When did the Pokemon Games start its downfall!?

[jnfs2014]

I think it started after Pokemon Crystal was released.
Pokemon Crystal is a good game, but it was the last game to be
hardcore Pokemon fan game.

Post away.

[JrDude]

It's falling?

[Cornwad]

I wasn't aware that Pokemon games were having a downfall....
I thought it was getting better as Wifi gets better O_O

[ThePowerOfOne]

It's falling?

[DBY106698]

I think they took a little drop around Emerald.. but I'm not sure. As far as I know of, Pokemon is going up now.

[jnfs2014]

A drop as in the hardcore gamer Pokemon game.

[Gwen Khan]

if anything it got more hardcore, what with EV's, IV's, abilities, natures and so forth

[Level_9_Chao]

Right after Crystal was when Pokemon got a little too complex, at least for me. I dunno if EVs existed before the GBA series, but games like Red thru Crystal were huge enough, long enough, and lasted a heck of a long time while not overwhelming you with mechanics.

Pokemon today has gotten better in terms of depth, but at least for me, it severely lost its "classic-ness" when it got to GBA. There's too much to keep track of, or at least there is if you really wanna catch 'em all.

[Fish]

 The 3rd generation was the start of it.
1st was awesome, 2nd only improved on the 1st, but R/S/E just weren't as enjoyable. Pearl was even less enjoyable for me than Sapphire.

[thunderhero4]

There is no fall :|

I thought Pearl Version was the hardest of them all :|

[Level_9_Chao]

There is no fall :|

I thought Pearl Version was the hardest of them all :|

Hardest, perhaps.

But the most FUN? The most MEMORABLE? Nah.

[Llama on Steroids]

I don't play Pokemon anymore, but I think Ruby and Sapphire was the start. D:

[Neerb]

I really hate the EV and IV systems, but I don't think Pokemon is in a real fall.  Yet.

However, if there already was a fall, I'd say it was with the coming of Hoenn:  Johto had the last rediculously popular games, Johto had the last theatrical movie, Johto was the last new region before Misty left the show (which ticks me off; she should come back and Brock should take a break), and it was Johto that, with Kanto right behind it, was cut off from tradability with the GBA games.  I still love it, but if there was a point where it took a turn for the worse, it was with the introduction to Hoenn.

[Rayquarian]

Pokemon DPP is better than Pokemon RSE.

Therefore, it's rising, not falling.

[ThePowerOfOne]

Pokemon DPP is better than Pokemon RSE.

Therefore, it's rising, not falling.

Eh, I liked Emerald more. I don't think D/P was as good.

But all the new features of Platinum might change that...