So turns out Meltan is an actual word from old proto-germanic languages meaning “to dissolve, melt”, which would probably explain how they picked that name since the Pokemons bottom half looks like melted/soldered metal.
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/meltan
https://i.imgur.com/VcAYzVy.png
Mmm, would you take this?
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/200490/70019ad1-4a41-41de-8c09-683fa26f26be/meltan.gif
welcome to pokemon my little friend
https://twitter.com/JamesTurner_42/status/1044723448096813056
Pokemon designer Mr. James Turner, everyone.
https://photos.app.goo.gl/HZQiCsCW9Zj8LfAPA
8 year old me would have sold his soul.
I found a very old custom unfinished pokéball project I was working on:
https://i.imgur.com/xcjKvT9.png
Do these look somewhat decent or did I fail miserably?
I can't believe Pikadorf is fucking canon
these look sick. that skull ball is stylin, i'd use that one for every pokemon
I got another part of Let's Horribly Break Pokemon Blue out!
https://youtu.be/0r_oDE-hRTY
It's kinda weird to think I've been making these for just about a year now. I'm gonna try and finish the series before its 9th birthday if I can.
Would be pretty neat if Team Skull used their own ball similar to the one you drew. They look very nice!
I think the 2nd one from the right could boost the catch rate for Normal types, and the third-from-right boosting the catch rate when used on Electric types.
Now that I mention it, I'm surprised there aren't more balls that boost catch rate with certain types.
Funny you should say that. The second ball from the right is exactly what you described 100%.
Deep within my heart of hearts I had a feeling something fucked, or almost fucked up all of Gen 1's development. Now I have my answer.
One of the more happy episodes or more positive stories, I really don’t remember so well, but I think the most memorable […] happening that I still have in my mind after all these years is that we were developing the game on these Unix computer stations called the Sun SPARCstation 1. […] We’re developing, and they’re these Unix boxes, and they crashed quite a bit. Back then, computers would crash fairly frequently.
Somewhere midway through the development, maybe in the fourth year or so, we had a really bad crash that we couldn’t, we didn’t know how to recover the computer from. That had all of the data for the game, all of the Pokémon, the main character and everything. It really felt like, “Oh my God, if we can’t recover this data, we’re finished here.” I just remember doing a lot of different research. I called the company that I used to work for, seeing if they had any advice to recover the data.
I would go on this internet service provider back then called Nifty Serve. It’s like a Japanese version of CompuServe. I’d go on and ask people that I never talked to for advice on how to recover the data. I would look at these English books about the machine itself, because there wasn’t a lot of information in Japanese, just to figure it out. We eventually figured out how to recover it, but that was like the most nerve-racking moment, I think, in development.
https://youtu.be/Uu7BSD4JXsc
Why in gods name was the rival battle at the lab removes? You know, the battle designed to teach you how to play right away without any risk since you can lose without punishment? This is game design 101.
Was the professor studying Ratatta poop?
https://files.facepunch.com/forum/upload/108621/36972078-e77e-4c55-93a1-1bf62c5cb044/image.png
Because you can LOSE. And you know, nobody likes losing in a Pokemon game!
Bet he doesn't even "smell you later" anymore because that's just offensive.
Oh god stop making me hate this game even more GameFreak
Somewhere midway through the development, maybe in the fourth year or so, we had a really bad crash that we couldn’t, we didn’t know how to recover the computer from. That had all of the data for the game, all of the Pokémon, the main character and everything. It really felt like, “Oh my God, if we can’t recover this data, we’re finished here.” I just remember doing a lot of different research. I called the company that I used to work for, seeing if they had any advice to recover the data.
Years of work, everything gone in a second.
I wish I had another comparison here but now with this in mind, do they feel anything after taking down a fan game? Or someone in the team thinking "I don't like seeing this again"?
Erm, you know Red and Blue are supposed to be NPCs this time around, right?
*cough* wait what.
I'm aware that Trace(?) is replacing him but I don't know if he's an actual NPC, along with Red.
So, real talk for a moment, I suppose, timeline wise, this takes place around/after Sun/Moon? How does that even make sense? Rocket's supposed to be disbanded.
Christ looking for information such as this on the internet is difficult with all the sites citing the obvious for newcomers.
You can tell me Red/Blue are 30 years old and I probably won't blink an eye. But Diamond/Pearl being 12? Holy shit, I remember those being the new Pokemon. The jump from gen 3 to 4 felt like such a distinct jump to me, idk. It was definitely a game that came out with a more formed internet, so a lot more people were clamoring about around leaks and new Pokemon than ever before.
Which is almost a shame, because I'll never forget discovering Trappinch evolving and being amazed that it turns into a dragon but then I play every other new one and... I know them all already.
Yeah Diamond and Pearl being 12 years old hit me pretty hard. My interest in Pokemon as a kid really peaked during the fourth gen. I think you're spot on with the internet making the fourth generation so distinct, as well. I remember every little bit of event information I could gleam being so valuable during the Gen3 days. Pokemon from Johto seemed so rare and valuable. There was so much mystery to unused or seemingly irrelevant pieces of content in the games. Gen4 really brought all this to a head with people having more access to the internet than before.
I still remember my first playthrough of HG/SS being the leaked, translated japanese ROM.
Nowadays I'm not sure how many generations of Pokemon there are, and there are more pokemon than I can keep up with. There's also no generational barriers as far as I'm aware, which is of course a good thing, but sure does ruin some of the excitement.
Except that’s not the fault of the developers, but of Nintendo’s/Game Freak’s legal team.
God, I hate it whenever a fan project gets taken, people go after the original creators even though 9 times out of 10, they had no part in what happened.
Same
I suppose I should have seen this coming, but it's still disappointing.
Legendaries are just so boring. There's not really an opportunity to use them and even if there were I'd feel like I was cheating myself out of the challenge of an already not too challenging game, not to mention they're just kinda' dime-a-dozen at this stage. Even catching them is lame as heck nowadays because you're just given them.
I'm not pointing at that.
I'm thinking if the devs get a reaction and if they have their own point of view every time they see a fan game taken down. When they were about to lose the game, imagining others losing a project may build up some level of empathy.
Here's another mystery that I think is solved: why all the Pokemon were redrawn when Red and Blue released in the West:
https://www.usgamer.net/articles/too-cute-to-be-successful-in-the-us-pokemon-director-junichi-masuda-feared-the-cutesy-jigglypuff-would-be-rejected-by-americans
As a side note where the hell were these interviews for the 20th anniversary?
What's the point of even making certain Pokemon legendary when they do nothing to deserve it in game.
You'd think with the ability to alter games remotely through patches would lead to a more streamlined system of event distribution, compared to the DPP items that people just hacked in anyway, but they've done literally the opposite. Now all the background each Pokemon gets in the game is just the 2 sentences the Pokedex gives them.
Gimme a fuckton of postgame sidequests, and event-triggered sidequests for mythicals (but events that don't expire, ala Magearna, but BETTER).
And I don't mean going through the Ultra Wormhole a fuckton of times with half the legends being version exclusives either. Gimme postgame content where both Kyogre and Groudon get involved, or a plot to get back complete Kyurem.
Gimme juicy extra content ala gens 3 and 4 for mythicals. Remote islands and new maps.
https://twitter.com/Pokemon/status/1046800771273056256
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EB Games/Gamestop/GAME. Supposedly it's supposed to start today in most of Europe, but for NA/AU it's the 19th.
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