Pokemon games are pretty notorious titles for completionists, and that's without the whole "two versions" thing that forces you to buy both of them or trade with friends to get every Pokemon for your Pokedex. Completing a living Pokedex is considered the end goal in every game, and then there's the shiny hunting community that spends even more time making sure each one has a place in their PCs.
However, if you have grand ambitions of truly completing Pokemon Emerald, you may want to reconsider, as a Pokemon YouTuber (thanks GamesRadar) recently crunched the numbers and created an estimate of how much time you'd need to waste away to accomplish that task. Unless you're immortal and can also survive the explosion of the sun, then you're out of luck.
In their most recent video titled "How to 100% Pokemon," Astroid Videos estimates that it will take you roughly 81 sextillion years to truly complete Pokemon Emerald, or 81,461,313,208,320,429,708,284 years to be precise. That's down to a series of factors that they go into in their video (which I highly recommend watching in its entirety), but the main issues come down to shiny hunting, contests, and a pesky little red panda...
