Kanto or Hoenn.

[TehLulzMastur]

I say Hoenn. As other people said, it was better to play through a new adventure than an old one.

[saar]

For me - Hoenn. Especially because of the plot, loved the Teams/Gyms/Contest much more than Kanto.
Of course Kanto was good, but not as the Hoenn region.

[Beebar234]

Hoenn. I started with it in Emerald, but still.
I liked Kanto, but it was kind of plain and repetitive.
Even though I've played through Hoenn dozens of times, I will never get bored of it.
This should have been a poll.

[tom-tom]

I am going to have to go with Kanto, just because the nostalgia. I thought that Hoenn was very good as well, better than Sinnoh, but just not big enough. Kanto was always great, but when FR/LG came out with the Sevi Islands, I really began to love Kanto.

[Shadow Tepi 8]

I reckon Hoenn was better than Kanto. Personally, I found the plot in Hoenn to be far more deep and interactive than Kanto's plot. The environments in Hoenn also appeal to me due to their variations, such as Mt. Chimney, the desert area in Route 111 and the numerous sea routes with many dive spots.

[gustavo 14]

hoenn, without a doubt. i liked hoenn pokemon more than any other pokemon, and it has a better battle frontier than 4th gen.

[BlueJay93]

I started becoming a poke freak during the 3rd generation and always liked the hoenn region. The only let down of Ruby and Sapphire is that you cant catch many classic pokemon and have to trade from Fire Red and Leaf Green. I also like the fact that hoenn is a tropical region(I like Tropic terrain). If I were to live in hoenn, however, I would pick verdanturf town because of its tranquility. I hope game freak makes a new and improved remake of ruby and sapphire during the 5th genertion!

[crystalzapdos]

Hoenn. The areas are better. Desert,dive,and the cave with the tides. Though in kanto it was alot easier to level up.

[Heldigunner1]

if i had to pick. I would say Hoenn, for a number of reasons:
1)Intro of both contests and BF
2) In my opinion the hoenn game had the hardest gym leader, Norman. at least he's hard if your unprepared.
3) Having two bad teams made it less dry.
4) The land had an interesting layout. Adding in weather conditions, etc. was nice.
5) good E4 and final champ.

However, Johto is still my favorite.

[Paddypower]

Ding-ding, time for celebrity deathmatch in the Dome of Doom. Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin the blue corner, with the title of first region to be visited, it's our blast from the past, Kanto! Iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiin the red corner, volcanoes, deserts, fighting legendaries and cities built on water, what doesn't this region have? It's Hoenn!

Both regions step into the ring, take a step forward. Kanto goes for the gut, Hoeen sidesteps and delivers a great sock into Kanto's jaw! Kanto's stumbling, and Hoenn just keeps going and going! Kanto delivers a weak punch, blocked by Hoenn who finishes it off with a kick to Kanto's head! We have a conclusive winner here, Hoenn!!!

Yeah. Hoenn. It was so cool with all the stuff and things.

[The 12th Pokemon Master]

Hoenn because it is different from other regions.

[truthwillsetyoufree]

Ive always liked both. Kanto was the original, although my first game was Sapphire. I like playing both and find both to be a lot of fun. Although if I hadto pick, Hoenn, the pokemon are all just original and cool and the gym leaders and E4 members are great. Kanto just falls a little flat, but is still a great game. Oh and theres no contest in Kanto.....not cool.....

[Charminions]

I like both Kanto and Hoenn. Kanto was the first one but eventually got boring for me. Hoenn has some sick pokemon and I like how Hoenn has 2 evil teams. The storyline between yourself, Team Aqua, and Team Magma is pretty sick and I'd say a lot more interesting than just you fighting Giovanni and some weak Rocket Grunts a couple times. I pick Hoenn.

[Magcargo96]

Hoenn. By far.
Hoenn is my favorite region until now. It was a little bit tropic, wich I loved, but also the variety. It has some big city's (Rustburo, Mauville), some small towns (Littleroot, Oldale, Verdanturf) some exotic town's (Lavaridge!), some islands (Dewford, Mossdeep), and my personal favorite, some water city's (Pacifildoc, Sootopolis).

Also, there were some forest's, an ice cave, and a meteor cave.

There were also some pokemon wich I liked the most of all pokemon regions. Most of my favorite poké's came from Hoenn.

There was introduced some new thing to do: Contests!
Also some small things wich I enjoyed like the two evo's from Wurmple, a cool team (IMO), Secret Base's, and more.

It also contained some things wich were worse then in R/B/Y or G/S/C.
There were the worst trio in this game; the Regi's.
I thought it was some little bit too hard to discover them, and, I think that a full defensive trio was some little bit to much.
I like defensive poké's, but not when it's one full trio of defensive poké's.

And I thought that Groudon, Kyogre and Rayquaza were better then the other box mascots.

[Dark Arceus]

I agree that Hoenn was quite impressive; it was quite innovative in its design and I especially like Pacifidlog town. However, Kanto (having appeared in every generation to date) does provide a sense of nostalgia (the sleeping Snorlax, Silph Co., the Game Corner) and quite a good sideplot as well, and although in my opinion neither compare to Johto, Kanto just edges it for me.

[xxDanixx]

Personally, Hoenn is one of my favorites. It was the first one I actually played (I had the original gold and yellow, but I was too little to actually play), so it's kind of sentimental for me. I also thought this had the coolest batch of starters and so much more to it overall.

[Captian Bad Kid]

Personally, Hoenn is one of my favorites. It was the first one I actually played (I had the original gold and yellow, but I was too little to actually play), so it's kind of sentimental for me. I also thought this had the coolest batch of starters and so much more to it overall.

I don't know...
Johto is my favorite but I still thoroughly enjoy Hoenn and I'm still playing it!
As for the starters, excellent. Mudkip finishes as a ground water so it pwnz, and Blaziken is very fast but it's a fighting fire-type which is great. As far as Treeko goes, I HATE Sceptile but love the two others. The starters themselves have excellent types by the end, nothing really compares. I mean you have Charizard as Flying-Fire and Venusaur as Grass-Poison but it really doesn't compare to Ground-Water and Fighting-Fire. My favorite starters-the Pokemon themselves w/ no evolutions and not counting types- have to be Johto. I just love em` all
But as types go, and final evolutions: Hoenn is the best, hands-down.

[shayminXIII]

kanto it was the orignal region aka the birth of those games

[Saph]

Hoenn is still the best region, Kanto has a lot of memories but as a region is very plain.

[FlameRose]

Hoeeeeeeeeeeeeen!

Great geography, lovely pokemon variety, more interesting NPC's, just generally better in my opinion.