What else is there to do in Pokemon?

[KeyMaster45]

Recently I picked up White version, my first Pokemon game since Red and Yellow. First and foremost I was utterly blown away at how far everything has come in the decade since. All the battle sprites are animated, the rival and gym battles all got nifty dramatic versus bars, the elite four hired a proper architect to build them thematic lairs, and the bad guys are more defined than the vague encounters with Team Rocket. The list goes on, but I won't bore you with an extended tangent on how the new pokemon are nice throw backs to the first game's set, while still feeling new.

The problem though, is that after a solid two weeks of evening enjoyment I've beaten the game. I've soundly trounced the elite four and done what extra content I can that doesn't require a pokemon they handed out at X event which took place in Timbuktu on the 33rd of February by invite only through the Illuminati and is a Japanese exclusive. It just kind of stops, with zero incentive to catch any more or train my team any further. It's pretty much the same problem I ran into as a kid with Red and Yellow. You run out of content and then there's not really much to fall back on. There's re-playability, but you have to delete you current save to do so.

It's an issue I thought they'd have addressed by now, to be honest. I'm at somewhat of a loss, I want to do more with it but the design stares back at me and says "No". Yeah, every game eventually "ends", but when they end you walk away with the satisfaction that it's over. This is just weird, I feel like I ran out of content before I was actually done with the game. There's gotta be more to the game that I'm simply missing.

 

[Sean Hollyman]

I'm at the same point.

I'm just battling the E4 over and over again due to the lack of a VS seeker..

 

[baconsarnie]

Find someone to battle with, then give both people a few days or a week or whatever to improve your teams, either through training or with new pokemon.

 

[BoredRolePlayer]

Recently I picked up White version, my first Pokemon game since Red and Yellow. First and foremost I was utterly blown away at how far everything has come in the decade since. All the battle sprites are animated, the rival and gym battles all got nifty dramatic versus bars, the elite four hired a proper architect to build them thematic lairs, and the bad guys are more defined than the vague encounters with Team Rocket. The list goes on, but I won't bore you with an extended tangent on how the new pokemon are nice throw backs to the first game's set, while still feeling new.

The problem though, is that after a solid two weeks of evening enjoyment I've beaten the game. I've soundly trounced the elite four and done what extra content I can that doesn't require a pokemon they handed out at X event which took place in Timbuktu on the 33rd of February by invite only through the Illuminati and is a Japanese exclusive. It just kind of stops, with zero incentive to catch any more or train my team any further. It's pretty much the same problem I ran into as a kid with Red and Yellow. You run out of content and then there's not really much to fall back on. There's re-playability, but you have to delete you current save to do so.

It's an issue I thought they'd have addressed by now, to be honest. I'm at somewhat of a loss, I want to do more with it but the design stares back at me and says "No". Yeah, every game eventually "ends", but when they end you walk away with the satisfaction that it's over. This is just weird, I feel like I ran out of content before I was actually done with the game. There's gotta be more to the game that I'm simply missing.

Battle online, you can battle with me. I may suck cause I'm not one of the hard core dudes who play . Also I know how you feel, If this was pokemon emerald i would say take on the battle frontier but no nintendo borked it up again.

 

[Glademaster_v1legacy]

Em get all pokemon to Level 100 and create some specialised EV trained pokemon for online battling. That is about all that is left.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Yeah that's the downside of Pokemon.

The only thing you can do when you've done everything is to do a new playthrough and create rules for yourself to make the game harder and interesting. Other than that, the game gets taken out of DS, gets put into case, and collects dust on shelf.

 

[BoredRolePlayer]

Yeah that's the downside of Pokemon.

The only thing you can do when you've done everything is to do a new playthrough and create rules for yourself to make the game harder and interesting. Other than that, the game gets taken out of DS, gets put into case, and collects dust on shelf.

Yeah making the game harder is what I'm doing now, I'm doing a type restriction run and community egg run, and I'm gonna do a dice run later on.

 

[krazykidd]

Recently I picked up White version, my first Pokemon game since Red and Yellow. First and foremost I was utterly blown away at how far everything has come in the decade since. All the battle sprites are animated, the rival and gym battles all got nifty dramatic versus bars, the elite four hired a proper architect to build them thematic lairs, and the bad guys are more defined than the vague encounters with Team Rocket. The list goes on, but I won't bore you with an extended tangent on how the new pokemon are nice throw backs to the first game's set, while still feeling new.

The problem though, is that after a solid two weeks of evening enjoyment I've beaten the game. I've soundly trounced the elite four and done what extra content I can that doesn't require a pokemon they handed out at X event which took place in Timbuktu on the 33rd of February by invite only through the Illuminati and is a Japanese exclusive. It just kind of stops, with zero incentive to catch any more or train my team any further. It's pretty much the same problem I ran into as a kid with Red and Yellow. You run out of content and then there's not really much to fall back on. There's re-playability, but you have to delete you current save to do so.

It's an issue I thought they'd have addressed by now, to be honest. I'm at somewhat of a loss, I want to do more with it but the design stares back at me and says "No". Yeah, every game eventually "ends", but when they end you walk away with the satisfaction that it's over. This is just weird, I feel like I ran out of content before I was actually done with the game. There's gotta be more to the game that I'm simply missing.

Battle online, you can battle with me. I may suck cause I'm not one of the hard core dudes who play . Also I know how you feel, If this was pokemon emerald i would say take on the battle frontier but no nintendo borked it up again.

This , this is what i did with diamond and pearl , spent a whole summer and 1st semester of college playing pokemon , ev training , iv breeding and leveling pokemon to 100 and battling online , racked up 1000 hours of combined gameplay . If you have 2 ds and 2 games you can trade them to get 1.5 times exp . Quick tip , if you are going to battle online train your pokemon counter-intuitively , your pokemon has high attack? Train him in sp attack . Why? Because players know you have high attack amd will brg out a physical wall. It works very well

 

[WaywardHaymaker]

That's my problem with B&W, too. There's NOTHING to do after you beat Team Plasma. The stuff before that is my favorite in the whole franchise, but it stops dead unless you're into competitive battling.

HG&SS had the best post-games, with going to Kanto and being able to rematch all 16 Gym Leaders that now have level 60-70 Pokemon... Why'd they EVER stop doing that? They did that in the original Johto games, too, if I recall.

 

[Doctor Glocktor]

Uhm, theres the entire, what, six routes to the right of the City with the 8th gym?

As well as the battle subway, or the Pokemon Musical if your into that kind of thing.

 

[Terminate421]

Online.

Also Battle Subway.

and art if you are a huge fan.

 

[Fiz_The_Toaster]

Yeah that's the downside of Pokemon.

The only thing you can do when you've done everything is to do a new playthrough and create rules for yourself to make the game harder and interesting. Other than that, the game gets taken out of DS, gets put into case, and collects dust on shelf.

Yeah making the game harder is what I'm doing now, I'm doing a type restriction run and community egg run, and I'm gonna do a dice run later on.

Sounds about what I normally do, dice runs I don't do all that often, but every once in a while I will play the game with just one pokemon. Very frustrating.

 

[ProZack]

That's my problem with B&W, too. There's NOTHING to do after you beat Team Plasma. The stuff before that is my favorite in the whole franchise, but it stops dead unless you're into competitive battling.

HG&SS had the best post-games, with going to Kanto and being able to rematch all 16 Gym Leaders that now have level 60-70 Pokemon... Why'd they EVER stop doing that? They did that in the original Johto games, too, if I recall.

I remember when I was a kid, and I heard about the third gen, I thought for sure they would have it where you could go to the past regions and so on...but I was wrong.

 

[Mr. 47]

Maybe EV Train? I don't battle competitively, but having this godly pokemon is oddly satisfying.
Perhaps pick a perfect catching team, I have a level 90+ Zangoose that can false swipe any wild pokemon to 1 HP to be caught, I enjoyed leveling that up.

 

[Shakomaru]

I still think a game with all five regions and all the bad guys forming a coalition so that you have to defeat them one by one and you can pick a region to start in would be the best game ever. Of course 100 wouldn't be high enough for a level cap though...

 

[Malyc]

Recently I picked up White version, my first Pokemon game since Red and Yellow. First and foremost I was utterly blown away at how far everything has come in the decade since. All the battle sprites are animated, the rival and gym battles all got nifty dramatic versus bars, the elite four hired a proper architect to build them thematic lairs, and the bad guys are more defined than the vague encounters with Team Rocket. The list goes on, but I won't bore you with an extended tangent on how the new pokemon are nice throw backs to the first game's set, while still feeling new.

The problem though, is that after a solid two weeks of evening enjoyment I've beaten the game. I've soundly trounced the elite four and done what extra content I can that doesn't require a pokemon they handed out at X event which took place in Timbuktu on the 33rd of February by invite only through the Illuminati and is a Japanese exclusive. It just kind of stops, with zero incentive to catch any more or train my team any further. It's pretty much the same problem I ran into as a kid with Red and Yellow. You run out of content and then there's not really much to fall back on. There's re-playability, but you have to delete you current save to do so.

It's an issue I thought they'd have addressed by now, to be honest. I'm at somewhat of a loss, I want to do more with it but the design stares back at me and says "No". Yeah, every game eventually "ends", but when they end you walk away with the satisfaction that it's over. This is just weird, I feel like I ran out of content before I was actually done with the game. There's gotta be more to the game that I'm simply missing.

Battle online, you can battle with me. I may suck cause I'm not one of the hard core dudes who play . Also I know how you feel, If this was pokemon emerald i would say take on the battle frontier but no nintendo borked it up again.

Battle Frontier... Complete waste of time imo. Train all pokemon to level 50, lose every battle in frontier, repeat until game breaks or u get bored.

Pokemon Crystal was where it was at. u beat the elite 4, and that unlocked the gyms from the original games, and allowed you to battle stronger gyms, lvl 50-60 at the start if i remember right. Also unlocked a cave where you could battle the champion of the elite 4 (true champ, not lance) ~lvl 80 charizard, venusaur and blastois, but never got past those 3 on him...

 

[Phantomess]

Exploration. I've been hunting down every legendary I can (Kyurem or whatever that badass ice dragon-y thing was called, Volcarona was a tough one as well). That was cool. Then its just seeing how many Pokemon I can evolve under my own steam

 

[Shoggoth2588]

I kinda wish they had multiple save files by this point but alas...

I think there is online battling and trading but that's all I've come up with and it's something I've almost completely ignored. I've done 2 online battles and have had my ass handed to me. I am half-heartedly training a new team of Pokemon at the moment but they're not even at level 20 yet. I've never actually raised a Pokemon to level 100...maybe try that?

 

[coolkirb]

competative battleing is highly addictive if you get into it, it will take some time but their are some standard builds on websites like Smogon that can show you how to make half decent teams, overused or underused, honestly faceing a real opponent is very satisfying as its a step by step victory involving alot of predicting skills. Competetive pokemon is serious though dont take it likely

 

[DarkRyter]

Competitive battling. Raising proper pokemon for it takes a shitload of time, and actual battling takes up even more.

Beyond that, no.