Gen 4 definitely, most specifically Platinum.

With the amount of legendaries in it, I'm surprised how many of them are intermingled within the main game. The Creation Trio and Lake Guardians play some role within Team Galactic's ploy to recreate the universe or some nonsense. It has what I consider the second best story in the main series (Plasma), as it shows how deep rooted Galactic really is within Sinnoh with their main locations being two major cities, using the guise of capturing these legendary Pokemon as sources of alternative power. Cyrus' grand plan is actually explained with his nihilistic viewpoint in the world (not to mention his sentimental side in never targeting his home town) which is a lot better than other villain teams.

The introduction to some of my favourite Pokemon and the Special/Physical split, giving some old Pokemon better viability in the metagame made for some fun times during high school. The AI having a massive improvement over the previous with some form of intelligent design which gets improved even more in the next generation.

Finally, it has the best champion in Cynthia and a post game that is extremely rich in content.

Various subreddits and Youtube are all I need.

Then when I'm really bored I go on siliconera for weeb news, or gamasutra for industry talk.

Surprise surprise its a Mario.

So I went over to a friends house to play some games and after our fill of fighting games and Smash, we decided to see what else I brought. Turns out, New Super Mario Bros Wii was in the wrong case and we spent a good two hours on it. We spent quite some time sabotaging and blaming each other whenever one of us died.

Actually, speaking of fighting games, I remember that same friend and I going through the Weapon Master campaign in Soul Calibur 2 back in the day.

Fire Emblem Fates: Birthright Eugenics/5
I beat the game a month ago, even then it doesn't beat Conquest or even Awakening in terms of enjoyability. I'm still playing it purely to get all the male MU supports and every single adult pairing so I can create the perfect lunatic team for my next play through without thinking who hasn't married yet.

Tomb Raider (2013) 4/5
Solid game all-in-all. The whole setting is pretty laughable when the samurai show up. Not a fan at those forced QTE events.

The manga is Kaguya-sama wa Kokurasetai: Tensai-tachi no Renai Zunousen and the character is Fujiwara, the third wheel in this fun romcom setup.

Let me tell you the tale of 7th Dragon III Code VFD. @2200 is to blame for this purchase.

You take Etrian Odyssey's character class types, a weird narrative that takes place in three different settings, and distractions such as side quests and dating and you've got me sold on some random 3DS game no one is going to pick up because Sega has not advertised this game at all.

Most importantly, there is a hacker class.

All the GTA games that isn't IV. During its PS2 era, I was heavy into CS 1.6 and Brood War, so outside of watching my friends play it, I've yet to touch 3, San Andreas and Vice City.

@Stormcrownn Hours and hours of playing the same chapter again and again because your squishy mage, Azura, Niles sucks at dodging that one physical hit that shouldn't have hit them.

I've been straying away from my mass marathon of various shows, which is especially surprising considering last summer I watched over 25 airing shows for that season. Even more surprising I have yet to watch a show from this year.

So returning to that form of borderline addiction I've slowly been watching Mushishi's second season and am halfway done. Its weird how most of the stories so far have had better ending for the random character of the day than its predecessor, but that's fine.

They're mass produced imitation Nendoroids without the uniqueness and ability to pose them.