…unless you’re getting in “bum fights” at the costco parking lot. Fight bite can be exPENsive.
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The completionist mindset leads to collection bloat. You don’t need to spend money on cards that you feel ambivalent toward. Free yourself from completionism and collect what you enjoy!
If completionism is your personality, seek therapy.
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My OCD compels me to go for 100% completion in videogames, even if I’m not even enjoying a particular title much
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If you managed to finish Castlevania II, that checks out
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I’ve often wondered if collecting is a good outlet for OCD or a bad outlet. Still undecided for me
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I find TCG Pocket is a great treatment for my compulsion. 
Zero money, ALL the disappointment.
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I think it’s both.
Collecting can be an effective way to train obsessive attention on something “productive” or positive instead of spiraling in boredom or negativity.
The whole (potentially ritualistic) process of researching, finding, buying, sleeving and storing can be extremely relaxing in moderation.
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I agree with this. They may have been redeemable but I can’t stand the massive attack name over the artwork. It’s just a complete blight on the card for me. And I never understood why the language of that is the opposite of the card’s main language.
I feel like this about the in between stuff. Currently playing White for the very first time (how behind I am lol!) and the 2.5D bits like the buildings just come off ugly with the jagged polygons. I feel that they started implementing 3D into these games and the following 3DS installments just because the hardware meant that they could but that didn’t mean that they should.
And the full on 3D of the latest games looks so poor and average like mobile quality games or what you would expect of old consoles like the Wii.
If you want a more unpopular opinion then I offer this: Colosseum and XD are overrated as hell and people absolutely glazing them on social media and losing their minds about them being re-relessed are looking through serious rose-tinted glasses or never actually played them.
I say all this as somebody who bought a Gamecube over a PS2 in the day purely because I NEEDED to play Colosseum. And I maintain that if you love Gen 3 (as I do) the Gamecube games are essential. The music is fantastic and underrated, and the ability to get Gen 1 and 2 Pokemon that weren’t available in the GBA games was a magical thing. Even just trading them over and waiting in eager anticipation to see what the sprite would look like was so much fun.
However, it seems that people forget how Colosseum was criticised for being a “lite” version of the main games and not offering the proper experience, especially with no wild encounters. That said, it’s still a good Pokémon game in general.
My main issue is with XD. Even playing this on release with a far less experienced and less cynical mind, I was heavily disappointed that they’d recycled all the locations and core concept and that half of the game was just a “been there, seen that” experience. Even back then I considered it a lazy game that Nintendo knew would sell anyway because it was Pokemon. Our official Nintendo magazine at the time was known for being brutally honest and not a mouthpiece for the company (probably why it got replaced by a new, more “professional” version in 2006…) and they gave it 57% and said something along the lines of “what do you want us to do? Slap 90% on it just because it’s Pokemon? It’s lazy and shouldn’t be rewarded”
But of course, it’s all overlooked and ignored because Shadow Lugia.
To reiterate: I personally enjoyed these games but if you couldn’t connect with the GBA and transfer those Pokemon, they would have impressed me far less. And XD is a lazy rehash that you have to be a die-hard fan of the franchise to fully accept and look past all the recycling. People looking back at these “lost” games as some sort of forgotten legends are blinded by hype generated by how inaccessible they have been for so long due to used prices of the hardware and software.
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