[Wings of Fire]

I always wanted Crystal.

And now to tell you guys the truth, and the truth is that the mechanics and gameplay have gotten better in every succesive pokemon game. Saying Red and Blue are good games now is like saying Dragonball Z is a good show. It's nostalgia talking. It was good for its time but it has so many flaws that it just can't compete now.

The subjectivity with pokemon is to do with the designs, this is also a nostalgia thing, but I would somewhat agree that G1 and 2 had better designs that 3 and 4.

G5 has not only increased the quality of designs back to G1-2 level, but also gotten rid of all the little bits of unecessary baggage that the series carried on from Red and Blue which just serve to piss people off. Examples being that poison no longer effects outside of battle, pokemon are easier to capture, low level moves like Tackle and Scratch have been balanced with their power going up somewhat, and the introduction of the pseudostarter monkeys has pretty much balanced the low to mid level gameplay by ensuring you always have two of the elemental triad easily available.

So yeah, it's good.