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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 17:37:04 No.29548659 View View Reply Original Report

Has anyone at Gamefreak made a comment on why they removed Challenge mode? It was probably the best addition to Gen 5, and I'm not sure why it hasn't returned. It allowed a wider audience to enjoy the games.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 17:38:25 No.29548685 Report

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Because the jap thinks that normal
people do not have enough time for hard Pokemon games any more.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 17:39:28 No.29548715 Report

Quoted By: >>29548764 >>29549163

>>29548659
They have avoided the question in dozens of interviews, and just answer with "we will keep making the single player experience easy as fuck, so if you want something harder then play competitive".

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 17:41:31 No.29548764 Report

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>>29548715
>According to an interview with Junichi Masuda, the Battle Frontier did not make a return in Pokémon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire in part due to the fact that, in the current age of smartphones and similar devices, people have a variety claims on their attention for entertainment.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 17:46:06 No.29548861 Report

Quoted By: >>29549371

>>29548764
If I wanted to play a smart phone quality game, believe it or not I'd play a smart phone Game. I don't buy these £40 Pokemon games to have the experience I'd get playing a free game. I want a meaty game packed with content and options

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:00:38 No.29549163 Report

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>>29548715
I must say this, considering how bad VGC is, competitive killed this game. XY cartridge had no other use that a tool whereby you could partecipate to official tours.
Single metas aren't good either, they just got worse and worse.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:06:22 No.29549279 Report

Quoted By: >>29549315

>>29548764
This stuff makes me wonder if autism in Japan has higher rates of happening in Japan. And I mean actual autism.
It reminds me of Sakurai saying Smash 4 didn't have adventure mode because of YouTube having videos of the Subspace cutscenes.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:08:29 No.29549315 Report

Quoted By: >>29549388

>>29549279
I would say yes, autism in Japan does in fact have higher rates of happening in Japan

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:10:49 No.29549371 Report

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>>29548861
Guess why Nintendo is migrating its portable gaming proposals to smartphones.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:11:22 No.29549388 Report

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>>29549315

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:12:47 No.29549420 Report

Quoted By: >>29549450

Because the people clamoring for difficulty are gonna buy the games anyway.

They wouldn't get any extra sales, reviews wouldn't be much better, and so on; why invest the man-hours in implementing a difficulty setting when it won't actually benefit your bottom line?

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:13:55 No.29549450 Report

Quoted By: >>29549673

>>29549420
Because it's fun and you could say that about any individual feature.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:13:59 No.29549452 Report

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I think it was answered when they said that they tend to make new games from the ground up. That explains features being dropped between games/generations.

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Anonymous Sun 30 Oct 2016 18:24:23 No.29549673 Report

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>>29549450
"fun" is great and all, but there's a certain calculus game devs have to use to choose what features to add. Especially devs beholden to giant publishers and billion dollar franchises like Pokemon.

It would cost time and money to implement a challenge mode. The fun gained from that feature might not be equal to the fun from other features they could add for similar costs; not just to consumers, but difficulty setting isn't as exciting to the devs as well.

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