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Blaze Dragon posted:Pokemon was always oriented at children. The first generation just had kinks it hadn't quite ironed out yet, but ultimately, they were always intended for the same demographic, children. I feel like all the games have their share of creepy stuff and messed up Pokedex entries. Kids find that stuff super appealing too.
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Jun 4, 2018 07:24
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SeANMcBAY posted:I feel like all the games have their share of creepy stuff and messed up Pokedex entries. Kids find that stuff super appealing too. Yeah, kids love spooky things. Kid friendly horror, like Disney's haunted mansion or Five nights at Freddy's or those Scary Tales to Tell in the Dark books, has always been super popular. I loved Lavender town when I was little, so did all my friends, and I was really disappointed when I got a chance to resist it in Gold and Silver and the cool creepy tower was turned into a lame-rear end radio station.
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Jun 4, 2018 07:37
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Pokémon has always had a subtle horror element. Unfortunately, the anime, which happens to be the most prominent and most visible representation of the franchise, tends to not include these and makes it seem far more "kiddie". This has the side effect of making fans wanting stuff that's "darker" and you end up with dumb fan games that make things "dark and edgy" but then it warps back around to even more childish then before.
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Jun 4, 2018 11:10
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The new pokedex entries for mega evolutions are great and usually horrifying, but the best part is that gamefreak is just matter-of-fact about it all. So you’ll have things like Glalie’s jaw dislocating, or Scizor melting, or Gengar wanting to kill everything including you, but then you get to Slowbro and it’s justPokédex posted:Having been swallowed whole by Shellder, Slowbro now has an iron defense. It’s pretty comfortable in there, too. 
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Jun 4, 2018 11:56
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.TakaM posted:edit- Was this in any particular version of the game? I couldn't get it to play in Ultra Sun.
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Zuzie posted:Pokémon has always had a subtle horror element. Unfortunately, the anime, which happens to be the most prominent and most visible representation of the franchise, tends to not include these and makes it seem far more "kiddie". This has the side effect of making fans wanting stuff that's "darker" and you end up with dumb fan games that make things "dark and edgy" but then it warps back around to even more childish then before. The anime has plenty of pretty lewd jokes and adult humor in it in the early days (I have no idea if ut still does), but that stuff is locked away in the Haoaneae airings and gets edited or censored out overseas.
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Jun 4, 2018 18:01
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The Bulbapedia beta discussion page is having a slapfight over whether this is real or not because they don't want to have to completely upend their page and redo it
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Jun 4, 2018 18:06
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Serebii isn't covering it because he doesn't want takedowns (mentioned in his personal account) and a lot of people who may be Pokemon fans but unaware of beta leaks are begging him to say it's real or fake on the official account and won't accept any other answer. https://twitter.com/JoeMerrick/status/1002419381941481472 Dehry fucked around with this message at 18:21 on Jun 4, 2018 |
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Jun 4, 2018 18:15
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It's not really actual Pokémon News anyway, as its not what the developers are interested in (right now, Pokémon Quest and Let's Go Pikachu and Let's Go Eevee are the news items of the day). So if I were Serebii I wouldn't be covering it on that ground. Its a bit of gaming archaeology.
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I've only watched the Kanto season, but I remember there being a couple of ghost-centric episodes and each was heck of spooky.
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Jun 4, 2018 18:55
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:I've only watched the Kanto season, but I remember there being a couple of ghost-centric episodes and each was heck of spooky. Ash Ketchum loving dies in Kanto.
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CascadeBeta posted:Ash Ketchum loving dies in Kanto. 3 different times!
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Jessie got a Mimikyu and Meowth has gone to hell twice from seeing whats under the costume.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:30
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The anime started paying attention to international sensibilities around the time of the orange islands. The whole reason Brock left during that season was because they were worried he was a racial stereotype. Anything before that was a more Japanese focused cartoon.
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Jun 4, 2018 19:33
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They didn't announce any sort of bundle of Let's Go (either version) and the Pokéball controller, did they? Seems like a no-brainer, like when HG/SS came out with the Pokéwalker included. I wasn't interested in the game, but when I told my non-gamer Go-playing GF about it, she said she'd play the co-op with me.
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Chill Penguin posted:They didn't announce any sort of bundle of Let's Go (either version) and the Pokéball controller, did they? Seems like a no-brainer, like when HG/SS came out with the Pokéwalker included. I wasn't interested in the game, but when I told my non-gamer Go-playing GF about it, she said she'd play the co-op with me. They may exist closer to ship time, but A. the standalone controller costs nearly as much as the game itself B. the controller works with pokemon go C. the controller is guaranteed to be instantly out of stock 30 minutes after being released and remain that way until next april at the earliest so I wouldn't wait for the combo pack if it's something you really want, and I wouldn't expect the combo to be cheaper than the standalones
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Jun 4, 2018 20:28
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Dehry posted:The anime started paying attention to international sensibilities around the time of the orange islands. The whole reason Brock left during that season was because they were worried he was a racial stereotype. I remember my friend's mom saying something like how it was sad that Japanese people drew such beautiful eyes but just drew little lines for their own when she saw Brock lol
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Jun 4, 2018 20:36
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Nth Doctor posted:Was this in any particular version of the game? I couldn't get it to play in Ultra Sun. I can't see why there are so many incompatibilities between Ultra and regular...
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Jun 4, 2018 22:01
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.TakaM posted:oh sorry, yeah it's from regular old Moon. Because gently caress You that's why I don't get how in tyool 2018 it's apparently literally impossible to backpatch a handful of abilities/moves to make stuff like Own Tempo Rockruff able to be sent to SuMo. It's not even like the ability didn't exist 
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Jun 5, 2018 01:41
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They can't even keep replay compatibility between patches of the same game, asking them to backport a bunch of models and animations you'd otherwise never see in an older version is asking a bit much. "Gotta fix Sky Drop again, let's just throw out the baby with the bathwater."
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ROFL Octopus posted:The new pokedex entries for mega evolutions are great and usually horrifying, but the best part is that gamefreak is just matter-of-fact about it all. So you’ll have things like Glalie’s jaw dislocating, or Scizor melting, or Gengar wanting to kill everything including you, but then you get to Slowbro and it’s just The moon entry for it is: "When bathed in the energy of Mega Evolution, Shellder converts into impregnable armor. There is virtually no change in Slowpoke." Oh slowpoke, too slow to realize you've mega-evolved
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Jun 5, 2018 01:57
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is the pink man being bitten by the shellder a slowbro or slowpoke. if it loses its shellder, it "reverts to a slowpoke" but other times it already is a slowpoke does a non-shiny shellder biting a shiny slowpoke become shiny when they're slowbro or do only shiny shellders bite shiny slowpokes
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oddium posted:does a non-shiny shellder biting a shiny slowpoke become shiny when they're slowbro or do only shiny shellders bite shiny slowpokes similarly, if the slowpoke had pokerus and then evolves, the slowbro is immune to pokerus even if the shellder wasn't
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I actually kind of wonder if putting the mutated shellder in as a separate mon wasn't a precursor to what ended up being fusion, like a nincada in reverse where it consumes something out of your party.
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i think they probably figured that deleting a pokemon from someone's party just because something evolved and they might not have known what would happen wouldn't go over well hence why shedinja is spawned in the way it does, since all it requires is an empty space to appear and your ninjask is still there as well
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Jun 5, 2018 03:18
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.TakaM posted:oh sorry, yeah it's from regular old Moon. Nicely done.
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Ursine Catastrophe posted:Because gently caress You that's why actually it's because of hard copies soft patch the game all you want, but if you were to put a non-ultra sun/moon card in a new 3DS with no updates, but it had a sunset lycanroc on it...
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Nth Doctor posted:Nicely done.  I have a bunch of outstanding shiny Cleffas if anyone's interested
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.TakaM posted:3 outta 3 sheer colds! Team Lapras still got it I still have no interesting pokemon since it's my nuzlocke run, but I would love one of these. They're such a good subtle shiny
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Jun 5, 2018 09:24
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Hey was this posted, if not congrats https://twitter.com/Barbie_E4/status/1002916625832652800
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FelicityGS posted:I still have no interesting pokemon since it's my nuzlocke run, but I would love one of these. They're such a good subtle shiny edit- Did you get a Celebi btw? I still have a few left .TakaM fucked around with this message at 10:38 on Jun 5, 2018 |
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Jun 5, 2018 10:19
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There are a handful of winners among them, but for the most part the official dex is much better than the beta designs IMO. I think Girafarig is the only one I really think was better before and none of the standalones really wow me enough to trade for what we got instead. I do like the fanart it inspired though, there's been a lot of cute stuff! 
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Jun 5, 2018 10:55
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There's a handful that seem like very obvious precursors, namely Tangrowth, Lickilicky, and Leafeon. On the other hand, some of them seem like the oft-mentioned 'we never get rid of Pokemon' ideas - old Sneasel very much resembles Mienfoo, and the cats are reminiscent of Espurr and Meowstic. Interestingly enough Lapras and Kangaskhan don't have any familial connections in this game, despite being just as ripe for it as the others. Lapras would go on to have spiritual family designs for Ruby and Sapphire (beta Shellos/Gastrodon) and Kangaskhan a mega evolution. I would have thought Kanga would be the most obvious choice for a baby Pokemon.
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Jun 5, 2018 12:26
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ThisIsACoolGuy posted:Hey was this posted, if not congrats Those are hot poo poo and I really miss the old watercolor hand-drawn look, the newer digital art designs just feel so lifeless
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Jun 5, 2018 12:28
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I do think it's weird they went to the effort of redoing Scizor but not Marill
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Jun 5, 2018 12:46
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RIP Farfetch’d evo, the world wasn’t ready yet
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you guys are upset that the devs can't port backwards compatibility but not cheating prevention?
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