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3rd Gen Underrated?
Do you think 3rd Gen is underrated?
I do. Most people play R/B/Y/G/S/C for nostalgia and others play D/P/Pt/HG/SS/B/W just because they're new. I think 3rd Gen needs more love. What do you think? |
Same here, though I see hate for the 3rd Gen from some people. I thought the 3rd Gen was great before the 4th Gen came out.
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I agree, really. Gen III is right in the middle at this point, now that there are five generations. However, something I've noticed is that during gen IV is when gen III got the most hate. And now almost everyone is saying "oh man I want an RS remake so bad!" and "man gen IV sucks so much I can't even play it anymore." Sound familiar? Last generation, we loved DPPt, wanted GS remakes, and hated RSE. Now we love BW, want RS remakes, and hate DPPt. It's a pattern really.
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I agree with Sydian. It's like the Pokemon games have their own pattern about how the game grow in people heart, together with the flow of time.
So, the Remakes is the last determinant of 3rd Gen will be loved or not, so let's hope we have a great RSE remakes. |
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I really like the 3 th gen. Sapphire was my first own game and I think R/S/E and FR/LG are the best games ever made, not that the other Pokémon games are bad, because I really like them all and it's really hard to choose, but the 3 th gen it really one of the best gens.
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To be honest I believe the 3rd Generation is hands down one of the best gens... it always shocks me that people hate it lol :)
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don't remake Ruby and Sapphire
remake Emerald instead I want to battle a ridiculously overpowered Steven Stone... |
I was a fan from the beggining. I first got it 3 years ago because my friend because I gave him something (can't remember). I played it to death. The sticker is scraping off due to me carrying it everywhere. It's either plunked into my DS or GBA. But I think it's feeling left out because my Ruby is taking all the glory....
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I may be a minority: I love the 1st and 2nd gens like no other, and 3rd gen is quite good. However, and here's what makes me different, I really don't like 4th gen and absolutely loathe 5th gen.
Am I the only one? |
FR/LG are underrated for sure... R/S/E, I'm not so sure about. I still hear plenty of love for those games so people still think pretty highly of them. R/S/E, for me at least, really hasn't survived the test of time; of the older games, they're the ones I'm least likely to play through again.
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I think it's underrated because I rarely hear it being mentioned and I easily forget the 3rd generation.
I personally loved the game, but I still prefer the ones such as Fire red, Leaf green, Platinum and Pokemon White. |
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It used to be that I was hearing "G/S/C are the best!" all of the time, but now I've really seen a big rise in the "R/S/E are the best!" crowd. They've all come out to support the possibility of remakes. Also I suppose, the ones that played them at the same age I played R/B/Y are starting to post on forums. I don't think they're really all of that underrated. However, I never thought they were underrated. lol If anything, I'm beginning to think that it is D/P/Pt that are underrated. |
I don't think they're underrated. In my opinion, 3rd gen had the least interesting set of new pokémon and the games took away some nice things from G/S/C. Like day/night, days of the week and people calling to give you things. Plus, Hoenn was where the legendaries started to get ugly and scary rather than beautiful and mysterious.
So I think they did a sidestep with the third generation's mechanics and pokémon. Looking back, it seems like a stall before the flashy 4th gen. BUT. I loved the music from the Hoenn games. Often better than I liked the 4th gen music. And the land itself, the Hoenn region, it was pretty nicely designed. With a desert, rain, underwater tunnels... quite a step up from 2nd gen. All in all, I still won't be joining the crowd who screams for Hoenn remakes now. But I do think they will come. |
I think people don't like this game much, because of how difficult it is to beat the E4.
That's my opinion, and how I feel about 3rd gen |
I like 3. gen. Not as much as 2. and 5. gen (I seem to be in minority to like a lot of the 5. gen pokemon :I), but the landscape was beautiful for its time, and it introduced a ton of mechanics.
I didn't like the pokemon much though :l (with is definitely not me thinking the originals where best, Im a big fan of 4./5. gen pokemon too) |
3rd generation is definitely underrated. 3rd generation brought us things like abilities, icons for each Pokemon, and an accessable PC system. Plus, Hoenn brought us some of the best pokemon around, such as Salamence and Metagross.
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I don't think its fair for people to bad mouth gen 3.... When I started playing the gen 4 games, I remember people a lot of different people using the same kind of Pokemon, mainly just to win battles instead of just using their favorite Pokemon most of the time. I'm always gonna be a fan of gen 3 but I still hate those Ninjask-substituters
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I only play Gen 3 games. Everything else is just kinda there, doesn't really interest me.
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I love Gen 3. The Hoenn games were fantastic and inventive, and the Kanto games made me feel like I was 9 again (when I was 13 lol) - but I can't make myself play anything pre-gen 4 anymore, after you see the new graphics there's just no going back.
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I'm surprised it's underrated. It was a transitional series really, testing out natures and variable ev's/iv's, making competitive battling more... competitive. The games were a bit more lengthy, the maps looked bigger in water and also the Pokemon looked more interesting. The Hoenn games are probably my favorite. The only downfall I could see was that the Pokemon began to drop in design and incentive. Look from each generation to the next, and I say they look gradually a little more "realistic" as in a character view. Such as them looking more evil and tougher I guess. This is probably why I hate Gen 5. But anyway, the Legendaries took a more bigger and badder look, being used to seeing cute Mew and Celebi, along with majestic birds, it was kind of a step forward.
Well, I probably contradicted myself in a few points, but that's just my general view. |
RSE were great games.
People are usually in two groups about 3rd Gen. It's either people who loved the game (like me), or people who absolutely hated it. I'm not really sure why it is underrated. They were awesome games, yet no one really plays them anymore. :/ |
I don't see why 3rd gen is underrated. The addition of two rivaling villain teams was was creative and no other generation has that to come yet. It also made me start loving animated sprites and battle themes. :)
Also, I don't quite understand how Legendaries aren't majestic and cool-looking? Kyogre and Rayquaza totally look godly IMHO. And if you want cuties like Mew, you have Jirachi here. :> I have to agree with Sydian too. I like Gen 4, and don't see a fuss over it. Maybe it's just the irony of us hardcore Pokefans? o_O |
No, they're not underrated. As this thread shows, plenty of people still like them. Just these people tend not to emphasise this fact in other forums, and most of the new people are more into Gen IV/V, hence why they're new.
Obviously, with Gen IV being newer and Gen V being, well, the newest, they get more attention - I'm pretty sure most if not all of the people posting in this thread play those generations. I do like how people pointed out the pattern, and that surely it's Gen III's time to enter the spotlight again, albeit hopefully as part of Gen V (but on DS, not 3DS, or I'm sure quite a few people will be disappointed). |
No they are not. Fire Red and Leaf Green are talked about so much, and almost every person I personally know that plays Pokemon games has one of the two. Maybe RSE is, although even those games are talked about a lot so I wouldn't exactly say so.
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