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Post by SneakySalamander on Mar 12, 2014 18:03:02 GMT
Somewhere on your journey along the long, winding road of Pokémon, have you ever come across something that made you say:
'You know what? That really grinds my gears'
If so, let us know and vent out your anger below!
So, what grinds YOUR gears?
*note* I didn't make this for Serena bashing, if you want to bash the new companion that we all know and love, please check out the 'Serena Bashing' thread.
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MBTI: ENFP
Badass Punchline: Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
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Post by SneakySalamander on Mar 12, 2014 18:25:03 GMT
Okay, I'll start with what Grinds my Gears.
Personally, I feel like generation 6 is trying too hard to copy previous generations and I find this Grinds my Gears.
The 'mega' evolutions is like trying to bring all the previous generation's favourite Pokémon into XY to attract more customers, and what annoys me the most is how the nostalgic theme tune 'Gotta Catch Them All' is now the theme tune for the XY anime, but it's been changed for the worse.
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Post by IceArceus on Mar 12, 2014 18:27:40 GMT
I know! It is BLASPHEMY that a tune like the original tune is used as the theme tune for a series such as XY.
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Post by FinesseMalkin on Mar 12, 2014 22:51:15 GMT
Serena. 'Nuff said.
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Post by mew151 on Mar 12, 2014 23:24:03 GMT
Ugh. So many things from Pokémon GMGs me. I'll start with the anime in sequental order.
Kanto: most Gym Battles didn't feel rewarding for Ash to earn half of his total badges.
Johto: the dull journey (though I do like they improved on the Gym battles).
Hoenn: Team Magma/Aqua. They just didn't feel sinister and had little appearances throughout the journey.
Sinnou: Brock was in the background most of the time (excluding episodes focused on him) and the Gyms between 7th and 8th stretched too long and rushed the last remaining Pokémon League
Unova: so much consistency issues. My hated saga yet, despite Dawn's return.
Kalos: For now, Serena's slow progression. Not much else major until XY progresses more.
For the games, pretty much the 3rd generation where it could not accept the 1st and 2nd generation games due to enhanced coding and re-released those games. 1st and 3rd generation so far hasn't been granted the physical/special/other technique split. 6th Generation granted too much power on already powerful Pokémon (Mewtwo, Scizor, Blaziken, Lucario... there's nothing for 5th Generation?!). Where's my MegaPikachu?!!!!!
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Hoenn Champion
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Posts: 629
MBTI: ENFP
Badass Punchline: Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
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Post by SneakySalamander on Mar 13, 2014 0:03:19 GMT
For the DP anime, I don't feel that the Gym Battles were stretched long at all. What I liked about DP was it focused less on the battling and more on other arcs, for example, the Team Galactic arc was amazing. Also it lead to the further development of Ash and Dawn (and their close bond, of course). I felt some of the previous anime series was just Ash preparing for Gym Battles, then preparing for the Pokémon League, with little time for anything else.
Although I do agree with you, the Sinnoh League was a bit rushed, and so was the fact there were only 2 episodes left in the entire series after the League ended.
However, you could also take it in the way that the episodes between the 7th and 8th gym were there as substitute to episodes after the Sinnoh League ended.
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Post by mew151 on Mar 13, 2014 0:32:12 GMT
No. No. I meant the episodes between the 7th Gym and the 8th Gym were stretched a little too long. The gym battles for DP are fantastic, no doubt about that.
I suppose it did some good for the Johto Festival and the Grand Festival.
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Post by SneakySalamander on Mar 14, 2014 17:40:06 GMT
I had the feeling that the Sinnoh gyms were a lot harder than the gyms in other regions, which meant Ash needed to train more between each one
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Post by Blackscorpion2 on Mar 14, 2014 18:01:05 GMT
True, but that never hindered the fact that he still made out time for Dawn and helped her out :3
Serena is all I need to say in order to piss me off big time -_-
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Hoenn Champion
Trust my rage.
Posts: 629
MBTI: ENFP
Badass Punchline: Friendship is like peeing on yourself: everyone can see it, but only you get the warm feeling that it brings.
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Post by SneakySalamander on Mar 15, 2014 23:29:05 GMT
Oh yeah, do you know what else grinds my gears?
In DP, I started to find Team Rocket a bit annoying... they appeared in every episode and most of the time they added nothing to the plot, and even ruined it sometimes (like when Dawn put on that show for Ash... they had to come and ruin it, didn't they?).
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need a break from that. I cannot express how much more I appreciate fan-translations of anything now