/vr/ - Retro Games

One of my biggest vidya-related regrets is not having played the Gen 2 Pokemon games when they came out. I played the absolute shit out of Gen 1, and was stoked when I heard about Gen 2. The wait for it seemed eternal to me at the time, though. Eventually the Japanese game came out, and IIRC I even downloaded a ROM for it and tried playing it, but obviously didn't get far. By the time the actual game came out here, I think I was already turning off of Pokemon and was getting hardcore into Zelda and FF instead. I did replay Gen 1 a couple of times during that time frame, though, so maybe I just turned into a stuffy Genwunner in record time, I dunno. Whatever the case, It took like a decade before I touched another Pokemon game, namely Emerald, Lead Green and Platinum. I did get Soul Silver, but I think having played the previous three nigh back-to-back burned me out, with the last straw being me forgetting to save and turning it off after hours of progress (I was tired and possibly drunk lol). I know I can always pick it up, whether the original or the DS remake, but I always get this nagging feeling that I already "missed the boat" on it and any magic it held would be lost on me, sort of like when I played ALttP after OoT, and so I always hesitate and decide against it.

Thanks for reading my blog.