Why don't they include a hard mode in Pokemon games?

Why don't they include a hard mode in Pokemon games?

It's hard enough already. Depsite what you may think.
Imagine I said that "you" derisively.

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Too lazy

They did with BW2

Too hard

Gamefreak: Too much effort

I think only one of them had a hard mode and the other had an even easier mode.

i think you could only get hard/easy mode by beating the opposite game first. and the difficulty unlocked depended on what game you beat.

super fucking dumb

You could unlock it in both versions by trading, which is the only way to actually have it for the main game rather than being postgame only

black and white 2 had it, but it was unlocked by the most unconventional and stupid way possible.

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Wow.

the games would be so much better if they were actually challenging

its a turn based rpg, how can you make it hard? high level curves that demand you to grind?

>2014
>now we'll get even easier games in the future
>it actually happened
Give enemy trainers more than 1 pokemon and give them AI that actually makes them make use of switching pokemon

because game freak is run by retards

The idea is to give out a semblance of a fair fight. It sucks for example in BW, you're at the final Dragon Gym with >lvl40 team and the gym leader only had 3 Pokemons on his/her team

They added it to Black/White 2. You could only get it via cart sharing bullshit for some godforsaken reason.

Even then, all it did was up the levels on gym leaders and trainers by 1-5 and give them decent IVs and sometimes 1 extra pokemon, it still wasnt remotely difficult.

They did, once. They did it in a bad way but it was still nice.

>exp share off, playstyle set

there you go. These games are actually hard.

No, it's still easy if you do that

The hard mode in BW2 is fucking gold, if you have a Flashcard you can unlock it from the beginning

user I played X (didn´t beat it on that playthrough), AS, Sun and Ultra moon with this.
AS was piss easy that´s right, but fucking X, Sun and Ultra were hard.
In X there was a fucking drapion that swept my whole team thanks to accupressure.
In Sun I lost twice to fucking lusamine, also I don´t even wanna tell how many tims I fought that grass trial
And Ultra Moon was even harder than that. Yeah I had some type disadvantages and still game kicked my ass hard sometimes.

If you grind everything, get yourself some pseudos, ev train then no wonder it was easy.

its still a turn based combat, as long as pokemon has that it will never have a single player game that is challenging without it being just annoying.
adding more pokemons to some ones team will just make fights longer and an improved ai can still be easily cheesed by a human.
the SP has always been a side thing, the difficulty is in the multiplayer and the repetitive nature of breeding your team.

t. thinks artificial difficulty is real
t. has never played a dungeon crawler
t. hasn't even played a pokemon romhack
>b-but you can just grind!
Why would I? I don't want it to be easy, so I won't grind