Tecmos Deception |
11-06-2015 08:32 AM |
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Originally Posted by Swish
(Post 2097887)
Without googling, isn't there something called Pokemon: GO or some shit? Not sure if its a MMO though.
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It will be an MMO. Niantic's current game is "Ingress," which I posted about like 10 months ago when I started playing it but no one else replied to my thread I don't think. It's an MMO too, it's just blends aspects of typical, PC MMOs with the mobility offered by being played on mobile devices. I mean, you can't play it offline ("Yeah I play MMOs dude. I play Diablo 2!") and it's almost impossible to play it without everything you do affecting other nearby players... so sounds like an actual MMO to me.
Ingress is this sci-fi themed game with two teams vying for territorial control by fighting over ownership of "portals," which are basically real life landmarks that are also significant in the game. Portals range from post offices and libraries and churches to park benches and community gardens and overpass graffiti. When you're near a portal, you can interact with it in a variety of ways to acquire more gear from it, blow it up if it's a hostile portal, reinforce it if it's a friendly portal, or capture the portal for your team. You can create links between friendly portals, and linking 3 portals together creates a "control field" that in the story helps your team win control of the population under the field but in the metagame is just part of the team vs. team and player vs. player territorial control aspect of the game.
Depending on the area you play in the game can be a lot different for any given player. Some communities are really organized and players regularly meet up to play while travelling together, have meet ups at local restaurants/bars to farm gear from nearby portals while hanging out, organize monthly events ("first saturday"), participate in the official major events ("anomolies"), etc. Or if you play in a slower area (non-metro, basically) most players just do their own thing and ocassionally group up for some kind of "op[eration]" like making a big field that covers over the whole local area (which stops other players from being able to make their own links and fields inside of your bigger field, among other things), etc.
I haven't really read about Pokemon:GO at all because I got hooked on PC adventure/RPGs and turn-based strategy games and stuff back in the 90s rather than Pokemon... but I assume from what Ingress is that Pokemon will be relatively similar though with more tactical aspects because of the little fucking picachu's fighting each other directly instead of players just sniping each other's portals back and forth from each other and hacking portals to build up their gear reserves to do it again.
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