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Started by hiff8 February 16th, 2014 5:34 PM
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Aquacorde

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o god no

We have so much trouble getting out of this house though oh my god. This is gonna take ages.
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I don't see how this is bad exposure to be honest or how this coverage is bad. We are working together to play a Ppkemon game. I see that it shows how Pokemon brings people together. This shows to me that if people work together towards a common goal, then you can achieve something great. It shows anything is possible even if it takes lots of work. Pokemon is something that has always brought people together and this proves that. I'm sure it has also convinced people it's still cool to play Pokemon and get back into the series again. We shouldn't over think or be so upset over something not serious though. Even if it's not fun to you, it still is to thousands of people.
I can see your point here of it bringing attention to pokémon again - Nintendo would probably like that considering the financial issues they're running into - but I don't really find tpp a good representation of the series. It's hard to explain why tpp irks me, but I think how chaotic and messy it is with hundreds of people every second putting down 'a', 'b' or another Game Boy button down into the comments and doing nothing else but watching a character on a screen do random things is not appealing or interesting to me.

Then again I'm one of like 3 people in the world who doesn't care about, so I'm happy that it's basically advertising the series for thousands of people and breaks the stigma of pokémon being a kids game when it's meant to appeal to all audiences.

I do have mixed feelings on ttp, but I think overall it is quite positive for the pokémon franchise and gf/nintendo should take note of it's extreme popularity. I just personally find it boring and don't really understand why it has blown up.

Also proves that there is an interest in the older games.

*hint hint Nintendo*
Yeah that's definitely a plus - personally with all the interest I feel that a Red/Blue remake would be more feasible as a X/Y follow up than anything.

Treecko

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Our house will be the new ledges I swear.

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I can see your point here of it bringing attention to pokémon again - Nintendo would probably like that considering the financial issues they're running into - but I don't really find tpp a good representation of the series. It's hard to explain why tpp irks me, but I think how chaotic and messy it is with hundreds of people every second putting down 'a', 'b' or another Game Boy button down into the comments and doing nothing else but watching a character on a screen do random things is not appealing or interesting to me.

Then again I'm one of like 3 people in the world who doesn't care about, so I'm happy that it's basically advertising the series for thousands of people and breaks the stigma of pokémon being a kids game when it's meant to appeal to all audiences.

I do have mixed feelings on ttp, but I think overall it is quite positive for the pokémon franchise and gf/nintendo should take note of it's extreme popularity. I just personally find it boring and don't really understand why it has blown up.
I can get that. It's not everyone's thing and that's fine.I saw an article saying Nintendo was gonna capitalize this and make shirts and stuff and even try it with their other franchises (Fire Emblem was one mentioned ) but it was from a satire site I believe. They could still use it's popularity to promote the game. Particularly X and Y given it's the newest game.
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Maaan, why did my dad call me for lunch just when we started the game? :_:

As a result I missed the moment of the starter's choice.

And when I come back, expecting Cyndaquil, (it was even proven to be the most effective choice on Reddit) I see Totodile, I am disappoint.

I don't have anything against Totodile per se, but I kind of have a nostalgic/hate relationship with Feraligatr. It was after all the first starter I choose in Gen II years ago when I first played gold in japanese on the emulator, but when I saw his final evolution I was like "okay, he was cute before but now, it's really not my style... he's kind of ugly, for me anyway."

But still I kept him, since he was my starter and all and I liked him nevertheless, but I didn't understand Japanese one bit so I tended to replace my old good attacks with crappy new ones, I'm afraid of this for Twitch.

But we will see how it goes, hopefully with all the memes that are going to come to life thanks to this I might like the totodile family more.

But I mostly love the Cyndaquil line anyway. (especially Quilava) :p


Treecko

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Apparently Totodile is being nicknamed LazorGator / King Leer cause we keep using Leer. XD

And there's already art of this and it's only been an hour...

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Aquacorde

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I heard both that and "King Leer" and tbh I like King Leer a lot more.
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King Leer sounds cooler and it could mean Totodile is treated like Bird Jesus or Lord Helix.


I swear some artists have the ability to stop time and draw because of how fast they are.
Yes exactly! I could never draw that fast. o.e Or make a gif in an hour for that matter.
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Maraala

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Gifs aren't really that hard to make. And if you stick to quick sketches, you should be fine.

I just can't wait for all the awesome fanart that comes out of this playthrough. Especially when we get to Red. I'm sure there will be some of our team in Crystal vs. the team we had in the last TPP.

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Now that I think of it, the chances of facing Red are slim to none. They'll probably end the game with the Elite 4.

The fan art is really creepy
Some of it, yes, I agree. Specially the ones who treat this like some sort of overly emotional or life changing journey.

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I don't think they will. There is still alot of stuff to do afterwards, unlike in R/B where it was just catching Mewtwo. Also the amount of people that would riot that we didn't do Kanto and Red.

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Yeah the Elite Four is only half of the game. I don't think they'll stop just half-way through.

Looks like they caught a Pidgey and it's getting an array of nicknames from 'False Bird' to things like 'False Messiah' to 'Bird Moses'. Fun.

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I don't think we will get one, since iirc Larvitar is only in Mt. Silver, and even then, are pretty rare.
We'll most likely have a well established team by then and no one to switch off just for the fight against Red.

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I'm hoping for Togepi to take its rightful place as God.
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I missed the part where they named the Rival, did they name him or not? I am just curious. So far, the Crystal playthrough has been good, even if it took three hours to get the Pokedex. I do feel like they should have chosen Cyndaquil, but oh well. We at least got the first meme of the new playthrough: The Laser Gator (Totodile using Leer)

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So wait what did we name the rival? Also Falkner knelt at King Leer's feet muahahaha
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Well, just witnessed Laser Gator wrecking Falkner. Looks like he'll end up getting awfully overleveled haha. I haven't really been following the stream, since everytime I tuned in, they were just walking around in the same areas, but I imagine the ledge at the beginning has a huge part in that :p

Can't say I'm much for the alternating modes, since democracy mode can be sooo slow, and battles are much more fun in anarchy mode, but oh well.

I'm also really surprised by the amount of viewers. I thought it would've gone down once we finished the first generation, since it was already pretty low at that point, but it only seems to be rising haha. Guess that's a good thing though :D
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Rival stayed as Silver I believe? Also let's print! 24/7 we printin'
In Crystal, they have to pick the rival's name. I wonder what his name is... It'll be a miracle of teamwork if it actually turns out to be Silver.

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Now that I think of it, the chances of facing Red are slim to none. They'll probably end the game with the Elite 4.
There are other factors that I feel like could really make this more annoying than enjoyable.

-GSC has the absolute worst roster in the whole series. Cyndaquil/Totodile and the Spearow we could steal will probably be the only worthwhile Pokemon usable. If we can catch a Geodude, Gastly and Mareep then they're sorta decent. Everything else downright sucks, even Gyarados because its best moves are special. You might say "We had average Pokemon in R/B" but you have to remember pretty much all of our success was due to dumb luck vs stupid and glitchy A.I
-Which brings us to the next point. Battling is gonna be a huge pain the ass because the A.I actually sorta knows what to do. There's no more BS factors that could go in our favor.
-This one might be a positive to some but I see it as a negative. Besides Ice Cave, the region will be such a breeze to go through. There won't be any hurdles to worry about because Johto is so barren
-EXCEPT ledges. Lots and lots of ledges. Hope you like ledges.
-The level balance is terrible. By the time we reach Blackthorne city, Claire's team will be full of Pokemon at level mid 40's whereas typically we should be at 30's at that point (although we'll probably have one overlevelled Pokemon and bunch of lower level ones since its TPP but this is even worse). We can't even grind much because the wild Pokemon are all at low 20's. All.
-Moreover, going back to the roster, the wild pokemon offer pretty low EXP distribution on top of the lower levels. EXP won't rain at us here compared to R/B, it'll be a drought.
-Miltank
-Poliwrath
-Steelix
-Kingdra
-E4