Best region? Kanto
Best music? Kanto
Best Pokemon? Charizard, Gyarados and the original 151 in general
Best NPC fights? Red, Blue, Green
Best side feature? Pokemon following you
Best battle gimmick? Mega Evolution

Now you tell me: which is the ONLY game that has all of these things?

>>58032302 (OP)
>Mega Evolution
All battle gimmicks are shit. FRLG wins again

>>58032302 (OP)

>>58032302 (OP)
cringier than the faggot on here that makes liking frlg his personality

>>58032322
>All battle gimmicks are shit
All battle gimmicks EXCEPT for Mega Evolution are shit

>FRLG wins again
LGPE and FRLG are both fantastic games, but LGPE wins because of Megas and following/riding Pokemon

>>58032302 (OP)
fuck off, LGPE is a shitty and lazy game that is even worse than RBY. Mega Evolutions were also a mistake

>>58032302 (OP)
LGPE is shit cause it trivializes dungeons and resource management which is like 90% of the Kanto experience, gyms are merely a capstone.

>>58032807
>trivializes dungeons
the overworld encounters? I haven't played LGPE is that what you're talking about?

>>58032817
Yes, caves, forests, the Tower and Mansion - it's all neutered and you spend way more time in those than anything else in the game.

>>58032806
No.

LGPE > FRLG > RGBY

LGPE is masterpiece of simplicity and love. The only thing it lacks is difficulty but it makes up for it with its charm.

>>58032807
LGPE makes dungeons less tedious, and that's a good thing.

>>58032302 (OP)
You know what could beat LGPE Kanto?
Let's GO Johto. Hopefully next gen.

>>58032872
What makes dungeons tedious?

>>58033152
>You know what could beat LGPE Kanto?
>Let's GO Johto
You're right, Let's Go Johto COULD potentially surpass LGPE, if it has Megas too. But I kinda doubt there will be a Let's Go Johto. I feel that LGPE was a one-off type of game that we might not see again.

I hope I'm wrong tho, because I would love a continuation of LGPE in Johto.

>>58033233
The fact that you need to spam repels in Caves/Dungeons is tedious.

>>58033152
>Let's GO Johto. Hopefully next gen.
I really hope we get a Let's Go Johto. And you're right that it could potentially surpass LGPE (if it has Megas). But I doubt they will ever make a continuation of LGPE set in Johto. Because I think LGPE was a one-off type of game.

>>58033278
You could always not use repels and actually engage with the gameplay you know?

>>58033345
The actual gameplay is just random wild Pokemon interrupting your progress? I disagree. I think the actual gameplay is you progressing through the caves and battling the trainers inside. The wild Pokemon shouldn't constantly interrupt you, and LGPE fixed that.

>>58032322
>FRLG
Abilities are a gimmick

LGPE is trash because of the GO mechanics and how it's clearly an upscaled 3DS game. But it has the most love put into its presentation than any other modern game they shit out, and I think it's just because they still respect Kanto enough to not rape it.
All of the environments are incredibly detailed (again, this is vs other Switch Pokemon games) with a lot of small references in posters, nice lighting, actual art direction. The cities are all unique and yet recognizable. The movement of grass and foliage. The way characters are decently animated in cutscenes. This game LOOKS like Kanto in storybook form. And of course, scaled Pokemon in the overworld.

>>58033379
The point of the encounters is to eat away at your resources.
Even something as simple as a level 5 zubat will make you spend a single PP, which will add up as you go through the cave.
Of course you can always run but then that means you'll be underleveled for the required battles.
It's a fun dynamic that actually has you making decisions and worrying about the outcome of battles.
There's no gratification in getting through the game without some struggle and friction from the game.

>>58032792
>All battle gimmicks EXCEPT for Mega Evolution are shit
Nah all battle gimmicks are shit megas included

>>58032792
> All battle gimmicks INCLUDING Mega Evolution are shit
>FRLG are great games unlike LGPE because they don’t have Mega Evolution
FTFY
>>58033490
They’re not. Double Battles would be Gen 3’s equivalent of a gimmick. Torchic having Blaze isn’t something promoted to sell games

>>58033545
>Double Battles would be Gen 3’s equivalent
Nope, a different type of battle can't be "battle gimmick" if we're using things like Megas as a baseline. A gimmick sure, but they can't be their own gimmick.
Abilities are exactly like Megas and Z moves in that they're some special power the Pokemon now have that unbalances the game.

>>58033517
>LGPE is trash because of the GO mechanics and how it's clearly an upscaled 3DS game.
You're wrong here, but everything that you wrote after is 100% true, so I applaud you.

>>58033519
To each their own, bro. I love both LGPE and FRLG

>>58033545
Mega Evolutions are amazing, fuck off

>>58033525
Megas are great

LGPE only has ONE problem: its lack of difficulty. Everything else about LGPE is nearly perfect.

Other Pokemon games have many more problems, on top of not being very difficult either, for the most part.

>forced waggle

opinion invalidated

>>58034400
?

Bump

>>58033311
>Because I think LGPE was a one-off type of game.

It was because they were Masuda's swan song in the industry. Nobody gives a fuck about trying to maintain the "original vision" of the older games other than him. You can see it in the other remakes he wasn't as involved with. ORAS is closer to RS than HGSS is to GS because he was more involved with ORAS than HGSS. FRLG were faithful to RG to a fault. Same with BDSP. And LGPE is basically his interpretation of Yellow version while ignoring any changes FRLG made because they weren't the original games either

That's why we got 5 generations of "evil team tries to take over the world" in a row. Masuda has no vision beyond what works. It's more than Tajiri, who clearly had no vision to begin with, but Pokemon has always been trying to work around Masuda's groundwork rather than with it

>>58034974
>the industry. Nobody gives a fuck about trying to maintain the "original vision" of the older games other than him
That's a good point. That's why Masuda is the GOAT of Pokemon.

>>58034974
>Tajiri, who clearly had no vision to begin with
Unfair assessment. His vision was just less of a formula, you can tell he's the kind of idea guy who works in chunks, more of ideas to elicit a feeling than anything else.
Reminder Pokemon was heavily influenced by Mother 1, and Shigesato Itoi was very popular for his evocative style of storytelling that spoke to a latent nostalgic longing.
It's fairer to say that, like Itoi and the Mother series, Tajiri had some concepts he wanted to realize and some things he wanted to say, and said them the best way the medium and his talents allowed, and then had nothing else to say so he went to do something else.

>>58034974
>It was because they were Masuda's swan song in the industry. Nobody gives a fuck about trying to maintain the "original vision" of the older games other than him
Does this mean we will never see Kanto (or Johto) again? Since Masuda and Tajjri are not there anymore?

Kanto sells, so I imagine we could get some Kanto game in the future, but I wonder what it could be. Maybe a futuristic sequel?

Idk, I feel conflicted. Kanto and Johto are my favorite regions, but I don't think we will get anymore remakes with them. Maybe a Legends kinda game?

>>58035406
Doubtful, but I bet we won't see them as regularly as time passes. Kanto will always "exist" in terms of pandering, but a game within the region again? Forget it. Even if modern GF respected the original games, it's been done to death. Johto gets no respect at all, and despite being butchered HGSS were such loving efforts they also can't be topped. I think the current group at GF more than anything is still looking for their seminal hit that seemed to come naturally to the old guard. And when they find it, maybe then we'll go back beyond a spinoff, but it seems... Unlikely.

>>58035482
You're right, I think. And this makes LGPE all the more special to me.