Ok VGchartz,

I have a gift certificate to walmart and an itch to spend it on one of the new pokemon games. I played the original series back in the day on my OG 4 battery game boy (got all 151 too) and later the gold /silver series on the gameboy color. I missed out on Gen 3 and later got ahold of Diamond used and put it away until recently when i got back into it. So my question is which game should I buy for the 3DS, The X and Y series or Omega Ruby / Alpha Sapphire?

ORAS. Better story, better soundtrack. Make sure to buy OR and have fun with Courtney.

You honestly can't go wrong either way, especially since you missed Gen 3. 

I'd go gen 3 and then later 6. You may even want to wait for the eventual gen 6 3rd version. ORAS have the better post game IMO, and a better story. X and Y has a better variety of Pokemon. And it was the first true 3D Pokemon handheld game. 

Why does no one go for AS?

If you want flying ice cream cones, keychains, swords- XY is your game.

If you want Fire breathing chickens, moon dogs, and sun rocks- ORAS is your game.

My preference, I've played XY and was extremely underwhelmed, get ORAS. Better music, story, and areas. If you want to be caught up with Pokemon, I'd get XY though.

Both suck, but I'd recommend ORAS if you haven't played the original RSE yet. I dislike what they did with Team Aqua/Magma, but it's still miles better than that shallow as heck Team Flare.

OR/AS have more legendaries and you can get all mega-stones. Go for that.

I did. #teamaquamasterrace