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.

Yeah, I skipped everything after Alola, I never liked Alola, full of dumb Pokémon that are really stupid.

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.

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.

Oh yes. I have played all games into third generation. I never got into anything that came after.

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 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.

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.

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.

I haven't skipped a generation yet to this day. I've certainly thought about it, but something about a new release will always rope me back in. The only games I have never personally owned are the Gen 1 and Gen 2 games, Ruby/Sapphire, and Ultra Sun/Ultra Moon. I have played all of them at least once on emulator. The only 'mainline' games I have never even played are Let's Go and Brilliant Diamond/Shining Pearl, and I have zero plans to.

I think I have come to the realization that while I still enjoy the series, the newer games have completely lost any replay-ability factor for me. I could load up a game from every gen up until Gen 5 right this second and have a good time playing it, but everything from Gen 6 onwards (3DS, Switch) is a different story. I've replayed the Gen 6 games once each, and I've tried with Gen 7 but gave up midway.

Gen 8, Sword & Shield, was the first time I truly felt let down by a Pokemon game. There was some initial hype when I found some new Pokemon I enjoyed as I had no clue they existed, but once that magic wore off the game was just dull. The Wild Area was the biggest pile of crap I have ever seen in a Pokemon game, and the story was just lame as hell. Dynamax is the most boring mechanic ever introduced. At least the region itself has grown on me, retroactively at least.

I honestly considered skipping Gen 9 after that experience with Gen 8, but Legends: Arceus brought back a spark and the thought of playing with friends made me buy the game. And to be fair I did enjoy playing it with friends, but the moment we got off call I could feel how empty the game really was. The region is terrible and a completely barren wasteland.

I also seriously considered skipping Legends: ZA due to how little info we had about it leading up to the release, but I preordered it like 2 days before launch and thank god I did, because this is what I've been missing from the other modern titles. The game has its flaws of course, but I am having a blast playing it, the story is fine, and I actually enjoy being limited to Lumiose City, something I never thought I'd say.

Gen 10 is going to be an important one. If I get let down by what we're getting it might genuinely be the first time I skip a new generation. I'll probably still play the Legends games though, they have a great track record so far.

I've never skipped a generation but there's a couple Pokemon games I've never beat I started with X and Y so it took me quite a while to work my way backwards through all the games so I never went back to play Ruby or Sapphire cause I played the remake and then played Emerald what would be the point of playing the worst version of Hoenn? I also have never beaten a vanilla copy of Black or White I played it the first time on PokeMMO and then a 2nd time as a randomized nuzlocke with Furret so I've never played the actual game all the way through. I also technically never beat Crystal now that I think about it I got to Blackthorn but was so under leveled cause Johto that I never got invested enough to finish it. Much like Furret Gen 10 will be important cause after Gen 9 I felt really close to dropping Pokemon I hate Scarlet and Violet I loved playing it the first time with Furret and deg but those games are rough man. Legends ZA was super important for me as well if it wasn't good I would already be planning to skip Gen 10 but I really enjoy ZA and am so happy Kalos finally got a 3rd game, but we'll see if Gen 10 ruins that.

Edit I also have not played Diamond and Pearl I played Platinum and I played BDSP so no plans to go back and play the OG.