Gen 1 is the best and will always be the best. If it wasn't for it, there wouldn't be gen 2,3,4. Sorry
mattman324 but you were too young to experince pokemon in its hey day. Back in 1999 I was 9 years old and Pokemon was a world phenomenon, there was nothing like it. I used to carry my game boy with yellow version, and my folder with all my Pokemon cards everywhere with me and it was normal. Nowadays you would look weird. Gen 1 at the time was something nobody had ever seen or experienced before. Its easy to look back and say "wow those games have bad graphics and have a lot of mistakes", but
at the time those were the best hand held games out there. Gen 2 expanded and made things better. It introduced even more cooler memorable Pokemon. The GS games were the first to have a time system, something that no other game had at the time.
Gen 3 took a huge step back. They removed the time system in RS games. The region in RS was probably the most forgettable region in all the gens. They made some really dumb useless Pokemon. They anime sucked. It was a reason why a lot of people started loosing interest in Pokemon. Gen 4 was a little better but still made to many dumb Pokemon and to many legendaries.
So you can't enjoy pokemon when you are 4 years old? Cause I most certainly did. It's just that they keep getting better.
(for the bold part) Exactly! AT THE TIME! At the time =/= now.
...and do you think everyone liked the time system? It was only really used for a few wild pokemon, 1 crystal only battle (against a Meowth.), and Eevee's evolving. Oh, by the way: RSE HAD CLOCKS/A TIME SYSTEM! (Why do people forget that? Nevermind, the tinted nostalgia glasses). And again, "Dumb useless pokemon" include Gastly, Koffing, and almost every legendary.
Oh, by the way, I told you all not to get me started on legendaries. You did. RANT TIME!
People always complain about newer legendaries. Either there's to many of them, or they are (particularly Heatran) useless. Well, how's this: Nintendo has SPECIFICALLY ANNOUNCED that they already have many legendary ideas for future generations. As in, they came up with what the legendaries are.
And as for them being useless? Well, besides Deoxys and Heatran (and I'm a bit hesitant for Deoxys), they all have a job. Thus, they are not useless. So you complain about Heatran. Well then, why not do a thourogh job and complain about:
Moltres, Zapdos, Articuno, Raikou, Entei, Suicune, Ho-oh, Lugia, and Celebi. (that's all legendaries of gen 1 and 2 except for Mew and Mewtwo: they are the creators of life and the Ultamate pokemon [besides the literal god Arceus])
Because I'd be darned if you can find out what the point of ANY of those are except for "OOOOO, I'm a big, scary, legendary, you can't catch me! There's only one of me, so you better not mess up!"
I think that should be it. And judging by the looks of this thread, it isn't. It never will be.
EDIT: And, for your knowlage, besides being filled with water, Hoenn was almost exactly like Kanto. Don't believe me? Look at the maps.