machomuu said:
Nimbus said:
I'd say Emerald.
Why not FR/LG...well...Kanto, and feel free to argue this with me in a friendly and non-agressive manner, was kind of Meh. The only think I enjoyed about FR/LG was the Music, expecially the Champions Theme.
Emerald has the Battle Frontier, and just a warning on that...the CPU takes Hax to a whole new "unhealthy for you" level there. I'm lucky I got all of my Gold Frontier symbols, I think my last words were "Nevar again!"
Emerald also has both Groudon and Kyogre available, and Rayquaza makes an awesome signature legendary.
Emerald lacks some Pokemon found in both R/S, but to be honest, some of them weren't that useful anyway. You also get to pick which Lati twin you encounter after the E4. The roamers IV's have been fixed too so they don't have always crap IV spreads. All of the Legendary Beasts in FR/LG btw, will always have crap IV's because the RNG is bugged for them and it drops all but a certain number of bytes, and IIRC that means it only generates the HP, Attack, and Defense.
Emerald also has a different Champion than R/S. Wallace who was the Sootoplois City Gym Leader is now the Hoenn Champion and Steven Stone's still around...somewhere. I personally don't like Wallace as a champion, his team is far to easy for me to beat, granted I overlevel before anything like this anyway.
If you really want Kanto, I'd say wait until you get another DS and get HeartGold or SoulSilver. You'll get both Johto and Kanto.
But he won't get Giovanni or the original adventure.
Yes he will, if he waits till he gets a new DS, downloads that Event or loads it via Pokesav or whatever, he'll get to fight Giovan....oops...
I've said too much now...
The original adventure is bland and overrated if you ask me. Feel free to again argue this ala gentlemanly style with me. Kanto is too damn Linear as well, at least Hoenn makes you backtrack or deviate from the path once in awhile. Sure you absolutely need an HM slave in Hoenn, but it's totally worth it for the adventure.
Hell, I didn't even start off in Gen 1 myself. I actually started in Gen 2 with my Silver Version. Loved it, and I was shocked when I got to Kanto "I was like...wtf...there's another region!? Awesome!" I bought Blue version a few months later, and to be honest, it seemed very very bland, linear, and lackluster. The only thing that I loved was Persians Ungodly Critical Hit Rate, Slash's High Critical Hit Rate+Speed Determining Crits+No 510 EV Cap in Gen 1-2+Persians remarkable speed+Lack of Ghost types to block said attacks=A scene which I will never forget...ever get 10-15 crits in a row!? It's pretty damn boss.
But yes, against all these others, I say go with Emerald. Thanks to contests and the secret bases, it has a decent amount of replay value.
