they kind of do. You should change your games to set if you don't already.

I just wish that we had the option to turn off the xp-share, its way too easy to overlevel

@@James_Lo Everyone does that. They're still easy. You change them to set, don't use items in battle, stay underleveled, etc and all the games are still easy. it's because theyre aimed at children and marketing has determined that children probably like easier games more since they win more.

@@Yingking I'm pretty sure you can; at least I know you could in X&Y

Not every game needs difficulty settings.

I do talk to every npc and I do like the trails series because I can just vibe and talk to npcs. So my experience tells me he would enjoy it as well.

It's not that good of an item that it's absolutely necessary to get, certainly not worth talking to every NPC for if you don't know which one gives it to you.

@@joedorben3504 if you’re nuzlocking it becomes a lot more useful

It would help him with these crane games though.

@Doctor4077 Reminds me of Marriland's nuzlockes, where a running joke is that the Quick Claw is cursed, since every time he equipped to a mon, it died soon after.

BW and BW2 are elite, best story by far however because of that it meant that some of the younger audience may have a lot of difficulty understanding, and thus enjoy it less

I think the Pokémon hype just died down a bit at the time. I didn't hear much press about it compared to Pokémon XY

the geniuses at gamefreak locked the difficulty setting until youve beaten the champion anyways

Bdsp elite 4 is hard?

@@valla7644 from an objective standpoint and relative to the other games, yes. because EVs,IVs, good AI and competitive items (if you ignore the affection system)

TBH I kinda understand Pokemon's gripe. They made an amazing game in BW and BW2 but those were the least selling games of the entire franchise. I think they just gave up pandering to the older audience because it doesn't give them the same revenue.

Tru, Game Freak realized they could make more revenue with a game that took less effort to develop

Yeeeeees I loved that game. I played it on emulator... But that's the last time it was great. Great story, with an actual mystery, you didn't have pointless conversations with NPCs - it was still remotely interesting or told you something about the people and the town. GameFreak - you don't need to tell us what to do. Let kids figure out what to do. -_- And maybe we can have a story again

Besides being mega linear - Sumo and USUM are incredibly hard. SuMo - everyone has actually decent movesets. USUM - they are ev trained lmao.

@@vcom741 They were? I don’t remember that. It didn’t feel all that hard when I played. The only time that something felt difficult were some of the last fights in the games if you’re underleveled.

people have been way too positive about them honestly, theyre awful excuses for remakes and dogshit games

There is at least one positivity though; the Grand Underground.

God i wish they remade gen 4 in the style of oras

@@dankwave5428 that's what i was waiting for

@@joedorben3504 Dogshit games. So they're exactly like the original Diamond and Pearl.

Coliseum is regarded as the hardest Pokemon game ever

That Electrode boss battle was a pain.

The fights until post-game were very easy since you’re usually overleveled. The hard part was getting revenge killed more often in this game, and then dealing with the post game when I forgot to bring my fully leveled team, thinking “I bet this will be just as easy as before!”

“All the trainer fights were easy” Even Volo?

@@paperluigi6132 I think Volo's fight wasn't bad but..... dealing with Giratina's two battle forms right after sucked. And there's no recovery period either.

Lot of people think that. Hell it would be easy to implement a simple on/off switch. But for some reason "NO play the game like how we tell you to!" seemed to be the mantra...

Better yet Level caps

Same

@@tyranitararmaldo Welcome to Nintendo. “We have more maps for Splatoon but you can only access these few for the week. We promise you’ll enjoy it better!”

If anything, it should have a switch function that decides which slots in your party receive the xp. That way, players can use it selectively without destroying ev's or leveling up pokémon that they don't want to.

Yep Pokemon Colosseum is challenging and I love it for that. Recently replayed it and beat the final boss with all my pokemon in their late 40s and low 50s since I didn't wanna grind. Was super hard since the final boss pokemon are all in the 60s. I actually had to strategize about combos and think of all my moves several steps ahead in order to win. Tried playing Pokemon XD right after, and it was such a disappointment. I got up to Cipher Key Lair and quit after catching Zangoose cuz the game was too damn easy.

@@mattm2975 Oh, i wouldn't say that Colosseum is harder, what happens with Gale of Darkness is that the Pokemon you get are just plain better, they even come with moves usually restricted to breeding or TMs, and purifying them takes so much less time so you're bound to have an actual competitive team even if don't know what you doing.

@@ExBlanc Yeah but that’s another thing about Colosseum which made it great and challenging IMO. You had to make due with B-tier Pokémon for the most part.

I want a port for that and XD for the switch

Pokemon hasn't been out for 30 years but alright lmao

Except that Garnt would be having much more fun if he just stopped talking to everyone he comes across lol

I know I'm super late to the party, but I want to share some stuff I've discovered over the past year; people that are not into the direction that GF is taking Pokémon need to take 30 minutes out of their lives to learn about what romhacks are good. There are some romhacks out there that are no bullshit as good or _better_ than some of the early mainline Pokémon games, which most people consider the best. Like seriously, I played Pokémon Prism this year and it was mindblowing; 2nd Gen aesthetic with Pokémon up to like Gen 5 or 6, meaning the creator had to custom make hundreds of sprites. The physical/special split is implemented, natures/abilities are implemented, there's like _2 or 3 regions_ that are legitimately well-designed, and the story is as good as you could ever wish for a Pokémon story to be. That's just one romhack, there are countless amazing romhacks out there that can simultaneously scratch the nostalgia itch while giving you a completely new experience. There's a lot of really cool romhacks that are basically just QOL patches, or romhacks that take an old game and spin it into something interesting, like Pokémon Crystal Clear, which is Crystal but open world, where you can start in any town and do the gyms in any order (the levels are auto-adjusted), and there's like 20 different starters to choose from. The world of romhacks is vast, and perfect for people like me who frankly hate the newer games.

i agree, but to be fair, i prefer the poison not happening outside of battle for god sake, your pokemon is in the pokeball if he was walking with you and suffering from poison would make sense but from inside the pokeball? that's the only point though, the rest should be reversed back to what it was

@@alphaneris I always saw it more as your pokemon’s condition is deteriorating over time until it gets treated. Similar to how pokemon hatch after a number of steps taken.

Black and White did it well. Two rivals, one weak to you and the other strong against you.

Gift pokemon already were there and TMs are not reusable in SV

Facts it felt really weird

It's not really all that hard

Well for someone who’s never completed a National Dex, it’s challenging enough.

It's so easy to level up though

@@DOSFrost did you beat giratina true final boss

A Black 3 and White 3 instead of remakes would be amazing.

I agree. It's impressive they were able to make the best generation right after the worst.

@@DeathLeprecon I wouldn’t say that Gen 2 is the best

Ffxiv? You mean the critically acclaimed mmorpg that has a free trial up to lvl 60 along with the award wining expansion pack Heavensward and no restriction on play time?

Agreed. I dunno where the conception of "lol SuMo is easy" comes from. The first trainer battle you have in that game - you cannot get a super effective pokemon against, and they have super effective everything against you XD

thats because that's the target audience they are aiming for they dont care about older people

Legends arceus is still easy

Legends is hard?

@@valla7644 I see you still haven't gotten to "that" fight

@@Rageouz the rest(of the trainer battles) is still easy though, and it really isnt the games fault given its not about trainer battles but surviving in the wild therefore the most difficult 'battles' i guess are i-framing the guardians real time attacks, surviving alpha pokemon and trying to make it unscathed from ambushes within the distortion

I had no idea those guys were still around, haven’t heard from them since 2015

Cynthia is so overrated dude she was piss easy.

bcz all of you had the same team of Staraptor, Floatzel, Luxray etc.

The reality is there's only casual Pokémon games Everyone pretending that they're real gamers on Pokémons Doesn't make sense

That's nice and all but if you look at the mechanics the games have in fact gotten easier. As gimmicks get stronger and AI stays dumb, they implemented mandatory EXP share, the game spams EXP candy now etc the games are easier now.

Nah there's hacks of xy and sun/moon that make them more difficult and they're actually good

@@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz Pokemon has only gotten easier because people learned how the game works, even without the game telling you move effectiveness, the forced exp share, or the option of easily acquiring piles of exp candy people that have been playing for years will still be saying that the games are getting easier.

@@giovanni6643 is it that hard to believe some people actually know what they're talking about? The absolute state of the fanbase indeed.

@@AlexanderMartinez-kd7cz AI isn't dumb in modern pokemon games It's significantly smarter than in the first two or three generations Especially the first gen where if you know what you're doing you can beat the elite four and champion with pokemon around the level 40 and some like Lance's dragonite can be easly beaten by a level 3 pokemon with a right typing And NPC's teams are significantly better and more powerful Most of the gimmicks that make pokemon games easier are optional and are just quality of life features for people who don't have time to grind for hours And modern pokemon games put more emphasis on competetive battling what's the reason why so many new pokemon get competetively viable so early

Yeah.

At least legends Arceus finally moved up the bar a bit.

You’re remembering correctly. Every game since Gen 7 shows how effective your moves are.

@@Animemus I remember the game doing that only after you fought that specific pokemon

@@giovanni6643 Well yeah, that first, then type effectiveness is shown every encounter after.

A born shiny hunter.

i didn’t nuzlocke it but that ultra necrozma got me fucked up i was so annoyed 😭

@@patty1418 I accidentally cheesed ultra necrozma because it kept attacking my disguised zoroark with psychic moves

@@rejackted4966 I had a meta gross with iron defense and i came out of that fight unscathed

@@rejackted4966 I also accidentally cheesed it by Decidueye affection sashing Photon Geyser then affection critting it’s Z move. Didn’t realize how broken Pokémon Amie was before I made my starter OP beyond belief.

That sounds like a you problem. You can always not look at google

There was no google but they did sell those big guide books that would tell you where all the items were and what pokemon the elite 4 would use.

And you actually had to figure out where to go next. These games spell everything out to you now

The older games arn't that much harder than newer games and the "handholding" has gone almost unchanged since gen 1

You should give Pokemon Legends Arceus a go.

i don't think exp share is the problem, because other JRPGs have that kind of system, the problem is that system isn't balanced at all in pokemon, you're always overleveled.

@@Fabriciod_Crv you are absolutely correct, they always blamed it on the exp share even though the party exp share is so much better, when the problem is with the level balancing

It is definitely easy now but I think the older ones were challenging. If beating Red in gen 2 or beating Cynthia in gen 4 isn't challenging, then damn you must have a great gaming chair

@@DisgustedDisgustingDude_DDD with emulators it’s not that bad now because of speed up. The toughest thing was just grinding to get your team high enough levels

@@AlexanderFaker yeah partially the difficulty in the older games pre gen 5 came from the level hike before the elite 4 + champion

@@DisgustedDisgustingDude_DDD If the final boss is the only challenge, the game's not difficult. Gen 2 does have bad exp curves tho

@@AlexanderFaker This is pretty much my thoughts on the matter. I actually thought S&M were somewhat difficult because I hate grinding, being the type to avoid trainers in the 2D games. These games seem easy for some-as stated about garnt-JRPG players because they don't understand that pokemon isn't *all* about grinding. You could have a level 100 pokemon before leaving route 1 if you wanted to.

Rlly ? I thought legends arceus was genuinely challenging

@@last5902 I literally said that I hope Legends Arceus pushes the series back in the right direction. It's a step forward finally.

I do think Arceus is still relatively easy, but I cannot imagine a 5 year old face-rolling the controller to beat the game like in previous iterations. It is a noticeably huge step up in terms of difficulty, and IMO a huge step in the right direction.

@@LitchiBoba Agreed.

literally everyone agrees with that. it's because they're aimed at children; gamefreak has zero incentive to make better games since B2W2 sold like shit compared to the post-gen 5 garbage.

I'D say the lord Arcanine fight was hard and fighting Dialga / Palikia in their alternate forms was a bit hard.

True.

Pokémon Gaia

Btw if you want some good Pokemon fan game recommendation: 1. Pokemon Reborn 2. Pokemon Uranium 3. Pokemon Rejuvenation 4. Pokemon Gaia

All I know about the remakes is that the music is still amazing. I think it's the same composer.

Some SMT games are really grindy though like Digital Devil Saga

Grinding means the game is not difficult. Grinding is not hard, and the ability to grind makes a game automatically not hard

You can't lvl 100 your pokemon before the first gym. At least not without dedicated hundreds of hours to grinding right at the start. But technically, you could do that with any pokemon game. Not liking Sword and Shield is fine, but don't peddle overhyped BS in place of real criticism.

@@DeathLeprecon In sword and shield the raid dens drop rare candies, so in 9 runs of the ditto raid you will have enough rare candies to lvl 100 a pokemon. It's really easy to abuse, takes like 20 minutes and you can do it before the first gym.

@@Kj_Crunch Not on a normal playthrough. My nephews played the wild area and Isle of Armor for hours before the first gym. They even did the challenges to get a Kubfu. They were only in the 20's by the first gym. If you're getting that high in level then you're not playing the game naturally, you're intentionally grinding to get that high. Which again, if you're willing to put in the time you can technically do that in any past game as well. I don't know why you would, but you can. Even pro Nuzlockes have been calling this out amongst the fandom.

@@DeathLeprecon Totally, no normal player would do or even know about this trick. But the fact that it is this easy and available this early in a game is definitely a mistake. The point I'm making is that something like this would never be in the past games, yes it's possible to grind to high levels in the old games but it took so long and was so tedious that no one did it. Whether it was a mistake or intentional, this is just bad game design, you shouldn't use it but you can and there is nothing stopping you. I realize now that this doesn't really relate to the topic of pokemon games getting easier and is just a loophole.

@@Kj_Crunch Ok. I'm not really against pointing it out, I'm mostly just against using it to claim Sword and Shield are too easy. And I'd argue the only reason we never saw it before is more because we never had anything like Raid Dens before. I think if they were a thing back in the day the problem would exist then too. I do agree that Sword and Shield are easier than many previous games (not all). But I'm used to setting limits on myself to keep the games more challenging, so i didn't come out of SwSh feeling deprived. Though I really think GF would do themselves a favor if they just added a difficulty setting already.

Red, Blue, and Green's AI are terribly stupid. Watching Twitch Play Red and seeing the Venomoth not take damage was hilarious.