Most hated on Generation?

[Taodragon]

BW1's storyline path is pathetic. Every gym is one city apart, and it's pretty much a straight shot from Nuvema Town to the Pokemon League (with the sole exception of having to backtrack to Rt. 4 and go through Desert Resort and Relic Castle).

BW2 is not much of an improvement. The beginning is even shorter than BW1's, the gym distribution is still terrible (after having the first 6 gyms 1 city apart, the 7th is 4 cities away, and then the 8th requires you to backtrack a few cities and travel through Marine Tube), and is still predominantly linear.

Both games have long stretches of gym after gym with very little exploration, that is why they are so linear and clustered.

I always felt that was a partial throwback to the Kanto/Johto regions since they were also pretty linear in structure (though not to the extent of BW Unova).

Personally, I prefered the way Hoenn did it over any other region since they didn't have you backtrack too many times and the gym spacing was better and suited to the story.

[Breeder Drew]

3rd Gen was the best in my opinion. The Pokemon all looked good and original.

I'd have to say the most hated on one was Gen 5. Those were dark times indeed, all the ice cream Pokemon topics...

[Bolt the Cat]

I always felt that was a partial throwback to the Kanto/Johto regions since they were also pretty linear in structure (though not to the extent of BW Unova).

Personally, I prefered the way Hoenn did it over any other region since they didn't have you backtrack too many times and the gym spacing was better and suited to the story.

Please, don't even compare Unova to Kanto. Kanto isn't even close to being as linear as Unova. You have plenty of options for progressing the region, especially once you get to Celadon. There's two different ways to get to Fuschia City. You can go to Cinnibar as soon as you use Surf. There's about a dozen ways to complete the gyms, and you can choose when to do the gyms and when to do the Team Rocket events. It is far from linear, not even close to Unova. Johto is fairly linear too, but at least there you have options, for instance you can go to Mahogany as early as before the 4th gym even though it's meant to be the 7th. Unova is clearly the worst, the game railroads you in every possible way.

[Gothic-Gothorita]

I don't entirely know for sure, but I see a lot of people saying that Gen IV/Sinnoh caused the series to go down. I don't really understand that, from my perspective, Generation IV was amazing! Due to it's enhancements, new system that wasn't title "Game Boy" and so much more!

[Taodragon]

Please, don't even compare Unova to Kanto. Kanto isn't even close to being as linear as Unova. You have plenty of options for progressing the region, especially once you get to Celadon. There's two different ways to get to Fuschia City. You can go to Cinnibar as soon as you use Surf. There's about a dozen ways to complete the gyms, and you can choose when to do the gyms and when to do the Team Rocket events. It is far from linear, not even close to Unova. Johto is fairly linear too, but at least there you have options, for instance you can go to Mahogany as early as before the 4th gym even though it's meant to be the 7th. Unova is clearly the worst, the game railroads you in every possible way.

Like I said, "not to the extent of BW Unova," haha. I forgot about Kanto's dual routes (I was only thinking in terms of towns) but Johto's options was still pretty limited considering you can't do much in Mahogany if you visited there and everything else is pretty laid out aside from the slight backtracking after the 5th gym. Regardless, I will admit I was wrong in that previous assessment of mine.

[EmphaticPikachu]

I see gen IV to be hated on the most :/...Slow? Maybe. Boring, the same? I disagree >:/...

then gen 1 as the second most hated despite me knowing that's not the truth. All I'm seeing from that was are "backlash genwunners". IE, all of the hate on gen 1 to push back the genwunners. xD


I still stick to Unova's linearness making it easier to follow the story and making the first playthrough quick and fast paced. IE, for a first playthrough, it was pretty good.

But the lack of exploration in the game makes it hard to want to run through the Region again. If it wasn't for the story, I wouldn't even try to force myself to finish it when going through it again. Its just not as fun the second time around.

[Shinytaifood]

Most people that I've talked to like HGSS but hate Sinnoh. Eh. I can't say that I hated Sinnoh but I did enjoy the other regions more. I think it's actually more along the lines of that people make out gen IV to the beginning of the era "Gamefreak has lost it's creativity." Basic genwunner logic.

[Nyarlathotep]

Sinnoh, but honestly, I don't know why people dislike it that much. I like it a lot.

I mean, the region isn't as beautiful as Johto and Hoenn, but at least Sinnoh isn't as boring as Johto. The Pokémon from Sinnoh are awesome, there are some bad and ugly, but the same goes to every region, the Gyms and leaders were cool, the music was outstanding, Team Galactic was awesome, etc. The biggest problem was the slowness (30fps, before Gen IV the games were set at 60fps), but then again HGSS were at 30fps as well and no one complained (maybe because nostalgia speaks a lot for some people).

IMO Sinnoh/Kanto > Johto > Unova/Hoenn (in terms of regions, not judging the games per se).

[Winter02]

Definitely fourth gen, or more specifically, the Sinnoh games. They seem to get all the hate, although the Hoenn and Unova games are getting some of it as well. While Hoenn has been hated much in the past, it seems to be getting a lot of love recently. Unova is in the same situation as Sinnoh for most parts, altough I have personally seen more hate for Sinnoh, which is why it gets my vote. Kanto and Johto almost only gets love and praise for no good reason.

As for my personal opinion about best regions/generations: Unova = Sinnoh = Hoenn > Kanto >>> Johto

[Master Leo]

Sinnoh got the most hate and it definitely deserved it.

Hoenn and Johto seem to get a lot of hate too, but they arent as bad as Sinnoh.

[Psychic Politoed]

I don't get what's bad about Sinnoh. It's kind of the "DS experiment", and it seemed to do very well in that department.

[Mays]

Least favorite for Pokemon is Sinnoh, but the Pokemon don't bother me I just don't like them - it's just the design of everything (apart from the Pokemon)

Love all of them though. >.<

[Nyarlathotep]

Sinnoh got the most hate and it definitely deserved it.

Hoenn and Johto seem to get a lot of hate too, but they arent as bad as Sinnoh.

Johto is by far worse than Sinnoh will ever be. And no, Sinnoh does not deserve the hate. I defy you to point out in what aspects Johto was better than Sinnoh.

As for my personal opinion about best regions/generations: Unova = Sinnoh = Hoenn > Kanto >>> Johto

Almost exactly like my personal opinion. To me it is like this: Unova = Sinnoh = Kanto > Hoenn >>>>>>>> Johto.

[Zachmac]

Johto is by far worse than Sinnoh will ever be. And no, Sinnoh does not deserve the hate. I defy you to point out in what aspects Johto was better than Sinnoh.



Almost exactly like my personal opinion. To me it is like this: Unova = Sinnoh = Kanto > Hoenn >>>>>>>> Johto.

There. All the problems in the pokemon world solved.

If we could just respect other people's opinions and stick to the stuff we like, were would all the arguing be?

[Nyarlathotep]

There. All the problems in the pokemon world solved.

If we could just respect other people's opinions and stick to the stuff we like, were would all the arguing be?

Well, if people actually respected that there are a lot people who likes Sinnoh, it would be great. It is hard to just watch people hating on something (without not a single reason to do so). Sinnoh have a lot of good points (and bads as well, like every region) and people need to start giving the credits it deserves. I am all for respecting other people's points of view, as long as they respect mine as well.

[Plus side down side]

I don't understand why everyone has to go to extremes with their least favorite generation.
It's either:
"Gen 4 was the best gen ever, and anyone who has anything to say about it is a hater."
or:
"Gen 4 is the worst gen ever, everything was stupid, Pokemon died right there."

Gen 4 is my least favorite, I'll admit that. But I still enjoyed my adventure through Sinnoh very much. I found the region dull, and the Pokemon weren't my favorite, but a lot of good things came from Gen 4 too.


I just genuinely don't understand hating a game so much that you feel the need to be so extreme. It's just a game.

[Ciccone]

Everyone I know seems to hate Gen 2. I don't understand why though. How could anyone dislike all the amazing Pokemon that Gen 2 introduced? Johto was an iconic region too.

[OceanicLanturn]

I think Gen 5 is the most hated. Personally, I dislike Kanto (which is IMO, boring, xD) *HUGE GASP* I love Sinnoh, then Johto, those two are elite games, dunno what they got so much hate.

Sinnoh > Johto >> Hoenn > Unova >>>>>>>> Kanto

[Diz~]

Generation 2 since it only had 100 new pokemon. -_-

[cookies kill you]

unova or sinnoh the other 3 were bomb