Forum Links
Related Threads
Coming Soon
Thread Information
Views
520
Replies
8
Rating
1
Status
OPEN
Thread
Creator
Creator
supercool22
01-15-24 07:12 PM
01-15-24 07:12 PM
Last
Post
Post
tgags123
04-18-25 07:07 PM
04-18-25 07:07 PM
Views: 310
Today: 1
Users: 18 unique
Today: 1
Users: 18 unique
Thread Actions
Order
Any pokemon generations you have skipped?
01-15-24 07:12 PM
supercool22 is Offline
| ID: 1406881 | 127 Words

| ID: 1406881 | 127 Words
supercool22
Level: 130





POSTS: 4783/5155
POST EXP: 193692
LVL EXP: 25152668
CP: 85981.1
VIZ: 5281404





POSTS: 4783/5155
POST EXP: 193692
LVL EXP: 25152668
CP: 85981.1
VIZ: 5281404

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
Have you ever skipped over a generation or two in pokemon? Just because you didn't find interest in the games or maybe in the anime. maybe you were tried of pokemon i general and took a break for a few gens then picked it back up now. I have skipped gen 7. I have never played the sun and moons games, or the ultra versions. I know nothing about the pokemon from the gen. I came back to pokemon at gen 8 when Sword and Shield. I have encountered some gen 7 pokemon and had no idea if it was new to the region or not. Pokemon X?Y was the reason i dropped pokemon games for a good amount of time, i found X/Y to be lackluster. I have skipped gen 7. I have never played the sun and moons games, or the ultra versions. I know nothing about the pokemon from the gen. I came back to pokemon at gen 8 when Sword and Shield. I have encountered some gen 7 pokemon and had no idea if it was new to the region or not. Pokemon X?Y was the reason i dropped pokemon games for a good amount of time, i found X/Y to be lackluster. |
Vizzed Elite
Former Admin
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 11-30-12
Last Post: 10 days
Last Active: 46 min.
Former Admin
Winter 2024 TDV Winner |
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 11-30-12
Last Post: 10 days
Last Active: 46 min.
01-15-24 09:17 PM
Dauntez is Offline
| ID: 1406882 | 18 Words

| ID: 1406882 | 18 Words
Dauntez
Level: 74





POSTS: 705/2205
POST EXP: 107241
LVL EXP: 3605429
CP: 5069.9
VIZ: 574341





POSTS: 705/2205
POST EXP: 107241
LVL EXP: 3605429
CP: 5069.9
VIZ: 574341

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
Yeah, I skipped everything after Alola, I never liked Alola, full of dumb Pokémon that are really stupid. |
Vizzed Elite
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 03-29-22
Location: Wisoconsin
Last Post: 10 days
Last Active: 1 day
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 03-29-22
Location: Wisoconsin
Last Post: 10 days
Last Active: 1 day
02-02-24 09:25 AM
dkmec20 is Offline
| ID: 1407371 | 111 Words

| ID: 1407371 | 111 Words
dkmec20
Level: 97





POSTS: 2497/2498
POST EXP: 62177
LVL EXP: 9039467
CP: 577.0
VIZ: 36980





POSTS: 2497/2498
POST EXP: 62177
LVL EXP: 9039467
CP: 577.0
VIZ: 36980

Likes: 1 Dislikes: 0
I did not like Black and White all that much when they first came out. I just went back and played the older games over and over again. I played a decent amount of X/Y but never finished it. I actually enjoyed Sun and Moon, I thought they were more challenging than other Pokemon games which was a welcomed experience. I did not finish it however, just lost interest. I enjoyed Sword and Shield but also did not finish it haha. I got Scarlet and Violet and played through them with my brother and made it all the way through. They were a lot more fun than the most recent generations. |
Trusted Member
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 03-17-11
Location: KY, USA
Last Post: 537 days
Last Active: 92 days
Phil. 3:7-11 |
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 03-17-11
Location: KY, USA
Last Post: 537 days
Last Active: 92 days
Post Rating: 1 Liked By: jnisol,
02-02-24 12:11 PM
pokemon x is Offline
| ID: 1407374 | 114 Words

| ID: 1407374 | 114 Words
pokemon x
Level: 88





POSTS: 1782/2000
POST EXP: 100987
LVL EXP: 6410798
CP: 23139.0
VIZ: 3433737





POSTS: 1782/2000
POST EXP: 100987
LVL EXP: 6410798
CP: 23139.0
VIZ: 3433737

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
I haven't really skipped any generations yet. Thanks to Scarlet and Violet and reading about the DLCs I am probably going to skip the next generation unless they actually improve everything. I beat scarlet and then tried going back to violet as my "main" game and I just haven't been able to get myself to beat the game again. Also read how grindy the DLC is for single player that I really just don't want to go through that since I am not a fan of the online side of things. Honestly I keep going back mainly to the gen 5 games more than any of them. I think they are honestly my favorite. I beat scarlet and then tried going back to violet as my "main" game and I just haven't been able to get myself to beat the game again. Also read how grindy the DLC is for single player that I really just don't want to go through that since I am not a fan of the online side of things. Honestly I keep going back mainly to the gen 5 games more than any of them. I think they are honestly my favorite. |
Administrator
User Manager, Content Adder
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 06-30-11
Location: ...
Last Post: 4 days
Last Active: 4 hours
User Manager, Content Adder
Breaker of things |
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 06-30-11
Location: ...
Last Post: 4 days
Last Active: 4 hours
07-21-24 11:16 PM
Postman3 is Offline
| ID: 1408663 | 18 Words

| ID: 1408663 | 18 Words
Postman3
Level: 50





POSTS: 489/522
POST EXP: 125854
LVL EXP: 892729
CP: 12599.4
VIZ: 374471





POSTS: 489/522
POST EXP: 125854
LVL EXP: 892729
CP: 12599.4
VIZ: 374471

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
Oh yes. I have played all games into third generation. I never got into anything that came after. |
Vizzed Elite
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 03-21-10
Location: Brittania
Last Post: 356 days
Last Active: 39 days
Sir Postman |
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 03-21-10
Location: Brittania
Last Post: 356 days
Last Active: 39 days
08-20-24 02:19 PM
SacredShadow is Offline
| ID: 1408982 | 762 Words

| ID: 1408982 | 762 Words
SacredShadow
Razor-987
Razor-987
Level: 162





POSTS: 7761/8724
POST EXP: 1047170
LVL EXP: 55105499
CP: 41002.9
VIZ: 1586148





POSTS: 7761/8724
POST EXP: 1047170
LVL EXP: 55105499
CP: 41002.9
VIZ: 1586148

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
I started to fall off Pokémon after all the disappointing titles released on the Switch, but I never completely skipped a game until Gen 9 (Scarlet and Violet). I'll touch on my experience with each mainline game that's been released on the Switch leading up to Scarlet and Violet. I enjoyed Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee for what it was, even though it was clearly made with children in mind. Pokémon Go was still very popular at the time, and I was playing it regularly. I also had a friend who was interested in Let's Go and said he'd buy the opposite version of whichever one I chose. It took me three attempts to finally slog through Sword/Shield, and after I became champion, I didn't touch any of the postgame content, nor did I complete the pokédex. This is the only generation of Pokémon I've played to date where I didn't feel at all compelled to "catch 'em all." I didn't play Arceus, even though I heard mixed things about it from friends and others who played it. I heard more good things than bad, at least. I was excited for the D/P remakes (my favorite generation of Pokémon, thanks to Platinum), only to be completely disappointed by how lifeless and barebones the games were. No Distortion World with Giratina, no Battle Frontier, cheap-looking mobile game graphics, and none of the quality-of-life improvements from the 14 years' worth of games released after D/P. I think I stopped playing about three badges in and never picked it up again. These games definitely fell short of the treatment ORAS received, and I have little reason to believe Black and White remakes will be any better. I didn't even buy Scarlet and Violet. I didn't like the look of the starters, their evolutions, and the dumb-looking box legendaries. I remember all of the atrocious bugs people were finding left and right after the games released. I already had no plans to buy S/V, but the awful bugs and frequent drops to 5 FPS extinguished the 0.00001% chance of me ever buying either version. Overall, I think I've been disappointed too many times by most of the decisions Game Freak has made with the main series games post-3DS. $60 for each new buggy game with PS2-era graphics, plus $20 a year to trade/battle online, plus $16 a year for Pokémon Home to store more than one box of the pokémon you've accumulated over the years, plus ~$30 for any new DLC that will inevitably release a year or two later... ouch. While I've accepted that nostalgia for the older games and growing up certainly play a part in influencing my perception of newer games, I still firmly believe there's been a steady decline in the quality of Pokémon games since Game Freak made the transition to 3D. It's especially apparent with the Switch titles—muddy-looking PS2 background textures, barren towns and cities you can barely interact with, unimpressive wild areas that drag the game down to 3 FPS, Dexit, the same lazy, undynamic attack animations Game Freak has been using since X/Y, the introduction of a cheap, uninteresting gimmick soon to be forgotten by the next generation (Terastallization is at least interesting and adds some complexity, but Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing are easily some of the laziest gimmicks they've added to date), the list goes on. More than anything, I really wish the games weren't rushed and released half-finished/unoptimized. Game Freak would really benefit from outsourcing some of their work to other game studios because it's baffling to me that the highest-grossing franchise in the world is handled by a team of 200 employees, which is nothing compared to studios like Sega (~3,000) and Square Enix (~4,700). The sad reality is that they can release a new, unfinished game with 40 new Pokémon, one box legendary that transforms into a pogo stick, while the other transforms into a unicycle, and it'll still sell 10-15 million copies and print money. As long as this continues to be the case, there's really no reason for Game Freak to change how they do things because, at least according to the numbers, they're doing just fine. Oh well, at least I still have my copy of Platinum to enjoy while I watch Game Freak inevitably fumble Black and White remakes from afar. TL;DR I don't like the rushed, half-finished nature of Pokémon games these days and after being disappointed one too many times, I completely skipped Gen 9 and won't buy another game until Game Freak completely changes the way they make mainline Pokémon games. I enjoyed Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee for what it was, even though it was clearly made with children in mind. Pokémon Go was still very popular at the time, and I was playing it regularly. I also had a friend who was interested in Let's Go and said he'd buy the opposite version of whichever one I chose. It took me three attempts to finally slog through Sword/Shield, and after I became champion, I didn't touch any of the postgame content, nor did I complete the pokédex. This is the only generation of Pokémon I've played to date where I didn't feel at all compelled to "catch 'em all." I didn't play Arceus, even though I heard mixed things about it from friends and others who played it. I heard more good things than bad, at least. I was excited for the D/P remakes (my favorite generation of Pokémon, thanks to Platinum), only to be completely disappointed by how lifeless and barebones the games were. No Distortion World with Giratina, no Battle Frontier, cheap-looking mobile game graphics, and none of the quality-of-life improvements from the 14 years' worth of games released after D/P. I think I stopped playing about three badges in and never picked it up again. These games definitely fell short of the treatment ORAS received, and I have little reason to believe Black and White remakes will be any better. I didn't even buy Scarlet and Violet. I didn't like the look of the starters, their evolutions, and the dumb-looking box legendaries. I remember all of the atrocious bugs people were finding left and right after the games released. I already had no plans to buy S/V, but the awful bugs and frequent drops to 5 FPS extinguished the 0.00001% chance of me ever buying either version. Overall, I think I've been disappointed too many times by most of the decisions Game Freak has made with the main series games post-3DS. $60 for each new buggy game with PS2-era graphics, plus $20 a year to trade/battle online, plus $16 a year for Pokémon Home to store more than one box of the pokémon you've accumulated over the years, plus ~$30 for any new DLC that will inevitably release a year or two later... ouch. While I've accepted that nostalgia for the older games and growing up certainly play a part in influencing my perception of newer games, I still firmly believe there's been a steady decline in the quality of Pokémon games since Game Freak made the transition to 3D. It's especially apparent with the Switch titles—muddy-looking PS2 background textures, barren towns and cities you can barely interact with, unimpressive wild areas that drag the game down to 3 FPS, Dexit, the same lazy, undynamic attack animations Game Freak has been using since X/Y, the introduction of a cheap, uninteresting gimmick soon to be forgotten by the next generation (Terastallization is at least interesting and adds some complexity, but Dynamaxing and Gigantamaxing are easily some of the laziest gimmicks they've added to date), the list goes on. More than anything, I really wish the games weren't rushed and released half-finished/unoptimized. Game Freak would really benefit from outsourcing some of their work to other game studios because it's baffling to me that the highest-grossing franchise in the world is handled by a team of 200 employees, which is nothing compared to studios like Sega (~3,000) and Square Enix (~4,700). The sad reality is that they can release a new, unfinished game with 40 new Pokémon, one box legendary that transforms into a pogo stick, while the other transforms into a unicycle, and it'll still sell 10-15 million copies and print money. As long as this continues to be the case, there's really no reason for Game Freak to change how they do things because, at least according to the numbers, they're doing just fine. Oh well, at least I still have my copy of Platinum to enjoy while I watch Game Freak inevitably fumble Black and White remakes from afar. TL;DR I don't like the rushed, half-finished nature of Pokémon games these days and after being disappointed one too many times, I completely skipped Gen 9 and won't buy another game until Game Freak completely changes the way they make mainline Pokémon games. |
Vizzed Elite
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 01-14-13
Last Post: 5 days
Last Active: 1 day
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 01-14-13
Last Post: 5 days
Last Active: 1 day
12-18-24 09:58 AM
zanderlex is Offline
| ID: 1409439 | 47 Words

| ID: 1409439 | 47 Words
zanderlex
dark mode
dark mode
Level: 269





POSTS: 28337/28779
POST EXP: 1957502
LVL EXP: 320858334
CP: 160409.2
VIZ: 12051927





POSTS: 28337/28779
POST EXP: 1957502
LVL EXP: 320858334
CP: 160409.2
VIZ: 12051927

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
I started Pokemon Sun and Moon and loved it but I put so much playtime into the first part looking into all the new features that I got bored before getting off the first island and never played it again. Never touched Ultra Sun and Moon either. |
Vizzed Elite
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 09-25-13
Location: Inaba
Last Post: 6 days
Last Active: 6 days
Sergei's Mustache |
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 09-25-13
Location: Inaba
Last Post: 6 days
Last Active: 6 days
01-08-25 09:40 PM
gamerforlifeforever is Offline
| ID: 1410075 | 97 Words
| ID: 1410075 | 97 Words
gamerforlifeforever2
Level: 178





POSTS: 10267/10713
POST EXP: 585422
LVL EXP: 76558770
CP: 104581.8
VIZ: 3578339





POSTS: 10267/10713
POST EXP: 585422
LVL EXP: 76558770
CP: 104581.8
VIZ: 3578339

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
So far I haven't, but I came really close to not bothering with gen 9, but After Legends Arceus, I let myself get fooled into thinking that Game Freak had finally got their act together, and of course I bought Scarlet and was extremely disappointed thanks to the horrendous state the game was released in (and I believe is still in to this day). The story was great for Pokemon standards, but the game's performance is simply unacceptable. Who knows, maybe gen 10 will be the one I end up skipping... Only time will tell I guess. |
Site Staff
Console Manager, Video Game Music Manager
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 07-04-12
Location: Somewhere in Ohio
Last Post: 31 days
Last Active: 6 days
Console Manager, Video Game Music Manager
Ultimate Pokemon Fanboy, Member of the Year 2016, and Vizzed's #1 My Hero Academia fan |
Affected by 'Laziness Syndrome'
Registered: 07-04-12
Location: Somewhere in Ohio
Last Post: 31 days
Last Active: 6 days
04-18-25 07:07 PM
tgags123 is Offline
| ID: 1413354 | 49 Words

| ID: 1413354 | 49 Words
tgags123
Davideo123
Davideo123
Level: 172





POSTS: 9528/10079
POST EXP: 622359
LVL EXP: 67663173
CP: 40744.6
VIZ: 5821639





POSTS: 9528/10079
POST EXP: 622359
LVL EXP: 67663173
CP: 40744.6
VIZ: 5821639

Likes: 0 Dislikes: 0
I never had a 3DS, so I skipped both gen 6 and gen 7. That being said, I did start collecting Pokemon cards around the time that Sun & Moon cards were being released, so I'm familiar with a lot of the Kalos and Alola Pokemon because of that. |
Administrator
Affected by 'Carpal Tunnel Syndrome'
Registered: 04-26-13
Location: Florida
Last Post: 6 hours
Last Active: 3 hours
2x Tour de Vizzed Champion |
Affected by 'Carpal Tunnel Syndrome'
Registered: 04-26-13
Location: Florida
Last Post: 6 hours
Last Active: 3 hours