Yesterday’s article has seen some great succes, and because I don’t expect any news in the coming two weeks, I’m trying to feed you guys some subjects for discussion. I can’t promise this new mini-series will stick, but if enough people comment, I can arrange something with the rest of the team.
So, here comes my question: What is your most favorite generation of all time? Yesterday you said which generation was your first, so maybe it’s that one? Or another, be it for their Pokémon designs, new gameplay features, music, competitive metagame,…
Discussion starts…….. now!!!
Gen 3 was the best IMO! It had the best and most interesting pokemon designs (slightly better than 5th gen IMO) as well as (HANDS DOWN) the best region of all the games! And I enjoyed the storyline of Gen 3 more than the other 4 generations.
If I had to rank them I would say…
Gen 3 (is the best)
Gen 5 (a close second)
Gen 1 (close as well)
Gen 2
and then Gen 4 which I really didn’t like at all!!! If it wasn’t for Lucario and Garchomp then I wouldn’t have even bought the game! Sorry Gen 4 lovers, it just wasn’t good IMO.
dude, they need to remake 3rd gen! best gen ever!
Easy, for me, I think that the 4th Generation is the best. I love th idea of having sooo many legendary Pokemon and having soo many New Pokemon that are evolutions/pre-evolutions of older Pokemon. Some of my favourite Pokemon are in that gen:Lucario, Gallade, Magmortar, Electivire.
My least favourite (although that’s not the topic) woudl have to be the 3rd Generation. I have no idea why but it maybe that, for me, it is yje oldest Generation because you have Fire Red/Leaf Green and HG/SS, both remakes, when Ruby + Sappire remakes come out, then maybe I’ll appreciate it more…
Third gen! Although first and second were the first ones I played, third just seemed so amazing to me! Maybe it was because everything was fresh and new for me; new system, new region and pokes, full color, etc etc. xD Hoenn really was and still is amazing to me, but I don’t think I’ll ever know just *what* made it so amazing. I’m hoping for remakes!!
i’ll say :
Gen1=Gen2=Gen3=Gen4=Gen5 , all of the five generations are amazing and give an extraordinary adventure with the 649 pretty pokemons XD , i love all the generations and all the 649 pokemons XD
i definitely could not pick a single favorite. they all brought something new and exciting to the series. the first was a fun rpg-like experience and ended up getting me into those kinds of games. 2nd added a whole new side of the familiar territory while bringing more plot to kanto. 3rd was a nice revamp. it brought real color and depth to the pokemon (with abilities) and the world as a whole. the 4th gen brought a bunch of long-awaited mechanics and some awesome evolutions to old standards (except lickitung instead of dunsparce. 5th gen.. well… it’s once again revamped the series and brought even more long-awaited features.
the only gen i really didn’t like was 4th gen. And gen 5’s legendaries. DISGUSTING.
This is a little difficult because each generation had something special about it.
However I would have to go with the 3rd Generation, the pokemon overall are my favourite designs in the pokemon series. Plus the game seemed so fresh and new after the second generation of pokemon games. I remember my aunt sent Pokemon Sapphire to me from the states so I could play it early. 🙂
I’d rank the generations (mostly based on pokemon designs/excitement level)
1. Third Gen
2. Fifth Gen
3. Second Gen
4. First Gen
5. Fourth Gen
My god this is a hard one when ya spend so much time on all of them it’s hard to choose
I suppose i’ll do a list from absoloute favourite to pure awsome lol (they’re all great)
1. Gen I – my original
2. Gen IV – resparked my interest in Pokemon 🙂 my first taste of getting spoilers online so i felt more connected. also watched the anime Raw for first time
3. Gen V – similar to IV and might surpass it
4. Gen II – was still a kid who stayed up all night playing them
5. Gen III – Least favourite but still love it. I stopped being seriously into Pokemon around the second year of this Gen and almost stopped being a fan 🙁 bad memories ha
From worst to best imo
5th – 3rd Generation
4th – 4th Generation
3rd – 5th Generation
2nd – 1st Generation
and 1st – 2nd Generation! WOOOOO
btw Paul your site still sucks, at least you’ll get more hits now that wpm is closing down pokebeach finally xD
Third gen., for sure. Even if they were the games I played the least when they were realeased, they were the games I’d go back to play years after they left the spotlight. Even now I’ll pull out Sapphire to play again, that story, region and the ‘mons from gen. III will always be my favorites.
That’s probably why I’m so opposed to having the main series move to 3DS, ha ha. I wanna play Sapphire on my XL!
Oh wow this is a toughie, i suppose i have differnenbt preferences depending on what aspecs of the game i think about… soooo in a kinda cheating way ill do just that XD: so here goes
In terms of Region: My fav is Hoenn so the third generation, i love the creativeness of the region- forests, jungles,desserts,UNDERWATER e.g.. with 4th in second followed by 2nd then 5th and in last place 1st mainly because the region at that point was kind of bland and in my opinion lacked in complexity and creativeness..
In terms of Storyline which in my opinion is one of the MOST important aspects id say the 4th gen wins both in the DPPt era and HGSS era simply because well they really had a storyline that ran throughout the entire games intertwining with almost everything you do in the games, in second place would be 3rd gen because the storyline there was awesome too and kind of the most believeable simply because if the take out the legendaries you are4 left with a theme relating to our world at the moment, 2nd gen following in third with 5th in 4th place and again 1st in last place..
New Pokemon: well 1st takes the cake, so original and to this day holds most of my favourites such as dratini line, arcanine, poliwag line etc, 2nd gen in second with the 3rd gen in third place, 5th is fourth with the wackiness that was the 4th gen in last place XD
Addition of features: 4th gen undeniably- added global link, perfected the day/night system among many others, in second is 2nd gen which revolutionaised the games but were very flawwed in terms of the battery issue, 3rd gen brought loads including perfecting the berry idea and one of my favourite things UNDERWATER :), 5th gen close behind in fourth adding the seasons which i love with 1st gen coming last for obvious reasons.
I could go on witrh this forever but ill just finish up with a final placing however although gen 1, 2 and 5 are easy to place im gonna split gen 4 and 3 into their 2 game sets beacuse i like some better than others and place some much lower..so here goes on order of personal prefernence of which games i would play first if i had to choose:
7th: Gen 3: FRLG ONLY
6th: Gen 1: RBY
5th: Gen 5: BW
4th: Gen 2: GSC
3rd: Gen 4: DPPt ONLY
2nd: Gen 3: RSE ONLY
AND Finally:
1st: Gen 4: HGSS ONLY
LOL sorry for the long post..very hard question XD
Hoenn’s the best. It had my favorite locations: Sottopolis, Fortree, etc. II really do like all of them.
I can’t say which is my favorite, but I can tell you which one I liked the least. 😐 4th gen. I hated how snowy Sinnoh was, and none of the starters were a good as any of the others. :/ I loved a lot of the pokemon introduced though. (Weavile<3)
Did I just comment while not logged?…Yessir, yes I did. >_<
First gen always holds a special place in my heart, but as far as the GAMES go the second gen was my favorite. (If only because I could get my favorite Pokemon after the second gym instead of the usual 5th or 6th gym. Vulpix FTW!)
My first game was Crystal, and I’ve never played older than that. But my favorite generation was easily the 3rd. 4th was cool, but DP ruined it for me with their terribly shabby Pokedex. I love Fire-types, and they only had the fire starters new and available before the postgame. And besides that, only Ponyta and Rapidash. 5th Gen was amazing, and I find nothing wrong with the storyline besides the truth/ideals argument. But I like my mix of old Pokemon with the new, because it makes the new ones seem more like Pokemon to me; I’m still getting used to the idea of Sawk and Throh being actual Pokemon instead of people, whereas Medicham and the Ralts line were simple to accept.
3rd gen first. By then I knew what I was doing with the games and i kicked ass.
graphics wise : generation 5
music wise : generation 4
features wise : generation 4
fun game wise : generation 3
but stilll my favorite generation is generation 3 🙂
1. Tie – Kanto and Unova
2. Johto
3. Hoenn
4. Sinnoh
3rd abd 5th I just loved my blazkien and sereperior
For me all the generations have been great but I didn’t really like Hoenn. For me desighn it would be :
SINNOH ( I LOVE YOU. I like the complicated weird designs!) ,
Unova( They are so cool but strange. Legendaries were best in this gen! Apart from kyurem… Compared to reshiram and zekrom!) ,
Kanto( Its great but too popular and what is so good about mewtwo! Although I generally like heavy desighns Kanto made the simple desighns work especially with ninetales and arcanine),
Johto( Its just I love the pokemons style its so… you know and I like the legendaries)
Hoenn( I just don’t love the style of the gen. You can tell the difference in styles of gens. Hoenns were not as appealing :/ Blaziken was cool till infernape and emboar came out_I LOVE EMBOAR! Sceptile………. Swampert is good battle wise but… But deoxys and jirachi were great!
Story line wise: Sinnohh+ Unova, Kanto, Johto, Hoenn
Anime wise: Sinnoh, Hoenn, Unova, Johto, Kanto
5th generation because of the new eevee evolutions.
5th gen and 3rd gen are way ahead of the rest IMO, but I think the 5th gen is just barely above the 3rd as my favorite. The region is incredible, and all the Pokemon look great.
I gotta say 4th just because it was my “real” generation, and I love the pokemon designs, but they’re all so great ;_;
3rd gen for sure! It was just so different and cool. I loved that it was challenging and all the amazing new Pokemon that were introduced in it. Gardevoir, Masquerain, Mawile, Manectric, etc. LOVE IT.
The third generation was probably my favriote because of the caracters pokemon and music ahh those hoenn tunes i miss them hope we get a remake well heres the oder
3rd-***** 5 stars
5th-**** 4 stars
2nd-**** 4 stars
1rst-**** 4 stars
4th- negative 1000 stars
*these do not include remakes they only include first paired versions*
I’ll have to say the Alpha and Omega. 5th and 1st gens. 4th is next followed by 3rd and lastly the 2nd. The Johto line had the least amount of Pokemon(good ones anyway) and it was so easy thay had bring back Kanto as a Post Game adventure.