SniHjen posted:

I watched MyNameIsKaz stream this, and he said something that I find completely true:

Theo isn't 'The Rival'

You are.

Theo is the protagonist.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Fire/Fighting?

Zuzie posted:

I really dislike that they turned the player character into someone's incredibly boring O.C with a terrible name. Part of the game's immersion is that you can name your trainer after yourself and the Pokémon you obtain on your quest are personally yours, hence why there's a lot more emphasis on character customization.

While it's a small gripe, especially since a lot of other games have you control a character with his or her own identity, I can't help but feel offended by the fact that this game's creators took that bit of agency from the player but replaced with the most bland character design and name possible.

Commander Keene posted:

I like the concept of HMs, which is to say that I like the idea that Pokemon can do things outside of fighting. However, since most almost all HM moves are terrible to use in actual combat, even at the time you get them, and can only be removed by one person in the world, I think they seriously flubbed the execution. I think the best way to deal with HMs would have been to either: make them a fifth move that a Pokemon could learn, limiting each Pokemon to four combat powers and one utility power; or to eliminate HM moves and make the HMs an inherent part of the badge system, allowing any Pokemon who can learn the HM to use the power as long as you have the associated Gym Badge. Both systems benefit from making HMs non-combat, reducing screen clutter. This system can even work with some non-HM moves, like Teleport, Sweet Scent, or Flash (outside of Gen 1). Some Pokemon who start with a move useable outside of combat would either start with their "field move" slot filled, or would have extra "field moves". The current "rental Pokemon" system I hear they've implemented in Sun and Moon sounds like an acceptable alternative, but I feel like it would kill some of the immersion for me; suddenly I can't have my giant bird fly me around, but this other guy's giant bird can do it just fine? Meh.

Dr. Fetus posted:

On the other hand, the removal of HMs meant that they had to introduce way more NPC roadblocks to railroad you instead, so it's up to you if HMs were preferable to that or not.

Dexie posted:

So I decided to look at the Uranium wiki, at the 'official' art for the new 'mons...



Barewl looks a little better than his sprite?

It still doesn't look great or anything, but at least you can kind of tell it's supposed to be a little rock guy wearing a weird helmet, and not whatever the sprite is supposed to be.

It'd probably look better without the tail and with it's body being closer to Geodude's in texture.

Dalris Othaine posted:

Wait, "Oblivicorn"? gently caress you, Uranium.

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

EclecticTastes posted:

The core idea has legs, but, how does it remember what a substitute doll looks like when it doesn't remember what its own Pokemon species looked like? It may not have even known Substitute.

Kurieg posted:

I looked up the sprite for Linkite's evolution and broke out laughing.

GeminiSun posted:

I got mad and shat out this Linkite redesign in like half an hour.



Voila. Still a sad pokemon ghost, still looks like a substitute doll, still bound to its pokeball. But hopefully cuter, better designed, and less Banksy. I turned the tears into markings on its cheeks a la Yamask, to make it Look Sad without necessarily having to be actually crying for every moment of its existence, and echoed that visual element elsewhere to unify the design.

Bloody Pom posted:

I love Nobunata's concept. It's a pińata pokemon with Aftermath as its ability. It explodes into candy when it faints

mandatory lesbian posted:

yeah kinda, tho team skull literally took over a town and that's a bit more then just being some delinquents imo

PMush Perfect posted:

And of course, completely missing that what made Giovanni cool was his restraint.

Raserys posted:

The best friend rivals are actually Cheren and Bianca, like many things in Black and White

Ace of Aces posted:

It's especially problematic in Shauna's case, because she's supposed to be directly pursuing Mega Evolution and she pretty much... doesn't, complete with never gaining a Mega Stone (unlike your rival, who has a Mega Absol in the postgame).

Bogart posted:

I remember liking the Diamond/Pearl dynamic because they were just two comedian fuckups, Male Protag and Barry, who were trying to make it big but Platinum, Lady Protag, thought they were her bodyguards and they were just like okay

Gyra_Solune posted:

i need to at some point play literally any pokemon game past black

hell i need to finish black 2

Ace of Aces posted:

Play them all in release order since there's actually a story arc begun in XY that culminates in SuMo's Mega Beasts.

EclecticTastes posted:

The thing where the doomsday device used in the backstory of X/Y split Pokemon into multiple timelines, leading to Delta Episode and setting the stage for the Ultra Beasts.

Alacron posted:

Crossposting


I think the Ned Kelly pokemon is my main.

Gyra_Solune posted:

to be fair pretty much every region has some weirdness like that, except the first two

Hoenn has a big desert even though Kyushu isn't even the place where they made an artificial desert. Sinnoh's north half is snow-bound wasteland even though Hokkaido isn't that frosty (not to mention the postgame's supposed to be Sakhalin even though in-game it's a volcanically active rugged tropical area), Unova has a sprawling desert in what's supposed to be central Manhattan, and northeastern Kalos is the same deal as north Sinnoh. I dunno about Alola, haven't played it or anything but surely it's not all tropical paradise like actual Hawaii

Orange Fluffy Sheep posted:

Pedantic arguments about pokedex entries are powerless in Uranium!

dragon_pamcake posted:

Isn't canon Pokehell the Distortion World?

Doseku posted:

I'm really hoping that Curie will turn out to be the player characters mother. It would be up this game's alley in edgelordness.

Haifisch posted:

Another lesson they need is 'more is not always better'. If they'd cut out about half the fanmons and focused their efforts on making the remaining ones semi-decent, this would have been a better fangame. Same goes with the 5000 things they're trying to do with the meltdown plot - pick 2 or 3 things to focus on, and axe the rest.

Ex: Make meltdown #1 a mystery. Introduce Curie and Title Screen Mon during meltdown #2. Give them actual motivations other than . Axe the bullshit with Theo's dad getting hurt only not, the MC's father going missing(at least I think he did? I can't keep track of what's going on anymore), that weird sideplot area that was 100% optional, etc.

Malachite_Dragon posted:

I wonder if this new missive from them has anything to do with Nintendo announcing Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon this past Tuesday.

Yes, that's seriously the names. Apparently they'll have a new story, ala B/W2

SSNeoman posted:

It's cool that Theo can survive in this place without a power suit. Remind me again why shoving him into a nuclear reactor is a good thing for Curie?

Xelkelvos posted:

I do think there was an intention to use the Flying-type golfer in S/M more, but there was no more room or something which is why the Flying Z stone is just in a cave

EclecticTastes posted:

There's a ton of characters, plot threads, and so on that are just kind of there on the periphery in Gen VII, and it might be that the writers' reach exceeded their grasp in terms of how long a dev cycle they had, but more likely, they were doing deliberate setup for Ultra Sun/Moon, which looks to be taking an approach similar to Black/White 2, except, I would think they're actually planning something even more ambitious in terms of continuity (a lot of stuff was clearly "under construction" in-universe, several areas are ripe for makeovers, and there were characters whose arcs didn't fully resolve, all of which appear primed for a sequel).

Endorph posted:

you know if you're going with this why not just have everyone know the antagonist is your mom from the start

like that'd create some interesting tension, maybe. or you could have the reveal be halfway through the game, like darth vader. so the buildup to the final confrontation is - okay yeah its uranium