>>29971456>XYGreat new Pokemon, loved Megas, breeding improvements were heaven, Exp Share was godly for leveling stuff up to 100 faster, EV training being made a joke.
As for the actual games, the music was great and the region would have been amazing if Gen 6 had gotten a third version or B2W2 style sequels. And even then you still had stuff like the Chateau and the largest city in Pokemon history to have going for you. A shame about the entourage of unlikable rivals, although at least Tierno had his stupid dancing gimmick to make me like him. And the less said about in-game balance, the better. Having a huge regional dex was nice though and between that and Friend Safari made the Pokemon Bank wait much easier.
>ORASNo Battle Frontier and took me a long time to warm up to it, but goddamn I've really come to like the games. Technically not as good as Emerald, but Emerald's so backwards compared to modern-day Pokemon (no physical/special split being the biggest one) that going back would be incredibly hard. You're fine in my books.
For reference, both of them I logged about 250+ hours, which is decent but not super large (usually it's 400+ hours for me, with White 1 getting 800+ somehow).
Gen 7 spoilers:
Sun/Moon are so much worse than either one of you. No gyms was a mistake, the level curve is still wonky even with Gen 5-style EXP, your "rival" is more annoying than any of the Gen 6 rivals, and Lillie is the most shoved in your face NPC in Pokemon history to the point where my biggest regret is that you never get to destroy her in battle. Or punch her face in. Or do anything that doesn't revolve around her to some degree in regards to the plot.
Lillie was a mistake. 
