YOOM-TAH
Piplup Fanatic
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- Seen Dec 11, 2008
The problem is you all think of the game in the wrong way. You think of the game as a system of battling with other people. You see this system as balanced and fair, and so you see no reason for it to change.
That's fair, but do you really honestly think Nintendo sees it this way? Imagine if they used the "Don't fix what isn't broken" mentality for everything. The Wii certainly wouldn't exist. Brawl would be exactly the same as Melee. Mario Galaxy? That would have never come about. Why add all that 3D stuff when what they had already done was balanced and fair and didn't need to be changed?
The thought behind adding a new type does not have to come from the need to fix something. It should come from the desire to add new and exciting content. I for one do not want Pokemon to just be stale and boring for the rest of the time it exists. Let me ask you all something. You're all so obsessed with the "metagame" and its balance. What do you think about adding new Pokemon? That would certainly change things up wouldn't it? What about new items? New abilities? New moves? Wow, the metagame is completely different now! Are you guys just opposed to all new content in any way whatsoever? If not, then what's the problem with a new type? What makes adding a new type any different than adding new pokemon, items, or moves?
@Raikazu - If that's your mentality, then what about Ice? Ice is the same exact thing as Water, just at 0 degress Celcius or lower. Is there that big a difference between Rock and Ground? What about Ghost and Dark?
Point is, a lot of the types are similar, yes. If you think beyond that though, you can see as I pointed out in the first post (then revised through discussion with Gymnotide) that the Light type would make a lot of sense.
And for the last time, during the Gold and Silver era when it was first made, there was no such thing as the metagame. Yes, there were tournaments. And how many people used Substitute and Baton Pass and CMCune and Tyraniboah back then? No one. No one cared about it like everyone today seems to for some reason.
That's fair, but do you really honestly think Nintendo sees it this way? Imagine if they used the "Don't fix what isn't broken" mentality for everything. The Wii certainly wouldn't exist. Brawl would be exactly the same as Melee. Mario Galaxy? That would have never come about. Why add all that 3D stuff when what they had already done was balanced and fair and didn't need to be changed?
The thought behind adding a new type does not have to come from the need to fix something. It should come from the desire to add new and exciting content. I for one do not want Pokemon to just be stale and boring for the rest of the time it exists. Let me ask you all something. You're all so obsessed with the "metagame" and its balance. What do you think about adding new Pokemon? That would certainly change things up wouldn't it? What about new items? New abilities? New moves? Wow, the metagame is completely different now! Are you guys just opposed to all new content in any way whatsoever? If not, then what's the problem with a new type? What makes adding a new type any different than adding new pokemon, items, or moves?
@Raikazu - If that's your mentality, then what about Ice? Ice is the same exact thing as Water, just at 0 degress Celcius or lower. Is there that big a difference between Rock and Ground? What about Ghost and Dark?
Point is, a lot of the types are similar, yes. If you think beyond that though, you can see as I pointed out in the first post (then revised through discussion with Gymnotide) that the Light type would make a lot of sense.
And for the last time, during the Gold and Silver era when it was first made, there was no such thing as the metagame. Yes, there were tournaments. And how many people used Substitute and Baton Pass and CMCune and Tyraniboah back then? No one. No one cared about it like everyone today seems to for some reason.