Saturday, May 10, 2014

This is the BW1 reveal all over again.

Meanwhile, at Gamefreak HQ...

Remember back then when the only footage we saw was the player character walking left through Castelia (almost typed Lumiose there, fun fact), and that was it? Well, a camera pan around regular old boring Groudon and regular old boring Kyogre while their abilities activate might actually be more insulting. At least the Castelia walk showed off graphics we'd never seen before prior to that point. This is nothing special, just a huge slap in the face. Especially since those who wanted to see the whole thing live had to see some of the worst TV ever. And they're rewarded with THIS.

I know they've got to spread the goods over six months, but at least give us SOMETHING. This isn't even worth calling "something".

Edit: EVEN COROCORO PULLS THE SAME SHIT. At this rate I wouldn't be surprised if the game was nothing but the final room of the Seafloor Cavern, and Kyogre and Groudon were the only Pokémon in the game.

9 comments:

  1. That wasn't even gameplay. It was just an animation of the main legendaries.

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  2. I personally thought their laugh would be more along the lines of your maniacal laughter when you got the evolite in the White 1 LP topped off with the "sorry" while giving us a troll face. But seriouly, fuck that shit! That trailer was like a rickroll without the catchy music.

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  3. I was just curious if the games were going to use the XY 3D engine, or if we would be going back to 2Dish games. Not. Even. That. Goddammit.

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    1. Given that it's in Gen 6, it kind of has to follow that graphical style...

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    2. It's even simpler than that. As a Gen 6 game it has to be compatible, and the easiest way to do that requires using the same game engine.

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  4. At least when HG/SS was announced we saw SOME new element of gameplay from the beginning of it's reveal IIRC. (that being pokemon following you) Granted it was minor and it wasn't used since but it was at least SOMETHING.

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  5. I wonder if said worst TV is as bad as the anime?

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    1. It's BAD. We got to see memorable moments such as an Asian man in bathtub. At least the anime tries to teach some sort of moral occasionally, but it's obvious this show just exists for the reveals.

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  6. At least we got some footage in the week it was announced, though. Remember how it took two months to get SOMETHING from B2W2 other than the boxart?

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