I was the kind of noob who taught his gyrados and absol flamethrower, ice beam and thunderbolt(and completely ignored setup moves). So really, platinum is my favourite generation since thats when i became aware of the finer aspects of the game. Plus the pokemon, man, they were(and still are) so cool! Staraptor, infernape, garchomp, lucario, togekiss.... The list just goes on.