BlackScythe0 posted...
It's gen 4 which is why their post really REALLY confused me. I don't understand how anyone could say "game play was great!" before the physical special split. It caused so many confusing problems when I played the games as a kid and I couldn't understand why certain pokemon were trash despite having good stats.
Yeah, categorizing moves individually rather than lumping whole types together was a huge improvement. Suddenly you could use water attacks on gyarados and ghost attacks on gengar without feeling silly. It also opened up a massive amount of design space for new pokemon designs, enabling them to make stuff like physical-oriented ice types and special-oriented ground types.