How imaginative are you during a playthrough?

Mister Coffee

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    Lately as I've been replaying some of the older games and playing through a couple of hacks, I've been using my imagination a lot to fill plot holes and make the adventure feel more unique to me. For example, lately after I've caught a pokemon to put on my team, I look at it's nature not only for stat and breeding info, but also to think about during every fight and how the pokemon is acting during battle. My "quirky" natured pokemon I imagine is sort of awkward during fights and might have a strange thing they do as a quality to each attack they do, or my "calm" natured pokemon keeps a calm mentality even during the most dangerous of battles.
    Another thing I do is fill in weird plot holes and awkward situations by imagining that my character does something that doesn't happen in the actual game play. For example, I like to imagine that my character is a roaming private investigator who is actively tracking each villainous team across the pokemon world. Every time I've defeated a bad guy in a pokemon fight I imagine upon defeating their pokemon team, my character ties them up before progressing to stop the other bad guys, which is why the trainers don't move after being defeated.
    I like to think that adding these imaginative qualities to my game play has also made grinding less boring. Does anybody else do this while playing their game, if so, any interesting examples?
     
    That's funny you say that about the natures. I always make little jokes if I'm playing with people. He's calm, that's why he can take those attacks. It's silly but it keeps it fun.
     
    I think this is a very good practice for older playthroughs. Using your imagination makes up for limited graphics and such. I think it makes for more memorable gameplay too.
     
    During my plays of Emerald, I'd make May`s gym battle with her father and his trainers a bitter one- she'd rather be anywhere but around him and is all too glad when she leaves. Whenever I played Fire Red, when I talked with the rocket grunt who said where to go in the hideout, I'd always imagine it as either an undercover Gary or my brother, sneaking info from team rocket and helping me along. =)
     
    One of the few things I always luv to do, is sneak past Trainers/NPCs, get behind them & then engage them in a battle/conversation. Gotcha!

    Pika Pika :chu:
     
    I like to have fun in my playthroughs, I do assign my Pokemon personalities based on their natures. It makes me more attached to them! When I was younger I'd even make stories and draw my Pokemon teams together... Because of that I can vividly remember my Leafgreen and Diamond teams. I miss them.
     
    After playing Alpha Sapphire recently I did a Sapphire playthrough pretending I was the same character from AS, but gone back in time, like Sam Tyler in Life on Mars. Made it a lot more fun giving the game my own narrative as I played through.
     
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