Like seriously? Back when it was the latest Gen it was by far

>>28142954
/vp/ is a bunch of contrarians

Yeah I never really liked Gen 5. Really seemed like a lackluster gen to me. The designs were mostly weak to me. Nothing new or exciting was introduced and it wasn't even 3D.

>>28142954
To be blunt, those are all subjective opinions. I personally loved all the callbacks many mons made, and found most of the new designs to my liking (I like roughly 85% of them.) The games themselves also had a much more in-depth story than any previous or after at least so far. Additionally, Black 2 and White 2 fixed most complaints with BW1, and weren't just a standard "third version" - it added so much more to the world and region and showed a ton of progression. One thing that most people loved about gen V was the post-game, too, which was afaik larger than any other gen. While many of theae reasons are subjective as well, these are why I, personally, felt it was the strongest gen.

"Gen V was good" is a shitty meme forced by edgy contrarian faggots who infest this board as a reaction to basically everyone else in the internet disliking it. Example of posters like that are cancerous tripfags (eg >>28143113) and other autistic ones like waifufags.

>>28143216
whoa there that's a lot of buzzwords

>>28142954
Some people are fine with pokemon being yokai so they don't have the visceral 'this is fucking retarded' reaction to icecreammon and such that other do. And I'm only half shitposting by saying that.

People that like simple, classical design that feels like part of a believable, coherent universe hate a lot of this new shit. People that like wacky lolsorandum constant stimulation and don't need any justification for it love pokemon's current direction.

>>28143368
To me, Pokemon has been pretty consistent since gen II.
Gen I designs that I don't like are typically inconsistent. Like Electrode, Muk, Dugtrio, but also boring copypasta ones like Goldeen and Spearow.

I think Gen V had some of the best designs since gen II, there were some weird choices like an ice cream cone but the art style felt like a return to form after how overblown and tacky most of the Gen IV designs were.

...that's about the only good thing I can say about it. I hate that it created this shitty meme of giving you bunch of npc friends to annoy you the whole game, and I dislike the extra emphasis on story since they may as well not bother if the writing is as crap as always. It basically marked the end of me enjoying the single player of Pokemon, now I just rush ahead to the postgame and multiplayer

>>28142954
No one is here forever.

Many people who browsed /vp/ back 2010 have moved on. People who grew up with Gen 5 took their place.

Source: I'm Moothree.