Poll: what was the best pokemon generation?

[Olikunmissile]

Gold and silver were awesome, but the first generation steals my heart. I vote first.

 

[Nickolai77]

The first orginal one, that one will always be special for those reasons,
but i would grant that the 2nd ones were good as well.

 

[Prometherion]

Gold & silver definately!!!

When pokemon had witty names related to their appearance or type. Rather than going "how bout Paaallll-kiiaaaa?"

 

[AboveUp]

First, because it introduced us to it. I couldn't get into the Gold/Silver games myself. Euby/Saphire was amazing. I only played Diamond Pearl so I could trade with my online friends.

 

[SulfuricDonut]

The first generation of pokemon was definately the best and most original, however I tolerated playing through the later games because they (obviously) looked nicer and I had nothing better to do with my life.

 

[HTID Raver]

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.

I despise the day night cycle. Waking up early to catch a fucking ladybug is bullshit.

LOL yeah i have to admit that got me there. and what you said about ALL the pokemon being in the pokedex


wtf why is celebi and mew included in the pokedex now? there is truly no goddamned way to "catch them all"!!!!

 

[ProfessorLayton]

Probably the original. See, Pokemon Yellow was one of my first games, and I also watched the TV shows and played the card game. So I kind of grew up on Pokemon. It's a nice childhood memory of mine. So I would say the original, but Platinum is one of my favorites right now. This is a hard decision.

 

[HTID Raver]

Gold & silver definately!!!

When pokemon had witty names related to their appearance or type. Rather than going "how bout Paaallll-kiiaaaa?"

really? i think its gotten worse! like chim-char or tur-twig.

taking two words and just mashing them together

 

[DragonsAteMyMarbles]

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]

You know, if you want to put in the "é" in Pokémon just type "& eacute ;" without the speech marks or spaces.

<url=http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_entities.asp>Fairly comprehensive list of similar symbol whatsits here, hit "next reference" for more. They all work here, as far as I know.

OT: Generation 2 for me - Crystal was the first one I played, and it wasn't as complicated as the later instalments. Plus they thankfully nerfed the Psychic type a bit.

 

[Kukakkau]

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.

I despise the day night cycle. Waking up early to catch a fucking ladybug is bullshit.

Easy way to get around that is just to lie when they ask you to put in the time so that you can play both day and night at times that suit you. I did this for a night only game, cause Noctowl kicked ass

 

[HTID Raver]

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.

I despise the day night cycle. Waking up early to catch a fucking ladybug is bullshit.

LOL yeah i have to admit that got me there. and what you said about ALL the pokemon being in the pokedex


wtf why is celebi and mew included in the pokedex now? there is truly no goddamned way to "catch them all"!!!!

And all the god damned legendaries in platinum! You need fucking items you can only get one special days which have all passed of course, so if you missed it WELL TOO BAD YOU CAN'T GET THEM. FUCK YOU. Oh and Regigigas? FUCK YOU you can only get him if you were at toys R us on a day no one told you about. Arceus? Well if you weren't in japan you're fucked but we'll tell you about all the cool stuff you can do with him in the next pokemon game anyway!

holy hell yeah. i remember jirachi was only given if you baught the movie or a gamecube game like 5 yrs ago. celibi is just a pain in the arse and mew is just unobainable.


legendary pokemon use to mean something because they were hard to find and all around epic.
now there as common to find as those damn bidoof things and take up about a quarter of the pokedex!

 

[Souplex]

My hatred for Pokeymanns is greater than the heat of a thousand suns.
I hate the originals the least though.

 

[HTID Raver]

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.

I despise the day night cycle. Waking up early to catch a fucking ladybug is bullshit.

LOL yeah i have to admit that got me there. and what you said about ALL the pokemon being in the pokedex


wtf why is celebi and mew included in the pokedex now? there is truly no goddamned way to "catch them all"!!!!

And all the god damned legendaries in platinum! You need fucking items you can only get one special days which have all passed of course, so if you missed it WELL TOO BAD YOU CAN'T GET THEM. FUCK YOU. Oh and Regigigas? FUCK YOU you can only get him if you were at toys R us on a day no one told you about. Arceus? Well if you weren't in japan you're fucked but we'll tell you about all the cool stuff you can do with him in the next pokemon game anyway!

holy hell yeah. i remember jirachi was only given if you baught the movie or a gamecube game like 5 yrs ago. celibi is just a pain in the arse and mew is just unobainable.


legendary pokemon use to mean something because they were hard to find and all around epic.
now there as common to find as those damn bidoof things and take up about a quarter of the pokedex!

Except unlike Bidoof you just can't fucking get them. And then after all that they go as far as to make it so you can't use action replay or anything to get the pokemon you have literally no way of getting but they include in your pokedex, forever mocking you.

***** move nintendo..... ***** move....

 

[Kittenmauler]

I never played the 3rd generation, but between the 1st and 2nd I'd definitely go with the first. Some of the pokemon in gold/silver just look so lazy and uncreative. I remember there were at least 5 different pokemon I caught who's designs were barely more then a circle with a smiley face and some kind of tail. Terrible.

 

[HTID Raver]

I never played the 3rd generation, but between the 1st and 2nd I'd definitely go with the first. Some of the pokemon in gold/silver just look so lazy and uncreative. I remember there were at least 5 different pokemon I caught who's designs were barely more then a circle with a smiley face and some kind of tail. Terrible.

well then if you thought 2nd gen was bad never play any of the recent titles...

 

[Hollock]

they just recently revealed the first two pokmeon in the 5th generations.