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Since apple gator doesn’t look like he’s reinforce the Fire starters are Chinese zodiac thing I’d like to voice my displeasure at that theory attempting to pass fire hedgehog/badger off as a rat
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:How incredible would it be if you could do the gyms in any order and the leaders would have different rosters based on your progression The funny part is that Origins actually set up this being possible, when Red challenges Brock and Brock's like "This kid doesn't have any badges so I'll just use these two low level Pokemon," implying if Red was a more experienced trainer that Brock would've used stronger ones.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:08
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I propose that the gator is both an apple and a pepper.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:10
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I think open world just relates to their statement about the routes and towns blending together with no transition. I doubt it will be anything other than a linear story.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:10
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I want to be able to run a gym postgame and have it be super deep gameplay
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Feb 27, 2022 19:11
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Since apple gator doesn’t look like he’s reinforce the Fire starters are Chinese zodiac thing I’d like to voice my displeasure at that theory attempting to pass fire hedgehog/badger off as a rat The pokedex calls cyndaquil a mouse. Gator will loses its limbs and turn into a snake like Snivy did. 
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Feb 27, 2022 19:13
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Electric Phantasm posted:I propose that the gator is both an apple and a pepper. Apple peppers are apparently a real thing, but they are apple in name only.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:18
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Gruckles posted:The pokedex calls cyndaquil a mouse. By this logic Butterfree is a caterpillar, Huntail is a clam, and Gyarados is a carp.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:25
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I mean, clearly the fire type is based off a spicy pepper not a sweet apple, but it is funny that you could say it looks like an apple.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:31
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I don't know any peppers whose seeds are placed like that
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Feb 27, 2022 19:33
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They just did an apple dragon kinda feels like that'd be a silly well to go back to already
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Feb 27, 2022 19:34
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Ugh, imagine wanting a linear series to turn into open world schlock in 2022. If this game doesn't at least have like, an approximation of routes with trainers to battle then this is gonna be a hard pass for me regardless of how good the new starters look. Between Arceus and Gen 9's official site talking about how everyone's favorite part of Pokemon is battling wild pokemon I'm really worried about the direction of this series. Like ,I actively avoid fighting wild Pokemon ever again after I've caught the six I'm going to use in a given playthrough
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Feb 27, 2022 19:35
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I'm sorry, but I just cannot get over how much I dislike these human models. It's just such a large blemish on an otherwise really hype announcement for me.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:36
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Nihilarian posted:People keep saying these are the best starters in forever like gen 7 doesn't exist To be fair, I think it's actually the second-best looking crop of the series, and already a massive step up from gen 8 being all duds. That's the other set of a starters that had a cat, just sayin
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Feb 27, 2022 19:42
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BIG FLUFFY DOG posted:Since apple gator doesn’t look like he’s reinforce the Fire starters are Chinese zodiac thing I’d like to voice my displeasure at that theory attempting to pass fire hedgehog/badger off as a rat I forget, was there ever a water starter theory?
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Feb 27, 2022 19:44
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Nihilarian posted:i don't know that the starter theories are strict design goals. The head honcho at gamefreak probably didn't call one unlucky designer to his office, point at Typhlosion and scream "where's my RAT". But I could believe they sat down and said "foxes are like dogs, right?" Yeah the "water starters are always the best one" theory.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:47
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Gen 7 first evo starters are great, but don't hold up after evolution. Gen 4 tho? Nothing has dethroned them.
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Gruckles posted:The pokedex calls cyndaquil a mouse. Gator will loses its limbs and turn into a snake like Snivy did. I kinda hope this is the case, actually. I’d love to see it become a rattlesnake with a hot pepper rattle.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:48
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Scrap Dragon posted:Ugh, imagine wanting a linear series to turn into open world schlock in 2022. If this game doesn't at least have like, an approximation of routes with trainers to battle then this is gonna be a hard pass for me regardless of how good the new starters look. I think they're just iterating through the different inherent aspects of the series these last few games. Pokemon is collecting and battling. I don't think anyone enjoyed bashing against the RNG to find or catch things, so have them on the map and bonk'em on the back of the head with a good throw and boom, catching is fun. That and the raids have been their attempts to make the collecting aspect addictive again. Now they need to turn their attention to the battling/scenario and figure out how to make that work. There is no fun in stomping a string of low-level trainers who have 1 pokemon while you have 6. I don't know what the fun next-gen version of that ends up being but hopefully they figure it out. I think the wild pokemon attacking the trainer rather than just starting a battle is a start of something towards making the fights meaningful but they have a ways to go still if they want it to feel like a more natural part of the progression. Maybe it's adding back in some pre-gym trainer fights or a qualifier system or something that actually pits you against somewhat skilled trainers before you fight the leaders, and maybe the end game needs a more fleshed out battle-tower situation... I dunno. It's just time for some reinvention, and it seems like they're finally starting to feel the limitations of the series design
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Feb 27, 2022 19:53
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Gen 4 had the fire monkey which was the worst fire starter until the soccer bunny. The other two were great, but that's still batting two outta three.Nihilarian posted:I forget, was there ever a water starter theory? There's not really an interesting pattern, but they have all been semi-aquatic animals, like swimming reptiles and amphibians and waterfowl, rather than fully aquatic animals like fish or cetaceans, or entirely non-aquatic animals like iunno a horse or something. Always something that lives in or near water but also walks on land.
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Feb 27, 2022 19:54
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https://twitter.com/bedupolker/status/1497967438629154822
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Feb 27, 2022 19:58
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Xander B Coolridge posted:I don't know any peppers whose seeds are placed like that I don't think this logic holds up considering Bounsweet has a white bottom half, and mangosteens don't actually have that unless you cut them open. That doesn't make Bounsweet based on some other fruit just because it doesn't adhere to how real life mangosteens are. Peppercroc is a hot pepper.
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Feb 27, 2022 20:00
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What if the little apple face is supposed to be more reminiscent of a skull, like the kind you might see on a bottle of hot sauce? That could be cool.
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Feb 27, 2022 20:08
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Water starter is gonna become a sailor and everyone is gonna call it Donald
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Feb 27, 2022 20:08
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I'm imagining the cat turning into a lion but a flower for it's mane.
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Feb 27, 2022 20:10
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indigi posted:I want to be able to run a gym postgame and have it be super deep gameplay Pokemon Gym Manager: You're the leader and you recruit trainers and use winnings from battles with challengers to buy new traps and puzzles to make your gym harder to beat. Your friends' PCs can battle your gym or you can trade trainers with each other to get better pokemon or items. SwSh mentioned "minor leagues" in Galar, so perhaps you could start as a minor league leader and work your way up to being the top gym leader in the region.
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Feb 27, 2022 20:12
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it's flat gently caress friday at last
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HackensackBackpack posted:Pokemon Gym Manager: You're the leader and you recruit trainers and use winnings from battles with challengers to buy new traps and puzzles to make your gym harder to beat. Your friends' PCs can battle your gym or you can trade trainers with each other to get better pokemon or items. SwSh mentioned "minor leagues" in Galar, so perhaps you could start as a minor league leader and work your way up to being the top gym leader in the region. oooh like a happy home academy/evil genius "We need 3 trainers with 3 water type pokemon each" so you go and catch and train up the pokemon and then you watch tower defense style as people solve your puzzles and make their way to you that could be fun
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Xelkelvos posted:Water starter is gonna become a sailor and everyone is gonna call it Donald Part 4 Josuke gonna evolve into Part 8 Josuke.
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https://twitter.com/o_ju_o/status/1497949278924279808
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 I spent five minutes on my concept art of "Fuecoco, but I like him now". Now that's a croc I can get behind. Nihilarian posted:i don't know that the starter theories are strict design goals. The head honcho at gamefreak probably didn't call one unlucky designer to his office, point at Typhlosion and scream "where's my RAT". But I could believe they sat down and said "foxes are like dogs, right?" There's "water starters are amphibious animals, never fish" which is pretty solid and "water starters are weapons", which has a couple of fair ones (Blastoise = cannon, Empoleon = trident, Samurott = katana, Greninja = shuriken, Inteleon = gun) and then a bunch that are massive stretches (Feraligatr = cestus because it has fists I guess, Swampert = war fan because of its tail fin, Primarina = mace because its tail kind of looks like a mace)
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HackensackBackpack posted:Pokemon Gym Manager: You're the leader and you recruit trainers and use winnings from battles with challengers to buy new traps and puzzles to make your gym harder to beat. Your friends' PCs can battle your gym or you can trade trainers with each other to get better pokemon or items. SwSh mentioned "minor leagues" in Galar, so perhaps you could start as a minor league leader and work your way up to being the top gym leader in the region. I had the idea for this game ages ago. You start the game by getting a letter from a Pokémon professor in a new region who has heard of your skills as a trainer and asks you to take up the mantle as the gym leader in his town. You get to fix up and build out a dilapidated old gym and decorate a little home for yourself. But in order to earn the respect of the other gym leaders, you need to go beat them and acquire trainers for your own gym, who will then use whatever type of Pokémon you choose. You can set your own gym team, design your own badge and upload your gym for other players to try to beat. Kind of like Mario Maker, but for Pokémon.
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HackensackBackpack posted:Pokemon Gym Manager: You're the leader and you recruit trainers and use winnings from battles with challengers to buy new traps and puzzles to make your gym harder to beat. Your friends' PCs can battle your gym or you can trade trainers with each other to get better pokemon or items. SwSh mentioned "minor leagues" in Galar, so perhaps you could start as a minor league leader and work your way up to being the top gym leader in the region. Always wanted something like this as a postgame. It’d be even cooler if main characters from previous games could also challenge you.
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I'm not ready to see all the PokéTubers butcher the pronunciation of all these new starters lol
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Procrastine posted:
You removed 90% of its character and unique design. Instead of looking like a pokemon, it's like "oh, chibi crocodile"
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Sleeping Sigma posted:I'm sorry, but I just cannot get over how much I dislike these human models. It's just such a large blemish on an otherwise really hype announcement for me. Did they remove the artist who does the character designs for pokemon trainers or something? The eyes are...off...
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Feb 27, 2022 20:56
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I was hungry for more pokemon after PLA so I got Sword a few days ago and shelled out for the DLC last night, I should be chafing at paying $90 for the game people seem lukewarm on hours before the successor was announced but I guess I have like 9 months to enjoy this one
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Feb 27, 2022 20:56
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This better be the Gen we get a loving gun.
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Scholtz posted:You removed 90% of its character and unique design. Instead of looking like a pokemon, it's like "oh, chibi crocodile" What character is in the original that isn't in this one? Legitimately baffled right now
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This is my biggest fear. My kid was watching the zeraora movie today and all I could do was shake my head. Lucario ruined everything
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