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« on: December 15, 2011, 11:59:18 PM »
Are you kidding me? Gen 3 was fantastic. Sure, that's when the quality of individual pokemon designs started to decline, but other than that, there was TONS of greatness from Gen. 3.
First and foremost being the music. Lordy, that ever-present brass section was great. I felt like it really characterized the region.
And a pathetic story? You're joking, right? Gen. 3 had the most active storyline of any pokemon game to that date. Gen 1 had practically no story other than 'oh look team rocket lets go troll them" (not hating on Gen 1, it was great for it's time) Gen 2 basically just had more involved Team Rocket action. (Also not hating on Gen 2; it's my favorite pokemon Gen ever). But Gen 3 had a STORY. Clashing rival teams fighting for dominance of the earth, legendary powers that create a catastrophic event which had to be stopped by the awakening of another legendary power, the entire Wally side-story, the fact that you had A DAD -and even better - he was a gym leader!
Plus with the addition of the Battle Frontier, Double battles, and the introduction of abilities, Gen 3 contributed a heck of a lot to Pokemon as we know it today. I remember playing it in 6th grade and being amazed at how far it had come from the previous games, even if I thought some of the pokemon designs were stupid. But even that I eventually overcame when I got used to them. Gardevoir, Aggron, Tropius, Metagross Salamence, Flygon, and Rayquaza are some of my most favorite pokemon to this day.
As for the world itself, it was much larger than the previous two gens and not quite as linear, opening up for lots of optional exploring, not to mention the AMAZING addition of Secret Bases, which allowed you to fight CPU clones of your friends once a day - an idea that I wish they would bring back, which they sorta did with the Pokewalker, but that's not as much fun as finding your friend's hidden base and fighting their fully powered team, not a flat lv. 50 battle.
I think it's been long enough since the release of the original Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald games that it has acquired the necessary nostalgia factor. Just talking about it right now is making me want to play it. I think the chances of them remaking it are pretty good, especially with the now-phasing out pal park. Without Pal Park, current Gen gamers have no way of catching the Gen 3 pokemon to complete the pokedex (which i suspect was a large part of the reason they remade gens 1 and 2). Plus I think Ruby and Sapphire with Black/White level graphics and sound would be absolutely OUT OF THIS WORLD. If they go back in and add in as much new, extra content as they did for Heartgold and Soulsilver, it has the potential to be the best Pokemon game on the market. So I eagerly await their remakes, along with Pokemon Grey, and the eventual and inevitable first fully 3D, polygon Pokemon game.
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