Fast Or Slow?

[ThePinkDragon]

I'm wondering whether you guys take your time going through your Pokemon games or if you like to bully your way through.

I only just arrived in Blackthorn City a few seconds before I hit hour 99 in my game. Whew! So I'm a slowbie. I like to pick specific highly-effective teams to EV train for the gyms. I have a main team, but I don't use it in gyms. It burns up a lot of time and my husband is getting through the game in way less time than it's taking me [and he got his like a month after me].

 

[Cherrim]

Well, I don't... take nearly as long as you do but compared to a lot of people I know, I usually play the games a lot slower. It's gotten better over the years. I think it took me a few months to beat Ruby, even longer to beat Emerald, a month to beat Diamond, I "rushed" Platinum and got it in a week, and then two or three weeks for HeartGold.

I just like to explore everywhere and then I get immersed in minigames, usually. :| I don't EV train but I do train my Pokémon to be the same level before I head somewhere important, like a gym or plot point.

This fits better in General Gaming.

 

[NickofTime]

Yeah in game ev training takes the fun out of the game plus you don't need to. pokemon gyms are easy enough that you can beat them easily. But i play slow, i never really got into playing pokemon 4 hours a day so i could beat the game in a week.

 

[myrrhman]

While I don't necessarily have high play times, I do put a lot of time into the game. I like to go through and make the team I want, find the hold items I want, etc. before I start playing a game. Although, when I do get my team put together, I do fly through the game.

 

[ThePinkDragon]

Yeah in game ev training takes the fun out of the game plus you don't need to. pokemon gyms are easy enough that you can beat them easily. But i play slow, i never really got into playing pokemon 4 hours a day so i could beat the game in a week.

Lol, yeah some of them are but I still got beat by Pryce my first try because I didn't take my Ampharos and he surprised me with a water-type! XD

 

[Turnipz]

It depends on how I'm feeling at the moment. If I want to do something that's at a certain point in the game then I would Rush through it, but if I don't plan on doing anything and just relaxing, then I would play through the game pretty slow.

 

[Sylveon]

When I first purchase the games I usually play them quite slowly, making sure I have been everywhere and talked to everyone in certain towns/places. But say if I am replaying the game for some reason then I just rush things and go back to things I have missed.

 

[Elite Overlord LeSabre™]

I tend to take some time playing through the games (my last Soul Silver playthrough I was somewhere around 49 hours when I faced the Elite Four). Sometimes you gotta level grind and sometimes you have to stop and smell the roses (like how I spent nearly two hours running around Goldenrod dressed as Team Rocket and scaring the heck out of the townspeople :3 )

 

[Mew~]

Im not really sure if how fast I go for most of the games! I know for most I would like only use my starter through the whole game untill I beat the elite 4 but in SS I noticed what I did and decided to make a proper team and suprisingly enough its really cool switching around people between battles etc...! I can breeze though the games easily if I wanted to though ;)

 

[SquirtleGirl]

If I'm really progressing through the game and there's nothing I particularly need [items or pokemon to catch for later on] I just go on ahead! Usually when I hit a point in the game and I'm too lazy to do it anytime soon [e.g. Mt. Coronet, Victory Road] I fly around training in my best spots and battling people [especially in Diamond where you can go to that Resort Cafe place and battle and get moneys every day :3] until I've got enough items and strong enough Pokémon to really open a can of whoop ass on the trainers on my journey :L

 

[alphabetsoup102062]

I usually go quite slow. On my HeartGold I'm currently on the SS Aqua, after 33 hours. Plus I did restart a couple of times before that, so more like 60-70 hours. Most of that time I was playing Voltorb Flip!

 

[Emlam]

I have Red and Yellow. I go pretty slowly; I prefer to choose a team and stick with it but I try to get the levels just high enough that I can take on the next gym and all the trainers in it without having to bother with healing or using more than 2 moves to KO a Pokemon.
I start to get impatient and a little lazy near the end when I have plenty of money and Pokemon - I rarely have anything over lv. 55 when I face the E4. I know I can just buy like 3,000 Full Restores if my Pokemon are too weak for my Rival. :P

 

[cystar]

I go through it slow and make up side quests like the tv show dose

 

[SparklingMistral]

I play through at a pretty regular pace that's nearing a slow one. I tend to have trouble with the gyms since my Pokemon tend to be way under leveled. That usually sets me back from people.

 

[Amore]

I play through fairly slowly, although I'm fast in Sinnoh.

Johto I'm a middle-slow rate, as I tend to try and take it all in, as despite it being the last region I've explored, I love it. Mainly because of all the caves with no trainers in! I think caves are more realistic like that, and more fun to explore when there aren't trainers.

Kanto....god I'm slow. But then again, I've caught every pokemon I can in every route so far. So 3 hours to defeating Misty ain't bad, is it?
Especially when it took me 30mins to capture a male Pikachu

 

[Cyndahog]

I normally rush at the beginning of the game so I can go to the required routes to catch the Pokemon I need, but after that, I take it easy. Exploring everywhere and talking to everyone before I move on.

 

[Droidz]

I usually like to take my time with my pokemon games but i have rushed through 1 or 2 before.

 

[shortdan1998]

I normally just play through the game, and than whenever I beat the game, I do more Aftergame stuff. :D It honestly depends on what mood I'm in. If I want to go fast, I do, but if I want to go slow, I do. I only started getting really fast in Sinnoh and 4th gen. Hoenn I just messed around a lot. :D Dumb aunt erased my whole data though... >:( I got really pissed off. And I'm still really pissed that my RAYQUAZA and E4 COMPLETE and all AFTER GAME SIDE QUESTS INCLUDING REGIS were deleted. D:

 

[Eurydice]

i like to take my time with pokemon games. but then again even if i tried to beat the game quickly it would still take a while.

 

[Trainer Galza]

I don't have time to "rush" .. haha .. too many other things going on. I generally take my time playing the actual story mode thing.. I knew in diamond, I had to train certain guys for certain gyms from the ground up.. Whishcash for example. I would of never used him, but I needed another ground type and he was the only one that was available. I forget who I was fighting for that..... I haven't touched the guy since.

I used to be kind of against progressing till I could catch at least one of every critter available. But with the discovery of EVs it's not really that big of a deal to me.