No, but it’s one of the more valid factors. If a game doesn’t feel right it lessens the enjoyment somewhat.
No, but it’s one of the more valid factors. If a game doesn’t feel right it lessens the enjoyment somewhat.
Maybe wrong in comparation…
Eh?
You said it didn’t feel right.I said that it might feel wrong when comparing with the style of the other PD games.
Which is exactly my point.
When comparing.
But when you are not comparing with the other PD games it’s still great.
I thought the Towers’ purpose among other things was to heal the environment themselves so that it would be fully healed and habitable by the time the Ancients came back…
Yes, that was their original purpose. As the Seekers had discovered by the time of Saga, though, the Towers had become worn down and were malfunctioning, and they would never have been able to heal the planet.
It’s heavily implied that they were actually having a negative impact on the environment as well as on the human race (i.e. through monster production), but I can’t remember if this is explicitly stated anywhere…
Not in my opinion. It looks tacky.
[quote=“Shadow”]
Not in my opinion. It looks tacky.[/quote]
I’ve got to agree that the game is great; however, I think the visuals seemed like a flawed attempt to make PD’s distinctive style more mainstream and accessible. They didn’t murder it in my opinion, but a lot of the new designs seemed very cheesy (like the Dragonmares), or discordant (like that Episode 4 statue boss). A lot of the visual imagery was stuff I’d have found it hard to associate with the Panzer Dragoon universe prior to Orta.
Lance my boy, you be representin’.
There’s a decent amount of information about this in Tower Report 3 - panzerdragoon.net/books/tower_report_3.php
The book states that “But over the years, the Towers, have worn down. They are not functioning efficiently. The regeneration process that began in the Ancient Age has still not been completed.” However, the back up what I was suggesting we need to look at Pandora’s Box where the Great Fall is mentioned. The box states:
“Floods caused by the melting of the polar regions resulted in large areas
of land being swallowed by water, earthquakes created vast canyons and
gave birth to new mountains, and the difference in temperature between the various regions of the land grew further and further apart.”
And later on it mentions that:
“Scholars claim that the ancient ruins themselves played some role in maintaining the world’s climate and ecosystem.”
Now if the Towers themselves had such an impact on the environment, it seems safe to assume that the Great Fall had a dramatic effect on the ecosystem. Without the Towers control over the environment, new plants and animals might emerge that wouldn’t otherwise be able to survive under the Towers’ influence.
I’m not sure about that.I think the Tower dictates which kind of flora populated the land…
That’s what I think too. But once the Towers became inactive (the Great Fall) they’d no longer be able to do that. That’s when the natural world would once again become the dominant force in ensuring the survival of a species.
That’s just it.I always had the idea that this world couldn’tlive on its own,
Animals and plants alike , exist only because of the Tower.The land can no longer “produce” live on its own.After the Great Fall the world just kept dying.
But I’m probably wrong.This was just my impression…
[quote=“GehnTheBerserker”]That’s just it.I always had the idea that this world couldn’tlive on its own,
Animals and plants alike , exist only because of the Tower.The land can no longer “produce” live on its own.After the Great Fall the world just kept dying.
But I’m probably wrong.This was just my impression…[/quote]
The impression I got was that at the end of Saga, the Seekers didn’t know exactly what was going to happen when the Towers went offline; but they just wanted to be in control of their own lives, rather than have the Towers dominate the planet, and continue their production of dangerous monsters.
I thought that the Towers were acting like a faulty life support system for the planet; they had probably healed a certain amount of the damage the Ancients had done to the world, but after running down and wearing out, they were just keeping the environment stagnant, unable to mend the environment, but also unable to stop trying.
Through the deactivation of the Towers, the planet was given a chance to heal on its own, and for its ecosystems to recover naturally.
I think.
[quote=“GehnTheBerserker”]That’s just it.I always had the idea that this world couldn’tlive on its own,
Animals and plants alike , exist only because of the Tower.The land can no longer “produce” live on its own.After the Great Fall the world just kept dying.[/quote]
The Seekers believed strongly that the Towers needed to be destroyed in order to free the human race. Yes, they went through many hardships because of this (such as half the human race dying off), but ultimately the world began recovering after that and humanity was freed as the seekers predicted. If all of the world’s life had died off, there would have been no point in deactivating the Towers.
That woulod be impossible in such a short timeframe (Saga to Orta).
The Seekers kept creating their monsters you said?!What do you mean?
Yeah, that’s a good point Lance. The Seekers obviously thought that it was worth the risk, even if it was at the cost of their own lives. Like Gash said “We’re not really living. Just being kept alive.” Panzer Dragoon Orta confirms that both good and bad results have from deactivating the Towers, but ultimately the world began to heal.
Why? Maybe existing species adapted to the changing environment in order to survive. They’d have to blend in with the surrounding environment. I’m not exactly a science wizz, but we don’t know how the Ancients created their monsters. They could have been “programmed” (I use that word very loosely) to change according to the environment around them, much like the dragon adapts to a situation in battle by morphing.
Keep in mind that this is a science fiction game… the environment could change in ways beyond reason according to the rules of the natural world, depending on how the Ancients set up the whole Tower system.