>>29666 (OP)
X4>X1>XTreme 2>XTreme>X2>X3>X6>X5
I hate missable stuff in games, and think X2 and X3 suffer for it, though I still like them quite a bit. The Game Boy Color games are underrated, and don't have missable items, so I'm not as irritated while playing them. X5 and X6 are both shit and I'm not quite sure which I think is worse, but that X5's ridiculous RNG mess might annoy me even more than X6 being basically nothing but missable items.
>>31634
>until swoshit was that they built on top of each other. Even if your favorite mon had come out 10 years ago you'd still be able to use it in the latest game
Hoennbabbies lying again. Gen III excluded random smatterings of Pokemon, and removed backwards compatibility, among many other features that the previous games included, such as the real time clock and all the things that went with it, such as the morn/day/night cycle, which actually affected spawn rates and tons of other things. Plus there were things that happened on particular days of the week.
But none of that clock stuff matters compared to not being able to trade over my old mons that I had already traded to Gen II. And then not only that, you couldn't even catch them all again. But they didn't even have the decency to at least make a whole new pokedex, so I'm constantly reminded of guys I can't get, because I can get other old ones, so I'm left wondering through the whole games which ones I can get and which ones I can't.
Oh, but don't worry, you can get them! Only now, not only do you need to buy two or three copies of the same game, you need to re-buy two of the old games that were randomly locked out from compatibility with the new games. Games which you almost surely already owned, since they were only a couple years old and the best selling games of all time. And don't tell me that some stupid shit like stat changes made them incompatible, since changes happened between every other gen, and they were still compatible with each other, and now the games actually are compatible with the newest games, which have many more changes comparatively. Oh, but that's not even the best part! That only covers half the games that were randomly locked out of compatibility! To get Pokemon from the rest of the games, you need to buy a Gamecube, a special GC/GBA Link Cable that was basically only good for like two other games which you might not have anyway, and two particular Gamecube games, and you'd better get the special limited editions. All this, just so you can get the old Pokemon. You thought paying for DLC is bad in the new games? It is, but at least you don't have to buy a whole different console just to get old Pokemon you already caught.
It took until Gen IV to fix all the shit Gen III took away, and even then, not completely. Gen III is fucking garbage and always has been.