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NBIceman posted...

This is a really good articulation of my feelings on the series. A lot of people who like Sw/Sh talk about how "it's the Pokemon formula - even when it's not great it's still pretty fun," but newer games really don't feel like the Pokemon formula I remember. X/Y simply does not feel the same way HG/SS did and does. For a while I thought that was just nostalgia and that I'd just sort of outgrown my ability to immerse myself in a Pokemon world again, but in the last few years I've even played some excellent ROM hacks, the kind that are made with genuine effort and love for the series, that do recapture that feeling of wanting to see what was around the next corner and not being able to step away from the game for hours. So I've confirmed that it really is the specific GameFreak products of recent times that don't have what I'm looking for and not Pokemon as a whole.

I'm assuming you've played the GameCube Pokemon games? Flawed as they may be, I've always appreciated how they do things so different from other Pokemon adventures, and the good things about them are really good.

I played Colosseum but not XD. Colosseum was alright, I didn't feel one way or another about it in particular, though I do kind of appreciate how it cut things down to their barest essentials.