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@Graill440

First thing that came to my mind too.

Then I watched the videos and I saw character art of them holding cards and a grid on which they play and all I can think is Collectible Card Game MMO.

If it ever does become an MMO, Nintendo won't do it right. I'm sure it'll be fun as another installment of the Pokemon series but my concern would be it's success as an openworld game.

I can see it being heavily bogged down by making everything an instance and obfuscating even the simplest of tasks like purchasing pokeballs or trading pokemon or playing with friends. To your points, Sorithal and DarkWalker, Nintendo doesn't have the resume I'd look for in a developer behind this genre of game.

It would have to be done by not-Nintendo. Unfortunately, that's not ever going to happen unless they sell of their rights to those IPs.

@ Jeremys

That aside, World of Warcraft's upcoming Pet Battle System (if it makes it to release) would seem to lack the depth that Pokemon has. Not to mention the pets currently in WoW are mostly uninteresting things - of course, that's an I.M.H.O. statement to be clear. To be more in line with Pokemon I'd think they would need to redo the look of many pets.

It could happen since they don't have details on this system, though.

@Patently Right

You're translation of Pokemon into the MMO space is far too literal. It shouldn't be a straightforward port with multiplayer support and three dimensional graphics, but far more than that to make it a fluid and dynamic game.

Here's hopin' that our beloved WildStar doesn't suck. /raiseglass

Seriously, I want it to be an enjoyable game because its got a lot of character so far.

Pokemon MMO needs to happen.

A huge, open world with every pocket monster in it and the ability to battle other players would be fun.

@(Unverified)

Most definitely. All games could take a page out of Horizon's book when it comes to playable races and have things that are distinctly non-humanoid. There were a lot of great ideas buried in that game.

In Empires of Istaria I didn't ride around on a dragon, I *was* the dragon!

Reminds me of Streets of Rage. Also, is that a groin hit?

Oddly enough this reminds me of Pokemon.

By this I mean the way abilities are handed out through the Legacy system. It just seems so much like breeding Pokemon to me.

Not a big fan of the race selection at the moment, so would I gain anything from rolling another Zabrak?

@(Unverified)

I'm pretty much in the same boat.

I want the Collector's Edition for everything but the statue. Would have preferred Norn, Sylvari, or Human female statues but meh, out of my control.

So selling the statue on ebay would probably be my next bet unless they release the CE items seperately, then it'd just be a matter of buying the regular and the other non-statue items.

@Yoh

Often times I've tried seeing a trailer without the soundtrack blaring to get a better idea of what gameplay will be like.

Having watched the above both with sound on and off, it still appears that the game will be fun... just not as exciting as with the rock music jiving me up. Still good though. /thumbs up

Been years since I've played a good Mechwarrior game.