Thread:Darkcloud1111/@comment-26050071-20150127223743/@comment-3146930-20150127234917

Too much water (lol, but I don't know if you will get the joke).

But anyway one of my favorite things about the games are replaying them, usually with a different team. However the Pokémon overall I didn't like, meaning I ended up with almost the same team every time. Torchic was usually my started because I didn't like how the final forms of the other starters looked. The one water type I wanted (Feebas) was almost impossible to find so I had to fall back on past generation Pokémon which kind of defeated the purpose of a new region.

Aside from the Pokémon, there was very little to do after beating the Elite Four, basically just finding the legendary Pokémon. Even those were a pain because you needed to know brail to figure out what to do; the infobook with the game came with a brail dictionary, but didn't say what it was for and I bought it used, so no infobook.

Another problem was the HM system. You near constantly need to have at least two HM-slaves on hand to go anywhere. Most caves need strength/rock smash/sometimes flash, water routes need surf/dive/waterwall, and even normal routes require rock smash or cut, meaning at least one spot is always taken up by someone you aren't going to use. Plus surfing is just like walking in a cave, so when half the map is water it can get annoying.

Lastly it didn't feel like as big a jump from Gen2 to Gen3 as Gen1 to Gen2, not counting graphics. A lot was introduced in Gold/Silver that even to this day are still used (breeding, daily events, night/day, ect.), but I feel like all Gen3 introduced that lasted was natures/abilities. Contests normally come back in some form, but I don't know anyone that plays them because they are fun. They even removed the night/day cycle for some reason and the only clock in the game was in your house and you couldn't even adjust it for daylight savings time. Plus it wasn't backwards compatible which was kind of a shame, especially when you consider that you can still transfer Pokémon from R/S to the current generation (requires a lot of work however). Even the remakes kind of have this problem, with the new Mega-stones in ORAS not being compatible with X/Y, so you can't trade them or battle someone with them.

The only thing I really liked about the game was the story with the two rival teams fighting each other...and Absol.