Taking a short break from this Pokemon madness, here’s a fast painting of the Heavy class in the upcoming Team Fortress 2. Not to worry, there will be a deluge of more sexy Pokemon girls (and guys) after this.
I paid almost no attention to TF2 initally, since I don’t really enjoy competitive FPS games that much. No, I never had Counter-Strike on my computer. But when I saw the most recent trailer of TF2, I was absolutely floored at the smoothness of the animation, especially with the facial expressions. It is totally on the caliber of Pixar renders, and I really took a liking to the art direction, too. Not to mention, the music in the trailers is kickass. Valve really does know how to make their FPS games; the only PC FPS I really enjoyed was Half-Life 2, which I spent the past winter break devoted to it. I’m already looking immensely forward to the release of the Black Box; Portal looks to be an amazing game as well. I only picked up my GeForce 7300 last summer and I’m already considering an upgrade when this comes out. Might as well wait for the release of Starcraft II, though. ;_;
In keeping with the slightly disturbing theme of pokemon as girls… I drew this. I am imagining an entire Pokemon dating simulator with girls that are good at shooting vine whips and confusion beams. I am going to sleep now.
When I first caught Bricky (I named all my Pokemon so that they rhyme with -icky, like Flicky and Ricky, after the little animals in Sonic 1), I was impressed with what a tank it was even for a first evolution. However, traveling across snow-covered plains and rainy swamps, fighting off monsters of all kinds with only my bag in hand, unfortunately revealed that what I previously thought was such an awesome tank ended up being more of a crappy… tunk.
Don’t get me wrong – Bronzong is actually a pretty great Pokemon and with a good move list can totally be useful in battle. It just happened that my little Bricky had the Star of Death on it and ended up being the crappiest Bronzong in the world. With the abilities of Heatproof and a nature that ended up lowering its stats, my Bricky can’t stand up to any Pokemon that has Earthquake (which would be nearly all of them), is weaker than other Bronzongs, and probably has massive self-esteem issues since it wasn’t ever powerful enough to one-hit-KO enemies so I ended up raising it mostly with EXP-Share. I mean, sure, he’s pretty resistant against Fire moves, but how many Pokemon actually use Fire moves when there’s a billion more useful moves out there? Do you ever see anyone using Fire Punch? Fire Blast? Flamethrower? Maybe if their starter is a Fire type, but really now, why use Fire when Thunderbolt or Ice Beam does the same thing??
I shouldn’t be so annoyed with Bricky about him being so inept though – it’s all my fault to begin wtih. When I started raising him, I just enjoyed how buff he was without taking into account his poor nature or his second-rate ability. I figured everything would work itself out as I trudged across snow-covered peaks and muddy swamps. I mean, afterall, Ash seems to be doing okay fighting with just a Pikachu and GUTS ™, right?
Man, Ash is a lie.
Good bye, Bricky.
I should’ve named you BronZOMG instead.
Almost all my friends who played through Pokemon remarked to me how cute Cheryl was. Indeed, that was the first thing I thought when I saw her battle sprite in the game. Her little backstory seemed interesting, and I always thought you’d see her again, though she never does make an appearance other than the Battle Tower.
Here’s a little edit of the above picture; I think it’s better.
Speaking of Pokemon girls, there sure seem to be plenty good designs of them this time around. Cynthia has become my favorite, ursurping Lorelai from the first generation.
I’m leaving for Thailand tomorrow and won’t be able to post goods for a few weeks. To kick things off though here is an entry for this Saturday. I wasn’t focusing on details so much as experimenting with lighting of sorts.
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