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Seriously. I started playing with Blue version, but there's no doubting that Ruby & Sapphire introduced the best features. Plus, Groudon was such as badass!!!
Edit: although, Crystal version introducing the moving Pokemon sprites was PRETTY fucking cool...
Comment by Megabobster at 08/05/2014 at 05:00 UTC
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Crystal was the most advanced Pokemon game until the Gen 2 remakes. It had:
1. Multiple regions (only gen to do this...?)
2. Day/Night cycle
3. Properly done time-based events
All of which were not added back until the remakes. It also introduced for the first time:
1. Choosing between playing as a boy or girl
2. Animated Pokemon sprites in battle
3. Route names pop up when travelling
4. *Lots* of small side quests, IIRC
5. Online battling (The Japanese version supported linking up to mobile phones and dial-up battling people)
Also this is more opinion than anything else, but Gen 2 had a very awesome and diverse environment, the best music (because it was before the awkward MIDI-phase Pokemon seems to have gone/been going through), the best game and level design, and generally the best story in the main series (although I haven't played BW/BW2/XY yet).