What's The Best Pokemon Game To Start With?

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mZuzek said:

Luke888 said:
There are many options:
If you want to start from the real beginning you should take Red/Blue on the GameBo;, If you want a long story you should buy Gold/Silver/Crystal ; If you want a good story you should take B2/W2 (usally the sequels are considered better than the original B/W); If you want a challenging Game you should pick either Emerald or one of the games from IV° gen (Diamond/Pearl/PLATINUM/Heart Gold/Soul Silver); If you want to catch all of 720 of them and learn about Mega Evolution Pick the last entrys in the series as of X/Y and Omega Ruby/Alpha Saphire and after those play the previous games. The oldest the game is the less pokémon are in the game to catch but the game will be harder

There are a few things wrong with this post.

Gold/Silver didn't really have a wrong story, in fact their story was extremely simple compared to all subsequent Pokémon games. However, they did have a long campaign and I'm pretty sure that's what you meant.

While Black 2 and White 2 had a good story, the story was better in Black and White. Those had the best story of any Pokémon games by far and along with the sequels made for a very compelling and engaging saga.

For challenge, in my opinion at least nothing came even close to Fire Red and Leaf Green. They got ridiculously challenging in some gym battles and near the end. Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald were pretty hard throughout too. I found the fourth generation to be quite a bit easier, but it still had some challenge in it. Black/White had their tough moments, but were easy for the most part. Anyways, they're not harder the older they are - the first two generations (especially the first) were very easy because of bad AI.

X and Y are good for starters because they have a solid story while sticking closely to the core Pokémon formula (which B/W didn't do), having lots and lots of Pokémon from every generation all over the place, will put a player right into the modern Pokémon game with all its new stuff... and more. Also, this shouldn't be relevant to someone looking to get into the series, but they are also the first games in the franchise to encourage competitive play, and it is really fun and engaging too.

Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire are worthless and should be ignored at all costs. Don't ever buy that piece of garbage. If you want to play the Hoenn games, go back to the original ones on the GBA.

Dang it. I think everyone posting their opinions forgot only yours matter.