Best Pokemon game Ever?

[Grey Acumen]

I just can't stand some of the pokemon that they came up with for the 3rd and 4th seasons. I didn't even really like what I saw for gold and silver, but some grew on me. but it's like I liked 100% of the R/B/G/Y pokemon, I liked about 75% of the G/S/C pokemon, 50% of the R/S/E pokemon and only 25% of the D/P/P set.
I personally would have preferred that they have about half the number of new pokemon with each release, and bring back more of the older pokemon to fill in the spaces.

And the worst part is how closely they follow the same formula. Every pokemon series has to have it's own Mew, it's own Mewtwo, it's own Legendary birds, it's own Gyrados. It's own 3 starter set which is ALWAYS FIRE, WATER, GRASS (could we PLEASE get some OTHER rock paper scissors variant?) It's own ratata, pidgeoto, aerodactle, kabutops, omastar, and dragonite, and its own set of eevees.

When it was Red and Blue, it still felt like a fresh game with some sort of purpose, now the series just feels like a grind heavy collection game, with a few trick ponies and some better graphics to set it above its predecessor. That's why I say blue is the best. (everyone had red, only the cool kids had blue)