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Which is why I’m really hoping Paldea gets its own season rather than being slotted into the Journeys mix (the characters in this game are just too good to be sidelined like that). Ash I can take or leave but at least give me that much
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I’m guessing Penny is the secret bad guy
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indigi posted:I’m guessing Penny is the secret bad guy Have you finished SV yet?
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Obviously the speed at which you progress through school correlates inversely with how much time you spend loving off and doing battles. Nemona will be in high school til she's 40.
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Dec 13, 2022 17:08
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I think it's hilarious when Arven, or Nemona show up in art class because you're already pushing the size requirement for those little desks and they're like adults in tiny chairs. Profssor Gibble, I understand they're right sized for you but the rest of us need more chairs.
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Flopsy posted:I find it kinda hilarious/horrifying some of the sandwiches in this game actually sound kind of delicious while others are some of the most batshit insane combinations I've ever had the displeasure of laying my eyes on. Like I can guarantee you the Master Tower sandwich will make you poo poo yourself to death and I'm sure some YouTuber is going to try and make it mark my words. I know I’ve made something like the ultra hefty sandwich while drunk before
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Dec 13, 2022 17:17
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Larryb posted:Hell, as far as the games go I wouldn’t mind a full fledged SV2 either. This is probably one of the best all around supporting casts we’ve had in a little while and I want to see more of them People are always complaining itt that Sun/Moon 2 ruined the story or w/e, do you really want them to retroactively change the story like they did then? I think the story in SV is probably the best they're done in any game so far.
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Hammerite posted:People are always complaining itt that Sun/Moon 2 ruined the story or w/e, do you really want them to retroactively change the story like they did then? I think the story in SV is probably the best they're done in any game so far. Ultra Sun/Moon was just a remake, I was thinking more along the lines of a full fledged sequel like what Black & White got
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Hammerite posted:...I think the story in SV is probably the best they're done in any game so far. I totally agree. The twist in the story was actually quite surprising and interesting. The professor reveal
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I think the DLC will serve as a sequel in some respects; they’ve built a bunch of hooks into the base game, it sold really well, and there are a handful of tiny things you can do in postgame (like hang out in your buddies’ dorm rooms) that are just begging to be expanded upon
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Dec 13, 2022 17:35
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Mesadoram posted:I totally agree. The twist in the story was actually quite surprising and interesting. i was suspicious the moment I noticed a professor not named after some kind of plant, but given the breadth of changes in the game I wasn’t about to second guess
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Larryb posted:Have you finished SV yet? no I’m 3 gyms and 2 bases in
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Pretzel Rod Stewart posted:I think the DLC will serve as a sequel in some respects; they’ve built a bunch of hooks into the base game, it sold really well, and there are a handful of tiny things you can do in postgame (like hang out in your buddies’ dorm rooms) that are just begging to be expanded upon There's a lot of tantalizing little hints for the DLC but all I can say for sure is it's going to involve the thing that lives at the bottom of Area Zero.
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I think my favorite twist was Clavell doing all the hallmark shady remarks of a secret villain and muscling in on the Starfall Street plot and making you think he's up to something dodgy, only to completely shatter that image the first time you roll up to a Team Star camp and get the full Buscemi.
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I think my favorite twist was Clavell doing all the hallmark shady remarks of a secret villain and muscling in on the Starfall Street plot and making you think he's up to something dodgy, only to completely shatter that image the first time you roll up to a Team Star camp and get the full Buscemi. The twist being Clavell is in fact the actual professor of the game. He's named after a flower and even tells you later on he did work as a Pokemon professor before taking up the mantle of director. His office still has the design and hallmarks of his original lab. Sada/Turo were red herrings from the word go and I kinda love it.
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Dec 13, 2022 18:38
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indigi posted:you should be able to summon them to do raids with or at the union circle for battles This is something that was sorely missing from SwoShi as well. You got all these trainer cards of people you met, and even upgraded some cards, but they don’t have any added function. Having the upgraded trainer cards should have allowed you to call that trainer into a raid battle. And your own trainer card should have been usable as your online avatar. Like, why did I have to pick a generic NPC icon as an avatar when I have a specially created card I made of my character? Trainer cards were pretty cool, but they really could’ve been utilized more.
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Larryb posted:Ultra Sun/Moon was just a remake, I was thinking more along the lines of a full fledged sequel like what Black & White got Agreed. I would love if they did a proper sequel again. Sequels are superior to remakes because they allow room for improvements on the original game, while still feeling like you’re playing a new game instead of the old one a second time.
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Flopsy posted:The twist being Clavell is in fact the actual professor of the game. He's named after a flower and even tells you later on he did work as a Pokemon professor before taking up the mantle of director. His office still has the design and hallmarks of his original lab. Sada/Turo were red herrings from the word go and I kinda love it. I think the actual actual professor is Mr. Jacq, since that's an actual tree
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When they inevitably remake black and white do you think they'll like release one that has black and black 2 or will they have one that has black and white and then a second game that has black 2 and white 2 OR will they just do 4 remakes
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FireRed/LeafGreen and HeartGold/SoulSilver could also be fun remakes to be bundled together FireHeart/GreenSoul, if you will.
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they didnt even put plat into diamond and pearl so im going with they will do just bw1 and ignore 2 exists
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Which game was it that after you finished you could go back to the previous game’s region and do more gyms etc? I can’t remember if that was HGSS or RSE
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Four releases, each with two games; pokémon Vantablack (Black and Black 2), pokémon Zebra (Black and White 2), pokémon Penguin (White and Black 2), and pokémon Romney (White and White 2).
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:Which game was it that after you finished you could go back to the previous game’s region and do more gyms etc? I can’t remember if that was HGSS or RSE GSC, and consequently HGSS
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FAT32 SHAMER posted:FireRed/LeafGreen and HeartGold/SoulSilver could also be fun remakes to be bundled together Just connect all the regions together and release an absolute tome of a game. You’ve collected 59 badges and switched identities at least six times. You have nine moms who keep giving you Pokédex after Pokédex. You are so so tired.
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Flopsy posted:Oh my God I never knew they could do this and now I love them even more. Wait, so they only do these animations in the Team Star bases specifically?
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Where’s the best place to look at competitive Pokémon loadouts? I reset all my EVs on my shinies but don’t want to EV train them yet until I see some examples.
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HD DAD posted:Just connect all the regions together and release an absolute tome of a game. You’ve collected 59 badges and switched identities at least six times. You have nine moms who keep giving you Pokédex after Pokédex. You are so so tired. Johto Mom keeps spending your money on apricorn ball auctions but it's never the one you actually want, and Kurt's back still hasn't healed enough for him to produce them en masse 
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Desperate Character posted:Where’s the best place to look at competitive Pokémon loadouts? I reset all my EVs on my shinies but don’t want to EV train them yet until I see some examples. In the past I used https://www.pikalytics.com/, but it seems like it is not fully updated to the new game yet and is missing information.
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 Edit: One extremely lucky Terra Raid later! 
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Flopsy posted:The twist being Clavell is in fact the actual professor of the game. He's named after a flower and even tells you later on he did work as a Pokemon professor before taking up the mantle of director. His office still has the design and hallmarks of his original lab. Sada/Turo were red herrings from the word go and I kinda love it. I've come to notice that almost every character is named after a plant. After digging a bit into bulbapedia: Katy -> obvious association with katydids because she's a bug type trainer, but her Japanese name is Kaede, which means maple. Brassius -> brassicas, like broccoli, kale, cabbage, brussels sprouts, etc Iono -> both her English and Japanese names are puns on "I dunno" as well as references to names for the Chinese fringetree Kofu -> both English and Japanese names refer to kelp Larry -> I thought Larry was just... Larry, because that would be funny as a normal everydude, but nah, his Japanese name is Aoki which means laurel, and laurel -> Larry. Tulip -> obvious Ryme -> possibly a pun on lime? But also a pun on rhyme and rime ('cause she's in the cold mountains after all). Grusha -> Russian for pear Mela -> melocotón is Spanish for peach Atticus -> Japanese name is Shumei, short for shumeigiku (a type of anemone), and English possibly a play on hepatica (buttercup family). idk man this one feels like a stretch to me Giacomo -> Japanese name is Pinya (Pińa) for pineapple. English refers to "ananas comosus" which also feels like a bit of a stretch Ortega -> Spanish for nettle Eri -> Japanese name is biwa (loquat), whose scientific name is Eriobotrya japonica Arven -> Japanese name is Pepper; scientific name mentha arvensis for a wild mint. Penny -> Japanese name is Botan (peony) Nemona -> refers to "Nemophila" which is some kinda flower I guess Clavell -> Spanish word clavel = carnation Jacq -> Japanese name is Zinnia; scientific name Zinnia elegans Jacq Dendra -> Japanese name is Kihada (cork tree); English name probably a play on scientific name Phellodendron amurense Miriam -> Japanese name is mimosa, English name probably a play on that Saguaro -> that be a cactus Raifort -> French for horseradish Salvatore -> Japanese name is Sage, English is probably a play on salvia (Spanish for sage) Tyme -> thyme Rika -> Japanese name is Chili, English name is a play on paprika Poppy -> obvious Hassel -> Japanese name is Hassaku, which is some kinda orange; English name is a play on that Geeta -> Japanese name is Omodaka (threeleaf arrowhead), scientific name is Sagittaria, likely where English name is pulled from Sada -> Japanese name is Olim, which I guess is Latin for "once upon a time", English name comes for Spanish word for past (pasada) Turo -> Japanese name is Futu, Spanish word for future is futuro (where the English name is also pulled from) I suppose that Sada and Turo not being named after plants should kind of be a tell that something is different about them. I pulled all of the above from bulbapedia so if any of it's wrong, it's not on me. 
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"Mera mera" is the onomatopoeia for fire burning in Japanese. Mela is the fire type leader, so there's that too Also kinda bothered me that Tyme wasn't the history professor. Xander B Coolridge fucked around with this message at 21:19 on Dec 13, 2022 |
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Desperate Character posted:Where’s the best place to look at competitive Pokémon loadouts? I reset all my EVs on my shinies but don’t want to EV train them yet until I see some examples. apologies in advance for not answering your q but I love that this is just a thing you can just go and do now for your favorite monster bros vs the struggle back in the day Im very fond of Gen 9, warts and all
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Ryme is sisters with Tyme so you also have a "rhyme time" pun.
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Haschel Cedricson posted:Ryme is sisters with Tyme so you also have a "rhyme time" pun. Sure, but just make her the history teacher instead Unless we're supposed to be learning our Tymes table. Then it's ok.
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Wile E. Toyota posted:Wait, so they only do these animations in the Team Star bases specifically? Apparently which really is a waste because when you're running through there's no way in hell you're paying attention to idle animations. These would've been better used at the picnics. Framboise posted:I've come to notice that almost every character is named after a plant. After digging a bit into bulbapedia: This is a Pokemon thing in general. A LOT of characters in the series have some sort of name reference to plants. I think it really started kicking into high gear in around gen 6 but I could be wrong.
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Flopsy posted:Apparently which really is a waste because when you're running through there's no way in hell you're paying attention to idle animations. These would've been better used at the picnics. It kicked into high gear in the English version in Gen 6, but this was always the case in Japanese.
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gen 5 was when they started getting serious about consistency in localization and I believe when they started doing simultaneous releases, so it makes sense from then on you’d see localized names that were derived together—English often uses the Spanish localization in SV, for example, regardless of whichever came first—and a more concerted effort to make all the localized names hang together in fact, global communication was a major theme of gen 5 so you can see why that’s when it started; there’s the big in-game UN where you can gradually fill out a map based on which irl nations your trade partners were from, GTS, Pokémon Global Link, and a handful of other gestures toward that Pokémon kicks rear end
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"Idol animations" lol
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some of those are kind of a stretch Like, Mela obviously comes from mela, the Italian word for apple. Look at her hair! Her hair's not a peach!
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