02-21-2012, 08:20 AM
(02-20-2012, 10:06 PM)Meta Wrote: the problem is that desing wise they're basically a clusterfuck of random things tied together only by the fact that they're "monsters".
some of them look like magic entitites, others look like terrible mutations, and others look like a random halloween costume.
its pretty much the same with their names. as i said earlier, it sounds as if you grabbed random letters from a set of scrabble and just threw them over the table expecting to make something coherent.
the whole concept as a game spawns as a clone of pokemon, and you have worked your way not towards improving the gameplay but instead all you did was get all the licensed stuff covered by original graphics so you could still had a pokemon clone without being worried about nintendo or gamefrak throwing a cease and desist on your project. just like what happened with all these DOOM clones that spawned in the mid 90's, or basically, all the clones that have spawned from a "original" idea in the last 20 years or so of gaming development.
sure, you can argue that people enjoys ot and that not everyone can like it since thats how taste works etc etc etc. but so far it feels more like your only goal development wise is just to extend the original concept by just adding more monsters and more maps with fancier looks. wich is ironically the exact same path the original franchise is taking in their lattest installments.
all in all, and in a completely and absolute personal opinion wich you are probably not going to consider, web based MMO games are such a dull, completely lackluster "trend of a genre" that has been extended for so long that it escapes how or even why people would be consistent on playing them for a considerable amount of time.
Thanks for long reply but as i said my aim is not getting everybody like my game. Also i can guarantee you that my game concept will surpass the Nintendo's one in every way. We will have great features such as live tournaments daily, pvp maps where you can own other players without their permission and stuff like that. And about adding countless monsters you are right. I am aiming to have simply countless monsters to attract every kind of player attention. Everybody will find the monster they like most.
My biggest issue right now is the website theme. But i am going to hire a professional artist to redesign whole website theme from scratch. He will design as PSD and i will do the all coding.
And also i don't understand why it is so bad to make a similar game to another one in your eyes. Did you every play big PC games ? They are all very similar. 2 good example for you
Age Of Empires 2 = Empire Earth
Diablo 2 = Torch Light
and many other games. They are all very similar like my game.
Anyway i really do not care about similarity as long as laws do not prohibit.