1/2 but the gym leaders & elite 4 do not use their platinum teams the first time you fight them. makes it hard to take Volkner and Flint seriously when they claim to be electric and fire type experts, respectively. most of the other gym leaders were also changed for the better in platinum.
I know...? I specifically said REMATCHES.
I would argue them not being monotype users makes them more unpredictable, and harder, but you can have your opinion.
Yes but what we got in BDSP is still the Distortion World, and they would have saved it for the DLC if they had a DLC in mind.
It may not be enough for you, that doesn't mean everyone feels that way.
I didn't ask if you care about them, I just enumerated them because they exist in BDSP and some other people maybe do care about them.
Changing the order of gyms doesn't mean more content. Of course they were going to follow the original DP order in a DP remake.
I personally hate Looker, so I'm glad he's not in BDSP. I don't really care about Charon either, and I didn't like some of the Gym Designs like Gardenia's gym for example.
I think BDSP has surpassed Platinum as the definitive Sinnoh experience, but again, that's just a matter of personal preference, and it has nothing to do with my original post.
I would guess it’s because today is the holiday shipping deadline in the US.
it may technically be the distortion world, but it's not what people mean when they say they like the distortion world. also, i'd like to point out that for the first part of your post, you were listing changes from platinum that made it into BDSP or not. that is what i'm responding to; i know there's not going to be a platinum dlc.
sorry, i thought it was obvious that i was stating my own opinion rather than some sort of consensus
it doesn't mean more content, but it does mean better pacing. Platinum fixed many of the problems DP had (weird pacing, boring characters, crappy regional dex) but BDSP just tossed all of those fixes out the window.
i actually liked gardenia's gym better in platinum. it's more visually appealing, and the original puzzle was a joke anyways. Maylene's is also an improvement imo, and i doubt anyone will deny that Fantina's gym needed a makeover.
Sounds like you're unintentionally making a consensus about what people mean and enjoy. I for example, am part of "people", and I disagree with you. I am perfectly happy with the Distortion World we got in BDSP. It's a perfect homage to the original, imo.
Ok, I'm glad that we agree there probably won't be any "Platinum DLC", I think it's baseless to expect such a thing.
See above. You kinda do sound like it's some sort of consensus...
Subjective. But I respect your opinion of course.
Are you implying that the clock-based puzzle from Platinum wasn't a joke as well? It was very very simple imo. And like I said, I pefer the original DP/BDSP layout with the trees.
Then maybe don't call them type specialists when the Ice type one has a random fighting type and the electric has a random water type (and weak one top of it). Plus, it didn't really make them any harder, specially not in this remake where you get overleveled extremely easily anyway and have forced affection bonuses that further trivializes the difficulty.
We didn't, we got a background instead of the actual dungeon. Specially one of the coolest dungeons in the series with the whole gravity schtick. This is not the same thing as getting the actual Distortion World.
You can complain all you want, and hate everything about BDSP, but my point still stands on both the Gym Leaders and the Distortion World. Feel free to agree or disagree.
sorry, i guess i see where you're coming from.
the reason i prefer the platinum version is because it doesn't even pretend to be a puzzle. i prefer some pretty visuals over a joke of a puzzle.
glad we agree on something
legendaries are always a pain to catch. you should try to make sure that your pokemon is a higher level than it though, otherwise it's pretty much impossible to catch
They knew moves of the correct type. And having type diversity makes them less predictable. They didn't change because it was "dumb", because it never was.
i have no problem with gym leaders who aren't type specialists. Blue is among my favorite gym leaders. but don't frame someone as a type specialist and then have them use random mons unrelated to their type.
“Type diversity” is one thing. A gym leader that’s type diverse would be entertaining. But these trainers weren’t meant to be them. They’re very much marketed as type specialists forced to use Pokémon outside their specialities because the originals had such an abysmal type distribution.
I suppose it could be put that they made a good use of Sinnoh's limited Pokédex by having unexpected Pokémon on them.
Well, now you just changed the entire argument.
to be fair, if we're hating on the gen 4 games for this, we should also criricize gen 1's Agatha and Lance for this. Agatha uses more poison types than ghost types, and lance has several mons that, although looking like dragons, aren't actually dragon type.
I checked the script and Agatha isn't actually referred to as a Ghost specialist in gen 1 (Bruno isn't given a specific type in dialogue either), so I think she's in the clear.
