>>27118702Autisim aside:. Yes. Really.
If they have played nothing and want a fun game that they can catch a lot of Pokemon *and* has an active player base so they can trade / battle: in short, the full experience: get XY or ORAS.
Why? Because once they have XY or ORAS, they have 100% of the modern content and conveniences available to them. Yes. It's a casual game for babies, but so was every fucking other gen. At least this way they have a framework towards catching them all.
Starting them on gen 4 is like a crime: because when gen 7 rolls out in a scant few months, they will not be able to bring all their gen 4 pokemon up to gen 7 without first buying *and completing* gen 5, and then they will not have any gen 6 experience. So by selling them on Platinum (which is excellent, all other arguments aside) you are really handicapping them, just in time for SM rollout.
Handicapping a new player. You dicks.
