SwSh A Question about the DLC....

[Greninjaman]

seeing as the Isle of Armor (and Crown Tundra) is one big Wild Area, do you guys think that the DLC are experiments to see how an open-world Pokemon could work? Why or Why not?

I feel like it COULD work. Like, when you reach a town with a Gym and meet the leader, you get the quest to battle them unless you don't have a certain number of badges.

 

[Daren]

I think Sword and Shield themselves were the start of testing out that idea, with the DLC a refinement.

Open world is big nowadays--Mario and Zelda both moved that way for their Switch launch titles--and Pokémon is a setting with some obvious appeal for the idea.

 

[Greninjaman]

I think Sword and Shield themselves were the start of testing out that idea, with the DLC a refinement.

Open world is big nowadays--Mario and Zelda both moved that way for their Switch launch titles--and Pokémon is a setting with some obvious appeal for the idea.

I do agree with you on that. Now that consoles are powerful enough, it just makes sense to move to an open world setting, instead of having the areas be corridors (like in Fina Fantasy 10 where that was the case).

 

[prog rocker]

I don't know what to think about this. On one hand, I have not played an open world game, or at least not a big scale one, but on the other side, I feel like I wouldn't like it. The fact those games are generally overhyped kinda made uninterested in them. I think "hype backlash" describes how I feel about them.

I do agree with you on that. Now that consoles are powerful enough, it just makes sense to move to an open world setting, instead of having the areas be corridors (like in Fina Fantasy 10 where that was the case).

I think you're confusing X with XIII...

 

[Greninjaman]

I think you're confusing X with XIII...

I have not played thirteen, while I have played ten. I will, however, take your word for it.

 

[prog rocker]

I have not played thirteen, while I have played ten. I will, however, take your word for it.

Believe me, while I did like the game, until Chapter 11 you won't have anything resembling freedom on where to go.

 

[Greninjaman]

Believe me, while I did like the game, until Chapter 11 you won't have anything resembling freedom on where to go.

You could say the same about FF10...