User blog comment:Element02/Genwunners/@comment-3400761-20130620145710/@comment-6907100-20130621174116

I can see your point, and I agree with the majority of what you have said. I too believe that Hoenn suffered the most because kids were starting to go through puberty, they were entering middle school and after Gen2 nothing seemed original anymore even though the game itself introduced better graphics and a whole bunch of new features...it was under-appreciated and thus over-looked...even sales for this game were the poorest.'

But yes...every Pokemon fan will indeed look back at the generation before and remember what made it great then criticize the new things before they take the chance to really get a feel for it. I did this with Gen5 when I saw Trubbish and Vanillihs. It made me get a negative feeling for what Gen5 was going to hold but I still reserved it and played it because I wanted to give the game a chance...I only wish others were so open.

But yes, I personally think that a lot of the Genwunner stuff is linked to people who stopped playing Pokemon because it became too childish, and now they fight over it out of pure nostalgia. Still, they do not realize just how dumb they oftentimes sound when making such arguments.