What is the greatest QOL feature added in the history of Pokemon?
I genuinely think it's making catching pokemon also give XP, not just beating them. Makes it so much more viable to catch several pokemon in the early game and makes aiming for dex completion during the journey incredibly fun.
Reusable TMs by far
this
I think a close one is replacing HMs, that feature sucked
hm's as a feature beyond gen 1 and possibly even gen 2 was garbage. it's an old, 8-bit DMG or 80s/90s style progress buffer. not good for the modern age.
in fact, i think a lot of things fall under this category:
1. overworld encounters that take 20 seconds to begin battles
2. only four moves per pokemon (when memory was a problem in 1991 this made sense... but now? ...why?)
3. only 6 pokemon on you at any time
4. finite box space
5. types being fixed (i don't see why a pokemon couldn't have various types in percentages, and have weakness/resistance accordingly)
6. move types and damage being fixed (this is changing with the advent of moves like scald, curse, and flying press but still - i don't see why fire punch only does physical damage when it should do both physical and special, plus the elemental damage)
7. abilities, more varied or allowing several at once
8. more stats (5-6 stats makes sense when you have no memory and your battle system is simple - but there can be dozens of different kinds of damage like stab, blunt, pierce, etc)
9. training (perhaps something more akin to FF2 or elder scrolls where you can train specific types of moves for more damage like how morrowind has a longsword skill and a shortsword skill which increase by defeating enemies with those weapons)
10. all trainers should be rematchable (again, memory constraints are no longer a problem)
11. the in-game level cap should be maxed out by the end of the game (i can't see why they wouldn't be maxed out at 100--- all the kids have to do is keep playing or use items strategically)
12. fixed gymleader order (change this; no need to have this artificial story progress dampener anymore. worked in the first game because it was also the first time WE were going through the pokemon journey)
13. no more gimmicky evolutions (again link cable and trading and doing this shit in public was fun back then but it is gimmicky and we live in a different world now)
14. more items per pokemon
>only four moves per pokemon (when memory was a problem in 1991 this made sense... but now? ...why?)
..to encourage you to make choices and think about strategy? so you actually have to put a little bit of thought in making diverse, synergized movesets instead of just loading up every mon with all the moves? Jesus christ I'm glad you guys don't design games, you would manage to be even worse than GF, somehow
>you would manage to be even worse than GF, somehow
most pokemon fans are, there's a reason why fangames are always worse no matter how shit the main series gets
>abilities, more varied or allowing several at once
There's a hack of emerald that does this and it's compete shit. The rest of your suggestions are pretty bad too.
I'm glad that you're too fricking autistic to ever make any game and that Gamefreak will never hear your dogshit ideas in the first place.
Get an insult besides dogshit lmao. You are the worst poster here.
>1.overworld encounters that take 20 seconds to begin battles
Fair, repels should be for if your Pokémon are hurt, not a sanity preserver
>2. only four moves per pokemon
So you have make tactical choices and so one Pokémon can't answer everything
>3. only 6 pokemon on you at any time
Similar to above, so you can't steamroll every encounter with 20 Gyarados
>4. finite box space
Yeah fair, I still like boxes being separated though
>5. types being fixed
>6. move types and damage being fixed
You forget this is a simplified RPG mainly aimed at kids.
>7. abilities, more varied or allowing several at once
Would be fun in some cases but would need a massive balance pass on everything (lmao Delibird)
>8. more stats
See 5 and 6, also from the way you described it just a terrible, clunky idea
>9. training
So you boost the power of one attack, or one type of attack? Sounds pretty lame
>10. all trainers should be rematchable
Agreed, outside of cases where it wouldn't make sense of course
>11. the in-game level cap should be maxed out by the end of the game
I'm tired and can't articulate exactly why but this seems like it would just end up as a massive grind
>12. fixed gymleader order
Again, I actually would like dynamic teams for gym leaders, though it would need to be done properly
>13. no more gimmicky evolutions
So long as there's some in-game hint or explanation I like the gimmicks. So long as I'm not forced to look it up online (Galarian Yamask comes to mind)
>14. more items per pokemon
Again, would be hideously broken unless changes were done across the board but could be fun.
In summary, most of your ideas are either poorly thought out or just outright terrible and you should never be a game designer. Then again, neither should Gamefreak so frick if I know
>realize i share a board with this anon
>day ruined
>"oh you're probably an anon who hates quality of life-"
>reads the moronation you're replying to
what the frick
why even make you level your Pokemon or have stats at all or movesets? it's just arbitrary limitations on the player. you should just load into the game with a full PC of every Pokemon at level 100, with max stats, and every single move. I mean it just doesn't make sense to make the player work or think
That'd a good idea, and make the game actually fun
too much bullshit
the gimmicky evolutions are the best thing they add, runerigus is funny as frick
Thank god they got rid of HMs
I don't like it, sadly this also gives EVs which makes training kind of a chore if you want to ev train your Pokemon first
This is the best one
These.
Reusable TMs have the huge downside of making your movesets too generic.
HMs were based and every single mainline game that doesn't have HMs is dogshit
>HMs were based and every single mainline game that doesn't have HMs is dogshit
based. HMS are the biggest pleb filter in the series.
>more options means too generic
Based moron
>having earthquake and flamethrower on half of your team is having more options
PLA giving you access to every learnset move to swap in and out indefinitely. Holy shit do I love it
whenever they started asking you if you want to use another repel
not sure if it's in the switch games, but Alola's whole bottom screen during battles. Especially the shortcut that allows you to throw balls without opening bag
i never understood why you couldn't catch pokemon that were knocked out.
i get from a game perspective, mechanic-wise, it adds something to it.
but in the show, they often tended to knock them out before catching them. and conceptually, i can't really see any reason why knocking out the pokemon would make it uncatchable.
The ball can only capture living conscious things I guess. You can't use it to catch a rock and similarly it won't be able to register something that's fainted.
Pokemon shrink when they're knocked out so you can't properly aim at them.
>rpg mechanics in my rpg
>reeeee help me gamefreak I need qol
overworld-visible mons instead of random encounters based on steps was something i didnt expect to like so much. especially when paired with the shiny sparkle and audio cue that PLA used.
On one hand, it's a nice reward. On the other, this overlevels you more than you already would be. I've said this before, if they took a page out of Go/Xenoblade 2 and made it so that you got EXP candies instead it would be really nice.
having the option to choose where you send pokémon you catch when you have a full party, such an underrated addition that saves SO MUCH time.
The thread kind of already solved by the first post, but otherwise:
EXP candies, vitamins no longer capping at 100 EVs, Bottlecaps, Mints, and Ability Capsules/Patches and anything else that streamlined raising Pokemon competitively.
I like that, if I wanted to, I could use the Pokemon I ran through the game with online without having to worry about the imperfections of their stats. Which just leaves smaller things like Egg Moves and whether you want the shiny which is more of an aesthetic choice.
you can even do egg moves without breeding now with the mirror herb, so that base is covered too. they really have gone out of their way to add things like that lately.
Damn that too? Based.
I've seen the process in the past years as the devs trying to deter people from using genned Pokemon by making raising comp Pokemon as easy as possible.
The "Create a service better than what piracy would offer" approach.
Literally all of that is just casualization garbage
then pokémon should be casual, because all of that shit makes it way more fun
Only to inferior people who only seek instant gratification.
Superior people who want to work for things and take pride in the result don't play any gen 6+ game because of the qolshit
people who want to work for things and have pride aren't playing pokemon.
>i'm proud of wasting my time doing stupid shit and you're lesser for not wanting to
dork behavior
>wasting my time doing stupid shit
Sure if that's how you call playing pokemon
>gen 6+ game because of the qolshit
Unovagays lmao
>What is the greatest QOL feature added in the history of Pokemon?
Infinite bag
That's it, everything after that is either meaningless shit or straight up casualization that makes the game worse
breeding, running shoes, unlimited bag.
Skipping the nickname prompt.
IV's, abilities and relearning old moves. Being able to power up my past bros and makign them stronger makes me very happy
Forced Exp Share.
There has never been a good argument on why it should be optional.
>I'm stupid and don't understand therefore the argument doesn't exist
Some people don't like it. It's not that complex.
I don’t like withdraw and deposit not existing. Does that mean they should put withdraw and deposit back?
It means that you liked them and want them back. I don't really care for them but it's okay that you do.