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I'll take it! I had three lightbulbs shining in my face on the hottest day of the year so I doubt it'll get much better
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rumor has it that if you organize those pictures correct and zoom out you will see the face of god
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After thinking about it, I have to say I def think it's worse (though I don't think either are that bad)

I think there are arguably excusable ways for white people to use the N-word, for instance, discussions about whether white people can use the N word, and singing along with songs that contain the word.

the emoji replacement just seems like little twerps trying to break the rules to be edgy
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For the purposes of the poll, is replacing the N, but if you think it's different when the also replaces the G's let me know!
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Because it's a continuation of the first one in both story and characters?
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let's up the ante of this

No HD remasters
No System ports
Characters from game have never guest starred in another game
at least 11 years since release

using all these stipulations the best game is

Body Harvest for the N64
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why doesn't she have dragon boobs
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Pincachu
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oh I'm wrong again

the condom looking one is evolved ditto

The other one IS precious baby grimer
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Cybat posted...

Oh, I didn't notice that the original link has an explanation for all of them. I never would have guessed that the double ghost thing was a baby Girafarig.

oh shit it IS an evolved ditto

dumb

I want my baby smudge
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The crazy thing about game freak is not only do they not know what fans want, but they also are not competent enough to make big changes.

So for all our hemming and hawing about a boring ass yellow remake, it might be the best we can hope for
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Elite four has themes instead of types

Inanimate object Pokemon

Female Only Pokemon

Monkey Pokemon

Fossil Pokemon

And then the champion turns out to be

uhhh

let's say its looker

good night everyone
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I guess I can do a quick a dirty kanto write up just to finish it up

Saffron City-

Futuristic City, Sabrina is the Mayor, Gym is fighting/psychic, Giovanni is president of Silph and team rocket is a group of volunteers that keep the city clean and safe

Lavender Town-

A ghost (ha) town, NPCs talk about how there was an avalanche from rock tunnel one day, and by the time a rescue team arrived, all the citizens had vanished. Mediums in the tower talk about how it was revenge for building a radio town on sacred ground

Celadon City-

Bright lights, vegas like city, tons of hotels and an arcade where the game corner used to be. In the arcade you can play games like "surfing pikachu" and get tokens for high scores. Public works let's you reopen the Arcade basement, which is now full of wild pokemon. Gym is Normal/Fairy

Cerulean City

Yuppie town. full of large mansion waterfront houses. The daycare center is here, but this is the leveling up daycare, not the breeding one. Gym is Rock/Water and features a dual battle with brock and misty.

Seafoam Islands

Now a Resort Village, the cave have been converted to living quarters for the residents. There's a gym here, Ice/Flying

Cinnabar Island

Twice as big as it previously was due to the eruption from 17 years ago. Theres a rebuilt pokemon lab, houses, a gym (fire/dragon) and if you use public works you can excavate the ruins from the old mansion to explore.
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I'm not sure, I had a LOT of great ideas for the rest of the towns, but I'd want to include the older routes in a new topic

but I had gmun whitelist all my posts so they're not on his archiving site : (
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BlackMageJawa posted...

Kanto Version and Johto Version, with DLC-exclusive Orange/Sevii Islands campaign accessible from either.

see now here's an idea.

you could even have both regions be explorable, just change the order
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Heroic Bigpun posted...

Did you ever find that woman in the CD shop that you had to give the gun to?

You need Isabella on your side for you to save her

oh yeah I found her

although, I don't know what giving her a gun accomplished besides PP
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SHINE would fuck a man if it earned him a bronze trophy on a 800 hour game
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I would buy Yoblazer as the straightest person on board 8
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Punnyz posted...

Like, you can have your opinions but don't compare something to Lunar DS unless you really loathe it, its an insult!

I think it's an incredible feat if a game can have as many flaws as Lunar DS, and still turn out even remotely playable. The fact that it manages to be fun despite all of them is downright incredible.

Punnyz posted...

but yea, with your new found knowledge and skills, the next step is to see if you can do a playthrough and save ALL of the survivors.

it's quite honestly tempting! Do I have to do the cases to save the survivors? Because those were my least favorite part.

And yeah I'm downloading 2 as we speak (I got it in the humble bundle)

if anyone else has 2 for ps4 hmu
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Well I beat it.

All scoops, 36 survivors, level 42.

This game is incredible, I have been playing this game with a dropped jaw. Without exaggeration, I don't think I've played a game with this many flaws since Lunar Dragon Song.

It's a fun game, there are so many enjoyable moments and the concept is sound, but it almost feels like the game is intentionally bad just to annoy the player. It's like Dead Rising was a perfect game but a time traveler came from the future to make it as bad as possible. Frank West seems to have been scientifically crafted to be the worst character ever, Otis' phone calls (particularly in boss fights, like the bomb fight) made me want to die. NPCs take a full second to turn, and don't seem to possess the ability to run and turn at the same time, which is awesome because 70% of traveling will be through a narrow bathroom hallway that their AI was not built to handle, and all of them need to navigate a labyrinth of shelves to get to the elevator to the base. Running speed is atrocious, hit detection seems random? Survivors require you to stand next to them for a full minute retalking to them over and over. Some survivors have weapons in their hands when you meet them but wont take weapons when you try to give them. Also, Frank seems to move considerably faster when he's carrying someone so that's weird.

I could go on and on. It was a masterpiece of flaws, and I respect the game to give me a somewhat enjoyable experience DESPITE these flaws, and I respect that.

Thanks for everyone for encouraging me to give it another chance.
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case 7 beated

jesus christ that was intense. made it out with one health

After getting all the bombs I decided to make my way out of the maintenance tunnels into the mall

only to find out that's not allowed, you can only go out the exit they choose for you.

I still hate this game but running to the exit with one health while carlitos was trying ram his truck into me might beat the storm king from demon souls for most intense video game moment, so thats worth something.
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Alright so I've made it all the way to case 7

saved a pretty decent chunk of people too!

now that I'm level 32 and have enough space in my inventory for tons of wine this game is starting to become a little easy
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Ok successfully finished case 2. I love how the game is like "please just wait here until this specific time or you will miss the quest" I love a game where you can just spend 5 minutes looking at your watch as part of the gameplay

I really don't know if I'm starting to like the game, or if I'm just becoming determined to beat this game because I hate it so much.
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for a game that is about replaying it over and over, the beginning is kind of a huge slog.

is there a way to save anyone at the beginning of the game?
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onion, steven universe
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Punnyz posted...

its not the one by the desk, its next to the stairs

Awesome. Thanks.

Punnyz posted...

You...gave the guy a gun, didn't you?

The funny thing is I knew exactly what he was going to do but I still figured it would let me bring his wife back!
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Vermillion city

As you approach the city, you notice there's a small film of smog over it. The town is now an industrial manufacturing town. It's filled to the brim with large factory looking buildings, and there's no longer any residential houses. The only bit of space left over is a small patch of land in the back. There's a man with a Rapidash attached to a harrow over there. The man says he inherited this land from his grandpa, and he wants to start a small garden here, but he's upset because the land is way to stiff "It's like someone has been pounding down the dirt for the past 20 years" Talking to him unlocks the "Vermillion gardens" public works project. It's a pretty pricey project, but once it's done it will be the only place where you can catch Kantonian Kricketots (Bug/Poison)

If you take a walk down to the docks you can see they've expanded quite a bit. There's currently no ships that you're able to go on at this point, but there's a bench. Sitting on the bench lets you see a small island not far off the docks, there's a rusted frame of a truck. Once you're able to surf you can go up to the truck and unlock the "restore truck" public works project, which is extremely expensive. Once restored, the truck does absolutely nothing, just like the first game!

Fishing and surfing in Vermillion will give you nothing but Grimers.

The Gym is Electric/Dark and I know you're expecting me to say that the gym leader fights you with a Kantonian Luxray but he doesn't. It's just a regular Luxray, plus he has a mightyena and umbreon. Even though this is a fictional game from my imagination, it's still made by game freak so they have to disappoint a little bit for any of this to be believable.

As you head up to route 6, the air starts to clear...
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Route 11

The camera switches from a more top down view to a more over the shoulder view on this route. The grass is long, almost gone to seed, and you can see the entire route is filled with power lines heading to Vermillion. Walking through the grass is a bit hard to navigate, and walking through the path, which follows the same trail as the older games, leads to lots of hidden trainers jumping out at you.

The trainers are still mostly electricians and they all scold you for walking through such a dangerous route. A gambler with a rhyhorn and cubone says he's not in danger because of his pokemons' ability.

As you approach Diglett's Cave you see an NPC out front talking about how he wants to restore and maintain the tunnel so people can walk through again. This unlocks the "Restore Diglett's cave" public works project, and allows you to return to route 2 easily. Diglett's Cave is completely unchanged, just a tunnel filled with diglett. Post game you can unlock a "Open up a geothermal chamber" project that puts a room in the tunnel where you can catch alolan diglett
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Just got to my third playthrough right now, I'm around level 12

On my second playthrough I rescued a lot of people up until I met a guy who shot himself and then I couldn't get his wife to join me, don't know what to do there next time

I finally ended up dying to hundreds of guys wearing masks that explode when you shoot them when trying to rescue a lady out of a box.

Is there a way to save at the base with brad and nicole? Because I tried and could not figure it out, and it's responsible for the majority of my lost progress.
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you're kind of selling this game that I previously had 0 interest in.

too bad I don't have the time to check out the demo!
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so after you kill 50k zombies are there just... no more zombies left?
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Safari Zone-

Just like every other town/route/special area in the game, this can be edited with the works tab.

When you first get into the safari zone, you can see it's a pretty low budget operation. You get five safari balls, and only the starting area which has ryhorn, exeggcute, and some other fodder pokemon. You can pay to "restore" more areas, get more safari balls and rebuild "rest houses" like the original safari zone had.

Remember how I said the pokedex was organized by habitat? Well that comes into play here. You can pay to change the habitat of each area, and the basic shape/walking route will be the same but the environment will look different and you'll see completely different pokemon. You can also pay to stock the park with pokemon from your dex.

For right now though, there's very little you can do, so it's time to head out to route 15.
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NFUN posted...

MawiIe posted...

do we really need a new system ever again? I mean when was the last time a game has been not as good as it could be due to hardware limitations? It seems like any limitations with games are due to budget, not to hardware. What else could a video game system do for us that the PS4 doesn't already do? I mean personally I think PS3 games were, and still are "good enough"

You are playing the wrong games.

how am I playing the wrong games if I'm satisfied with all the games I've played and don't find them lacking?
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Hey man don't hate me!

hate the company that will never give you this game
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Fuchsia City Continued-

Anyway back to the city itself, as previously stated, its a bit run down. Tall grass is everywhere, and cueballs and bikers will challenge you inside the city. There are a few more houses than the original, but the old houses are still there, one is Baoba's and the other is The Fishing Guru. Inside Baoba's house he'll give you hints on where to find new public works projects randomly "I hear there's a guy in Vermillion who has an undeveloped plot of land"

There's also a giant bolder in his house still pushed up against the wall.

The gym here is still run by Janine, but now it's poison/steel. She fights you with a Kantonian Poison/Steel Skuntank.

Bill's family is still here, they don't add much but they say they've been living here for a long time and they don't plan to move.

Obviously the next step is to make your way back up to the Safari Zone you just opened.
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Fuchsia City-

The Warden, Baoba, and Rydel Rydel jr. Wait for you at the entrance to fuchsia city, they walk you back to the former safari zone's entrance. Walking through the city, it looks rough. I'd like to compare it to Po Town, but Po Town had bigger mansions that were run down. All the houses are smaller here, but equally as dilapidated.

Heres where we get into this games gimmick:

Baoba says he feels responsible for the decay of the City, since closing the Safari Zone 18 years ago, the town lost all its tourism and money. Baoba gives you a pokegear type device and tells you to open it. When you do, you see a small 3d model of Fuchsia, with a list of improvements to make to the city on the right hand side. Many improvements are "?????" out, but at the top of the list is "Open Safari Zone" for 10,000 p

Baoba says you can put your own money into the public works fund, but it can't be taken out. He gives you 10,000 so that you can reopen the safari zone. After doing that Rydel chimes in, and says that because of how brave you were for going down cycling road, he wants to make you the new face of Rydel. This means he'll put money into your public fund every time you perform an "Accolade" He tells you to switch to the "Accolades" tab.

Tabbing to the Accolades tab, you can see this works similar to the medals in black/white 2. But instead of medals there's a dollar amount next to every achievement. Riding down cycling road counts as an accolade, so you immediately get 10,000 p for that, plus any other money from accolades you've earned up until now.

Rydel tells you to switch back to the Works tab, and asks you to install a bike path in fuchsia city (10,000 p) He says it would be great if there was a bike path that went all across kanto, where you could ride uninterrupted from fuchsia to anywhere else on the map. He said works projects is the way to do this.

Aside from opening up safari zones and installing bike paths, the works tab allows you to add all sorts of homey touches to a town or route. You can put tall grass in areas (different areas get you different pokemon), remove tall grass from others, fix up unsightly houses and buildings, add benches, flowers, decorations, trainers, customize the architecture for the pokemon centers, and change the background music (music can be changed to either the r/b/y, fr/lg/, hg/ss, current version, or an alternate version (unlocked later)

Pretty cool stuff, Baoba, this is definitely a feature of the game that makes sense, would be fun, and also fits with Baoba's previous role of giving you a safari zone to edit. By now the player is thinking "Woah, looks like they did pretty well with the extra feature for the game

HOLD THE PHONE FUCKER BECAUSE BAOBA AIN'T DONE YET

Baoba reiterates that you can add your own money into the public works fund, and he says if you're a little low on money, you can use the following item:

The MF VS seeker

He explains this will allow you to refight trainers, and the more trainers you fight, the higher your prestige rank gets. The higher your prestige rank, the more trainers who will want to rebattle you. Not only that, but when your prestige rank gets high enough, you can start battling NPCs who never challenged you in the first place. He goes on to say hint that when you get to prestige rank 10 (the highest) "I don't imagine there will be a single person in Kanto who wouldn't want to challenge you"

Thats right mfs, the new improved VS seeker will (eventually) let you challenge EVERY person in Kanto. Daisy, the lady who had too much coffee, the "Nature is amazing" guy, professor oak, EVERYONE.

Anyway this concludes the extra features of the version. Something that is completely doable by game freak with their resources and budget, but will probably not be considered over "Dressing you pikachu in different color maids outfits"
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do we really need a new system ever again? I mean when was the last time a game has been not as good as it could be due to hardware limitations? It seems like any limitations with games are due to budget, not to hardware. What else could a video game system do for us that the PS4 doesn't already do? I mean personally I think PS3 games were, and still are "good enough"
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Well a gave it another shot, and it didn't go so badly.

Managed to rescue everyone, killed the psychos in the car in the park (only to find out they just respawn) Killed the clown, got two of his chainsaws, learned the secret passage from greg, and saved right before rescuing the japanese tourists, I gave them a chainsaw and katana, but they still couldn't manage to make it down the stairs so thats fun.

I'm elevating my rating of this game from "unplayable trash" to "trash"
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PrivateBiscuit1 posted...

I know DR2 fixes a lot of the issues, and I think a lot of DR1 has to do with remembering where stuff is. It's important to know that it's built (for better or worse) for cumulative runs, because your stats carry over after you die.

wait really?

this actually might change my opinion on it
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I always knew it was a bad game, with weird controls, but I never realize how genuinely unplayable it is. You have to escort the words dumbest AI all to the same place on the map, the camera system is super tedious and shoehorned in, killing zombies doesn't actually matter because no matter how much you thin them out there's still thousands randomly spawning down a hallway (although maybe if you kill all 50k they stop spawning?)

The difficulty never feels fun, it's either "oh I know what to do so it's super easy" or "oh I don't know what to do so it's almost impossible."

Does dead rising 2 fix any of these issues?
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I'm thinking about putting Duolingo in the "play a unbeatable game for 6 hours" category

I'm pretty sure it counts as a game!
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I believe you just have to see all the pokemon, which should happen naturally in a normal playthrough
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I personally like pearl/diamond better than plat, but objectively I can say they're just as good.
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Yeah I wanted confirmation that he was the guy who ratted out the closet guy so many years ago.

I mean I'm pretty sure it was blackmagejawa, but I don't remember why I think that.
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Yeah if we could make our own flairs this could be great like a "Every topic that isn't a save-my" category
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sballen please explain yourself in my topic

no one tag him. He knows what he did
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mnkboy907 posted...

Time to add Johto speculation to these games!

oh yeah a game where you start in kanto and then make your way to johto would be awesome

was always surprised no one did a romhack with that plot for the gbc games
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The reason the black and white's were great games was because it felt like there were actually stakes to what you were doing. Instead of a bumbling team that you just beat up whenever you met, team plasma was a presence in Unova, Ghetsis and the Sages never even viewed you as a threat, and the game didn't artlessly throw you against them because that way the plasma organization seemed more out of your reach, when N battled you, it wasn't with a set team, it was usually with pokemon he had just met, so you got the feeling you never really had a true fight against him.

S/M are the opposites, basically everyone on the islands is your friend, including the villains, and there's just such a friendship theme through the whole game that it's hard to feel like there's any point to the story.

I'm not really complaining about Sun and Moon, because a game centered around Hawaii really SHOULD be about friendliness and kindness, I just do hope they bring back a little bit of sting to the story.
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Also giovanni left team rocket, having him be a man of his word is what makes him a great villain (and was the whole point of g/s/c's plot)

please don't bring him back

have red be the leader of team rocket. Heck have Joey be the leader. Literally anyone but giovanni.

Then find out Giovanni is the champion who helps you take down team rocket after going straight.
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