Twitch Plays Pokemon Somehow Manages to Beat The Game - Update

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

Zapdos got the final blow.

Zapdos the final blow.

Zapdos.

I applaud you Twitch.

 

[Dango]

We used democracy.

We didn't win.

We lost, everyone lost.

 

[Wackymon]

[HEADING=2]I am proud to say that I stayed up until 5 in the morning watching the final battle[/HEADING]

Spoiler: Large quote because Helix this was larger than I thought

I still think it's cheating they removed many of the block-pushing puzzles etc.

I didn't realise they did that. Were they removed in the rom or just control taken away while they were beaten? Either way it's still amazing they finished the game.

... it's like watching a room full of monkeys with typewriters ACTUALLY writing Shakespeare.

If The Escapist let us have signatures this would be mine. It's perfect.

I think he's actually refering to Domeocracy. Many radical Helixians claim that Democracy is absolute evil, and should be destroyed in the name of Helix, rather than viewing it as a tool for growth.

To put it simply, you must have been on when we were both heavily devided and under seige. Generally, it takes hours to get things done, EVER. It took four hours to get Eevee, another four to say Screw it, three to get to Zapados, twelve to get all our pokemon out of the PC and release twelve of them by accident trying to get Batter Jesus, thirty minutes to heal ourselves, four to twelve hours for ledges, or 10 for any trees. It's slow, it's plodding, and it's amazing when it we get things done. But we did it, anyway.

Zapados

Yep. Shame Bird Jesus didn't get it, however. Now THAT would have been amazing.

Also, apperantly our Pokemon all have IVs so low ants look down on them.

How?

They released all their pokemon because it's easy to overshoot the Withdraw button in Anarchy, and to hit Release instead, resulting in Bloody Sunday, also known as Red's Wedding.

FIX IT!

It appears to have been corrected, the majority of the flaws. Also, everyone is dead. We are all zombies. *Eats your brain*

Spoiler: Part Two because one feels like to much for one

It was a simple matter of time but I'm surprised it didn't take longer. You know what they have to do next though?

NUZLOCKE RUN!

That was my first thought too. Only problem is figuring out how to make sure they actually release a pokémon after it faints.

I believe there are Roms that enforce Nuzlocke.

the final battle was considerably less epic than i hoped it would be it mostly consisted of TPP trying and failing to switch out the low level venonat for zapdos while blastoise continued to use withdraw over and over once they succeeded it was over pretty quickly

I saw one of their previous attempts where the lvl 36 venomoth beat Lance's lvl 62 dragonite from full health with poison as it used barrier and agility over and over. Got to be one of the dumbest things I've seen in a Pokemon battle ever.

Yep. Very stupid, but very amazing. Not as amazing/stupid as a Onix constantly missing a Dux as he cut it to death.

 

[Weaver]

Since I feel TPP memes are going to be all the rage this month, can anyone explain this "lord helix" thing to me?

 

[Wackymon]

Since I feel TPP memes are going to be all the rage this month, can anyone explain this "lord helix [https://churchofthehelixchoir.bandcamp.com/track/praise-the-helix]" thing to me?

Chances are that may/may not fall out of favor. Anyway, The Helix was the first key item Red got, and as such, in battle and in the overworld, they began to accidentally use it on accident. They quickly decided that they were consulting it, and everyone else began to join in.

 

[devilmore]

Now Yellow. The only one that was kinda hard

 

[Story]

I always knew they could do it. Honestly it was a question of when. This was a lot sooner than I had hoped.

 

[Weaver]

Since I feel TPP memes are going to be all the rage this month, can anyone explain this "lord helix [https://churchofthehelixchoir.bandcamp.com/track/praise-the-helix]" thing to me?

Chances are that may/may not fall out of favor. Anyway, The Helix was the first key item Red got, and as such, in battle and in the overworld, they began to accidentally use it on accident. They quickly decided that they were consulting it, and everyone else began to join in.

Ahhh I see, thanks! I like the song by the way lol.

 

[Bindal]

... it's like watching a room full of monkeys with typewriters ACTUALLY writing Shakespeare.

Someone else came up with a better description.
"Man. This isn?t a thousand monkeys at a thousand typewriters. It?s twenty thousand monkeys at a single typewriter, and half those monkeys are screaming and desperately trying to progress while the other half throw sh*t everywhere. It?s wonderful."
Way more fitting.

And in about 17 hours, IT ALL STARTS AGAIN! They then play Pokemon Gold.

 

[zehydra]

... it's like watching a room full of monkeys with typewriters ACTUALLY writing Shakespeare.

I knew someone was going to bring up this analogy, but I'm just going to point out that the difference is that some of the people "playing" were actually trying to complete the game, as opposed to monkeys who wouldn't know any better.

 

[Roxas1359]

Now Twitch must tackle the next big obstacle that stands in their way...the Johto region. That would be amazing to watch since Johto also goes to Kanto as well.

 

[Shjade]

... it's like watching a room full of monkeys with typewriters ACTUALLY writing Shakespeare.

I knew someone was going to bring up this analogy, but I'm just going to point out that the difference is that some of the people "playing" were actually trying to complete the game, as opposed to monkeys who wouldn't know any better.

Also that playing Pokemon is considerably easier than writing Shakespeare.

RPG: A game where, no matter what, if you spend enough time playing, you will win.

...uh, no. Given that "no matter what" would include "getting teamwiped and seeing a lovely Game Over screen," continuing to play and die and play and die and play and die will not result in winning unless, at some point, you figure out how to not die. This is no different in RPGs than in non-RPGs.

Also relevant: Dark Souls is classified as an RPG. If you don't know what you're doing, you could play that game forever without making significant progress.

If your statement means something along the lines of gaining experience/grinding/learning how to play the game, then it applies to pretty much all video games, not just RPGs. Keep getting killed at that checkpoint in an FPS? Try different weapons/tactics until you get through it.

 

[Britpoint]

The next one wont be anywhere near as popular. To many, the experiment is over - the goal is achieved. Of course the fewer people are playing, the easier it is to make progress, so relatively speaking I don't think a TPP of Pokemon Gold will be too tough to beat.

 

[Bindal]

The next one wont be anywhere near as popular. To many, the experiment is over - the goal is achieved. Of course the fewer people are playing, the easier it is to make progress, so relatively speaking I don't think a TPP of Pokemon Gold will be too tough to beat.

Well, considering they have "Beat Red on Mt. Silver" as final goal as opposed to "beat the Pokemon League and become Champion", it at least will take as long as they have to beat both Jotho and Kanto this time.

I'm interested. Also, will they name the guy Gold, Ethan, Red 2 or let the chat name him? For the rival, they WILL have the chat decide (poor guy)

 

[elvor0]

Well, glad to hear the finale wasn't climactic. I don't know if it was changed for this stream, but MAN was the AI in the game derpy. I watched when they had a Pokemon (might've been Pidgeot) against Agatha's first Gengar. Gengar used hypnosis, and then switched in to Golbat and used HAZE of all attacks (which eliminates all status changes of both sides, meaning Pidgeot was made awake again). The switch could've been because Gengar couldn't attack with dream eater (btw an attack frequently used by her ghosts on AWAKE Pokemon) or night shade, but Golbat had 3 other attacks to choose from that weren't haze that probably would've helped more than helping the enemy. The constant withdraw from Blastoise and amnesia from Slowbro doesn't surprise me after that.

The AI was actually really fucking derpy. I guess we just didn't realise back in the day. It's basically a combination of randomly selecting moves /or/ AI that is set to just use super effective moves regardless of what they do. It's why All Terrain Venomoth was able to beat Dragonite, psychic is super effective against poison, so he kept spamming Barrier and Agility because they're psychic attacks, despite not actually harming you in anyway.

 

[drakonz]

Well, glad to hear the finale wasn't climactic. I don't know if it was changed for this stream, but MAN was the AI in the game derpy. I watched when they had a Pokemon (might've been Pidgeot) against Agatha's first Gengar. Gengar used hypnosis, and then switched in to Golbat and used HAZE of all attacks (which eliminates all status changes of both sides, meaning Pidgeot was made awake again). The switch could've been because Gengar couldn't attack with dream eater (btw an attack frequently used by her ghosts on AWAKE Pokemon) or night shade, but Golbat had 3 other attacks to choose from that weren't haze that probably would've helped more than helping the enemy. The constant withdraw from Blastoise and amnesia from Slowbro doesn't surprise me after that.

true pokemon ai started to get good only in gen 2 games with some minor mistakes and only after gen 3 the pokemon league and pokemon gym trainers actualy had ai for each pokemon build from them instead of the 1st gen use anything thats supereffective. still its quiet archievement was happy to follow it and see how much development it actualy did.

 

[elvor0]

RPG: A game where, no matter what, if you spend enough time playing, you will win.

Not really, almost all other RPGs you get a game over and have to reload when you die. Pokemon is different because when you "die" you go back to a pokecenter without losing any XP and your pokemon are fine.

 

[Vivi22]

The success of "Twitch Plays Pokemon," and the millions of views it has garnered so far, has made the company consider if there is a future in a service that lets viewers from all over the world share control of a single game.

In this form, I doubt it. Or maybe it would be better to say I hope not since I should never bet against human stupidity.

It's a novelty. An unusual idea with execution akin to a train wreck and if there's any justice in the world it will quietly disappear over time.

Now I'd be willing to entertain the notion that someone may come up with a collective game that makes some sense and functions in a manner that isn't completely stupid, but as is, I don't see how it has any staying power.

 

[Fenra]

See you space... erm pokemon cowboy!

 

[scorptatious]

I've heard of multiple personality disorder but this is ridiculous. Makes me wonder what poor Red is feeling with all these people controlling his every move.