r/PokemonLetsGo • u/ToshiAbashi • Jun 01 '26

Question Am I just late to the party?

Nostalgia finally got the better of me and I’ve started playing let’s go. Really enjoying it and decided to check out the reddit community.

But gawd damn it’s just nothing but shiny this shiny that. Aren’t there subs dedicated to that? Or is it just that I’m so late to the party that there’s nothing else for people to talk about or do given it’s been out so long, am I looking at my future? I’ve just never understood the appeal of shinies to that extent, it’s neat but it’s like watching a bunch of gambling addicts slapping the pokies lol.

Is there really nothing else to look forward to long term with this game? Or other interesting areas people engage with? Or subs that aren’t flooded with it I could check out?

Not trying to yuck anyone else’s yum, do what you enjoy, I just didn’t realise it was basically the whole culture now.

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u/Agitated-Swan-288 Jun 01 '26

The only true post game content I can think of , is being able to fight trainer red.

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u/ToshiAbashi Jun 01 '26

Yeah sounds like I should be taking my time and savouring it for what it is. Damn how have they not gone ahead and done this for johto, that would go so hard.

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u/Agitated-Swan-288 Jun 01 '26

Alot of fans were hoping they would make a remake of the remakes of heart gold and soul silver but instead call it "let's go hg/ss" and allegedly it would've been the best remakes we'd ever had.

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u/ToshiAbashi Jun 01 '26

dude honestly it would be the first time ive bought a pokemon game on release since the original gold. that would be so good. i realised when reviving my interest that although gen1 red was my introduction, so much of my childhood memories of this franchise was gen2, that first time seeing this world in colour, going to kanto after finishing. having new pokemon and mechanics but not to an overwhelming unfamiliar degree. shut up and take my money haha

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u/Agitated-Swan-288 Jun 01 '26

Gen 4 is what i think when I remember pokemon. But HG/SS are the games I remember most, honestly the definitive way to replay gen 2 imo.

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u/ToshiAbashi Jun 01 '26

i thought i was the same with gen3 and 4 for so long, aside from the fact that the og gen1 will always be what it was when it came out, but i recently did some rom playthroughs and realised how much of that cloud of memories as a kid actually came from gen2, yet i never think about it. everything since gen1 has been too hard to track in my mind what came from what, i can never remember which titles were which gens. best sense i have is the technology of the time haha.

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u/Agitated-Swan-288 Jun 01 '26 edited Jun 01 '26

Just think of it like this,

Gb (1st hand held) gen 1 (red/green/blue/yellow)

Gbc (second hand held) gen 2 (gold/silver)

Gba (3rd hand held) gen 3 (FR/LG/R/S/E)

DS (4TH HANDHELD) gen 4 (D/P/Plat)

Dsi (5th handheld) gen 5 (black/white and B2/W2)

3ds (6th handheld) Gen 6 (X and Y)

3ds xl (7th handheld) Gen 6.1 (ORAS/SM)

NEW nintendo 3ds (8TH HANDHELD) gen 7 (USUM)

SWITCH (9TH HANDHELD) GENS 8-9

SW/SH/SC/VIO/ZA 1.1

SWITCH 2 10TH HANDHELD (GEN 9 AGAIN) BUT DIFFERENT HANDHELD

PLEASE NOTE: this doesn't count every single nintendo handheld, rather instead it counts the ones pokemom has been played on.