Old-Time Games

Started by Hiatus January 11th, 2015 3:45 AM
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Hiatus

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Posted July 24th, 2021
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Do we still find ourselves going through older Pokémon games every now and again, such as Yellow, FireRed, Gale of Darkness, and so forth? If so, how often do we do it? Are we running through anything at the moment?

Me--currently, I'm trying a play-through of FireRed version. It's been a while since I had played it; four years, maybe! Although I did get to explore Kanto again couple of months back on my latest run of HeartGold version, story-line wasn't the same, which had helped me go back to the game, so to speak.

Before that, it was HeartGold, as I'd already stated, and prior to this, I've gone through Pokémon Snap (played this one on an emulator; sadly, my N64 no longer functions correctly). In future, I'm planning to give Emerald a go. I am playing Omega Ruby, but am still deciding to give Emerald version another run mostly due to nostalgic purposes.

Alfieri

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Age 27
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Seen June 23rd, 2019
Posted June 23rd, 2019
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9.2 Years
I can't do it anymore, I'm spoiled by the newer mechanics and graphics. I'll turn on my old games now and then but then I'm reminded of the painful slowness of the walking and battling. As well as the limited TM use and the no auto-repel feature. This always happens when a new generation releases.

mikey

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14.1 Years
I go back to Colosseum and XD Gale of Darkness from time to time. And I play Heartgold a lot because its my favorite Pokemon game.

Other than those three, not really. I have them all so I can play them if I ever feel the need to though :3

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Pave Low

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Posted December 15th, 2022
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14.8 Years
I play LeafGreen once a week or so for a few hours. This is because I do a few challenges on that game so I do go back to it. It actually surprises me sometimes. It doesn't feel like you're playing an old game, and you can really see the difference from Red/Blue.

Pendraflare

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Seen July 30th, 2021
Posted March 29th, 2021
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I still enjoy playing my main White 2. It's still my favorite game in the series, and has my second highest save time of any of my Pokémon games, with 360 hours so far. I like going there to do things like play in the PWT or White Treehollow or even the Battle Subway or Battle Institute when I don't feel like doing any challenges or what not. I played it for some of the event challenges that we had last year like Stadium Arcadium and some of the Carnival of Horrors events. I even completed my trainer card in it last September. One of these days i'll reach 200 medals...

Speaking of challenges, that's what I have other games like Platinum for, and I picked up Leaf Green for the first time in a while recently. I've logged well over 700 hours with all my plays of B2W2, and over 600 with all of them from XY.
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Dragon

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9.7 Years
I can't say no to replaying Pokemon Crystal, Emerald, and FireRed. :3

Right now on pokemon Crystal I'm attempting a Eeveelution challenge where basically my pokemon team is only from the Eevee evolution family, including Eevee itself, so, as well as Jolteon, Vaporeon, Flareon, Espeon and Umbreon! And honestly, replaying FireRed? The Gym Leader music is always phenomenal:



Like, always amazing to get back to, aah. Like people have said that the Kanto region is boring and whatever, but, I think it's still worth it to replay because of the memories. :3


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Seen April 22nd, 2018
Posted March 2nd, 2018
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8.4 Years
I go back to just about all of them at some point except for FireRed, which I'll occasionally pick up and play for about five minutes before remembering that I really don't care for it and turn it off and grab Yellow instead.
LOL, that's me, too. Yellow beats FRLG any day, 8-bit graphics be damned. ;)
Female
Seen February 19th, 2015
Posted February 13th, 2015
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8.6 Years
I like returning to Platinum, Black and Black 2, but mostly because they're my most favourite Pokémon games. Although they do bring a lot of nostalgic memories, for some reason. With Black 2, I tend to return to that more as I'm trying to reach my Trainer Card to the highest rank.

Otherwise I'd rather play newer Pokémon games. They feel as if they have more to offer, as well as being more fast-paced.

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gucci

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Posted August 7th, 2019
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15.4 Years
I just can't seem to have the motivation to play the older games anymore. The oldest games I can engage in and still play are DPPT, they're still amongst my favourites of the series.

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Whenever I play any kind of game for the first time, I always play it again just to change my playstyle. The old-time games in Pokémon are no exception.

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I have absolutly no sense of 'time' when it comes to this. I like to play any of my games I have for real cartridges and do challenges on emu. Other than Gen II, hacks, and Emerald I don't do normal runs on emu. I can just as easily go from AlphaSapphire to Yellow to White to Diamond to SoulSilver to Yellow again to Y to AlphaSapphire to Sapphire to White 2 to...... And it just keeps repeating....
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I haven't tried it lately, but at one point in the past I tried replaying my blue version, since I had so many good memories of that game. Ought to be okay, right?

....mmmm nope. Somehow, even though I have no problems with older games like that (and even have a soft spot in my heart for such kinds of games), I just couldn't play it. Maybe the sprites were TOO pixelated. Maybe the battles didn't go quite how I was used to by then. Whatever the reason, I just couldn't play my beloved blue version again, and I had to set it down and walk away. :(

By now I think the reason I tend not to do so is because I can't be bothered finding my older handhelds to play the games (or whatever console games I had, I have neither the game nor the system on me anymore). They're here somewhere, I just don't want to go looking for them.

Pendraflare

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That's part of the reason why I don't play the Generation III games like FRLG and Emerald as much anymore. After the DS introduced automatic sleep capabilities, getting used to that makes it hard for me to play the variants without them, since I can take DPPt/HGSS/BW(2)/XY/ORAS anywhere and put it away when I don't want to have it out. Not so much with Generation III, and I and II for that matter.
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Hikamaru

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Seen January 24th, 2019
Posted September 4th, 2018
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12.2 Years
The oldest game I found myself attempting to go back to lately was Diamond/Pearl/Platinum, but then again I'm far too used to current mechanics, which makes replaying older games hard for me unless if there's some motivation behind it. Other than that, I stick to the current generation games.
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8.3 Years
I have Red on my phone and I play it whenever I'm bored somewhere, usually waiting while the lady tries on clothes or when I have down time at work. I decided to play through it differently, skipping Surge and going right to Lavender Town. I don't have any problem with the graphics, speed, or glitches. I love it just as much as I did back in the day. I also started Platinum over a few days ago. I start it over every few years because it's still the most fun/challenging game IMO, and it's the only game where I get genuinely lost at times, which I love! I'll probably start SoulSilver over once I beat Red, but that'll be a long time from now.

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Just the other day I started up my red version (which I restarted a few years ago) and played through it a little.
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Alfieri

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Posted June 23rd, 2019
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So I had a change of heart recently. I ended up enjoying the older games that I fell in love with. I've been playing through Sapphire, FireRed, LeafGreen, and Diamond again. I also caught some legendaries that I missed in Platinum and HeartGold.

Thursday

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Posted August 9th, 2016
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13.3 Years
I usually play older games (Red, Blue, Silver, Emerald, etc.) for challenges, especially when I'm bored. They just seem to go by faster and that makes me want to go through them more often.
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I buy both copies of the games for precisely that reason. Well, I play one and my mother plays the other, but she tends to transfer everything she wants to keep to her current game and then abandon the old ones, leaving me free to replay them if I want to. There are some versions I won't replay, as I use them as storage games - Diamond for Gen IV, Black for Gen V, and probably Y now for Gen VI - but everything else is fair game. Earlier gens I just transfer stuff over to newer games if I want to restart them...using link cables and digging up my old GBAs is waaaay too much hassle.