Elevator Music said:
I think that this is a big change and I don't quite know how to feel about it.
Saying "It takes away lots of things grrr" isn't really looking at the whole picture. Yeah, there's some things that were a major part of Gen4 that are now invalid in Gen5 (hiding your sweeper and the way we lead etc.). It also added more depth to the we way play Pokemon in other ways though (prediction is much more important blah blah blah). This is an entirely different game now. That's not a good thing or a bad thing, and your perspective on this shouldn't really be "this is a great change" or "the way we did stuff before was better".
If you came into Gen5 thinking you'd automatically be the shit because you were awesome at Gen4, you were mistaken. But not just because of this.
This is how I feel through and through. It's a whole new game, and we should embrace this change completely. Maybe with this change, a lot of our preconceptions about what constitutes broken or not will change. For instance, knowing if the opponent has a Shadow Tag Pokemon or not will completely revolutionize whether or not they are impossible to adequately and fairly prepare for. We need to accept this, if it's true, and take it in stride.
That said, I prefer the hiding aspect of DPP. I've played Pokemon Colosseum and other mediums where you could see your opponent's Pokemon, and I always enjoyed the hiding more. I
like tactfully keeping my sweeper secret and using Roar/Whirlwind and U-turn as a means of scouting my opponents. That, to me, is very enjoyable. However, if that goes away, I am not going to ragequit the game, I'll just play BW and constantly reminisce on the "good ole' days" of DPP. One isn't inherently better than the other like so many other posts suggest, though, and we need to grasp that going into BW.
I look forward to learning the final verdict of this as-of-yet rumor.