My Omega Ruby save file has 719 hours and 34 minutes on it. I literally played that game for years. It's no secret that I passionately adore the Hoenn region, ever since I first played RSE all those years ago.
Because of how excited I was to go back to Hoenn I made sure to walk through the story at a leisurely place, paying attention to all the npc dialogue and looking for those little ways that the main characters got a little more fleshed out, and slowly exploring every nook and cranny of the region and it's varied landscapes.
No side quest was unworthy of me, the trick houses, visiting pokemon centers on my birthday to hear the event music, hatching the gift eggs and raising those pokemon, catching safari zone pokemon, building secret bases, collecting volcanic ash to make glass furniture, going bargain hunting for all sorts of decor and contests, contests, contests! Game is not complete to me until you can boasts of some pokemon who are contests masters in all categories. Something else that I spent a lot of time doing in gen 6 was going to poke amie, playing mini games with my monsters, petting them and feeding them pokepuffs, unlocking those deluxe puffs that look like wedding cakes.
I could not get enough of the post game. I did the Delta episode, collected all the mega stones rematched the elite four and Steven, discovered the new locations as I soared on Latios and caught the different legendaries in mirage spots. I bred and super trained, picked up the gift starters from Prof Birch, imported pokemon from older save files like Black and Y and constructed new teams around them, filled out the pokedex, went shiny hunting with the dexnax-- as well with the other methods like horde encounters, masuda and chaining fishing, took on the battle facility, and beating the chatelaines for the 5 different formats of the Battle Maison.
I still was coming up with things to do, but I started experiencing a bit of game freeze-- I think I just overly-played the cartridge to death until it was a little exhausted from too much love. I was was scared of data corruption on the game I put so much heart and time into, so I decided to move most of my Oras Pokemon over to Bank and Home, thus concluding my Hoenn adventures for the here and now, but those were some good times while they lasted! If my game hadn't signaled that it was getting tired I would probably still be playing today.