Awkward Zombie

Ironically, the items that heal Pokémon from status ailments or even just damage are sprays.

No, it's only the one that restores consciousness that they're supposed to ingest orally.

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The herbs are supposed to be eaten.

Including the revive herb which is this huge ass thing of something or other.

Oh really when?

People use the herbs? I thought their main purpose was to piss off your Pokémon so it doesn't like you anymore.

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In the old games at least you could get the equivalent of max revives and hyper potions way before they showed up in pokemon marts.

I used a few revival herbs back in the days before I got gud and realized the enemy trainer AI was ridiculously stupid.

Oh really when?

Yeah. Enemy trainers are not hard. <.<

I've actually got a tradition now where when a new Pokémon game comes out, I do a blind playthrough of the game and randomize my party selection. Every time I hit a new area, beat a gym, finish a story section, etc. I'll hit the Pokémon Mart and use a randomizer to change my team, then improvise solutions to the next set of challenges based on what Pokémon I rolled up.

In a game where players have actually met a great deal of success by ignoring the entire premise and just beating up everyone with their Starter, random selection is one of the few ways to introduce legitimate challenge.

edited 25th Jan '16 1:31:07 PM by TobiasDrake

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lemonade is best hp item

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I wish I could buy more than one of them at once.

Now I mostly buy Moomoo Milk because I'm too lazy to sit in front of a vending machine forever.

Oh really when?

Have you heard of the Nuzlocke challenge^note treating faint as if it was death and only capturing the first pokémon in each area? That is how my friends play nowadays. Depending on how careful you are it is not as hard (if you keep your starter all the way), but on the flip side, it gives you some emergent story telling.

edited 25th Jan '16 2:56:33 PM by Heatth

The logic falls apart completely when dealing with Pokemon that have no orifices of any sort. What are you gonna do, try to crack that Voltorb in half like an actual Pokeball?

most important rule of nuzlocke: every pokemon MUST have a nickname so you get unreasonably attached to them

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And now you reminded me of XCOM: Enemy Unknown's spray Medikit and the lines the soldiers say when using them.

Can you imagine healing your pokemon while saying "Rub some dirt on it you wimp!"?

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that would probably end up hurting ground and electric types

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@danime91: that reminds me of this Pokemon-based fanfic I read way back that gave a possible explanation as to how Hitmonlee eats in the absence of a mouth: they had to crush fruit on the top of their head and absorb the juices through their skulls. They couldn't eat things that can't be squeezed like this, such as bread.

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I imagine the Revives work as rather spiky lozenges.

The three finest things in life are to splat your enemies, drive them from their turf, and hear their lamentations as their rank falls!

Or spiky suppositories.

You fell victim to one of the classic blunders!

Who trained these guys?

I think Katie's comment under the comic is even funnier than the comic itself.

Yes. Yes, it is.

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Don't even get me started on bad AI. I can't even play the Total War games anymore because their idea of making challenging AI is to give them free armies every turn and limitless resources.

that just makes the battles more epic. it's no fun unless it's at least a 2:1

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I could go on all day about Final Fantasy Tactics A 2 's idea of challenge. My Rules Are Not Your Rules can go die in a fire.

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These kind of things are a necessity in single player strategic games because there is simply not enough technology to create a good enough AI to challenge a competent player (at last not without making the turns unbearably long). "Just making the AI better is simply" not an option. The AI needs some unfair advantages to be able to compete with a human;

That said, certain games are worse than others on that aspect. One game that quite annoys me is Civilization 5, specifically the way the AI handicap ruins certain mechanics. In the game, there is this cultural mechanic that allows you to influence other civilization. In the late game, every civ gets to choose an ideology and particularly cultural civs will give a great happiness debuff to lesser civs of other ideologies, so said civs will try to follow the top dogs' lead. The problem is that one of bonus the AI receives is hapiness, so in higher difficulties this mechanics is completely meaningless for the AI as they can just tank the happiness debuff anyway.

So, although I understand it is simply not possible to make a challenging strategic game in which the AI doesn't cheat, I do draw the line where the cheating removes part of the game from the player. Another example are AI who can always know where you units are, making stealth units useless.

I mean, the Tactics series is all about finding the most powerful skill combinations you can and building up your units. But in the entire game, there's a grand total of one questline and one bonus fight that actually uses said powerful combos, while most of the time they just give the enemies free turns for no reason. They had a level playing field, but instead they tied their shoelaces together and shrunk their goal to croquet hoops.

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funnily enough, a computer beat a master at Go for the first time this week.

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I know, right? It goes to show it is not that easy to program a good AI.

Free turns? Yikes. I will maintain the AI doesn't have a level play field by the simply virtue it is an AI. But I have to agree free turns is just plain terrible.