Originally Posted by
Arrowspace
I played my original copy of silver so much that the little battery inside the cartridge died and it won't keep save files anymore.
HG/SS are my favorite games of the entire series so far. It was just the perfect combination of all of their work up until that point.
I can't play B/W as much just because the interface of HG/SS was so well done. Just the chore of manipulating pokemon inside PC boxes was made totally streamlined in HG/SS with the touch screen, and then they botched it in B/W.
And I'll forever be sad that pokemon don't follow your character anymore.
It was the little things, really.
So with all that said, I'd recommend buying a combo of HG or SS, and platinum. Platinum was a great too.
B/W was good, but I couldn't get as hooked on it as I did with Gen 4.