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Post by NinjaRygar on Jan 23, 2008 9:39:36 GMT -5
I think my overall favorite is Gallade... who's 4th gen... but his evolution line is from the 3rd.
I hope Gallade is a pokeball in smash. I don't suppose that's asking too much.
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Post by TV Eye on Jan 23, 2008 11:49:21 GMT -5
The thing I hated most about Gen 3 was the game itself. It just didn't seem like a true Pokemon adventure. I mean, okay, I beat the Elite Four...now what?
Also, why the lack of Gen 1 & 2 Pokemon? That's why I loved Gen 4. You could go back and catch Pokemon from every generation.
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Post by kirbychu on Jan 23, 2008 12:21:17 GMT -5
The thing I hated most about Gen 3 was the game itself. It just didn't seem like a true Pokemon adventure. I mean, okay, I beat the Elite Four...now what? Really? The Gen 3 games were the first ones that kept me wanting to play after the Elite Four. Especially FireRed and Emerald. Before that, the post-Elite Four portion of the games always felt fairly empty. Red especially. Once you had all the Pokémon, there was literally nothing else you could do. Also, why the lack of Gen 1 & 2 Pokemon? To make you buy more games.  All the Pokémon were there, they were just spread out across Ruby/Sapphire, FireRed/LeafGreen and Colosseum. Personally I loved the idea, but I've always been a huge fan of the connectivity gimmick. |
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Post by Flip on Jan 23, 2008 15:53:05 GMT -5
Gen 3 was horrible. It got me to play competitively finally and it definitely worked the kinks out of that system, but the games themselves were shoddy at best. It was basically a ploy to get you to buy the same game like 8 times to get every Pokemon. Lame.
Diamond/Pearl was amazing because it fixed all of this and then some. It made Pokemon a WORLD again, just like Gold/Silver had.
That said, Gen 3 had some wicked cool monsters. Glad to see some of the cooler ones are popping up in Brawl, like Metagross.
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Post by kirbychu on Jan 23, 2008 16:12:34 GMT -5
I thought the Gen 4 world was terrible, myself. Only memorable place was the snow city.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 23, 2008 16:21:54 GMT -5
I liked both Gen3 and Gen4 equally, although Hoenn had far too much in the way of Surf-only routes. Those are boring suckfests full of Tentacool and Wingull. But aside from those and the travesty that was Emerald, Gen3 wasn't so bad. Competitive battling ain't my thing, sooo...
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Post by TV Eye on Jan 23, 2008 16:30:06 GMT -5
I liked both Gen3 and Gen4 equally, although Hoenn had far too much in the way of Surf-only routes. Those are boring suckfests full of Tentacool and Wingull. But aside from those and the travesty that was Emerald, Gen3 wasn't so bad. Competitive battling ain't my thing, sooo... Me neither. I prefer exploration, and gen 3 had too many pointless battles. I mean really, Battle Tower? |
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Post by kirbychu on Jan 23, 2008 16:31:59 GMT -5
Wasn't... wasn't Battle Tower entirely optional?
And didn't it originate in Gen 2?
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Post by TV Eye on Jan 23, 2008 16:54:42 GMT -5
Wasn't... wasn't Battle Tower entirely optional? And didn't it originate in Gen 2? That's beside the point  |
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Post by 8bitretroshit on Jan 23, 2008 16:55:54 GMT -5
Gen 2's the best because you could go back to the old continent of the first games that pretty much changed for the worse, had a pretty rad day and night system and the lvl 100 battles are more stats lower/raise tactics instead of the 1,2 kill you stuff in gen 3/4.
Also Gen 2 has Shuckle and thus wins automatically.
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Post by mopinks on Jan 23, 2008 17:39:44 GMT -5
Gens 3 and 4 have the greatest number of sexy Pokemon.
whether or not that's a good thing is a matter or personal taste.
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Post by Manspeed on Jan 23, 2008 18:49:44 GMT -5
Yeah... Generation 3 went from the usual Earth animals to more alien humanoid designs for our beloved Pokeymans. I found some of them to be pretty creative, though.
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Post by Arcadenik on Jan 23, 2008 18:52:46 GMT -5
Alien humanoids? Which Pokemon in particular?
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Post by Manspeed on Jan 23, 2008 18:57:00 GMT -5
Does Gardevoir ring a bell?
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Post by Johans Nidorino on Jan 23, 2008 19:01:24 GMT -5
Generation 2 was very enjoyable IMO, but I have the feeling that Generation 4 will end up being that good, too.
About Generation 3... That absence of Pokémon in Hoenn from previous generations is one of the things why I perceive it's very parallel to Kanto. Think like a Trainer of a new generation: you first went met Hoenn and knew almost nothing else. And just like Kanto, Hoenn had a high number of exclusive species.
In other media, the anime also gave Generation 3 a sense of "this is the actual Pokémon 2.0", also naming it "Pokémon Advanced Generation". For the first time Ash Ketchum allied with another protagonist from the games, and she was one from Hoenn. He left all his Pokémon but Pikachu behind and changed his clothes for the first time. Not too long prior to that, Charizard was given another counterpart that wasn't Blastoise, and it was set as Blaziken, a starter from that new region.
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