Right, so it looks like Pokemon Companion Petmon battles are coming to a wowcrafts near you! All those companion NPC pets you’ve been collecting over the years (well… at least me… I’m a pet hoarder! FOR THE HOARD!) will now be able to be leveled up and engage in battles with your friends and other trainers! Err… I mean raiders… Not only that, but they will have special abilities and what looks like elemental types. You’ll even be able to fight other wild Companion Petmons and, if I’m remembering this correctly, capture them as well! (with what I can only assume to be a throwable Companion Crate.
Well… obviously this is a Pokemon “rip”. But I guess that brings us to this week’s debate… Should Blizz implement stuff that’s from other IPs (intellectual properties) like from games or stories or movies or whatever? Like what if a little Skyrim started washing on shore? But ya know, wowland is like a huge mishmash hodgepodge smorgasbord of everything. Just go exploring around a bit, you’ll know what I mean. And it’s almost a game in itself to spot all the references! Say what you will, I for one actually like it. It kind of keeps the game fresh and interesting… and as long as they don’t get into any kind of major trouble with the lawyers, then I say more power to them! I’ll be the first to battle all you folks with my epic Petmons! Just about caught them all already… Hmm… I probably shouldn’t be proud of that… XD
ALSO:
I’m going to be out for like 2 weeks coming up here, so if anyone would be interested in submitting some guest art for Coffin Comics or Tooned News, let me know!
Not saying anyone stole from either side, but the helm in the Skyrim ads looks an awful lot like the (insert prefix here) Saronite helms from the late 70 lvls… Granted, they were all styled after Viking helms, but as soon as I saw it, I was like “Saronite?”…
PS: I am also a pet/mount hoarder, so I will at least have an arsenal when this shite hits the fan, lol…
I think there will come a time when just about every idea for armor has been made. I mean, there’s only so much junk you can glue to your body with different colors…
btw… I CHALLENGE YOU TO A PETMON DUEL! I will be the very best! Like no one ever was…
You know, the lawbringer article at wowinsider did one about this, and why it is totally legal. I cannot recall the whole thing offhand, but the key points I remember said something about how turn-based combat has been around longer than pokemon, as have various weakness-strength type systems; as in the system is not an intellectual property. Stealing code would be bad, but the two are on completely different platforms anyway.
I don’t know how much I will participate in the battle system, but I am psyched about naming them. Finally after all these years my sprite darter will be seen by the world as Blinky!
hmm… good to know! now to make a Coffin Comics Critter Card Combat Competition!! the game!
or maybe a 7-Up Darter?
http://www.wowhead.com/spell=15067
In case you didn’t know it, if you did and just wanted to pun, I blame the hour for my general tiredness.
Back when I was a noob, niv had black hair and leveling through ashenvale me and my friend got sent on a quest to this shrine tucked away in the back (the dartol’s rod quest chain I think, the thing that turned you into a furbolg). When we finally found what constituted a path (we learned where to run to dodge most of the mobs) we came across this mob
http://www.wowhead.com/npc=3815
It was the most adorable thing I had seen in game and I loved it. I was always so happy to stop by and say hi to “Blinky” as I came to call him when we went to turn in the next part of the chain.
Fast foward 1.5 years and 25 levels (yes, I was that noobish) I learned about the sprite darter. I could have my own Blinky! Sadly, the quest chain is no longer in the game anymore, but at least I got mine before it became a zone drop.
This is the guide me and my friend used to plan ahead for the whole thing (it was one of those true classic quests that made you run over the whole world pretty much)
http://playthingofthegods.net/SpriteDarterHatchlingGuide/SpriteDarterHatchlingGuide.htm
Yeah, I have a lot of sentiment tied up into Blinky. I love that little fella.
I would love to see any pet battle the balloon pet and just see how it all plays out. >D
“Guardian Cub uses Claw. It’s super effective!”
Hord Balloon releases gas … it is super effective but also takes out the audience downwind that are not already dead …. sorry fallen.
ha! I didn’t think about that! might have to steal that for a comic… XD
It pains me to think how many people have Macros planned out for this expansion. I feel like I’m 12 again. I wonder if they are going to release the clasic red baseball hat. Then the transformation will be complete.
/run t=”CRITTER”i=random(GetNumCompanions(t))c,n=GetCompanionInfo(t,i)SendChatMessage (n..”, I choose you!”)CallCompanion(t,i)
Outcome (random pet from inventory) = Winterspring Cub, I choose you!
I uh… um… have to be right back… need to grab a pen for… um… something completely unrelated… yeah… that’s it…
if blizz got sued for every form of pop culture reference, stolen movie title or quote, they would be bankrupt, BEFORE taxes.
heh, there is quite a bit of it. it’s kinda fun though to try and spot it all… there needs to be an achievement if you can find em all…
There would have to be catagories then for sure.
- TV - SciFi - Fantasy - Comic Books - Manga - old Hollywood - pop culture - classic books - SCIENCE…..
@Coffin: There already is an ach for finding them all, the 150 pet achieve (yes, I know there are more than 150 in game, but at least it something close)… And you can probably bet good money that with either the new patch or the upcoming expansion that they’ll make some reference to “Gotta Catch ‘Em All” with another tier of the escalating “have this many pets” achievement line (gotta *have* em all, or something like that)…
I just wish you could rename companion pets like you can with Hunter pets… There are a few that I would change, but a certain squirrel from the 100 pet achieve is first on the list…
you know, I thought I read somewhere that you’ll be able to do that! don’t quote me on it though…