>>46084220okay, the essay andys are starting to come in so i'll just make this short. Gen 3 is good but it's not the greatest. I would say that they represent the standard level of quality a pokemon game should strive for. Some games exceed that standard and others struggle to bring their chins above the bar.
Hoenn was the original dexcut when you think about. like
>>46084425 said, Hoenn was sort of a greenhouse where all the problems of nu pokemon first started to sprout. It has a lot of good though: the battle frontier, minimal load screens, fairly solid story, and perhaps the most immaculate map GF ever made.