RE: We chat about videogames and videogame accessories.
10-18-2013, 10:54 AM
(This post was last modified: 10-18-2013, 11:27 AM by Jacquerel.)
If I played game 1 and game 6 back to back I think I'd know which the more enjoyable one was.
ditto game 5 and game 6.
Changes are incremental and not huge but it's clearly a superior game than it was in the past, and the core mechanics are not ones that become particularly less enjoyable with age.
The continued huge popularity of the competitive battle scene, even when the core battle mechanics are entirely divorced from any kind of framing, pretty much shows they don't need to make any particular sweeping changes in that area. They make little tuning and quality of life tweaks, and those little tweaks end up adding up to a big difference in feel and quality.
Besides when they do add new mechanics (like in-battle evolutions) they are heavily criticised! By the same people telling them to innovate more, often!
Not every generation of pokemon games is an improvement on previous ones, but this one by and large definitely was. It is a towering high point of the series.
ditto game 5 and game 6.
Changes are incremental and not huge but it's clearly a superior game than it was in the past, and the core mechanics are not ones that become particularly less enjoyable with age.
The continued huge popularity of the competitive battle scene, even when the core battle mechanics are entirely divorced from any kind of framing, pretty much shows they don't need to make any particular sweeping changes in that area. They make little tuning and quality of life tweaks, and those little tweaks end up adding up to a big difference in feel and quality.
Besides when they do add new mechanics (like in-battle evolutions) they are heavily criticised! By the same people telling them to innovate more, often!
Not every generation of pokemon games is an improvement on previous ones, but this one by and large definitely was. It is a towering high point of the series.