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Thread: Quidditch vs Blitzball (w/ poll)

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    I just got Harry Potter's Quidditch World Cup for PS and the game is basicaly a 3D soccer similar to Blitzball, except that it's played flying, not swimming. IMHO even though the 2005 Quidditch engine is excellent and much more advanced than Blitzball, the game is not nearly as fun and as cool. Mostly because of 3 factors:

    A Bad rule in Quidditch takes most of the fun out of it
    Unlike Blitzballl which is timed, a Quidditch game only ends when someone catches a very fast small winged ball called snitch, which is worth 150 points (or 15 goals). Catching the snitch is a lot of fun and a good change of pace from the rest of the game, but waiting to find it is not. You can be winning 1,000 to zero and still you can not end the game because the darn snitch ball refuses to show up. Extremely irritating!!! I was enjoying the game a lot but after the 3rd time I had to wait for what felt like hours to end a game where my score was over 300 points all the fun turned into impatience and frustration.

    IMHO the rules should be changed to make games end when one of the teams achieves 150 points (or 200 to make it more fun) so if you are just pawning the other team you can move on instead of having to play for hours on end waiting for the cursed little winged ball

    It is hard to choose attacks and defense on Quidditch - not turn based
    This is more a matter of taste. Quidditch is built for those action game whiz guys: All the combo moves are there but you need to have 18 fingers on each hand and the agility of a monkey to be able to play them in any deliberate fashion. Otherwise just mash the controls and pray for the best! Blitzball wasn't exactly turn based but it did give you time to think on which attack to use for each pass or tackle and for the whole team for each game interval

    No scouting or trading in Quidditch. Teams are fixed
    You can pick which team you will be but not individual players

    The coolness factor" Quidditch has an ugly, kiddie look and feel
    Blitzball water sphere is super cool, the players look good and look at least old enough to drive. The music is great. Not so for Quidditch. The stadiums look reasonable but not great. Each team's special attack rocks but all players look like 12-14 year olds with weird, blocky, out of proportion faces. And the hair of most players looks like a wig

    Perhaps comparing them to the excellence of FFX or Kingdom Heart graphics is unfair but even compared to other "button mashing" games Quidditch looses. Soulcalibur and Mortal Combat had good looking characters and stages. As an example, in Soucalibur there were lovely pink cherry trees blossoming near one of the arenas and you could even see the petals falling behind the players during a fight. On Qudditch's Japan Stadium the cherry trees are blossoming too but all you see is a blurry pink mass behind the buildings

    What I liked in Quidditch and would like to see in a Blitzball standalone game
    - Fast paced and exciting game play (except waiting for the snitch to end a game, that s*cks)
    - It makes it easy to learn and play complicated moves and a complicated game
    - Very varied playing positions and score options. 3 Chasers play just like soccer and blitz, dribbling and passing a ball towards the goal, but there are also 2 "beaters" that try to knock you off with another ball, 1 seeker that chases the snitch and 1 goalie that has to defend THREE goals
    - Great use of the PS2 controls it uses all 4 buttons and each one lets you do different things: dribble, pass, tackle, "beat" the player with the ball with another ball, ...
    - World Cup / Olympics feel with different special attacks for each team, different spectators cheering, etc..
    - Sports commentators on all games. Blitzball only had it on the first game and what he said was always the same. On Quidditch the commentators react to the way you play, i.e. they talk about your great defense or tackle, they chastise you for fumbling and loosing the ball to the other team...
    - Cool team pictures and stadium details
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    I have also played the Quidditch game. I saw similarities to blitzball too. I agree with about everything you said except that the combo moves were pretty easy to pull off I thought.

    The whole you are evil thing just got old.

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    I haven't played quidditch except off the WB!'s site thing (do they even still have that?) so I dunno about the gameplay.

    But man, I saw this thread, and I seriously got confused fandomwise. I didn't realize what was wrong at first. Then it dawned on me that Quidditch is not from final fantasy. It's from a fandom I've been familiar with for far longer.

    Oh dear.

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    quidditch sucks!!

    blitzball is waaaaaaaay better

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    Quote Originally Posted by ffxfreak93
    quidditch sucks!!

    blitzball is waaaaaaaay better
    *gives cookie* .
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    I liked them both, but Quidditch eventually got much more tedious than Blitz ever got, so I prefer Blitz

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aurons Ghost
    I liked them both, but Quidditch eventually got much more tedious than Blitz ever got, so I prefer Blitz
    Yeah, when you can't trade and develop each player you get tired of it quickly.

    Plus the fact that each game has to end by finding the darn snitch... Bleargh!!!
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    Blitz rules, ya?
    Quidditch is commercialism gone mad.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lost Number
    Blitz rules, ya?
    Quidditch is commercialism gone mad.
    But if SE could somehow get together with EA and use their excellent Quidditch playing engine with SE superb graphics the resulting game would rock!!!

    It could be a newer improved FFX Blitzball
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    A new game with mostly the same rules & mechanics as Quidditch but using "air boards" (a snow board that flies) instead of brooms and cool FFX people instead of 12 year olds with cheesy wigs (that's what the Quidditch players look like).
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    Blitzball, but with a much faster pace, without sacrificing strategy.
    I would pre-order that one.
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    What the hell is Quidditch?

    Which FF Character Are You?

    Second Character: Tidus
    Third Character: Yuffie

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    Readm Harry Potter. Or better, dont.
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    Blitzball is underwater. 'Nuff said!

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    Quote Originally Posted by a nirvana fan
    What the hell is Quidditch?
    Soccer on the air with players ridding a magic broom.

    It's on the new Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire movie. It is a good movie to watch, even if you have not read the series.
    Blitz x Quidditch

    http://www.harry-potter-games.com/Qu...or_Muggles.htm
    Last edited by Renmiri; 01-21-2006 at 04:30 AM.
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    Not soccer, more like basketball.
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