Pokemon: My reflections on why the series is no longer fun

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Khuutra said:

Words Of Wisdom said:

I'm going to put the next sentence in big letters.

Pokemon is not made for you.

Do you understand the meaning of that?  Not.  For.  You. 

Pokemon was magical when you first played it but guess what, today there are hundreds of children who are playing it for the first time.  To them, the latest Pokemon game might be the most amazing thing ever and give them hours of joy just like it did for you.

Nintendo isn't still making the games for the people who have played the last 7 of them and done the whole catch'em'all thing half a dozen times.  Nintendo is still making the games for the large piles of money they make with them... and the children who have yet to enjoy the series as you have.

I like your use of the word "hundreds" here, as an understatement it's so staggering it almost can't be intentional.

But yeah, Pokemon really is for two kinds of people: those who haven't played it, and those who know what to expect and don't mind a bit.

 

Just to expand a little more on this: Pokemon has a very large online metagame fanbase of tourney gamers and "hardcore" players.

You are a Pokemon casual (the OP, not you Khuutra). From the tourney perspective DP represented the largets balance upgrade in the series to date, with the separation of special and physical types. Pokemon isn't for someone looking for a deep plot or crazy gameplay mechanics.

It's for 2 audiences: Kids who can easily beat it because it's simple, or Tourney gamers who love it because it has an incredibly deep level of strategy in online multiplayer.

You are not a kid and you have no knowledge of the strategy, so you should not be playing this game.

PS: For those upset with the slow battle speed of DP (I know I was), Platinum sped things up back to nearly RSE combat speed.