I'm not sure I can do this again.

[Shurrikhan]

I didn't use the term gimmicky in a negative-connotation, but I agree that it could be construed as such quite easily. To me, a gimmick is merely non-standard gameplay. I.e. A2S Gobwalker, Byakko Falling Scene, Shinryu/Susanno ATE button spam, etc.

Oh, no, I didn't mean to say that you had, just that it's rampantly used as such (though more so on the WoW forums), by which I meant to point out that that what can seem fun in concept can easily backfire in practice.

And same. There's just nothing to accomplish or min-max in a button-spam. But gobwalkers and typhon (and... maybe if there were ever a Byakko Savage(?)) certainly have that.

You know I'm good for it. More often than not though peoples critical thinking begins at "check this commission out!" and ends at "go play WoW". *Gasp* such brilliance...

I look forward to it. I can pretty well sculpt out an idea of your thoughts on it at this point, but I don't think I've heard explicitly what makes something "new" from you yet. Ambiguous question context aside, though, I suspect our answers will be fairly close(?).