If you look at the videos and pay close attention to the UI, once you select the a move and the Pokemon attacks, the UI turns minimalistic. We saw it with the trailer from last week.
That is objectively not how “every open world game works.” Skyrim had level scaling over a decade ago, The Witcher 3 has optional level scaling, BOTW has difficulty scaling through ranking up enemies. Scaling with the player’s progress and team would be the right way to make the game feel like you can take any path you choose rather than forcing you on a linear journey if you want any sense of challenge for the majority of the game, and I don’t really get why anyone would be opposed to it. They could even make it optional if there are really any reasons not to have it.
As much as I love the scalling idea the biggesrt problem with introducing it to Pokemon is that you do not simply make the Pokemon stronger/higher level but you also need to Play with stuff like number of Poke.kb used, different Evolution stages, movepools etc.
Gallade is nice while Delibird is a letdown. Wanted a Ice/Ghost (the Spirit of Winter) as it's a type used only once a removing the Fighting weakness. Unless Delibirds Stats literally double it will not bring anything new to the table.
My issue with scaling is that it would remove the in any order aspect. If the first gym You battle is always treated like the first gym and so on then the experience is the same as always, 1-8. I want to be able to go to the eighth gym first and have it be like the eighth gym, a high level. For this to happen, scaling can’t happen and there has to be an order.
But that's not the part of being able to do things in any order that people generally care about. It's the freedom to explore as you please that is the goal; level scaling makes doing so into something you can do freely, rather than being something you're to a degree punished for having done.
But that’s not whole a world works. From a gym point of view fine making your own for 1-8 is possible. However for the world itself it doesn’t. Why would the world around change with you, why would it care. There’s going to be tougher and seeker areas all around the map, this is just natural progression.
Tyranitar is Rock/Dark already though
What we're saying is, for the game when a Pokemon is about to attack, the UI turns into a minimalistic version of it. It removes the level and any other info and just shows the HP and name of the Pokemon.
And why does the notion that Area A has weaker Pokemon than Area B need to be written in stone? There are cases (like Victory Road, or a number of post-game areas) where a given area is known to have especially tough Pokemon, but outside of that there's no particular reason why they can't have levels fluctuate based on your progression; the levels were arbitrary to begin with. Area B didn't have stronger Pokemon because the Pokemon there are stronger; it had stronger Pokemon because you went there later in your adventure.
spray paint aye-aye??
