What Keeps You into Pokemon?

Probably shiny hunting in gen 6. I stopped watching the anime and watching the movies in 2006. I got out of collecting the cards when I was 13 but got back into it with Black and White and XY then stopped again with Sun and Moon.

I don't like Sun and Moon so I spend most of my time shiny hunting in gen 6. I didn't start shiny hunting until last year so gen 6 still feels like a new game. Plus I mainly just want the first 3 gen Pokemon shiny which I can get in gen 6.

I'm still in Pokémon just because it's a way to still feel like a kid at times (reliving my childhood memories of the earliest years of Pokémon), especially when I play the Generations I and II games on my 2DS, and when I watch episodes of the Original Series and its movies that I have on DVD.

I love it because it's such a feel good and delightful game and series.

I've struggled with depression on and off since my teens, and I've always found that no matter what garbage horrible life stuff is going on, Pokemon will make me happy. Whether its starting a new game with a new team, the thrill of hunting for shinys, replaying an old favourite or watching the anime for a quick pick me up (cause honestly, even when you cry at it, at the end of the day Ash probably loves a pokemon and thats nOT TOO SHABBY).

Ultimately the more the franchise grows, the more developers push to make you feel like the world is real and its such a GOOD world and that's such a good thing.

NOT TO MENTION

Pokemon go brought the whole damn world together to hang out and literally talk to people around them for a solid couple of months. And I couldn't be more proud that this dang franchise was the one to do it.

Its just pure af.

I like the franchise only because, it is the most popular and featuring. Its tcg, video games etc etc, and after all PC and our showdown.

I think the new games come out at a flow that isn't too fast to overwhelm me, but also not too spread apart to make me get bored and want to leave. Also, the fan communities around the internet, here, Tumblr, reddit, etc all help me keep my interest when I'm not playing! Why I'm still into it after so many years (I've been a fan for 14?? years) I'm honestly not too sure about. I think it has to do with the fact that it centers on animals. I've always been an animal lover and getting to play a game where I catch and train my own was very appealing to me as a child and I guess it just stuck.

I love training Pokemon! Theirs something rewarding about catching or hatching a Pokemon and seeing all the time and efforts you put into that Pokemon.and the post story is fun too. It keeps me busy when I'm bored. The battles online are essentially the best bc it gives you a feel of accomplishment when you win a battle. Trading is fun too you get to meet other trainer's from around the world. I don't think I'll ever not play Pokemon games their just to addicting!

Pokemon are basically sentient pets that look cool and can do cool stuff. Whether or not you battle them to make them more powerful doesn't really matter - have a sentient pet with abilities would be incredible.

I am not gonna lie, the human characters are what keep me in the series. I know that's not the main appeal to the series, but I feel it's been done well enough to keep me there. I really do like the personalities and the designs, not gonna lie.

The artwork has also evolved consistently. It was never bad, but I do feel this gen has seen the series art at its best yet.

The gameplay is also fun, be it catching Pokemon or just plain exploring the sights. It's a good thing to have fun gameplay.

Really, I'm not the most deep person when it comes to my enjoy ent of thr game series.

Pokémon has always been there for me. Most of my best memories of my childhood relate to Pokémon. For a large portion of my life, Pokémon was my main and only obsession. The Pokémon themselves are very memorable, unique, and cute. I have differently lost interest and even "quit" before, but I can't let go of Pokémon. In the present day, I wouldn't necessarily consider myself a "big" fan of Pokémon. I haven't played any Generation VII games, don't watch the anime, and only play Pokémon seldomly. Yet because I've invested so much time in the past on Pokémon, I can't let go. That and the fact that I am curious about how the series will continue to change.

I just love how simple and yet at the same time complicated pokemon is. At the surface pokemon is just a game for kids, where they battle some NPCs, collect monsters and fight. But beneath that is a complicated web of numbers.

Besides pokemon is that game I can always come back to. I leave pokemon alone for like half a year or so and then when I play it again, it just hooks me in again and again. :)

Plus pokemon are cute and cool and I overall really like their design.

It's a great world to escape to like Narnia, Oz, Hogwarts or Middle Earth, especially when you are unhappy with the life you are living. Pokemon is beautiful, its full of color and magic. It is a place where you can write your own happy ending, stay young forever, meet loyal friends and travel to faraway places, all things that you may or may not have attained in real life.

Pokemon reminds me of the brighter spots of my childhood. No matter what I was going through, whether it was moving out, changing schools, parents divorce, missing a friend, a fight with family, losing a job, death of a loved one my Pokemon were always there for me. They would never judge me or leave my side. It's a sanctuary of my mind.

As others have mentioned I am also an animal lover, I actually have worked with them and am a humane society volunteer. I guess Pokemon allows me to discover all kinds of new animals and keep them with me forever, training them to do extraordinary things and being able to talk to them like Dr. Dolittle and listen to what they have to say to me.

Pokemon just floored me as a kid, and has just stuck with me all of my life and it reminds me of the safe and good parts of my childhood and some of the purest joy I've felt in my life. I still feel it in a lesser form when I play pokemon when I'm into it or when I just need to escape from adult life for awhile. And at this point, there are 7 generations worth of pokemon to enjoy and effectively endless different ways to play and enjoy the game. Also, @VisionofMilotic, it's awesome that you spend your time volunteering at a shelter. I did that myself for a summer back in high school, and then it turned into 3 years of employment that I adored!

Several things. Such as

- Nuzlocking (should be obvious if you know me well)
- Reading and/or watching other people's Nuzlocke s
- Watching Pokemon videos online.

And so on

Pokemon was my childhood and it's still in my life. I love it to play the fangames too and watching
the anime!

Pokemon is such a big part of my life that even when I lose the interest in games I like to keep updated, finding Cosplay or even making them (working on 2 and already did 1). If I don't like the new games, I can always play those I liked again :) I hate it when my fiends lose interest tho...

The RP and community on Tumblr. Great fun.

Pokemon hasn't lost it's charm yet. I still feel excited and refreshing while starting a new adventure in a pokemon game.

i forgot about pokemon a long time ago already but recently came back to the scene again when they released the mobile app, Pokemon Go :)

Honestly... this community, haha.