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Post by Shrapnel » Mon Jun 29, 2015 4:06 pm

Some news on Mystery Dungeon's obnoxious quiz: Apparently, if you get a result you don't like, you can take it over again.
That's... actually pretty nice. It means I don't have to keep restarting the game just to take the damn quiz again.
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Post by Wiseman » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:25 am

Of course at that point why have the quiz at all? All that means is that everyone's going to retake the quiz until they get the starter they actually want.
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Post by Darth Rabbitt » Tue Jun 30, 2015 12:44 am

Why have the quiz even if you couldn't retake it? Does Nintendo not want kids to play as their favorite Pokemon? It's like if they decided to bring back whether moves use ATK or SPATK by type rather than on a move by move basis. It's a counter-intuitive legacy mechanic the game is better without.

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Post by Koumei » Tue Jun 30, 2015 6:29 am

But then how could people ever take a fun quiz to decide what pokemon they're most like? I mean, Nintendo invented that shit, man, and it's not like there's some big Internet thing where you can take a personality test to determine what pokemon you're most like.
(Yes, each word there is a link to a separate quiz. You're welcome.)

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Post by Shrapnel » Tue Jun 30, 2015 1:56 pm

As much as Dragon Quest III is one of my favorite video games of all time, I do blame it for the whole personality quiz in video games thing, since it was the first one to do that. (It was used to determine your personality - funnily enough - which in turn determined how your stats grew. So that means that DQIII also did Natures before Pokémon.)
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Post by Darth Rabbitt » Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:08 pm

Really, personality traits should be a purely roleplaying thing. You shouldn't want your character in an RPG to have a specific personality solely because it makes your stats better.
As for natures in particular they should basically just flavor player interactions with their Pokemon. So Walking Pokemon, Pokemon-Amie and shit like that will have Pokemon act differently if they're Gentle than if they're Naughty and what-not.

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Post by Koumei » Tue Jun 30, 2015 3:37 pm

Well, quite. I imagine if Nintendo/Gamefreak decided to make that change, there would be more fans of the idea than detractors. But that can be said about a lot of decisions made in regards to Pokemon.

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Post by Shrapnel » Tue Jun 30, 2015 4:24 pm

Personally, the thing I want Nintendo to change the most, more than EV's, more than natures, more than the increasing amount of wireless gimmicks, more than Michael Bay to swallow his own fist and choke on it, more than even wanting a complete G1 Scorponok*... is to get rid of fucking event-only Mythical Pokemon and make them more accessible to players worldwide. God, just thinking about it makes me hot.
But if Nintendo did that (and released Dragon Quest VII, Mother 3 and Pokken Tournament in the States)... then I would fall on my knees and suck Satoru Iwata's** Satoshi Tajiri's Asian cock for sixty days and never say a bad thing about Nintendo again for the rest of my life. And I swear that that is the truth.
*Okay, I actually probably want that more.
**He's dead now, so now I have to pick someone new or else it's bad taste.
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Post by Shrapnel » Sat Jul 04, 2015 2:49 pm

ARRRGGHHH.
Typical. No US release, of course.
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Post by Shrapnel » Wed Jul 22, 2015 8:25 pm

YES! FINALLY!

> Serebii.net wrote:In The Games Department
> Pokkén Tournament
> During a Reddit AMA, the Senior VP of Dave & Busters restaurants in the United States has stated that they will be running tests on Pokkén Tournament, indicating that there is a massive likelihood of the game coming out outside of Japan. While it has yet to be made official, it does stand as a good sign for future support of the title outside of Japan. We'll bring more as and when it comes

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Post by Shrapnel » Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:31 pm

Hey! A transgender character in Pokemon!
No, really.
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Aug 21, 2015 1:59 pm

Yay! Pokken Tournament is getting a Wii U release worldwide next spring! Jubilations!
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Post by Maxus » Fri Sep 04, 2015 5:56 am

Smosh Games' Pokemon Nicknames
He jumps like a damned dragoon, and charges into battle fighting rather insane monsters with little more than his bare hands and rather nasty spell effects conjured up solely through knowledge and the local plantlife. He unerringly knows where his goal lies, he breathes underwater and is untroubled by space travel, seems to have no limits to his actual endurance and favors killing his enemies by driving both boots square into their skull. His agility is unmatched, and his strength legendary, able to fling about a turtle shell big enough to contain a man with enough force to barrel down a near endless path of unfortunates.
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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Sep 04, 2015 1:38 pm

My favorite was "It's Eevee backwards". I also loved the MissingNo. call out.
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Post by Maxus » Fri Sep 04, 2015 3:36 pm

> Shrapnel wrote:My favorite was "It's Eevee backwards". I also loved the MissingNo. call out.

"Magneto's Balls" made me laugh. As did "Cave Herpes" and "Catfish" and "Butt Hawk".
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Post by Darth Rabbitt » Fri Sep 04, 2015 4:08 pm

I think my favorite was "Wait, didn't we just do that one?" but I also laughed pretty hard at "Haunted Vagina."

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Post by angelfromanotherpin » Sat Sep 05, 2015 3:14 am

> Darth Rabbitt wrote:I think my favorite was "Wait, didn't we just do that one?" but I also laughed pretty hard at "Haunted Vagina."

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Post by Shrapnel » Wed Sep 09, 2015 2:57 pm

Holy fuck... it just dawned on me that Pokemon is twenty years old. That means there are kids out there whose first Pokemon games woulda been Black/White.
Fuck, I feel old, and I'm only twenty-three. This must be how forty-year-old Transformers fans must feel.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Sep 09, 2015 11:49 pm

Yeah, Pokemon is old enough to drink in many countries. And given by some of the entries, I think it's been making full use of this.

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Post by PhoneLobster » Fri Sep 11, 2015 1:47 am

So. Pokemon Go hey.
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Post by Prak » Fri Sep 11, 2015 5:36 am

Yeah, Pokemon Go looks so cool I've been waiting roughly eight years for it.
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Post by OgreBattle » Fri Sep 11, 2015 7:06 am

> Shrapnel wrote:Holy fuck... it just dawned on me that Pokemon is twenty years old. That means there are kids out there whose first Pokemon games woulda been Black/White.
> Fuck, I feel old, and I'm only twenty-three. This must be how forty-year-old Transformers fans must feel.

I remember telling a elementary school kid (I was working at the Smithsonian) that Ash once traveled with a Charizard and he sounded so amazed.
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Post by Koumei » Fri Sep 11, 2015 9:43 pm

Did he then break your heart by asking which Charizardite Ash used?

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Post by Shrapnel » Fri Oct 30, 2015 2:39 pm

Hoopa is finally being released in the US...
... at McDonald's restaurants.
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Post by Koumei » Wed Nov 18, 2015 11:43 am

This guy does fun theme teams. Some of them are hilarious. Like the Sex one and ALL TURTLES.
So I was inspired to make my own theme team: PRO WRASSLIN
Starring... THE ROCK! (Golem@Priority Berry, Sturdy. Obligatory Stealth Rock, Explosion, two other moves that are probably something like Fire Punch and Earthquake, w/e)
TRIPLE H (the roided up Conkeldurr@Flame Orb, Guts. Drain Punch, Rock Tomb (to bury people, I hear Triple H likes doing that), Knock-Off, Counter)
STING (Gliscor@Toxic Orb, Poison Heal. Poison Jab, Facade, U-Turn, Sword Dance)
AJ STYLES (Hawlucha@Lum Berry because Flying Gems are banned. REPLACE THIS WITH SITRUS. Unburden. Acrobatics, U-Turn, Thunder Punch, Flying Press)
THE UNDERTAKER (Gengar - undead, kills fools, and is a classic from the beginning. Red Card, should swap for a Focus Sash maybe? Levitate. Toxic, Hex, Dazzling Gleam, Infestation. Given the lack of staying power, maybe swap Infestation for a Sludge thing or Will-O-Wisp.)
And finally, your current former US Champion... JAAAAAAAAAAAAHN CEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
(Heracross@Heracronite: in mega-form it just spams the same move over and over. Moxie (until mega-evolved, where Skill Link). Pin Missile, Bullet Seed, Night Slash, Close Combat.)
How did they fare? Like this!
(Cena wins, lol)
I'm open to suggestions for other fitting wrestlers to join them. I love silly theme teams, even when they're not that good.

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