12-29-2005, 02:16 AM
Blight Wrote:That is seriously undermining the concept, but I guess you just don’t know enough about it. You are right about the shadows taking place in battle though. But thinking about it as Pokemon is silly, since the shadows are a part of the characters. Also, there are party members. In essence a lot of games boil down to one approach or another especaily in RPG’s. In a mech RPG, it wouldn't be much different because the mech is being controlled by the character, but no one would call that Pokemon even though it is essentially the same game mechanic colored a different color. Plus from the sounds of some of the stuff I have read, there will be some action-oriented gameplay as well. No one is sure what that means, but at the very least it would present a great deal of separation from something that resembles Pokemon.
Also I’m gonna rant at you because you hold a trait I absolutely despise. All it takes for you decide on this game or not is by looking at it. But that isn’t so bad, I do that everyday. What I don’t do is say that something looks like it is for kids based on how it looks, I check its use for that. So many people decided Wind Waker was a bad game because of the Cel-Shaded graphics and they are all dumbasses for it. If every game went for the realistic look, games would have died for me because creativity has died too. Different art styles are just as important to a games as different genres. Judging it as a kids game because it uses non-realistic art style is a unintelligent out-look to have.
To be completely honest, I have never played or seen a pokemon game in action. I just see goofy monsters spawning to fight for you and I think pokemon.
But based on what I have seen (and not read) this is still going to be a kids game. Not just because its cell shaded. I love Killer7, XIII, Vieuwtiful joe and to a lesser degree windwaker so I don't have trouble with cell shading as long as its somewhat realistic but this game's charecters are made for kids. The main charecter is a dwarf with huge eyes. The 'shadows' come straight out of the pokemon universe. When the last time you summoned a monster in a game and he appeared with a smile on his face? Not saying this will be a bad game, just not my thing. And I'll still bet you that it will be a kids game (which the 360 can use btw.)
Now, you make one mistake in that rant. I haven't decided on this game yet. I don't do that till I see gameplay. I just said based on what I've seen (just the trailers) it looks like a kids game and I'm not interested in kids games.