>>41563603I'm 27, started with Red, and Plat is my all time favorite. It's basically what
>>41564424 said. Platinum is everything good about the games that came before it, with all the bad DP stuff out, WITH the Phys/Spec split which was REVOLUTIONARY at the time. The 4th gen is where the metagame truly started, and took pokemon from a fun childhood staple to a top tier online salt farm. It also had solid designs, which we all talked shit on back then, but are pretty great in retrospect.
Platinum kickstarted a golden age that lasted until BW2. If your favorite game isn't Platinum, HGSS, or BW2 you are literally the zoomer here, because boomers remember shit just getting better all the time from one release to the next. From Silver to Ruby to Platinum(skipped DP) to SS to BW2 I felt like I was getting a better product every single time. If Platinum isn't your favorite you either started playing Pokemon after it's release, or quit Pokemon before Plat (which a lot of my friends did, including me since I skipped DP but Plat saved me). The latyer group is boomers who wouldn't come to /vp/, the former is you zoom zooms that don't love some good old Platinum.
