So I'm wondering around Giant Chasm in Black the other day and I'm seeing a load of Pokémon that I haven't captured yet, and I'm just chucking balls at them without thinking about it.
But as I was battling a Metagross, it suddenly occurred to me that the Pokémon games haven't required you to catch every single one since Diamond and Pearl, and that the 'Gotta catch 'em all' motto was in fact dropped years before that. Your main Pokédex count (the one that pops up when you save) has for a long time registered the amount that you've seen and not the ones you've caught.
So that lead me to wonder - am I old-fashioned? ^^' I know that my goal doesn't include the completion of the Pokédex, and it never really has been, yet I still try to catch as many Pokémon as possible and then they just sit in the box for the rest of eternity. Added to this is the fact that all you have to do now is see them all now instead of catch them, is this all pointless? Is this old practice of catching every Pokémon just a bit dated?
PS - It won't stop me catching them. ^^ I'm just curious to see if now, since the games don't require it it any way, you guys still chuck the balls at every one you haven't caught yet.
But as I was battling a Metagross, it suddenly occurred to me that the Pokémon games haven't required you to catch every single one since Diamond and Pearl, and that the 'Gotta catch 'em all' motto was in fact dropped years before that. Your main Pokédex count (the one that pops up when you save) has for a long time registered the amount that you've seen and not the ones you've caught.
So that lead me to wonder - am I old-fashioned? ^^' I know that my goal doesn't include the completion of the Pokédex, and it never really has been, yet I still try to catch as many Pokémon as possible and then they just sit in the box for the rest of eternity. Added to this is the fact that all you have to do now is see them all now instead of catch them, is this all pointless? Is this old practice of catching every Pokémon just a bit dated?
PS - It won't stop me catching them. ^^ I'm just curious to see if now, since the games don't require it it any way, you guys still chuck the balls at every one you haven't caught yet.