Blind

Most games I went in pretty blind. After RSE though, I started following the leaks and such, so when X and Y were announced I promised myself I would only look at the new Pokemon announced. Went into the game with little information. In fact, I didn't even know what the elite fours types were until last week when I got to them for the first time hahaha.
 
From 4th Generation onwards I've done my research on the games but I played Silver and Emerald blind (and Leaf Green but I'm not sure if counts as I'd already played Kanto so much by then)!


Anyways, thinking about it now, it doesn't seem to have made much of a difference to my enjoyment of the games, any time I play a new game is thrilling whether I know what's going on or not lol :)
 
I play ever new game in the series blind. Except for Black/White because I looked up the stats of each Pokemon before the game became localized. I love playing the games for the first time because everything is so surprising. I can never replay a Pokemon game with that same level of excitement and thrill.
 
I did with Sapphire. The only new Pokemon I knew about were Lati@s, Duskull, Wailmer, Kecleon, Wynaut, Azurill, and the base forms of the starters. Aside from secret bases and overworld weather, I didn't know anything else about the game either.
 
Did it with Platinum and X. Knew nothing... just bought it off the shelf, and started it up. The two greatest choices I've made in my gaming life. :)
 
I played Yellow, Sapphire and X this way. I found it to be more fun when I didn't know things ahead of time.
 
I think most of the games after Crystal, I've played at least semi-blind. However, I think Pokémon is a game you shouldn't play blind, because you will miss very important stuff that way if you aren't curious and click everything and talk to everyone.
 
Cerberus87 said:
I think most of the games after Crystal, I've played at least semi-blind. However, I think Pokémon is a game you shouldn't play blind, because you will miss very important stuff that way if you aren't curious and click everything and talk to everyone.
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Hmm, I think I have to disagree! If I could control my curious side I would totally play all the Pokemon games blind because it's pretty easy to figure stuff out, like you said, it's easy to talk to people and find out everything that way. Nothing is permanently missable in Pokemon so I say you've got nothing to lose. ^_^
 
Spoiling them ruins it for me. I don't know why, but my motivation to play drops significantly when I know exactly what's around the bend. That was wonderful to me as a kid, "where does this go?"

I guess that's the exploration mindset drilled into my head as a youngster with his blue version.
 
Played Pokemon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Time blind. Had no idea what the game was about or how it worked.
 
R/S/E
Blind, internet was still young and I didn't even do research on the games, so I played them blind^^

D/P/Pt
Although, I knew a ton of the Pokemon that I was going to encounter, because of HGSS's postgame, I played it blind storywise and mechanic wise.

BW/B2W2
I didn't like Pokemon BW at first because I didn't like some of the Pokemon, but then I grew to love them as I first played them. Since I wasn't even interested in playing those games at first, I knew very little about them, both B/W & B2W2. Although, because of the Facebook fan pages I liked on Facebook, they talked quite a lot about B2W2 when it was first released.

XY
I tried to know very little about the game itself, although I knew it was in 3D, new battle scenes, customizable characters and some of the Pokemon.

ORAS
Only thing I know about it is the trailer that came out and that the mega evolutions of the starters. Unless that's the only thing that they've released as a teaser until now, I know absolutely nothing about the game.
 
I haven't played a game completely blind since I found the internet.. As much fun as I think it could be, I don't think I would allow myself to have fun doing it. I'm too much of a planner and schemer to just play through a game not knowing what I'm going to be up against.
 
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