[Locke]

I've never really given it much thought, and I'm a casual player at most, so I haven't got some deep thought out reasoning for this, but I'd say my favourite generation is the second.

Generation five for me is boring, there are WAY to many Pokémon and the way the game creates false difficulty with ridiculous level spikes from town to town makes progression slow and monotonous.

Generation three and four were the ones I skipped, I don't really know why, I just didn't own a DS and at that point I had zero interest in Pokémon. I barely care now. I did play FireRed at this point, if that counts, but obviously that was just a remake.

Generation One is obviously where it all started, I have a huge amount of love and nostalgia for these games. But let's be honest, fifteen years have not been kind to these games...like at all.

But the second generation? This shit was the bomb! When I was like...nine. The graphics were improved, we had an entirely new world to explore, a whole new set of a hundred Pokémon and by this point in the franchise tweaking a few things here and there and adding a couple of Pokémon was still a new and exciting concept, not something we'd roll our eyes at a decade later as they keep churning these games out. I still remember Pokémon Crystal being like the most exciting thing ever.