While I'd put ORAS over RS, I do think the cutscene intrusions can drag the pacing down compared to the original, and I don't like how they truncated certain dungeons like Mt. Pyre and the Trick House. Probably other changes for the worst, but those are the first ones that pop into my head.
Our tastes are very similar, also because of the crowded mid tiers. Pokémon games are most of the times at least that good!
It's good, but it didn't crack my Top 3 which is still Black/White/2, Sun/Moon/Ultra, and HGSS. But I think I'd put it right after that.
Looking at my list is reminding me just how crowded my 'B' tier is, lol. There are a lot of Pokemon games that I find to be perfectly good games but don't love or find that they really jump ahead of the pack in any way. Even the C tier games I still enjoy, just not as much, and D/P remakes are mostly in D tier just because they're so incredibly bland and boring, combined with being remakes of my least favorite base generation.
Only saw this post now but huh, those are some unusual choices. I’d love to hear some of your reasonings behind them!
I prefer R/S because to me I just wasn't a fan of the little changes made to certain parts of the game, I don't like the way they changed Mauville City and some of the redesigns of the characters are okay but for me I prefer the original designs.
I get that, but you can still experience those things in Emerald at that point. RS simply feel redundant since there’s both a better version of the same thing, and a different take with its own benefits
Enjoy pretty much every Pokemon game to varying degrees. D doesn't hold up well and wouldn't play again. Anything below D I just outright hated.
What aspects are most important to you in Pokémon games?
I would say the following:
Maybe the problem was precisely having played Legends not long before. Burn out is a thing even when you do enjoy something
HGSS below DP and XY? You don’t see that every day!
Good thing to have handy
I only have the final area of SV to do but since there's no soul in the world and the only thing redeeming it from being outright bad is the main story beats having some of my favorite fights in the entire franchise (making me wish the whole game has as much good design as those fights...), I think this is good enough for my rankings: likely spicy for folk here but w/e, I enjoy the gameplay loop of the ones on the top + their bonus content even if that ends up being wifi or local MP memories and stuff like ORAS being so dumbed down i could beat it blindfolded, USUM being copypasta of SM with nothing improved (Some stuff worse), and Crystal not changing any of the gym leaders/main plot beats in any major ways like yellow did led this to being my list.
SV needed an actually good world to connect the fun objectives together instead of grass grass mountains ice grass grass. It needed towns, multi-layered dungeons, memorable lakes, towers, caverns, anything besides just... pokemon. Can only really think of the cave near the psychic gym, the one where you meet the legend and the cool bridge near the dragon titan as anything remotely close to good design.
Returning to this, and... Opinion is pretty much the same. Including the DLC would probably lower my ranking of the game to below S/M because it really did not feel worth an additional $35.
Been about half a year, so I thought it'd be fun to go back and revise my tier list a bit based on how I feel about the game several months later with less recency bias, and also evened out the tiers a little more based on some recent replays. Games are only roughly ordered within their tiers. Used the GameCube games as well like some people have.
Still haven't played the Sword/Shield DLC because I actively disliked the base game, so I wasn't wanting to spend another $30 on it.
Although I felt this with Violet, I felt it more with Legends. But I concur
Two reasons (at least for me):
Legends was good too. It still felt more of a monster tamer than me
