RE: Leaks / Rumors / Speculation Thread - Don't post topics that have their own thread!
...are you serious? You're really not going to play the game until you get a shiny starter? To each their own, I guess...
I honestly never saw what was so amazing about shiny pokemon. Sure, they're rare and everything, and get you bragging rights, but I think SRing over and over again devalues the pokemon experience significantly. GF intended shiny pokemon to be a nice surprise every once in a great while, so that they are truly special. Doing the same thing over and over again until you get a shiny pokemon is basically a test of patience more than anything, and is in my opinion a huge waste of time. To me, the few shiny pokemon I have I value because I found them on chance encounters, as if they actually sought me out as a trainer and wanted to reveal themselves to me. Pure chance. If I spent hours and hours saving and quitting in front of Ho-Oh so that I might find a shiny one eventually, when I finally got it, I would think "Wow! So cool! But, I suppose it was going to happen eventually if I stuck it out long enough and wasted my life away doing a monotonous task..."
When my copy of Y comes in the mail Monday, I'm going to be looking forward to exploring a whole new region of pokemon, locations, moves, surprises, stories, and all the wonderful things that come with a new pokemon game. Not wasting away my time searching for a specific shiny pokemon that becomes devalued by the very fact that I'm searching for it. But, as I said, to each their own.
MetalPharoah said:
...are you serious? You're really not going to play the game until you get a shiny starter? To each their own, I guess...
I honestly never saw what was so amazing about shiny pokemon. Sure, they're rare and everything, and get you bragging rights, but I think SRing over and over again devalues the pokemon experience significantly. GF intended shiny pokemon to be a nice surprise every once in a great while, so that they are truly special. Doing the same thing over and over again until you get a shiny pokemon is basically a test of patience more than anything, and is in my opinion a huge waste of time. To me, the few shiny pokemon I have I value because I found them on chance encounters, as if they actually sought me out as a trainer and wanted to reveal themselves to me. Pure chance. If I spent hours and hours saving and quitting in front of Ho-Oh so that I might find a shiny one eventually, when I finally got it, I would think "Wow! So cool! But, I suppose it was going to happen eventually if I stuck it out long enough and wasted my life away doing a monotonous task..."
When my copy of Y comes in the mail Monday, I'm going to be looking forward to exploring a whole new region of pokemon, locations, moves, surprises, stories, and all the wonderful things that come with a new pokemon game. Not wasting away my time searching for a specific shiny pokemon that becomes devalued by the very fact that I'm searching for it. But, as I said, to each their own.
