I have the concept of a mechanic where you could turn Pokemon into it's prehistoric form or ancestral form and future form (but mostly prehistoric since I'm a Paleontology enthusiasm) and a whole new region where it got froze in time and all the prehistoric Pokemon stay the same at it was
@@jeffbrownstain yea, it was SV but I feel like it's lean more into Paleontology side, not just "Mystery creatures brought back from the past or future", like the whole region is just Jurassic Park/World but Pokemon
As a former linguist and a current museum educator at one of the museums featured in this video, I love this video SO much 👏 Very well done explaining the bouba and kiki effect. I adore your lineless art so much and the designs of your Fakemon!!
If you're looking for a super easy linguistics concept to adapt into a Fakemon, might I suggest Jean Berko Gleason's wug test? Wugs are very, very cute.
I ADORE the fact that gf decided not to give the water typing to Cradily and Armaldo just because they're marine lifeforms. I genuinely can't describe how much I appreciate that. We need more of it.
The crystal palace dinosaurs were actually reasonably good attempts at scientific accuracy for the time period! I've always wanted to see Pokemon based off of them. The likely inspiration for the mixed up fossil Pokemon is the inciting incident of the Bone Wars. Edward Drinker Cope showed his friend, Othniel Marsh, his new discovery: Elasmosaurus. Marsh took one look at it an immediately laughed at Cope, pointing out that he had put the skull on the end of the tail. This notorious incident kicked off their entire rivalry and I would think is the likely explanation for the mix'n'match Pokemon. I will die on the hills that Kabuto/ps are horseshoe crabs. They share so much more in common with them than they do trilobites.
I like how tripirt's name is a palindrome referencing how it's the same front and back but Halludrome completely abandons that naming scheme and it loses the symmetry. Very fitting evolution
As just sort of a word of advice - from someone making their own creature collecting game, merging the ground and rock type can end up being a bad idea in the long run due to type matchups - soft mud and a hard stone will resist and be strong against vastly different things and it can result in the Geo type being lopsided. I also tried to merge them in my game and eventually decided it was for the best to split them up for type matchups’ sake.
Water / Ice, Steel (different types of metal), and Grass (a pliable leaf full of water vs a dry wooden trunk) are very different substances too. Element types won't ever match perfectly as they're a simplification of the real world. Some amount of suspension of disbelief is required for good gameplay.
@@parasitex5 yeah but that the thing. Let’s stick to Pokémon, rock and ground types do very different things gameplay wise. rock is more for countering specific types, ground is more general. Move pools include less rock moves and more ground. And really it also adds weaknesses or to add defenses to particular mons which is how the game works. These games are an elaborate version of rock paper scissors and you can’t just remove scissors from the game without some massive effort to re- balance not just the types but moves and stats.
At the end It would be the same water/grass/steel/fighting/ice weakness while having normal/Flying/bug/Fire/poison/ resistances, Electric immunity and Fairy/dragon/Ghost/psychic/dark and "Geo" dealing neutral damage, It wouldn't be a big issue imho
@@nicolasturetta7959 go play with a type coverage Pokédex calculator rock hits 26.7% of the Pokédex super effectively Ground hits 27% Together they hit 47% of the Pokédex super effectively. In other words over half their coverage is not overlapping. And only 8 Pokémon resist both types This games balance is very complicated. types are very difficult to mess and especially when design problems can lay dormant until one little thing one new move, one Pokémon with the right states and its balance is gone with no checks.
In many traditions there only had the earth element and the rest are just variations, while in chinese culture they made metal and wood as separated things from earth. Its all depends on how you balances types ingame.
Your designs were really interesting ! I like that those aren't just very popular dinosaurs but actually unknown yet interesting creatures. It won't stop me from wondering what a Pokémon based on parasaurolophus or ankylosaurus could look like, but I really like discovering new inspirations for designs.
Charmeleon always looked like a parasaurolophus to me (though I guess it doesn't really act all that much like one). And torterra always seemed to have a bit of ankylosaur in it, particularly the head, even if it is pretty clearly mostly world turtle.
this is dope. I love how your fossils put a spin on the "fast sweeper vs. slow wall" pattern, with one being fast but defensive and the other being slow but offensive. very creative!
The fossil pokemon are cool in that you look at them and wonder what they was like in the past. It was mentioned that the fossilization process is why they all share the rock type, minus the gen 8 fossils. I still love the gen 8 fossil pokemon for the mix-and-match concept. I do agree that I don't see it being repeated unless we get the completed versions of the fossil fragments. Your fossil pokemon look amazing and I love how you based them around brains vs brawn. My favorite has to be Halludrome because I love how bizarre Hallucgenia looks. It looks so alien that I'm surprised we haven't had an official fossil pokemon based on it. This is a minor thing to point out, but the type icons for Anodukes has the symbol for psychic instead of fighting.
If the "fossil pokemon are rock type because of the defossilization process" thing is true, I would love to see ice fossils become the ice-type, or the tar fossils possibly gaining the fire-type (or maybe grass type or some ability that has it swap between the 2)?
Something that i very much like about the Hoenn fossil Pokémon is they really embody the land and sea theme of the story of Ruby/Sapphire. They're both Pokémon that lived in the water, but neither are water types. One can theorize upon how the decisions of Archie and Maxie and their teams of either expanding the sea or the land and how that would affect the Lileep and Anorith as they went from ancient to modern times. And where does the living fossil Relicanth play in?
Another nod with paleonthology is the presence of sea creatures fossils in the desert sugests the place used to be a sea millions of years ago, like in real life Sahara.
When you realize that we had not just one but two missed chances for nonrock fossil Pokemon. The Tundra DLC has a sector where they didn't go extinct so could have had versions of them that evolved naturally and Scarlet is about time travel so could have had primal version of them plucked from the past.
A speedy supporter partnered with a tanky attacker sounds like a neat idea, and shows how gameplay styles can effect choices! Also I love the idea of referencing that old screensaver, especially the nostalgia as I LOVED watching that thing as a kid! x’D
I totally agree with you that the 1v1 match up between a generation's fossils/exclusives shouldn't be the deciding factor. However I think it's worth mentioning that with Cradily and Armaldo's type match up, both take one of the other's type neutral and are weak to the other. Armaldo is hit neutral by grass and is weak to rock, while Cradily is hit neutral by rock and weak to bug.
The mix and match aspect of the Gen 8 Fossils are based on England’s Bone wars, where decades ago people really wanted to brag about how they had the newer and better fossils so they rushed to make “””new””” fossils by just putting different fossil bones together and calling them new
Recently discovered your videos and love them!! Your voice is so soothing to listen to, while also keeping me so absorbed in the topic. Thank you for making these for us to enjoy :)
Hi, I’m SO interested to see how you combine rock and ground into geo type. Combining those two is something I’ve thought about alot, but couldn’t figure out how it would work in practice. I’d love to see other thoughts you have about type matchups.
I just want to say I appreciate how well these videos are put together. They’re so easy to watch visually with great clips and graphics and to listen to with such interesting anecdotes ✨ well done man, keep going
As a paleontology nerd, I love how you used the concept of carcinization for a pokemon, it's really creative and just gave me a boost of serotonin, thanks for that.
Would be cool if they put a jurassic park in one of the games. Basically, a crazy rich scientist builds a theme park on an island filled with all of the revived fossil pokemon. Then you can go there(maybe post-game) and catch them sort of like the safari zone or other in game catching parks.
Melodies that aren't pokemon 0:15 Jurassic park theme 2:24 celeste? If you have any ideas of melodies I missed, please tell me! Also, I still would like to know who makes the music in these! I'm assuming these videos are just a one person project.
The notion that Anomalocaris was top of the food chain during its time is one of the most common paleo myths, while still fairly large for its time Anomalocaris was dwarfed by some of its larger relatives that barely anyone knows about, such as *Ramskoeldia* and *Omnidens*.
A topic you could tackle in a future video is Version Exclusives or counterparts in general, outside of legendaries for the most part, since that's an integral part of the Pokémon games
A fossil pokemon that would be cool to see is one where the modern day version of it has a small chance of holding a fossil that can revive its prehistoric version.
The tripirt line could alternatively get the contraty ability, since that ability does tie in with the theme of not knowing how this mon's oriented, especially since others mons that have it are malamar, a mon that evolves by turning upside down, and lurantis, which has the gimmick of real life orchid mantises, except completely flipped around to have a flower that looks like an insect. And as much as I'm sorry for taking malamar's signature move... come on, the move "topsy-turvy" would fit this mon very well (It's not like Grapploct didn't already take the opportunity to snag it as well)
I think that for the gen 0 fossils gGame Freak should take inspiration from recent events; when you find a fossil you won’t be able to revive it, but you will be able to take a related Pokémon and create a hybrid of the modern and ancient Pokémon.
Cool designs, nice video. Fossils are chosen to become pokemon based on their importance to paleontology, other sciences, and popjlar culture. Lockstin and Gnoggin did a video explaining why each of them were chosen.
The bit about Amargasaurus having either fins or thorns makes me want two different fossil mon created from the same fossil depending on which restoration technique you choose (or which interpretation of the spiny worm you believe). Also, now I want a humanshape pokemon that just evolves into a crab for no reason. xD
Missed opportunity with Legends Arceus to have live fossil mons without the "Rock" typing. Great video BTW. Fossil mons were always a favorite of mines.
Although your fossil pokemon are awesome I would think keeping them based around a more simple prehistoric creature still works best. Enjoyed watching the whole video and im definitely subscribing.
Fossil Pokemon have so much potential. There's just so many weird paths you could go down.
Ikr like there’s so many extinct animals that can turn into Pokémon
That's true, yet I still think it's better for them to keep weird/impressive creatures as inspirations, otherwise we would lose a lot of unicness.
I have the concept of a mechanic where you could turn Pokemon into it's prehistoric form or ancestral form and future form (but mostly prehistoric since I'm a Paleontology enthusiasm) and a whole new region where it got froze in time and all the prehistoric Pokemon stay the same at it was
@@theAAtiger So Scarlet and Violet?
@@jeffbrownstain yea, it was SV but I feel like it's lean more into Paleontology side, not just "Mystery creatures brought back from the past or future", like the whole region is just Jurassic Park/World but Pokemon
As a former linguist and a current museum educator at one of the museums featured in this video, I love this video SO much 👏 Very well done explaining the bouba and kiki effect. I adore your lineless art so much and the designs of your Fakemon!!
If you're looking for a super easy linguistics concept to adapt into a Fakemon, might I suggest Jean Berko Gleason's wug test? Wugs are very, very cute.
I ADORE the fact that gf decided not to give the water typing to Cradily and Armaldo just because they're marine lifeforms. I genuinely can't describe how much I appreciate that. We need more of it.
I wish actual geology was taught like this hehe, nice and simple, and lots of interesting information, well organized, and just fun to watch.
its not geology dude...
The crystal palace dinosaurs were actually reasonably good attempts at scientific accuracy for the time period! I've always wanted to see Pokemon based off of them.
The likely inspiration for the mixed up fossil Pokemon is the inciting incident of the Bone Wars. Edward Drinker Cope showed his friend, Othniel Marsh, his new discovery: Elasmosaurus. Marsh took one look at it an immediately laughed at Cope, pointing out that he had put the skull on the end of the tail. This notorious incident kicked off their entire rivalry and I would think is the likely explanation for the mix'n'match Pokemon.
I will die on the hills that Kabuto/ps are horseshoe crabs. They share so much more in common with them than they do trilobites.
Oooh. More trilobites would be welcome!
They are bones
As someone who has seen bones, I can indeed say those are bones
So true!!
You are bones
So true bestie
I can in fact confirm after careful and heavy research that they are indeed bones
Showing your fakemons fossil instead of the regular silhouette like in the other videos was a really nice touch
I like how tripirt's name is a palindrome referencing how it's the same front and back but Halludrome completely abandons that naming scheme and it loses the symmetry. Very fitting evolution
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Wow you blew my mind, I woulda missed all that.
Hallucullah
As just sort of a word of advice - from someone making their own creature collecting game, merging the ground and rock type can end up being a bad idea in the long run due to type matchups - soft mud and a hard stone will resist and be strong against vastly different things and it can result in the Geo type being lopsided. I also tried to merge them in my game and eventually decided it was for the best to split them up for type matchups’ sake.
Water / Ice, Steel (different types of metal), and Grass (a pliable leaf full of water vs a dry wooden trunk) are very different substances too. Element types won't ever match perfectly as they're a simplification of the real world. Some amount of suspension of disbelief is required for good gameplay.
@@parasitex5 yeah but that the thing. Let’s stick to Pokémon, rock and ground types do very different things gameplay wise. rock is more for countering specific types, ground is more general. Move pools include less rock moves and more ground.
And really it also adds weaknesses or to add defenses to particular mons which is how the game works.
These games are an elaborate version of rock paper scissors and you can’t just remove scissors from the game without some massive effort to re- balance not just the types but moves and stats.
At the end It would be the same water/grass/steel/fighting/ice weakness while having normal/Flying/bug/Fire/poison/ resistances, Electric immunity and Fairy/dragon/Ghost/psychic/dark and "Geo" dealing neutral damage, It wouldn't be a big issue imho
@@nicolasturetta7959 go play with a type coverage Pokédex calculator
rock hits 26.7% of the Pokédex super effectively
Ground hits 27%
Together they hit 47% of the Pokédex super effectively. In other words over half their coverage is not overlapping. And only 8 Pokémon resist both types
This games balance is very complicated. types are very difficult to mess and especially when design problems can lay dormant until one little thing one new move, one Pokémon with the right states and its balance is gone with no checks.
In many traditions there only had the earth element and the rest are just variations, while in chinese culture they made metal and wood as separated things from earth. Its all depends on how you balances types ingame.
Your designs were really interesting ! I like that those aren't just very popular dinosaurs but actually unknown yet interesting creatures. It won't stop me from wondering what a Pokémon based on parasaurolophus or ankylosaurus could look like, but I really like discovering new inspirations for designs.
Charmeleon always looked like a parasaurolophus to me (though I guess it doesn't really act all that much like one). And torterra always seemed to have a bit of ankylosaur in it, particularly the head, even if it is pretty clearly mostly world turtle.
this is dope. I love how your fossils put a spin on the "fast sweeper vs. slow wall" pattern, with one being fast but defensive and the other being slow but offensive. very creative!
The fossil pokemon are cool in that you look at them and wonder what they was like in the past. It was mentioned that the fossilization process is why they all share the rock type, minus the gen 8 fossils. I still love the gen 8 fossil pokemon for the mix-and-match concept. I do agree that I don't see it being repeated unless we get the completed versions of the fossil fragments.
Your fossil pokemon look amazing and I love how you based them around brains vs brawn. My favorite has to be Halludrome because I love how bizarre Hallucgenia looks. It looks so alien that I'm surprised we haven't had an official fossil pokemon based on it. This is a minor thing to point out, but the type icons for Anodukes has the symbol for psychic instead of fighting.
Thank you for pointing out the mistake; I'll add it to the description!
If the "fossil pokemon are rock type because of the defossilization process" thing is true, I would love to see ice fossils become the ice-type, or the tar fossils possibly gaining the fire-type (or maybe grass type or some ability that has it swap between the 2)?
@@n0rtist thanks
Where did you read that the fossilization is why they are rock types? I thought the gen 8 fossils debunked it
Something that i very much like about the Hoenn fossil Pokémon is they really embody the land and sea theme of the story of Ruby/Sapphire. They're both Pokémon that lived in the water, but neither are water types. One can theorize upon how the decisions of Archie and Maxie and their teams of either expanding the sea or the land and how that would affect the Lileep and Anorith as they went from ancient to modern times. And where does the living fossil Relicanth play in?
Your fossil pokemon are brilliant, by the way
Another nod with paleonthology is the presence of sea creatures fossils in the desert sugests the place used to be a sea millions of years ago, like in real life Sahara.
Amongus reference made me jump lol
Same and at 4:20 too
AMONGUS
your thumbnails are always so cute and scrunkly and eepy keep up the good work
When you realize that we had not just one but two missed chances for nonrock fossil Pokemon. The Tundra DLC has a sector where they didn't go extinct so could have had versions of them that evolved naturally and Scarlet is about time travel so could have had primal version of them plucked from the past.
though we did get nonrock fossil pokémon before all those
@@Melecie yeah but they had that whole wrong fossils put together theme going.
the amoongSUS moment was pure gold. i love the work you put into these, they are innovative and a fresh take into mons.
A speedy supporter partnered with a tanky attacker sounds like a neat idea, and shows how gameplay styles can effect choices!
Also I love the idea of referencing that old screensaver, especially the nostalgia as I LOVED watching that thing as a kid! x’D
I totally agree with you that the 1v1 match up between a generation's fossils/exclusives shouldn't be the deciding factor. However I think it's worth mentioning that with Cradily and Armaldo's type match up, both take one of the other's type neutral and are weak to the other. Armaldo is hit neutral by grass and is weak to rock, while Cradily is hit neutral by rock and weak to bug.
Equallity
7:33 Obligatory RUMBLING RUMBLING, IT’S COMING, RUMBLING RUMBLING!
The mix and match aspect of the Gen 8 Fossils are based on England’s Bone wars, where decades ago people really wanted to brag about how they had the newer and better fossils so they rushed to make “””new””” fossils by just putting different fossil bones together and calling them new
The Bone wars occurred in the United States not in the United Kingdom.
The bone wars weren't English though. It was a conflict between two American paleontologists, namely Othniel Charles Marsh and Edmund Drinker Cope.
I am currently in love with the Soft Piano Jurassic Park theme he used
Great video. Love your art style.
Recently discovered your videos and love them!! Your voice is so soothing to listen to, while also keeping me so absorbed in the topic. Thank you for making these for us to enjoy :)
Gotta say, I love your artstyle. It's so adorable and unique
I just want to appreciate all the poke-doodles you make. You make the cutest cuter and the edgiest (somehow) cute AND edgy.
Whoever makes the thumbnail art has a cool style that really works well with pokemon
0:05 all hail the mighty holy helix
OMG I just saw the PBS crab special earlier today! 😃 This video made me smile bc of how much I've always loved the fossil-mons ^_^
I really enjoyed digging fossils in Sinnoh. I think it was the best way of getting fossilmons.
wow your illustrations are SO nice, pleasing to look at, and super duper cute!!!!
That was a really well made and paced video buddy! A good watch!
I love your thumbnails and this is a great video! Will be checking out more of your stuff. Keep it up!
Kabuto/Kabutops is my favorite "psuedo bug type", provides so much coverage to the actual type while blending in perfectly
Another banger of a video, really glad i found this channel
6:22 I love the picture of rowlet with the disappointed “gen seven had no fossils”
Wow I really really liked your fossils concepts and designs!! I wish they were real!
Hi, I’m SO interested to see how you combine rock and ground into geo type. Combining those two is something I’ve thought about alot, but couldn’t figure out how it would work in practice.
I’d love to see other thoughts you have about type matchups.
I love your videos so much, they make me feel like when I first picked up the games in 2010!!
I love your artstyle, its very unique and interesting to see
I’m so glad the ice picture is just “boy am I glad he’s frozen in there and we’re out here”
The -vish head from Gen 8 is a Dunkleosteus... That was why it gave me the déjà-vu!
Wonderful designs - it has roots in science, biology, but looks great and captures the imagination - well done :)
I know this is out of topic, but I would like to say that you did a REALLY GREAT job at auto battlemon!
Love the jurassic park leitmotif in the beginning.
I just want to say I appreciate how well these videos are put together. They’re so easy to watch visually with great clips and graphics and to listen to with such interesting anecdotes ✨ well done man, keep going
Oh, I remember that Microsoft Windows screensaver from my tweenage years in the late 90s/early 00s! That colourful CGI cube...
I absaloutly adore your art style.
As a paleontology nerd, I love how you used the concept of carcinization for a pokemon, it's really creative and just gave me a boost of serotonin, thanks for that.
Can I just say, thank you for the Kingdom Hearts Remixes for background music.
GOD I LOVE THESE CUTE LITTLE POKEMON ILLUSTRATIONS
got a little sus at 4:20
I havent finished the video yet! But im sure itll be entertaining, ur content of pokemon and science is so fun! Given science is my fav Subject!
I love your take on fossil Pokémon much more than some other official ones
I feel like yours have way more cradily-bility
I just wanna say I love your videos n0rtist! thanks for making them.
OMG I cannot state how much I adore the Jurassic Park theme done in Pokemon style
what a lovely video❤
You now got a new subscriber 😊😊
Would be cool if they put a jurassic park in one of the games. Basically, a crazy rich scientist builds a theme park on an island filled with all of the revived fossil pokemon. Then you can go there(maybe post-game) and catch them sort of like the safari zone or other in game catching parks.
this truly is about fossil pokemon!!!
The Jurassic Park theme nod at the start is awesome
I love the art style!
3:13 my beloved
Melodies that aren't pokemon
0:15 Jurassic park theme
2:24 celeste?
If you have any ideas of melodies I missed, please tell me! Also, I still would like to know who makes the music in these! I'm assuming these videos are just a one person project.
I love the illustrations!
The images used for the pokemon are so cute and adorable!
The notion that Anomalocaris was top of the food chain during its time is one of the most common paleo myths, while still fairly large for its time Anomalocaris was dwarfed by some of its larger relatives that barely anyone knows about, such as *Ramskoeldia* and *Omnidens*.
the art in this video is gorgeous
I really like you art style. nice video continue like that.
0:18 I need that Jurassic park audio or song
Those designs are great!
A topic you could tackle in a future video is Version Exclusives or counterparts in general, outside of legendaries for the most part, since that's an integral part of the Pokémon games
in my heart relicanth is also a fossil pokemon, even if it managed to not get extinct
Aerodactyl is my true favorite Pokémon ever, and I’m glad you don’t have to choose between it and something else
I did not know about hallucinogenia before this. I'm happy I learned about it, though!
First
I love the Jurassic park refference at the start
A fossil pokemon that would be cool to see is one where the modern day version of it has a small chance of holding a fossil that can revive its prehistoric version.
Omanyte, Omastar, and Kabutops are some of my favorite mons of all time…Omanyte line especially!
The tripirt line could alternatively get the contraty ability, since that ability does tie in with the theme of not knowing how this mon's oriented, especially since others mons that have it are malamar, a mon that evolves by turning upside down, and lurantis, which has the gimmick of real life orchid mantises, except completely flipped around to have a flower that looks like an insect.
And as much as I'm sorry for taking malamar's signature move... come on, the move "topsy-turvy" would fit this mon very well (It's not like Grapploct didn't already take the opportunity to snag it as well)
that aurorus sprite is so adorable omggggg
🎶"We're just a bunch of crazy Omanytes,
Living in an Ordovician paradise,
There are no cops or traffic lights,
Living in an Ordovician paradise" 🎶
I think that for the gen 0 fossils gGame Freak should take inspiration from recent events; when you find a fossil you won’t be able to revive it, but you will be able to take a related Pokémon and create a hybrid of the modern and ancient Pokémon.
Cool designs, nice video.
Fossils are chosen to become pokemon based on their importance to paleontology, other sciences, and popjlar culture.
Lockstin and Gnoggin did a video explaining why each of them were chosen.
The bit about Amargasaurus having either fins or thorns makes me want two different fossil mon created from the same fossil depending on which restoration technique you choose (or which interpretation of the spiny worm you believe).
Also, now I want a humanshape pokemon that just evolves into a crab for no reason. xD
the missing head worm looks like a spore creature I would make if I was 4
Amazing art work .
I like how you took the kiki vs bouba idea, and flipped it, having the bouba be your attacker and kiki your support.
Missed opportunity with Legends Arceus to have live fossil mons without the "Rock" typing. Great video BTW. Fossil mons were always a favorite of mines.
Why would they? Hisui wasn’t set in prehistoric times. It was just set in “the distant past”. There were literal human settlements and allat.
@@shardtheduraludon The distant past could be between ten to ten million. I was glad they have some Hisui Pokémon.
Everyone turning into crabs is the good ending
Although your fossil pokemon are awesome I would think keeping them based around a more simple prehistoric creature still works best. Enjoyed watching the whole video and im definitely subscribing.
Those fossil Pokémon LOOK SO COOL!
I adore your designs!
I always like it when people realize just how much the first gen games take inspiration from Jurassic Park.
The background music in this video is awesome
Cradily, Rampardos, Carracosta and Aurorus are my fav fossils.
That palindrome pun is great at tying the history into the mon!
i gotta say the art in the thumbnail looks fantastic
5:11 a good example is kirby ironically they chose it cuz it was a sharp sounding name and he was very circular
I like how Halludrome references palindromes
the gen 8 fossil pokemon are also a reference to the infamous fossil bone wars during early paleotology
Fantastic fossil concepts
The Kiki - Bouba thing is really interesting and so true but I just can't look or hear Bouba without laughing