QuentinQuonce
formerly green_typhlosion
Doesn't make it any easier if you're invested though.Bro this was literally bound to happen eventually
This summed it up better than I could, I think.I've heard there's often a cycle to more complex games. They build up, are considered bloated, are cut down, are built up again. Granted, I hear that most often from those who deride the 'bloat' and want a steady state of the simpler versions. But I enjoy the climb and dread the cuts. The aftermath always seems to pale in comparison to its own past version. I haven't yet seen one of my favourites recover fully. But maybe, if this cycle exists, a game will come around to its former glory again. Maybe, with enough games, I could ride from peak to peak. I would just be waiting for when a game rises again. Hard part seems to be when multiple games collapse at the same time.
I don't know if and when pokemon is going to be good for me again. But I intend to be aware of it if and when it does.
I never got SwSh. Too much I disliked about them held me off ever going in. And so Pokemon sort of stopped for me after Gen VII. I still play all the older games faithfully, but anyone familiar with the topics I post about on here will know that the modern titles are... mostly theoretical for me. I still haven't even watched a playthrough of ScVi online. I still play Pokemon Go, though even that has been rapidly losing its appeal of late. It's more a social thing; I've made a few good friends through it. It's the older games I'm into, still, because they have so much replay value.
And I'm actually really tempted to get ScVi (Scarlet, definitely - atypical for me), especially once the DLC drops. Just to try and recapture some of that feeling of these games I love. But so much about those games still leaves me cold. Legends: Arceus... eh. I just don't feel the pull, as interesting as it looks. If they made a Johto Let's Go, I'd almost certainly be on it. But in terms of games that appeal in terms of complexity, and challenge? That's the older ones. As far as I'm concerned they leave the modern ones in the dust. So that's where my interest lies.
I have a Pokemon Home account, but it's basically just a contingency. Just so that if Pokemon ever does get good again, I'll be able to bring some of my old favourites over. As it is now I mainly just use it as a glorified model viewer and somewhere to dump excess shinies from Go so that when they make it ScVi-compatible I can complete the Pokedex quickly.