3rd Gen 1000 Reasons Why...

[vaporeon7]

1. Being called the Advance Generation
2. Seedot
3. Lilycove City
4. Abandoned Ship
5. Gabby & Ty
6. Gym Leader Rematches
7. Buy 10 Poké Balls, get a free Premier Ball
8. Steven Stone
9. Your dad being present
10. Eevee being in a city where you can buy stones

 

[orangeralts21]

1.Running Shoes
2. Ralts
3. Kirlia
4. Gardevoir
5. Wally
6. Latias/Latios
7. Double Battles
8. Coloseum and XD
9. New type combos. ie Water/Flying
10. Breeding Skittys with....Wailords?

 

[Bomberboy04]

1. Swampert!!
2. May
3. Dad is a Gym Leader
4. Trick Master
5. The diving routes
6. Salamence
7. Colosseum and XD
8.Team Magma
9. The remakes of R/B/G
10. Gary Oak

 

[ProfessorBeeching]

hm...
1) Rayquaza
2) Gardevoir
3) Mr Briney
4) Having a player character with a FATHER
5) Wally
6) Fun Region
7) Slateport City's christmasy music.
8) The team/plot diversity between R/S/E.
9) Beautiful locations in Hoenn
10) Professor Birch, that hilarious clutz.

 

[Liberal Army]

1. Beautiful region
2. Mudkip, Marshtomp and Swampert
3. Rayquaza
4. Battle Frontier
5. Sevii Islands
6.Fame Checker
7.Running Shoes
8. 2 Different villainous teams
9. 2 Different bicycles
10. Trainer Hill/Trainer Tower

 

[vaporeon7]

1. Peeko
2. RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL RYDEL... guy
3. Cycling Road
4. Swablu
5. Torkoal
6. RSE Credits
7. Museum
8. The other museum
9. Slateport Markets
10. Cinnabar City Gym

 

[doesn't matter]

1. Berries!
2. The name escapes me now but those tiles that are partially underwater. They made a cool sound too.
3. Wailord
4. Dive (awesome concept)
5. Team Aqua and Magma
6. PokeSpecial RS Arc SO GOOD
7. FOOTPRINTS IN THE SAND
8. Abilities
9. Double battles
10. That little spa in Lavaridge.

 

[vaporeon7]

1. Those puddles
2. Dragon Tamer Aaron
3. Black Belt Aaron
4. The Battle Tower apprentice
5. The guys sleeping in the sand
6. Soot Sack
7. Go-Googles
8. Celadon Condominiums
9. Fufufufufufufu
10. R/S/E credits

 

[RoreyG]

1) CHARIZARD!!!!!
2) Red
3) The Oaks
4) Game version of Blue(Leaf) from the Manga
5) VS SEEKER
6) Stronger Elite 4 rematch (FR/LG)
7) Sevii Islands
8) Running Shoes
9) Sceptile
10) Swampert

 

[vaporeon7]

1. Awesome Hoenn starters
2. Weather Institute
3. Mosdeep Space Centre
4. Pokémon Fan Club
5. Sevii Islands Music
6. Meteor Falls
7. Regi Puzzles
8. Heart Scale Farming
9. "I swallow sludge to transform myself"
10. Dive Balls

 

[Megan]

1. Ralts and its evolution line
2. Steven the best champion
3. battle backgrounds
4. weather effects
5. Flygon
6. Metagross
7. many water routes
8. two different bicycles
9. Generation I remakes
10. Meteor Falls

 

[Bern]

1. Absol
2. Double battles
3. Trainers who hide (example: fake tree :P)
4. Huntail (never got one, but its still cool!)
5. Beldum, Metang, and Metagrosss ;)
6. The elusive Feebas! Still haven't caught one to this day -.-
7. Milotic's shiny sprite
8. Running my bike through ash near the volcano area in R/S/E
9. Spinda's virtually endless patterns of splotches @_@
10. Exploring the seas above and underwater, and the abandoned ship.

 

[Elaitenstile]

1. Fishing Challenge!
2. Sea!
3. Story and Evil Organisation.
4. New type combos!
5. Ninja bots... sorry, boys
6. Spheal
7. Soot guy
8. Ever Grande City!
9. Underwater entrance to a town
10. Salamence

 

[ShinyUmbreon189]

1. Team Aqua and Magma, especially in Emerald. It was so epic!
2. Flygon
3. Running shoes
4. Groudon, Kyogre, Rayquaza story
5. Birch gettin chased by Poochyena
6. Underwater entrance to a town
7. The ancient writings to get open up the spots for the Regi's.
8. New moves and type combo's.
9. Double battles
10. Weather

 

[Hikamaru]

1. Team Aqua & Magma
2. Awesome starters
3. So much water
4. Double battles
5. New moves and type combos
6. Battle Frontier in Emerald
7. Weather
8. Brendan and May
9. New Poke Balls
10. 2 types of Bicycles

 

[The Sceptile King]

1) Raquaza being the beginning of the dragon legendaries
2) RUNNING SHOES
3) Inability to name rival Keckleon's amazing ability
4) Wonder Guard
5) Amazing Music
6) Ludicolo and his Mexican stereotypeness
7) Zigzagoon being a better slave than bibarel
8) Time period when PC was released
9) Skitty, Surskit, and Wailord and their 1% encounter rate making a shiny one even more satisfying
10) Metagross

 

[vaporeon7]

1. Spoink
2. Shoal Salt
3. Shoal Shell
4. The stretch where you hatch eggs
5. Lots of move tutors
6. Seedot TV
7. Linoone
8. Space Centre
9. Buying the TM Hidden Power
10. TM03

 

[Treecko]

1. TREECKO. JUST TREECKO.
2. Treecko
3. Treecko
4. Treecko
5. Treecko
6.

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Treecko

7. Treecko
8. Did I say Treecko?
9. I'm sure I said Treecko.
10. Yup, you guessed it, Treecko.



OK serious list now. XD

1. Treecko. Just TREECKO! (I mean it.)
2. Running Shoes
3. Secret bases.
4. Hoenn region is beautiful.
5. Contests
6. Fortree City (that's a different reason than 4 right?)
7. FireRed and LeafGreen
8. Sevii Islands
9. Battle Frontier (first ever)
10. Absol

 

[BakingBluePotatoe]

1. First ever Pokemon Game after knowing of their existence for years
2. Sapphire
3. Treeko
4. Blaziken
5. Swablu
6. Zangoose
7. Trick House
8. Diving
9. Contests
10. Roselia

 

[Foxrally]

1. First Pokemon Game I had was Sapphire.
2. First game I was close to finishing.
3. CONTESTS!
4. Awesome water starter - Mudkipderp
5. SWELLOW!
6. Decent bug-type evolution, Dustox.
7. Sexy rival. :P
8. Awesome villains (team aqua, mostly)
9. As well as the legendary, Kygore.
10. A professor wearing shorts. That's new.

There.