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Title: Community Hot Topic and Forum Roundup
Post by: S-U-P-E-R on August 08, 2007, 07:59:19 PM
This week: I call a thread trolling battle! Also, win a prize!
 http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/newsArt.cfm?artid=14200

 Last week, we had the wordtacular thread about how willing our forum users would be to pay for a Pokemon MMORPG. Read it in your brain!    


Since Metroid Prime 3 is coming out soon, we're hosting an ultimate troll battle about whether or not it is to be bought. Will you buy Metroid Prime 3: Corruption? And can you justify your decision to our crack team of internet trolls? You gonna get burned!    


We got a prize, too! Be a non-terrible poster and you'll be entered to win a totally sweet Luigi action figure! It comes with a ghost and a vacuuum cleaner! Aw, yeah!    


Reminder: We can only ship to the U.S. & Canada. Posting multiple times will not increase your chances of winning, and spamming posts, breaking the forum rules, or otherwise being a terrible poster may disqualify you or get your account banned. Be sure to check the forum rules before posting. And you can't post if you're not a member of our forums, so if you want to get a chance to win a prize, register now!    


And now, for the finer posts of days gone by, when we were asking about showing us your Pokemans MMORPG:    


  tiamat1990 posted: The bigger argument is "will it ever happen?" Nintendo is too caught up in trying to keep the little Johnny safe that they're compromising themselves to making awesome online games! I mean there is absolutely NO NEED FOR FRIEND CODES! None! There are parental controls on the Wii that can stop children from using the Wii's internet capabilities! Add another option so that there is a barrier when you click on the option in-game to play online. Have it ask you a pin code, hell even two codes just to keep little snot-nosed Johnny "safe" and then allow features like adding by name, voice chat etc.    


But to answer the topic, no.  

  Shift Key posted: No. Just no.    


I've learned that MMOs are a huge timesink from my experiences with World of Warcraft. Even if you wrap it up in Pokemon characters, its still the same boring grindfest.    


Oh wait, that's what Pokemon's always been like.  

  KDR_11k posted: I wouldn't. MMORPGs aren't my cup of tea. IMO those games are sub-par, all of them. I don't get addicted to item farming (I'm addicted to news, I get bored quickly by repetitive actions) and MMORPGs tend to lack in content you can explore. Sure, there's quests but "kill 50 goblins" isn't really a change of pace. I don't expect Treasure-esque "what game was I playing" variety in gameplay but for ost MMOs it seems to involve having one or two abilities for the longest time and not having any tactical freedom beyond spamming those. Sure, there's always talk about how it gets better in the high levels and how I've just not played it enough but shouldn't I have seen the meat of the gameplay 10 hours into the game? The "work" to access the fun parts should be the act of purchasing the game, not the first few hundred hours of gameplay.    


Yes, Pokemon is good enough to work better than regular MMORPGs but I doubt they could maintain that for an MMO, after all you don't want people to blow through the available quests and levels in 10-20 hours in a pay-to-play game. And since levels would be tied to your monsters, not your character "rerolling" would just involve catching something else and grinding it up instead of going through the quests again, lowering the variety even more.    


Maybe they could have several islands you can all progress through a bunch of levels on, perhaps with restrictions on which pokemon you can bring with you depending on how many badges you have earned already (so no bringing Lv100 Mews to a beginner island until you've beaten the whole quest there), allowing you to go through a main quest several times with one character and different monsters each time.    


This is starting to sound really good but I still wouldn't pay for it...  

  Mr. Jack posted: A Pokemon MMORPG would have great potential to be the first MMO I would invest my hard earned dollars in. However, it is more than likely that it would never turn out how I expected. In my ideal Pokemon MMORPG, there would be elaborate quests to uncover new pokemon and maybe side quest type challenges that incorporate ideas from Pokemon Snap. Of course you would need to be able to gang up with other trainers and fight wild pokemon as a group, or fight other gangs of trainers. The game should also involve other challenges such as modifying the landscape to reach new parts of the land (these changes to the landscape would need to be very temporary, ie you cut down a tree to walk across a chasm and the tree fell through 30 seconds later). Of course Nintendo would need to be constantly adding new pokemon, or pokemon you could only get for a limited time. This concept would spark trading to get new pokemon. I imagine you would need to bring in some other concepts (perhaps choosing a light or dark side and gathering pokemon accordingly) to make the game successful, but there is quite a bit that could be done with the franchise. As I said though, the game would probably turn into absolute MMO garbage like most of the ones that already exist.    


Now ask me if I would pay for an Animal Crossing MMO. The answer is YES no questions asked.  

  bustin98 posted: I don't play World of Warcraft as I do not have time nor money to invest in that type of game. The same would hold true for any game of the genre. But that doesn't mean the fun would not be worth the membership fee. I think a membership fee is reasonable since a persistent world needs to be hosted by the publisher/creator and not a local host, and that has to be paid for some how. I do think the initial price of admission should be a low cost though. After all, you aren't getting the full game unless you take it online.    


Answer to Q1: No I would not pay to play.   Answer to Q2: For fans of the series, I'm sure it would be like the second coming.  

  Ceric posted: Upon thinking about it more. I think you should need to truly train to learn a move. Maybe even help improve stats beyond just leveling, ala Monster Rancher. Also I stand firm on allowing me to make custom hats to sell.  
  ShyGuy posted: Maybe for some other MMO, but I don't play Pokemon. Give me an Animal Crossing MMO and I will be signed up before you can say "Tom Nook Instance Boss"
    


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