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[PA Comic] Monday, June 17, 2013 - Techmomology
Geth
LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
LegionPerseus VeilRegistered User, Moderator, Penny Arcade Staff, Vanilla Staff vanilla
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Well, presumably we'll have new world government mandated forced sterility by then, so there won't be any clean-up necessary. :^:
That's how the energy crisis will be solved.
And here was I thinking that it was like squeezing an empty ketchup bottle - just a puff of air and a pfwee sound.
That does kind of seem like an idea that Douglas Reynholm would have.
I know I've daydreamed about this for years. Years years.
even with an empty ketchup bottle, you somehow still get that ketchup pre-cum.
Cheers.
Please don't go. The drones need you. They look up to you.
By which I mean, Tycho opening spiel is a bunch of terms I can grasp individually but I cant parse what he means.
Also I have always said this, no matter if we are looking at cave paintings, or have 4d interactive holographic hookups in the next 50 years, no matter what it is, there will be a pornography on it.
That's the theory, anyway. In practice, neither MS or Sony has committed to forward compatibility. Also, as Tycho points out in the newspost, the original Xbox was basically a PC as well, yet MS hasn't made the Xbox One backwards compatible with it, even though in theory it's possible.
It'd be worth trying if you were ever lost in a forest or something. Yell out "Pokemon MMO!" and just see if someone pops out from behind a tree to state their interest.
If it worked, you wouldn't have to worry about starving, at least!
>_>
All those social features would actually work, for one. With Black and White they already seem to have tried to make it a pseudo-MMO, with the exception that unless you hang out in a Japanese elementary school you probably can't hit passby critical mass to actually use those features.
Other than that (I probably still wouldn't care if it was accessible), to me it's less interest in it as an MMO but as a game that allows you to actually continue with the main premise of exploration and collection, it's the same feeling I get when I see Red Mountain looming on the horizon from the Throat of the World, or knowing that Cyrodil is just right there on the other side of the invisible wall.
Wii: 4521 1146 5179 1333 Pearl: 3394 4642 8367 HG: 1849 3913 3132
Not getting matched against some kid with 6 Mewtwos.
Oh my God there would be so much rage...
For what it's worth, thats worth nothing.
Ive dreamed of a Pokemon MMO for sometime now. Full 3rd person, 3-axis world (like any proper MMO), players able to choose to start in any of the Poke regions they want (leading to awesome realm vs realm Pokemon battles)... legendaries locked to specific achievements and likely limited or disabled from competitve play. If not, first fuck with an Articuno proceeds to just snowball into awesome, and all tournaments would be decided by who has the most awesome legendaries (and, like, a Chansey).
Alternatively, everyone starts in Kanto and other regions unlock as you go and in patches/expansions.
And I mean, in STO there are canonically three Odyssey class ships, but it's nothing to see nine or ten of them around.
As soon as we started excepting universes in which we are all the one chosen one, the only survivor of the massacre at the Wrathgate, the only starship in range of the SS Azura, it kind of follows to accept that we're all the only trainer to capture the only Arceus. Even the guy who has six of them.
There is a mythological God Pokemon that created the entire fucking universe and life as we know it, and by gosh, I'm going to stuff it into this little red-and-white ball and make it fight Bidoofs for money!
Like, if you saw someone with a Metagross you shouldn't be like Oooh more OU garbage you should be like by the labcoat of Professor Oak this [wo]man is an experienced trainer.
Now we know the real reason the Forerunners went extinct.
"Flood," indeed.
The only way I'd imagine a Pokemon MMO doing that you can't do now is you play a Pokemon and only relate with humans on the NPC level.
On a Pokemon "MMO" - you all were watching E3, right? Noticed the built-in chat tools on the lower screen? Howabout playing Animal Crossing, where I can message people without even needing to visit their town, making it much easier to just pop in somewhere.
Sure, it may not involve hundreds.. but it does mean I get a hell of a lot of social interaction. Which is awesome.
Jesus fucking christ
Steam: adamjnet
I think it would just have to eschew the current battle system except maybe for Gyms (should they remain) and proper duels. I assume every pokemon is like the anime Pikachu so it's you as trainer with your first slot out (think WoW hunters). If Gyms remain it's not hard at all to use them as a leveling/progression on the map system either. Grouping (for dungeons or pvp) would be simply Pick-your-Poké for the duration of the event. Dungeon wild pokemon (think caves with Onix and Golbats) would always be tougher than a trainers (again, like WoW hunters, sometimes) so if someone in the group needs to catch something, it would require a group effort.
The most difficult thing I've had to try to sort out is healing, but if they follow (and hopefully improve on) GW2's system it could be just a "Trainer Ability." In fact the whole game would be a cross between GW2 (each pokemon is a different weapon) and LoL (each pokemon has four moves to use). The stat system would need a bit of an overhaul to avoid what I would consider netdecking, e.g. teams with nothing but OU pokemon. Lower evolutions should always be weaker, but you don't want half 500+ base stat finals and half 300+ base stat ones.
Goosebumps.
Free content: You only have Magikarp to choose from.
Premium content: for $60 you can pick whichever Pokemon you wanna be.
You'd have about half the playerbase flopping about as Magikarps, and the rest would all be the same Godtierion or whatever the heck the strongest one is actually called :P