Gen 6 Do you sometimes get fed up with Pokemon?

[MMMs]

Do you ever feel that sometimes that you get bored repeating the same thing over and over again? lol

To be honest, Pokemon feels like that now, to me at least. Yeah, I know that Pokemon has been like that ever since but it just feels weird to me that I get fed up with it now >.> lol haven't had a feeling like this about Pokemon games before lol Anyways, I bury myself with Animal Crossing: New Leaf, Super Street Fighter 4, Super Smash Bros, Harmoknight, Ace Attorneyual Destinies(Again since I forgot to back-up all my game's save files when I formatted my SD card lol), Flipnote Studio(Yay! new app lol) Mario VS Donkey Kong: Minis March again and Shovel Knight lol

how 'bout 'ya guys?

 

[Hayleia]

Completely. I am especially fed up with parts that take time for no reason, like healing your Pokémon at the Pokécenter, which should take 5 seconds but you have to wait for 10 minutes listening to the nurse talking ("We can heal your Pokémons ! Isn't that amazing ? You didn't know that already, did you ?"). Or the animation when a Pokémon appears, that I have already seen 3 thousands times and that I would like to skip, etc.

 

[18]

Yes. I love it, but I play it in bursts - such as twenty days of playing nothing but Pokemon, twenty days of not playing Pokemon at all. It's really very time-consuming and - eh, Hayleia said it best.

 

[Warbird]

I really hate walking in the first parts of the games. Maybe that's just laziness on my part, but having someone learn fly lets me breathe a sigh of relief xD I feel like it just unnecessarily takes up too much time. Maybe that's the point though. To see all of the stuff and towns before you can just fly around at the end.

I also kind of wish something would change. They don't really ever have too many 'mini-games' anymore (I've played X, but not ORAS, so correct me if I'm wrong). Like, remember the casino in FireRed? I miss doing stuff like that. Especially in order to get all of the starters so easily.

 

[McQwerty333]

Once you get past the tutorial(CAPITAL OF BORING CITY) the gyms are pretty fun and provide a unique puzzle challenge, a different type each gym. Also, the post game is fun when you get into online battling and trading. The worst part is how friggen easy the games are! I remember when you could get 1 starter in the game, and one legendary, unless you were lucky enough to get an event. Now, you can beat the game in a very short amount of time and catch pretty much every legendary from all the games, not to mention the overload of starters! The amount of legendarys is just absolutely RIDICULOUS.

 

[numage]

I kind of feeling it when I completed every pokemon game actually. ORAS is a little different since I tried to train my pokemon for competitive battle. Though, it is just a cycle of fighting and winning and lvling up. So I sometimes get a little bored. Still wants to play it anyway.

 

[Vanderbloff]

Oh definitely. I get a kick out of competitive battling, but honestly, I'm not great at it. I haven't picked up ORAS, as I think I'm losing interest in the handheld games (even though I really wanted a Gen 3 remake and Hoenn is my favorite region). If there was a Pokemon XD sequel, I'd be all over that. I also like what I see in Pokken.

 

[3823]

I got bored of Pokemon after completing x/y. Mainly because I didn't want to start over and play the whole story again. I like playing competitvely, and the story in Pokemon, is always vague for me. I don't find anything interesting in it. But I love the sense of exploration in the games. That's what sets it apart. I want Alpha Sapphire currently, but I don't want to waste 40$ on a game I might get bored of. So I'm leaving it alone. But yeah, I get what you're saying. It does get boring after a while c:

 

[BlazikenX000]

Somewhat. When I played Pokemon Y I left all the side stuff like styling and Battle Chateau until after the main story so I wouldn't get bored afterwards. When I got those finished I tried replaying the game, but it got kind of boring with all the "been there, done that", and now I just leave it for a while after playing a bit at a time. There should really be some more side stuff to keep you interested in the game (like say the Battle Frontier).

 

[Ichimaru]

I do sometimes but if i had the internet needed to do online battles i would never be so bored plus even when i do get bored of pokemon i just go play another game and when i'm tired of that i just go play pokemon or another game and so the chain continues.

 

[2071]

Sometimes I get fed up with pokemon games because of things repeating themselves and then in Pokemon X and Y , there is no post play game and story like what many pokemon games used to have . I hope that maybe someday they can change some of these things and some times I too feel so lazy to go to the Pokemon Center because I want to battle and all . But I guess it is just that maybe since we all played the previous versions of pokemon I guess it's just hard to adapt to something like this xp . Really hope for the better

 

[LeviaEnvi]

I don't even like pokemon to be honest. Its like a fake strategy game that gives the illusion that there is strategy to the combat. I understand why someone would like it, but its too basic for me. There is only so much you can do when you're limited to a total of twenty four moves, and you won't use most because of type advantages. In the end, it all comes down to the Level, the Type, and stats that you can't assign accordingly. Everything becomes predetermined as soon as a fight begins. I'll stick to games like Disgaea and Bravely Default, thank you.

 

[alugox]

I haven't played the new Pokemon games (X/Y and ORAS), but I didn't got bored with the DS games at least!

 

[MMMs]

I don't even like pokemon to be honest. Its like a fake strategy game that gives the illusion that there is strategy to the combat. I understand why someone would like it, but its too basic for me. There is only so much you can do when you're limited to a total of twenty four moves, and you won't use most because of type advantages. In the end, it all comes down to the Level, the Type, and stats that you can't assign accordingly. Everything becomes predetermined as soon as a fight begins. I'll stick to games like Disgaea and Bravely Default, thank you.

Pokemon isn't as basic as you think, with different set of moves, with only 4 moves you can put on each Pokemon, you have to build your team accordingly to it's strategies, weakness, play style, etc.
There isn't much strategy involved if you get all the moves in a silver platter imo.

As for the "Fake" strategy game you're talking about, I don't get what you mean >.> strategy games involve... well... strategy. Pokemon has lots of strategic points that makes it a valid strategy game in a lot of perspectives.

As for level, story-wise, level makes a big difference but for competitive battles, levels won't matter a thing. A level 1 Pokemon can take down a level 50 or even a lv 100, in some matches, all Pokemon are set to level 50, double battles, etc.

Stat-wise, in strategy games, there are characters that are only good at one or a lot of things similarly like Pokemon. There's a thing called EV training in which you focus stats your Pokemon
to your liking.

 

[Inugirl521]

I hate to say it because I'm an avid fan and will continue to buy the games for as long as I can afford to... But yes.. I'm getting so tired with the same thing. I mean, some of the new features in each generation are pretty cool and fun to figure out. Though, super training just really annoyed me. But, I'm used to playing the same thing constantly and that makes it pretty boring. Like, I got Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire for Christmas. I beat Sapphire, but I won't even touch Ruby because it's almost the same thing. I at least want a new story and it won't really give me that besides slightly different characters and dialogue.
Part of it has to be that I put so much time in Platinum... Over 400 hours.
At this point, I really only stay for the fandom.
I love the concept, I've grown attached to some Pokemon like Gengar (My bebe), I like the art, the fandom, and fan ideas.
Like, I played the heck out of Vdex, Virtuadopt, and GPX because they were different and loved them.
I've played almost all the spin offs and enjoyed them. I ADORED Pokemon XD.
It's really just the hand helds.

 

[LeviaEnvi]

Pokemon isn't as basic as you think, with different set of moves, with only 4 moves you can put on each Pokemon, you have to build your team accordingly to it's strategies, weakness, play style, etc.
There isn't much strategy involved if you get all the moves in a silver platter imo.

As for the "Fake" strategy game you're talking about, I don't get what you mean >.> strategy games involve... well... strategy. Pokemon has lots of strategic points that makes it a valid strategy game in a lot of perspectives.

As for level, story-wise, level makes a big difference but for competitive battles, levels won't matter a thing. A level 1 Pokemon can take down a level 50 or even a lv 100, in some matches, all Pokemon are set to level 50, double battles, etc.

Stat-wise, in strategy games, there are characters that are only good at one or a lot of things similarly like Pokemon. There's a thing called EV training in which you focus stats your Pokemon
to your liking.

You missed my point entirety. I am aware of all of that, but EV training isn't something where you can distribute points accordingly. Its very passive. Or at least to my knowledge, was very passive.
Battles become predetermined once you plan accordingly with your Pokemon's type and the opponents. There is very little you can really do to change a match after the line up has been created. You didn't address that at all, surprisingly which I'm bothered by.

*Strategy to the combat.* I didn't say the whole game itself.

I wouldn't be dumb enough as to go so far and state that if has none, but what is there is very simple, and utilizing it decides a match as soon as it begins.
Predetermined combat must be a hit though, if Brave Frontier is so popular...

 

[Inugirl521]

I wouldn't be dumb enough as to go so far and state that if has none, but what is there is very simple, and utilizing it decides a match as soon as it begins.
Predetermined combat must be a hit though, if Brave Frontier is so popular...

Not necessarily.
I'm not into competitive battling, but I've seen my boyfriend do it.
You have to make a team that supports itself and other Pokemon on the team, figure out what types are good to use and when to use them.
Then in battle, you have to figure out what to do.
Do you want to attack with a move or withdraw and put a stronger Pokemon out there?
Will your opponent withdraw or attack? If you have a grass type, does their Pokemon have a fire type?
What will you do?
You have to strategize all throughout battle and plan ahead or you will lose.

 

[MMMs]

You missed my point entirety. I am aware of all of that, but EV training isn't something where you can distribute points accordingly. Its very passive. Or at least to my knowledge, was very passive.
Battles become predetermined once you plan accordingly with your Pokemon's type and the opponents. There is very little you can really do to change a match after the line up has been created. You didn't address that at all, surprisingly which I'm bothered by.

*Strategy to the combat.* I didn't say the whole game itself.

Actually, you do distribute stat points accordingly in EV Training Noticeably when you use
Super Training >.> It's different in a way in most RPGs do it like gaining stat points after each level up, Pokemon used to do it back in older gens.

Battles are never predetermined in Pokemon, unless you battle against an AI in the story or a newbie. You can still lose the battle even if you plan ahead since every player uses different kinds of Pokemon, sooo... I doubt you'll be fighting Pokemons that you always expect. In Pokemon, prediction is the key to winning to be honest.

"There is very little you can really do to change a match after the line up has been created."
Can you be precise?

I doubt that I missed your point, but if I do, can you clarify your point briefly? >.>

*Strategy to the combat.* I didn't say the whole game itself.

I don't even like pokemon to be honest. Its like a fake strategy game that gives the illusion that there is strategy to the combat.

 

[ZeitgeistL]

This kind of inspired me to create a thread on the Pokemon Universe forum too. Have you ever heard of Pokemon Fan-made Games? It's like a new twist to Pokemon, and it's quite fun in fact.

 

[Hayleia]

Have you ever heard of Pokemon Fan-made Games? It's like a new twist to Pokemon, and it's quite fun in fact.

Like mine ?

Yeah, I've heard of that
And notice how fast the nurse is

More seriously, I don't have anything against fan made games but I think they don't help about the "getting fed up" part since you are still playing, ok, a new Pokemon game, but still yet another Pokemon game. And you already have a Pokemon game per year so adding one to the list might add to the boredom.
If you don't play everypokemon game, then ok, why not a fan made instead of an official one ? But if you already play all Pokemon games, that will get you even more fed up in my opinion.

(Mine doesn't exactly enter this category, it is meant to be a stripped down version of Yellow to fit in a calculator, not a new version).