Has anyone mentio...oh they have but time for my stories.
Pokemon: Loved gen I, imported gen II. lttp on gen III but Colosseum bought me in and I got a GBA too. Gen IV I bought a DS to play and ugh...DP were just so slow in-battle and if you thought breeding is bad now it was a lot worse then and that was a big part of the postgame. That taste of Gen IV was so bad for me I skipped HG/SS and Gen V. After playing XY I went back to Black and saw it was the better single player story. I still completed the full Pokedex (non mythicals) in XY and have some meaty Battle Maison teams. For SM I completed it, completed Alola dex and have not gone back since. Unsure about Ultra SM.
Fire Emblem: I used to be someone that played the games as soon as they were out in Japan. What changed? Shadow Dragon and the fan community. Yeah the community has always been a tad argumentative but I felt tier lists were starting to become actual trolling and I decided to contest an in-joke being bottom every time (even for games they were not in) and getting lol as a response I just thought my time is not worth this bullshit (I should note with a wave of new fans following awakening the fan base continues to change). That said for the 3DS entries I've been there on European release date (conquest only for fates and it took me a few months to start playing it), tried and dropped Heroes pretty early on. So I probably still have more than a casual interest but no longer rabid about it at all.
The Legend of Zelda: I was introduced to the franchise in it's Renaissance period of OOT, LA
X, MM, Oracles all in short succession and what followed were some good but inferior games in the Gamecube era which brewed a bit of apathy for what followed. There was then a long wait for Skyward Sword that I just could not get into. Did I forget the DS games? Guess I did. What about 3DS? Can't fault the ports; Link Between worlds I've not finished yet and the online demo of Tri-force heroes was a chore. Breath of the Wild is an interesting crossroad and a test (you can essentially try to beat it whenever you're ready) and I'm not sure where Nintendo goes from there.