1) I miss the best music ever created for a pokémon game. In fact, sometimes I want to play it just for the music. The trainer battle is incredible, and the gymn leader music is epic it really tells you that that isn't a normal battle.
2) I miss liking a pokémon caught in the grass, because no one would be better from that species. I like Evs, IVs, natures, etc, but I wanted us to be able to change them (e.g. make it very expensive). Helps RPG.
3) I miss the ignorance of knowing nothing about base power of moves, and the mystery of it all. The surprise when you were leveling Seaking and suddenly he wanted to learn something called "Waterfall" or Kingler's "Crabhammer".
4) Giovanni the best character EVER made for any pokémon thingie. You know he's the boss, a realistic boss, you both fear and respect him. All other posterior villans are twats.
5) Pokémon as animals, the dark feel about the game. Now it's all too shiny and friendly.
6) The Mew-Mewtwo thing. You really knew something dark was around, and it was all so mysterious.
7) The legendary trio and Dragonite being so damn rare. You never saw them coming. They were mysterious too, not something like Dialga that you hear since you are born.
8) No pokémon was really bad or outclassed, they all were cool in its way.
9) Elite 4 being a challenge, you weren't used to that.
10) The animations of some attacks were never matched by later games. Hyper Beam was the most epic thing ever, you knew that black screen with the spiraling countdown meant doom. Psychic with that trippy sound and the waving screen including the text, epic. Thunder will the black screen and the thunder falling. Negative screens FTW. Ice Beam with that amazing quick freezing sound, like Aurora Beam. Rock Slide techno sound.
11) TMs that never were TMs anymore. Pay Day, Softboiled, Seismic Toss, etc.
12) Seeing constantly moves now forgotten like Barrage or Pay Day.
13) Using Pidgeot just like it was so good as any of the legendary trio.
2) I miss liking a pokémon caught in the grass, because no one would be better from that species. I like Evs, IVs, natures, etc, but I wanted us to be able to change them (e.g. make it very expensive). Helps RPG.
3) I miss the ignorance of knowing nothing about base power of moves, and the mystery of it all. The surprise when you were leveling Seaking and suddenly he wanted to learn something called "Waterfall" or Kingler's "Crabhammer".
4) Giovanni the best character EVER made for any pokémon thingie. You know he's the boss, a realistic boss, you both fear and respect him. All other posterior villans are twats.
5) Pokémon as animals, the dark feel about the game. Now it's all too shiny and friendly.
6) The Mew-Mewtwo thing. You really knew something dark was around, and it was all so mysterious.
7) The legendary trio and Dragonite being so damn rare. You never saw them coming. They were mysterious too, not something like Dialga that you hear since you are born.
8) No pokémon was really bad or outclassed, they all were cool in its way.
9) Elite 4 being a challenge, you weren't used to that.
10) The animations of some attacks were never matched by later games. Hyper Beam was the most epic thing ever, you knew that black screen with the spiraling countdown meant doom. Psychic with that trippy sound and the waving screen including the text, epic. Thunder will the black screen and the thunder falling. Negative screens FTW. Ice Beam with that amazing quick freezing sound, like Aurora Beam. Rock Slide techno sound.
11) TMs that never were TMs anymore. Pay Day, Softboiled, Seismic Toss, etc.
12) Seeing constantly moves now forgotten like Barrage or Pay Day.
13) Using Pidgeot just like it was so good as any of the legendary trio.
