niggas look at this and be like
>this was peak Pokemon

>Only games in the entire franchise that ran at 60fps from the very begginning

Don't think critically as a kid, I was already a teen by this games release date.

>>713366646 (OP)
Nobody sane thinks gen 4 is peak

>>713366764
Wait thought this was gen 3, disregard.

>>713366646 (OP)
>>713366807
>>713366857
>>713366881
>>>/vp/

t'was kino

The equivalent of this area in Gen III is Route 103. In Gen IV, it's where the story begins, you hear about the red Gyarados, you get your first Pokémon, you return following the climax to find Mesprit which causes it to roam, and if you play with Ruby or Sapphire inserted, you find wild Solrock and Lunatone. You can also find wild Surskit swarming post-game and use the Poké Radar to find wild Wobbuffet. For a relatively simple early game area, there are a lot of reasons to return to it.

>>713366646 (OP)
Gen IV simply wasn’t as good as those before it or as good as V, but it had some peak moments. As painful as that trek to Snowpointe was, it was one of the last times the series made me feel alone on an adventure and quietly begging for salvation around the corner.

This route in particular is an example of things they do which I like, where you visit a route early game and then later have tools to grab a secret thingy. Like this spot or the Soft Sand girls south of Goldenrod

>>713367685
Weird because I played Emerald when it came out (along with previous Gen III games) and I played DP and DP was the better experience. It felt more like Gen II than half-finished Hoenn

>>713367685
gen v is gay as fuck

>>713366646 (OP)
I actually just started a playthrough of Pokemon Platinum for the first time, for some reason I had never touched Gen IV. I played I & II at release, skipped III and IV, and came back with V & VI.
I tried Sun & Moon but it was just endless cutscenes and tutorials, I don't even think I made it to the first gym.
Who's your favorite Pokemon, /v/? We never talk about it because of the other board.
Mine's Jigglypuff.

>>713369017
hi yawnie

>>713366646 (OP)
>this was peak Pokemon
Yes

>>713370506
Weavile
you get it pretty late in platinum, but it's great for the elite 4 and assrapes garchomp

>>713370506
Look into events
>Manaphy Egg whenever
>Secret Key after Team Galactic in Eterna City
>Member Card in the post-game after saving Sailor Eldritch's son
>Oak's Letter after clearing the post-game half of Victory Road
>Azure Flute after catching Dialga and Palkia post-game
>Fateful encounter Shaymin so you can get the Gracidea in Floaroma Town
>Fateful encounter Regigigas so you can find Regirock, Regice, and Registeel
>Fateful encounter Arceus if you plan on playing HGSS

When you go inside the cave, the puddle is based on the map of Sinnoh. The dots form a triangle representing the Lake Pokemon. Mesprit to the southeast. Uxie to the North. Azelf to the Southwest.
Sinnoh is peak of Pokemon lore. They thought of every stupid little detail. Also the piano music...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96qogC-0VjI

>>713366646 (OP)
this was peak Pokemon

>>713367685
>As painful as that trek to Snowpointe was, it was one of the last times the series made me feel alone on an adventure and quietly begging for salvation around the corner.
Man I remember that vividly, one of the most memorable parts of any pokemon game

>>713371949
Shinnoh is when Pokemon lore died to its own every enlarging cancer. We go from
>yeah, so two pokemon created the Hoenn region with their retard fight, sure that's cool
to
>THESE POKEMON CREATED THE WHOLE UNIVERSE AND ONE OF THEM IS LITERALLY GOD

>>713375212
Crazy that the wheel actually had meaning behind it

>>713366857
I do because it's the only gen I've played

>>713370641
thats pretty fuckin gay

>>713370506
Giratina is badass and probably my favorite but stating a legendary is a bit of a copout so I'll say Infernape

>>713370506
Crobat, my first shiny

hey is this the genwar thread where we all roleplay as retarded versions of fans of whatever gen we don't like since we're afraid of posting our actual opinions in case someone disagrees with us?

>>713380073
I like gen 3

>>713366646 (OP)
Pokemon never looked good, fuck the nostalgia. The maps looked like they were made with the square/circle select tools in RPG maker. Pokemon's contempories like link's awakening and final fantasy adventure look 10 times better.

>>713370506
GEN 1 MONSTER BUG DUO FOR LIFE also Heracross

>I tried Sun & Moon but it was just endless cutscenes and tutorials, I don't even think I made it to the first gym.
The tutorials are truly endless. Sun and Moon is the Skyward Sword of the Pokemon series. If the hand holding and cutsceneing was reduced, and the content was distributed in a less boneheaded way it could be a genuinely great game. For me, it's the last actually tolerable Pokemon game but I understand why people can't stomach it. I see it as a big missed opportunity.

>>713366646 (OP)
>hidden "island" in the middle of a lake
such a kinnoh trope

>>713380073
i like most of the games with nostalgia bias for hoenn and sinnoh

>>713367685
>As painful as that trek to Snowpointe was, it was one of the last times the series made me feel alone on an adventure and quietly begging for salvation around the corner.
That route was really cool and had one of the best songs in the game, followed by one of the comfiest towns in the entire series.

for me, it's https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hASaRRCwgc

Heart gold/Soul silver was the last good game. Anything after it was hot trash.

>>713380073
this is one franchise I certainly don't do that

>>713366646 (OP)
let me guess, you need more?

>>713367685
Gen 3 had nothing of value.

>>713386559
This.
If you weren't alive for the hype around Generation 1 into Generation 2, you just weren't there and will never understand.
This is what makes Pokefags so pathetic, it's a fundemental truth of life they will reject again and again and again.
Generations I, II, and V are all that matter.
>the groundbreaking original
>the perfected sequel
>the masterful remix
That's all you need. Anything else in the main game franchise is disposable.