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So did Mawuh ever end up choosing between the bottle or the gun? Edit: Page sniped with the only true moral choice in Pokemon Reborn.
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NewMars posted:So did Mawuh ever end up choosing between the bottle or the gun? Well he drank Ronch
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Jun 3, 2019 01:00
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Explopyro posted:Are we forgetting the cringey bits where Cain would break into song with Pokemon intro lyrics? (That was Cain, wasn't it? I don't trust my brain any more.) im not a fan of the song parodies either but they weren't that bad
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Jun 3, 2019 01:16
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thetoughestbean posted:Well he drank Ronch He thinks he drank Ronch, but he was drunk at the time. Personally, I still believe that Ronch is out there, watching over us all.
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Jun 3, 2019 01:24
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Jun 3, 2019 08:06
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Remember how much we hated 'explosions lol' Julia at the start of the LP? At the moment she's still part of the '0 votes' crew on that worst character poll, that's how deep the game's been digging itself.
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Jun 3, 2019 08:46
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Remember how we used to think Uranium was a bad Pokemon fangame?
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Jun 3, 2019 08:59
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PMush Perfect posted:Remember how we used to think Uranium was a bad Pokemon fangame?
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Jun 3, 2019 09:08
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Uranium at least let you no-sell the final boss... Though you still had a 50/50 shot of facing the leader who could tear you a new rear end in a top hat in the obligatory tournament right before that.
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Jun 3, 2019 09:11
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Heck we used to think Insurgence is gonna be an insufferable edgy trainwreck and that turned out really fuckin' good. Shows what a bit of self awareness can get you.
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Jun 3, 2019 12:02
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Don't lose your perspective here; Insurgence and Uranium are also bad. Uranium has a Titanic-disaster-themed ice Pokémon and Insurgence expects you to grind an entire party to level 20 or something on one route before the first gym. They're just not as bad as Reborn.
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Jun 3, 2019 12:11
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megane posted:Don't lose your perspective here; Insurgence and Uranium are also bad. Uranium has a Titanic-disaster-themed ice Pokémon and Insurgence expects you to grind an entire party to level 20 or something on one route before the first gym. They're just not as bad as Reborn. Yeah, Reborn redefined the scale of terrible, but don't let it redefine what you consider good. Let it serve as a case study of what lies a mile below the bottom of the well, but for the love of god, please don't drink the mud a mile up.
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Jun 3, 2019 12:57
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megane posted:Insurgence expects you to grind an entire party to level 20 or something on one route before the first gym Or just grab a level 19 Magikarp and use a rare candy from the next room over like the speedrun does and not give a gently caress. 
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Jun 3, 2019 13:28
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Kyrosiris posted:Or just grab a level 19 Magikarp and use a rare candy from the next room over like the speedrun does and not give a gently caress. Yeah, this. Uranium and Insurgence (and most games, because it's the sane thing to do) give you options. In Reborn there is only the One True Way, and that way sucks rear end. Fully expecting all of OFS' alternate strategies thus far to be patched out with the next update.
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Jun 3, 2019 13:36
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Uranium also has Daikatuna, which is the best name for a fakemon, and Top Boy who has that rare good fakemon design. Shame about the rest (ok, no, I liked Titanice but it was suuuper tasteless). The real problem with insurgence is mostly the massive grind throughout the game and the decision to increase the level cap (which mostly just aggravated the former); as dumb as the grimdark bits can be, they can be turned off and they're never as bad as reborn, and the non-grind difficulty is both advertised upfront and doesn't get unreasonable outside of grind until the postgame. It's definitely flawed and I wouldn't say it's good because of those flaws, but I hesitate to call it outright bad. It's ok.
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Zanzibar Ham posted:Remember how much we hated 'explosions lol' Julia at the start of the LP? At the moment she's still part of the '0 votes' crew on that worst character poll, that's how deep the game's been digging itself. PMush Perfect posted:Remember how we used to think Uranium was a bad Pokemon fangame?
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and even the grimdark bits is pretty hilarious in a saturday morning cartoon fashion.
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Zereth posted:Oh it's still bad, but at least it was trying to be a pokemon game Yeah, I think that's the major thing that separates Uranium and Insurgence from Reborn - there's an obvious love for the setting and series at play, whereas that is completely absent in Reborn. Ame's even said as much that she hates Pokemon, but even if she hadn't it's something that shows through in the work. (And to separate Uranium and Insurgence, it's more that the latter has that same sort of charm as a main-line game, with a few exceptions. Yeah, the Victory Road is completely crap, and there's a few instances of  -level violence or questionable ideas, but on the whole there's a lot of humor and touches that I wouldn't find very far out of place in a main-line game.)
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Kyrosiris posted:Yeah, I think that's the major thing that separates Uranium and Insurgence from Reborn - there's an obvious love for the setting and series at play, whereas that is completely absent in Reborn. Ame's even said as much that she hates Pokemon, but even if she hadn't it's something that shows through in the work. <NAME_HERE>
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Jun 3, 2019 15:53
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Kurieg posted:<NAME_HERE> That poo poo was hysterical, and probably the high water mark of stuff that felt like it was right out of an official game. That and the electric gym's miscellaneous trainers all being named after famous scientists and stuff.
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Jun 3, 2019 15:57
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I think the grind in main story Insurgence is overstated, although it does exist. You don't really need to overlevel content, in fact I did most trainer fights while underleveled, and Audinos make it pretty painless to catch up Pokemon to a decent base level. Hell, I actually switched my team quite a bit in that game and I never did that in real Pokemon games because grinding in those games usually sucks until post-game. The one moment where it's pretty poo poo is right before the first gym, and that's a design flaw, they screwed up the leveling curve for the early game.
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Jun 3, 2019 15:57
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i wonder if that was just because the devs didn't really know how to design low level difficulty so they just raised the bar until they were working with level ranges and movesets they were comfortable with i also kind of assume most reborn fans don't actually play the game and are just into the character interactions and lore
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Jun 3, 2019 18:25
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I can at least appreciate Insurgence GOT BETTER as the game went on. Like, it was at least self aware enough to be enjoyable on a conceptual level. Hell, I’m actually looking FORWARD to seeing what the sequel game is gonna be like, some of the teased crystal evolutions (Read: Megas) look kinda nice. This? This got WORSE. The Hole was a trainwreck from the start (which as mentioned was loving -toned down- from what it was originally), and they intend to have you 6 v 108 pokemon in a row for their “post-game” gym leader rematches AND intend for over level 100 pokemon (with ALL the EVs and perfect IVs I can only assume) in the next episode? loving sit and spin on a railroad spike, Amethyst. Kemix fucked around with this message at 19:05 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Jun 3, 2019 19:00
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Kyrosiris posted:That poo poo was hysterical, and probably the high water mark of stuff that felt like it was right out of an official game. That and the electric gym's miscellaneous trainers all being named after famous scientists and stuff. Dias posted:I think the grind in main story Insurgence is overstated, although it does exist. You don't really need to overlevel content, in fact I did most trainer fights while underleveled, and Audinos make it pretty painless to catch up Pokemon to a decent base level. Hell, I actually switched my team quite a bit in that game and I never did that in real Pokemon games because grinding in those games usually sucks until post-game. The one moment where it's pretty poo poo is right before the first gym, and that's a design flaw, they screwed up the leveling curve for the early game.
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Jun 3, 2019 19:31
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Commander Keene posted:"Don't get too excited, you'll change state!" I was grinning like an idiot all day after that update. 
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Jun 3, 2019 19:39
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I sincerely hope Ame's new project, Starlight Divide, is completed and published at some point. While this game has its flaws, at the end of the day she actually made a game. As someone who half asses everything I do and usually quits when things get hard, the fact she actually made a thing is kinda impressive even if the thing is this. I feel curious as to what the next thing will be, especially if it's a thing she cares about this time. Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 20:12 on Jun 3, 2019 |
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Jun 3, 2019 20:09
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megane posted:Uranium has a Titanic-disaster-themed ice Pokémon
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Jun 3, 2019 20:23
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My pokemon fangame is gonna have pokemon based on classic greek philosophers, and Socratrees will evolve into a ghost type if there's a Hemmlok in the party
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Jun 3, 2019 20:26
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Scarodactyl posted:I think it's been plenty long enough. It's not the fragile feelings of Titanic survivors I'm worrying about here, but rather the fact that it's a super dumb design
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Jun 3, 2019 20:31
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megane posted:It's not the fragile feelings of Titanic survivors I'm worrying about here, but rather the fact that it's a super dumb design Why is this what gets you and not the part where the main villain Pokemon is the MC's mom
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mandatory lesbian posted:Why is this what gets you and not the part where the main villain Pokemon is the MC's mom Snorlax is a weird choice for a baddie Pokemon but hey.
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Tunicate posted:My pokemon fangame is gonna have pokemon based on classic greek philosophers, and Socratrees will evolve into a ghost type if there's a Hemmlok in the party I'd play it.
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Jun 3, 2019 21:04
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It's a pokemon game but with no actual pokemon. Instead two old men who have retired from training invite you, a young trainer, to discuss with them about pokemon. They begin their "honest discussion" with a hypothetical. "Let's say a wild ditto were to appear." and the game takes you into the mind's eye: a battle.
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Jun 3, 2019 21:46
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Azza Bamboo posted:It's a pokemon game but with no actual pokemon. Instead two old men who have retired from training invite you, a young trainer, to discuss with them about pokemon. They begin their "honest discussion" with a hypothetical. ah, good old rowancrantz and captain stern or maybe horkgrimer and slowdorno, from a diglet of enlightenment
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Jun 3, 2019 23:18
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Whenever my Socratrees and Platuna double battle, the Platuna keeps changing Socratrees' moves to match it's own, it's really annoying.
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Jun 3, 2019 23:57
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I wanna battle Diogenes, who has a chicken Pokemon nicknamed Human.
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Jun 4, 2019 01:54
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Player's name defaults to Glaucon.
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Jun 4, 2019 02:12
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NewMars posted:Personally, I still believe that Ronch is out there, watching over us all. Ronch evolved into Cool Ronch and then transcended into The Coolest Ronch. It then learned Teleport and transported Mawuh out of Reborn and into LA Noire, where it plays Mawuh's sidekick and has nothing but supportive things to say about Mawuh and their policework. Because it is just The Coolest like that.
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Black Robe posted:Yeah, this. Uranium and Insurgence (and most games, because it's the sane thing to do) give you options. In Reborn there is only the One True Way, and that way sucks rear end. Fully expecting all of OFS' alternate strategies thus far to be patched out with the next update. I don't think Uranium gave you much in the way of clear cut options if you weren't hard up on the latest competitive strats and meta.
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SmallpoxJenkins posted:I don't think Uranium gave you much in the way of clear cut options if you weren't hard up on the latest competitive strats and meta. They gave you MEGAWEAPON, did they really need to give you anything else? 
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