The Most Boring Region

[moon]

I remember absolutely nothing about Kalos as a region, even though I loved the gameplay of gen 6. That's kind of telling. Kalos was just a forgettable mess.

Kanto at least had long winding routes and terrain puzzles going for it, which was cool at the time and with the limited resources available when they designed the place. Besides, the very fact that the routes are plain has been used by me in several text-RPs where I have implemented new kinds of terrains and connections to flavor things because nothing iconic had to be taken away.

 

[colours]

sinnoh, which kinda hurts because i genuinely like the sinnoh games, but the region doesn't do them much justice.

i think coming from hoenn where there's lots of variety in towns and cities (i mean, have you seen pacifidlog? that's the perfect example of what i'm talking about), sinnoh hasn't really had the same... variety in that respect, for a lack of a better way to put it. i'm going to look biased here and i don't really care, but floaroma town is probably the one area that sticks out a lot to me, with snowpoint taking second place. every other town or city feels rather same-y, and it doesn't help that the lack of surfable routes shrank significantly from hoenn. say what you will about hoenn's excessive water routes, and yeah they could've trimmed a bit, but diving was fun and it was nice that they had actual islands and even a whole-ass underwater city (technically sootopolis, i guess). sinnoh doesn't have any of that.

 

[Hermione Granger]

Probably Kanto, Fire Red/Leaf Green made me sour on Kanto.

 

[Mimicking Mimikyu]

I can't remember a single thing about Hoenn, honestly.

 

[virtualpet]

As far as content goes that's Kanto for me. I know it's the original but because of that it lacks a lot of the unique features the others have, most of the towns feel generic and the most interesting thing I can think of is Mewtwo. I do love FRLG, but I wish that when they remastered Kanto they added more to make Kanto feel at least a little unique.

If we want to count side games too, I can't really remember much about Orre but I haven't played those games in awhile.

 

[Fairy]

Hoenn

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[soulzzii]

Hoenn

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extremely based tbh
i guess i could sinnoh tho but its been so long since i played the games... ane being honest i dont think i want to bring myself to play them again lol

 

[Sweet Serenity]

extremely based tbh
i guess i could sinnoh tho but its been so long since i played the games... ane being honest i dont think i want to bring myself to play them again lol

I agree, Sinnoh was just overall lackluster to me.

By the way, have you got comfortable with posting more often?

 

[DT Valentina]

Kalos, personally

 

[Gardevoir1]

Of the ones I've played, I think I'd have to go with Johto. It could've been far more impressive but feel like it fell flat on the execution

 

[soulzzii]

I agree, Sinnoh was just overall lackluster to me.

i think its was because i felt the games were just slow for me, probably because of the hp bar lol, even though, i still think it had some cool things, some amazing pokemons, for example.

By the way, have you got comfortable with posting more often?

yeah, i been posting more, just that i got worked up with school ending last few weeks, so i was inactive, but now that i got over it, i will probably be more active here.
also i took a lot of my time to watch the world cup just to experience my country have like the worst loss this whole cup, but hey, thats life lol

 

[blondsie.]

While I think the game (Violet) is great, I find Paldea boring and usual, not a fan of the aesthetics either

 

[Poke fan number 489]

Kanto lacks variety, Hoenn is 60% water, and Sinnoh sucks to traverse. However, It doesn't matter how your region looks if there is nothing to do in it. Galar is a path. You never leave this path, or explore it farther. There is nothing to do. I love swsh, but replaying it is boring. No challenge, no side content worth playing, and the characters never shut up. Also the post game is complete trash.

 

[Simply Dunsparce]

Johto. It isn't the worst region when it comes to map layout or pokemon variety, but it is by far the worst game when it comes to level scaling. You aren't going to find a single wild pokemon near your level after the fifth gym, and the experience points that you end up getting are not enough to keep a team of six at a reasonable level. This makes Clair and the elite four actual agony to fight against because their are not other trainers within 10 levels of them when you get access to their battles, and your best options for gaining levels are either grinding against wild pokemon for hours or grinding against their weaker pokemon for hours.

 

[Safr]

Hoen, i hate surfing too much water, i know some people will chose kanto but i don't know why there's some beauty in that simplicity of region for me

 

[Alex_Among_Foxes]

I'd also have to say Hoenn, I tried to watch 2 different people play the classic R/S on YT and quit like, 4 eps in. Way too boring.
That being said though, I liked OR/AS much more as games then I did X/Y.

Over a year later edit to this, and having now played through Gen 7, I totally agree with the post directly under mine. Alola was absolute trash and very boring lol.

 

[Diamond 97]

Alola felt like there was absolutely no freedom to explore without annoying characters force guiding you every step of the way. Hau wasnt a rival at all and picks the pokemon you have an advantage against. Plus, the never-ending cutscenes were just too many and too long and too unskipable

 

[Explorer of Time]

BW1 Unova is the most boring in my opinion, but it was pretty much fixed by all the new areas in BW2. If I'm picking a single boring region across all that region's games, I'd go with Kanto since very few of the wilderness routes are interesting even if the region has a very non-linear map.

 

[CoolKid575]

Galar, it's literally just a straight line with almost nothing to do. It's really a shame considering how much potential a UK region had.