I personally had no use for the BF in Emerald and I probably wouldn't have cared for it in OR/AS either, so I can kind of understand Masuda's point.
The whole game is easy, why couldn't they have at least made the postgame a little more challenging and less boring?Interviewer's note: In short he means that they didn't include the BF because only a very small part of the players would have fully appreciated and made use of this feature; nowadays players get bored and frustrated more easily and they aren't interested in things that are so demanding/challenging.
My problem with the logic behind that is we're already putting a lot of time into the game. The Contests require some time to be put into it to be completed, the Secret Bases require a lot of time as well (especially if you're going for 1000 flags), you're spending at least a few hours catching legendaries, among some other things. So with all of those options that require some time to be put in, why couldn't we have had another one that people in the past really enjoyed?
Doesn't that support Masuda's point just as much as if not more so than yours, though? That there's already quite a bit to do that requires a fair bit of meticulous - tedious? - effort and so it's not as if the removal of the Battle Frontier is felt nearly as much.
but I don't understand the reasoning of "it's too tedious" when other elements are already tedious
You can hate the BF as much as you want, but 1) you don't have to play it, 2) a lot of people like the BF 3) the Maison will never be as good as the BF because the Maison is just like one of the BF's facilities: the battle tower (which it's the most boring).
Well, i played ORAS for 50 hours and i completed pretty much everything, except collecting 1000 flags, because i do not see the point (it's like killing 10000 zubats just for a potion).
Good games nowadays offer you at least 200 hours of gameplay and i think that's a good thing, because eletronic games are expensive, they should last more than 3 days. More content is never a bad thing, because if you don't want to play it anymore, you don't have to, but if you want to, you'll obviously need more things to do.
Bravely default, fire emblem, smash bros, zelda oot, zelda a link between worlds. Those are a just few examples of good games that offer you more than 50 hours. Hell even Disney magical world offered me more than 50 hours.Ehh
Unless its an MMO I don't really spend 200 hours in almost any game save for multiplayer...idk. Just seems kind of off in numbers.
*facepalm*There is a very, very big gap between "more than 50 hours" and "200 hours". Two very different benchmarks. And if you were really able to get 200 hours out of Soul Silver over that game's life and that isn't just hyperbole, there's no reason you couldn't eventually do the same with OR/AS.
For what it's worth, I've got 146 hours and counting in OR and that's not even including the hours I've spent resetting for various legendaries. I've still got Entei, Suicune, Heatran, Palkia, Giratina, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Virizion, Terrakion, Tornadus, Landorus, Reshiram and Kyurem to reset for as well. I'm not going to sit here and complain about a lack of Battle Frontier (as amazing as it would have been to have one) and accuse Game Freak of being lazy here when I've already put this much time into the game without it. "This is a step backwards" or whatever isn't something I'm buying, the lack of a Battle Frontier really does not deserve to be this big of a deal. No matter how cool it would have been to have one.
I mean I don't care who you are but a 70 win streak to fight Anabel Round 2 was stupid and nobody should be finding that fun.
For what it's worth, I've got 146 hours and counting in OR and that's not even including the hours I've spent resetting for various legendaries. I've still got Entei, Suicune, Heatran, Palkia, Giratina, Uxie, Mesprit, Azelf, Virizion, Terrakion, Tornadus, Landorus, Reshiram and Kyurem to reset for as well. I'm not going to sit here and complain about a lack of Battle Frontier (as amazing as it would have been to have one) and accuse Game Freak of being lazy here when I've already put this much time into the game without it. "This is a step backwards" or whatever isn't something I'm buying, the lack of a Battle Frontier really does not deserve to be this big of a deal. No matter how cool it would have been to have one.
I mean I don't care who you are but a 70 win streak to fight Anabel Round 2 was stupid and nobody should be finding that fun.