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L=A Removed Like/Dislike
Although, this is a very minor thing about the game, I ended up really disliking the fact that they removed it (mostly because I never realised how much I used it until it was gone >_<)
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OMG. I was sooo pissed that it was removed. I usually multitask when I play Pokemon games, and it's SUCH a pain not to be able to click L and have it function as the A button. :/
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sorry the poll should read "Do you dislike the fact that they removed the L=A Function" sorry, terrible wording on my part (so bad I voted in the wrong space lol)
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i never used it so i didnt even know it was gone :/
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I used to love this feature for when i was doing 2 things at once. I could use one hand to play and the other to tidy up, dry up, anything i was doing at the time.
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I didn't really use it, so I don't exactly care that it's gone.
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I don't think I ever even noticed...well I guess most people probably didn't either or why would they remove it :/ ?
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I didn't notice it or use it, but as it's a feature that didn't mean anything bad for those who didn't use it, I'm not really for it being removed if other people did use it - ah well?
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It was in Options, right? Never really paid attention, and never used it.
I don't think they have a good reason to have removed it either (like many other things >>) |
I just realized that when I played Black. It was pretty useful for multi-tasking.
I even clicked L as A a couple times now but I can live. :D |
I wish I had known about this sooner.
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I never used it but my cousins love it haha.
I was more annoyed by the fact that I had to hold B to run. Unlike HGSS. And my A buttons nearly dead so I also miss the fact that you could just touch A on the screen like in HGSS :( |
im very mad that its gone, and the fact you cant tap on the screen, now i have to hold it with both hands to get anything accomplished now.
and ive been using the l=a since sapphire. |
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After reading this thread, I never knew how many people actually used that feature. XD; I thought it was so irrelevant for so long haha. I don't miss it because I never used it. Reading this thread made me understand its uses but I don't think I'd use it anyway.
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I never used it either ^^; Had no idea it existed tbh... and I've played Pokemon games for 1000s of hours :|
Sounds convenient though |
L = A was a pretty under-appreciated feature of the game. It was really helpful for multitasking. Hopefully they'll bring it back in future installments...
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Hmm... Losing the L=A feature? I understand why, though. It got new functions. I don't mind the loss, as it now serves new purposes, such as faster item list scrolling, box switches, move info shortcuts, and the like. (The poll options are confusing.)
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I didn't use the L button as the A button during my past gaming days, so I'm indifferent to this change.
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It's not that big of a deal for me. I never used that function anyway. So I don't care much at all.
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I didn't even realise there was such a feature. In hindsight, though, I would have probably used it a lot if I knew about it; it would have come in handy so much :<
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I used the L=A option quite often, it was really handy in cases you'd need your right hand for something else. It is quite irritating to see it's gone.
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Aw, yeah I didnt like the fact that they removed this either. ;(
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i never really started to utilize it til AFTER my L button started to mess up on me,& now that my L button doesnt work at all i really dont mind but if i ever do get to replace my ds i will miss that option :(
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Never noticed it D:
I multi-task too but I just use my right hand for the DS. |
I never used it myself, but now I think about it I realise it could be quite useful for one-handed multitask-playing.
The more important question is, though: WHY ON EARTH HAVE WE ONLY GOT ONE HOTKEY?! There's 4 face buttons, two shoulders and the Select/Start buttons. Clearly A and B are in use, but why do we need X to open the menu? It was far better in HG/SS as a purely touch-screen menu. And why can we not use Y, L, R AND Select to register 4 items instead of one? It's annoyed me since I can remember that you can only register one item. Imagine if we could have the Bicycle, the Map, the Super Rod AND the Vs-Seeker all just a single button press away... Not that this is the only UI inadequacy in Pokemon games. For example, why can't we choose to Fly to a city straight from the Map screen? Instead we have to press B, go to our Pokemon list, select our Flyer, then click Fly, then find the city all over again... Urghh. Sorry for getting off-topic. I did answer the question at the top though... |
I never used L as A, but I don't like that they removed Start as X.
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I used it a lot on my old DS whenmy A button was broken and usable. Even now, after I have a DSi, I still miss it.
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Knew about it, never used it for more than 2 minutes. Just thought it was pointless.
-Totodile42 |
It was a function?? Meh...
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Lol,I didn't even know there was one like that I rarely used the L anyways.
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I really don't care about that option..
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Well, I only used that option on my GBA SP, mainly because I generally sit my DS down on a table and play like that. I don't usually hold it, so it's easier to press A than L for A.
So I don't care. |
I don't really care tbh. I think it was more annoying when I accidentally pressed L for something. Though I think it's only handy when you need to do fast things in Pokemon games...and that's not very often. XD (I swear something comes to mind but I can't remember it).
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I remember using it in previous games, but to be honest, I forgot about checking if it was in Black/White.
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I don't care :/ I never really used that option anyway, so it doesn't bother me.
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Seeing as my L and R buttons are busted, the removal doesn't bother me much. But they didn't have to remove it.
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There was that feature? J/K, of course i know there was such a thing. I didn't really use it so I really don't care that it's gone. I actually see no point in that. o_O
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I went to turn L=A on at the first chance I got. It sucks that they removed it :/
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I didn't even know there was an option use L as A so I don't really miss it much. |
When I first got White and looked for the option L = A and didn't see it, I was like "Whaaat?" D: I used that minor feature a lot when I was multitasking and playing the game in one hand. Just by habit, on occasion I still press down on 'L' as a substitute of 'A' and I realize, "Oh wait, it's not there anymore; Great!" ):
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Never knew it even existed, but I can see how it'd be useful. Shame they got rid of it.
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Hmm...well, I've hardly ever used L=A in Sapphire, FireRed, or Emerald, to be honest. I remember using it once just to see what it did. XD The only time I pretty much use shoulder buttons for anything is in Super Smash Brothers (I use it sparingly in Pokemon Stadium 2, and it's essential when I play my friend's copy of Marvel vs. Capcom 3)...
However, I did press the shoulder buttons much more often in FireRed, due to the Help System (the type matchup list was very helpful when I faced obscure type matchups). The ability of the Help System acting as a "pseudo-pause button" during battles also helped. So yeah...I hardly ever used the L=A option, as I'm an A-button masher, but it sucks for the people who did use it. It doesn't seem like it would be that much trouble to have included it in BW. :\ Quote:
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The Start button has been the menu button since Generation 1, and Start=X alleviated things by permitting two different methods of accessing the Menu in the newer games that changed the Menu access button... Personally, I think Start should continue being the menu (for those of us that prefer buttons as opposed to touchscreens), with Select, X and Y (and L and R, when the player isn't using L=A mode) all becoming hotkeys. When you've got three to four buttons going unused, and you have to hold two buttons just for a certain action (running) when another button could easily toggle it, it's a problem... Quote:
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I always thought it was a pretty silly idea during the GBA era, and when the DS era started, I use the touch screen. So.... Yeah.
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i miss it a lot. i loved being able to play with one hand and have a smoke in the other...i am currently writing a letter of complaint to gamefreak. heres what i have so far.
dear gamefreak, you guys suck...... ill sort the rest out later |
I always used the L=A function in previous games, and loved it. Made it so easy to play the game with one hand. It was great, and I was extremely pissed when I discovered it was gone.
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It didn't really affect me. I noticed they'd removed it, but ever since they moved the start/select buttons to the other side of the console after the GBA to the NDS Lite, I never really saw the need for the button any more. I used to play one-handed using only one side of the console, since the movement buttons, the start button and the L=A button were on one side of the console. Now, they've been shifted around the console I lost the need for the L=A function. Besides, for some reason my L button always stops working in all my past DS'es. XD;
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Ohhh, I used to use this all the time. Being able to play Sapphire with one hand was something I never appreciated until the feature was gone... :(
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I really miss it, since I have a habit of playing using only my left hand while I'm lying on my side, and it's really inconvenient and kind of painful actually (I have small, unflexible hands) to reach all the way over to the A button.
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I only used it occasionally. I forgot it existed over the years honestly. So its removal doesn't affect me much.
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That's just stupid.
Game Freak, masters of UI degression with every game. |
Pretty sure the poll options should be "like" and "dislike".
Opposed to yes and no. But, yeah. I used L quite a lot. It made it easier to use your hands and the stylus simultaneously. |
I personally never used it. I have a friend who was kind of annoyed it was gone though, he liked being able to play with one hand.
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Considering my L button is broken I don't think I ever even knew of this existing.
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I never even knew you could do that! O.o
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This annoyed me so much. I loved playing with one hand and doing something with the other. Like I'd play and eat at the same time. It was also handy when trading between two DS-es. I don't actually see why they removes it. Seems like a stupid thing to do :O
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damn theres an L=A function for previous pokemon games???!
wish i could have a chance to play the previous gens... |
When I played HeartGold at school, I usually kept hammering that L button, especially when level grinding, so it was a little disappointing at first to see it gone.
However, it really didn't matter after Black/White, now that I'm once more used to playing the regular way again...Still, would be nice to play with one hand conveniently, haha. |
My L button is broken so... .3.
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I aways liked that i could play one hand when i had it now i have to use 2 DX
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There was an L=A Function?!?
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