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What is your favorite core Pokemon Game? [poll]
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Red, Blue, Yellow (2/17 votes) |
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Gold, Silver, Crystal (9/17 votes) |
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Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald (0/17 votes) |
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Diamond, Pearl, Platinum (2/17 votes) |
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Black, White (1/17 vote) |
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Black 2, White 2 (0/17 votes) |
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X, Y (0/17 votes) |
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Fire Red, Leaf Green (1/17 vote) |
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Soul Silver, Heart Gold (1/17 vote) |
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Omega Ruby, Alpha Sapphire (1/17 vote) |
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nate38 said:But Pokemon Snap is the true core of the Pokemon series. |
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@GameDadGrantPokemon Snap oozes creativity. Even today, how many games are like it? Very, very few. As T-bun said, it was unique. SUPER unique. Plus it expanded the Pokemon Universe in a cool way, bringing Todd from the show into the mix. It was also fun, which is hard to say for a lot of Pokemon spin-offs sometimes. Pokemon Snap is a shining example of what I want to see in video game development. TRYING stuff. Not playing it safe, but still making a big, meaty full-release. Even my beloved Puzzle League (as T-bun also said) was just Panel de Pon with Pokemon. Not really breaking outside any boxes. Pokemon Snap (and things like Katamari Damacy, Chibi Robo, Seaman, Parappa the Rappa...) show that you don't have to be an Indie Dev to buck trends and really stretch your creativity. They shine a bright light of imagination on an otherwise very, very derivative industry. |
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When it comes to an iterative series like this, my fave one is usually the one I played first. The reason is because it was the one that felt the most new and fresh. That doesn't necessarily make it the best game, just the one I enjoyed the most. Therefore, my fave is Gold because I played it first. The games are similar enough that when I feel like replaying one, I just play a new one that I hadn't played yet. I didn't play one last year, so I'll probably play Black sometime this year.
When Pokémon first came out in the US, I was 12 I think. Even at that age, I felt like the games were too kiddy, so I had no interest in them. As the popularity of it swiftly increased, I even became annoyed with the franchise and hated it, since it was everywhere and the behavior of the Monz was pretty annoying. I enjoyed beating up Pikachu and Jigglypuff in Super Smash Bros. It wasn't until I possessed the mature mind of an adult that I could actually see the games for what they were, and though some of those factors still annoy me, it's easy to ignore them.
Many years later, during a holiday family visit, my younger cousin gave me his copy of Pokémon Gold, saying that he doesn't like the game anymore and never plays it. I don't think it was until into 2006 that I would finally feel like giving the game a try, but once I did, I discovered that it was actually a very solid formula and a good execution of it, just in an annoying wrapper. Still, I liked the game a lot, so I would eventually seek out the others over the years. I went with Blue next, I figured I might as well go through the series in order from now. I appreciated what it did to get the franchise started, but it felt inferior to Gold in every way, and it was pretty primitive in the amount of stuff it didn't tell you. I was glad that I played Gold first so that I knew how stuff worked.
I wasn't into the series when the Gen III games released. I picked up a cheap copy of Emerald in late 2007, it had to have been then as I recall playing it as I camped to buy a Wii in January 2008. It wasn't as good as Gen II because of what it was missing, and I also didn't like some of the new stuff it did such as abilities. I did enjoy the Contests, though. I also did not own a DS so it wasn't until 2011 when I got my 3DS that I would get into Gen IV with Platinum. I currently own one or two games from each Gen.
My order of what I played would be: Gold > HeartGold > X > Platinum > Blue > Emerald |
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