>>43012350Gen 4, dp was a rough start but everything after was fantastic. Platinum is my favorite game and HG/SS was also a great time, I also have great memories keeping up with the anime.
I think another part of what made it so nice is that we had time to get comfy with the gen too, i miss the 4 year cycles. It felt fulfilling and we basically got everything we could. I hate how frequent we get newer generations of pokemon, i love gen 5 but it felt like it came and went so fast.