Played them all and been a fan of the series since I was very young! Iris is really cute, though Cynthia will always be my favorite champion. I really loved gen 4 a lot I guess but gen 5 is great too. Sadly my DS and all my pokemon games were stolen so I have to wait til I have money again, which I've been saving for other things. I love how TMs are re-usable in gen 5 but I absolutely hate the online rules and no scaling for 6v6..won't even be in B/W2 so I either have to grind, grind, grind or cheat and dupe rare candies for a full team. Still, gen 5 is great and I'm excited for BW2 because of the move tutors and little improvements, but it strikes me as weird that challenge/assist mode require you to beat the game first. Also the daycare isn't available til after the E4 and most of my gametime is spent doing breeding. Ugh.
Only problem I have with the series is that there are so many 'mons now and a lot of great ones are made redundant. I've always liked ones like Hypno and Venomoth too but at least the latter has quiver dance now..too bad about Beedrill though.
Has anyone read any of the Pokemon Adventure graphic novels? They are actually really, really good.
Colinn wrote:
I've been a bit out of date with the series since Pokemon Emerald. I've got Pokemon Platinum and Soul Silver I've still to play, which I do intend to get round to. It will always have a place in my heart as one of my favourite childhood series. But I think the amount of Pokemon there are now is crazy!

I kind of agree. The original 150 will always be my favorite but I love a ton of the new designs and always welcome the new games. I love some of the new evos, like Kingdra, Steelix and Weavile but hate others like Rhyperior (wtf it looks ret*d) and Dusknoir (Dusclops are so cool..). Magmortar is kind of goofy looking but I like Electivire. My biggest problem now is that a lot of my favorites, like Lapras and Exeggutor are kind of redundant and pointless to use since so many other 'mons exist now. I feel like it was a bit easier to balance during the GSC and RSE days. Now the power creep is getting a tad excessive. It really doesn't matter too much unless you do a lot of serious online battling, which I never did.