Topic: Unpopular Gaming Opinions

Some turn based rpgs are boring to me. However, things like Persona 5 Royal or Bravely Default II manage to keep me engaged. Effectively due to their systems they have to make things more interesting.

There's plenty of fun turn based games like Valkyria Chronicles that tweaks the formula but I don't think enough turn based games go deep enough with the battles. Pokemon for all of it's weakness is very good at keeping the battles interesting and is more like Magic: The Gathering twhere there's prep and skill involved rather then levelling up til you can beat them.

Honestly, for me, Pokemon's battle system is growing stale. I've played Pokemon since gen 5 first came out, and there's really a lack of depth involved, at least compared to games like Persona 5 where you have the system of toppling enemies and baton passes to try to execute an all out attack, or Bravely Default, where you have to store up turns so that a boss doesn't kill you in a couple hits.

@Snaplocket I heard polarizing opinions on it. Some people really seem to like it, and some people despise it entirely.

I absolutely agree. They did great job of fleshing out Midgar (which, IMO, was by far the best part of the original game anyway), massively improved characterisation and writing, and the battle system is probably my favourite in the series.

It certainly doesn't replace the original, and the ending sucks, but the majority of FFVII Remake was a wonderful update on the first 5 - 10 hours of FFVII. It also has, to date, my favorite battle system in the series. It feels like what Ni no Kuni should have been going for. Great fusion of real-time and menu-based combat.

@VoidofLight Pokemon battles needs to have "equal footing" battles though even within the game's story and with the competitive meta game when playing with other people, which is actually my favourite part of Pokemon.

@jump I mostly just play through the story, so that's probably why I find the battles to be more sluggish and outdated than anything else. I heard Legends might have a different battle system, due to the slideshow leaks, so I'll probably end up enjoying the combat more in that game.

@VoidofLight Yeah the story sucks, I would have lost interest in Pokemon by now if I'm playing it just for the story mode. I've always wanted a split in the mainline games, something like staduim for the meta game and something like Let's Go for the kids so both sets of fans can be happy.

@jump I feel like Legend's Arceus will be more for the players who don't care about competitive, but at the same time aren't children, with Let's Go being for the children, and the main games taking more of an approach for everyone, especially competitive players.

@Snaplocket Other than the world looking a bit barren, the game looks better than whatever the heck Gen 7 and Gen 8 were.

@Snaplocket I'm not saying I'm personally excited, nor am I saying it's going to be good, but I'm also not saying it'll be bad. I'm just going to wait and see. The game has a year until it actually releases, so I feel like performance issues will most likely be fixed. The main complaint I have is mostly the barren looking world, and the fact that it seems like there's not much to do other than explore that barren world.. but then again, they could be using a early build of the game as to not spoil stuff, as they've done many times before.

I'm cautiously optimistic about the game, and I'm glad Gamefreak is actually trying something new at least, instead of making another mediocre pokemon game with linear halls for a world, and nothing to do outside of the main story.

Gamefreak in the past seem far from the tech wizards to pull off an AAA type game and I don't expect Legends to rival Skyrim, Witcher or BOTW either but they have shown an ambition with this game that has been missing from the Pokemon for a long while. So I am choosing to view the glass half full for now and enjoy the anticipation until I play it and claim it's horrible over hyped rubbish that ruined my childhood ;p

@jump But my God why does it look so empty?

Looks like Lavender town (Get it?) I know its really early but Is it really going to look that much better in another year?

I want to be excited for Pokemon Legends, but in my heart, I know it'll be terrible.

Still, a single-player focused, ambitious Pokemon game sound exactly like my sort of thing, so I'm just going to hope it's not a disaster. It probably helps that I'm not expecting much with the open world gameplay.

@Snaplocket That's not irony ;p

Honestly though, I’ve been slowly drifting out from pokemon. There’s just so many other good jrpg’s that I prefer to play over it now.

I still not really interested with cookie cutter story plot of Pokemon games (10 years old kid sent into journey to become Pokemon trainer, left from Mom's house, meet the Professor, meet their rival, meet the team villains, meet the legendary Pokemons, get challenged by peoples on the street and Gym).
For me that adventure looks like a fake adventure / scripted adventure. Real cold blooded villains will not hesitate to kill 10 years kid for against them.

@Anti-Matter That's a surprising take from you since you often complain about wanting games to be nicer so the inclusion of real threats and murders is a complete turn around.

@Anti-Matter Second. Who's hacked you?