Pokemon Uranium is not a very good game.

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Nebrilos: Oct 9, 2012

BioEnchanted posted:

I've always been curious what would happen if a human ate a TM. Would he breath fire once, gently caress up his throat and just go "This was a REALLY BAD IDEA

TMs are usually depicted as CDs. I don't think they are supposed to be eaten.

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ldragon: Feb 18, 2011

Antivehicular posted:

I'm actually kind of okay with the concept of a Pokemon game about the ancient social contract breaking down and Pokemon becoming openly hostile. I'm not sure how you'd keep it from turning into a 1970's animal-attack horror movie, but given the number of exploding power plants, Uranium's one dystopia away from being 1970's Horror Tropes: The Pokemon Game anyway, so why not go whole hog?

Now you are making me want a pokemon fan game that is written as if it was a bad b movie.

# ? Apr 1, 2017 07:45

Jayme: Jul 16, 2008

ldragon posted:

Now you are making me want a pokemon fan game that is written as if it was a bad b movie.

Attack of the Killer Beedrills!
The Deadly Scyther!
Alola vs the Araquanid!
Empire of the Durant!

# ? Apr 1, 2017 08:21

BioEnchanted: Aug 9, 2011; He plays for the dreamers that forgot how to dream, and the lovers that forgot how to love.

Jayme posted:

Attack of the Killer Beedrills!
The Deadly Scyther!
Alola vs the Araquanid!
Empire of the Durant!

The requisite ant pokemon evolves into John Goodman.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0107529/

# ? Apr 1, 2017 08:29

Malachite_Dragon: Mar 31, 2010; Weaving Merry Christmas magic

Jayme posted:

Attack of the Killer Beedrills!
The Deadly Scyther!
Alola vs the Araquanid!
Empire of the Durant!

Manaphy, the 'Mons of Fate! :wooper:

# ? Apr 1, 2017 10:00

Jen X: Sep 29, 2014; To bring light to the darkness, whether that darkness be ignorance, injustice, apathy, or stagnation.

Regalingualius posted:

Saying that makes me think that we're going to deal with a really bad knockoff of the Tunnel Snakes.

It's far stupider

# ? Apr 1, 2017 11:04

Watermelon Daiquiri: Jul 10, 2010; I TRIED TO BAIT THE TXPOL THREAD WITH THE WORLD'S WORST POSSIBLE TAKE AND ALL I GOT WAS THIS STUPID AVATAR.

Nebrilos posted:

TMs are usually depicted as CDs. I don't think they are supposed to be eaten.

Uh, no, you stuff the cd in their mouth/goo/whatever you can find. Then it uploads to the poke mainframe!

# ? Apr 1, 2017 11:19

Dragonwagon: Mar 28, 2010; And that, as much as anything else, led to my drinking problem.

KataraniSword posted:

Not even pokemon eat TMs, they're like CDs except if we trust 3rd Gen you teach moves with them by slamming them onto your pokemon's forehead.

Turns out all TMs are made by a prison chaplain in Florida.

# ? Apr 1, 2017 12:05

Asehujiko: Apr 6, 2011

I thought the Anthell was another badly thought out portmanteau, the antechamber of hell, because that would be just as grimdark as the game seems to want to be when it's not LOLRANDOM.

# ? Apr 1, 2017 12:23

Like Clockwork: Feb 17, 2012; It's only the Final Battle once all the players are ready.

Why did they use bug catchers when gen three had perfectly good adult bug specialists to steal? :psyduck:

# ? Apr 1, 2017 13:03

Justice Sloth: Jun 10, 2012; Damn skippy.

Anthell instead of Anthill is a stupid pun that barely works, but that's not why I hate it. I hate it because, like half of all the original concepts in this game, it's super cumbersome to say and comes off like no one in production ever tried pronouncing it out loud.

"Nowtoch City?", "Bealbeach City?", loving "Burole Town?!" If it wasn't for the all too human attempts at 'humour', I'd assume half the proper nouns in this game were generated by some computer algorithm. They all read like they came from a Fantasy Name Generator, to the point where I'd be wholly unsurprised if it turned out the enemy team leader was called Griznuckle or Prudzahd Rockseeker or something.

# ? Apr 1, 2017 13:49

Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Justice Sloth posted:

Anthell [...] original concepts

It's not, though. It's from Ragnarok Online.

# ? Apr 1, 2017 16:47

Justice Sloth: Jun 10, 2012; Damn skippy.

oh, well double-bad then I guess?

# ? Apr 1, 2017 16:56

mandatory lesbian: Dec 18, 2012

Hobgoblin2099 posted:

Speaking of Sun/Moon, I like how Gladion spends the whole game trying to be edgy and winds up having a team of mostly Friendship evolution Pokemon by the end.

also one of them is a trade evo too, his whole team pretty much depends on him having friends and therefore being friendly

# ? Apr 1, 2017 17:03

Waffleman_: Jan 20, 2011; I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna I don't wanna!!!

Pokemon Uranium is the best Pokemon game.

April Fool's it's garbage.

# ? Apr 1, 2017 17:07

Space Kablooey: May 6, 2009

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

It's not, though. It's from Ragnarok Online.

I was giving the game the benefit of the doubt by mentioning that something else might have the name Anthell to a huge ant hill, but then I went to the Uranium wiki and

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Anthell is, rather obviously, a pun on anthill. It has a similar name to a dungeon from the MMORPG Ragnar�k Online.

motherfuckers

# ? Apr 1, 2017 17:46

EponymousMrYar: Jan 4, 2015; The enemy of my enemy is my enemy.

Why not reference a mediocre dungeon AND make a bad pun at the same time?

Eh?

Eh?

Dangit Uranium.

# ? Apr 1, 2017 23:34

Madtrixr: Nov 27, 2010

Tired Moritz posted:

Maybe this game got C/D because they can't stop using music from other games.

Yeah they REALLY like using newgrounds remixes of other pokemon game music, good thing you can change it easily because its all just .ogg files that only check for the name!

# ? Apr 2, 2017 02:16

girl dick energy: Sep 30, 2009; You think you have the wherewithal to figure out my puzzle vagina?

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FreezingInferno posted:

This game deserved the C&D.

# ? Apr 2, 2017 02:24

FreezingInferno: Jul 15, 2010; THERE.
WILL.
BE.
NO.
BATTLE.
HERE!

This game was considered for Geoff Keighley's Spike Game Awards show.

This game could have been nominated for a goddamned Game Award.

This game. Nominated for a "Best Of" award.

# ? Apr 2, 2017 02:53

Commander Keene: Dec 21, 2016; Faster than the others

Does anyone actually take Spike TV seriously, though?

# ? Apr 2, 2017 02:58

Nissin Cup Nudist: Sep 3, 2011; Sleep with one eye open

We're off to Gritty Gritty land

KataraniSword posted:

Not even pokemon eat TMs, they're like CDs except if we trust 3rd Gen you teach moves with them by slamming them onto your pokemon's forehead.

But I mean, humans just aren't compatible with any TMs. We're like Unown that way.

EVERY MORNING I WAKE UP AND OPEN PALM SLAP A TM ONTO MY FOREHEAD. ITS HYPER BEAM AND RIGHT THEN AND THERE I START HYPER BEAMING ALONGSIDE MY PARTNER, DRAGONITE. I DO EVERY HYPER BEAM AND I DO EVERY HYPER BEAM HARD. MAKING EXPLODY SOUNDS WHEN I EXPLODE SOME ROCKET BASTARDS OR EVEN WHEN I FIRE BLANKS AND NEED TO RECHARGE. NOT MANY CAN SAY THEY TOOK DOWN A MULTINATIONAL CRIME SYNDICATE. I CAN. I SAY IT OUTLOUD EVERYDAY TO ALL THE GYM LEADERS AND ALL THEY DO IS PROVE GYM LEADERS CAN STILL BE IMMATURE JERKS. AND IVE LEARNED ALL THE POWER AND IVE LEARNED HOW TO MAKE MYSELF AND MY DRAGONITE LESS LONELY BY BLASTING THE GYM LEADERS ALL. 2 HOURS INCLUDING RECHARGE EVERY MORNing

# ? Apr 2, 2017 03:16

mandatory lesbian: Dec 18, 2012

FreezingInferno posted:

This game was considered for Geoff Keighley's Spike Game Awards show.

This game could have been nominated for a goddamned Game Award.

This game. Nominated for a "Best Of" award.

wow had no clue Uranium was powered by Mountain Dew^TM

# ? Apr 2, 2017 03:26

AriadneThread: Feb 17, 2011; The Devil sounds like smoke and honey. We cannot move. It is too beautiful.

mandatory lesbian posted:

wow had no clue Uranium was powered by Mountain Dew^TM

other way around

# ? Apr 2, 2017 03:41

Manatee Cannon: Aug 26, 2010

Commander Keene posted:

Does anyone actually take Spike TV seriously, though?

I took most extreme elimination challenge very seriously when it aired

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:09

Orange Fluffy Sheep: Jul 26, 2008; Bad EXP received

Goddamn, now I realized I could've replaced all the music with this.

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:11

krisslanza: May 6, 2011

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Goddamn, now I realized I could've replaced all the music with this.

Probably a better game then Uranium.

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:16

Vandar: Sep 14, 2007; Isn't That Right, Chairman?

Earlier today, Youtube recommended me a video of a piece of music from an in-development fangame called Project Azurite/Pokemon Azurite. The song was done by the same person that did the Uranium battle themes, so I Googled the game and did some research on it.

http://www.projectazurite.com/

There's not one, but FIVE new types, including Sound, Mystic, Light, Cosmic, and Crystal, basically a checklist of fan-demanded types. Crystal is special though, because only fully evolved Pokemon can be Crystal. It's an alternate evolution thing. Crystal has no weaknesses and no resistances/immunities and nothing is immune to or strong against it. That seems incredibly silly to me. It's a type that basically only exists for STAB I guess? They're going all in on the actual Pokemon too. It features new Pokemon, Mega evolutions, alternate evolutions, and new regional formes. They're showing no restraint here with everything they're trying to stuff in. :psyduck:

I'd be super impressed if this game actually gets finished and is actually decent. It'd be nice to have a Pokemon fangame that's actually, you know, good. I'll give them this though. Some of their new designs are kind of neat and seem to have been decently thought out?

Still, I'm not expecting much. At the very least though, it'll probably be better than Uranium! :v:

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:41

Tunicate: May 15, 2012

Dexie posted:

Crystal has no weaknesses and no resistances/immunities and nothing is immune to or strong against it.

So they brought back bird type from gen 1!

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:50

Zore: Sep 21, 2010; willfully illiterate, aggressively miserable sourpuss whose sole raison d�etre is to put other people down for liking the wrong things

Dexie posted:

Earlier today, Youtube recommended me a video of a piece of music from an in-development fangame called Project Azurite/Pokemon Azurite. The song was done by the same person that did the Uranium battle themes, so I Googled the game and did some research on it.

http://www.projectazurite.com/

There's not one, but FIVE new types, including Sound, Mystic, Light, Cosmic, and Crystal, basically a checklist of fan-demanded types. Crystal is special though, because only fully evolved Pokemon can be Crystal. It's an alternate evolution thing. Crystal has no weaknesses and no resistances/immunities and nothing is immune to or strong against it. That seems incredibly silly to me. It's a type that basically only exists for STAB I guess? They're going all in on the actual Pokemon too. It features new Pokemon, Mega evolutions, alternate evolutions, and new regional formes. They're showing no restraint here with everything they're trying to stuff in.

I'd be super impressed if this game actually gets finished and is actually decent. It'd be nice to have a Pokemon fangame that's actually, you know, good. I'll give them this though. Some of their new designs are kind of neat and seem to have been decently thought out?

Still, I'm not expecting much. At the very least though, it'll probably be better than Uranium!

Just want to quote some of their pages

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While plenty of Mega Evolutions have some grueling side effects, the Mega Evolution of Kurian Lopunny is by far the most disturbing.

When the behavior of this terrifying Mega Evolution was studied by professor Maple, he found out that during the process, Lopunny re-experiences the time it passed as a normal Buneary. The realization and denial corrupts the soul to a horrifying extent. It forces Lopunny to think that it needs to fight viciously to survive and that its opponents want it dead.

It takes an extremely capable trainer to make sure that Mega K-Lopunny doesn't go too far or hurt itself, let alone others. As long as it has a trainer it can depend on, Lopunny is less likely to get unstable.

Just like regular Mega Lopunny, this Pok�mon is extremely fast and has extremely powerful attacks. It's Defense is also superior, but it comes at the cost of its Special Defense being crippled to the point that any Special Attack has a high chance of knocking it out.
It can't even dodge these attacks due to No Guard, but this also means enemies can't dodge Lopunny's attacks either.

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The Kurian form of Tsareena. They live in the absolute depths of the reason and stay there, making Bounsweet and Steenee do the dirty work outside of their homes.

Their homes are built like laboratories, but with unknown technology. In their homes, captured Pok�mon and sometimes even Humans are found. While the captured Pok�mon tend to be fine outside of being nervous, the humans tend to act really weird, which can last for their entire lifetime. It is unknown what causes this or why the Tsareena do it, but it seems they experiment on humans.

Nobody knows what kind of experiments are held. Even the captured humans either refuse to tell out of fear or have forgotten somehow. Some professors even think that the Tsareena itself was also experimented on, which causes the transformation. Exactly who or what experimented them is unknown, but there is clear evidence that the beings that do the experiments on Tsareena are not from this world.

Kurian Tsareena learn a very unique move known as Kick Shower. Tsareena jumps high in the air and uses phasing kicks as projectiles. A special attack that hits multiple targets multiple times!

Tsareena are very tactical in battle. They have learned to phase their body through reality without moving themselves, leading to the ability Phasing Body, which turns all of the user's Physical Attacks into Special Attacks, scaling off the user's Special Attack too.
Secondly, it can have Queenly Majesty. A remnant of the old Tsareena. This makes it immune to priority attacks.
Lastly, its special Hidden Ability. Skill Scan. Skill Scan allows the user to search the opponents' movesets to see if they have a move that is Super Effective against the ability's user. Targets who do have such a dangerous move are marked as dangerous.

lol

Zore fucked around with this message at 04:53 on Apr 2, 2017

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:50

Vandar: Sep 14, 2007; Isn't That Right, Chairman?

Oh, there's definitely some edgelord stuff in there. Check out Kurian Tsareena's page.

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:51

Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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that looks like the pokemon fangame equivalent of what flickers through people's brains before they die

# ? Apr 2, 2017 04:56

iospace: Jan 19, 2038

Dexie posted:

Oh, there's definitely some edgelord stuff in there. Check out Kurian Tsareena's page.

I'm going to regret this aren't I.

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The Kurian form of Tsareena. They live in the absolute depths of the reason and stay there, making Bounsweet and Steenee do the dirty work outside of their homes.

Their homes are built like laboratories, but with unknown technology. In their homes, captured Pok�mon and sometimes even Humans are found. While the captured Pok�mon tend to be fine outside of being nervous, the humans tend to act really weird, which can last for their entire lifetime. It is unknown what causes this or why the Tsareena do it, but it seems they experiment on humans.

Nobody knows what kind of experiments are held. Even the captured humans either refuse to tell out of fear or have forgotten somehow. Some professors even think that the Tsareena itself was also experimented on, which causes the transformation. Exactly who or what experimented them is unknown, but there is clear evidence that the beings that do the experiments on Tsareena are not from this world.

Yup, edgy. Also, that hidden ability is anticipation just rebadged. Or maybe buffed a little by IDing the enemy with those moves.

The "All Attacks are Special" ability is... hmm... I don't know what to think. On one hand, it allows you to dump attack in general, but that means it can't break special walls like Blissey and Chansey. As far as fan abilities go, that's... I don't know what to feel.

Also, balancing mons based on rarity is a bad move if your game A. has breeding and B. trading (looking at you, special Magikarp with a move that does damage and causes rain).

e: though giving Combee a male only evo that's a tank to protect the queen is, admittedly, a neat idea.

iospace fucked around with this message at 05:05 on Apr 2, 2017

# ? Apr 2, 2017 05:02

Tired Moritz: Mar 25, 2012; wish Lowtax would get tired of YOUR POSTS

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Oh yeah, exactly what I want from a pokemon fangame. Give me all the edge please.

# ? Apr 2, 2017 05:06

Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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this makes me realize even more why i'm glad that sage decided not to include fairy type and megas when those came out during development

# ? Apr 2, 2017 05:08

Genocyber: Jun 4, 2012

I dislike when fan games add new types. The canon Pokemon type chart is enough of a convoluted mess without introducing more bullshit into the mix. There's a reason they've only introduced a grand total of three new types in the series 20+ year history.

# ? Apr 2, 2017 05:09

iospace: Jan 19, 2038

Johnny Joestar posted:

this makes me realize even more why i'm glad that sage decided not to include fairy type and megas when those came out during development

I can understand megas, but why glad about no fairy?

# ? Apr 2, 2017 05:11

Johnny Joestar: Oct 21, 2010; Don't shoot him?

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iospace posted:

I can understand megas, but why glad about no fairy?

the pokedex was already pretty locked down, and shoehorning the type + the moves into the game would only take up more time

# ? Apr 2, 2017 05:12

Vandar: Sep 14, 2007; Isn't That Right, Chairman?

Genocyber posted:

I dislike when fan games add new types. The canon Pokemon type chart is enough of a convoluted mess without introducing more bullshit into the mix. There's a reason they've only introduced a grand total of three new types in the series 20+ year history.

Especially when most of the time, those new types don't fit in or make sense or are strong enough thematically to be a new type.

Light? It's arguably already covered by Psychics and Fairies, and if you want a counterpart to Dark, you have Fighting and Fairies.
Sound? Moves that utilize sound work fine as Normal type moves.
Mystic? Covered by Fairies and Psychics.
Cosmic? Eh. I almost want to give this one a pass and say it'd be fine as a new type.

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iospace: Jan 19, 2038

Johnny Joestar posted:

the pokedex was already pretty locked down, and shoehorning the type + the moves into the game would only take up more time

Ah, ok. That makes sense then.

Looking at the Azurite stuff, the designs aren't that bad for some of the originals. Like they don't look blatantly out of place.

The balance decisions, however, are horrendous. Let's give a new 'Mon a combo of perish song and mean look... IN ONE MOVE.

Why!?

# ? Apr 2, 2017 05:16

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