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I''m disappointed. The first thing I heard about Uranium probably back around when the game was first released was that the legendary pokemon was actually your dead mum who had died in a nuclear explosion. So since Curie and Urayne showed up i've been eagerly waiting for an astonishingly stupid and incredibly bad out of nowhere twist that no actually the evil mastermind is not the Mum, the evil pokemon is instead! But either I remembered wrong or the spoilers were mistaken. and while the actual writing is still awful and bad it just doesn't measure to what I thought it'd be. 
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Aug 31, 2017 01:55
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even for a retarded edgy plot twist that was all really badly written
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Aug 31, 2017 01:57
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Why did they rip off Mewtwo's storyline and make it stupider?
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Aug 31, 2017 02:03
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Brother Entropy posted:even for a retarded edgy plot twist that was all really badly written The all lowercase dialogue from Urayne adding this "owo whats this" vibe to it did not help, either.
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Aug 31, 2017 02:18
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someone awful. posted:Why did they rip off Mewtwo's storyline and make it stupider? their version of team rocket was a combination of your mom, various nuclear meltdowns, and a sidequest that gives you a vegetable version of one-punch man also the fire type gym leader is a poorly balanced man in a skirt instead of a grizzled old scientist I laugh at OFS pretending this is better than FR/LG in almost any way
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Aug 31, 2017 02:20
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GeneX posted:I laugh at OFS pretending this is better than FR/LG in almost any way Heh. Who's pretending. 
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Aug 31, 2017 02:30
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Kyrosiris posted:The all lowercase dialogue from Urayne adding this "owo whats this" vibe to it did not help, either. or greentext >tfw your only friend names you urine
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Aug 31, 2017 02:34
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Red Metal posted:no it doesn't I apparently got some bad information from somewhere, my bad. Guess it pays to fact-check vaguely remembered rumors. 
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Aug 31, 2017 02:53
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Heh. you've gone in too deep someone get me a stockholm syndrome joke involving nukes
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Aug 31, 2017 02:54
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After seeing all this game has to offer, I can agree with just one goddamn thing:Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Eh, I know I've been critical, but Uranium's still better that FR/LG.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:00
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Is FR/LG that bad? I ended up skipping it after giving up on pokemon in the middle of playing Sapphire (and not returning until HGSS), so I know basically nothing about it.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:05
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XavierGenisi posted:Is FR/LG that bad? I ended up skipping it after giving up on pokemon in the middle of playing Sapphire (and not returning until HGSS), so I know basically nothing about it. Imagine going through the blandest Pokemon game with the blandest battle mechanics and the blandest colour palette. And you can't use anything cool or new and nothing has changed until after the 7th badge, where you go to new places that are also pretty meh. Then you have an alright postgame and then you're done. And if you want to complete the Pokedex you need like 7 different games.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:08
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XavierGenisi posted:Is FR/LG that bad? I ended up skipping it after giving up on pokemon in the middle of playing Sapphire (and not returning until HGSS), so I know basically nothing about it. It's fine. I always thought it was a bit stiff and it was weird how it blocked off ANYTHING that wasn't in the original 151 (as mentioned earlier, chansey & golbat refuse to evolve) until you beat the game and did a sidequest to get the national dex.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:10
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Until the postgame, FR/LG is R/B again, in RSE's engine, with the running boots and a dialogue scavenger hunt. It's slavishly close to the originals, down to, as I said, Pokemon that got later evolutions just not being able to evolve until you get the National Dex upgrade, which is at the end of a longish postgame sidequest. It even extends to the daycare only taking one pokemon - you can't breed until you find the second daycare that takes two in the postgame. FR/LG are fine games, for what it's worth, there's nothing wrong with them other than they had an opportunity to improve on a classic and very deliberately chose not to.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:11
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Is Urayne supposed to be a pun or something? Or is it seriously just a deliberate misspelling of urine?
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Aug 31, 2017 03:14
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Urayne...Uranium... It's just a lazy not-pun.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:18
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rotinaj posted:Is Urayne supposed to be a pun or something? Or is it seriously just a deliberate misspelling of urine? Urayne-ium. Uranium.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:19
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Gen III had my favorite legendaries- Saffigh, Roob, and Emeril
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Aug 31, 2017 03:22
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Andorra posted:Gen III had my favorite legendaries- Saffigh, Roob, and Emeril Gen III had Emeril, but personally I liked the hidden bonus boss in Fire Red. 
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Aug 31, 2017 03:26
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quote:But... Urayne is a man-made Pokemon, as this completely-shocking plot revelation just told us. How would a naturally occurring Pokemon, even have the vaguest idea that another "legendary" Pokemon was suddenly created into existence and be able to tell!?
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Aug 31, 2017 03:50
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Oh, and Actan is for I don't want it, but I get it.
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Aug 31, 2017 03:58
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Actan is the Actinide series, Lanthan is the Lanthanide series, and Heatran is the Heatrinide series (Atomic Numbers 121-135, no really, I swear).
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Aug 31, 2017 04:24
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is there an e4 refight, and if so what happensSyntheticPolygon posted:I''m disappointed. The first thing I heard about Uranium probably back around when the game was first released was that the legendary pokemon was actually your dead mum who had died in a nuclear explosion. So since Curie and Urayne showed up i've been eagerly waiting for an astonishingly stupid and incredibly bad out of nowhere twist that no actually the evil mastermind is not the Mum, the evil pokemon is instead! But either I remembered wrong or the spoilers were mistaken. and while the actual writing is still awful and bad it just doesn't measure to what I thought it'd be. yea I remember that too and was kinda expecting the same
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Aug 31, 2017 04:30
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I had also heard the same thing before. I was the only thing I ever knew about Uranium so I took is as solid fact. When people in this thread started saying CURIE was the mom during the past few updates I actually started thinking that maybe they're both right. Maybe the mom was CURIE and Urayne somehow.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:02
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You know, a deep, small but not too small part of me was hopeful that this game wouldn't be building towards the most obvious conclusion but actually build towards something else, maybe play with our expectations a bit. Heck, even Game Freak managed to do that from time to time. But nah, everything went exactly as expected. I suppose one can argue that as a Pokemon Game the story doesn't really truly matter and it's fundamentally a game about being a derelict 10-year old running around a large metropolitan region alone partaking in state-sanctioned street fights with potential world-ending murderbeasts, but this game forfeited that privilege by trying to play its premise straight from the get-go and establishing a tone that said [SERIOUS POKEMON STORY HERE] so forgive us for having expectations to match (along with the expectation that it'll fall short, of course) All that said though, I didn't hate the game as presented and I quite liked a few things about it. It certainly doesn't seem completely unsalvagable like, say, Reborn. And who knows, maybe the postgame will deliver-- it's totally not going to deliver, is it. 
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Aug 31, 2017 05:14
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Glazius posted:Wait, you only get five in the hall of fame because the useless legendary had to bogart a space? Hey, now.
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Aug 31, 2017 05:28
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FR/LG annoyed the poo poo out of me for exactly the reasons above; it's one thing to remake an older game, but remaking it almost exactly the same as it was, just with shinier graphics and not fixing any of the problems it had kind of defeats the point! Yes, I'm still annoyed as gently caress over loving Rock Smash still being an HM in ORAS, what of it. There was no reason for it to be a goddamn HM other than 'well it was in RSE and change is scary  '
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Aug 31, 2017 05:36
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I am honestly disappointed they did this weakass twist. I was expecting something more edgy, like "your mom got irradiated into a Unit-01 knockoff, now beat her up"
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Aug 31, 2017 05:39
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Malachite_Dragon posted:FR/LG annoyed the poo poo out of me for exactly the reasons above; it's one thing to remake an older game, but remaking it almost exactly the same as it was, just with shinier graphics and not fixing any of the problems it had kind of defeats the point! I hate that rock you have to break every time you go north of the electric gym town
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Aug 31, 2017 05:39
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Manatee Cannon posted:I hate that rock you have to break every time you go north of the electric gym town The worst thing is that it keeps respawning. In both the original and the remakes there are other rocks that will go away forever when smashed! Not these though!!
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Aug 31, 2017 06:14
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Manatee Cannon posted:yea I remember that too and was kinda expecting the same Malachite_Dragon posted:FR/LG annoyed the poo poo out of me for exactly the reasons above; it's one thing to remake an older game, but remaking it almost exactly the same as it was, just with shinier graphics and not fixing any of the problems it had kind of defeats the point! 
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Aug 31, 2017 06:28
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I dunno, I played FR/LG way back in the day but it would have to be truly abysmal beyond belief to be worse than a game where, you know, all the original Pokémon give half as much EXP as they should and even grinding still leaves you pretty screwed unless you literally cheat.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:54
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HGSS actually edited the Johto regional pokedex to include the new evolved forms of pokemon that appeared in the games (Togekiss, Ambipom, Honchkrow, Weavile...). That is a significant improvement over FRLG.
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Aug 31, 2017 06:56
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I like how in the end our dad was a loving moron because his wife was evil all along anyways before she 'died'.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:06
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HGSS was the game that got me back into pokemon after skipping RSE and DPPt, though in hindsight I'm not sure why. Pretty sure it was because having my pokemon following me was and still is the best feature ever. I'm also pretty sure it at least had a lot of quality of life features backported into it? I dont remember being hosed out of Ho-oh if I accidentally killed it, for example.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:19
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Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:Urayne decides to travel to the world iwth Dick Solomon.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:22
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Sign me up for the "I thought the legendary Pokemon is your mom" club. Goddammit this makes this reveal even more disappointing.
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Aug 31, 2017 07:23
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Kikas posted:Sign me up for the "I thought the legendary Pokemon is your mom" club. I remember that rumor too. Maybe someone said it in the main Pokémon thread, before this LP started?
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Aug 31, 2017 07:30
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Last Celebration posted:I dunno, I played FR/LG way back in the day but it would have to be truly abysmal beyond belief to be worse than a game OH MY GOD PEOPLE, IT WAS A JOKE OFS IS JUST NOT BREAKING KEYFABE
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Aug 31, 2017 07:40
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RareAcumen posted:OH MY GOD PEOPLE, IT WAS A JOKE 
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