Progression?

[guineapig]

Just out of curiosity, how come?

I didn't really get into the game until Luclin so I was a late bloomer and missed out on much of the extremeness of the original game.

I used the Luclin ports like crazy back then. In hind site I see what it took away from the original experience. That's just one example I can think of. But I would love to have others opinions on what Luclin did to ruin their experience.

I'm ashamed to admit that I also enjoyed POP for the sheer epicness of the progression involved (even though I never made it to PoTime).

This time around I am really appreciating the massiveness of the game world and finding all sorts of things every day that I would have never come across due to endless teleport options. Off the top of my head, I just ran across Antonica the other day.... OMG!!! The passage between Highpass Hold and EK is larger than most zones in other games. And that's just the road leading from 1 to the other!!! That just really struck me as I have forgotten all about it.