To this day, no games have topped them.
>>59016589this was the last time game freak remembered how to design maps
>>59016589they couldn’t even top their immediate predecessors
hgss topped them
They were topped before they even released by every Pokemon game before them. Even XY is better.
>>59016589Dude, the game that topped them is right there. When people think about Gen 3, they think Emerald. To include RS in this statement is disingenuous.
>>59016589>removes day-night cycle for some reason>somehow can't transfer pokemon from older gamesThose two things alone make them inferior to gen 2 and 4
>>59016589They get topped by ORAS
>>59016814>>removes day-night cycle for some reasonIt's an annoying mechanic that has no reason to be there.>ummm the game being dark half the time and only being able to catch shitmon after waiting 12 hours for it is good actually!!!No.
>>59016814>removes day-night cycle>look inside>day-night mechanics are fully functional and you get Umbreon/Espeon depending on the time of dayNah, removing the shitty dark filter of "night-time" was objectively good.
>>59016589>switch schools in the middle of 7th grade >at the new school, they’re inexplicably okay with me playing on my SP in the middle of class while I get acclimated>just played sapphire all through class Good times.
>>59016833>>59016835So you don't like the world feeling more alive gotcha. Let's remove natures, abilities and pokéblocks next!
>>59016888>the world feels alive when every event in the story takes place at night time for some reason because it's the only time you have to play the game in real life
>>59016589they bottomed for Platinum and HGSS
>>59016933that's somehow a bad thing?
>>59016589.....except for Gen 4, Gen 5, Gen 9, and Gen 10.
>>59016995I genuinely can’t think of a single thing gen 4 or 5 do better than gen 3 that isn’t QoL or online related
>>59016589The gen immediately after literally did
>>59017005Spritework?
>>59016589Gen 3 is fine, but it's not even the best sprite based gen.
>>59016947>it's a bad thing when the events in the story make less sense?
wdym they deliberately held shit back for the sake of being topped by later games by lowering standards coming off of GS
>>59017186as if gen 3's story made sense to begin with
>>59016589Platinum is better
>>59016933You don't have a job, why pretend otherwise?
>>59016589Based and correct.
>>59016589So much better it isn't funnycannot go back to GBA after the cunnycan't go back to those where it's always sunnymore soul in the remakes sonny
>>59016589I was 9 when I played Sapphire. I couldn't read english and I had no idea I had to go back and find Norman to get Surf, so for like 500 hours I was stuck in the first half of the game with level 70 gyarados and shit until my older cousin finally found surf for me.
>>59016589Gen 3 is so overhyped. Gen 5 did it better
More I think about it they're basically the most well rounded games in every single aspect, there are no glaring problems with them like you could find in any other gen, the worst of them are pretty minor. Also not counting remakes when comparing anything because they don't actually translate the feeling of the originals properly
Name one (1) thing gen3 does better than HGSS
>>59016589That’s true, HGSS aren’t games, they’re works of art
>>59018650did what betterbe specific
>>59018695suck
>>59016589but I topped you
For what is essentially a reboot it was pretty solid. Has some scuffed parts like the borderline experimental endgame map design and RS having borderline Gen 1 levels of nothing to do after the credits, and I think the overworld has never looked worse outside of maybe Gen 6 (which is a shame because it got remade then, I hope Project Seed's art style isn't complete ass so I get to see a good looking Hoenn), but given some other problems Pokemon games have had it's reasonable in comparison and Emerald adds enough good stuff that I can forget most of the negatives. The map design has never been better, both on the macro and micro scales, the closest we've gotten since is Gen 5 and there's still a pretty huge gulf between the two. It's not my personal favorite but given my personal favorite is essentially a nostalgia pick there was no way it was winning out anyway.
>>59018833>the closest we've gotten since is Gen 5 I like how you just had to throw that bait in thereYou just couldn’t fucking help yourself
>>59018838What other options are there?DP and XY are mediocre to occasionally dreadful (mostly in DP), SM is incredibly bland on the micro and only solid on the macro on 3 out of 4 islands, SS is SM but bad, and SV is open world slop. BW and B2W2 trending above GS is unfortunately above the curve.
>>59016639The ORAS topped them all
>>59018845Kind of incredible Masuda had 5 tries to make a good fucking game and couldn't manage anything on par with Tajiri's first. Maybe whipping Nishino to shit out map designs when he wanted to jack it to little girls hurt the series idk
>>59019325Fuck off zoomer
