If anybody here is playing Pokemon Go without having played one of the original Gameboy games, perhaps now's the time to try one. The app differs in many ways, but two most generally.
One: Go's only system of battling presently is at gyms and that's just button mashing and training isn't really anything. Battling is constant between you and NPC trainers and wild pokemon in the original games and through it, your pokemon become stronger. A general rule is, "A Pokemon raised by a trainer is stronger than one caught in the wild." Which leads us to..
Two: The bond between you and your pokemon~ Go is a great app, a great addition to Pokemon, great in general, but there is no bonding with your pokemon. There's no levels of friendliness, evolutions through love lavished, or just a feeling of having a team to explore a new world with, to become the very best with. This could sound hella lame, but we are on a forum dedicated to MLP so hopefully it's passable, and you could understand. xD Emotion in stories, in games, is what makes the very best games. Try out a new Pokemon game like X/Y or Black/White (dis one is a lil cheesy imo. Diamond/Pearl is nice.) or one of the classics such as Red or Green. They're fantastic games…Go is best for social and exercise reasons, really.
tl;dr Try an original pokemon game! There's story and adventure and you actually have a team of Pokemon to whom you become attached, who will help you along your virtual journey, rather than just being candy fodder. Go rocks, play it, but also perhaps try the originals if you haven't.