>>43399418Gen 4 is my favorite.
Is it the best? No, it has it's problems (mainly pacing) but nostalgia goggles won't allow me to hate it.
I only had a hand-me-down copy of Red for a long time until I found platinum at a flea market one day
I didn't use the internet much, so learning that there was more than a single pokemon game blew my mind at the time. Picked it up and man, that was a blast. I sucked at every corner ("What the heck is a dark type?") but learning it all without the internet was just as fun as it was with Red.
I got to the e4 somehow but never managed to beat it until last dec when I decided to make a new file and finish what I started.
I have heavy nostalgia bias, but what can I say? Everyone enjoys wearing those rose tinted glasses every now and then.
Really excited for the inevitable remakes, mainly so mons like luxray can actually be normally obtained for the first time in what feels like forever.
Good times.