Gen 3 is peak Pokemon

Probably all the empty space in between

>RSE is about a battle between land and sea
>map is 50% land and 50% water
Am I fucking retarded for just realizing this now? Was Hoenn's design actually genius? Or am I an insane man trying to justify the abundance of water routes?

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yes it is

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It was and wasnt genius. The entire bottom route with pacifidlog was pretty much just useless filler. They could have done without that and the route below mt pyre.

Been playing since Red/Blue and gen 3 will always be my fav. How can Emerald be so perfect?

>all those useless water routes

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you grew up with it, yoomer

I don't think it's the abundance of water that makes Hoenn shit, it's the lack of variety in water-types for those routes that makes Hoenn shit
For the last quarter of the game until Victory Road, you're stuck dealing with Tentacool and Wingull and their evolutions with absolutely no variation whatsoever.

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>Unown before the first gym.
Fuckin eh, it's been too long. I don't even remember that.

>Can hear Gen. 3 songs in my head, with the exact instruments (at GBA quality, even) as if I had vivid memories
>Can even imagine and hear my own
Am I autistic?

plus there isn't much to do beyond fighting trainers where the water is. they could've at least put some islands or optional caves to explore. mirage island doesn't count because most people will never even get to see it. the diving sections were also half assed.

The lack of based water in Alola which are ISLANDS confuses me greatly.

Also Zigzagoon is relevant again.

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Emerald is great, but the lack of P/S split makes many of my favorites completely useless.

I did play the P/S split rom hack of Emerald, the game is just not designed around it. Trainer Pokemon still have movesets geared for no P/S split.

>Makuhita before first gym
Pretty sure you have to go to Dewford Cave for that one and I don't think you get get there before beating Roxanne

that's why it says "trade"

>how many trumpets do you want in your OST?
>composer: yes

This seems like a remarkably retarded aspect to use as a quality indicator.

4=5>3>2>1>6>7

Pretty based

Optional areas aren't useless filler you cunt. This kind of thinking is why Pokemon is now utter trash.

>BW not showing that 99% Audino spam

6 = 7 > 4 > 3 > 5 > 2 > 1.

Stop memeing that Gen V was good, it wasn't.
Gen VI (and later VII) helped saved Pokemon.

Gen 3 was the last gen that was comfy. 3D and that awful 2.5D ruined a lot of the aesthetic appeal.
Games began doubling their handholdiness and adding less pokemon feeling elements after Gen 3.

Greater variety in early game, along with a strong and well-rounded core of quality in terms of both memorable design and usability. It means people playing it as a new entry had a greater scope of content in a smaller scope of gameplay while people new to the series experience a greater amount of new and varied designs making the game feel bigger than it is.

2>3>1>4

Stopped after that

Gen 1 has the best Pokemon by far. This image shows clearly that it was all downhill after the first game.

>For the last quarter of the game
It's more like the last eighth.

I couldnt disagree more. Gen 1 has two sets of pokemon that are very similar. Everything but 6 is better. Best thing about gen 1 was the art style.

Holy fuck you have terrible taste

it says 100% so I'm guessing it's a trade

This image is fairly misleading.

There better be a shitload of pokemon if I don't get my first badge until the fourth fucking town. Also a bunch of those have either an encounter rate of 5% or less or are found in the route after Rustboro City.

How good is the emulation for the 3DS titles?
I heard that there's still issues after fucking half a decade of emulation development.

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Nope, a 100% encounter.

Why wont most people see mirage island?

Sorry, guess I was wrong. never played the original gen 2/can't remember what happens in HGSS

It's a shame I can't find it but someone did basically add in trees and rocks into all the blank space to make it seem more like it was in the game.

It's a nice touch since it makes it looks a lot more full.

>they finally making a console pokemon game
>its trash
waited 20 years for this wtf

Last I played was gen 4, but 3 was fucking horrible. At least 4 was okay.

do people still do nuzlocke runs or whatever that shit was called? that was a lot of fun

Which game had the underground section where you had to dig for fossils? That shit was fucking aids.

In the actual game there's a ton of filler tiles, yeah. Even then the game still has a lot of things slowing you down, it's kind of like Morrowind in how the player actually moves quite slowly by default, making the world bigger than it is.

Going by the MH games, 3DS emulation is still wonky as fuck, playable for some games but still embarrassing compared to PPSSPP and Dolphin.

They're all playable
Lags on Pokémon Amie but no one carrs

Yes, check nuzlocke general in /vp/
DiamondPearl and Platinum

Yes, i've been to one on Lake Titicaca

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Well good for you that pokemon will never release a pokemon game from now on without all backwater japanese region-mon and that we'll never get a large roster of new pokemon like B/W ever again.

This. Gen 3 had the best art direction.

Elaborate?

That Black and White one is egregious because that was game where there were no old Pokemon at all until postgame

You can see the exact point where they decided that you can't even catch Pokemon until 2 hours into the game.

Pokémon is literally the only thing 3ds emulation is good at. Not surprisingly given it's made by the same hacks that turned the WiiU emulator into a BotW player.

>what should we give players in new games
>how about more content built upon all the fan loved mechanics of older games
>nah, lets make it 3D for some reason

Broken in-game clock.

This. Doing Nuzlockes of Saphire/Ruby and I keep running into a billion Zigzagoons or Wurmples. I feel lucky if I even get a Poochyena

this looks like some digimon knock off what the actual fuck.

4 > 3 > 2 > 1 > shit > all the rest

>tiddy-caca

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Yeah, they should have filled the map with pokemon creatures

crummy...

Look up for Ultra Beasts, they're all ugly as sin