SM CONFIRMED TO BE EASY CASUAL SHIT

DIFFICULTYFAGS BLOWN THE FUCK OUT

breakdowns in 3..2..

Let the asshurt roll in.

HERE IT CUMS

>>26823077
Ohh, that's nice! I'm glad I can trow a pokéball just with one button!

>>26823077
rell for "SM is dead"

>>26823077
The guy has a point. We're not 9 years old anymore, and the game is made for kids.

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>a game literally made for children will be easy
wew
The only remotely difficult game in the entire series is B2/W2. Most people play Pokemon for ____fun____

>>26823077
>its_fucking_nothiny.png
what did you honestly expect.

though it still baffles me that they cant just put in a 'normal' and 'hard' mode. wouldnt even be hard.

>>26823077
>It's important to make the games appealing to those too, so we make sure that everyone can at least progress to the Elite 4 and beat the champion.
That's such a painful way to put it. A 7 year is able to beat the best trainer in the region.

>>26823160
9 year old spotted

MODS

>>26823160
Its like we never went through being kids. He made it sound like we started playing at fucking 40.

Is it too much to ask for an EXP. SHARE nerf ?

>>26823160
>>26823165

I have a several little cousins that played BW2 and Plat at around 7 and 8, and the beat the games without an issue, they loved challenge mode as well.

I think people just tend to underestimate kids, and kids are usually just willing to put it up with more shit so they don't complain.

Accessibility in general should be less about making things so easy to button mash your way through them, and more about perfectly clear information, if you know everything you need to know about the given situation, its much easier to understand and make choices.

Stilll getting them anyways, the big draw for me has always been the region aesthetics, the Pokemon, and MP with friends.

>>26823225
Why don't you just not use it?

Noice.

I will come in here everyday for my daily dosis of salt and tears.

>>26823225
I'm afraid they will make it even more broken due to "children can be exhausted from grinding too much"

I still have bad feeling about SM and its only getting worse

>>26823225
Look at NEO X and Y and Rutile Ruby and Star Sapphire, if everything is scaled properly, the exp all makes the games more fun. Grinding is not difficulty or skilled based, its pure tedium, just give NPCs more Pokemon, better teams and AI is all that is needed.

>>26823077
Source?

Give us Challenge Mode back you slanty eyed fuck faces

>>26823262
This.
We know they have actually competitive AI and the rest is easy enough to implement.

Normal and hard mode. It would be so simple literally make everyone happy.

Pokémon always has been and always will be a casual game. I you don't like that or are to immature to accept that fact then find another franchise.

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>>26823301
FRIENDLY REMINDER TO TELL THEM ON TWITTER

>b-but it's too late for SM now!
EVEN IF IT IS, THERE ARE STILL GAMES COMING OUT AFTER THAT. FUCKING TELL THEM OR NOTHING WILL EVER CHANGE.

>>26823169
They've even already done it once, there's presidence. I'm not even one to bitch about the difficulty because I understand that the meat of the game is the multiplayer and that the story mode is just a formality to get to that point, but they've already done different difficulty modes, why the heck haven't they done it again?

>>26823077
Sauce pls.

>people are believing this without a source

>>26823339
They don't give a fuck what you think. BW2 already had a challenge mode and they dropped it, if they want to do it again then they will

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>>26823165
>The only remotely difficult game in the entire series is B2/W2
Really now? I know /vp/ loves the taste of Gen V cock, but there's no reason to lie.

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>>26823405
I didn't say it was the best, just the only one that required moderate grinding.

>>26823228
This, god dammit.

I work in a daycare. It's a family thing, and we've been doing it for generations. I work with kids every single day.

Kids love a good challenge. Something they fully understand, but still offers some challenge in skill, strategy, or even just muscle memory. I've taught 6 and 7 year olds how to solve Rubik's Cubes, and we have a 4 year old girl that can kick my ass at checkers every time we play. I started teaching her the game when she was 2. She's 4, and I can't compete with her, and I'm pretty good at checkers. Most every kid we keep can do math up to beginner's algebra, most of them are reading at levels way above their age group, all that shit that people think is so exceptional, but is just the baseline of what kids are capable of.

The only thing these kids needed was a clear, concise explanation, and answers to their questions. The only time kids shut down and drop something is if the challenge comes from a lack of information. This is, in my family's experience, pretty much universally true. A patient, clear explanation is the only thing a game (or anything else) needs to cater to younger audiences.

I worry constantly about things being "dumbed down" for kids. Kids need to be challenged in order to succeed. If they fail, they need to be encouraged to work harder, do better, and try again. They don't need a consolation medal or an easier game to make them feel good about themselves. They need to learn something.

I'm fucking mad.

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>>26823077

>>26823077
Source or fake.

>>26823433
>just the only one that required moderate grinding.
It really doesn't, unless you're playing the challenge mode, in which case you can just beat a couple of Audino and be on par with all the major opponents.

>>26823077
Source?

Do have a Game Informer subscription?

>>26823077
I'm actually anally devastated by these news

its jarring to say the least

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>Y-you're just overreacting Ohmori dindu nuffin h-he's not going to ruin the games !

>>26823077
>Many players of X/Y and OR/AS criticized that the games were too easy and offered no challenge
This isn't a common thing at all, just something that /vp/ loves to do. Also no source, so I'm calling fake.

Pokemon will never be difficult unless they make the opponents have levels scaled to yours. Otherwise anyone can just grind, or train or less pokemon to make it so you're overleveled. You have to make the games difficult for yourselves by playing with restrictive rules.

>>26823165
>B2/W2
>what a coincidence those are the best games of the whole series
also, you forgot platinum

>>26823437
You should be. Good post. Keep up the good work anoncare

Wait...does that mean they canned a battle facility altogether?

>>26823077
Do you have a link?

>>26823498
>Ohmori is the problem!!!!

The features Ohmori added to ORAS were fantastic, Ohmori brought, and is bringing the most quality of life improvements to Pokemon.
Masuda probably felt backlash from the level curve on BW and from there on, the decision to make the games easy is his, and since hes is the producer of games, they'll also be easy.

I can't believe Nintendo is too gay to put a damn hard mode in a pokemon game. Last time I've replayed a pokemon game was fucking Platinum.

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>>26823077
Google brings up nothing.
Fake.

>>26823077
I'm fine with this.

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>>26823228
>I think people just tend to underestimate kids
I can't agree more. Many of us have been playing Pokemon since 1999/2000 Pokemania, and we're playing Pokemon games since then.

It's true that Pokemon is made to be a simple RPG, but I think difficulty makes a game immersive. Makes a kid to find solutions, and give them that nice sense of accomplishment that you get when you overcome a challenge. Makes a kid to ask their friends, search through the sea of information that now is Internet. Makes a kid to say to his friend "thanks, buddy" if a friend helps to overcome a difficult challenge, instead of making challenges easier. The same "Jolly Cooperation" I like so much from Dark Souls.

People value more the things they have when they're difficult to get. Spoonfeeding them is to deny them that nice sense of accomplishment we had when we played the older games, and what's worse, makes children to get used to be spoonfed their entire lives.

In my personal case, videogames helped me a lot to form myself a mindset of "everything has a solution, even if it doesn't appear there at first sight". It's even cruel to deny children that positive aspect of videogames by giving them everything in a silver plate.

>>26823562
Even if it's fake, this discussion is nice.

>>26823511
Difficulty isn't just about Pokemon levels. I just want the game to stop the hand holding through the story, and have better puzzles. But with the rotomdex clearly they are making it worse by telling you exactly what you need to do next and where.

>>26823554
>Nintendo

>>26823511
You're a retard. I feel sorry for your parents.

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>>26823562
jesus anon, thanks for telling, next time I'll remember to not be a faggot that believes everything on /vp/

>>26823596
>He thinks grinding makes the games difficult

You're a retard.

>>26823542
Are you suggesting that once Masuda leaves the dev team completely, we might get more difficult games?

>>26823165
>The only remotely difficult game in the entire series is B2/W2

I think you mean Platinum.

>>26823588
>the discussion is nice
it's just an excuse to rehash the usual shitflinging and act like Challenge Mode is the default setting in BW2

It's time for we to finally understand that the franchise reached to its peak, and that since XY it is very difficult that they make a good game like Platinum or BW2

>>26823542
>The features Ohmori added to ORAS were fantastic
You mean all 2 of them? Are they worth omitting at least 5 features from Emerald and several from even the original R/S?

>>26823077
>HURR DURR WHY AREN"T POKEYMAN GAMES HARD ANYMORE

Because you're a fucking adult, you idiot.

>>26823077
It's a game franchise for babies that's never been hard?

Or do any of you people seriously think any of the games were challenging? I had no problems ever beating red or blue when I was five years old.

>>26823077
HAHAHA SUBHUMANS BTFO. EAT SHIT /VP/

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>>26823077
I'm glad I read the thread to find out it was fake before I sperged out, but if this were real I would have no trouble believing Masuda said it.


All the people that leapt to defend it just further solidifies /vp/ as being a hugbox, though. Pokémon has never been hard, yes, but there is a clear difference between the difficulty level of games like Emerald and Platinum and games like XY and ORAS. That people would defend this statement with their lives if it were true makes me feel surrounded by Redditors.

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>>26823433
>needing to grind at Pokémon

lol i thought the most challenging part of the games have always been battling your friends and shit. The E4 if you dont level up good enough but that can be resolved with abunch of full restores and revives... you guys are dumb af if you ever thought any of the games were challenging.

>>26823077
Oh for fuck sake, I'm sick of this easy shit.
If they actually make SM as easy as XY/ORAS I'm gonna be disappointed.

>>26824654
>>26824706
>>26824731
>>26824765
Quit resetting your IP, samefag

>>26823077
Then don't get the game you entitled cunt. It's more pathetic that you project a fucking blog post on here than the games being easy.

Kill yourself, faggot.

When was 'not' easy tho?

>>26823077
They're never going to appeal to nothing but kids, even if literally every single one of their fans is nothing but adults, they will always appeal to kids.

It's just a matter of fact.

>>26824801
This. You fags need to accept that Pokemon always has been baby's first RPG. It was never not a casual game.

why are you mad? its a kids game. there are tons of harder games that you can play so why would they make a kids game harder to appeal to you?

still i would love if one day they had difficulty settings.

>>26823165
Honestly I didn't think it was that hard.

Only trouble I had was that I just was using random pokemon I liked and got to colress and it happened my whole team was weak to steel or electric so I had to train up another pokemon to fight him with.

How exactly the game easier than before?
The only thing that I can think of is the fact that the game is less grindy now than was back in gen I to V, besides that, it's pretty much the same.

I remember playing Soul Silver a few weeks ago and I had problems beating that Ghost type gym leader faggot, but you could catch a Hoothoot with insomnia that was immune to his more powerful pokemon and you only had to level it up to level 21 or so. The difficult here roots in the gimmick this gym leader had due to the pokemon variety limitations in this point in the game.
I think I nice way to circumvent the 'difficult' issue is giving the gym leader the ability to choose different pokemon based on the lvl of your most experienced pokemon in your party down to a inferior limit that's it.
The only other way I can think of is having the player facing powerful pokemon before having an effective way to deal with them, which would it turn the game into more grinding bullshit since the only way to overcome this type of challenges is over leveling your opponent.
What ways do you consider the game could be challenging or less 'easy'?

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>>26823077
This is fake but it doesn't matter cause its exactly what Masuda said in an interview some weeks ago. OP just added Battle Royal

>>26823165
>The only remotely difficult game in the entire series is B2/W2

And to make it remotely difficult you have to beat the game to unlock challenge mode, or force a friend to complete it and then send you the key. A+ game design right there.

I'm just salty because I'm revisiting BW2 and I don't have anyone to send me the key so I can activate challenge mode

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http://www.gamespot.com/articles/pokemon-director-explains-why-series-is-becoming-e/1100-6422945/

Pokemon Director Explains Why Series is Becoming Easier
>"Rather than any actual feedback from players, it's more accepting the realities of modern life," Junichi Masuda says.

How do you make a game like Pokemon difficult without it being frustrating?

You can make the trainers have high level pokemon but that just means you have to spend more time grinding, doesn't really necessitate skill.

The other way would be to give the opponent OP moves and pokemon that aren't available to you (like imagine a bug gym leader with a focus sashed double teaming scyther with sword dance)

Still one thing they can definitelly do is to give more pokemon to the trainers.

It's stupid when you have 6 lvl 40 pokemon against some stupid trainer's single lvl 32 Dustox.

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>>26823077
Oh no what ever will I do? I guess I'll just train 6 new mons, beat the game then go play other games until I feel like replaying it. Oh boy how shitty.

>>26823437
>we have a 4 year old girl that can kick my ass at checkers every time we play
Get shit on, bro.
Good stuff man, what you posted is pretty much the truth that today's parents don't understand. Most people think that kids are fucking retarded, but they don't realize that if they paid some attention to their education they could achieve so much more. I'm not saying every kid is a genius, but a lot of them have untapped potential that goes unused all their life because their parents never cared enough to encourage them during their formative years.

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>>26825006
>not just using cheats to hack the key in

>>26823437
If what you said is true, you are a hero and any sane person should be in agreement with you.

gib link

>>26825085
B- but hacking is b- bad, anon-kun...

>>26823077
lol, the only time Pokemon was remotely challenging was Colosseum.

>>26825119
I personally see nothing wrong with cheating for the sake of the key as you're only doing it to make the challenge more difficult.

Somebody should make an edit of that image where Fred unmasks Pepe to reveal Reddit and change it so that it's /r9k/ under a Feels guy mask.

>>26823077
>M-Muh battle royal
So this basically means no frontier. Get ready for maison 3.0

>>26823514
>>26824315

How was platinum even hard? I breezed through it without any problems, and I didn't even knew about competitive back then.

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NO BATTLE FRONTIER
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welp, looks like another game to play through once and then put down with no incentive to play through again

>>26823077
Who the fuck cares?

>>26825706
Welcome to Pokemon games.

>>26823077
But every game in the series has had a difficulty setting.

Change battle style to set

>>26825969
Now there's a better one, cut off the EXP Share. You'll gain 1/5th the EXP you would gain otherwise assuming you train a team of 6.

>>26826020
This only would make the game more tedious.
Challenges comes from game design and not from time investment.

>>26823077
>I like stacked RNG rape facilities
>I can't play unless I know I have autistically breed for hours to prepare for the violation factory at the end
There are no fedoras euphoric enough for facility faggots

>>26826140
No, just try to win with the lower level Pokemon. I wasn't saying you should grind, that would defeat the purpose of not using the EXP share.

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>>26823339
If you tell him that, he will just cut off Salamence's limbs.

>>26825969

This doesn't really make things that much more challenging to be honest.

I think GF need to face up and understand that you can't really casualize an RPG for people short on time. RPGs are slow moving games that require time and patience and there's no getting around that.

It doesn't mean the game has to be boring or overly-grindy, there are plenty of young kids out there who play MMORPGs without realizing. I'm short on time too, much moreso than a kid who comes home at 3-4pm with nothing but 'play' on their agenda but I still appreciate the ability for RPGs to progress over time; it's what makes the adventure feel so big in the first place.

GameFreak are facing a conflict of interests, the very thing that separates Pokemon from any other generic children's fad game is the giant world that it has built up through the franchise over 20 years. You can't get the impression of a huge, living Pokemon world if you're rushing players through the game. If they cheapen the franchise, they won't have much to differentiate themselves to YW or whatever the latest monster game happens to be and they'll lose money to fickle kids who will just buy whichever their friends are playing.

I feel like a lot of this 'Kids have shorter attention spans these days!!' shit is just projection. I think adults have shorter attention spans because they're constantly being pulled from pillar to post by distractions that children aren't exposed to and they assume that by default, children's attention spans must be shorter too. I don't believe it, honestly - as people have said above, if you give a young relative an old Pokemon game they'll still figure it out.

I let my 5 year old niece play Mario on my older sister's SNES and she gets the hang of it no problem, if I gave her New Super Mario Bros for the 3DS she'd burn through it. She's not gifted or particularly smart, it's just adaption.

Also OP has no source, google says fake.

Pokemon was supposed to be difficult?

>>26823077
Man, fuck this noise. Little kiddies would love a hard mode. imagine the bragging rights that'd come with beating pokemon on hard mode. Hell even 6 year old me knew pokemon yellow was piss easy. Looks like I'm not buying this pokemon game.

>>26823077
If you, at any point in your adult life, had difficulty progressing through a Pokemon game, you need to quit life.

>>26823160
Kids aren't any dumber today than they were when we were kids.

Why can they not bring back the difficulty setting from b2w2 and not lock it behind completing the game once already?
Hard mode b2w2 wasn't even hard, it just wasn't a complete fucking walkover.

>>26826408
>>26823437
These, pretty much.

I get the feeling that Masuda is one of those people who just assumes that kids are idiots, and naturally assumes that the reason why they're losing money to mobile games is that mobile games are designed to be played 5 minutes at a time, and acts as if these things must obviously go hand-in-hand.

Shit, I have Neko Atsume on my phone, but I don't play it so much as "open it up for 5 seconds on my lunch break and see what cats I've got". It's not FUN. It's just there to kill time.

The difference is that Pokemon genuinely is fun, in spite of the mobile game competition.

And you know what kids find fun? Being challenged. You need to stimulate their minds.

>make the AI use hazards
>make the AI switch if it has an unfavourable match up
>make the AI switch if it has a scarf landorus locked into focus blast against a ghost or earth power against a flying type as the final boss lady in the battle maison

>>26826657
I like these.
They don't even have to be a constant thing, but give say, Gyms 7-8 and the Elite Four better AI. Not even massively better AI, just make them more likely to switch out if they have an unfavourable matchup. It's not hard.

>>26823359
It'd be cool if they did something like ultimate vault hunter mode like in borderlands 2. Where you can play the story again except with more and higher level pokemon. That way children can beat the elite 4 and difficultyfags can get their fix.

>>26823077
If this were real I wouldn't be mad about the difficulty, since to me all the games except Platinum and HGSS felt too easy, but I'd be furious that he would know there was backlash and brush it off.

>>26825022
Masuda, you shit.

>>26823077
The Article is from 2014.... >>26825022

Stop posting old bullshit.

>>26825159
How do you usually go about it? I've never done anything like that before, so I'm rather naive about the whole thing.

>>26828013
There are AR codes that enable the key from the beginning. I use them all the time when emulating them.

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>>26825022
>2014

>>26828018
Ah, okay. I'll look into it. Never actually used anything like Action Replay before, so this should be an experience...

>>26823077
>"If players want to seek a real challenge, they can play against their friends or online against real persons.

They're not wrong.

>>26823437
I don't run a daycare but I do have a ten year old sister (16 year difference...) and I've been around her and her friends. They have the attention spans of bugs. They are obsessed with shit on their ipads. They were super into some dumb mobile game where you literally do nothing besides check it every so often to see if a cat appears. Then next week it was something totally different.

Pokemon is still 'challenging' in the sense that it requires attention and decision making. The reality to the difficulty decrease is to avoid players getting bored. You see it in other games... Campaigns are shorter, game play is more forgiving, there's more casual features, hell some games finish levels for you or let you skip. It's more a concentration and focus issue over raw intelligence. People today, especially kids are spoiled with the amount of games at their disposal.

That said I'm not sure why they don't include a hard mode. Atm it feels like they are forcibly focusing on the younger demographic, despite claiming to appeal to all ages.

>>26826657
AI spams stealth rock already.

I try to fix the difficulty by myself :

>no exp share
>use a full team of pokemon at equal lvl (of course gradually during the adventure, not 6 at the start)
>3 Heal Item max per fight, don't use revive in fight
>don't use in battles more of pokemon than the opponents have, especially against rival/gym leader/elite four/etc...

>>26823077
It's always been casual shit. I've been able to beat these games since I was a kid with no problem at all and that's without knowing anything about stats, or EV/IV bullshit. I don't even know the type effectiveness chart and I still beat these easy ass games

100 replies later and still no source. OP played you faggots like a fiddle.

>>26828505
I just got issue 279 today, went and looked back at 278 and 277 too. SM aren't talked about in any of them. OP confirmed for massive faggot.

>>26823160
It's not like the difference in skill between different eras and cultures of nine year old is all that varied though.

>>26828312
Another thing I like to do is to make sure my Pokemon's level does not pass the highest level Pokemon from the next gym leader. It has provided a good bit of challenge in past playthroughs.

>>26825006
>finish White 2 recently
>"Finally I can play Challenge mode"
>Easy Mode unlocked
>Trade with a finished Black 2 game to unlock Challenge Mode

I will never not be mad at this. I'm curious if any local Gamestops will do the trade with me using their finished Black 2 copy.

>>26828948
This is what depresses me about playing my old ds games. WFC is dead for all DS games.

>>26825085
>most people literally hack the game to unlock it
people will defend this

>"The game made for children is easy! I'm triggered."

Seriously, why can they NOT add a hard mode? Is balancing difficulty that time consuming for them that it is unfeasible to do it twice? The benefits would be huge. They don't even need to balance it perfectly. It just needs to be something a little more challenging than being able to win literally using random moves.

The only way the games can be satisfying is by adding your own artificial difficulty rules, like playing Nuzlock

>>26823077
just do a fucking nuzlocke you pleb.

>>26829789
We shouldn't have to add our own artificial difficulty rules just so that the game can be made satisfying. We believe that it is worth the cost in manpower and time in order to do, and we want the game to be as good as it can be.

>>26823077
>>SO: "If players want to seek a real challenge, they can play against their friends or online against real persons.
Probably the best point. The games have never really been hard and they're gonna get easy after you learn the type chart/what moves do/etc. And even then new players can always look these things up. Why would anybody look for a challenge in pokemon of all games? There's no reason to be mad about this - maybe a little disappointed, but that's all.

>>26829824
>actually believing this without a source

>>26829680
That's not a fair excuse. There are plenty of games made for children that are far more difficult than Pokémon.

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>>26829847
I never said I believed it, all I said was that it's a good point.

THIS INTERVIEW IS FROM 2 YEARS AGO YOU STUPID FAGGOTS

But goddam you "hardcore gamer" cunts get so triggered over this shit i can't help but laugh at you

>>26823077

Pokemon was a mistake.

>>26823165
>B2W2
>Not platinum

>>26823077

Why is Gamefreak so FUCKING LAZY NOW?!?!?!?!

>lel no Battle Frontier bcuz kidz n smartphones
>lel no difficulty because kids wont b able to beet E4 lol
>lel no 3rd version fixing shitheap of Gen 6 bcuz we wanna do something different :^)

> Googles the text in OP
> First result is this thread, no such interview exists

Gr8 b8 m8

>>26830088
This. Fuck 'em. Done getting my money.

>>26825668
Battle Frontier, is my guess.

>>26823165
>>26823433

BW2 was my gateway getting back into pokemon and while I did find myself losing to the gym on several occasions, the thing I loved about it is that I never actually felt like I was wasting time "training" because instead of grinding on audinos, I fought the trainers on the way to the next town for exp. That way I felt like I was making progress and exp at the same time.

>>26823433
The only hard games were Gens 2 to 4. I have never grinded in Gen V.

>>26823077
Here your reply

>>26823077
Difficulty mode.

They literally have to raise a few levels and give better movesets to pokemon. That's all. It's really easy to appeal to everyone.

>>26823077
So basically they said "Fuck you we"re too lazy to add difficulty modes just play online versus people in a boring ass Preview 3-on-3 Singles format that's still blockaded by unintuitive EV/IV training mechanics". Why am I not surprised? He might as well have called us smogonfags and tell us to fuck off to battle sims.

>>26823077
>He hasnt hacked his DS
>He wont play Umbra Moon and Nova Sun when it comes out
/vp/ really is filled with casuals

>>26832377
Well Dubs,..

This IS why Pokemon has allowed Zarel to continue. For now anyway.

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>>26823077
It was expected tbf

>>26823077
>Muh dificulty

Just do your own game rules and the game can be fun.

>>26825149

man i want so much to go back to Orre

The difficulty obviously comes in the pvp. Are you guys retarded? Just enjoy a children's story and dress up.

>>26823338
Nobody did not have that hard time to beat rby or gsc, why are they making it easier? Are kids stupid nowadays?

>>26823077
This is so disappointing to read. The should just introduce different modes. Like easy/normal/hard modes. This shit is so exhausting. If GF did their homework they'd know the older generation is a huge part of their fanbase.

>>26823077
Just wait for the hardmode romhack.

>>26832580
The older generation who claims for the BF when none of them have actually completed it and wanted it just because it was there?

I never understood why developers suddenly felt the need to dumb games down for kids. I remember when I was younger (7/8) I used to play Super Mario Bros 3 a lot, but I could never ever pass world 3 without getting a game over. But that didn't stop me from playing those first 3 worlds over and over and over again. I never got sick of it and I absolutely loved the game.

>>26832690
Cause we're in the dark ages of video games.

>>26823193

Have you considered that the previous games were poor or limited in design?

Where's the source though? thats just some troll

>>26823228

Fact: you should distrust any anecdotal evidence involving family members that happen to parrot or completely agree with the opinion a person happens to have

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>>26823077
>It's important to make the games appealing to those too
>Too
>Remove anything that might be a challenge
>"lol u can play online tho :)"

>>26823077
>Pokemon
>Not casual as fuck to begin with

>>26823077
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dg7X5_K7LhE
(You)

>>26832834
I think you meant
>>26823077
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EaEAinJMwHI
(You)

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>>26823077
We've already got hacking tools for the 6th gen engine, difficulty ROM hacks will be up in no time.

>>26832834
>>26832851
Whelp..
>>26823077
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FjWe31S_0g
(Y'all)

>>26823228
>and I helped them beat the games without an issue

>>26828183
Appealing to the older crowd = the reddit crowd = nostalgia pandering and memes, not content or quality

>>26824781
spotted the retard

>>26832854
No difficulty hack will make the region better or puzzles harder

>>26832966
Nah but my project will make OR/AS the games they should have been B))))) except bf until s/m has it, no game corner or actual safari zone though

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>>26823077
I guess i'll jump over this gen

>>26823165
BW2 are easily the hardest, but that's not saying much because pokemon is still an easy game in general. Platnium also deserves a mention, they slog all the way up to the snow town was one of my favorite moments.

>>26823077
>people still fall for this
>not even a link to the interview
moot should have deleted this board while he was still here desu famalam

this is the /v/ equivalent of posting a smiling Myiamoto with some particularly infuriating quote like "The sales of Star Fox Zero tell me there isn't an audience for the franchise anymore" and watch the (You)'s pile up

I am ashamed this thread exists

>>26823077
oh yes i love going on line where i fight the same eight pokemon ad nauseum

>>26823562
>tfw this sounds like shit they'd say anyways

>>26826189
>>I like stacked RNG rape facilities
fucking this. It's flat out implausible to get far in them at all unless you bike sim for like 10 hours, and even then every single trainer has perfect pokemon with 31's across the board. That and it doesn't matter what your team is, come across shit like Quick Claw Sheer Cold, and you may as well shut the game off. That shit isn't a challenge, it's the game telling you "you lose"

>>26824781
stay mad ahmed

Here's how you make the games great again

>add a hard mode for fucks sake
>add a double battle mode, where every trainer battle is a double battle, can be combined with hard mode
>have more things to do in the postgame than "bike, battle the same 3 teams online, and battle a rigged facility"
>FIX THE FUCKING STATS OF POKEMON. So many of them need a complete overhaul of stats.

>>26833343
I know it's not true i'm just bitching about other stuff

>>26832982
Have they figured out how to add new maps and edit scripts? I don't see how you're going to add any Emerald content without that, not even Gym Leader rematches.

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>>26823077
>"There's also a new feature called "Battle Royal" we introduced, so I hope people will try that out too!"
>They literally expect people that want a challeng to play this casual shit battle mode
>They literally expect people to play this mode for the next 4 years before they do it all over again

IT'S JUST LIKE FUCKING TRASHRAN, ONLY WORSES.

>>26834940
Read the thread anon, it's fake, there's no source.

>>26834904
>Have they figured out how to add new maps and edit scripts?
Add new? Probably never. Lots of thins are hard coded.
Replace maps/edit scripts? Not yet, we've yet to reverse engineer all CROs. I'm not on that part, it's Kaphotics, SciresM and Rei who do that afaik. I will be importing BF if it's in, once doing such is possible. Will take a long while, that I know.
Gym leader rematches probably never, but of course I'd like to be able to.
In short, directly adding stuff isn't really possible, but we don't know if it could become so over time.