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Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
I tried playing one of the Ranger games some time ago, but that was at a time where I had trouble playing videogames in general so I stopped fairly early. Will be neat seeing how the story goes.

Anyway, let's go with a female ranger called uh... Circe is one letter away from circle I guess.

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Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
How about Loopin (III)

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

1234567890num posted:

I also enjoyed Ranger more than MD of Sky (which is the only one I played). :hfive:


None. I'm just using an emulator and a mouse. It wasn't necessary with the Plusle, but for the harder Pokemon, I can turn down the emulator's speed to make this game actually doable. I managed to test this out with Slaking, Mew, and Deoxys (postgame spoiler), so I should be fine.

The votes for now are:
Loopy: 3
Circe: 2
Loopin: 1

Oh that Loopin thing wasn't a real vote, mine's still Circe (which I believe you've already counted)

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

quote:



Dunno about you folks, but hanging off a giant bird this way midflight certainly wouldn't go well with my Fearow heights (hoho)

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Hmm, I'm gonna give it a few more updates, but I think the Ranger game I tried wasn't this one. I'll need to see the first real mission to be sure though.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Okay unless I've gotten farther into the game than I thought I'm preeeetty sure the Ranger game I tried wasn't this one, I believe the first real mission there was a bit more high-stakes than escorting Prof. Totally-gonna-get-kidnapped.

e: whoops, update near bottom of last page!

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Whoops, looks like it's only the Super Styler that was uh.. style-napped?

Anyway,

Blaze Dragon posted:

Hastings is lame, using his age as an excuse like that. Pokémon is full of cool old guys that can absolutely annihilate you, like Rowan and Drayden, you don't get to use that excuse. Being old should only make you more powerful.

As his name suggests he put all his points into speed.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Hopefully the Styler doesn't have some special environmental protection capabilities that you'll only be authorized to activate once you're already halfway inside an active volcano or something.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

Geemer posted:

Do you have any idea how much I wanted to draw a parallel to that game's bullshit, but decided not to taint this wholesome experience with that mess? :argh:

Just let me use the drat Power BombsElectrodes, AdamSpenser! :mad:

e: thinking about it, it's funny that the AI in Fusion ends up more likable and helpful than actual Adam

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

Geemer posted:

Yeah, no kidding. I think the big difference is that with Fusion there was probably an editor that cut down on Sakamoto's BS, while in Other M they gave him way way waaaaay too much freedom to turn a mechanically decent passable game into ...that.

At least in this setting it makes sense to keep full power away from the player, since their character is a rookie that's basically getting their first real job. Unlike Samus, who just returned from literally blowing up everything on Zebes.

Also they don't seem to be locking away basic 'don't die' features that can't be dangerous to anyone.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
So that's why they're called the Go-Rock Squad. That's rockin'!

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
Sheesh Aria, just because your Castlevania was better than Circle's doesn't mean you should let it get to your head.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Guess I'll help reach the next page by just saying at this point I definitely know I only played the second game, because there's no way I played this far in and what happened there/the areas I remember were completely different.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Oh I remember this part! You wake the Steelix up, then someone else (saaay... Aria?) gets to ride on it and destroy the Go-Rock base while you watch.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
I wish you could take that Magikarp to the endgame. It'll get released automatically when you switch zones, right?

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

quote:



If we had picked to play as Lunick, would this be our victory pose each time? If so we made the even righter choice.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

1234567890num posted:

One more post to the next page

You sure about that?

e: well I'll be!

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Seeing that Charizard, I'm hoping eventually in one of these Ranger games you end up with pokemon generally liking/respecting you so much that in at least one endgame section they just follow you around and help you out without needing the styler.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
I say we check what's up with Kyogre.

But anywho, though the LP ain't over, thank you for showing us Circe's journey from rookie to Best Ranger Forever in the span of what, 2 in-game weeks? Don't remember how much they reference the passage of time.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Let's get some Pizza and explore new areas. Maybe find some new poke's on the way too.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Can you get a pizza on the way to Groudon too, at least?

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Wow, crazy!

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

1234567890num posted:

You know, I just said that Summerland's back to normal. But what's going on? It's still abnormally hot. What's causing this heat wave? ...Oh, I get it now! This heat... It's coming from this smiling couple right here! Did that vacation under intense heat inflame your passions? Oo-la-la! Ahahaha! Sorry, sorry! I'm just joking!

Nope, it's global warming :( Sadly not all problems are caused by, and solved by, pokemon.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Let's get on the Ranger Net and say 'hi' to fellow kids.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
Brag about your Capture prowess and cut a promo promising to beat all of the capture challenge records over the Ranger Net.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
Post extremely vague clues on where to find legendary pokemon on the Ranger Net

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer

1234567890num posted:


Unless you're saying that we should just post clues that are true but nobody would be able to follow them anyway, in which case, that's evil :unsmigghh:


:yeah:

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Go for a casual stroll and try to spot More Pokemon along the way.

Maybe the Ranger Net was originally supposed to let you get time-limited missions from the net or somesuch, which is why it's named this way.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
More Pokemon! We must achieve Ultimate Compassion!

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
Those Challenges have been running wild for too long, let's Capture 'em before they make even more of a ruckus.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
Let's have a guten tag after that miserable challenge.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
When I saw the first image with an NPC shouting 'Mew!' I thought that it was Mew in disguise and you'd need to find the "fake" NPC in every area to catch Mew.

Anyway, I think to truly gain Manaphy's respect we'll need to ace that Doduo challenge as well.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
tbh I'm getting the feeling you're burning out on the game. I don't remember what's left to do, but honestly I think you've shown the game off as well as could be reasonably expected, so it might be for the best to end things here.

Thank you for the great LP!

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

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Grimey Drawer
It's just we've been riding down the road to the fireworks factory for so long, I'm not sure I'm ready to actually see it.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
Whenever Manaphy's not on screen, all the other characters should be asking, "Where's Manaphy?"

e: that sounds like it'd be an awful experience

Zanzibar Ham fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Dec 14, 2019

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
This was a lot of fun to follow, thanks for wrangling all the pokemon (and villains)!

The only mainline pokemon game I've played to completion/got all the pokemon for was one of the GBC Silver/Gold ones IIRC? I first got all the mons I could legitly, then hacked to find all the rest in the wild/unlock their events etc.. I remember that all I got out of that was the professor saying 'oh, you found all of them! thank you so much!' or something to that effect.

This is much better fanfare, needless to say.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
What's with the hair on that boy? Yikes. I'll vote for the girl. As for a name, I'm tapped out for ideas so I'll just vote for someone else's suggestion.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

Crosspeice posted:

Being the boy in this game means we probably won't be in the next game cause he looks dumb as hell, so that's fine by me!

Wow, worse than this kid? Guess boy is alright.

Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer
I just hope Kellyn has a better victory pose than Lunick.

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Zanzibar Ham
Mar 17, 2009

You giving me the cold shoulder? How cruel.


Grimey Drawer

1234567890num posted:

Seems like normal shonen protagonist to me (other than those huge eyes).

On the other hand, Ranger 3 girl looks super rad, so this is the last chance for me to vote for Boy Ranger.

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