Cerebralbore101 said:
1. Every game ever has enemies that don't threaten you individually, and are just meant to slowly wear the player's resources down via collective attrition. Just look at the Grunts from Halo as a perfect example. JRPGs have been doing this to a fault for years. Even Chrono Trigger does it. All they changed was that the fights aren't random, and quite as frequent. But yeah, you're right about it being formulaic. Enter a battle, use a single move to KO the wild Poke'mon, rinse and repeat forever. If you feel like capturing said, Pokemon do what you said (but I rarely do this, because all I need is one fight to capture a Pokemon, and that makes the majority of my wild fights, just doing a one hit KO). But if something is formulaic wouldn't you want to add things to make it more rich and complex? Instead it looks to me as if they are taking things away, by oversimplifying the game. The next sentence is pure speculation, but I think they will give you missions to capture X number of Y species. This would keep the negative grindy aspects, while forcing you to play the "just throw Pokeballs repeatedly" aspect of Go. I mean, isn't carefully lowering a Mon's HP, and then inflicting a status effect, and then throwing a ball, more complicated and engaging than just "lol throw this ball and pray the RNG Gods like you enough to let you capture it." Again, I agree with you that both are formulaic. But one just seems more complicated, hence more fun IMO. 2. But I only capture 10% of the wild Mons that I fight. And I'm one of those sticklers that likes to complete the Pokedex. So throwing balls wasn't really a big part of the games for me. But how do you play? Maybe your way of playing would benefit from all these changes. IMO it makes it boring for me. |
I also only catch one type of each pokemon, so my wild encounters are usually just running back in forth in grass for like 20 minutes to make sure I ran into every monster in the new area. The pokemon in the overworld will fix that tedius task.
But thinking about it, I'm actually kind of happy with this new catching method. I love how they have gotten rid of the HM slave with more recent pokemon, and with this new mechanic, it seems they have gotten rid of the catch slave. You know keeping a pokemon that has like false swipe, sleep, paralyze, trap move, ect. I always found I kept some pokemon in my team solely to match catching easier, or taught some move whose sole purpose was to help catch pokemon and worthless otherwise to a pokemon. So getting rid of that doesn't seem so bad, imo.
But sounds like both of us catch like what 150 pokemon total in this game. So is it so bad to have to use go's mechanics 150 times in a say 40 hour game.
Even end game stuff in "true" pokemon games don't have you catching hundreds of the same one over and over. You just grab your pokemon with the trace ability that has the nature you want and catch the pokemon. You are basically guaranteed to get that nature then. If you're wanting a sex, you can see that before catching. At that point, you're just into the breeding then for IV's. The catching of pokemon is the most basic thing in Pokemon and something you do way less than you remember.
