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Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 11:56 AM nintendo

What 'mainline' Pokemon games are good games.

Red/Blue/Green3 votes · 4%
Yellow6 votes · 7%
Gold/Silver8 votes · 9%
Crystal9 votes · 11%
Ruby/Saphire9 votes · 11%
Fire Red/ Leaf Green8 votes · 9%
Emerald13 votes · 15%
Diamond/Pearl7 votes · 8%
Platinum10 votes · 12%
Black/White12 votes · 14%

85 votes Multiple answers allowed Poll closed

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 11:56 AM nintendo

Part 2

Black/ White 211 votes · 34%
X/Y3 votes · 9%
Sun/Moon2 votes · 6%
Ultra Sun/Moon4 votes · 12%
Sword/Shield0 votes · 0%
Scarlet/Violet4 votes · 12%
Arceus6 votes · 19%
ZA2 votes · 6%

32 votes Multiple answers allowed Poll closed

heir Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

i'm biased and voting every game i played and nothing else

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

There, since people are discussing pokemon, we can have this be out poll for the day

Rusp Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

does good game mean "i played it and liked it" or actually a good game

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

I'm taking it as the first

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

Whatever you want to interpret that as

Rusp Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

because i think the open world games are objectively bad

Rusp Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

but i think they're a lot of fun

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

if I asked you "hey is this pokemon game good"

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

how would you guy instinct respond

Rusp Feb 21, 2026 11:57 AM nintendo

Well, scarlet violet specifcally

legorhin Feb 21, 2026 11:58 AM nintendo

games are meant to be fun

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 11:58 AM nintendo

they are?

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 11:58 AM nintendo

first I've heard of it

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 11:58 AM nintendo

John Nintendo said that

Dialga Feb 21, 2026 11:59 AM nintendo

i will vote for gold and silver only because the remakes of them are not on the list

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:00 PM nintendo

FUCK

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:00 PM nintendo

Thats what I get for doing this by memory and trying not to forget any

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:01 PM nintendo

Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak

John Nintendo said that

Huh, so he did.

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:01 PM nintendo

Actual rance 03 spoiler

Pyrrhic Feb 21, 2026 12:01 PM nintendo

Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak

Whatever you want to interpret that as

Fuck. I just went with TinyBomby's interpretation as canonical. Now it is what ever I want? This changes everything but I'm too lazy to revote.

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:01 PM nintendo

hey. I didn't say what game this was

Dialga Feb 21, 2026 12:02 PM nintendo

i can't tell if you're being serious and this is actually a rance screenshot

Pyrrhic Feb 21, 2026 12:02 PM nintendo

Anyways. Voted X/Y cause that's the only one in Part 2 I played.

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:02 PM nintendo

It is a screenshot he took in game

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:02 PM nintendo

Technically not entirely, I did edit in "John Nintendo" in Paint.

legorhin Feb 21, 2026 12:04 PM nintendo

I think Lets Go is considered mainline by Nintendo

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:04 PM nintendo

I would consider it mainline personally

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:04 PM nintendo

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TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:04 PM nintendo

Replying to Phijkchu_Pikachu #klombak

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whoa, major Rance spoiler there

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:04 PM nintendo

Replying to legorhin #jazardly

I think Lets Go is considered mainline by Nintendo

I didn't remember it and zero people would have voted for it anyways so whatever

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:05 PM nintendo

HG/SS was my bad though, those games are actually good

Pyrrhic Feb 21, 2026 12:05 PM nintendo

The Lets Go games have to be mainline since there is no colon in their names. It's the Legends games which are spinoffs. edit: because of colon.

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:05 PM nintendo

Pokemon Snap is mainline for the same reason

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:06 PM nintendo

and channel and colleseum, but XD gales of darkness is a spinoff

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:06 PM nintendo

Let's Go, while having different catching mechanics, still follows the exact same formula of a mainline Pokemon game. The Legends games have entirely different formulas, combat mechanics, and catching mechanics.

Spooky Phijkchu Feb 21, 2026 12:07 PM nintendo

I'm ignoring your instructions, and voting which ones I think are fun

legorhin Feb 21, 2026 12:07 PM nintendo

lets go would be great games if they hadn't put the stupid catching system in

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:07 PM nintendo

Well, the story was also completely ruined in Let's Go.

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:07 PM nintendo

I associate good with fun

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 12:07 PM nintendo

so that is a fair interpretation

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:07 PM nintendo

I actually think the catching mechanic wasn't as bad as I was expecting. It's much faster than other games, so you can catch lots of pokemon quickly.

legorhin Feb 21, 2026 12:08 PM nintendo

i am glad sword and shield is the only thing with no votes

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:08 PM nintendo

Why does USUM have more votes than SM... It's literally just the same game but worse

legorhin Feb 21, 2026 12:08 PM nintendo

more content

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 12:09 PM nintendo

I guess rainbow rocket is okay? The game is practically just story with how much dialogue it has and then it also ruins the most important parts of the story from SM.

polu Feb 21, 2026 12:24 PM nintendo

Can you subtract one vote from each game i've played for Pokemon? I don't think any are good.

Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil Feb 21, 2026 1:56 PM nintendo

I feel like there’s not a lot of good games after the jump to 3D, even if I did personally enjoy them

Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil Feb 21, 2026 1:57 PM nintendo

The only one I can’t comment on tho is ZA because I haven’t played it yet

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:23 PM nintendo

X/Y defenders explain yourself

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:23 PM nintendo

That was the pokemon game that made me quit again, the story was ok and the post game battle tower was neat

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:23 PM nintendo

Other than that I cannot think of many redeeming qualities

Raccoons Feb 21, 2026 2:24 PM nintendo

ORAS was forgotten

Dialga Feb 21, 2026 2:25 PM nintendo

yeah he forgot them alongside HGSS

Raccoons Feb 21, 2026 2:26 PM nintendo

I think everyone agrees those are the best ones tho

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:27 PM nintendo

I just assumed the Gen2 ones covered the remakes, because theyre just better. ORAS I didnt play but I know people have a lot of gripes with it

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 2:28 PM nintendo

I do not like ORAS

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 2:28 PM nintendo

I mean, it's fine, it still has the base structure of the gen 3 games, but it's just inferior in every way

Raccoons Feb 21, 2026 2:28 PM nintendo

Its better than XY because Gen 3 is better than gen 6. But pokemon had become bad already by this point so yea

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 2:29 PM nintendo

It's insane to me that they added new dialogue and new events with people coming to talk to you like a modern pokemon game would do...

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 2:33 PM nintendo

Replying to Raccoons #raccoons9986

ORAS was forgotten

FUCK

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:33 PM nintendo

All votes invalidated

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 2:33 PM nintendo

Before anyone shits on me even more

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 2:33 PM nintendo

BD/SP were forgotten

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 2:34 PM nintendo

there's literally no reason to include BD/SP

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 2:34 PM nintendo

they have nothing new on the originals

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 2:34 PM nintendo

I remembered fire red because max was complaining about it, then forgot all the other remakes

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:45 PM nintendo

I feel like id rather a remaster than a remake of games preX/Y, but i have low hope they would ever be good

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 2:46 PM nintendo

I dunno, I'd rather they do something new with a new game. Even if I don't like ORAS, I infinitely prefer ORAS to BD/SP. At least ORAS has a reason to exist.

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:46 PM nintendo

Wait i switched those. Id rather have a revised version of the game with newer stuff than just X gen with newer graphics

TinyBomby Feb 21, 2026 2:47 PM nintendo

yeah

Polar_ Feb 21, 2026 2:47 PM nintendo

Did BD/SP at least speed up the dmg meme from gen4

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 2:59 PM nintendo

For what its worth, I actually completed and did a lot of BD/SP

Phijkchu_Pikachu Feb 21, 2026 2:59 PM nintendo

cannot say the same of sun, shield (or X before I went back to complete it for my ORAS pokedex)

legorhin Feb 21, 2026 3:04 PM nintendo

I did most of BDSP and forgot it existed

Phijkchu_Cynnydaquil Feb 21, 2026 4:13 PM nintendo

I enjoyed BDSP but not enough to say it’s good on its own ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

taxes Feb 21, 2026 4:36 PM nintendo

Replying to Polar_ #polar_

X/Y defenders explain yourself

X/Y is actually up there for some of the most soulful pokemon games

taxes Feb 21, 2026 4:36 PM nintendo

it has the best online pokemon ever had

taxes Feb 21, 2026 4:36 PM nintendo

it was a "you had to be there"

taxes Feb 21, 2026 4:36 PM nintendo

stuff like wonder trading, megas were actually hype at the time etc.

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