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Arriving in Goldenrod City while playing through Crystal made me feel like a kid again. Gen 2 was incredibly deep, and fun. The peak of Pokemon for me.
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Arriving in Goldenrod City while playing through Crystal made me feel like a kid again. Gen 2 was incredibly deep, and fun. The peak of Pokemon for me.
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nothing will ever bed red and blue and yellow! but gen 2 was good fun!
In this moment childhood memories of the train to Kanto, the underground, Radio tower subplot, bug catching contest, and hours of egg hatching all came back. Goldenrod is where the training wheels come off and the game blossoms in to all it’s promises. The game builds on Gen 1 in every way, and then also allows you to go back to where it all started and play it again, after finishing Kanto. It’s amazing, everything that’s packed in to this game. I’m not some boomer asserting my childhood Pokemon was better, but the game is deep, and has so much to do beyond the surface level you may immediately think. The Pokemon designs were fresh, and the original hype was still going. Silver and Gold are MASSIVE games that refined all the core game play, introduced series staples, and gave the player 100 hours worth of content in a neat, clean package. 10/10
I’m gonna keep it real, I have no idea why people think Gen 2 was even good, let alone the best. The levelling curve is so unbelievably busted that you’re punished for using more than two Pokemon because you have to grind for literal hours to be even close to the same level as then next major fight.
Why does the 7th Gym Leader have lower level Pokemon than the 6th? Why do half of the Johto Gym Leaders not have a single Johto Pokemon? Why are so many of the new Pokemon unobtainable until the post-game or just weak as hell?
Johto is incapable of standing on its own, which is why people praise the post-game so much. Generation 2 needed the post-game to even be slightly comparable to the rest of the franchise, without it the games would be absolute trash. The post-game isn’t even that good, it’s just so much better than the rest of the game that it feels amazing.
I started with Blue version and was hooked, but Gold is what really sucked up my time. I spent so many hours on that cartridge.
This game in my honest opinion is the best pokemon game ever made.
I really liked it and had a a lot of fun on it.
All I can think of is Whitney’s damn Miltank
I’m extremely sad, as my crystal cartridge is corrupted so I won’t hold a save game. But I put some many hours into that as a kid. But it is still my favorite gen by a long shot.
Weirdly my favourite Pokemon generations are always the even numbered ones like I enjoyed gen 2, loved gen 4, enjoyed gen 6, and I’m one of the very few people who actually like gen 8 (although it might be my Britain bias as I’m from the UK)
I still remember opening Crystal version on Christmas.
Oh fuck. You’ve hit my nostalgia button.
Blue was my first, but Crystal is where my nostalgia lies. Played through it again during the pandemic, still a great game.
Don’t even remember me…
The only reason that i didn’t bought any of theses new Nintendo consoles is that they have no plan to remaster or bring back via virtual console Gold/Silver or HeartGold/SouSilver.
For me, best gen and best *pokemon game.
And then when you go to the 16th gym and Blue was the gym leader?! You slimy son of a bitch! You don’t belong here!!!! Where did Red go? …and then you met Red later and got absolutely wrecked. What a time to be alive. Good times.
Thanks for bringing back some good memories, but now I’m just really sad. I don’t think I’ll ever be able to get the same enjoyment as I found with the first 3 generations of Pokemon games.
I still have all my games and systems. Even bought Green when I went to Tokyo a couple years ago. Maybe it’s just best to let the nostalgia remain and not potentially taint these feelings by revisiting where I spent majority of my childhood.
I remember growing up wondering if it was all in my head or if it was real that you could take a train to Kanto in Silver and Gold.
And then you met Miltank and were a victim of Rollout.
I let someone borrow the Gameboy color and Crystal version I had since I was a kid, and when I asked for it back she claimed when she broke up with her boyfriend he took a bunch of her stuff. Not that I was really all that attached to it, but in like 10-20 years they could be collector items worth a good chunk of money.
I remember this city being much larger as a child.
Sharing my fave gen2 town bgm for some nostalgia kick
https://youtu.be/fbcjFvXGXYQ
Gen 2 really was amazing and beautiful in many aspects. I grew up learning how to read because of Pokémon Blue at six years old.
However, for me, generation 3 is unrivalled, specifically Emerald version. The post game battle frontier was awesome! I was extremely disappointed by the ruby and sapphire remakes when they didn’t have even half of the Emerald battle frontier, what an absolute waste.
My interest in Pokémon dwindled with generation 5, however I loved generation 6. I played Pokémon X and I got back into the competitive breeding (IV’s, matures, abilities, shinies, egg moves, etc), which I had gotten into in Emerald. However Pokémon Moon killed it for me.
Specifically I wanted to catch the legendary in a Moon Ball, which you only get one of in the entire game. And since legendaries are guaranteed 3 perfect IVs I wanted a good spread and a good nature. I spent hours going through the initial encounter cut scenes and trying to catch it with the Moon Ball and gave up when I didn’t get a single successful catch, let alone a catch with what I was looking for.
I haven’t bothered with any of the games since then, but recently I’m considering getting back into the games.
I really liked the exploration in third gen with the braille puzzles, the whole relicanth and Wailord thing, getting the Regi’s.
I’m not sure if the games will find a place in my heart again.
Anyone ever win the lucky channel radio contest? What was the prize and was there a trick to winning?
Best Pokémon game
This is about where the Togepi egg would hatch for me as well. Somehow I almost always hit the store count in Goldenrod.
Just before this you find out that People do in fact eat pokemon. Team Rocket are cutting off and cooking Slowpoke tails for money, knowing that they are edible.
i kinda wanna say that gen 2 was my favorite but the game i’m most familiar with is gen 3, my favorite pokemon is from gen 2 though (lugia)
Playing GS Chronicles right now!
Houses’ design is so dope. 16-bit game?
If we’re talking strictly about the two Gameboy generations, then yeah, but the jump to the GBA was monumentally more impressive IMO.
If gen 2 didn’t have the weak level curve that made the middle of the game braindead easy
And didn’t have less variety in available pokemon than it’s predecessor – leaving items like evolution stones and most of the new pokemon with not trash stats in post game – it would be peak IMO as well
It did do wonders for world building and immersion. Crystal for sure. Those animated, colorful, sprites are peak nostalgia for me.
Wait! That’s Goldenrod from Gold/Silver, not Crystal!
The amount of “houses” you couldn’t explore never bothered me as a kid. They still don’t bother me, there’s “just enough” houses to go into with actual content, anyways. Its amazing to see maps from his view because you can see just how many of them were tiny 2×2 tiles to block our paths and nothing more. They hardly scale to a house at all, even.
Finding out I got to play through all of the first game again with a revamped map and difficulty blew my child mind.
I went from yellow to crystal to emerald never played red/blue, silver/gold, ruby/sapphire. But my siblings did and traded me things I couldn’t get
Pokémon gold was absolutely peak gaming experience no doubt.
I always refer to Gen 2 Pokémon games as “the last time I knew true happiness”. These games were absolutely amazing, the post and the comments touch on it a lot but just the VIBE of this game was incredible. I’ve played it in every stage of my life from childhood to adulthood and I could easily see myself giving it another go.
The first pokemon is Gen 3 sapphire, but black & white is still my favourite
If you are looking for some real nostalgia and a good challenge, try playing Pokemon Crystal Kaizo!
I immediately heard this theme in my head when I scrolled by this. It’s the same for me too. I’m glad Pokemon is still going on so my nieces and nephews get to have their own ‘peak’ Pokemon too.
Don’t remember it being so bland
I remembered as a kid playing through the entire game for months never knowing that a bike store existed… Until a class mate pointed it out after face palming for 5 minutes
I lost and my parents rebought crystal two times! Shit was the bomb. Lamos played gold and silver without any true end-game content (jk, they also rock). Us cool kids hung out in the Battle Tower.
Gen 2 and Gen 3 were by far the most fun for me. Started with Gen 1 and completed the pokedex, got my starter to level 100 without cheats and everything, but Gen 2 and Gen 3 were so much better.
The first time, after finishing the elite 4 and you discover you need to go to the original gyms in Kanto, was mind-blowing for me. Still one of the best discoveries if had in a videogame, where you think you are finished. And then go up a waterfall and suddenly you are in Kanto.