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Stux posted:sut... da Fuk up. Bust Rodd
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imho the gen 8 fossil mons are great because they are mismatched abominations, and the pokedex entries leaning even further into that as gruckles just mentioned is frankly hilarious, and i feel no moral compunction over having these opinions because -- and this is most important of all -- they're not real creatures
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Dec 12, 2021 04:52
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FoolyCharged posted:They wouldn't be that bad if they were just... not bad looking. But instead they're just mismatched nonsense without any clear design. They actually have such a clear design that you can see what one of the original fossils would have made if they weren't mismatched.
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Dec 12, 2021 04:57
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I just think there's too many of them, we didn't need four pokemon for this joke.
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Dec 12, 2021 05:07
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the gen 8 fossils own, and so do the fused pokemon kinda weird to make rants about how they're all sick abominations imo
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Dec 12, 2021 05:12
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HootTheOwl posted:I just think there's too many of them, we didn't need four pokemon for this joke. You need at least 2 but the mix and match works better with 4 so it's not just 2 fossils that are opposites.
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Dec 12, 2021 05:16
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Bill fused with a Pokémon in gen 1
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Dec 12, 2021 05:18
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The only sick abominations are the ones posting in this thread
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Dec 12, 2021 05:19
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Then Gen 8 fossils own because they're exactly what the pop culture, and for many still the scientific, depiction of dinosaurs are. Just a bundled up bunch of bones that look goofy, but a guy with a british accent said that it's ok if a T-Rex has useless arms.
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Flopsy posted:Some concepts I just don't especially care for. The ugly designs were the cherry on the poo poo cake for me.
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Dec 12, 2021 05:20
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I hope we get alternate formes in another gen that are just the reverse versions. Give me a tiny raptor windmilling its legs in the air as it's dragged behind a big clunky stegosaurus body.
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Flopsy posted:Some concepts I just don't especially care for. The ugly designs were the cherry on the poo poo cake for me. sorry... yall seeing this?? uhh... ok... so that just happened... I GUESS. normal world. or more accruately hell world actually. mods?
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Dec 12, 2021 05:39
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Gruckles posted:The gen 8 fossils are godless abominations, and it's an extremely good bit that the pokedex just shrugs it off wtih "It can't survive with its hosed up body. Weird, must be why they're extinct I guess. This definitely existed in nature." Early paleontology was full of "this animal was all hosed up in it's structure and that's why it's not around anymore", it's great.
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Stux posted:sorry... yall seeing this?? uhh... ok... so that just happened... I GUESS. normal world. or more accruately hell world actually. mods? I see something awful's poster standards continue to slip.
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Dec 12, 2021 06:25
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I guess there's a trend in the Pokemon fandom that takes what is written in the Pokedex as gospel and that's pretty much what the creature is about. So the Gen 8 fossil Pokemon taking a sledgehammer to that notion is refreshing at least. The Gen 8 fossils are indeed great, but its understandable why some people are put off by them, since they'd also want to see what the actual whole creatures looked like in life rather then these weird frankenstined things.
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Dec 12, 2021 06:34
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Zuzie posted:I guess there's a trend in the Pokemon fandom that takes what is written in the Pokedex as gospel and that's pretty much what the creature is about. So the Gen 8 fossil Pokemon taking a sledgehammer to that notion is refreshing at least. It's this. Their concept is good I get where they're coming from and it's a very creative reference that produced some good competitive mons. I still don't really like the idea of using something that struggles to breath in it's description. That's it. And personally I just don't like the legendary fusion mons but if you want to use em' knock yourself right out. It's your game do whatever you want.
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Dec 12, 2021 06:40
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The legendary fusions are fine to me because they're designed as parts of a whole. Sure, they look kinda cobbled together and messed up, but that's also because they're still incomplete. They don't look any worse off than Kyurem itself. I think if Gen 5 was released in the age of Megas and Ultra Necrozma, we'd have a Complete Kyurem that rounds the whole concept out and restores the original dragon. That might end up coming off as more agreeable. Unlike Solgaleo and Lunala, who, yeah, just kinda get used as food by a light parasite before it turns into a weird space dragon.
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The Bee posted:The legendary fusions are fine to me because they're designed as parts of a whole. Sure, they look kinda cobbled together and messed up, but that's also because they're still incomplete. They don't look any worse off than Kyurem itself. Creepy part was Lillie suddenly being super down with it after watching her beloved Nebby struggle for it's life then get beaten and absorbed. After all that set up of her story line and how she risked her life for it, it just felt very strange. But then again I don't think a coherent plot was high on the list of priorities for USUM.
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Lillie telling the player to show Nebby the wonders of Alola before they promptly feed it to Necrozma to restore it will never not be hilarious
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Dec 12, 2021 07:34
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Dracovish is my friend and I will not stand for this talk of him being an abomination that should not exist.
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Dec 12, 2021 08:33
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InspectorCarbonara posted:Dracovish is my friend and I will not stand for this talk of him being an abomination that should not exist. Best buds with Araquanid  Also Dracovish is like a giant puppy in Camp and it’s adorable.
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Dec 12, 2021 13:35
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late but parasect being a hosed up grim mushroom zombie is exactly why it rules
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The best followup the the mix and match fossils would be comically skin shrink-wrapped fossils. The more abominations the better IronicDongz posted:late but parasect being a hosed up grim mushroom zombie is exactly why it rules It's true. They should make more pokes based on extremely hosed up parasites, like that bug that becomes a fish's tongue, or that worm that gives snails crazy eyes
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Dec 12, 2021 17:42
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The Gen 9 fossils should be the missing parts from the Galar fossils. A stegosaurus with a fish tail, a plesiosaur with a velociraptor's rear end.
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Dec 12, 2021 18:45
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Gen 9 should have Cara Liss go mad with power and split apart previous gen fossils before combining them. Give me Tyrantrum with Kabutops’ scythes, Cradily with Aerodactyl’s wings, etc.
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Dec 12, 2021 19:13
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InspectorCarbonara posted:Gen 9 should have Cara Liss go mad with power and split apart previous gen fossils before combining them. Give me Tyrantrum with Kabutops’ scythes, Cradily with Aerodactyl’s wings, etc. Gen 9’s villain team, Team Taphonomy, will have Cara Liss as its boss. Its goal? Revive all fossils for reasons! Pokémon Tooth and Pokémon Bone, coming soon.
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Dec 12, 2021 19:21
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Tardigrade posted:Best buds with Araquanid Okay this is cute as hell I gotta admit. Also helps I love giant spiders.
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Dec 12, 2021 19:50
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I like the joke of the gen 8 fossils. But Dracovish is the only one that uses the joke to actually make a good design out of it.
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Dec 12, 2021 19:53
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i think my favorite of the hosed up parasitic pokemon has to be Runerigus lorewise, galarian yamask start out normal but get partially trapped in a cursed stone. Their evolution conditions boils down to "get it really weak and bring it to the source of the stone", which always read to me as it being eaten while on its last legs galagazombie posted:I like the joke of the gen 8 fossils. But Dracovish is the only one that uses the joke to actually make a good design out of it. dracozolt is cute and my friend
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Dec 12, 2021 20:57
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As someone who has played every main line Pokémon game I can honestly say Gen 7 & 8 have been my favourite. They've added so many QoL changes that the older gens are difficult to play now. Also I gen 7 & 8 had some of the more imaginative new Pokémon additions. I still understand the hate for the newer pokemon games. They are "good" games, I think most people are disappointed because, given the basically unlimited funds of the pokemon company, they could be so much better.
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Dec 12, 2021 21:40
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Butternubs posted:As someone who has played every main line Pokémon game I can honestly say Gen 7 & 8 have been my favourite. They've added so many QoL changes that the older gens are difficult to play now. Also I gen 7 & 8 had some of the more imaginative new Pokémon additions. I don't even hate the new pokemon games, Gen 7 is in fact my second favorite Gen out of all of them. But I do have issues with some stuff and I will talk about them in addition to the quality of life improvements and other parts I also really like. Not gonna lie you ain't wrong that later gens have gone above and beyond to make the mechanics around raising pokemon leagues easier and less stressful. I will never stop giving them credit for the addition of secret ability capsules like God bless em' for that.
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Dec 12, 2021 23:34
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I never understood why people talk about how bad they reckon BW2's story is. All of these games have dumb stories, that's not something that is different from game to game. But I enjoyed playing BW2 and going, "oh yeah, all these silly characters are back and doing new stuff and mixing things up in this setting that I'm familiar with". I got a kick out of that. It would get stale if they did that every gen, but I like that GF occasionally break their own rules and conventions and just do something they've not done before.
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Hammerite posted:I never understood why people talk about how bad they reckon BW2's story is. All of these games have dumb stories, that's not something that is different from game to game. But I enjoyed playing BW2 and going, "oh yeah, all these silly characters are back and doing new stuff and mixing things up in this setting that I'm familiar with". I got a kick out of that. It would get stale if they did that every gen, but I like that GF occasionally break their own rules and conventions and just do something they've not done before. Ehhh....While I won't argue Pokemon isn't known for having the strongest stories at the very least they can be fun or somewhat compelling....it's sorta universally agreed Gen 8 dropped the ball there. Like I'm sort of following along with pokemon special manga at the moment and the writer is successfully pulling together a plot out of the scraps that Galar provided. Is it amazing? I mean not especially but it makes sense and is a lot stronger than what we got. Mostly because the characters are given a lot more to do with more effect on the plot and an actual threat is being built up simultaneously.
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i'm amazed kusaka can still keep it going, and i feel that his pathological need to include everything from the games has hurt his storytelling in recent years like i can't say that his su/mo arc would have suffered if he'd left out the pokepelago, as an example
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Dec 13, 2021 03:13
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:i'm amazed kusaka can still keep it going, and i feel that his pathological need to include everything from the games has hurt his storytelling in recent years I think he's begun compensating by only referencing what were relevant previous arcs which is probably for the best tbh.
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Jerry Manderbilt posted:i'm amazed kusaka can still keep it going, and i feel that his pathological need to include everything from the games has hurt his storytelling in recent years What do you mean? It was vitally important he include the spiky-eared pichu in the HGSS arc. But even considering that his SwSh story is going better than the game imo.
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Dec 13, 2021 03:23
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Hammerite posted:I never understood why people talk about how bad they reckon BW2's story is. All of these games have dumb stories, that's not something that is different from game to game. But I enjoyed playing BW2 and going, "oh yeah, all these silly characters are back and doing new stuff and mixing things up in this setting that I'm familiar with". I got a kick out of that. It would get stale if they did that every gen, but I like that GF occasionally break their own rules and conventions and just do something they've not done before. It’s not that the story is bad. It’s that BW1 already had a satisfying conclusion and then you’re the guy/girl playing clean up and it all feels unnecessary. I think a theoretical Pokémon Gray with all that B2W2 included would have made me personally enjoy it much more. I also like Cheren and Bianca much more than Hugh as a rival.
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Nanigans posted:It’s not that the story is bad. It’s that BW1 already had a satisfying conclusion and then you’re the guy/girl playing clean up and it all feels unnecessary. Cheren and Bianca were a lot more charming with actual character arcs instead of just being hot blooded and weirdly invested in a purrloin that nobody including it's trainer actually gave a poo poo about. I can't tell if it was meant to be some strange joke he was the only one who cared about it. Like not even the pokemon itself really gave a drat in the end. Or was it supposed to be tragic that the purrloin drifted away and his sister wasn't that invested to begin with? Either way it doesn't really make for a very interesting character.
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Dec 13, 2021 03:53
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Insane to me that someone would prefer an updated release to a sequel. Like I don't have anything against the 3rd versions but thinking you'd rather spend money on a slightly more polished released of a game you already have but with a new legendary instead of a totally new game with many new locations a new story and an updated dex and everything. I mean even if you don't like BW2 at all the original game is still there for you. What is it missing that you need a Pokemon Grey to address? E: Anyway Hugh's ok. Kinda sucks at being a rival because he doesn't actually want to beat you (and his team sucks) but first rival since Silver to actually give a poo poo about the villains. He stands out a little and I think that's a point in his favour. SyntheticPolygon fucked around with this message at 03:56 on Dec 13, 2021 |
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