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Commander Keene posted:I think Katarani is saying something like "purpleface is just 'trying not to be blackface'" and that the problem still needs to be actually fixed and not just Band-Aided. I think seeing it as "purpleface" or "blackface" is assuming it's meant to be a black person in the first place, instead of a japanese cultural/ mythological grab bag, like a lot of the designs wind up being.
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Jobbo_Fett posted:Considering this game? I'm expecting him to evolve into a Blooming Onion.  I'm down
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Asehujiko posted:A bigger question wrt Jynx: parasect has just as much of a grotesque design influence
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Mar 10, 2017 18:04
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most pokemon are based off of nature and myths, and it turns out that both those things can be horrifying
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Mar 10, 2017 18:05
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All this talk of cyborg dragons and no ones brought up the gen 5 pair that literaly have jet engines for tails. Gen 4-5 were not the high point of legendary design for the series. Thankfully they seem to have gotten better lately, X/Y were passable and Sun/Moon have some of my all time favorites between the cover legendaries and the tapus.
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Mar 10, 2017 18:22
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I thought the Sinnoh reality-warping legendaries were the coolest thing in the world back in late 2000s, but they're definitely a bit... messy-looking.
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Vorpal Cat posted:All this talk of cyborg dragons and no ones brought up the gen 5 pair that literally have jet engines for tails. Correction: one of them has a jet engine for a tail. The other has an electrical generator.
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 Rochfale Tunnel isn't actually an interesting cave. Sorry for the cliffhanger.  By the way, this is the third trainer in a row to use a Dearewl. I replaced the trainer battle music again. OFSelects: Daft Punk: Aerodynamic  Finally, a Modrille to call our own. The person who named this wanted to call him Conehead but accidentally typed Comehead. I went with that because, actually, this Modrille's job is to gently caress. I also replaced the wild Pokemon music too. OFSelects: T. Rex: Thunderwing  Thank goodness, a trainer who decides to say fewer words rather than more!  Gligar are here too. They're unchanged from the official games, so they're still resilient punks with good typing and a really broad movepool, though lacking a ground move without TMs hurts their immediate prospects.  PU-Beachdesert.ogg This does raise an interesting question. Is Route 7 a beach, a desert, or a both?  There's a rest house near the entrance that has the Pokemon center functions about which we care. This is nice, because every sand tile can have random encounters.  A coconut crab!  Heh heh heh.  OH MY GOD     Buttplug's leveling off of the Exp. Share. Cubblfly learns both of these moves at the same level. Both are powders and are nullified by grass-types, but Buttplug's a bug so it'll work out. I hope.  I have a full set of evolution stones from the photographer, but I feel like saying, hey, look at this. Chekov's stone.  Imagine six other NPCs say this with varying levels of creepy. That's what we're told about Cali, Bealbeach's gym leader.  Corsola shows up to disappoint even in fan games...  This trainer is unusual in that he asks politely.  Behind him is the fighting-boosting hold item. My Fursona needed something to hold up his distressed blue jeans.  Li'l snail. The sandcastle on its back is sort of a suggestion at this point, but don't worry, it'll evolve.  It's not every day you can click an image in this LP, so go for it this time!  Route 7 is kinda sprawling and the constant random encounters, though not dangerous, can be disorienting. This bridge is the sign you're on the right track because...  Theo shows up!  Theo has a PST too, this is relevant! (jk it never comes up)  Of course since we're rivals we must battle.  I changed Theo's battle music too, since, well, I'm not using any horses at the moment. OFSelects: Weatherbox: Pagan Baby  He has this baby grass bird thing? It's fast with good special attack but its move list hasn't gone anywhere yet. Being pure-grass, Dumbledore wrecks it and drinks its vital fluids.  She sorta curbstomps Theo's team in general. The advantages of being fully evolved, I guess.  Theo barely holds back his tears before resolving to beat the next gym before Dick Solomon.   Oh HELL yeah, the other reason I evolved Dumbledore so early is that Vilucard learns this at level 25. Our first singature move (only Minyan and Vilucard learn it) and our first move created for Uranium, it's Giga Drain but physical and dark, and it is gonna be Dumbledore's bread and butter forever. With Blood Lust it has an effective 2/3 drain, giving her resilience beyond what her lovely defenses imply.  Mini-cave!  It has grass with the exact same encounters as outside, and a free PP Up.   Weather effects are weird in that it's usually not worth the time to use a move for them, but abilities that automatically cause them are incredibly, incredibly powerful. Chalk it up to opportunity cost and momentum. Harsh sunlight primarily weakens water but boosts fire moves. It activates the abilities Chlorophyll (doubles speed) and Leaf Guard (immunity to status effects) and alters a whole host of moves we've not seen.  You like this gag of a pair of trainers breaking up because they lost? It repeats two more times.  Oddly enough, the line between Route 7 and Bealbeach City is here.  PU-Bealbeach_City.ogg It's a remix of Lilycove City from Ruby & Sapphire. But with this instrumentation it sounds like The Always Sunny in Philadelphia theme song.  It has a casino. The offical games may have disavowed gambling but it'll live on in fan games!  This guy sells something new for Uranium. It has the HP recovery of a Super Potion and the status restoration of a Full Heal, all in one! It's also an evolution item for one thing.  Bealbeach is mostly skyscrapers with a beachfront that forgot to have anything fun to do without Surf.  It's the BIG WINNER of our WHERE THE gently caress IS THE POKEMON CENTER CONTEST by being in the back corner and nowhere near any mandatory location or interesting set piece! It is entirely possible to visit every other location of interest in Bealbach without even seeing it!  Remember what I said about Davern having a Cave theme? Cali has a Beach theme, which probably means the ground-types we saw on route 7 are gonna be her pals.  DID YOU LIKE CREEPIN ON WEOMN WE GOTTS IT A BUCNH HEAR IN BALLBACH  This is the location of progress, where we walk in, tell dad he sucks, then get cancer from radiation poisoning. Ain't doin' it yet.  DID YOU KNOW GIRLS WEAR BIKINIS AT THE BEACH? facts like tehse are available at the bullblech tourism center  This lady gives us a mystery egg. For some reason Uranium lets us see the typing of the baby in the egg. This one is Grass/Electric. Mysterious!  Anyway, here's the den of vice and sin.  There's an ID lottery here, where the lady must be a demon from hell because her text is red. She pulls a number, and if any of the numbers match any of the numbers of original trainer IDs of any of our Pokemon, including ones in boxes, we get something! It's once per day, and the top prize if there's a perfect match is a Master Ball, that straight up skips checks and calling the RNG and catches without fail. I'm spelling it out now because unlike all the other traditions it mindlessly recreates, Uranium does not give the player a Master Ball at any point.  DID YOU KNOW WOEMN HAVE BREASTS????? these facts and mroe at the billbitch turtlism cneter  This is the guard's justification for letting a 13-year-old youth gamble.  We can spend money to get coins, but that's lame.  There are various Pokemon as prizes, but we've seen 4 of them. The 5th though... for nearly 10k coins (cash value of 199,980 rubles)... what is it?  Also a mega stone, a mysterious object (that still has a cash value of 180,000 euros), and a bad TM. Third lady has some hold items.  ...Uh huh.  This guy is on a hot streak, so he gives us $2000 worth of coins for free.  There's of course slot machines. But they're video game slot machines in that they aren't reliable for winning big and you kinda have to save scum.  There's also voltorb flip, a weird minesweeper-type thing where the numbers on each row and column tell you the total number of points but also the number of mines. It's actually a fairly solved game, and there exist online utilities to work it out for you from the numbers and a few low-risk flips. Which means it's easy to make thousands and thousands of coins. Which I do.  So I grab the mega stone and a few items. And a Tracton. What's a Traction?  A backhoe dragon!????!??!?!?!?
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i'm always for crabs that aren't part water, and the coconut works as an armor so as long as it doesn't evolve into a ice type its cool the snail would be cooler if it didn't look like it was made of jelly
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Mar 10, 2017 19:30
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i suppose it can be said now that yes, mega evolutions are in the game imagine the spotty designs of the real mega evos and then imagine how uranium can manage to have an even worse ratio of good to bad ones
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Mar 10, 2017 19:31
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this game taught me what a Backhoe is (well what the english word for it is anyway) and also thats its murder on four wheels
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Mar 10, 2017 19:32
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Holy poo poo that mechadragon. Get hosed Porygon, this is way more worth the investment (so I hope).
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Mar 10, 2017 19:36
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Johnny Joestar posted:i suppose it can be said now that yes, mega evolutions are in the game The real problem is that real mega evos are spotty starting from professional quality designs. Megas for the average Uranium pokemon seems like a recipe for unfiltered garbage. Unrelated: Dragon/Steel is a terrifying type combination and they stuck it on a nonlegendary? I can foretell that endgame will be filled with excavator dinos...
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Mar 10, 2017 19:40
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That backhoe is the key to breaking this game in half It's so goddamn stupid for so many reasons
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Mar 10, 2017 19:47
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Holy poo poo, that dragon tank looks like the designer heard that Hydreigon was originally going to be a tank and got pissed off that GameFreak didn't do that, so they made THEIR OWN DRAGON TANK. Also, inadvertent Chrono Trigger reference?
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Mar 10, 2017 19:52
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So that coconut crab is basically what happens when a Dwebble can't find a rock to use, and the sand castle snail is almost literally the same Pokemon as Shellos. The backhoe dragon is the only design I've seen that isn't either mediocre or a minor variation on an existing Pokemon design (or both). By the way, not to keep referencing it, but the Quartz LP had a Pokemon nicknamed "Deez Nuts" as well. I find the continuity between bad Pokemon fangames very enjoyable.
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Mar 10, 2017 19:55
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:
It got all digimon in here all of a sudden...
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Mar 10, 2017 20:00
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Coconut crab is the first Uranium design I genuinely like  Backhoe dragon is a good concept but the execution is a bit iffy. B-, maybe a C+.
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Mar 10, 2017 20:00
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I want to see the description of that thing. Are they going to try to claim that it's a natural creature?
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Mar 10, 2017 20:03
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LupusAter posted:Unrelated: Dragon/Steel is a terrifying type combination and they stuck it on a nonlegendary? It's much like its namesake. 
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Mar 10, 2017 20:04
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tracton could do with not having friggin treads for legs, like that looks dumb as heck
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Mar 10, 2017 20:04
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they melted down a bunch of steelix and built a backhoe, so now it's a pokemon
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Mar 10, 2017 20:09
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Aw, it's cute. And also a decent design pun.
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Mar 10, 2017 20:12
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:It's much like its namesake. Beloved by children? A real nice fellow? Can't remember Robert Ginty's name, so it always calls him "that paperchase guy"?
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quote:I'm spelling it out now because unlike all the other traditions it mindlessly recreates, Uranium does not give the player a Master Ball at any point. Good god why???
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Mar 10, 2017 20:17
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not giving a masterball is so whatever i can't see why you'd be upset over it tbh
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Mar 10, 2017 20:21
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Because it's one of the better series traditions. Your one time only get out of jail free card for catching a tricky pokemon. For a game that clings so slavishly too all the bad traditions, not giving you a masterball just seems spiteful.
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Yeah, Cocaran is neat, reminds me of Dwebble. Although it still feels like Dwebble executed the design concept better. I have a soft spot for inanimate object pokemon (even if I've never really used any on my teams, unless Magnezone counts), so even if Tracton is unfairly strong I still kinda like it. I'm now imagining it teaming up with Diggersby and Gurdurr as some sort of Construction Worker team.
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Mar 10, 2017 20:33
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my tentacruel could totally beat up this loudred
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Mar 10, 2017 20:34
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Eh, plenty of people have a bad tendency to hoard their master ball indefinitely anyways - "But what if I need it later?" syndrome - so them forgoing the free one isn't really that bad on its own. Besides, real players want their team to match and catch everything they want to use in premium balls (or dusk). 
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Mar 10, 2017 20:50
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Well s thread got me to go and get Pokémon Moon. It also got me to attempt to finish reading the Quartz LP. It's a shame the screenshots are so small-makes it hard to appreciate how truly  the designs are.
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Isn't Jynx also based somewhat on Japan's Ganguro fashion? e: whoops I'm a little late to this convo.
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Mar 10, 2017 21:20
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Why does something tell me that there's going to be a Uranium-original 'mon that has a catch rate as low as the Metagross line?
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Mar 10, 2017 21:21
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:It's much like its namesake. In my play through of Black 2 I went with an MST3K theme and gave MEGAWEAPON to Heatran.
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Mar 10, 2017 21:22
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Yay, we're rapidly approaching the point where one of my least favorite design decisions of Uranium comes into play.
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This game deserves to be run over by a Tracton and I'm glad that seems to be the plan. Also they took it out but Gligar had a pre evo in this at some point. I have no idea either why they thought it needed one, or why they suddenly decided it didn't. e: also sorry but I have to laugh at the idea that this game would even consider waiting until late game to unleash the bullshit McDragon fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Mar 10, 2017 21:49
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That mecha dragon is so dumb. I love it
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all hail the backhoe, god of destruction
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What's with the pixellation on Ludicolo? Is it a scaling issue?
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