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I miss the originals T.T

The originals never ******** left.
They've been in every game since Green.

I thought the fact that you can catch Pokemon like Pikachu and Pidgey early in the gen 6, coupled with the fact that you can receive a gen1 starter too, would clear this mentality... I was obviously mistaken

I'm not saying they left, I mean that I miss it just being them. Cuz this gears and ice cream cones Bullshit is ridiculous

The original WHAT, specifically?

It can't be the Pokemon since you can get a fair share of creatures from across all the Generations in this game without the need of transferring any. When PokeBank and Poketransfer release, you will have access to all the Pokemon, so it can't be that.

Is it Gym Leaders? They come and go. You remember what made them awesome, and get happy when they cameo somewhere, or when something like the PWT returns.

Is it villain teams? Well, there's a reason why villains don't tend to be recursive anymore. That trend is mostly regulated to Western stories. But hey, when a reason does come for a hated villain to return....

Is it trainer designs? Come now, just because the NPCs suffered from mass doppleganger syndrome, doesn't mean the entire world of them has the same exact strand of the disease. It's like the common cold. So many variants that you'll never fully cure it.

Is it movesets? Miss the good ol' autopilot sets that everyone had to use to even dream of competing? Like your games stagnant? There's alot of poorly designed TCGs that you'd be more than welcome to play. Yu-Gi-Oh comes to mind in terms of extremely poor design and stagnant metagames.

So, my question to you, is what specific so-called original do you miss, because it most certainly isn't the creatures themselves.

The originals are still around, but I do miss the hype.

Back in 98-2000 I couldn't go anywhere without hearing "Pikachu!". The toys sold like hotcakes, and flew off the shelves, today they hardly have to restock. Burger King was doing big promotions, Pokemon figures were found anywhere even gas stations. Plushes randomly found in furniture stores, Pikachu Mobiles being made, Lugia PT Cruisers. The card "Charizard" was known by other card game players, and people who didn't even play card games, none of the cards afterwards or today are recognisable like Base Set Charizard was. Pokemon movies actually hit the big screen in the US but don't anymore. Boy bands like Nsync doing promotions with WB and the first movie. Pikachu was in every magazine, and books, comics, etc. were found everywhere even grocery stores and Pikachu balloons in every parade. Every company wanted a promotion with them from crackerjacks, to poptarts. Pokemon merchandise was a bigger seller than Tickle me Elmo. TV saw parodys (Lingling, Gouno, Chinpokomon) it was freakin everywhere.

Today X and Y made record sales, and they deserved it as its natural their fanbase grew and matured. But if what your missing is the hype, I can understand that as the originals became Iconic. Theres been awesome Pokemon since then like my favorite, Lucario, but the merchandise isn't taking the US by storm like it once did as the new car smell wore off. Its still hugely successful though and not going away anytime soon, so thats good. XD

I like that they added more pokemon, in my opinion; 718 is not enough.
Like in the real world. There are trillions of different species and there still many yet to be discovered.
It makes it more interesting and fun.

Yeah, I like the originals but I like the new ones just as much.
But the only reason the originals have a more 'special' place in people's heart, is because they played the blue/red when they were younger
Everything was way better when you were a kid.