Poll: Whats your favorite pokemon game(s)?

[commiedic]

I voted Red/Blue. The only two I ever played lol, but they were fucking awesome. My Red game was indestructible too. I would take it everywhere with me. Accidentally took it swimming with me in a lake for like 3 hours. Let it dry out and worked still lol. What a great game.

 

[penguindude42]

How dare you make me choose between G3 and G5!

HOW DARE YOU!!!

I had to vote for Black/White because G1 & G2 haven't aged well, and G4 is just plain shit.

~TOM<3

 

[Tanakh]

I'll have to go with none. Find it a little boring TBH.

 

[aei_haruko]

ruby/ sapphire/ emerald. It was fun to play, and the climax was just so epic, it literally felt like I was awakening some ancient beast

 

[The Rookie Gamer]

I like all of them in some way. Except Red and Blue. They just feel dull.

 

[DarthFennec]

Red/Blue, definitely. Glitches glitches everywhere!

 

[kannibus]

Blue, it's the only one I ever played at the height of my Poke craze.

 

[Phlakes]

Blue will always be my favourite because it was my first but I think Gold/Silver are the best because they improve upon every aspect of Red/Blue, adding a good number of interesting new Pokémon but the novelty hasn't worn off and they've not gone overboard with any part of it. Those games are perfect

Exactly this. I actually just replayed Crystal, and it's aged much better than R/B/Y, and is more focused than gen 3-5. It also has a different feel to the world, and I don't know how to explain it, but I definitely like it.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

Fire Red and Leaf Green. They're remakes of the original red and blue, but with the added new mechanics that were introduced in the later games, like the ability for pokemon to hold items.

 

[BlackLurker]

I'm enjoying Black and White. I've liked them all, but since Ruby and Sapphire, being able to bring the ones I had with me into the future has been fun, so I can honestly say I prefer the ones from Gen 3 and up to Gen 1 and Gen 2. The remakes of Gen 1 and Gen 2 are good to me, though. But still, the latest one I have is Gen 5, and I've got all other Gens loaded together and ready to port over, so I can't complain.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I own, Red, Blue, Yellow, Gold, Silver,(Don't have Gen three because I didn't have money or friends that had them to play against when they came out) Diamond, Pearl, Heart Gold, and White.

Heart Gold and White tie. Heart Gold is of course awesomely remade from the Gen 2 games, it adds a nice mini game arena and some other extra bits, plus it has the thing I always wanted, being able to travel around with whatever one Pokemon I choose out of its ball and look relatively like the Pokemon it is. My favorite one to walk around with was my Dragonite, as of late it is the only one to ever pick up one of those special gold leaves in the grass.

White adds some good bits and even more intense battles with the triple system, and a very nice amount of trainers to face each day in the stadiums at the fourth gym town to level up. The somewhat interesting season system is okay. It looses points by making the mini games part of the online dream world, continuing Nintendo's seemingly blatant ignorance that not everybody in the US has a dedicated Wi-Fi connection, or have a Wi-Fi router that is compatible with there horribly restricted list of like 3 router types that possibly work and nobody I know seems to own, except for the laundromat near me, but it is just stupid for me to have to go act like I am washing clothes every time I want to see if I am good at a Wi-Fi battle.

I was able to play one battle and I beat some person from Japan that Suicune with Sheer Cold, a Gliscor with Guillotine, and a Meowth with Assist, which my powerhouse team of Emboar, Krookodile, and Seismitoad made quick work of. So since I one my first and only online battle, I decided that I felt good enough to not have to go wash laundry for a few months.

Plus, as much as so many people seemed to really hate the new Pokemon this go round, I was determined to use only new Pokemon in my teams for as long as I found new ones that I like. So far I am on my third team of six of new Pokemon that I am bringing up to level 75, and I still think there are still a few more new ones I find interesting.

White would have pulled ahead of Heart Gold, if they had taken the extra two months or so to program in the whole travel with one Pokemon out of its ball thing again. To me it made no real sense to put in that little fun extra in the Gen 2 remakes but not added to Gen 5 as well. The had already programed all the last 4 generations of Pokemon for the thing in Heart Gold, I don't see how hard it would have been to take that and add the new ones and put it into White. I mean you still get to see all the other people in the game that have their Pokemon out.

 

[[Kira Must Die]]

Silver.
It was the only Pokemon game I beaten (and the last), because the ones before that I don't even remember getting pass the first couple of gyms.

 

[Sonic Doctor]

I actually just replayed Crystal, and it's aged much better than R/B/Y, and is more focused than gen 3-5. It also has a different feel to the world, and I don't know how to explain it, but I definitely like it.

The only thing that I can think of that would give a different feel to the world would be different graphics, because nothing else in each world has really changed since then.

Focused is a weird word. The only thing I can think of on what you are trying to say about that is that the combat is just "fight to the weaknesses and exp to level up".

I believe that combat has become more intricate since Gen 3 to now. How an attack does isn't just based on type any more, your attack and special attack stats actually mean something now that attacks are broken up into whether they are physical or special(though if they were like that in previous games, then they now actually tell you which one an attack is). There is also the added complexity to leveling.

If you want your Pokemon to get better in one or two certain stats, you have to fight wild Pokemon that are set to give your Pokemon those stats.

Example: While playing Diamond, I wanted one of my Pokemon to get a better speed stat. Its speed stat was garbage and when it leveled, it only gained one point in that stat or 2 if lucky, and on too many depressing occasions it gained zero on level up. So I looked up why that was happening and found that if I went to a cave and fought a ton of Golbats, the stat would gain better. Which turned out to be true. The Pokemon was gaining 3 and sometimes 4 points of speed each level.

Basically, it takes a little more thought(types of training) to raise the buggers the way you want them. If they hadn't changed the ways of leveling, I probably wouldn't still have the heart to do like I did back in Gen 2 Gold and Silver days, which was train at least 30 Pokemon up to level 100.

Right now in White, I have two teams that are all level 75 and one more team that is getting close to that. Once they are there, I think I will start those three teams on there long trek to level 100.

Sorry about that, it was just one of those times I like to spout off slightly useful to not useful facts. At least I keep my typing skills sharp by doing this.

 

[TheOmenCorpse]

Mew-two will always be the best end-boss pokemon. extremely powerful, without being over powered, (the idea that you could get Dialga or Palkia (gods of time and space) inside a poke ball is retarded)

Ho Oh and Lugia weren't overpowered but they were boring/uninspiring
Groudon andKyogre would eat you (they are 3.5/4.5m tall) before they would take orders from you
Reshiram and Zekrom would fry/burn you until you begged for mercy


The ultimate aim of the series is to be the pokemon master, no one can master a concept (time/space, land/sea, yin/yang) you cannot be a pokemon master in gen 3/4/5, without breaking the game

I would only want to live in the universe of Gen 1/2, and Gen 1 has the better reason to continue playing after the elite 4

 

[kickassfrog]

They're all basically identical

 

[MetaKnight19]

For me it has to be Emerald, since it is that game that got me back into playing Pokemon. I stopped playing for years not long after I beat the original Silver (around the same time I discovered this thing called 'outside'), I bought Emerald on a whim and it is possibly the best 'on a whim' purchase I've ever made. I could replay it so many times and not get bored. *Goes to play Emerald for the umpteenth time*

 

[Sonic Doctor]

]Silver.
It was the only Pokemon game I beaten (and the last), because the ones before that I don't even remember getting pass the first couple of gyms.

The first generation games made me wonder if the games were a little too complex for the demographic they were trying to reach. I know that when I started playing the games when I was in junior high(middle school), students made fun of students that played the game, because was for young kids and "babies". But every young kid I encountered that had the game, never seemed to understand how the thing worked, probably because they had never played an RPG before.

I know my cousin who was I think eight years old at the time, had no clue on what to do. He kept asking what to do, and he had clocked in several hours on the game and hadn't even got to or beat Brock. He also seemed to have a team that consisted of pretty much all Pidgey and Rattata, at level 2 or 3. I finally started helping him at his request and played a bit for him, I leveled up a Mankey and his starter to fight Brock. Then I let him play the gym battle and he won. Then the next time I saw him, I asked how far he was. He said that he still hadn't figured out how to get out of Pewter city and to the second gym.

When I told him how to get there and that he should continue leveling the ones I had helped him with, he told me that he had released them. That was the point I told him to forget playing video games, and go watch television or play basketball. I told him I was through with trying to help and deal with him playing the game......until one day he said that he had somehow got a hold of a Mew in a trade with a friend(the friend must have been thicker than him). I told him I at least wanted to trade it over to mine for the info, and he said I could have it for good if I gave him an Articuno, I quickly said hell yeah, because I had three since I owned R, B, and Y. So that was the last time I dealt with him and playing the game, I got a Mew and finished my Pokedex, and he got an Articuno that would listen to a thing he commanded it to do.

The thing is, I don't think most kids have the attention span needed to actually play the Pokemon games properly. It takes weeks sometimes months of play before a team will be relatively powerful enough to beat the game and face serious players, but by that time the kiddies will have been side tracked by whatever newfangled thing that has come out to make money off of the parents buying it for them.

 

[Leemaster777]

Nostalgia commands that I vote for Red, even though I'm fully aware that I probably wouldn't be able to stand it nowadays, what with all the advances and convienences that the newer games offer.

 

[Xman490]

"Oh, mom got me a new Pokemon game, Sapphire."
"OMG I'M IN A TRUCK! I CAN WALK BEHIND BUILDINGS! I CAN TELL WHAT THINGS ARE!"
I was in love.

 

[notyouraveragejoe]

Personally I have to say Gold/Silver. I mean I loved Blue but I still just find Gold to be my absolute favourite! Blue comes close as does Sapphire and White.