Shen should commentate all the games. I watched a Halo 2 run with him commentating for/along with the runner whom I can't remember. (I want to guess that it was MisterMonopoli, but don't quote me on that.)
@@teemunknee It was most likely MisterMonopoli haha. This was great commentary. I adore this game, but it looks harsh as a run haha - at least at the start.
Nah, they've made the point in the past to show that as long as you go over the top rope and both feet go over, then you're out BUT if you only have say one leg, like Zack Gowen, and go out, then that would still be valid.
Gunner's theory about Lance is partially correct, as per the original manga for the Gold/Silver. Lance was evil, and was using his Elite 4 status to help cover up alot of the stuff he was doing. I don't remember the specifics though, as his plan isn't in the game. It's similar to how Lt. Surge, Sabrina and Koga were part of Team Rocker in all official Gen 1 material, minus the original video games.
My twin brother got Gold and I got Silver along with GBCs for Christmas when these first came out. We also lost our dad to cancer last year. God I miss him, nothing has been the same since.
I like the dragonite theory, but we need to remember the lvl 5 salamence in sun and moon, maybe Lance went to alola and just sos dratini till he got a dragonite.
I had to replace the watch battery in mine a few years back because it died and couldn't hold a save file anymore. Heartbreaking to not be able to see my level 100 qwilfish anymore
Really a vs match between Pokémon speedplay, I love to try this out, especially if it means to play Awsome Pokémon titles, also any idea of software to try for these playthoughs?
My favourite part is around 2:13:00 where everyone starts singing the Pokemon theme. "We all know it!" (halfway through the song) "...In a world we must defend! Pokem... uh... mumble mumble..."
Growing up with Silver, all the Gold sprites look comparatively goofy - it's as if they used the 'default' stances in Silver, then sought to change them for Gold, even if they didn't have any exact idea in mind. still miss 2D sprites though, a lot more personality in them than the current 3D models.
i wonder if that pokeguy was triggered that the couch butchered his name all the time ive heard it so often pronounced with poke as in poking someone instead of poke as in pokemon. lol
46:31 about not using water from a Water Pokémon... could it be that the water isn't drinkable? I mean... it comes out of a Pokémon's body, with, y'know, bacterias, germs and whatnot ^^;
First time I played gen 2 was around a year before it was out. A friend and I played gold in Japanese I remember vividly the only word in English was nut which correlates to berry. It was quite challenging but iirc we got to the lake of rage in Japanese with no guides. 😆
There's a comment in this section talking about how the manga confirms it somewhat, his using his position to cover evil doing anyways, doesn't say what evil tho. Same with the manga having Sabrina , koga and surge were rockets in gen 1 (along with Giovanni of course)
So I am an hour and 15 minutes into the run and in the time that they have surpassed me in the game I have caught a miltank and leveled it up five levels.. in two times speed
I'm so sad that everyone finds Hypno creepy. The first time I beat Yellow years back I used a Hypno and he came through for me every time. Even the pokedex in FireRed and Y talk about it kidnapping kids. Sucks. I took me straight up years to beat Yellow, my first pokemon game. I was really bad at it and somehow missed the info about type advantages and so I couldn't understand why Pikachu's thundershock didn't affect Brock's Geodude. That took at least a few weeks or months to get past. After that I just never got strong enough to beat the Elite Four and so I just never finished the game until I played through it again back in 2012. Mind you I probably got the game back in the 90's, probably just a few years after its initial release.
6 year old me was so happy when my level 30 pikachu A. Listened to me and B. Slammed Brocks Onix out of existence. I think i got it into the mid 80s or early 90s before i beat the Elite four and my next strongest pokemon was the crap i caught in victory road lol.
Pokemon speedruns actually got me into running. Watching a GDQ run of Emerald was my introduction to the world of running, and I'm now a Clustertruck speedrunner. That's a far sight different from running a Pokemon game, but still, Pokemon at GDQ was what sent me down the path I'm on. I say that as preface to say this: I really dislike the Pokemon runs at GDQ. I know, right? Big 180. The stranglehold that RNG manipulation has over how these runs always start leads, time and again, to the audience waiting quietly for someone to perfectly time a 60 fps button press that results in a Mudkip, with such and such ideal stats... which the rest of the run just won't work without. It's a necessity for the methods and strategies that result in the fastest times and greatest constancy... But it's also a boring, tedious, on-screen monotony that the viewership just has to wait through with patience and long-suffering. I don't want to see Pokemon games stop being a part of GDQ. But I would like to encourage GDQ and the Pokemon speedrunning community to think creatively about how to bring a more entertaining version of their game to the show. GDQ and various communities have solved similar problems with other titles in the past by choosing certain categories, adding competition, or running races (like in this run) to combat the portions of methodology that are so technical as to offer little or no entertainment value. Sadly, my take on the race format for this run is... instead of having zero-commentary and nothing interesting on screen while just one player attempts a save and soft-reset skip, followed by 30-45 seconds of perfect movements, we get to quietly wait through 'serious time' twice per manipulation. I don't think it's a good solution. But I believe a best-possible can be found, and I encourage runners as well as event organizers to give it some thought. Thanks for the run.
Couch guy: "Steven because my name is Steven. He doesn't spell his with a ph but I can forgive him for that" Me: "Oh, so he needs forgiveness for spelling his name the right way?"
It wasn't a controller. It is a red GameBoy Advanced that he is holding flat down on a table. It seems that is the set up that Pokeguy most prefers! Gunner is holding his normal like the rest of us! lol
James52 this whole event is about raising money, if people are genuinly interested in the technical stuff, there's the discord and other places to go to. The donator questions were fun and raised money. That being said, most things were talked about.
I agree with that person; Hau isn't even a real rival. They're okay characters for a pokemon game but gen 1 and 2 (especially 1) had actual rivals that pushed you to be your best as a trainer.