The 3D animations of the battles are just amazing. Pokemon Battle Revolution's animations are 10x worst than this games, and that game was built just for the battling while Pokemon X/Y has an adventure and battling.
It's about their quality. Its about their identity.I'm not even remotely a fanboy--I buy these games months or years after they come out--but I always, eventually, get them and enjoy them.
I mean, what's not to like? They're all solid RPGs and generally well-made and, even if you discount that, they're very consistent experiences and there's not a damn thing wrong w/ that.
So unless these are somehow radically worse, you're probably tossing around the fanboy canard a bit too freely and thoughtlessly.
I thought I would finish it in a week and it was the only reason I bought a 3ds but it is sitting in my handheld collecting dust. I am just not enjoying it or getting into it as much as the older games. I don't know what the problem is. Am I just getting too old? I thought I'd be playing pokemon in my old age. Am I the only one who is disappointed?
Pokemon Silver/Gold remain the only games in the Pokemon series that added the most new content and gameplay mechanics.
OBJECTION
Pokemon Contest
Not really a staple addition. Just cosmetic fluff, I've been skipping most "contests" since ruby/saph.
Abilities
I'll give you this one. Abilities were important, but it wasn't apparent visually really. It didn't take a lot of effort for them to program into the game. They were also hideously inbalanced (and many of them still are).
Natures
This was such a minor (almost superficial) mod to the stats system, that it's not even worth mentioning.
Double Battles
Doubles battles were the worst thing to happen to Pokemon. They are boring, repetitive, and unessesary. They still annoy me to this day, and I avoid them whenever I can.
Pokemon
They added over 100 new Pokemon, how on earth is that considered "hardly"?
Notable minors:
The addition of actual colour
Bullshit, Yellow was the first version with limited color, as it was released when the GameBoy Color came out. Gold/Silver were released afterwards in 1999 with full color support.
Running shoes, you were so damn slow and casual before gen 3
irrelevant, as you get the bike pretty early in gold/silver and can mount up any time with the Select button.
A dad, Yeah fathers actually exist
irrelevant
Dive. A great HM adding a new feature to gameplay and im sure loads of other moves/TM's were added like hail
No specific ones come to mind. And Dive was so damn useless, they immediately removed it from the next generation.
Oh and weather conditions on the map, yeah its not just permanently mild weather everywhere forever.
Gold/Slver had whether conditions. It even had a day/night cycle, which was awesome for its time.
A bad guy team who actually had an objective and personality. Rocket were sad and dry
I agree, but every new "bad guy team" are sad and dry. Game Freak are sucky writers, and they keep copy/pasting the same Team Rocket cliches over and over again into new games.
They added 99 new Pokemon though. I think only gen VI added less.Pokemon
They added over 100 new Pokemon, how on earth is that considered "hardly"?