yeah i know we all liked these games as children but im putting a stop to that argument right now. we also liked playing with colorful mobiles. and little balls on wire that we could push around. we aren’t five anymore.
the thing about these games that pisses me off is that nothing about them has changed at all. all this new technology gives so many possibilities which arent capitalized on because people keep buying the stupid games anyway. every year its just some new aesthetic feature. whoopity doop hey guess what this year the nopemok have idle animations. its 2010. truly we are in a new age, where games have idle animations. its like theyre recapturing my childhood
i think the fact that so many self-proclaimed game designers still play these games so much is telling. pekonom is still basically a game where your dude and the other dude take turns picking one from a list of four moves and seeing who dies first. the biggest change theyve made in fourteen fucking years is that now theres sometimes two dudes. be still my heart. i know the MY NINTENDO crowd appreciate static, unchanging gameplay, but they also appreciate having harnesses on their heads. to catch their slack jaws
what if during the battles there was a randomly generated environment that your dudes could move around in. and moves had ranges and areas of affect, and your dudes speed and properties like flying obviously affected their maneuvering. fire nokopem could be knocked into water and stuff like that. and you could easily have more than two guys in a battle, you could have basically as many as you wanted and just let the speed stat figure out when everyone gets a turn.
then once youve made battles actually interesting you can give more xp per battle since they’ll actually take longer than 10 seconds (including the 8 seconds spent watching text scroll until you can press A). which means less of a focus on grinding and more on battle tactics. you know actually now that i think about it the environment for fighting doesnt even have to be randomly made, it could just be the actual overworld, holy shit think about that one. we actually have an interesting game now
but we never will. none of that will ever happen because the devs know they can add more monsters that do the same thing as the last batch and people will buy it insisting that they’re doing so to reconnect with their childhood and nobody acknowledges that the real reason they’re buying it is so they won’t be the only one in their clique who didn’t.
