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Old 02-13-2012, 08:31 PM   #12
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Re: Your Video Game Ideas!

A Pokemon MMO would actually be relatively easy to design to, which is why I'm surprised no one has tried it yet. Using a standard Playstation console controller as an example control scheme you would use the d-pad to run around and the L1/R1 triggers to cycle through pokemon and the L2/R2 triggers to cycle through items, using X to send out a Pokemon, Circle to recall it, Square to use an item, and Triangle to use HM abilities/key items to bypass obstacles. Once you summon a Pokemon you would shift from the trainer's perspective to the Pokemon's in order to maintain player involvement. The control scheme would shift so that each of the four face buttons would correspond to your attacks, L1/R1 would be strafing and L2/R2 would correspond to healing items and pokeballs respectively. Pokemon would level up through battle as in any Pokemon game, and the trainers would have 6 tiers which would each effectively correspond to a 10 level marker. At each tier the player would unlock the ability to carry additional Pokemon with them, up to the recognized maximum of six. Gym battles would still be viable, as depending upon your team's level, player skill, and type advantages you would progress fairly steadily. PVP would be easily implemented as well, for obvious reasons.
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