"Are the games getting less re-playable?"

My first games were Sapphire and Crystal, and I picked up LeafGreen and Emerald when they came out, and I replayed them constantly and still go back to Emerald and Crystal fairly often. I enjoyed Pearl when it came out, and went through Platinum a fair few times, same with SoulSilver.I played through Black and Black 2 two or three times apiece, I enjoyed the story and Unova was nice, but the charm wasn't quite there for me. I bought X and Y, intending for one to hold my mons and the other for replaying, nuzlockes and the like, but after beating X the charm was gone, and through the years I've never completed a second playthrough. I still liked most of the Pokemon designs and enjoy battling, but something prevented my interest from taking hold.Alpha Sapphire was great fun, seeing Hoenn in full 3D and getting new megas and all the new features in the first region I fully beat was really awesome, but after I beat it that was really it. Hunted a few legends, got disappointed by the lack of the Battle Frontier, and went to play other games.I really liked Sun, and Ultra Sun was just different enough to hold my attention. I thought they were better than X and Y, and once I got going I played each one in most of my free time until they were done... but once I moved all my Pokemon into US and tried playing Sun again, the charm was lost, the game felt tedious, and I went back to replaying Emerald and Crystal and sometimes Gale of Darkness for my Pokemon fix. I've replayed Explorers of Sky itself more times than I played gens five through seven, period.I still love the series, been playing it for seventeen years, and I already had a Switch (how good is Breath of the Wild?) so I went ahead and got Shield - the Pokedex issue didn't bother me too much, I try to use new mons for my first run through anyway and I'm not too bothered by not being able to send up old Pokemon, so why not?I really liked Shield, played through the story, enjoyed dynamax well enough, though I don't like most of the starters I enjoyed what's available and it's still Pokemon, so it's still fun.So all the rambling boils down to this: I still enjoy Pokemon, don't feel I've grown out of it all all, I end up replaying older games fairly often and I like playing the new ones when they come out... so why is the idea of going for another playthrough so unappealing? Ultimately, I think that in the new games there's too much dialogue (Silver and Wally didn't speak nearly as much as Hau and Hop, or god forbid the quartet of 'friends' in X/Y, yet they were more interesting to me by far), battles take way too long (everything just seems to craaawl, and I don't think that's a fault of the 3D graphics, since I've played Colosseum and XD plenty and those battles seemed plenty fast to me), and that, to me, kills replayability.Saw a few conversations about people's favorite generations, which is what prompted this. If you agree, what do you think could alleviate this in the future? If you disagree, what do you enjoy about replaying the 3DS and Switch titles?TL;DR: Old Pokemon games are fun and I can pick them up and play them over and over. New Pokemon games are also fun, but replaying them feels really tedious. Thoughts? via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/2WCzMXI