>>57103173Her
The hebes.
I wouldn't call myself engaged, its a time sink. It's an easy game to pick back up and play through again to spend some time. The games have a lot of replay value when there are lots of different pokemon you want to try out, or even use the same ones in a different manner. The games are simple but still pleasant thanks to how easygoing they are. They're portable so I can play them at work or on my commute. And having favorite pokemon is a real thing, they're like favorite characters that keep coming back up and they make up for being in simple-ass children's games by being my favorite dudes.
>>57103180still the only waifufag who proved they played the games
Mashing A
The idea of Pokemon
i draw pokemon with big butts
victini
>>57103173
>>57103173Romhacks
Sexy furry ladies
>>57103173The designs and the world itself. Despite the lack of effort Gamefreak puts into creating depth for the setting, between the tech and the applications for Pokemon themselves I still find it absolutely fascinating.
>>57103180>not the same Delcatty all throughoutpretty cringe tee bee aeich
>>57103173Clover got me back into it a few years agoI'm basically rediscovering the franchise
>>57103173The lolis
Shinies
>>57104874Shinies would be cool if I had the hardware
>>57103173Watching and reading lore of every new species
>>57103173Gen 5
>>57103173All the fan content. The core mechanics are legitimately good, they just need to be used by someone who actually cares rather than gamefreak.
>>57103180>Lv. 120???
>>57104939she didnt play any of the games she just hacked
>>57104939Same fan games go beyond 100. Off the top of my head, Insurgence and pathways.
>>57103173Bonding with my pieces of data and going through the adventure trying out different mons
The ones with Chappy pics!
The jeebies.>>57105500Yeah, this mostly. There's also the world building that is really interesting, if not almost entirely wasted. I use it often in writing exercises.>>57104928This too. The fan content is incredible, art, music and games.
>>57103180Based DelcattyGOD
>>57103173My autism wants to collect and catalog new Pokémon
>>57103173Pokegirls and battling. Fan games too. If I somehow reach 40+ I'll still be doing the same.
>>57103187No such thing as a hebe, we say loli in the normal world
>>57111321I always want to pronounce "hebe" as "heeb"
>>57111462they aren't pronounced the same?
>>57103173Unironically, a fan of the fandom here. I dropped off the mainline Pokemon bandwagon around Gen 5, and have not really gotten back into it since. Didn't get a 3DS until around 2016 to play Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate, but even then I did not feel a great urge to get back into Pokemon until sometime during 2017/2018. Even then, the mainline content on offer was underwhelming for me then, and even more so now with how Pokemon has developed. It is not bad on a strictly "objective" measure, but I have a number of pet peeves and creative differences in how Pokemon has shifted and changed since 2013. Be it story, lore, the Pokemon designs themselves, the gimmicks, or how the companies behind Pokemon have become... Dickish to say the least, the only thing that draws me back in is the stuff fans produce. Even then, that comes with an asterisk attached due to the fandom majority inevitably incorporating those elements that break my personal immersion. But the core of Pokemon, that magical world, those wonderful creatures that made it feel alive? That unexplored horizon still yet to come? It draws me in still. Pokemon has sunk its talons far too deep into me for me to be rid of the urge to explore it for long. I just do so by writing my own little copefics, filtering for the good stuff that I like, and indulging in the occasional fan game here and there. Me personally, I have since taken off to try and create my own iteration of the Pokemon world here and there. Exploring different concepts and iterating on things like type shifting, localized environmental variants more detailed than just the regional forms, poking back on old concepts and breathing new life into them, giving a few mons the spotlight they otherwise have yet to gain, that sort of thing. I cannot say my output is perfect, but it fills the void enough for me to be content. I can at least say I have given those old reimagingings of at least one of the Galar starters new life, if nothing else.
>>57111492"hebe" has a short e at the end
>>57103192 already nailed most of it for me. All I can add is the sea of romhacks you dip into with a variety that sits anywhere between "vanilla game but with full dex" to "basically a whole new game" and the spinoffs are still good hits when they aren't damned to mobile.
>>57103173That there’s literally nothing like Pokemon. No copycat will ever come close.
They're fun and cool
>>57103173Satisfying core mechanics/formulaFamiliarityExisting investmentBest monster designs in the genre (in total anyway)(Used to have) down to earth art direction that lets you imagine a chill life with pokemon and them existing out in the wild
>>57103173Literally everything except for the video games themselves. They could slap a pokemon on an Altoid tin and I'd pick up a couple just for the novelty.
>>57103173Gen 4
>>57103173I'm old. I was 8 or 9 when Pokemon Blue came out. I played Gen 1 and Gen 2, and then kinda just fell off the Pokemon wagon. However, since covid, I went through most of the old Pokemon games (didn't do Pokemon XY or Pokemon BW or BW2), and it's kinda okay. I mostly just play romhacks on a whim nowadays.
>>57103173>catchin em all>raids>smoking teams of full legends online with my gimmicky shitmonsI was never a graphicsfag but SV really turned me into a hater. still bought it tho
>>57103173They good jrpgs with decades of mechanical depth added. I really enjoy seeing the changes and QoL features each game adds. I don't agree with all the decisions and the Switch games have really shat the bed in a lot of ways, they're still pretty unique in the turn-based jrpg genre. There's just really nothing else that scratches that itch to play a pokemon game.
>>57124833Because drugs can lower IQ, and he was in CAS, so if his IQ dropped any further, it'd be well into the negatives.
>>57103173for me it was always about killing as many pokemon as possible.i never clicked "run" on an encounter. watching the HP drop to zero and the opponent's fainting animation was intoxicating. even the most harmless level 2 rattata i would indulge in absolutely slaughtering with a vicious fire blast from my level 100 charizard. in fact the bigger the level gap the better.i would spend hours roaming the same small patch of tall grass with my maxed out pokemon, and rubbing my hands together enticingly as i encountered a level 4 weedle, an absolute sitting duck who has no clue what is coming its way. its 1 foot frame, nibbling a piece of grass one day when out comes a massive fucking dragon that might as well be the size of a skyscraper in comparison to it, looking completely puzzled, the last thing it ever sees is a tsunami sized wall of fire heading its way too quickly to avoid but just slowly enough for unimaginable horror to shoot through its tiny body before being completely incinerated.rinse and repeat every minute, 6+ hours per day, for 25+ years
>>57126749your charizard is a bully, i'd like to see it take on my level 100 tyranitar
>>57103173cute boys
>>57103180tremendous rubbishif it doesn't have a double edge it doesn't do any harm
>>57126777fucking nigger you think i play fair? i fight to win, i fight to kill. faggots like you are another thing that keep me coming back to this game because i would love nothing more than to ambush you with 300+ pokemon all out of their pokeballs (with complete disregard to pokemon league rules dictating a max of 6 mons) while 3 hold you down and 297+me buttfuck you and your shitty pokemon against your will motherfcuker my metagross will shove his whole fist up your dickhole
>>57103173I guess Pokémons. It's like asking a person what keeps them engaged to liking pets.
>>57103173Mostly the Pokemon themselves. I'd definitely say I'm far less engaged than I used to be, both because the newer games are shit and I have less time, but Pokemon is one of the few series I'll always come back to.
>>57103173mental illnessseriously
>>57103173The girls
>>57103173The fantasy of sharing a close bond with an incredible, intelligent creature with incredible powers and abilities, finding those few special pokémon that I can always count on and that give my life meaning.
>>57103173New games like Shuffle and Unite.Unironically enjoying palworld, draw me back to them
>>57103173The one thing lm liking right now are the Raids in SV and Sh/SwI think they can expand this to a Gatcha game similar to Final Fantasy Opera Omnia or something in Mobile.
>>57126749>Inteleon used Snipe Shot!
Anything relating to Gens 1-5 and 7. That's it.
>>57103173Honestly just the music and lore. Some new designs occasionally join the ranks of old ones. Music is rarely talked about here, but it’s phenomenal.
>>57137156Ah, a zoomer who started with the DS games. Shame you began with the worst ones.
>>57137608Correct on being a zoomer, but I started with a relative's old Gold copy.
>>57103173My favorite pokemonI just like to post about them and use them in every game
>>57103173The big gardevoir and lopunnyThe interest was steadily waning prior despite the 20 so years
waggywaggywaggywaggywaggy!
>>57103173It's just comfy I guess. Reminds me of brick walls, graffiti, and nature. I like the exploring nature aspect along with the safari feel to everything. SWandSH didn't really have this feel but it grew on me eventually. I guess Galar just looks very different than anything before it. Just didn't have the same vibe. I'd argue SV was closer to the original vibe of Pokémon. Idk if I want every Pokemon game in the future to be like this but it was fun and comfy. I like how all the Pokémon had new textures. It was alot of fun taking pictures of all the different Pokémon. SV was the first time in years I've actually bothered to finish the dex.
Nothing, i stopped playing after gen 7, Alola was the final nail in the coffin Tried Scat and Vomit because the open world kinda intrigued me but i quickly realised the whole "open world" is just one giant sequence break allowed by Gamefreak
>>57140515
>>57138154Yeah anon was right. Poor man started with the worst ones.
>>57120175Best post and the only good post in this thread.>(Used to have) down to earth art direction that lets you imagine a chill life with pokemon and them existing out in the wildThis is why.
Legends Arceus is the only Gamefreak output I've bought post Dexit, I just pop back here every so often for porn.
>>57103173this board mostlysometimes replaying a gamei stopped caring about new releases ever since lgpe/swsh
>>57103173Brain damage
Umbreon is loafing around!
I haven't touched the main games since Sun/Moon and really have no desire to change that.I just think they're neat.
>>57103173Mostly the pokémon themselves.At this point I don't care for their games nor anything else, all that matters to me are how cute and precious they look, and I occasionally like to daydream about how it would be like if those things were real.This lil fella here turned out to be the cutest thing in the world to me, and I wanna squeeze him in a hug so badly.
>>57103173Memes and porn
>>57103173the familiarity it represents gives me a feeling of comfortit's probably the only thing I want to stay the same way, although I won't complain if they do it in a different way
>>57103173 something that isn't really there anymore
>>57103180I kneel.
I could come up with a lot of reasons but ultimately it's about collecting something valuable, and the fact that I can use those collectibles in a battle system I genuinely really enjoy. Oh, and I can transfer those collectibles forward to future games and experiences for the rest of my life. I could beat the latest games with a Pokemon that originated on a completely different piece of hardware, years ago, while being the exact same Pokemon. Yeah your Pikachu is cool, but mine is cooler because it came all the way back from XY on the 3DS. And mine has cool ribbons that represent the adventures I've lived with it. And so on and so forth. Then there's the legendaries and mythicals and... yeah, there's just nothing else like it really.
>>57163133Oh and of course, those collectibles morph into entirely different creatures, and sometimes there's variants and shit depending on the circumstances. Like Paldean Tauros and how it wasn't enough to just have a dark one but also a rarer, cooler Fire and Water variant that's exclusive to each version of the game. God I love that shit.
>>57103173Fetish art ofc
What the fuck. It went into this thread to advertise for the exact games those things can't be transferred to.
waggy!
>>57126848Grade A
>>57103173The fact there's a huge community to obsess over various aspects of it, and the fact it's not just games.
>>57103180Keyed
>>57167476I don't understand what's happening here, was that Delcatty constantly traded between different trainers? Did it end up getting traded back to it's original trainer or something?
>>57173475Open wide, here comes the plaaaane:>caught in Ruby>traded over to FireRed>transferred up to Platinum>traded over to HeartGold>transferred up to Black>traded over to Black 2>imported to the Pokemon Bank>finally returns home to Hoenn in Omega Ruby after a lifetime of traveling through space and timeDo you need me to elaborate more?
>>57173868Ah, I see. Also helped when I ran it through a translator, I could tell what the part at the end was likely saying but I completely misunderstood what was happening in the beginning.
>>57173475>>57173868Poor thing felt unwanted every time it got traded away :( Even the ORAS dude doesn't have the same ID as the one in RS
>>57103173the world/setting, the pokemon themselves and the lore, its just too goodalso, the gameplay its good/solid, playing with my favorites in double or triple is fun af
>>57103173Huge part of the community is minmaxing faggots. I'm an autistic 30+ faggot who is still attracted to the idea of living symbiotically in a world of magic creatures where their existence is tied to the very nature of the universe and we need to learn to love and empathize with those complex differences. Pokemon needs a fucking social game similar to harvest moon or something where you can just live in a community of pokemon owners and live a domestic pokemon life.
brainwashing in childhood
>>57167476>serving multiple mastersIsn't that sort of behaviour explicitly haraam?
>>57103173e621>Karasu Mikazuki - All's Well That Ends Well>DarkMirage
>>57138802
>>57103173monkey
Go out into the real world and touch grass and get a job you incelsPay. Taxes.
>>57103173It's the most bang for your buck monster tamer with a focus on exploration.That's it really. I mean, I can do SMT and Digimon runs but they don't hit as good as pokemon in that regard since there's so few hidden areas to search for unique monsters and when you do have a hidden area it's usually empty existing only for a quest where you unlock the ability to evolve or fuse that specific monster.Also even post dexit pokemon still boasts the largest roster of monsters. The only one that went over a base pokemon game was DQM Dark Prince by a technicality since it counts recolors as unique monsters where Pokemon doesn't do the same for forms even if they evolve into something else like Paldean Wooper, they'll both share the same number while Slime, She Slime, Mottled Slime, Buddy Slime, Metal Slime, Shadow Slime, Mottled She Slime are all different monsters.Then there's the way they handle DLC, other tamers will usually either give a recolor away for free that you just lose if you evolve like Professor Agumon or just sell one quest with one monster like Dagda in SMT V but pokemon you get a new maps and a total of about 200 returning mon with a sprinkle of new mon for about 30 bucks and you don't even have to buy the dlc if you want the monster since you can just trade them from another game or import them through home when the dlc drops.As much as I don't like not having every pokemon, it's better that we get a massive chunk of them in DLC than being sold piecemeal.
Last gamefreak game I bought was Y.I only play romhacks and fan games, they're more engaging and actually catter/challenge me a little
>>57182009Have you played Monster Sanctuary? I think if you like exploration you will love it
Awoooooooooooowowowow
>>57181527Why Americans think getting extorted by their government for their money is the pinnacle of human realization?
>>57190632Lol, what? If anything, Americans are some of the biggest lolberts out there. I've never seen a people so prone to conspiratorial thinking
>>57190668It's okay to pay taxes when your team is in power. If it's the other team, forget it.
>>57103173When I get bored of the games, I can always play romhacks or spin-offs.
Sunken cost fallacy.
>>57204550sunken deez nuts GOTTEM
>>57103173MAGIKARP MAGIKARP KARP KARP
>>57103173Mainly the lack of good competition in the monster collecting/training genre. Very few games have been able to even remotely capture the aesthetic Pokémon was able to achieve, and those that got close died off 10+ years ago. Pokémon GO is also one of the only location-based AR games a lot of people play, if there were some actually good games in that category that people played I'd play those games instead.
>>57204946If your metric for comparing other monster collecting games is to Pokémon, then yeah, you're going to be disappointed. That seems an unhealthy perspective on any game
>>57111958Best post.>>57126829And also this.
>>57103173These cute autismos turn me on like nothing else
>>57205317I'm just feel like it shouldn't be that hard to capture the characteristics that make Pokémon so appealing to people, games like Temtem and Pal World just look flat-out ugly to me. It feels like Crystal Monsters of all things has been the closest thing to understand the Pokémon aesthetic, and even then half the monsters looks like dumb little finger puppets.
Sleepy bree! Thanks for taking good care of this one, too!
