| spemanig said: "Massive open world," by my definition, does. I know what an open world is. I don't need wikipedia, and frankly if it's definition doesn't include Xenoblade, it's wrong. There is a clear and distinct difference between Xenoblade's open world and Pokemon's open world. I want that difference gone. Xenoblade's is massive in real scale. Pokemon's is massive in implied scale. Same with Zelda 1 vs Zelda U. Zelda one is massive in its implied scale. Zelda U is massive in its real world scale. Pokemon is massive in it's implied scale. I want a Pokemon that's massive in it's real world scale. Call that whatever you wan't. I don't care. That's what I, and everyone else who has brought this up, wants. The audience that wants a massive open world Pokemon is far larger and far louder than the fans asking for a MM remake. They aren't even comparable. I'm not going to humor you. I don't need to defend my affection for Pokemon. You mistake focused criticism with broad dislike. |
Wikipedia's definition of an open world does include Xenoblade. As it says, the game does not have to be non-linear as a whole, it can have segmented non-linear bits which Xenoblade has in spades. I am not the person calling things whatever I want here.
You keep saying scale but all you mean is that you want the camera behind the player character rather than above them. That has nothing to do with the scale of the world.
It's not focused criticism. You have indicated multiple times that you believe many of Pokemon's design choices are inherently inferior to the alternatives -- you don't like turn-based battles, preferring real-time combat. You don't like random encounters, preferring visible encounters in the field. You don't like top-down perspectives, preferring behind-the-back perspectives. It's not even that you "prefer" these things, you group them directly into asking for a "better" game. You think that if you tell Game Freak you want Pokemon to be "better" they would understand that these are the things you want, but that's not the case. They are not better. They are different. In reality you are asking Game Freak to make a completely different game, not a better one. Furthermore, you assume that this would pay off big time -- it's exactly the same rhetoric we've been hearing from the MM fanbase for the past 3 years. Nintendo is stupid for not doing this, they'd make so much money, there are millions of us. No they weren't. No they won't. No there aren't. There are a few thousand of you congregating in the same areas of the internet, contributing to the echo chamber.
It wouldn't be humoring me. In light of all of these design choices you don't seem to like at all, I'm genuinely baffled as to why you have any attachment to this series.
