I haven't played a Pokemon game in a very long time, should I emulate an old game or try a recent one?
>>58902782Don't bother with anything past ORAS.
>>58902782play emerald, HGSS or BW2
>>58902788>Don't bother with anything past ORAS.Why
>>58902782Color progression
>>58902846they're bad
Don't bother with anything before ORAS
>>58902782Don't bother with anything ORAS
>>58902782Play pokemon emerald > platinum > heartgold > black > black 2 in that order
>>58902782Do you own a Switch 2? Then try SVIf not, emulate or try a romhack that only adds improvements to the base game
just play a romhack insteadall the 3ds/switch games are shit, the game peaked in gen 3/4/5
>>58903240do NOT do this shit Emerald btfo's everything that comes after so hard you will genuinely resent the games if you play them back to back like thatYou should do Platinum > Black > HeartGold > Black 2 > Emerald so it goes in ascending order of quality and you can actually enjoy them.
>>58903301>all the 3ds/switch games are shit,nah they’re better than 5
>>58903318Said by no one
>>58903338I said it
>>58903315How is Black 2 better than HeartGold?
>>58903411I like the pokedex in bw2 better and the pwt is fun
>>58903380you were baiting tho so you didn't mean it
Why do people keep suggesting ROM hacks when they aren't official games.
>>58903633Why does that matter?
>>58902782play FRLG, HGSS, Emerald, Platinum, BW, BW2dont bother with the rest
>>58902782play FRLG, Emerald, Platinum, HGSS, XY, and USUMthe other games aren’t worth playing
>>58902782Play Pokemon Heart & Soulhttps://pokemonheartsoul.com/
>>58904022>Pokemon Heart & Soul, a GSC remake and HGSS demake that brings the Johto and Kanto regions to life on modern GBA decomp. This open-source ROM hack offers a fresh take on the classic GSC/HGSS experience, blending elements from Gen 2 and Gen 4 games with modern quality-of-life features and familiar Gen 3 mechanics.>Playable on Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Linux, and handheld devices that support GBA emulators.
>>58902782Pokemon Legends Arceus and Pokemon Scarlet/Violet are fun. Don't listen to miserable naysayers and give them a chance yourself. You don't even have to buy them, just play on a Switch emulator.
>>58904089Cool
>>58902782Crystal, Emerald, HGSS, Platinum are best games to emulate. Pick whichever and you won't be disappointed.
>>58903843Skip out on XY, USUM does everything better than it. I'd also recommend the GameCube titles as they do a lot of interesting stuff. The Gen 5 titles aren't bad but they don't really do anything that the other games don't so while you could just play them and nothing else you're getting less game overall.
>>58903824Because they aren't official games.
>>58905873Some people disagree.
>no one recommends gen 5 on its ownLittle brother gen.
>>58902782Why is Gold walking into a tree? Is he stupid?
>>58902782mainline:tcg2. mystery dungeon games. black and white/2 and legends arceus show promise and then fall offmobile:pokemongo and maybe tcg pocketfangames:pokemon tcg neo, jade cocoon, moero crystal, touhoumon, yarimono>>58903240>emeraldisn't playable without a godtier dpad and is plagued with pre physical&special type seperation its a lost gen>heartgoldrips off the pokemon adventures plot for the rival its basically pokemon yellow but for manga instead of anime
>>58906605>isn't playable without a godtier dpadNew youtuber opinion?
>>58906611idk what you get out of this but ok as one of the physical games I will elaborate for you on why emerald ultimately sucks.the sections that require mach bike controls are unnecessarily brutal like the hold right hold down hold left smudge left hold up smudge right kind, for ash collection you "need" similar finesse too or its not as effective. this game is part of the rubbish era of backtracking to do past puzzles for minimal reward. like what the fuck is the shoal bell vs leftovers. what the fuck was that one time desert tower. they've clearly refined these in later games, so why should this be recommended?the ai cheating in this game is one of the worst, the battle frontier head cheats and uses max ivs, the opposing team will crit and will always max out multihit moves, it will use the move that does precisely the amount of damage to faint because it has a calculator onhand, it learns on what moves you use but has every information onhand, if you switch it discards this information so its equal parts supersmart and superstupid and exploitablethe mon nature screwing you over is irritating even if it can be influenced. and they don't make the postgame rebattleable? what the fuck? you're not even getting the full experience without secret base trades and berry blending partners and with one use TMs because the movelist can be ass. you got many trade pokemon like the clamperl line and horsea line and only a very limited selection of gen 2 was scattered between emerald and firered leafgreen. why even tease the wishstone, and then the said mon isn't obtainable just to screw with the player? braille was cool and all, but was it really that good compared to unknown shift puzzles that were a minigame within a game and the radio?
>>58906719this game has contests, but does anybody even care now? the amount of effort you have to put without the blend master is ridiculous. how much would you say is playable or visitable by the end of the game? 60%? what the fuck was castform? what the fuck was absol? what the fuck was tropius? what the fuck was latias and latios? even the manga gave them proper spotlight. even the people you meet were so one dimensional the adventures manga breathed life into their character despite fucking up with a deus ex machima that undermined the plot consequences. hey man you want some ereader battle and berry and exclusive base doll shit well too bad we screwed this gen with too much content experience splitting. heres this tree and smeargle thats all the johto in gen 3 you get haha fuck you the player lolsure zigzagoon is a god tier starter with pickup and hm slave. sure this is an environment game with berry growing. sure there are gba trumpets. sure the special/physical force tie into types made some mon specifically viable and screwed over more. sure the rebattler is as good as gen 2. sure theres a move relearner for minimum effort. sure this game introduced dive. sure this game introduced someone new that handles storage instead of bill. sure this gen had neat quality tcg cards. but is it worth all these grievances that dig into it once you become aware of it? the best I can say is that the emerald and heartgold were made with good but imperfect intentions, with heartgold improving the rockets nondescript look by importing from adventures. but ORAS went and included zany changes that adventures struggled to explain like archie and maxie and their team new look and dragon tribe and meteor when its supposed to be environment protecting game and they just ripped off ff7. at least emerald isn't ORAS and was good for its time for what it was. but a recommendation? honestly I don't think so. this was probably -the- wasted potential game. it could have been perfect.
>>58906719>the sections that require mach bike controls are unnecessarily brutalSkill issue. > ash collection you "need" similar finesseSkill issue + just walk normally instead of failing at tryharding>backtracking to do past puzzles for minimal rewardYou choose to do that.>what the fuck is the shoal bell vs leftoversIt's not vs. It's shoal bell + leftovers.>what the fuck was that one time desert towerThe fossils are up there, but you obviously never made it to the top.>the ai cheating...All skill issues or not cheating or just lies.>they don't make the postgame rebattleableWhat the fuck are you even talking about now.>you're not even getting the full experience without secret base trades and berry blending partnersHave friends.>one use TMsBaby hates having to make choices in an RPG.I'm not even reading your next post.
>>58906739you know what the most egregious experience is unironically the post game of battle frontier despite its draws. heres someone that tells you your iv at the end of the game. heres a bunch of overpriced held items that require insane point farming against the cheating ai and guidedangit literally kaizo traps. heres a bunch of mon not in the game that you can't catch from gen 1 and 2. also, here's a wild shiny in the battle factory that appears on occasion that you don't get to keep just to rub salt in the wound. ruby and sapphire might have been incomplete games. but emerald, the quality backlash was insane right after gold and silver even if it expanded what pokemon could do.
>>58902788>>58903172USUM (skip SM) is good if you can digest the excessive cutscenes
>>58906759>You choose to do that.are you serious on that this game wasn't borderline asinine such as including a mach bike segment in a dungeon that demanded HM flash?>The fossils are up there, but you obviously never made it to the top.you think I didn't 100% this? emerald was the world, and looking back, it was pretty shit. even the move animations were lazy because they had to start new from the pixel era.>or not cheating or just lies.>they don't make the postgame rebattleable? What the fuck are you even talking about now.>he doesn't knowyou've probably played 20% of the game and it was the exploration game.>Have friends.op said he is emulating and the gba era is over retard. switch online doesn't count, thats a cult>Baby hates having to make choices in an RPG.yes, lets replay the game multiple times and have another gba on hand or access to a community before the online trade era to make mon viable for battle frontier. lets pretend that sony and nintendo rivalry wasnt peak at the time and everyone was a nintendo fan. what a great game design. yeah ultimately this game was ass.>I'm not even reading your next post.because you can't refute it, try harder next time.
Any 2D one
>>58907566I recommend Emerald
>>58906575sokoban was a very popular series of games at the time
