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Well I think that community designs would not help the games, because Nintendo would have to regulate it. And if the Nintendo-made Pokémon look like that, they will probably choose similar fan creations.
But anyway, don't forget that the Afro Bull could easily be an evolution of Tauros. I mean it looks almost exactly the same, for God's sake. |
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If Nintendo was like Valve, We'd still be waiting for Pokemon Yellow.
All jokes aside, I feel that Nintendo should take a page out of Valve's books. They need more interaction with fans, and take the opinions of the fans more seriously. Not once have i found a Garrys Mod video slapped with copyright infringement, but a mere 5 second clip of the anime in a user video makes Nintendo jump out of their seats. They should see it as free advertising, not copyright infringement. Last edited by AnathemA; September 28, 2010 at 06:25:26 AM. |
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Comparing Valve to Nintendo (or TF2 to Pokemon) is like comparing the Halo series to the Tetris.
Those games have NOTHING in common except for the fact that they are both games. And plus, if Nintendo changed up Pokemon every game, it would lose a lot of fans. |
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They both make different style of games. That is the big difference of the two companies. I've never seen a FPS game made by Pokemon that was based around stay alive and kill enemies.
Also, I said comparing TF2 to Pokemon is a bad idea because that would be like comparing Halo to Tetris; those two have only ONE thing in common - they are both games. If you said something like, "Why doesn't Nintendo do the same thing that SquareSoft/Squarenix does with the final fantasy series and change up the story every game?", that would make slightly more sense (even though Final Fantasy isn't the best example I probably could've come up with). |
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Serenade, I think your argument got shot down by Ala... Ala makes a very good point about everything.
You are just stating opinions, then again, that is what this thread is about. Looking back on your post, you mentioned Pokemon games always having the same glitches because of their cartridges. Of course they are going to have the same glitches, you can't patch up glitches when you can't reach them - unlike TF2 and every other game by Valve. Besides, what does it matter that every Pokemon game will have the same glitches? As long as it doesn't completely ruin your game by beating down a Bidoof, you will be fine. All this really seems to be is a rant against Nintendo for not changing anything in Pokemon. That is how Nintendo makes money, by sticking to what gives them money. All Nintendo has to do is switch up the story and setting in each game and they are good. When companies like Valve make changes, they are risking losing fans. Some fans don't like change to games they enjoyed, Nintendo obviously realizes this and doesn't change much in Pokemon games. The only two big differences between Pokemon games is more Pokemon and new location. Last edited by Quadcentruo; October 1, 2010 at 02:51:27 PM. |
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Note: He's talking about the way each company handles their game. It's purposely comparing apples to oranges. Like "What if the apple was orange and the orange was red?" type of deal.
Pokemon came out roughly 15 years ago. As such, downloadable content didn't exist, nor would it exist for quite a long time. When the idea of having one game that could be customized via patches was made into a reality, Pokemon had already settled into their way of doing things. The way Pokemon is set up will never change. Pokemon is basically Maple Story in terms of upgrading/adding things to the game. (I threw a lemon into this apple/orange comparison!) Maple Story developers decided to create more classes as opposed to balancing the classes they have now. As such, half the classes they have are rendered useless, and the other half are over powered or close to being "just right". All the Pokemon we have also have the looooolimbalance thing going on. A Pokemon (and it's evolutions) sucked, so let's make a similar Pokemon that has better stats/a better movepool! Let's release it in another version! YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH! Luckily, they had the sense to add evolutions in order to make SOME of the Pokemon better. Though the baby pokemon were kind of... Useless. I guess it was for the people who like cute things/breeding. Meh. Realistically speaking, it would take quite some time to balance the Pokemon on paper. Though when it came to coding, it would simply take a few small code changes that would probably take less than a week to finish. (The codes for stats are all the same, the only difference is to which pokemon they are attached to... So it'd basically be a huge case of C/P-fever.) ANYWAY! Pokemon switching to downloadable patches/content is never going to happen. They would lose out on loads of sales via selling new games. They would also lose out on the possible merchandise sales they could make off the new game (IE: selling game guides, plushies, different looking cards of the same old pokemon, movies, different directions for the anime, etc.) It's not necessarily a greed type of thing, but there would be no point in switching to something that makes them less money just to be slightly more convenient. That's bad cookies in the business world. At least a baker's dozen of huge, moldy, glass-laden, stale cookies. TL;DR It'd be nice if Pokemon were like Valve in that one aspect. But they're not! The Pokemon franchise is still great, though. |
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I'm going to go with what AnathemA said about Nintendo being like Valve. If Nintendo was like Valve, we would still be waiting for Pokemon Yellow. And there would be controversy if a sequel of a game comes out less than a year apart from each other (Left 4 Dead 2 controversy reference). Last edited by Quadcentruo; October 1, 2010 at 03:28:44 PM. |
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Nintendo is putting Black and White onto the computer, giving pokemon abbilitys they wouldn't have, as well as forcing people to have wifi to collect more pokemon.
Is that any better than making the "competitive version" of pokemon balanced by having updates with newer content revolving around moves, abbilitys, etc? And IF Luvdisc were to get the ability drizzle, learn fake out, baton pass/u-turn, counter, mirror coat and maybe some new move, it could become at least BL, as it could be used as a lead for drizzle, fake them out, and then counter a kill in, before baton passing/u-turning out of it all- to be called in for rain later. Last edited by Serenade; October 14, 2010 at 04:52:21 PM. |
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