Least Enjoyable?

[Milo Rambaldi]

I was thinking of this a while back, just never got around to discussing it.

When I first got Pokemon Red, I played it non-stop. Even after I finished, I still played for a while after.

After Silver and Gold, I played ALL THE TIME. I played for probably a YEAR after I finished the game (Every day, no joke).

Same goes for Sapphire. I played that game about every day for around 6 months after I finished it, until it was stolen from me... -.-

Yet, maybe a few weeks, if not less, after I finished Pearl, I just lost all interest in playing. Did anyone else find that this game had the least post-elite-4 time yet?

Discuss.

[Tokito]

Yes, except mine happened with Diamond instead of Pearl. I'll try playing Diamond every once in a while..but I just can't get back into playing it.

[Seerow]

Actually I think Diamond/Pearl had the third most post-league game time compared to the games which preceeded them, after Gold/Silver/Crystal, which obviously had Kanto and Mount Silver, and FireRed/LeafGreen, which had the last few Sevii Isles. Red/Blue and Yellow gave you Cerulean Cave and Mewtwo, Ruby/Sapphire didn't give you any new areas to explore save the Battle Tower, which isn't really very explorable, Emerald was the same as Ruby/Sapphire except you get the Frontier instead of the Tower, although both of those latter two did give you more legendaries to catch. Diamond/Pearl give you a (short) new series of routes on the north-east island, the battle tower, more new legendaries than any prior game (I'm counting the three Regis in RSE as one legendary here), and Wi-Fi.

I speculate that the amount of time we spend on the games after completion depends more on what we want to do with the games than on what the game has to offer. Emerald and Diamond were the first two Pokémon games that I didn't play through again shortly after completing it the first time (although I did recently play through Diamond again). In the case of Emerald the fact that the storyline was strangely familiar, if you know what I mean, contributed to this, but in both cases the main factor was that my interest in Pokémon had veered more to the battling aspect of the games, as opposed to the RPG part, and building a good battling team is a little tedious. The Battle Frontier in Emerald sustained me for a while, but in Diamond I lost interest quite quickly.

[m4tt]

I haven't even the motivation to beat the Elite Four. In the other games I have played (R/B and G/S) the Elite Four required very little training after story progression. In D/P the levels of the E4 are significantly higher and I just can't be bothered to level up my team.

I don't know if it's due to me not being twelve any more or if there is some other factor, but I don't enjoy it as much as I used to.

[Milo Rambaldi]

I don't know if it's due to me not being twelve any more or if there is some other factor, but I don't enjoy it as much as I used to.

Maybe that's it... :shrug: I mean, when Ruby and Sapphire were released, I had had it for several months before the end of sixth grade... I'm about to start my first year of college now. Maybe it's also that I feel the games have become too much of a business. Before, they worked to put in quality, now it's like they're trying to put in quantity. Before Legendaries were prized, now you can get ten of them for next to nothing, and there's over 25-30 legendaries, which lessens the speciality to each of them.

But, I still look forward to HeartGold and SoulSilver. :)

[Psychic]

I found that it has the third worst end story, behind r/s/e and r/b/y but it was my most played, with a whopping 443 1/2 hours! thats equivilant to about 2.6 weeks! this leads me to conclude that there are other variables, like how interested your friends are, how long it is till the next release, and how bored you are. and i agree with the legendary thing. sometimes,when i go back to playing it, i think "okay, how about i get another legendary, now which one... nevermind, who cares?" if pokemon does become more bussinesslike like milo said, they'll risk popularity loss.(then again that would prompt them to go back to quality:D)

[Flame!]

I haven't even the motivation to beat the Elite Four. In the other games I have played (R/B and G/S) the Elite Four required very little training after story progression. In D/P the levels of the E4 are significantly higher and I just can't be bothered to level up my team.This was my problem. I think when I was younger I got bored of it or something and never finished games, but the only games I've beaten so far are Fire Red and Crystal. The E4 are WAY too high for me in D/P/Pt. I quit for a while and lately I've been working hard trying to just get close to the right level again.

I think I only beat crystal because I had only leveled like one pokemon back then, and I had Feraligatr boosted into the 60s by the time I got to the end. In Ruby, I got TO the E4 before I lost the game. Now I can't figure out how to finish Sapphire...

[Arctic Houndoom]

After Crystal, I had a really hard time getting into the Pokemon series again. Sapphire was decent for me, and I eventually logged about 300 hours of gameplay. But with Platinum and Pearl.. I got to the windmill area and absolutely lost interest. It's sad, because I really wanted to finish them, but I guess you can only switch around the same storyline so many times before you just can't go on. ;-;