Werster Talks About The Infamous Gen 5 Hate

Shame on you.

[Unremarkable_Tard]

To the people who subscribed to me over this video: Y'all are gonna be disappointed. lol

[Damian_]

After repeated instances of "the team of bad guys will get defeated after the seventh badge and before the eighth", the fact that BW managed to have the evil team succeed all the way to the fucking champion himself was so refreshing.

[Werster]

Damn, this guy makes some great points!!

[manzanito]

At first I though the B/W hate was an overblown thing because me and everyone I knew had a blast with those games.
But then when I played X/Y and saw how few new pokemons there were, they let you choose a starter from gen 1, gave charizard and mewtwo 2 mega evolutions and brough back legendary pokemons from gen 1, everything suddenly clicked.

[domicraft]

Let's be real.... It was only about "HOW IS THERE NO OLD POKÉMON?!" while one of the things people hated in Gen 4 was how Diamond and Pearl had so many typical older choices for Pokémon.

[SantanaBanana]

Gen 5 had so much passion put into it. The world of unova has so many things to discover. It felt like such an adventure looking for things I missed. There are so many pokemon too

[LS]

Even nowadays it's not hard to find someone who is not very close to the franchise and still says "oh I liked pokemon a lot up until they were still based on animals, not trash or ice cream like today". This for me is a clear sign the Gen 5 hate was bigger than any other. You don't see nearly as often people outside of the community complaining about dex cut as much as they complained about the designs from back then.

[tobin.]

Godamn we didn't realize how good we had it

[zardthedragon]

I feel like gen 5 is the reason pokemon/game freak is so hesitant in trying something new or going out of the norms. Also why we have so much gen 1 fan service.

[epicdarkraifournineone]

I still think Sword and Shield got a lot more hate than Black and White did.

The difference is that Sword and Shield were hated because of actual problems, whereas Black and White were hated because "oh there's an ice cream Pokémon!"

[DaSheepKiller]

Gen 5 was definitely the most hated generation on release. There has never been a more controversial roster of Pokémon. Also, there’s a reason why Black/White are the worst selling new gen games. Because they were so hated.

[seanoo]

I remember passing on gen V when it initially released for other reasons and I’m kinda glad I did cause getting to experience it for the first time in my mid 20s as an adult? You realized how much love went into not only soft resetting the franchise but genuinely making it different from what we grew accustomed too. I actually LOVED having to make a new team of unova only mons and that postgame difficulty spike? Hell yes. It’s a crying shame people have only learned to respect GEN V after seeing how low effort game freaks releases had become since. There’s a reason bw2 are considered the pinnacle of the series and it’s been a steady decline since.

[a.m.theshinyjohtohunter]

Super sad how much people hated gen 5. Best sprite work, completely new pokedex and some are absolute beats to use. Haxorus, darmanitan, scolopede and of course hydreigon... Terrifying. And certainly tried to tell a better story.

[lionablaze]

It has been over ten years and gen five still hasn't been outclassed.

[vividbiomass]

Gen V had the issue of its audience aging out.

If you were aged 5-10 for RBY (released 1998-2000) then when BW came out in 2011 you were 16-21.

XY (2013 release) only managed to claw back the audience (now 18-23) with full 3D and heavy nostalgia baiting.

[YoshiWare]

I remember getting White 2 and the meme website I used to go to either never talked about it or made fun of Nate’s design. Believe it or not, 2011 and 2012 you were a social outcast for playing Pokémon.

[Choccykituwu]

Pokemon B/W had a no EXP thing? A little dive into why that exists is apparently a form of ANTI-PIRACY. That means those """super-nerds""" on 4chan were using pirated copies. Holy shit looool, but that's a really ingenious form of anti-piracy honestly.

[immortaldarkred]

In summary, "Wheres my Pikachu, wheres my Charizard. Fucking trashbag. Fucking Icecream. Fuck this game." ROFL


I wasn't apart of that group of people as I was not even 10 years old and didn't even have access to internet at the time so I was not even aware of the hate. I love gen 5, as Werster said to those individuals, "thanks guys... Pricks."

[RasenShot]

Gen 5 was my favorite gen when it came out (and still is) and so I felt very alienated by how much hate it received for the dumbests reasons.

Glad nowadays it receives the recognition it deserves, but it might have come a little too late cuz as Werster put it, that feedback might have caused GF to not want to try anymore, F.

[DFuegoH]

Gen 3 for me is the most nostalgic gen because that's the gen where I first played pokemon, but by far gen 5 is my favorite all-time because of its well-written story and the incredible music it offers. I pity those who can't at least appreciate what this gen had to offer because they are really missing out on a well-crafted and designed game.