e3 2016 (belated)

We can agree to disagree then, everyone I've talked to has disliked it as well up until this conversation. The more simplified a game gets, the more boring it becomes; the only things that can hold my attention anymore are more complex systems where you have to work hard to figure out how things work because the devs don't spoonfeed you any of the information. It generally does not matter to older players, yes, but those older players had to memorize tables and charts the hard way, I feel like taking that away from new players is taking most of the fun of the game away from them. Maybe if it were an option, but even that is iffy, people might take the option without realizing how much it hurts the experience of playing through the game in the long run.

Holy pomegranate m8
You actually think this makes pokémon more simplified? You actually thought remembering the type match-ups was complex?
If you were serious about pokémon and playing against people who were serious about pokémon then remembering type advantages would be the last thing that'd give you an advantage. Giving players information that should by all means be readily available (Even pineappleing pokémon showdown gives the players information wrt stat changes and what not) is not spoonfeeding and you didn't have to work HARD to figure out type advantages.

Like seriously, memorize tables and charts the hard way? The HARD way? This pomegranate was easy as pineapple and was never going to determine a battle between people who cared about playing competitively. And this is not at all 'taking away most of the fun' for new players, i can assure you new players weren't thinking "wow i get to try and figure out an arbitrary type advantage system' as opposed to finding their fun through catching and training pokémon and assembling their own team.

Seriously, what the pomegranate.