Least favorite game?

[Sydian]

I've seen favorite game, generation, and all that jazz, so why not a least favorite? Just don't bash the games you dislike, because for someone, it was the first game they picked up.

My least favorites at the moment are FireRed and LeafGreen. I mean, at the time, they seemed like great revamps of the original Red and Green, but they didn't have enough pazazz to them for a replay. It was just "eh" after you beat them and you were done. You did the Ruby and Sapphire mission and traded your best Pokemon over either to or from RS and you just forgot about the game. They're not bad games overall, but compared to the rest of the series, they just fall short.

Edit; I'm stupid and left my least favorite off the poll. Fail.

 

[I Laugh at your Misfortune!]

Red/Blue

*hides from nostalgia fanboys*

Yes, back in the day, they were great. But the fact is that they simply haven't aged well and have been outstripped by every game that followed them.

 

[~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~]

Where are the Pokemon Ranger games at

But I really don't hate any of those games you listed above OP


:t354:TG

 

[Charmageddon]

Ruby and Sapphire. While GSC felt like a real sequel, and DPPt felt both seperate and linked to the past, RS felt like a pale shadow of the original games - another Safari Zone, another Cycling Road, Rock gym first, Electric third, an Elite Four containing Ghost, Ice and Dragon trainers, and an army of Pokes far too similar to past mons (Beautifly, Corphish, Slaking, Seviper, Plusle/Minun, Feebas, etc.) The Rival was the worst of the lot, and despite having a lot of interesting features - a volcano, the sea floor, a city of treehouses - the whole region felt odlly soulless and aimless. And the teams were complete morons.

 

[Eruption]

Probably Yellow.

I have never played it but it sounds like R/B without Missingo and with an annoying Pikachu following you who will also make the first gym a nigtmare. I only said this because I don't particularly dislike any.

@Charmageddon, I felt Hoenn was the best or is at least not the worst. The teams had better missions than in other games, Rocket sell pokemon (which is barely even brought up in the games) and Galactic want to create a new universe but, Magma's and Aqua's mission make a lot more sense and its good to have two teams facing off. I think Hoenn brought in some bad pokemon but has a lot of well needed ones too, the legendaries are the best from any region (even with those damn Regis) and at least you can remember most pokemon unlike Johto. D:

 

[Sydian]

I can remember a lot of Pokemon from Johto. And I left out Ranger and all because this isn't the Spin off section. This poll was for mainstream games.

I favored RSE well, but the teams were morons. Their involvement with the plot and getting to follow them around and beat them made up for it, I suppose.

 

[-Leaf]

I love all those games. By basis they are all the same (go there, KO that, level up, new move, new badge, etc etc etc)
But the fourth gen's new contests and berry blending way wasn't really my style.

 

[Caelus]

I don't hate any of the ones you've listed, or at least not ones I have already played, but I find Red/Blue to be least satisfying. Could be because I went backwards with the first three gens (I started with 3rd, then 2nd, and finally 1st), though for its time I bet it was great by GB standards... just wish it was available for me first instead of the other way around.

 

[Timbjerr]

...I actually had to think on this one for a little bit because I have genuinely liked every entry into the main Pokemon series for their own merits. :P

My vote ultimately goes to Yellow as it added nothing significant to the series unlike future "third games" (Crystal added female player and Battle Tower, Emerald added Battle Frontier, and Platinum added animated trainers), was a lot harder (gym leaders had their levels raised to ridiculously high levels in the middle of the game), was rather short (although this can be faulted to Red and Blue just as much as it could be faulted to Yellow), and, most importantly, drew a lot of inspiration from the crappy (in hindsight, ie, no nostalgia goggles) anime series...I would like to travel back in time and falcon pawnch 11-year-old me for being so excited over the release of this game. XD

...wow, there's a lot of parenthetical remarks in this post. XD

 

[Charmageddon]

@Charmageddon, I felt Hoenn was the best or is at least not the worst.

1) The teams had better missions than in other games, Rocket sell pokemon (which is barely even brought up in the games) and Galactic want to create a new universe but, Magma's and Aqua's mission make a lot more sense and its good to have two teams facing off.

2) I think Hoenn brought in some bad pokemon but has a lot of well needed ones too, the legendaries are the best from any region (even with those damn Regis) and at least you can remember most pokemon unlike Johto. D:

1) I think Rocket are the best team because their motives felt the most "real". If Pokemon existed, so would Team Rocket, as their motives sum up the worst of human nature (greed, ruthless ambition). I understood their motives. Same with Cyrus, his emotionless personality made his motives make perfect sense - he legitimately thought he would make a better world, and his character was believable. The problem with Aqua and Magma was that they had no motive whatsoever. Oh yes, they had an aim, to create more land/sea, but lacked a motive. Why did they love land/sea pokemon so much? What did they have to gain from expanding the land/sea? Not to mention their sudden and ridiculous turn at the end - all of a sudden they were shocked that Groudon/Kyogre were doing exactly what they intended it to do.

2) Some of Hoenn's Pokemon were very good, yes. I love Flygon, Sharpedo, Camerupt, Duskull.... But the sheer lack of originality in many of the designs brought the average down quite a bit. I made the entire game feel repetitive and stale. A few Johto pokemon may be forgettable, but at least it wasn't packed to the brim with expys. And the legendaries were quite good, but there were a couple too many in my opinion. The more legendaries there are, the less legendary they become. To quote Syndrome from the Incredibles, "When everyone is special, nobody will be."

I'm not saying R/S was an awful game, far from it. It just had some major faults that make it my least favourite.

 

[deliriouspurple]

Fire red and Leaf green, it seems they're just the same only it added more things there but I got bored playing with them.

 

[Hassamu]

I never really liked Yellow..
Pikachu = annoying.

 

[Sasuke.]

I didn't like the hoenn games as much. :/

 

[TheDude5000]

Ruby & Sapphire, especially for the stupid beauty contest thing. And 2-on-2 trainer battles is just a stupid gimmick that shows Nintendo really had run out of ideas after G/S.

 

[Izanagi]

Funny how ppl call Pikachu annoying in Yellow when it doesn't do anything.

I personally dislike R/S/E. It gets boring fast, and feels generic.

 

[angelsavoir]

None! I've liked all the games I've played :)

 

[scyfer]

Ruby and Sapphire. While GSC felt like a real sequel, and DPPt felt both seperate and linked to the past, RS felt like a pale shadow of the original games - another Safari Zone, another Cycling Road, Rock gym first, Electric third, an Elite Four containing Ghost, Ice and Dragon trainers, and an army of Pokes far too similar to past mons (Beautifly, Corphish, Slaking, Seviper, Plusle/Minun, Feebas, etc.) The Rival was the worst of the lot, and despite having a lot of interesting features - a volcano, the sea floor, a city of treehouses - the whole region felt odlly soulless and aimless. And the teams were complete morons.

couldn't have said it any better myself, it was crappy, although i feel emerald isnt that bad, idk why, i dont even do the whole battle frontier thing

but seriously how can you not like the original red and blue? if you dont like them then you should seriously just stoop playing pokemon in general! i understand yellow, even though i loved it, but yeah.

 

[Luck]

I spit on pokemon Red, now looking back at it. Nostalgia was all that it was good for.
The glitches and awful beeps and boops replacing music are enough to make me turn my emulator gameboy colour off and chuck it against the wall.

 

[RivalGator]

Okay, this is Eivana's time to rant.

I saw on that poll that two people voted that Gold and Silver were their least favorite game. That's crazy. Gold and Silver were EASILY the best games, in fact, they were completely and utterly under-appreciated. They had the best starters, the best rival, the best characters, the best story, and it was all-out fun to play. In fact, it was one of the best, and most nostalgic game I have ever played next to Tomb Raider 1 and Sonic Adventure 2. There is no way in hell that it could be a least favorite, unless whoever voted for it really never beat it at all.

Now, back on topic...

I would have to say Ruby, Sapphire, and if I could have voted for it as well, Emerald. Those games were simply horrible; a shadow of the past two games. They had horrible story lines, horrible teams, and simply horrible towns. The only thing in that game that I half-way enjoyed was Castform, Torchic, and collecting ashes. Making hideouts would have been better if they had been more creative with it, and the rivals would have been a lot more amazing if they hated you. I'm so sick of this 'friendly neighbor rival' stuff. They need to stop making everything so happy-go-lucky in these new games and start getting serious with them again.

Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum were not that horrible, but they weren't amazing either. Team Galactic made the game worth playing, and most of the story was easy to follow. But it still didn't amuse me. I beat the game once, and then I got Platinum, and I simply can't bring myself to really try very hard at it. It bores me, whereas in G/S/C, I could replay all three versions several times without ever getting bored.

So...
I would have to say Ruby, Sapphire, and Emerald let me down the very worst. I was highly disappointed when I bought them. I guess playing Gold, Silver, and Crystal made me expect a serious, more amusing game.

Okay. Eivana's rant is now over.



EDIT: By the way, I don't want or mean to offend anybody. That's not the way I am. But I simply can NOT see G/S/C being liked the least. That utterly baffles me. I have never heard anyone ever say that in 10 straight years, then I see it all of a sudden. Lol. Just a shock. But yeah. That's my opinion, get mad and ***** at me if you want. I'm not putting anyone down, though. So... Yep. Have fun.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

Yellow. Pikachu is the most annoying Pokemon conceived, and the fact that you can't evolve it means you're stuck with a starter with horrible stats. And no "Light Ball" argument here - that item didn't exist yet.