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Exp share is great, grinding for level is boring. I can't do level grinding like i can as a kid, only got somewhat an hour a day to play games.
My Steam Deck has been monumental in letting me play games as a busy adult. I leave the thing in sleep mode. Hit the power button and I'm back to my game in 2 seconds. I need to stop, I pause it and hit the power button and set it down. No prep, no worries about save spots. No pairing controllers or finding a place to set up my laptop or anything else. Just "boom". Back in or back out of the game. I've played more the last year than I have in the previous 5 years combined.
As a father of a 3 year old and being a lifelong filthy casual (mostly portable gaming, SNES, PS2), my steam games were just rotting not being played on my crappy PC. After getting the steam deck though I'm finally able to play 5 year old games on sale but dammit I'm still playing again.
My backlog is huge, so I have a massive amount of pc games I've never gotten around to playing. Right now I'm playing assassins creed IV. That came out in 2013. Just finished the binding of isaac rebirth from 2014, and before that I was playing borderlands 2 and Tomb Raider from 2015.
I did spend the $3 for Vampire Survivors. That was strangely addictive.
Yeah, personally I just don’t see the appeal of Pokémon without the grind though.
Not saying that it’s wrong to use the EXP share, but it’s just not for me. Which is okay, but also a little sad that a game I used to love isn’t for me anymore.
I wouldn't mind the exp share, but I just don't like the work involved now. Too many counters for too many types of Pokémon to worry about now. It was all good when there was just the 15 types and only around 150 pokemon. Now there's more types, a lot more pokemon, and a lot of them are mix types and it just got annoying.
Starting to feel the lack of time for grind myself, but there's a better answer. I can't remember which gen did it, but you were able to toggle exp share on or off. So you could choose if you wanted to grind. I'd like to see that come back.