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Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?
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How are you liking Pokemon Platinum? I find Gen 4 tends to be either loved or not cared for depending on the person. I personally loved those games, though HeartGold/SoulSilver is my all time favourite.
It's been a lot of fun so far. Very impressive for a 2008 handheld game. The plot isn't amazing, but still better than I expected. The distortion world was crazy and I totally didn't see anything like that coming.
However, as a newcomer to Pokémon, at times I felt a little overwhelmed with the various mechanics (e.g., underground, contests) and skipped them for the most part. Of course, being an NDS game, it's a little clunky, but that didn't really bother me.
I probably should have started with an even earlier game, but at the same time I didn't want to go as far back as GBA, since even without those all the games will take me a long while to complete. Now that I'm approaching the end, or at least I think I do, I'm definitely going to go back and properly try everything.
Can't wait to see what other Pokémon games are like. I've read that HeartGold/SoulSilver is often considered the best game. I'm also hyped for X and other 3DS ones, even if they're not that good, because I'm loving the 3D effect.
I’d definitely say to either go Emerald or HG/SS next. I’d say those are the two peaks of the series.
For Gens 1 and 2, honestly they’re pretty rough these days. I like them but I don’t think someone just entering the series now will enjoy them much. They’re super janky and are missing a lot of features. Gen 2 is my favourite (hence HGSS being my favourite games as they’re just the Gen 2 remakes) but they’re not easy to get into these days. After Gen 4 the series goes a little downhill imo but it’s still good. I have no experience past Gen 7 though as I don’t have a switch and haven’t learned how to emulate one yet.