My favourite generation is the one I have nostalgia for and the first one i played, Gen 3
Ruby and Sapphire i think had really good pokemon designs especially my favourite legendary Groudon, he looked metal as fuck on my copy of Ruby. I enjoyed the soundtrack from the GBA version and matched the anime based from it, Pokemon Advance.
What is your favourite generation and why? What details makes it stand out for you?
I want to say 4 because that’s the one I started with but, realistically, gen 5 was the best. It had so many features:
- Animated sprites (they look better than the 3d models and I’ll never get over it)
- An actual story
- Used only the new pokemon for the regional dex
- Very cool abilities like Zoroarks
Gen 3 was my first, so it is the one I am most familiar with and have the most nostalgia for. I can’t remember anywhere near as much about any of the other generations than gen 3.
Gen 1 is the only gen. The rest are bullshit. Get off my lawn
Gotta be Black/White. It was the first time the writing really took a step forward. The antagonist wasn’t just evil for no reason. They had a compelling story and their motivations made sense and you could sympathize with them.
Pokémon Generation 1 and 2. They story, gameplay, and mechanics are concise and not hand-hold-y, the designs are the ones I grew up with, they can easily be played on a phone emulator and have so many rom hacks that I never will totally experience everything they have to offer
Pokemon Molybdenum.
Probably Gen 2 because PKMN Soul Silver was my actual first game (I lated had a Gold GBA cartridge) and gen 4 because it has the best story (plus Giratina and Dialga are my favorites besides Lugia)
Generation three like you, except from the point of view of Pokémon Colosseum and its sequel. Those games were ahead of their time.
Gen two; the games were so damn good. Thank you Iwata
I only played red. It kind of sucked but we had almost no other forms of entertainment back then
Also nostalgia answer but i loved gen 6, Y was my first game. Mega evolution was rad as hell and getting mewtwo from the movie was awesome.
But the delta episode of Alpha Sapphire made AS my favourite, the idea of a whole nother timeline connecting it back to the older games blew my little mind. Then they didn’t do mega evolution in the next gen and I stopped playing
Gen 1 had a lot of design issues: The special stat is overpowered, too many pokemon were poison type, move diversity was so poor that some types were just useless, and there were a lot of glitches.
Recent generations also have design issues: The story holds your hand every step of the way, characters are more detailed but less expressive, each generation has a gimmick that gets abandoned in the very next game, and there’s somehow a lot of glitches again!
Personally, my sweet spot is gen 4, but gens 3 and 5 are pretty solid too.
specifically the pokemon, or the games ins aid generation.
gen 5 is imo objectively the best generation in terms of game content (virtually every game after black 2/white 2 has less content)
aa for pokemon designs, slight edge to gen 3, with 4 and 7 not particularly far behind.
Groudon looks like a spicy McRib
I haven’t played every generation but imo generation V (Pokemon Black/White) were the most interesting to me. It’s the sweet spot between the older clunkier games and the more modern ones.
