Okay. So.... I'm going to be honest here. I never 'delved deep' into pokemon or anything. I just played the game. Because it was fun. I liked capturing Pokemon. I liked battling them. I liked leveling up. I liked going through the storyline and bringing myself up to be awesome. I played it like an rpg. Because that's sort of what it felt like to me.
I came onto the forums because I was looking for a simple answer of the question "Can I delete my character?". I screwed up his look and found that I couldn't change it without paying real money. And despite what the trailer told me about customization being a big feature... it feels very limited and honestly... I feel sort of lied to there. That I have to pay real money for any character customization. I feel like that kinda sucks. But whatever... I can get past that.
But here's what scared me.
Everywhere on the forums I see a bunch of stuff about Effort Points and IV's and breeding and all this advanced stuff. And how it's all apparently broken, and how you have to learn all these weird mechanics and do calculations and dump hours into it just to be remotely decent at the game. What the hell?
So... apparently. I can't just... play the game and be decent at it. I can't just catch Pokemon and have fun and battle people with my caught pokemon. Because I'll get my ass handed to me because I don't have enough "hidden breeding power"???????
And on top of that, to raise the stats properly I need to fight a whole bunch of the same pokemon? Like to raise speed I have to grind Zubats???
This.... is too much. I just want to play Pokemon. I liked the game because (I guess I was wrong though), it was simple. Or at least it felt simple. I want to play what I consider to be Pokemon, not breeding simulator. But I also don't want to suck at the game.
So. really, I have to ask the community of this place. Should I even bother?
So far it's seeming like I might have more fun just playing a singleplayer pokemon game where I don't have to worry about all this breeding and weird other shit. I thought that having a multiplayer Pokemon game sounded great, but if I have to get into all this weird grinding (other than levelling up my pokemon), and breeding just to be able to have a decent match against someone... forget it.
