Poll: what was the best pokemon generation?

[HTID Raver]

its seems the creators of pokemon just keep rushing out garbage for new pokemon ideas.

so my question is, what do you think was the best generation of pokemon?

my fave was the gold/silver/ crystal genration. the pokemon looked awesome, and in the games you could travel to both kanto and jhoto! plus there wasent like 39283 million pokemon so filling out the pokedex wasent an impossible task set out by satan. and you could connect to red and blue games to trade as well!

so gold and silver get my vote, they have a remake in production too so thats neat.

 

[SnipErlite]

First - What can I say, the old ones were the best

(I mean that first as in first generation, not first post - I'm not that retarded)

 

[SonicKoala]

Hm, that's a tough call, but I'm gonna have to go with the Gold/Silver generation. Those games were just SO incredibly awesome.

 

[Brotherofwill]

Blue/Red. Novelty was amazing, the Pokemon looked the best and there weren't enough legendaries to beat yourselves up with. Nice simple, amazing for it's time. Bulbasaur is enough of a reason to be the best generation.

 

[DuplicateValue]

The first generation, obviously!

Oh the nostalgia...

 

[thenoblegaunt]

I'd have to say Gold/Silver/Crystal, the games were longer than the 1st generation and it was harder to run out of things to do. However, it wasn't overly complex like the third generation.

 

[Contun]

I liked Ruby/Saphire/Emerald, but Saphire was the first Poke'mon game I played...

[small]Was a bit late to the Poke'mon bandwagon...[/small]

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Always the original! Everything since then is just a more watered down version anyway, good ol' red and blue.

 

[sean.A7x]

gold/silver because im in love with chikorita or as i call him Grassy

 

[Kukakkau]

I'd say gold/silver since it had a good system with the phone (although a bit restrictive with only 20 numbers), day and night cycle and your mum (or "mom" as it says in game) saving money for you. Also you didn't have a rival you were meant to have hated for years, but a criminal who steals from the professor. Going to Kanto afterwards was pretty cool too since it showed how everyone got stronger since the red/blue games and even lets you fight Ash from said game. Was also nice seeing Koga in the Elite Four since out of all of them I wouldn't have given him a spot, but he worked well in it.

It had alot more depth than the first one and improved on a lot of the mechanics, while not trying to do too much like the new ones. And as everyone mentions too many new pokemon in the new ones to make catching them all viable.

EDIT: I also hate that they remade gold and silver for the DS and not the GBA because you just know they're going to try and add a bunch of features into it.

 

[ottenni]

The first generation seemed to be the most original, and it had Arcanine. Which you can't beat.

 

[Kiju]

Gold/Silver, in my opinion. Any time I hear the Goldenrod town theme, I feel so nostalgic.

Which makes me thrilled that there are some rather solid rumors that a remake of those two is in the words for the Nintendo DS. <3!

 

[HTID Raver]

yeah gold and silver to me had the most depth of any of the other games

 

[The Great JT]

I gotta say the second generation (Gold/Silver/Crystal) because it did the one thing no other pokemon game did: It let you go back to the first generation's area and conquer their gyms with a super-team. Plus, it made revisions to bugs in the original game (like how Ghosts couldn't hit Psychics), added in the day/night cycle and communication with other trainers, new types, re-working how old pokemon operated, held items and other long-running staples of the pokemon games.

In short, it was exactly what a sequel was supposed to do; it took what the first game did and expanded on it.

 

[BlumiereBleck]

the first 3 which would be Red/Blue, Gold/Silver/Crystal and Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald. the rest are bogus

 

[Plurralbles]

Gold/Silver(and I guess add crystal)

Damn that was an awesome generation.

Then R/B/Y

then Platinum because it corrected much of what went terribly wrong with the third gen. It added wifi and returned nigh and day. But can you make your own pokeballs? Hmmm? can you?

then... third generation. which was them throwing out everything that made 2nd good and then crammed as much bullshit into the game to somehow think that they made up for completely retarded design choices. It didn't help that their entire new generation of pokemon roster was completely crap.

the fifth one will be the best, as long as they don't shit it all up again like they did with the third. But if cycles prove to be right... two good games, one shit, then... maybe we'll have two good games again?

 

[Karoline Dianne]

While I personally think the entire pokemon series was a total waste of time, I have to say the original three were the best.

lately, it seems they're just shelling out garbage to try and keep idiot twelve year olds interested in their trash. It's absolutely pathetic.