Cloudman said:

Haha, that`s fine! Thanks for sharing. I like hearing different opinions and having discussions on games. It may help me notice some of the fault I let slip by due to me just not noticing them myself. You do make a point that Johto is lacking in variety, even the whole area being very small when you see the whole thing spread out. Most of the region is just grass and trees, aside from an island. I guess it`s understandable though, due to the limitations of the GB. GBA and up made it more possible to have differing areas like the ones you note.

As for pokemon variety, I don`t really know what to say about it. It had a mix of pokemon from gen 1 and 2 mixed in there, mostly it being gen 2 ones, and I really liked that. And I really liked Team Rocket. It was interesting to see how they were function after Red had taken out their whole team in the previous game. It was cool to see what became of them. It`s likely nostalgia, but I like Team Rocket the best out of all the evil groups.

I have played all the games fron the beginning to now, but Johto still stands as my favorite. My biggest grip with the Gen 3 and up is the transition from 2 and beyond. Of course, I fell in love with the series with its first game, and gen 2 felt like a good sequel, adding a lot of new features, such as breeding, new types, Day/Night, the pokegear, Kanto also being accessable, and the new pokemon. I loved all these things about it. Then Gen 3 came around and took all those things out, only to have double battles, contests, and the pokemon designs which I didn`t really like.

There were other things that irked me about Hoenn, like the music and the visuals. I thought the music sounded bad and wasn`t as great as the previous games. I didn`t like the look of the new game either. It just felt off to me. Plus, I didn`t really like the designs of the gym leaders.

But yeah, that`s how I stand with Hoenn. The games after did do a bit more, but it didn`t feel like the things I loved so much from Gen 2. I like Gen 2 for all the things it added, and hate Gen 3 for how much they took away.

Oh, now I feel bad for saying that about one of your fav OSTs... : ( There were some tunes I liked, but I did find it lacking in comparision to the others, and perhaps I wasn't fond of the new instrumental sounds used in RSE. Also, the music always sounded muffled to me when I heard it.

I don't know... there will always be a weird thing between RSE and I...

I'm confused about what the Pokémon fanbase thinks is the best region.. I guess there's no real general opinion. I always thought that a LOT of people liked Hoenn the best but that doesn't seem to be the case anymore. At least not here.