Games in the series you have a difficult time replaying.

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Is there a game in the series that you have a hard time replaying, if you enjoy replaying the games at all?

I have a diffcult time sticking to replays of the newer gens as they're a bit more plot heavy at the beginning. Getting through the first hour of gameplay can be a lot and sometimes I lose interest pretty quickly, despite the fact I really like the newer games!! The Galar games are especially guilty of this for me.
 
Pokémon Platinum.
I've played this game twice and found myself running into the same problem each time. The game's too slow, the EXP gain is too little, and there's too many HMs. While the third problem isn't that bad, the first and second ones combine to absolutely NEUTER my enjoyment of the game and pretty much kill any desire for me to want to give it a third playthrough.

I don't get why people call the game the best in the series. I really wish I could but I just can't bother.
 
RichestAirPirate said:
The game's too slow
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i am aware this is an unpopular opinion but subjectively, for me, this is actually one of the appeals of sinnoh haha. platinum is one of my favorite pokemon games (though i'd consider HGSS my ultimate favorite) and it's not that i replay it all the time, but like... when i do replay it, i find that the slow pace really lets me unwind and relax about it. i often spend a lot of time dawdling and just hanging out in sinnoh. i sometimes pair it with like, watching youtube or something, and that's nice when i'm in the mood for it too. i don't think any pokemon game gets me quite as relaxed as platinum, though i suppose leafgreen gives it competition, but that's because leafgreen was my first pokemon game and i know kanto like the back of my hand so i could practically play it with my eyes closed, and not because it's particularly more relaxing than any other pokemon game. (as for the EXP issue, i guess i don't deal with that much because i like to play pokemon games underleveled on purpose; it makes the battles more engaging for me. i will give you the HMs point though, even i feel irritated catching a random staravia to slap defog on for the duration of the singular route with fog in the game, etc)

as for me, i struggle to replay both the alola and galar games... despite actually quite liking both! (i used to not like galar, but i've warmed up to it a lot recently.)

i feel like with alola it's pretty straightforward - i find its frontloaded tutorials and amount of dialogue to be tiresome. if i actually take the time between story beats to fully engage with every game mechanic, there is a lot of game... i do think a lot of complaints about alola stem from people not caring about the story and wanting to mash A through it while also not taking their time between every location. the thing is, on a replay, the story isn't going to be fresh to experience, and i'm not necessarily going to want to like, catch every pokemon between areas all over again, or upgrade the pokefinder every time. alola is super great on a first playthrough and USUM have great postgames in particular that you can spend hundreds of hours in after you complete that first playthrough, but yeah. hard to replay over and over.

with galar, it's kind of that, though less severe in my opinion. on the other hand, i am almost overwhelmed by the amount of teambuilding options that galar gives you, and particularly in the early game i often just find teambuilding, one of my favorite aspects of pokemon playthroughs, to be not as engaging as in any other pokemon game. maybe the amount of options dilutes the experience for me, maybe the weather system is frustrating when you're looking for a particular pokemon... i don't really know, i just find it harder to get attached to my pokemon in galar. the times i've made it further into the game i usually end up getting attached to my pokemon eventually but it just takes longer. shrug. might just be a skill issue on my part
 
I have yet to give Sword and Shield, Ultra Sun and Moon, FireRed and LeafGreen, Gen 1, and Gen 2 real, honest replays. All of these games, save for the former, have one thing in common: they're worse versions of already-existing Pokémon games. USUM is the worst Pokémon game of all time, FRLG are fine, but I prefer Let's Go, and Gens 1 and 2 have been supplanted by their remakes. As for SwSh, I just... never really latched on to Galar? Gen 8 in general is my least favorite generation, but these games in particular are missing Pokémon's usual charm for me.
 
pokemon legends arceus i just find it boring on the second run onward
 
Generally everything from Gens I-III, mostly due to having to go through the extra effort to unlearn a lot of things because of major changes from future gens being my norm before I can readjust. This can range from either something as minor as the split to funny business oversights/bugs that just happen to interfere with battling enough to the point I can't ignore it like most of Gen I. Another one would probably be Platinum, mostly because I have a lot of trouble maintaining focus in that particular game a good 80% of the time, probably because of all the regions Sinnoh is the one I have the least amount of connection with due to skipping that gen over back then.
 
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Generally everything from Gens I-III, mostly due to having to go through the extra effort to unlearn a lot of things because of major changes from future gens being my norm before I can readjust. This can range from either something as minor as the split to funny business oversights/bugs that just happen to interfere with battling enough to the point I can't ignore it like most of Gen I. Another one would probably be Platinum, mostly because I have a lot of trouble maintaining focus in that particular game a good 80% of the time, probably because of all the regions Sinnoh is the one I have the least amount of connection with due to skipping that gen over back then.
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Yeah ngl, while I replay the earlier games quite often, I always gotta remind myself of the outdated mechanics like Physical/Special split and lack of Fairy-typing. Ngl I have a hard time replaying Gen 1 for the same reasons as you said.

I feel this particularly as a fan of the Cleffa line due to the aforementioned buffs that were made to them in later gens. Its like, whenever I wanna use Clefairy in a Gen 1-5 game, I am saying to myself: "You're not gonna be your best self until 6 gens from now, but just you wait you'll be a menace."

As for Platinum... I find that playing Platinum is a better experience then DP as its a fair bit more optimized, better Pokémon selection and the like. If I had to choose how I'm replaying a Sinnoh game, I would rather replay Platinum (and despite it all, BDSP.)
 
the way i memorized the physical/special types in gens 1-3 was by remembering that the special types are all the eeveelution types + dragon! if it's not the type of an eeveelution or dragon type, then it's a physical type. (i am including glaceon/leafeon here. and technically sylveon but fairy didn't exist back then)

beasttrash said:
If I had to choose how I'm replaying a Sinnoh game, I would rather replay Platinum (and despite it all, BDSP.)
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i've been replaying diamond recently and i've been enjoying it but yeah platinum is definitely the superior version
 
RichestAirPirate said:
I think we can all agree that there's very little reason to go back to the original DP when Platinum, and to a lesser extent, BDSP, exists.
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the only reason i open diamond and pearl these days is for nostalgia and to use it as a host while doing wireless multiplayer with myself in the battle frontier, because trying to do multis with another player (AKA myself with another DS) while the host is DP and the other game is PT/HGSS totally breaks the enemy AI and makes them easier to defeat since they all use random moves like wild pokemon. so hey, it's not entirely without reason... if you squint LOL (glameow and stunky are both version exclusives in DP and aren't available in platinum too, so it's required for pokedex completion, i guess)
 
i find the gen 2 games pretty much unplayable. They go from difficulty spike to snoozefest to difficulty spike to snoozefest way too often. If they maintained an actual level curve throughout, they would be good, but they do not.
 
I have no problems replaying Gen I to III (I even restarted Fire Red so many times back in the day), but I haven't replayed through X/Y since it's the most completed file I got and I don't wanna erase it. Same for Legends Arceus and Scarlet, really. But if we're talking games that I can afford to restart, I have yet to replay the first Black/White game. I had tried to do a Professor Oak Challenge on Black 2 a while back, but the diminishing EXP yield is too much to handle.
 
The first two generations' mainline Pokemon games really aged poorly and I haven't replayed them since the 2000s. Just thinking about the Pokemon storage system in those games and all of the loading makes me want to scream. lol

Many QOL improvements have been gradually added since, but I think that those two generations are the hardest to get back into.
 
Yeah I can't go back and play Gen 1 and 2 vanilla anymore (there are hacks and shit - at least for Gen 2 - that make them better), but the games as released?

Yeah nah, they have aged so badly.
 
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