Current Events > What is the best Main series Pokemon Game and why? Spoilers maybe.

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Not actually completed one since yellow although I think Ive bought one from every gem at some point. Getting to replay the original gyms and battle red in gold / silver sounds amazing. Does anything beat that?
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HGSS.

It pretty much improves upon everything from the original, and Pokemon walking behind you is cute.
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slmcknett posted...

HGSS.

It pretty much improves upon everything from the original, and Pokemon walking behind you is cute.

Yeah this, it's a shame they abandoned it in following games

Of course Sw/Sh's display of laziness kinda explains whh

DarthAragorn posted...

slmcknett posted...

HGSS.

It pretty much improves upon everything from the original, and Pokemon walking behind you is cute.

Yeah this, it's a shame they abandoned it in following games

Of course Sw/Sh's display of laziness kinda explains whh

Do you still re-explore the original game and fight red? Have they opened up the second world a bit more? Any big changes?
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Crepes posted...

DarthAragorn posted...

slmcknett posted...

HGSS.

It pretty much improves upon everything from the original, and Pokemon walking behind you is cute.

Yeah this, it's a shame they abandoned it in following games

Of course Sw/Sh's display of laziness kinda explains whh

Do you still re-explore the original game and fight red? Have they opened up the second world a bit more? Any big changes?

Yeah it still has both regions, with Kanto being expanded on a bit more than it was in the original G/S/C. Think they upped the level of Kanto trainers too

Emerald

Emerald is def a close 2nd for me.

With XY in 3rd (as long as you ignore the story).
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slmcknett posted...

HGSS.

It pretty much improves upon everything from the original, and Pokemon walking behind you is cute.

5th'D, or whatever. They're awesome.
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Also gonna throw my hat in for HGSS. But Ive yet to give BW2 a proper playthrough despite loving the originals.

it just gives you so much to do without ever really intruding on the main game. only think I would really do to improve it is take out the roadblock out of Mahogany town and give the Pokmon in Ice Path and outside BlackThorn about 5-10 more levels.

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HG/SS

Feature and content dense. Shame it's not online anymore.

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BW2 are the pinnacle of the series
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Emerald, Platinum, HG/SS, and B2/W2 are the top tier for me.
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Calwings posted...

Emerald, Platinum, HG/SS, and B2/W2 are the top tier for me.

These are pretty much the objective best ones. Personal favorites differ but these 4 are the best for sure.
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B2W2 are the only ones I skipped, cuz BW were just super boring to me. I heard they're a major improvement, but also that the story is garbage compared to how good the story in BW was.
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HGSS is the pinnacle of the series
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Black 2 & White 2.

But honestly, Fire Red & Leaf Green, Emerald, Platinum, Heart Gold & Soul Silver, Black and White and Black 2 & White 2 are all super solid games.

I stopped playing when Gen 6 came out, because Fairy-Type is just nonsense for me, but Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire also seem really good.
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Silver will always be my favorite
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HG/SS would be my top pick... if they had actually fixed Johto's garbage level curve. After Morty the whole game's levels just make no FUCKING sense.

Emerald it is.

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I expect it's HG/SS, but I've never played them. Silver and Crystal are my favorites in the entire series, so even if they just bumped up the graphics that's gotta be it.
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BW2

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Definitely HGSS. Everything after them is insultingly easy, with most trainers, and even gym leaders, only having 1-2 pokemon.
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lilORANG posted...

Definitely HGSS. Everything after them is insultingly easy, with most trainers, and even gym leaders, only having 1-2 pokemon.

That's always been my complaint. Why do almost no trainers actually use the 6 Pokemon allowed?
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slmcknett posted...

B2W2 are the only ones I skipped, cuz BW were just super boring to me. I heard they're a major improvement, but also that the story is garbage compared to how good the story in BW was.

B2/W2's story was weaker, but not garbage. Besides that and the daycare not being available until post-game, literally everything else about the sequels is superior to the original B/W.

Lagfile posted...

I stopped playing when Gen 6 came out, because Fairy-Type is just nonsense for me

Adding the Fairy type was essentially a roundabout way of doing a balancing patch between generations. Dragon was too strong of a type overall, and Dark and Fighting were also getting a little bit too strong, so the Fairy type was made strong against them. Poison was too weak of a type overall, and Steel was too weak on offense, so the Fairy-type was made weak against them. Fire was too weak on defense, so it resists Fairy moves.

Plus a lot of the older Pokemon that were changed to the Fairy type or had the type added to them were pretty mediocre ones like Wigglytuff, Gardevior, and Mawile, who weren't being used very often and were in dire need of buffs.

Lagfile posted...

but Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire also seem really good.

They are. The gameplay is great, OR/AS use the gen 6 features introduced in X/Y really well, and even without Emerald's full Battle Frontier, they have tons of post-game content. If they did have the full Battle Frontier, they be in that very top tier with the others I mentioned.
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Fairy type is just annoying because I never any of it's resistances/weaknesses/what it's strong against besides dragon.
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Yeah, Fairy-Type itself was a big balance patch I guess you can say it for balancing. Dragon-Type was just too good, only 2 weaknesses, only Steel-Type resisted it, and Dragon-Type itself resists 4 types. It was busted. Fairy-Type also makes Poison- and Steel-Types better in the offense, too.

I personally did not like the change, I guess I should have said that instead.
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Platinum blows HG/SS out of the water, because it doesn't have a level curve that's a bad joke(and Johto is pretty lame).
Black/White and their sequels are very much valid picks too.

codey posted...

Fairy type is just annoying because I never any of it's resistances/weaknesses/what it's strong against besides dragon.

I'm fine with it being a thing, necessary and whatever, but yeah, me too. I forget all the time. Especially what it resists.
Why in hell does Fairy resist Bug anyway? Bug was already pretty meh as an attacking-type.

codey posted...

That's always been my complaint. Why do almost no trainers actually use the 6 Pokemon allowed?

Im guessing because that would make the game a lot more inaccessible to a lot of casual players, constant 20 minute trainer battles would get tedious

Emerald was the follow up to Ruby/Sapphire right? Loved Ruby

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Joenage posted...

codey posted...

That's always been my complaint. Why do almost no trainers actually use the 6 Pokemon allowed?

Im guessing because that would make the game a lot more inaccessible to a lot of casual players, constant 20 minute trainer battles would get tedious

Emerald was the follow up to Ruby/Sapphire right? Loved Ruby

Yeah, Emerald was the upgrade from Ruby/Sapphire. Ever since playing it, I can't go back to R/S. Doing Nuzlockes of that game is super cool. The other Pokmon games that I mentioned are also super good for Nuzlockes, my favorites for sure would be Black 2 and Platinum.
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My favorite is Emerald. The third gen was really ambitious, what with the two villain teams depending on which game you had, and Emerald was a long, cohesive melding of those two teams into one story. The only downside is Wallace as the Champion - Emerald is the pinnacle of those updated re-release titles like Crystal and Platinum.

Of the ones I've played, I would rank them Emerald > Crystal > Yellow > Platinum. Yellow is dated as fuck, but I've enjoyed my time with gen 1 more than I liked my single playthrough of Platinum. Maybe I would feel different if I replayed Platinum, but at the time, it overstayed its welcome. I didn't like the whole rigmarole of the Pal Park or whatever it was called, the endgame story which continued to railroad me along a bunch of story I didn't give a shit about, and ultimately I didn't really like the legendaries as much either. The game ran at a slower pace, too - I was really annoyed at that, too.

To me, Emerald was the better game, and the sheer tedium of Platinum places it below the other generations which I actually had fun completing.
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Ahhh don't make me choose. Either emerald or HGSS as many others have said. I'm just starting sword so we'll see where it ends up in my ranking.

X and Y has been my only real "I feel disappointed" generation so far. It just wasn't very good compared to all the others.

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codey posted...

lilORANG posted...

Definitely HGSS. Everything after them is insultingly easy, with most trainers, and even gym leaders, only having 1-2 pokemon.

That's always been my complaint. Why do almost no trainers actually use the 6 Pokemon allowed?

I always assumed because it takes gifted, exceptional trainers to raise a full team of Pokemon, unless the team is full of weaklings like Magikarp. That's why only you, your rival, Gym Leaders/Elite Four, evil team's boss, etc. could do it.

I like Emerald the most, but I haven't played a lot of them

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ThanksUglyGod posted...

codey posted...

lilORANG posted...

Definitely HGSS. Everything after them is insultingly easy, with most trainers, and even gym leaders, only having 1-2 pokemon.

That's always been my complaint. Why do almost no trainers actually use the 6 Pokemon allowed?

I always assumed because it takes gifted, exceptional trainers to raise a full team of Pokemon, unless the team is full of weaklings like Magikarp. That's why only you, your rival, Gym Leaders/Elite Four, evil team's boss, etc. could do it.

SPEAKING OF

Game Freak should be ashamed of always including fisherman with six Magikarp to battle. At least mix it up and throw a Gyarados in at the end for once.
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Any of the original DS games usually considered the best, especially HGSS and BW2.

The 3DS games are usually considered the worst (I'm guessing in part since Gamefreak is terrible at programming and 3D games astronomically harder to make than 2D games)

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Came in to say BW, BW2, or HGSS.

BW definitely had the best story hands down, but BW2 had the overall most amount of sheer content and stuff to actually do in the game. Plus Gen 5's fly animated sprites were fucking gorgeous.

HGSS were just GSC but remade, with new content, and all the modern QOL stuff we have now.

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Sword. Just to piss you guys off

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Personal: Black and White, the last time it felt like GameFreak genuinely tried
Features and gameplay : HGSS, Platinum, Emerald, or BW2

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What's so good about B+W compared to the others?
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I want to say Emerald or HG/SS, but neither of these games has the Vs. Seeker. Platinum does, but I don't think this gives it the edge over the other three games. So it's a draw for me.
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Crepes posted...

What's so good about B+W compared to the others?

Most of the positives of a soft reboot without throwing out the National Dex; an actual attempt at writing a good story; excellent soundtrack on par with RSE.
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masterpug53 posted...

Most of the positives of a soft reboot without throwing out the National Dex; an actual attempt at writing a good story; excellent soundtrack on par with RSE.

Some of the music is quite great. I'm really surprised the Black and White credits theme doesn't get more attention for how good it is.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z_mfCbTJ4c

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I don't know about best but Gen IV is my absolute favorite

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Emerald with HGSS as a close second.

DPPt is by far the worst out of the series.
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FvP posted...

DPPt is by far the worst out of the series.

It must be hard being so wrong

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TheDreadedWave posted...

FvP posted...

DPPt is by far the worst out of the series.

It must be hard being so wrong

You can tell me when your save finishes and the battle finishes. Also enjoy those caves.
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codey posted...

I expect it's HG/SS, but I've never played them. Silver and Crystal are my favorites in the entire series, so even if they just bumped up the graphics that's gotta be it.

Same here, although R/S/E is very close in the running
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masterpug53 posted...

Most of the positives of a soft reboot without throwing out the National Dex; an actual attempt at writing a good story; excellent soundtrack on par with RSE.

These.

The game genuinely had a good story, something that no other Pokemon game has come close to.
Not just the plot but even the storytelling itself. Despite being Sprite-based still, they found ways to MAKE it feel dynamic and lively. Hell, the way the game ends was WAY different and really cool compared to most Pokemon games.

World felt fresh and new for the first time ever, mostly due to the fact it was the first or set outside of Japan, but also cuz of how they locked away every single older Pokemon and forced you to use new ones. (BUT unlike SwSh, lets you have them post-game)

Like Pug said, it actually felt like a brand new direction/soft reboot for Pokemon for the first and only time IMO. The game as a whole felt polished and like GF put a lot of effort into it compared to most other Pokemon games.

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LostForest posted...

World felt fresh and new for the first time ever, mostly due to the fact it was the first or set outside of Japan.

Pokemon Coliseum was based off of Arizona.


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YellowSUV posted...

Pokemon Coliseum was based off of Arizona.

Sigh... First MAIN Pokemon game. Ffs lol.

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