Gaming

I just finished playing through Pokemon Infinite Fusion and had a great time. I played on hard difficulty and it was a good challenge. Lots of content with a fun central mechanic. I also played it on my Steam Deck so I got the handheld experience. It was a little buggy at times(though I guess that is expected with pokemon now 🙃)

This is what Temtem and Nexomon are for.

It seems like such an obvious quality of life improvement to introduce a difficulty-like mechanic that asks the user if they are familiar with the series. That way, there could be two tracks to the start of the game: the standard hold-your-hand tutorial for newbies and children, and the streamlined version that skips a lot of the dialogue that explains what pokeballs are or whatnot. While I thought Scarlet/Violet wasn’t the worst offender of some of the recent series, this series HAS been going for decades now and I’d like to see them reflect this in their intended audiences. There is a large child fanbase but there is also a large amount of adults who play after having grown up with the games.

I want games like the past, with almost no tutorials at all. Give me pokemon red, yellow where the prof is like, heres a pokemon, a pokedex, and some old guy will teach you to catch a pokemon next door. BOOM, pokemon expert.

I think modern games in general hold your hand too much. Some small level of hand holding/tutorial is fine, but so many take it way too far. I've gotten bored of a lot of games before they actually started because of that.

I think I'd be cool with this if we could just get difficulty levels man :/

Pokemon is still so much fun, but they really took away the process of getting lost and figuring your way around things.

I'm right there with you. I've been around since red/blue on the GameBoy, but I started seriously playing when my kid got into it with black/white. We played every generations together since then. We're really burned out with Scarlet/Violet. The throwaway gimmicks, the hand holding, the lousy graphics, the glitchy multiplayer, it's painful because of the memories associated with Pokemon. We keep hoping they up their game only to be disappointed at release. Probably should just let go at this point.

I'm afraid that puts too much work on GameFreak so it's not possible. I wish another dev got rights to make a mainline Pokemon game.

Honestly I wonder what was appealing about pokemon games when I was a child. They have boring gameplay and every single game is the exact same.