crimsonblue:
a pokemon rip off designed as a gimmick, which is going to have the lifespan of 2-3 months before people get sick of blizzard’s standard set of gimmicks? oh yes amazing. totally worth their time.

The pet battle system *is* meant to be a distraction, an additional thing .. not a core part of gameplay. That’s hardly an issue though. It *would* be an issue, if it were made out to be a core thing.

It’s fun. It’s a simple, casual minigame that brings in simple tactics and collecting OCD mania. I think it can be expanded on, sure, but as a base implementation, it’s pretty damn good.

As pokemon has moved into more and more graphical consoles they have been improving their animations.

cyrinno:
I’ve found the pet battle system to be boring as.

It feels half implemented and they could of had some pretty good attack animations, but it’s just a normal scratch here or a frostbolt there.

It just feels like they couldn’t be much bothered, just throw in a bunch of already existing assets. It even slows down levelling because the player doesn’t get much out of it.

I’d have liked a pet battle system that had some original animations and had a combat system that was original. There’s nothing wrong about the idea at all. It’s just lazy in it’s creation.

Did you ever play Pokemon? Lol. They were was like next to no animations yet people played the absolute crap out of those games (me included).

I haven’t delved into the Pet Battles too much yet, but it’s very much a side thing and not to be a “i’m gonna level this way”, it’s a side distraction for something different to do then jumping around Orgrimmar/Stormwind waiting for raids.

It feels half implemented and they could of had some pretty good attack animations, but it’s just a normal scratch here or a frostbolt there.

It just feels like they couldn’t be much bothered, just throw in a bunch of already existing assets. It even slows down levelling because the player doesn’t get much out of it.

I’d have liked a pet battle system that had some original animations and had a combat system that was original. There’s nothing wrong about the idea at all. It’s just lazy in it’s creation.

crimsonblue,
A gimmick it might be, but actually th e pet battle system is a lot of fun.

Unfortunately, I’ve already promised myself that I’m pretty much done with WoW.