How do you motivate yourself?

[PokemonTrainerKaden]

I have trouble motivating myself to play my Pokémon games more than once. Do you have the same trouble? If not how do you motivate yourself to finish them a second or third maybe even an infinite amount of times.

 

[Romeo32]

There's a thread for this already, but I'm too lazy to link to it

 

[AmbipomMaster]

Get new teams everytime. That's how I do it.

 

[Aura Sensei™]

I try to change teams,but sometimes I just can't motivate myself.

 

[PokemonTrainerKaden]

I can normally get to the 1st gym or so and then I give up and get the urge to start over. Theres a thread for this already? I'll check it out and delete mine.

EDIT: I don't see the other thread so unless someone can link me to it I am going to leave this one up.

 

[Kyro12]

Yeah, I usually get new teams and even that is generally when I'm bored as hell of whatever else I'm in the middle of.

 

[TheGengarGuy]

To motivate myself i always put myself to different challanges for example never using repels or never using potions or try to get throught the game with the weakest pokemon.
My biggest challange (which i failed) was to get through the game with my one starter and the rest of my team filled with magikarps.

 

[Ice Blue Dragon]

I motivate my self to exersise with cake.

 

[Machoke]

Well.. Pokémon is a RPG after all. So try to look at the game in different ways while replaying it. Make up your own side stories, create your own characters and make a team based on those characters. That way the games will rarely get old or boring.

 

[AmbipomMaster]

^I tried to make a character named Wiley. He wanted to join Team Aqua, but they thought he was weak, and that him and Squirtle would never amount to anything. So Wiley left Pallet Town and sought out the badges of every region, and would eventually become the Champion of every region and Team Aqua would dominate the world. Team Aqua still didn't want him in Lilycove city, so now he seeks revenge against any evil organization. Of course, I lost interest and Wiley never left Kanto...

 

[floatzel98]

i go onto another game when i'm bored or just do different things.

 

[Autis-misc]

If I had the same problem, i'd be Bored out of my mind.

I have no issues restarting my game unless it was difficult for me to defeat it the first time, Like Leafgreen. the only reason i beat it was because I wasted my life leveling my Venusaur to level 78 by the Pokemon league. It's lost on a Pokemon XD game I deleted a while Back...

 

[Youngster_Joey]

Take a challenge.

 

[Pkfire0]

Come back to it later

 

[J-star]

I take challenges like nuzlocke, or I challenge the battle sub. Sometimes seeing something pokemon related like a competitive battle on YouTube or an episode of the anime motivates me.

 

[Gelatino95]

I play different games. Now, as evidenced by my current sig, I'm playing through Fire Red. Each game gives you a unique experience and I never get tired of finding new pokemon to have on my team.

 

[Spacialrend]

Play something else (Zelda in my case). Return later and restart altogether with a different starter & team.

 

[Gaiano]

Coming up with pretend stories for your Pokemon and player and then finding a way to start and end their story perfectly helps motivate me.

 

[xDWarrior]

If I don't have motivation to play a game then I'm most likely not going to play it.

 

[WillieNelson]

I do a nuzlocke challange to spice things up.