Which game were you the most excited for?

[Sydian]

I was stoked for all the gen III games, so it's hard to pick just one. But I'm going to go with Pokemon Colosseum. I didn't get to play RBY and GSC as a kid (I had Yellow and lost it shortly after starting) and I grew up with Stadium games instead. That was my gen I and II. So I enjoyed Ruby and Sapphire and then I saw Colosseum advertised on the cover of Nintendo Power. I was immediately interested and asked my dad if he would buy me that issue. I still have it to this day! Very nostalgic for me. I was so excited for this game, words can't describe. Shadow Pokemon?! Older, darker protagonist (even young me had a thing for this kind of protag apparently lol)?! Console RPG?! Stadium-like battle mode?! Linking up and trading with GBA games!? It was all too good to be true.

The article about Colosseum didn't satiate me enough for the game. lol I immediately started saving my money (what little income an 11 year old has, anyway) and counting the days to the release of the game. I remember every time I spent time with my dad after starting saving, I'd tell him how much I had saved up and ready to go for the game and how stoked I was lmao. The day of the release, my mom said she was going to Walmart so I gave her my money to pick it up for me. Not only did I get the game that night, but they were giving away the bonus disc! So I was able to get my first event Pokemon at the time, which was awesome since this was all before WiFi. But yeah...man. I played that game all night when I got it and couldn't WAIT to get home after school to play it some more the next!

Colosseum remains my favorite spin off game to this day, even over its sequel. I'm so glad it lived up to my hype. I was beyond satisfied. I still enjoy playing it now and it thankfully is still a challenging game for me no matter how many times I've played it. I've done the huge quest for the MATTLE Ho-Oh as well. ...Never again, lol. But yeah. That's definitely the most excited I was for a Pokemon game.

Edit: I JUST NOTICED THE OP HAS A COLOSSEUM THEME I SWEAR THIS WASN'T PLANNED

 

[Candy]

I'm pretty much someone who always rides the hype train lol.

But eh... I think I was most hyped for ORAS. HGSS was hyped since I played Crystal but I didn't really partake in the speculations or anything. BW and B2W2 weren't particularly hyped by me. XY, I didn't particularly hype for it since I didn't have a 3DS back then and didn't have the money to buy one lol, plus I was on my Pokemon hiatus 'til November 2013 when I finally got back to the franchise by picking up a 3DS and both X and Y.

ORAS was the most hyped for me since Sapphire was my first Pokemon game, Hoenn is my favorite region and RSE was my childhood. I even actively participated in the discussions when it was first announced, although I didn't stick for long haha. I even went ahead and searched for the Demo codes when I didn't get it in my trainer newsletter, but then got it from the Nintendo newsletter instead.

 

[Sylphiel]

Aside from the original games (because they were shiny and new and omg they look so interesting I want to play them so bad hype hype hype!!!), the ones I looked forward to the most were probably...Gold/Silver. I think after playing the original games, and still being quite in love with those by then, finding out there was a sequel coming out with better graphics (comparatively) and new features and even all new pokemon was...exciting!

To be fair, at least when it comes to the main series games, there hasn't been a game I haven't wanted yet, even if it's just to have them. I'm not as big on any of the spin-off games, admittedly (except maybe the original PMD games, since those just looked interesting), but regardless if it's main or spinoff, once I actually got into the series I don't recall wanting a game as badly as I wanted G/S. I wanted it so badly I was willing to stumble blindly through a japanese version of the game before it was released here just to be able to experience it, haha.

 

[Centipede Chan]

X and Y and Black and White 2 were my most hyped games. ORAS I kinda was on the bandwagon most of the time but those megas did get me pretty excited.

 

[ncorbin1]

Pokemon Gold and Silver were the ones i was excited about the most. but i was young, the idea of a "gold" and "silver" version seemed to be so definitive. i still 100% believe gold and silver are the best games and not only that but they have the best naming out of the entire series.

Yep i am exactly the same, although i love heartgold too, still playing it even more than my others. I want them to bring back/reuse the pokewalker idea.