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 only played red. It kind of sucked but we had almost no other forms of entertainment back then
- Palworld and Temtem.
If I’m answering the question as given, Gen 2 because it was the first games I owned, so that’s certainly nostalgia speaking. However, over the years it’s just so obvious that Nintendo/Gamefreak refused to evolve the series and the variants of the genre are the better games.
Gen 1, because of nostalgia
My nostalgia goggles tinting things a bit here, but Gen 2 (GSC) felt like such a jump in quality compared to RBY; especially Crystal.
- Moved to full color
- Animated sprites
- Character selection
- RTC & the day-night cycle
- Both regions & 16 badges
- QOL mechanics (hold items, eggs/breeding, A to use HM, rematches, Mom bank, Move Deleter)
- Dark & Steel type additions
Johto gets a lot of flak for the level curve, but the game just felt so big at the time, seems like that should count for something. Also I just like its vibe.
I don’t think any other gens have felt like such a complete step up compared to previous ones for me. B&W came closest, probably, was bummed they didn’t keep seasons. Made the world feel more dynamic. The 3D stuff is fine, just feels more wooden. They lost a lot of the charm moving away from pixel art.
Yes, this, so much this. I agree 100% Gen 2 hands down. Including Pokemon Stadium 1 & 2. Good times.
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.
Gen 2, Crystal. Was my favourite. I found the character selection and graphical upgrade was really nice. Gen 2 includes the previous game world. Collecting all the badges again was special.
But I played Gen 1, Blue the most. The missingno trick was a bunch of fun and it was my first gameboy game.
Edit: my friend said Soul Silver is peak and sun/moon is a close 2nd place.
Gen 4 or Gen 5. so much post-elite-4 content, and it’s not just “grind this arena endlessly” post-game content. Actual adventures in the case of the Gen 2 remakes and Gen 5.
Gen 3 holds a special place in my heart (Emerald was my first pokemon game) but the creature comforts of gameplay in 4 and 5 hold up a lot better
I enjoyed the gen4 remake for switch but it seriously lacked the amount of content in Platinum. They had a chance to greatly expand the distortion world and just… skipped it entirely instead.
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.
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
Whichever generation was in the Pokémon game for the original Gameboy color. The one where there was a red, green, and yellow version of the same game.
That’s the only real relationship I have with pokemon, because it was such a great game. So great that I loved the game and played it on an emulator, as I didn’t have a Gameboy.I tried later games and I just can’t. I find the pokemon designs beyond Gen 1 to be really rough more often than not. I’ll admit that gen 1 isn’t immaculate but they’re much better than what looks like a dog rolled around in random Gundam parts.
Five, because it was the only time the series innovated, and they got punished for it. Sequel games instead of re-releases of games I’ve already played, a brave story, and easily the series’ musical peak. It was the best Pokemon had ever looked, played and sounded.
We will never see it again.
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
Groudon looks like a spicy McRib
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
