Do you grow attatched to your pokemon?

This. I don't nickname them, though.

Certainly- I find it makes the game more enjoyable.

I do. I congratulate them when they faint a tough opponent or win a hard battle, I bemoan the fact that they faint, and I train them as much as I can.

I end up feeling genuine compassion towards my teams.

Recently, I grew attached to my Sawsbuck, Comet, to the point where mid story, I boxed my dear little Smugleaf, who destroyed the first three gyms, for my beloved Comet.

If I ever become competitive, I'd build a team around my Sawsbuck.

Do I get attached to random mook #501 when he survives more than one fight?

...Yes.

I nickname every pokemon, even the ones who get immediately boxed.

No. They are instruments of murder and they are my tools against the world. They are but mere pawns in my greater plan.

Yes.

This has been a serious problem for me—I do it in Pokemon, I do it in Geneforge, I even do it in Shin Megami Tensei (where it is most definitely not recommended.) Then again, I'm the guy who tries to avoid killing the guards in the Zelda games . . .

I guess, I do grow a bit attached to them. But not very much.

I give all of them nicknames, though, even the ones I don't actually like and catched just for the sake of catching them.

I get attached, yes. I always do, in pretty much all games where you can build your own teams. It's part of the fun of playing an RPG, if you ask me.

No.

I teach it to hate, I teach it to win.

GTFO Paul

With or without super glue?

Yeah, I do, but I' m more attached to my monsters in the Monster Rancher games, but then again, it tries really damn hard to get you attached to them, since they have their own personalities and it's more about raising them than battling them.

I was very fond of my Skitty to the point I could not bare to continue its evolution

I do though there has always been a wall between me and my attachment to Pokemon. Until I made permadeath a rule. Then Pokemon became fun.

For mons games I far prefer Digimon World or Monster Rancher. Those are better for gaining attachments to things that feel like pets.

edited 16th May '11 1:07:32 PM by Aondeug

Sometimes I do, sometimes I don't.

Yes, with some teams more than others. I couldn't care less about I Vs/Evs/Nature etc., these are my buddies and I'm not switching them out for some loser that may or may not be able to battle better than them.

I've even gone out of my way to trade my team over to another game before restarting, so as not to lose them.

Not really, but when I lost my Diamond cartridge briefly I felt like I spent so much time for a bunch of pixels that I was pretty sad with the thought that they were lost forever. Thankfully I found it so s'all good.

No, not really.

YES.

Beyond a shadow of a doubt, yes. They are my buddies and my special friends and we will win it all TOGETHER.

It's especially bad with my Ruby team, which I have created three copies of (thank you, Colosseum duplication glitch) just so I can use it in every single gen. Something about my Ruby team is just especially dear to me.

My favorite party was my Soul Silver one that I adopted after dumping my former team. A beedrill, a scyther, a ninetails, a parasect, a rapidash, and whatever the fuck cyndaquil evolves into. I dumped him for a growlithe and the first opportunity. Why the bug and fire team? Bad fanfiction idea.

Before then I used...whatever the fuck cyndaquil evolves into, hypno, haunter, kadabra, pidgeotto, and beedrill. I love that team to death, but my second team I liked more. Partly because they just sucked. Really badly.

edited 16th May '11 9:18:12 PM by Aondeug

Oh heck yes! Thats why I was hesitant to let my sister overwrite my Blue rescue team file even though I hadn't played it in a long time.