After having replayed these one after the other recently I still think Emerald and BW2 are the best so far. FRLG is whatever, it's ok but very barebones as a remake, HGSS felt overrated compared to what I remember but were still extremely solid. Platinum was the big let down, especially coming in with the expectations of "everyone agrees this is one of the best games". BW1 were surprisingly very good compared to what I remember.

Overall I'd say Emerald/BW2>HGSS~=BW1>Platinum>=FRLG

Moving onto the 3D games next starting with Y and hopefully they're better than what I remember.

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Since there's no current team thread and there's no real "hall of fame" equivalent to it, I'll also post the teams I used to clear all the post game facilities in each game

The Battle Frontier for Emerald/HGSS/Platinum, the Subway in BW/2, and the PWT in BW2

I'm kind of glad Fire Red didn't even have a proper battle tower cause breeding in gen 3 was a gigantic pain in the ass

>tfw autistically bred near perfect IV mons for the post game facilities in each game
Why couldn't Fire Red have at least a Battle Tower or something