>>121047
I feel like that's wrong, except for the music, but Hoenn is probably my favorite region overall.
Also, getting shunted over to Dewford after Roxanne is super lame.

I remember being impressed visually, but like, anything would have impressed me moving up from the GBC. I liked the retarded ecoterrorist plot (even if even back then, I wondered if they ever spent two fucking seconds in a science class), and I very much liked the crazy biomes the region had, a volcano area, a desert, a rainforest, all the sea routes, the city in the crater, etc.
The Gen 3 Pokemon are my favorites, too, and not just because of how many of them I'd shove my whole dick into. ヽ(＾Д＾)ノ

Sinnoh is arguably better, but everything about the Gen 4 games is a slow mess. I should really look into finding a hack that just makes the games faster, although I guess I could just use fast forward in an emulator. ┐(ﾟ～ﾟ)┌

Gen 2 is my actual favorite to play though, even if Johto is a fairly boring region. I've probably replayed Gold like 16 times, and Crystal like 4. I can see Gen 3 feeling lazy coming off of G/S/C since Gen 2 absolutely feels like a direct upgrade (even if it isn't strictly one), while Gen 3 felt even at the time like it had gone back a bit (no day/night was some bullshit too, the game had a clock chip).