Well, Platinum is considered valuable like Diamonds and Pearls, so...
Yeah, iunno. But there are better things to argue about than the names of the games.

I only said I played it last year, not necessarily that it came out last year.

Good point. I suppose the old adage "don't judge a book by it's cover" could play nicely here.

RBY were the best. I still have the carts.

You do realise that the pokemon games aren't the only ones produced for nintendo, nor are they even made by a first-party development studio, right? They're made by game freak, a second-party studio (they work alongside Nintendo and have a pile of contracts with them but aren't actually owned by them).
Note that I'm not disagreeing with your suggestion that the pokemon games are pretty formulaic, just that you're blaming Nintendo for it.
[/pointless]I also still have my GB/GBC carts, but I disagree that they were the best. Did you read the link I posted a page back outlining exactly why I feel that they weren't the best?

So uh i hear 3v3 battle sin B&W, is this true?

Emerald was clearly the best game in the series.

The thing with the fourth gen is that, at that moment is when progress halted for the games.
There isn't a single new major thing I can mention from it. Even if the underground fossil digging is pretty fun, it's just a minigame essentially.

And yeah, I agree with you there Geti, 3D realtime battles would've been hella fun.

I was under the impression that Game Freak was the publisher

Also, I realize that Nintendo doesn't only make Pokemon...who else could be responsible for Link, Kirby, Kid Icarus, etc? I agree, they aren't completely responsible for the cookie-cutter story lines in Pokemon games, since Game Freak helps out as well. My bad.

Yeah, I loved Emerald too, but then the franchise went down the shitter, if you ask me.

I've played White, blue and yellow, and bought FireRed, Emerald, Pearl, Platinum and HeartGold.

Never found one I didn't like. I'm too lazy to even spend half an hour training, so I just spam legendaries.

All-in-all, Pokemon is the best children-friendly, turn-based, time-consuming role-playing game that you can find. Besides the Final Fantasies, of course.

Having read your link now, I sorta agree with you. I like R/B/Y for nostalgic reasons, but the new games have a nice look too. They're a fantastic step forward for nintendo, mostly because there's an actual change. surprising, isn't it. Especialy diamond/pearl.

Well my friend confirmed 3v3 battles.
Time to spell inappropriate/troll words using unown.

Yeah, the three-on-three battles are a lot of fun. Now they just need to add three-team battles.