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I don't know about Platinum, but they are harder than Black and White, which... is not really that hard, really.
Also, up to the pipes puzzle in the Plasma Frigate.
<-> this close to throwing my DS through the wall
the hell am I meant to be doing
Is it worse than the Team Rocket puzzle way back in FRLG?
From what I've experienced so far, the level scaling is far smoother than in previous games. I'm not really seeing much increased difficulty.
I dont' even know. I don't know what the fuck I'm doing. I think I need a card but where do I even get it? Fucked if I know.
I'm using three Pokemon, only three, and the Gyms are outleveling me. The seventh Gym had a Level 48 Haxorus.
So the last gym leader's Pokemon would be somewhere around the 50-55 mark, the E4's would be 58-60 and the Champions would be 60-early 70s, right?
Doesn't sound too bad. It's easier than Hoenn's, at least.
Last Gym Leader ranges from 49-51, Champion ranges from... 57-59.
Gah, there's a five-level jump between the last Gym Leader and the Elite Four for no apparent reason.
And the fuck is the Champion even doing with three-
You bitch, the Champion has an illegal Hydreigon too.
Also, okay, found the Plasma Card.
...maybe it's because they're the E4, and you're all but required to do some grinding before them?
That's not a good thing.
I dunno, my general rule of thumb was to raise the team's level by about 5 between gyms. So that doesn't sound so bad really.
Being able to do it isn't bad, being required to is.
Never really minded. I'm okay with Pokemon being a grindfest. I just play it while doing other things like watching TV, or when I'm stuck unable to do much else for a few hours like a plane flight.
Yes, but that's still not a good thing. It's something that can be overcome fairly easily, but still a thing that the game shouldn't require.
...yeah, that's right, but how else can they give an artificial sense of length and enjoyabillity to the game?
So many RPGs use grinding because the alternatives are either just as tedious, difficult to implement, or nonexistent. It's something no-one likes but can't seem to solve.
Having some class of enemies scale with the player isn't that hard.
No, a lot of RPGs are built in such a manner that, as long as the player doesn't run from a huge amount of fights, they should be sufficiently levelled to survive.
Well, they could try actually, yunno, making the last bit of the game not seem rushed.
You beat the Seventh Gym, you fight a couple of Team Plasma members, then Hugh is all like "Oh no we need to go stop Team Plasma!" so you head off to Humilau City, so you head off to Seaside Cave, where Hugh calls you and is all like "Oh you know you can take the Marine Tube to get to Humilau from Undella???" so then you get to Humilau (with like, a whole ten Trainer fights in between), and you try to rush to fight Team Plasma, and Hugh's all like "Wait you should totally go take out the last Gym first!"
It's like, it's totally possible, and even encouraged, to fight just the four or five Team Plasma members between tackling the Seventh and Eighth Gyms.
Then you get to an extended sequence with Team Plasma, and you'll go up maybe fifteen levels, tops, spread between all of your Pokemon, and then it's time to tackle the Elite Four.
They could just as easily have put something with Team Plasma between the Seventh and Eighth Gyms, and that would have served to buffer up your levels, possibly make the eighth Gym less fucking long, and pad the length of the game.
You said you'd need Lucario to tank Hydreigon (before knowing about Focus Blast)
You know I have Cobalion
Which is the exact same type
Also, wait, the strategy is to just set up on Cofagrigus? My Cobalion knows Swords Dance. I could just dance three times (levelling enough before battle to outspeed Hydreigon) and one shot it (and pretty much his whole team)
Well then
Guess my Kingdra gets to go to town
Just beat Pokemon PETA.
...You know, if you took out the Ghetsis part this would actually work as a Team Plasma-produced game. I wonder if the devs are aware of that
Of course, since the devs seem aware of Black (see Ghetsis' dialogue), the "Mudkips" and Slowpoke memes and Ash being secretly evil I really think that the devs aren't true supporters of PETA and just dudes fuckin' around with C++ or something as a joke.
Except it's obviously a Flash game, so it's written in AS3.
nitpicky much
You'd think I'd be more cautious on a Nuzlocke...
You also don't have much of a choice in a Nuzlocke.
How do you know it's not written in AS2, hmmmmm?
Do people still do that?
Yup.
Even ignoring that, I have (once I've played catch up with them) a Rufflett, a Ducklett, a Virizion, Shelmet, Leavanny...
I actually have a few choices
A few level difference doesn't matter that much in the games. Unless your Pokemon are seriously lagging behind, you really don't need to grind all that much. Even if your Pokemon are slightly underleveled, they should be fine.
Hoenn - Flood/Drought
Sinnoh - The universe being remade by a psychopath
Yes, but the gen III and IV characters aren't inherently the only ones who could have done it. They're just the ones who did.