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OneDeadman posted:Real talk: Why does this game make you purchase False Swipe Because False Swipe is a move that casual players find moderately useful for catching Pokemon, and 'hardcore' players find absolutely necessary for shiny hunts/IV hunts/making sure you get a perfect nature/whatever. Basically, it's because if you play Pokemon casually, False Swipe is just a pretty nice move to have, but if you're the kind of super competitive player this game is supposedly aimed at False Swipe is hugely important and valuable so better stick a price tag on that poo poo. That's my guess, anyway. I like False Swipe but I don't need it, whereas my shiny hunting friend really needs it or she'd end up pulling her hair out from accidental crits.
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I honestly don't think the OST is bad. That includes the Nuclear Pokemon battle theme.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:09
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I've never used false swipe. I catch my pokemon the hard way. Unless I have Quick balls.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:31
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Hammurabi posted:I honestly don't think the OST is bad. That includes the Nuclear Pokemon battle theme. And then you've got some songs that, uh... aren't. Edit I mean, bad music alone wouldn't be enough to make a great game bad (see Shining Force 2), but when there's already so much working against it, it's hard to be forgiving. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 22:55 on Mar 16, 2017 |
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Mar 16, 2017 22:49
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quote:SPOILER POLICY: Don't spoil one goddamn thing, even behind tags. With my big and beautiful backhoe I will dig up everything. We haven't fought the champion so posting the champion music is a bit out of line imo.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:50
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:We haven't fought the champion so posting the champion music is a bit out of line imo.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:54
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I'd like a pokemon game with music inspired by Queen. I'd prefer composed by Queen, but that'd be kind of difficult.
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Mar 16, 2017 22:56
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PureRok posted:I'd like a pokemon game with music inspired by Queen. I'd prefer composed by Queen, but that'd be kind of difficult. pokemon / highlander crossover?
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Mar 16, 2017 22:57
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"My stand, Too Much Love, emits a powerful radioactive wave that corrupts and enrages all those infected by it, giving me complete control over the wild life and letting them shoot nuclear lasers because shut up it's cool of course that's how radiation works."
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Arcade Rabbit posted:and letting them shoot nuclear lasers because shut up it's cool well it is...
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Orcs and Ostriches posted:pokemon / highlander crossover? The hardcore nuzlocke fans would never shut up about imposing it on the main game to be consistent, though.
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PMush Perfect posted:I mean, going through it, some of the songs are decent. The fore-mentioned Nuclear battle, and the Gym Leader theme has its moments. For a free fangame made by volunteers, a lot of the songs have enough cohesion to hold some kind of consistent instrumental theme, at least. They're not award-winning, but there are some songs that make decent evidence for the OST being the best/only good part of Uranium. To be fair, I didn't even really find the trainer theme bad on it's own (the random LET'S RUN THROUGH THE SCALES!!! bit aside), but it's definitely not music you'd hear in a pokemon game. It sounds more like boss battle music in a standard JRPG than something you'd hear in a pokemon game, which has a very distinct sound. ...Then again, that feels pretty appropriate - this game seems to just barely get what makes pokemon great and so beloved, but fall short in massive ways.
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Mar 17, 2017 01:46
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What I noticed about most of the original or arranged tracks in the game is that there's almost always some section of the song where the bass gets a little heavier, the notes deeper, and everything sounds a little more ominous, as if to say "check out this more mature take on this series, even the music sounds more mature."
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Mar 17, 2017 01:59
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PMush Perfect posted:Edit I mean, bad music alone wouldn't be enough to make a great game bad (see Shining Force 2), but when there's already so much working against it, it's hard to be forgiving. Not only is the Shining Force 2 soundtrack great, but this is easily one of the best tracks in the entire game Also I had forgotten that Steel resists Nuclear and Poison is not effective against it. Why on earth would they take the best defense type and worst offensive type and reinforce that even further?
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Mar 17, 2017 03:16
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inthesto posted:Not only is the Shining Force 2 soundtrack great, but this is easily one of the best tracks in the entire game I'm glad I wasn't the only one looking to defend the early Shining series honor. The soundtrack has its duds but seriously, listen to the symphonic version some time, the soundtrack works a whole hell of a lot better when it's not restricted to the Genesis PCM chip. On-topic, Nevileen posted:...Then again, that feels pretty appropriate - this game seems to just barely get what makes pokemon great and so beloved, but fall short in massive ways. Isn't the whole point of "what makes Pokémon great" the fact that it appeals to a huge swath of the population, casual and hardcore alike, new and old? In general narrowing your demographic (like you would with a fangame) is going to make some or all of it fall flat for everybody but who you're catering to.
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I thought I saw a reference to a Hero type in the last update? I will be honest, I think "nuclear" would be a cool pokemon type, but it's Pokemon Uranium, so it's done poorly. Also I'm not sure what happened...Dick went to the power plant, fought a murderbot, and passed out after learning nothing?
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I thought I saw a reference to a Hero type in the last update? He also activated a ~mysterious~ machine.
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I thought I saw a reference to a Hero type in the last update? I think that was a Sonic Adventure joke since the options were "hero" and "dark".
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TheGreatEvilKing posted:I thought I saw a reference to a Hero type in the last update? Basically. He did find a few clues that things weren't on the up and up, but since he's mute everyone else is as much in the dark as before.
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Mar 17, 2017 05:35
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Shining Force 1 had great music, and is a great game. Shining Force 2 is an even better game, with music that sounds like they let someone play with a synthesizer and stitched together the parts that sound kind of like music. Edit I'm willing to concede that I haven't heard the orchestral version, and they may be absolutely fantastic, but they're not what's coming out of the console in front of me. girl dick energy fucked around with this message at 05:59 on Mar 17, 2017 |
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Mar 17, 2017 05:57
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I enjoyed SF2's music, I suppose, but yeah, SF1's music is something I still hum occasionally to this day.
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Mar 17, 2017 06:12
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Ramos posted:He also activated a ~mysterious~ machine. Well, from the words "Stasis Tank", and knowing how 'edgy' this game tries to be, the pod contains what's left of your mom while your dad fucks with radiation to try and bring her back. Or a legendary Pokemon, that works too.
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PBJ posted:Well, from the words "Stasis Tank", and knowing how 'edgy' this game tries to be, the pod contains what's left of your mom while your dad fucks with radiation to try and bring her back. Or a legendary Pokemon, that works too. not nearly edgelord enough. The legendary pokemon's gotta be your mom, probably after torture.
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Mar 17, 2017 07:22
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dis astranagant posted:not nearly edgelord enough. The legendary pokemon's gotta be your mom, probably after torture. ...wait.
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PMush Perfect posted:And even though she's become a victim of everything she fought to destroy, you must work together using her power to defeat Driscoll in the name of Karen and the Canyon Crows! Great, now I want Squeenix and Nintendo to make a FrontMission Pokemon game where all the Wanzers are based on Pokemon, retaining the mix-and-match aspects of building your robots.
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neongrey posted:I enjoyed SF2's music, I suppose, but yeah, SF1's music is something I still hum occasionally to this day. Unfortunately I somehow wound up entwining the early battle music from SF I with Rob Schneider's schtick from SNL. So every time I hear it my brain goes "He's a big man..making copies". I played through Uranium a few months ago, and while I was more forgiving about it than most even I saw that the implementation of the Nuclear type was molten garbage.
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inthesto posted:Also I had forgotten that Steel resists Nuclear and Poison is not effective against it. Why on earth would they take the best defense type and worst offensive type and reinforce that even further? Because you use metal (steel and lead) shielding to contain radiation and, uh, radiation already makes you sick so poison isn't going to change much of anything? Okay the poison thing is probably a stretch but Steel does make sense...
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SilverGryphon posted:Because you use metal (steel and lead) shielding to contain radiation and, uh, radiation already makes you sick so poison isn't going to change much of anything? yeah my main complaint is less that Steel does resist it and more that ground, rock, and possibly water don't, since all of those are just as good for containment.
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why would u think they would spend time actually coming up with realistic strengths/weakness when they could say its strong against everything and weak against everything and spend no energy thinking
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in pop culture steel is always used for nuclear containment over water or other materials so eh, i'd give it a pass
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Steel is strong because Metal Gear is the ultimate nuclear weapon.
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The other possibility is that it's a lazy joke. "Ha ha, poison sux, steel rules! "
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Waffleman_ posted:Steel is strong because Metal Gear is the ultimate nuclear weapon. Klinklang isn't in this game.
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Added Space posted:The other possibility is that it's a lazy joke. "Ha ha, poison sux, steel rules! " Not necessarily a joke. Some people just get really into a game's meta to the point where they get stuck on the way things are as the way things are "supposed" to be and want to reinforce them even more. To this thinking steel is "supposed" to be massively awesome defensively and poison is "supposed" to completely suck offensively, so why would you try to balance them out at all when that's clearly not how the game works?
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Is water actually used to contain radiation? I was under the impression that its use in plants is to regulate temperature and create steam. Like, one of the problems surrounding the Fukushima plant is that its irradiating the surrounding ground and sea water.
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turn off the TV posted:Is water actually used to contain radiation? I was under the impression that its use in plants is to regulate temperature and create steam. Like, one of the problems surrounding the Fukushima plant is that its irradiating the surrounding ground and sea water. water''s good for absorbing radiation but you wouldn''t want to drink it afterwards
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Mar 17, 2017 17:57
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turn off the TV posted:Is water actually used to contain radiation? I was under the impression that its use in plants is to regulate temperature and create steam. Like, one of the problems surrounding the Fukushima plant is that its irradiating the surrounding ground and sea water. Yeah, one of the UK's first nuclear power plants stored a lot of its waste in huge water pools. It's dense, easy to apply, and very cheap. That depends on the water staying in the pool, of course.
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Mar 17, 2017 18:05
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turn off the TV posted:Is water actually used to contain radiation? I was under the impression that its use in plants is to regulate temperature and create steam. Like, one of the problems surrounding the Fukushima plant is that its irradiating the surrounding ground and sea water. Yes, it absorbs radiation. Spent fuel rods are kept in a pool of water to cool them off and absorb any remaining radiation, for example.
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turn off the TV posted:Is water actually used to contain radiation? I was under the impression that its use in plants is to regulate temperature and create steam. Like, one of the problems surrounding the Fukushima plant is that its irradiating the surrounding ground and sea water. contain might be strong but it does a good job absorbing rads yeah, you are correct tho water is only used to regulate temperature in plants (which is why the steam is allowed into the outside enviroment!)
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if they'd wanted to make a thematic set of weaknesses/strengths for the nuclear type they could have, but they were focused on the 'weak to everything and strong to everything' gimmick so much that the inclusion of the steel/poison crap just makes it even more of a mess
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