Yes, I'm sure this thread has been done 3456239847562983746 times, but maybe it will get stickied this time?

What is your favourite generation, and why?

In my opinion:

Johto>Kanto>Sinnoh>Hoenn

Johto = Awesome Pokemon, Awesome Game play, Music was teh epic win, and the legends weren't epic fail.

Kanto = Awesome Pokemon, Good Music, The first PKMN game. this is what got us all started.

Sinnoh = Kind of unoriginal, but for the most part, the pokemon were cool, and the graphics are awesome.

Hoenn = Pokemon are dumb, Too many legends, Mudkip, and kids who start on this game, don't know anything about RBY & GSC.

I was also playing R/B/Y when i was in diapers.

I was just saying there are a lot compared to G/S/C and R/B/Y. I didn't say there wasn't a lot in D/P/P.

It seems like the Pokemon are getting way too flashy. I'm actually kinda scarred for the generation 5 Pokemon....



I agree about the legends. But the 3rd generation was not much better about it. I liked it better when you had the trio (ie, the birds, the dogs, the regis, and the beings), your massive prize (mewtwo, Lugia OR Ho-oh, Rayquaza witch I think should be Deoxis, and Giratina), and you're dainty, never gonna find it without an event or glitch Pokemon (Mew, Celebi, Jarachi and......Manaphy). I'm not saying the others aren't cool and fun to use, but there's way too many "legendary" Pokemon in generations 3 and 4. God help us all if the whole 5th generation is legendary. Personal synopsis--5 legends per generation is just right.

Johto gave us the WORST set of Pokemon in any of the games. The only Johto Pokemon really worth using are Tyranitar, Blissey, Raikou, Suicune, Skarmory, and Heracross. Everything else was pretty bad. Compared to later games in the series Generation II had bad game play. As for Generation I not everyone started it and just because it wasn't first doesn't mean it was great either.


No need to be an assuming just because someone plays RSE doesn't mean they don't know anything about earlier Genrations. I counted 3 memes in your entire post way to many. Please stop using memes, they just make you look like an idiot.



Anyways my list:

Generation III>IV>II>I

Johto > Kanto > Hoenn > Sinnoh

My favorite is Johto, I don't know why, something just keeps drawing me to it. I'm even playing through my Silver version right now.

This word, meme, I do not think it means what you think it means.

This is a tough one. I say Generation II because it had some of my favorite Pokemon, but it also has some of the most forgettable ones. After that, III for the intense story line (OMG! Kyogre and Groudon are killing teh world!) followed by I because those were the basics and had the best Pokemon. Generation IV is my least favorite, but I've put the most time into Diamond (going on 800 hours with no sign of stopping). I just think they're running out of stuff for you to do (Mining and baking? Come on, Miyamoto-san.) but it does have some BA Legendaries (Regigigas, Giratina and Arceus FTW).

Overall, II>III>I>IV.

I think I'll steal Frost's layout. :p

Pokemon:
Hoenn wins here. I love the first generation too, but they are so different from each other (Kanto being more natural and Hoenn being more stylized) that I don't really like to compare and rank the two, but if I have to, then Hoenn with Kanto close behind. The only thing that annoys me about the third generation is how 90% of the legendaries look so terrible. Johto's Pokemon are just uninteresting and boring, with a few exceptions (the starters and the legendaries), and Sinnoh has the ugliest, uncreative, most horrid monsters of all generations.

Games:
Johto is the champion, and Sinnoh the runner-up. The first Pokemon game I ever played was Silver, not RBY, and the nostalgia is an important contributive factor, because everything was so new and captivating. I love all the unique features in GSC, including traveling back to Kanto and battling Red/Ash after the Elite Four. The plot itself wasn't really engaging, but there's something about this generation that makes me love it and I can't quite point what it is. Sinnoh was amazing in many, many levels, specially because of Wi-Fi, and the storyline here is a little more complex, mostly when it comes to the evil teams and their association with the legendary Pokemon, which also happens in RSE. I can't wait for the release of HGSS and I have high expectations for the next generation of games.

Anime:
Kanto was my absolute favorite generation of the entire series, and also one of my favorite Anime today. After episode #83, the cartoon changed, and the actual saga overall sucks in my point of view. The magic behind the first season was not only the fact I started watching it when Pokemon was the biggest fad in my school, more than 10 years ago, but the series itself was just so engaging and adorable. I mean, I used to actually take Team Rocket seriously! And it wasn't just about battles. There was this whole magical, mysteryous aspect about the world of Pokemon, and the main characters learning about it, that actually made me want to know more about those creatures and their fantastical universe. Just think about a few episodes, like that Bill and the giant Dragonite episode (what? Dragonite were rare?), or the Lavender Tower episode (Ash and Pikachu had their souls freaking pulled out of their bodies, seriously!), or that Maiden's Peak episode... Not to mention that the characters themselves were so unique on their personalities, specially the Pokemon (Squirtle the gangster, Bulbasaur the badass and Charmander the sweet). Oh, and who could forget the awesome episode, Island of the Giant Pokemon? Seriously, that one was the epitome of awesomeness in the whole series.


I can't think of anything else right now. But that's pretty much it.

I>III>II>IV

The first pokemon game I ever played was yellow. I broke it on accident and then I basically stopped playing pokemon for a few years. Then just a couple years back I picked up Sapphire and the only major problem was I think they overdid the sea routes. That was the first pokemon game I ever beat. Sceptile, Blaziken, Azumarill, Salamence, Tyranitar, Gardevoir. I got the Salamence as a level five Bagon my brother had breeded, and the blaziken was my real starter, I got sceptile by trading with my brother's ruby. He started the game, got a treecko, traded to me, and then restarted, actually playing it. Anyway, fun times. I loved that team. I haven't erased any of them, I still have them all on that same sapphire cartridge XD. I also have latias, so that's always fun.

Then I started playing Gold and I got the dragon gym and got totally stuck because it wouldn't let me in. I looked at the psypoke walkthrough and it still didn't work. I'm not really sure what happened. Anyway, while they have awesome pokemon, after that I've never been enthusiastic to play the games again.

With Pearl I just got bored of it. Didn't have any addicting gameplay and there was too much walking around between cities and too many caves. Some cool pokemon, (torterra, carnivine, garchomp, toxicroak. . . that's about it I think) but not a great world. And GOD those starters SUCK!! Turtwig is cool, then it evolves into ****, then it evolves into a total badass that's one of my favorite sinnoh pokemon. Piplup evolves into crap, which then evolves into SLIGHTLY less crap. And Chimchar? It's okay. Nothing spectacular. Thing is, in all the previous generations the starters were some of my favorite pokemon. And chimchar and its evolutions are just OKAY. Okay is not okay when it comes to starters in my opinion. /:

Then I just recently played yellow. I did a tiny bit of cheating (lotsa masterballs and rare candies, I didn't overdo the rare candies and the masterballs were just to catch things without wasting all that time widdling down their health, if I saw something I wanted I just had it in a few seconds) and beat it in about a week. I love the team I was using. Pikachu, Blastoise, Charizard, Venusaur, Snorlax, and Kadabra. Before I caught snorlax I used a clefable for a while too. Great game, it really pulls you in. It's not too long or too short and the gyms are cool. Totally my favorite. I think I'm going to play crystal next and maybe the game will pull me in more if I don't have to waste so much time running around training and I can just boost up with rare candies.

Also, in previous posts people have said they don't like the Johto pokemon. Though I don't like the game so much I LOVE those pokemon.

I like all the starters and their evos except croconaw. I like chinchou and lanturn, mareep chain is cool, I like politoed, sudowoodo, wooper chain, esp/umbreon, girafarig, steelix, scizor, shuckle, sneasel, heracross, teddiursa chain (IT'S A BEAR!), mantine, skarmory, houndour chain, donphan, porygon2, stantler, smeargle, hitmontop, not to mention how much the larvitar chain kicks ass. I think they're better than sinnoh to say the least. I like the hoenn and kanto pokemon more, but they still own, I wouldn't say any particular generation of pokemon is BAD. Except MAYBE sinnoh.

III>II>IV>I

III: i loved the layout of the map and variety of towns, pokemon werent bad either
II: it was the first generation i remember playing, awesome pokemon
IV: alot of good pokemon and alot of pokemon, graphics are amazing
I: sorta boring and way too many Rocket encounters, although i must say most of the pokemon are kick

Johto without question...has more content then other generations.

My favorite would be generation two. I'd like to have a big write-up about it, but what it really comes down to is nostalgia. I got into the series later than most of the early fans, so I come on just when gold did. They still played the kanto episodes of the show and I watched those, but gold version was the first game I had for the gameboy color. I have fond memories of seeing my first johto pokemon and getting really excited over catching new ones. I may be biased because it was my first experience in handheld games, but I love a lot of things about it. The music was nice, the pokemon were exciting (I remember being excited when I ran into a swarm of dunsparce and the time I caught chinchou), and it was fun. My gaming habits have changed and I've since lost gold, but I'm looking forward to getting heart gold so I can get at least a piece of that experience back.

Gold was the first game i played which i loved to bits
Hoenn was also really good(in my opinion) better than Kanto and Sinnoh

so my order would probs be

1) Jhoto/Hoenn
2) Sinnoh
3) Kanto