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Fargin Icehole posted:When I saw the intro to this, I couldn't help but think about this treasure. drat, I can't believe that was six years ago. How time flies. Gridlocked posted:This sounds great. Lets do it. I'm sure I can putz about in mspaint better than this guy, sign me up.
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Crazy Achmed posted:Heartgold/soulsilver of darkness I was going to adapt a quote to make it Pokemon-style, but there weren't any keywords to replace in the best possible quote so here's this: Joseph Conrad posted:Anything approaching the change that came over his features I have never seen before, and hope never to see again. Oh, I wasn't touched. I was fascinated. It was as though a veil had been rent. I saw on that ivory face the expression of somber pride, of ruthless power, of craven terror — of an intense and hopeless despair. Did he live his life again in every detail of desire, temptation, and surrender during that supreme moment of complete knowledge? He cried in a whisper at some image, at some vision, — he cried out twice, a cry that was no more than a breath — 'The horror! The horror!' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQGjPO_47w&t=376s
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The only other pokemon LP I followed was that bootleg one from China or something. It had some great fan art, like these, I believe. Don't remember who made them.   Looking forward to seeing what this game has in store for us.
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Unknown Quantity posted:A lot of the design here seems to be based around either throwing whatever the artists could put together and then statting it based on appearance or to arbitrarily fill some kind of meta. There's a very common and recurring issue around the type combinations and coverage they choose for the Fakemon but I'll let OFS go over that. Needless to say, it doesn't even remotely consider the possibility that children or just casual players of the series would be playing this. Unknown Quantity posted:Fakemon Pardon my tardiness, but you missed a golden opportunity. Fauxkémon.
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if I get assigned a sprite can I just have epee em do it for me? can I have him do all of them? Edit: all the ones that aren't done by everdraed I mean
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I think if people want to redraw sprites and stuff, they should wait until a Pokemon appears in the LP first and then mess around with it. We gotta see how bad they look first to fully appreciate any attempt at fixing them.
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There is one very very good and excellent design. And a lot that are so bad I just love them. And there's a few that are just neat.
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:But before that, there's a town map in the lab, so let's check out the Tandor regio- Assuming they really based it off Pará, I really have to wonder why they they picked that state over Rio de Janeiro, considering that RJ has a coastline, actual mountains (so it would have saved them the trouble to paint inexplicable mountains in Pará) and, I think more importantly, has an actual nuclear power plant complex that they could base the story around.
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HardDiskD posted:Assuming they really based it off Pará, I really have to wonder why they they picked that state over Rio de Janeiro, considering that RJ has a coastline, actual mountains (so it would have saved them the trouble to paint inexplicable mountains in Pará) and, I think more importantly, has an actual nuclear power plant complex that they could base the story around. Calling it now, that's where the guy helming the project, likely the same guy that blatantly inserted himself as Professor Baro 2.0, lives, and that's the sole reason it's the area being used. By the way, since I've brought it up a couple times now and someone else mentioned Vietnamese Crystal, here's a quick link to the archive for Pokemon Quartz, in case Uranium isn't enough terrible Pokemon fangame for some people (also the Pokemon designs are much, much worse).
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pokemon quartz is a national treasure i confess though: i think Plug-Oink is actually sorta clever and cute-ish. maybe it's just because it's the only one in the entire game that doesn't look like complete horrifying garbage and could potentially actually be a pokemon
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Gyra_Solune posted:pokemon quartz is a national treasure A nonzero number of Baro's And then you get things like the bugs or the giant sperm that go back to the Normal Fakemon Problem 
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Feb 20, 2017 17:53
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I unironically love Pokemon Quartz. I hope Baro is doing well. 
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Back when I wanted to make a pokemon fan game with a bad 'adult' plotline parodying poo poo like Reborn and every other rom hack, I had this idea of a political coup that succeeds because the president loses a Pokemon battle. I kind of hope that's in this game but the problem is that would be self-aware so I can't imagine they'd do anything like that.
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homeless hungry plz help posted:Back when I wanted to make a pokemon fan game with a bad 'adult' plotline parodying poo poo like Reborn and every other rom hack, I had this idea of a political coup that succeeds because the president loses a Pokemon battle. I kind of hope that's in this game but the problem is that would be self-aware so I can't imagine they'd do anything like that. Didn't Gamefreak already sorta come up with that in Black and White? In the hands of a proper game developer with writers, play testers and such, that idea could work. The problem is we're dealing not with professionals but with hormonal angsty teenagers and manchildren making these romhacks. I'm just hoping there's not a creepy Quartz-style romance plot in Uranium.
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CoffeeAvenger posted:Didn't Gamefreak already sorta come up with that in Black and White? They overthrew the Pokemon League, admittedly the closest thing the canon Pokemon universe has, but not even remotely an analogue to a realistic head of state.
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 There are two junior trainers in Maria's gym. There's no puzzle, just chances to walk around if you don't want to fight. I want to fight.  Dankey's low-kick deals huge damage to the pure-normal Pokemon, and the half-flying ones can't break Bob Dennis. Well nothing here can break Bob Dennis, but that's really lame.   Huh, it doesn't know any electric moves to use with it. Not that it'd help. Charge is awful at all times in all circumstances.  Haha, geddit? It's what that one trainer from Brock's gym said in Red & Blue! Just... again!   The slower Pokemon always moves second... in a given priority bracket. A move like Quick Attack here goes before slower brackets. Doesn't help this Birbie.  She also has a new pokemon, the kitty cat Feleng. Intimidate is a hella-strong ability that reduces the opponents' attack one stage just from switching in.   Hey, remember what I said about stores not selling Awakenings? Yeah. Here's a thing with a sleep move that never misses, so you can be firmly aware how there aren't Awakenings. But I have Ice Heals! That's important!   Scratch is nothing special, it's how Feleng is gonna claw down your sleeping things. God, this turn after Yawn hits but while my guy is still awake is frustrating as hell, as there's nothing I can to do to prevent sleep from landing next turn. Well, except switching.  Except the goddamn thing yawns again.  I made the incredible mistake of planting the berry that cures sleep as it is useful for something much further down the road, so one free full heal is all I have to cure sleep. Even then, if I waited for that berry to grow I'd have all of two because the watering can is in the loving post-game!  Bob Dennis however can take dozens of scratches with her iron body. If I didn't have her I'd be kinda boned by my inability to handle Yawn in a reasonable manner.  This isn't the oddest thing. Cheren returns from Black & White in their sequels as the first gym leader and uses a different team. His old team is a bonus battle in the post-game.  But then they decide to open this pandora's box. There have been underleveled evolutions throughout Pokemon's history, but never have they commented on it. But now the jig is up. How good of a trainer is she? Why can't I ever do it, no matter what I do? What about wild Pokemon that evolved early? Did that Slowbro take that good of care of itself it evolved at level 15 instead of 37? Having created this conundrum, Uranium then never mentions it again. Thanks!  In getting ready for the gym leader, Buttplug evolves (at its normal level of 10 because I am a plebian trainer apparently) into her new form which looks like a buttplug now, kinda. Her defense is a fair bit higher as this is the cocoon stage, and she picks up a fairy secondary type. This makes her extremely resistant to fisticuffs and unharmed by meteors. "Your buttplug evolved" is a perfect phrase, by the way.  She ends some sentences with tildes~ What does this even mean~  She gives her backstory again, which we already knew from NPC chatter. AFAIK her motivation for quitting is still that the fame got to her, which... uh... sure whatever.  Original: PU-GymBattle.ogg OFSelects: Barkley, Shut Up And Jam: Gaiden: Chapter 1 of the Hoopz Barkley SaGa: Johnathan Taylor Thomas  Her Pokemon hold no items, have level-up move lists, IVs of 10 (of 31), and are generally unremarkable. Trainer EVs in Pokemon Essentials productions are always level*1.5 in every stat.  I may or may not have known in advance she led with an Owten.   Bob Dennis picked up this power move at level 10. She'll never make anything flinch as she's slow as heck, but 70 power is a lot so I'm fine with never flinching.  For some reason, Uranium trainers have a weird habit of switching out something that's almost KOed even if all it means is I get a free hit on whatever comes in.  Of course, her Feleng has Yawn.  NPC trainers can have items too.  She switches back to Owten for some reason, right when Bob Dennis wakes up.  I try to let Dankey get some work, just to pretend this isn't 100% about Bob Dennis.  Gym leaders have some quip when they're down to one Pokemon. The music also changes. Original: PU-DecisiveBattle.ogg OFSelects: N/A How this engine works is, if the song it's supposed to change to is missing, it just keeps playing the previous one. So we're still on Johnathan Taylor Thomas. I didn't like the last Pokemon music in Black & White, I don't like it now.  Oh, this is Felunge, Feleng's evolved form. It's the same, but more. It didn't Intimidate on entry so it has Cute Charm, like Static but for falling in love.  It of course also has Yawn.  It has Scratch so it can't break through Bob Dennis either. So glad this dumb whatevertheheck trivialized this entire gym, because otherwise we'd have stare in terror at Yawn with no countermeasures.  For this she gives us the Normal Badge, a badge that's normal. Badges don't do anything in this game, but that's fine. It's about the achievement and the flags.   Return is a weird move. Happiness is an invisible attribute that ranges form 0 to 255, and so Return can have power from 1 to 102. Most Pokemon start with 70, giving Return power of 28, and it goes up with levels, walking around a lot, steroids, candy, etc. At max power, Return is the premeire physical Normal move. I'm glad to have it.  The game gives us no real direction, but trying to leave through route 2 has Theo catch us. I imagine if I tried Passage Cave I'd just run into nothing and have to come back to here, but I'm just imagining in bad faith.  Theo's still snotty about losing, and now even more snotty about us beating Maria first.  He of course challenges us to a fight to prove he's the strongest.  Theo has his own Cubblfly.   Bug Bite is a good physical bug move, which is good since Cubblfly has more attack than special attack. Of course, Buttplug is stuck with Struggle Bug. Cubblfly learns Bug Bite at level 8. When it evolves at 10. There are wild Cubblfly with it, but it's rude that by catching Buttplug as soon as possible I have denied her a good STAB move. Well, this is hardly unique to Uranium, Shadow Bone at 27 and all that, but a romhack shouldn't have that problem.  Anyway, Gutterball wins off of Gust.   Well now I am the monster with the sleep move. By the way, Gutterball did in fact get a ton of EXP from the Cubblfly. Evolved Pokemon give a ton more than unevolved ones, and a lot of Uranium's exp troubles come from how rare you get to fight evolved Pokemon consistently.  Too bad it misses and Gutterball dies for the trouble.  Oh well, second verse, same as the first.  Theo almost cries this time. Progress?  He's still huffy though. What do we get?  An HM, great.   Bamb'o had a letter with it, telling us about the HM and to come back to Moki Town. That finally gives us direction. Say what you will about getting railroaded right when you exit a building, at least it means you know where to go at all times.  Rock Smash is a decent move, but as an HM it has a use out of battle. It can crush boulders like those blocking our way to route 3, or composed the road block. As an HM move it can't be forgotten under normal circumstances though.  Bob Dennis takes it.  It's easy to backtrack to Route 1.  Finally, we've earned the OLD ROD!!!!!  Too bad fishing is hot garbage though. it goes for an extremely random duration before it decides if it's a catch or not, and there's no ! message box to give me an audio cue, so I have to work off the text, which isn't enough for my lame hands sometimes. It's like they saw Ruby/Sapphire's fishing and decided to make it worse somehow.  Regardless, I get my own Fortog.  IIRC the comment was it looked like a crappy atog.  Magikarp is here, too.  My brother named it. I shouldn't let him name anything ever again.
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I like how the sprite artist managed to get her tiny barette to line up perfectly with the arc of the off-center eyebrow they tried to squeeze in, resulting in Maria having one super long dramatic eyebrow. 
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:
True, but you should keep asking him for suggestions, post them in here, and then not use them because they're garbage.
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Straight White Shark posted:I like how the sprite artist managed to get her tiny barette to line up perfectly with the arc of the off-center eyebrow they tried to squeeze in, resulting in Maria having one super long dramatic eyebrow. Oh, is that what's going on? I couldn't not see the eyebrow. 
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I missed in the last update that Awakenings weren't buyable yet, which would've just been strange if I noticed then since it's usually one of the first status healing items to pop up in marts, but after that gym it's makes me think it was only done as a poor balancing decision to make the first gym more dangerous. Which is pretty drat stupid. Or I guess it could've been done to make Sleep even more annoying than it usually is for whatever reason, which is just as bad.
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 Good golly miss molly would you just look at this text box Using a tilde as punctuation should be equivalent to a traffic violation. Cramming it in with other punctuation nonsensically should be jail time.
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Feleng looks like someone mixed kani, an axolotl, and a kitten its evolution adds a lion instead of a kitten, but keeps the other two Oh, and OFS, good choice for the gym leader music Jen X fucked around with this message at 03:51 on Feb 21, 2017 |
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Feb 21, 2017 03:43
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Dear lord Maria's battle intro cut-in is awful.
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I can't help but imagine what kind of trainer she was if she Champion, but then retired to become a gym leader with a theme of using Yawn.
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Feleng looks more like it should be a fire-type.
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Maria just looks like a psycho with that expression. She was probably meant to look cocky, but that awful spritework did not succeed. Feleng actually looks kinda cute though.
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AlphaKretin posted:Feleng looks more like it should be a fire-type. Fire/Fighting?
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I can't believe they don't let you buy Awakenings and make the gym's gimmick be an 100% accurate sleep move, that is so ridiculous. Also, is it just me, or is Chubbfly using Shelgon's gen 4 sprite for the shell? It looks like Shelgon and Wigglytuff got put into the machine from The Fly.
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Oh hey! It's that time again! Imagine that you've never even seen Pokemon Uranium, and you're asked to identity who the player character is in this picture: ignore the tail of the dialogue bubble Now, had you seen nothing about this game save for this photo, could you reliably identify the player character? No, probably not. Why? Take a look at every other main character of the Pokemon series. Notice anything?  They're all wearing loving hats. Not only that, but they also wear clothing that is both unique and much more detailed in comparison to their average opponents. The player character, whether they choose boy or girl, is immediately identifiable from the ugly, frothing masses of trainers and losers thanks to their bright colors and hat. This include Red's signature hat, Brendan's white knit cap (that people thought was hair for the longest time) and so on. So let's compare Dick Solomon (gently caress that sounds like a goddamn Clive Cussler character) to his canon counterparts. Okay, no hat, and that loving highlighter green (it's uranium, get it!  ) shirt won't be doing him any favors. What about the full body sprite? Not much better, honestly. The shirt still doesn't really help, especially when you're comparing sprites while walking around throughout the region. His hair looks too similar to that of the Ace Trainers of previous games, and the rest of his clothes lack the kick you see with other player characters. Like I'm pretty sure Red's jeans make him distinct from like 90% of the original games alone. The funny thing is, Theo's bright and spiky hair is actually a pretty good indicator of an important character in the Pokemon games. At the very least, it sets his personality (as annoying as it may be) even before you hear him open his mouth. It also makes it easy to identify him on-screen, something I struggle with when looking at Dick Solomon. Like, if they wanted to forgo the hat, they should have made the player character's hair more identiable than just a dull brown carpet.  gently caress
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Wait why did they keep HMs AND the HM rule. Isn't the general idea behind romhacks & fan games like this that you try to improve on things that people didn't like? Like the whole HM thing? Seemed like that would be the first thing on the chopping block considering how gen 5 pushed them aside as mostly optional and that's the one they're most interested in emulating here.
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I think the tidle is supposed to indicate a musical or teasing lit to the sentence. Like the fist line would probably come out sounding similar to "I like it". But, well, what we've seen of the character before that doesn't have anything that supports a tick like that. Its more for flirty or very casual characters, not really something I conflate with a former champion who couldn't handle the fame who was just dealing with a creepazoid stalker.
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About early evolved Pokemon in the main series, the only one I ever remember getting "explained" is Falkner's Pidgeotto. It's not directly mentioned, but there's wild Pidgeotto in both GSC and HGSS in Kanto that are below the level Pidgey evolves at. They're at a low enough encounter rate some people might not bump into them. I don't think there's any wild level 50 Dragonite though.
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rannum posted:Wait why did they keep HMs AND the HM rule. Gonna stop you right there, because here's why people do fangames/romhacks of Pokemon games: "I wanna make my own Pokemon game! With blackjack! And hookers! And it'll have all the same things all the official games have because how else are you going to know it's a Pokemon game?"
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Aerdan posted:"I wanna make my own Pokemon game! With blackjack! And hookers! And it'll have all the same things all the official games have because how else are you going to know it's a Pokemon game?" All too often, the hookers are literal and the blackjack is not. 
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Tyty posted:I don't think there's any wild level 50 Dragonite though. There are wild level 10 Salamance. 
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I'll admit the Felenge and Felunge look the closest to decent pokemon that I've seen so far, but even they ever-so-slightly miss the mark. I tried improving Felunge's sprite a bit, dunno if it's any better though.  
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