lot after Bede calls him a bad trainer, which keeps you on your toes as a player as he's trying out different teams. Everything else here is fantastic stuff though, very well made~
Bulbasaur is Not easy mode. Bulbasaur has more weaknesses than either of the other types, and yeah, while he does have a type advantage during the first two gyms. Bulbasaur has to get to level 13 before it learns a grass move than can capitalise on type differences. Meanwhile Squirtle and Charmander learn bubble and ember at levels 8 and 9 respectively. Even though rock/ground Pokemon resist ember, they have such a low Special Stat it doesn't matter. Also, remember bulbasaurs many weaknesses, Spearows peck, and Zubat's Leech Life are no joke. If anything Bulbasaur is hard mode!
Bulbasaur is definitely easy mode imo. Thanks to Repel the wild Pokemon like Zubat aren't an issue, and he does just as well against Brock as Squirtle if you're not at a high enough level for Bubble, which I'm often not, especially if I lose against Blue which is a real possibility in the first match (unless you cheese it with Potion, which tbh you can do to every fight). However, I evenly level my Pokemon though, so it probably depends on playstyle.
Nah bro. I love the entire 'Saur' line, and they're my favorite starters. But Bulbasaur is 100% easy mode. You only really struggle with 2 gyms (Erica, and Blaine.) But theyre so far into the game that you'll have a full team by then. And even then, you have so many status options with Grass/Poison, so even then, it's not terrible.
@@morathehollow4797 You shouldn't judge each Pokemon by gym comparison alone. Theirs also every wild trainer and dungeon in the game to think about too. Also, the availability of other Pokemon types as well.
Hate to bring up an error in your otherwise excellent video, but Bulbasaur and its evolutions are unable to learn Stun Spore. Both in Gen I and in all future Pokémon games.
@@gircakes2 No, they just usually go to comments of UA-cam videos that say other Gen’s are the best and completely just be d*cks talking about how horrible that Gen is and how better Gen 5 is.
It's sad there can never be "What's So Great About Pokemon's 8th/9th/etc" episodes, maybe not even earlier ones. The series is woke and boring, poorly designed in every sense of the word, and there's never going to change. At least we has a couple amazing gens and some decent ones.
In 1998 my buddy Ka-Ho gave me a red pocket game boy in the morning before school with the pokemon red cartridge already in it. I started playing as he looked over my shoulder, as he also played the blue cartridge on a silver pocket game boy. I went to give it back to him as the bell rang for roll call. He just said "No, keep it"! He gave me a gameboy and pokemon red just so he'd have someone to trade pokemon with lol.
I have great memories of playing red by an open window at night as a spring breeze blew the curtains open and night birds chirped and called. I felt like I might have been camping on a route somewhere, hearing pidgey and spearows in the trees. The mid to late 90s to 2001 will always hold a special place in my heart. I miss it so much and I wish constantly we could revive some of what made that time better than now.
I remember when me and my sisters all got Pokemon Red and/or Blue for Christmas one year (I got it along with a Game Boy Pocket and Super Mario Land), it was the height of the Pokemon craze, it was just everywhere. Honestly, the fact that they are still making new Pokemon to this day, and that the mainline games still sell like gangbusters is proof of its lasting appeal. Still, as jaded and disillusioned as I am with the more modern Pokemon titles, I have a soft-spot for Red and Blue; they're broken, unbalanced, and glitchy as all Hell, but that's part of why I love them. There is a charming simplicity to it all, right down to the adorable in-game graphics, not counting the Pokemon's battle sprites, though even those have their own weird appeal, too. All the music in this game is seared into my soul, too, and the sound effects on top of that. I'd also like to applaud how the game manages to balance out its storylines, and how they all dovetail nicely into each other, though I guess since we're avoiding spoilers on this channel, I'll avoid talking about it here. Yes, there was clearly greatness to be had with the Pokemon series from the very beginning, in spite of its flaws.
Your part about Blue challenging you to have a better team just made me realize that he was helping you the whole time. If it weren't for him, you'd get to the Elite Four without ever knowing how to create a balanced team, because you could just find one or two Pokemon of the appropriate type to get through each gym. In the end, while he was a jerk, he was also your rival, and a rival, unlike an enemy, is something to be grateful for.
Yo that’s how most pain and suffering works irl actually
@@ryannixon4138you’re not smart
@@richardbeater8915 Don't be a prick.
6:46 The dual rival thing started in gen 3 with Wally. He also was the first “nice” rival that isn’t super competitive like blue or silver. Brendan/may are difficult in the early game but they don’t even get a fully evolved starter by the final time you battle them in game. Wally has a much stronger team than your other rival when you last battle them in victory road and it’s also one of the most varied teams you fight in the entire series. His influence as a rival can’t be understated even if he did kind of start the trend of the weak and less powerful rivals. He is by far the best one to fit the “weaker” rival trope because he actually has interesting progression unlike your main rival Brendan/may, who fit the more competitive rival trope.
Was Wally really a rival? I literally forget about him every time I play those games….
8:57 You can see Articuno through binoculars in one of the gate houses, if memory serves. Its the gate house which separates Lavender town with the route South, or the next gate house, near Snorlax. (Again, I'm tryring to recall 20 year old memories.)
Thank you for making these games feel like living, breathing expriences again.
Jusr want to say your videos are great and you definitely deserve more subscribers. Keep it up!
Thank you! That means a lot.
Being very young at the time, I didn't realise Pokemon Gen 1 was an RPG, even when I was looking at how many experience points each of my creatures had. Even to this day, it's prob still one of my favourite games.
Good video, and with also good quality of capturing footage of the Game Boy game as well.
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Back in the pre-internet era, methods for evolution (stone, trade) or where a certain Pkmn is located are things we take for granted today but it takes figuring out to know them at that time. How are u supposed to know that a fox rabbit thing u picked up in a building can turn into 1 of 3 different typings via a bunch of rocks w/o a manual or someone telling u? That's beauty of it. You gotta take your sweet time, explore & search wherever u can in the game, even places that were not intended.
That was common knowledge in pop culture.
yes and no. a lot of it is common knowledge because we all shared it with each other back in gen 1. including the stuff that didnt work, like using strength on the truck by the ss anne. there was so much that was wild and worked, we all believed most any crazy story about a rare pokemon. @Genghis420Khan
.. there was no pokemon before the internet. I remember googling my problems when pokemon blue came out.
Bill's PC had info on Eevee and its evolutions.
The internet existed in some form for decades before pokemon existed, but I think they mean before it was widespread. I knew one guy who had it at home in 1995 and that was it. Then we were allowed to use it one day in high school (maybe 1997 or 98) but my buddies immediately tried looking for pictures of dead bodies so I walked away. The internet genuinely didn't interest me until I got my first PC in 2001. So for a lot of us, gaming really was about exploring for yourself or hearing what to do from irl friends. Occasionally you might buy a guidebook/magazine. That's how it was in small town Australia at least.
3:59 You'd have to be a masochist to pick Charmander as a starter.
Damn bro you have such an interesting concept for videos.. Pretty much perfect... I can't believe you're under a million.... One day your channel's gonna explode... Keep it up
Thanks Rupam! I appreciate the kind words, your support means a lot to me.
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutGaming 😊
1998-2005 are my best memories of Pokémon.
Yes 👌🏼
Articuno is the 1st legendary you can come across, IF you head for Cinnabar Island from Fuscia City (as I always do) but Zapdos is 100% optional.
What if Gen 1 came out sooner in 1989? As the GameBoy's launch titles. And had more features like a female protagonist and breeding? Plus the player becoming Champion first.
BRO liked, subbed, bell notification click. and a comment to tell you that your videos are awesome. cannot believe that your sub count isnt three times higher
Every single one of those makes my day, so thank you so much man.
Gotta say, your video quality is amazing! Currently replaying through fire red right now and been collecting as many Pokemon games as I can for the last year ( To play! Not to resell) and this video definitely is only scratching that nostalgia itch even more. Keep up the great work!
I always called the rival in red/blue “Fartface” or “butthead” lmao. I’d be like.. “ ohh here comes butthead..his theme songs playin..time to kick his Pokémon into oblivion. Lol great times.
UA-cam didn't give me a notification, good video as always keep up the good work :)
This is a really well-done video. Thanks for your hard work!
Adding that clip of Metroid 2 during the part about sound is great, because that game really has fantastic sound design, and also gets very creative in emulating the sounds of living creatures on an 8-bit system.
Also, I'd love to see a sort of reimagining of many of the concepts brought up here one day. Sure, there are plenty of sequels and remakes, but what I'm thinking about is taking the memorable highlights and seeing what could be done with them with the technical capabilities of today. Like, the whole concept of a rival is fantastic, so what if they had something like 10+ different rivals, all with unique strategies (one focusing on status effects, another on having beneficial natures, etc.) traveling the world in real-time. Or what if you took the League concept and made every gym into a similar gauntlet? Once you enter the challenge you're forced to battle multiple trainers in a row without the opportunity to heal, and each challenge has a themed twist, like allowing you to pick berries between each fight, forcing both trainers to switch out their Pokemon every three turns, or use specific items, or being able to pick which trainers to fight based on clues (kinda like Norman's gym in gen 3). I love Pokemon, but it'd be so interesting to see what they'd come up with if Game Freak just went "okay, let's ignore all the traditions and legacy we've built over the years and just think about different ways to take those great ideas we had at the start and turn it into something new".
Fantastic video. Great depth and insight
Get this man more subscribers
Great work as always - very informative 😇
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I think Barry was a good rival. He wasn't a pushover either imo 😊
I seriously don’t understand how this channel has 4.5K subs and 230 viewers.
I seriously find these very helpful when purchasing games and overall entertainment. It seems like you enjoy doing these videos too! I’ll make sure to share your channel to my friends and discord servers. Keep it goin!
Thanks Sadvato! And I hope my channel can help you find some new potential games to play. That's a big goal of these videos. We all want other people to play our favorite games, right?
What'sSoGreatAboutGaming I’ve been enjoying Stardew Valley because of your video, and I’m really enjoying it! I seriously hope your channel grows!
For me the greatest thing about generation 1 is that's when my adventure started.
Another great video, you guys have covered so many of the games that have been important to me over the years. Maybe you could do something like Resident Evil or Silent Hill in the future?
I've never played many horror games, I'll have to add them to the list! Thank you!
I was a kid when these games came out.There was nothing like it!!!
The part about how the mechanics were super easy to understand (1:50) reminded me of something I learned from another video. Nongamers may find mechanics that gamers are used to difficult to understand. This is important to keep in mind when recommending a game to casual players.
Gen 1 is the only gen that really matters in Pokemon.
Great mini documentary 👍🏼
Ground type isn't immune to electric because it doesn't conduct electricity (sandshrew looks like he would conduct electricty just as much as most other pokemon). If that were the case, it would probably make more sense to make rock type immune to electricity. Ground is immune to electric attacks because they ground the electricty.
blue is what i affectionally refer to as a neppo prick, he's had years of training ahead of you [as seen by the manga] and he's so spoiled by his grandpa that if his grandpa that when told no blue just wait one sec and ill give you a mon, he throws a temper tantrum.
he's a neppo baby, a bully, and a prick and we love him for it because it sets him up to do alot of growing by the end of the story.
Love the video. Great idea posting this on reddit. One thing though.. the first legendary bird you see is Articuno. It's in the seafoam islands before you even get access to victory road. In fact seafoam isles are on the way to blanes gym so you would only have around 6 badges at that point.
But i definitely subscribed after watching this.
Glad you enjoyed it! And you're definitely right in that players have the option of seeing Articuno first (in fact, once you have surf, there's nothing stopping you from getting Zapdos too). I suppose I just never take that route to Cinnabar, going straight south from Pallet Town instead, so I wasn't thinking about crossing Seafoam Islands while I was working on this video.
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutGamingThis is part of what makes pokemon great, particularly gen 1 at the time. We all had different experiences, and shared them with each other and it helped us find all the stuff. Even the things that werent there. someone did find a working mew glitch years later, once the game was solidly into sequel titles. turns out hacking was not the only way.
i love the sense of discovery and unknowns in pokemon titles, and still play all of them without guides to this day. its just once i finish the game i need the internet to help as there isnt a nation of classrooms full of grassroots grapevine networks connecting young minds to hidden areas anymore. Even so, every pokemon game always has things you can find out from others that you never would have on your own.
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Friends and I used to get together and race to the end of pokemon. I'd win Brock with character by catching piggeys and just sand attacking the crap out of Brock and misty. While power leveling charmander
Im so early! Cant wait to watch this masterpiece of a video
Hope you enjoy it!
@@WhatsSoGreatAboutGaming yeh I did! kinda makes me sad even though these games are highly flawed they're still way better than recent gens in my opinion, pokemon has been so trash for me for over a decade now
i miss the time when legendaries weren't handed to you like candy 🍬
On a kanto video? they always have been handed to you like candy
@@liammbiscwit in kanto (and johto to an extent) you had to go out of your way to find them, the story didn't pretty much force you to catch it.
gen 1: mewtwo, hinted at but only catchable in an optional postgame cave
gen 2: lugia/ho-oh, story tells you about them, but you need to go out of your way to find it
gen 3: groudon/kyogre, you meet it in the story
gen 4: dialga/palkia, you meet it in the story
gen 5: zekrom/reshiram, you have to catch it to battle N
gen 6: xerneas/yveltal, you meet it in the story
gen 7: lunala/solgaleo, optional but they are part of the story the entire time
gen 8: you can't not catch eternatus
gen 9: koraidon/miraidon, literally given to you at the start of the game
@kaotic300 un comparable because there wasn't a story line legendary. You'd have to compare it to non box legendaries. And it's no different from any other gen, it's just in a cave post game. Simple.
Those legendaries in new games are the exact same but because of the Internet we know everything before the first playthrough. Kanto is barebones and super lacking (let it off being the first games, but its far from good) even new game, if you only used in game content and not outside sources, then you'll have to go more out of your way or just the same as older games
@@liammbiscwit one of the things i liked about kanto is that the legendaries are not part of the story.
sword/shield got it right by having zacian/zamazenta in the story but only making them catchable in the postgame (didn't like that it forces you to catch eternatus before the champion battle)
Your videos are so amazing 🎉
Please continue covering pokemon games
Will do! I've been poking around at some of the later generations, but I wasn't sure if people would get sick of them if I went straight through every generation without uploading anything else, ha ha.
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I think it’s because of the uncertainty.
Something that will never have the same strength again. Internet didn’t exist and information was scarce.
Just to wonder how depth the game could be made you want to play and explore.
Want to enjoy a game and make the game feel more memorable?
Play without watching or reading anything about the game.
Ark captured the nostalgia in me.
Played thinking I made awesome discoveries while there was videos telling of the locations I thought they weren’t known and OP….500k people know where I am at
For me, the first 2-3 generations are so good because of how simple they were. Back when we had roughly less than 200 pokemon in gen 2 and most designs were unique to where you wanted to catch them all. Nowadays, we have so many clones that it's boring. How many pickachu clones do we need? Why do we still have the same type quota each game? We have the same 3 element starters, the same regional bird, regional normal type, same regional bug type, regional pikachu clone, the same boring rivals, etc early on in every game.
Back then, they were fun and unique concepts. Now, it just feels like the same game recycled over and over with a fresh coat of paint. And that coat of paint isn't even great because of how crappy the graphics, textures, and pokemon and trainer models have become over the years.
The games are declining in quality where as before they were new, fresh, and innovative.
the art
What a cool video
I miss the rival being a jerk
I have to disagree with Gen 3's rivals cause they drastically fall off, and it isn't fixed for one of them till Gen 6, and in Hop's defence he actually changes his team around a lot after Bede calls him a bad trainer, which keeps you on your toes as a player as he's trying out different teams. Everything else here is fantastic stuff though, very well made~
Btw in newer games, you're the rival coz you are stronger lol
"Everyone thought it was going to be a fad at the beginning"
Uh...no, everyone knew it was beyond a fad. Pokemon dominated the mid to late 90s
Bulbasaur is Not easy mode. Bulbasaur has more weaknesses than either of the other types, and yeah, while he does have a type advantage during the first two gyms. Bulbasaur has to get to level 13 before it learns a grass move than can capitalise on type differences. Meanwhile Squirtle and Charmander learn bubble and ember at levels 8 and 9 respectively. Even though rock/ground Pokemon resist ember, they have such a low Special Stat it doesn't matter.
Also, remember bulbasaurs many weaknesses, Spearows peck, and Zubat's Leech Life are no joke. If anything Bulbasaur is hard mode!
Bulbasaur is definitely easy mode imo. Thanks to Repel the wild Pokemon like Zubat aren't an issue, and he does just as well against Brock as Squirtle if you're not at a high enough level for Bubble, which I'm often not, especially if I lose against Blue which is a real possibility in the first match (unless you cheese it with Potion, which tbh you can do to every fight).
However, I evenly level my Pokemon though, so it probably depends on playstyle.
Nah bro. I love the entire 'Saur' line, and they're my favorite starters. But Bulbasaur is 100% easy mode. You only really struggle with 2 gyms (Erica, and Blaine.) But theyre so far into the game that you'll have a full team by then. And even then, you have so many status options with Grass/Poison, so even then, it's not terrible.
@@morathehollow4797 You shouldn't judge each Pokemon by gym comparison alone. Theirs also every wild trainer and dungeon in the game to think about too. Also, the availability of other Pokemon types as well.
Hate to bring up an error in your otherwise excellent video, but Bulbasaur and its evolutions are unable to learn Stun Spore. Both in Gen I and in all future Pokémon games.
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Whats so great about Fall Guys 😁😁
My fav is pokemon y amd aplpha saphire
Surprised there’s no Gen 5 fans being A holes in the comments.
Why would there be? Do gen 5 fans hate gen 1
@@gircakes2 No, they just usually go to comments of UA-cam videos that say other Gen’s are the best and completely just be d*cks talking about how horrible that Gen is and how better Gen 5 is.
As if the western localization team's opinion is worth anything 🤣
667th like 😅 phew lol
It's sad there can never be "What's So Great About Pokemon's 8th/9th/etc" episodes, maybe not even earlier ones. The series is woke and boring, poorly designed in every sense of the word, and there's never going to change. At least we has a couple amazing gens and some decent ones.
Genuinely bad game das extremely unfun to go back & play personally