/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9192803
nah it sucked dude. I didn't feel alive in the least bit, take off the fucking nostalgia goggles.

I was ten when pokemania started in the US, I was born in 88

I didn't grow out of it, I was disappointed from the start. I wanted a cool game with these interesting monsters, but we were constantly shoveled shit
>r/b
story was lacking, had a few alright moments, but I wanted more that what was offered.
>snap
was shit, came here for a monster adventure not to take pictures
>stadium
good post game battles, but not much else
>g/s
was 12 at this point
Much better than the original but I just wanted more than what was presented.
I remember playing paper mario, and wondering why I couldn't get a story like this in pokemon, reading both pokemon manga wishing the games could be like this

Between the gap I got a PS2 for xmas and I played many rpgs
>almost all square rpgs
even went back and played the SNES ones
>all of dragon quest up until then
>lunar 1+2
>golden sun
was lackluster but better than Pokémon
>played monster rpgs like jadecoon
>played arc the lad realized it was made the same year as (r/g) in japan
here is the monster arena side game where you can pit party members and monsters you captured against other players. 20x better than any pokemon game to date
The things I wanted to happen in pokemon games happened in this game.
>crazy missions like destroying a cultist outpost and leveling their bse
>destroying a monster creation factory
> badess teammate moments
>actually fucking up the mob boss instead of letting him go

That made me quit pokemon altogether, I tried to get into it by playing mystery dungeon ranger and gen4, ranger was pretty alright, but gen 4 was abject dogshit. Since then I keep looking to see if the series has gotten any gamefreakbetter and it hasn't; the fact that every other company game make better titles then is appalling.