The problem is that although they added the types they didn't add any good Pokemon in the types.  Same with held items.  End-rev and Parish Song are hardly useful against a good opponent, Baton Pass I give you. 

DP is the best metagame update to date.  I don't mean the online play either.  I mean the division of attacks into special, physical, and status for all types.  It made a huge difference, fixed most balance issues, and killed the cheap strats from before.  They've also majorly balanced the types in the game both in quality Pokemon and quality attacks, and allowed a much wider variety of playstyles.

Pretty much agree but I love Yellow the most. (I love all of them, I don't care if they are new pokemon or not.)

 Dude diamond was shorter, it had the best music I admit, but it was shorter, the online is just terrible shouldnt have even put that feature in, and yea the clock and day and night features that were in gold and silver are back, but in what price?

I still think to this date, that Gold/silver are the best pokemon games, followed by Fire red/leaf green and emerald.

Yellow is my personal favorite followed by Silver.

End-rev was very viable until Tyranitar in RSE made the strategy useless.  Perish Song was also very viable as Mean Look-type moves became popular.  I just like GSC the most because it started to repair a broken metagame in Red/Blue/Yellow. 

D/P are my third favorite because of the division of special, physical and status.  At the same time, it's my third favorite because several of my favorite first and second generation Pokemon got subpar evolutions.  I hope this topic doesn't become about metagames and remains about the games in general.

Pokemon XD was awsome on the gamecube, I loved it.

Red > Silver > Sapphire > Diamond :)

Hah, well for me the metagame changes made the game more fun in general. Also, come on, Lucario was such a badass and a great unique playstyle lol.

@ Leo-j that's completely untrue.  In fact, not a single thing you said was true.  Leave the thread now.

Red and Blue were better than Gold and Silver by a little bit. Other than that, you're right though.

Lucario is badass. I just don't like Rhyperior, Tangrowth, Yanmega, Electrivire, Magmortar, LickyLicky.. those are what made the game less fun for me.