Poll of the Day > Favorite Pokemon Generation?

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gameplay wise I think somewhere between 3 and 4 is best, but Gen 2 is where my heart is

3, the one I grew up with, completely unbiased.

When I played it as a kid I was actually disappointed it didn't have all the famous gen 1 pokemon in it.

Fifth. I liked the look of it. Haven't really felt the same since they went 3D

4's the only one I've actually played, aside from dicking around with the simulator a bit during what I think was gen 5 (weather wars were a big part of the meta then, iirc).

6 is pretty good. The pacing is good. The level curve is good. There are some nice locations, and there's a decent mix of old and new mon.

3, although I spent an obscene amount of time shiny chaining in 4.

Sarcasthma posted...

3, although I spent an obscene amount of time shiny chaining in 4.

Did you get any shinies?

Probably 4, but 1-6 are all great

Venixon posted...

Did you get any shinies?

Yeah, got dozens! (starting with Porygon, iirc)

Going down a list because I stopped caring after the DS games. Later stuff looks way overdesigned imo. It's basically another artstyle. Maybe a higher-res screen encouraged them to do that.

I heard Sugimori used to to redraw and quality check everything. But that's obviously not happening anymore.

4

D/P/Pt and HG/SS were amazing

For the pokemon designs alone I selected gen 1.

Gen 1 had the best setting.

Gen 2 had the most "full" game.

Gen 3 had the best gameplay.

Didn't really care for anything past Gen 4, and Gen 8 onwards is completely unknown to me.

I voted for Gen 3 but honestly I'm just thinking of FRLG.

Sarcasthma posted...

Yeah, got dozens! (starting with Porygon, iirc)

Awesome! Glad your efforts paid off.

First as then it was a big thing to trade cards, sell them at school and play the games. After that I kinda lost interest.

faramir77 posted...

Gen 1 had the best setting.

Gen 2 had the most "full" game.

Gen 3 had the best gameplay.

Didn't really care for anything past Gen 4, and Gen 8 onwards is completely unknown to me.

I voted for Gen 3 but honestly I'm just thinking of FRLG.

is Gen 3 when they introduced the physical/special split or was that 4?

4 was the peak. Physical/special split was a huge improvement to the core mechanics and the games reused the best content of every preceding generation, so they were packed with stuff to do. The games that came before still had some gen 1 jank to clean up. The titles that came after had little to add in terms of mechanical improvements, focusing instead on gimmicks that would show up for a few games before getting phased out.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

is Gen 3 when they introduced the physical/special split or was that 4?

That was Gen 4. That was probably a great thing for the competitive scene but as someone who just casually played it really didn't affect me.

Gen 4 is more where I felt the aesthetic of the games was changing in a way I didn't care for. I preferred the simpler graphics of the GB and GBA games. I did like the moving sprites in Gen 5 though.

I think Gen 6 has the best Pokemon designs overall, and Gen 5 has the best games overall.

Gen 5's my favorite. I grew up on gen 1 and 2, but I still felt like every game was an improvement over the last up until BW2. It started stalling out in quality afterwards.

Also helps that I was in college for that gen. Streetpass was so great

3 because FR LG with natures was peak pokemon

DirtBasedSoap posted...

4

D/P/Pt and HG/SS were amazing

Fffff, shoulda voted 4. I forgot about HG/SS. 2 and 4 on the DS was so good.

DirtBasedSoap posted...

is Gen 3 when they introduced the physical/special split or was that 4?

It's gen 4 which is why their post really REALLY confused me. I don't understand how anyone could say "game play was great!" before the physical special split. It caused so many confusing problems when I played the games as a kid and I couldn't understand why certain pokemon were trash despite having good stats.

I don't have a favorite, but I remember the first few generations better than the later ones.

BlackScythe0 posted...

It's gen 4 which is why their post really REALLY confused me. I don't understand how anyone could say "game play was great!" before the physical special split. It caused so many confusing problems when I played the games as a kid and I couldn't understand why certain pokemon were trash despite having good stats.

Yeah, categorizing moves individually rather than lumping whole types together was a huge improvement. Suddenly you could use water attacks on gyarados and ghost attacks on gengar without feeling silly. It also opened up a massive amount of design space for new pokemon designs, enabling them to make stuff like physical-oriented ice types and special-oriented ground types.

Gen 6 for me. X/Y and ORAS are in my top 3 pairs alongside HG/SS.

I forget how gens 2-3 handled the balance of special types, but I DO remember how Alakazam was just utter BS in gen 1 lol. Psychic typing, access to paralysis and recover, and incredibly high speed and special

Physical special split did fix a lot. I picked gen 1 because nostalgia but I love gen4 on for the singles meta game

I only played Gen 1 (perhaps halfway through Blue) so it gets my vote by default.

Crystal felt like two games in one, back when it came out. I continue to love that one most, but conversely will count Gen 3 as a favorite.

probably gen 6, especially if you count the RS remakes.

still have a big fondness for gen 1 and 2 though, and gen 5 wasn't a favorite but it's easily the best the games have ever looked.

Only played gen 1 and 2, but I remember feeling Gold and Silver were the better games

Nade_Duck posted...

probably gen 6, especially if you count the RS remakes.

still have a big fondness for gen 1 and 2 though, and gen 5 wasn't a favorite but it's easily the best the games have ever looked.

Technically I think B2 & W2 are probably the all around best entries in the franchise. I'm not going to call them my favorites (HGSS are) but if I try to be "objective" with it.

I voted "gen 1" but technically it's gen 3 which had the great gen 1 remakes, on top of everything else.

But gen 1 had my overall favorite roster of Pokemon.

Gen 4 was when the gameplay started to get slower, etc, and the amount of lag in HGSS was insane.

Count_Drachma posted...

Gen 4 was when the gameplay started to get slower, etc, and the amount of lag in HGSS was insane.

Yeah, Gen 4 was where I started to feel like the story and side content all wanted you to know all-too-well they existed before you could go out and do what most Pokemon players wanted to do. Like every hour of in-game story could be condensed to about five minutes, or the side content could be handled better so you didn't take a half-hour detour every few minutes, so players could dive in and do the collecting, training, battling, breeding, and training stuff. Was Gen 4 as bad as 6 or 7 about this? No. Did it feel like it was taking too long to go through the motions? Absolutely.

From what little I understand of the game, since I haven't played it personally, Palworld is better about this than the last few generations of Pokemon. <_<

I'd need a reference sheet but I think three or four

Gen 6 for sure. Mega Evolution was everything I didn't know I wanted for pokemon. It made some bad pokemon actually good, and it made some good pokemon even better! My favorite being Mega Blaziken aka THE MEGA ULTRA CHICKEN!!!

I also enjoyed the setting, and some parts of the story, like the Looker. Good music too!

I was introduced to pokemon by an online Emerald emulator. I played Black next. Then I got Y, Aqua Sapphire, and last was Moon. People don't give gen 7 enough credit for doing more things different for the franchise. They even removed gyms! But nope, apparently Gamefreak "never changes" lol!

I passed on gen 8 due to all of the questionable design choices I kept hearing about, and dynamax/gigantomax were banned from competitive play. Then I keep hearing more mixed things about gen 9, and I have way too many games in my backlog to consider mediocrity. So my passing interest in pokemon...has passed.

Part of me is interested in the DP remakes though. I heard they got those right, at least.

I would like to note I liked one thing about Sword and Shield, and that was the Scottish girl trainer memes. Those were a joy and a half.

I'm biased towards gen 2 having played since the start.

Generation 1. Grew up with the original series.