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man101 posted...

The gen 1 pokemon games. The people who made them had little to no game design experience and so the mechanics are held together with duct tape and prayers, and a ton of things straight up do not work as intended.

It is a literal miracle that Pokemon has become the most successful media franchise in world history. The quality of the games has always been very questionable, although the GBA era was reasonably decent. I don't think there's a wider example of something that was such a great idea that was done so poorly and yet still was so successful as Pokemon.

From the absolutely broken mechanics of the first generation, combined with the missing content and extremely poor level progression of the second generation, along with the tedious map designs of the third and fourth generations, as well as the complete refusal to embrace decent online functionality in the fourth and fifth generations, and lastly the low development effort and gimmicky gameplay options of every generation since the sixth generation, Pokemon as a game franchise has been run in such a careless way (while still very much holding its appeal with its target audience).