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for the longest time i though he sat on the floor .. i always sit on the floor when watching youtube videos so i was quite saddened when i realize we weren’t both sitting on the floor
'I look at Nintendo's 2008 catalog because nobody else was brave enough to do it.' Scott, you are the only person that is brave enough to do anything. And we respect it.
The way they drew circles around Pikachu on the Pokémon Ranger page is so cute since you “catch” Pokémon by drawing circles around them with the stylus in that game
pokémon mystery dungeon made me fall in love with video games tbh. i spent years playing the regular games and then found that and realized how powerful a story some games can tell. even with the same IP i felt so much emotion because of the different mechanics and story.
@@cantchange901 apparently 59 people did, but I think I'm the only one that's ever read your comment. This is the most attention you've ever got. Shame.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon was an absolutely fantastic game and it's the first game I can recall where I got so invested in the story to the point that the ending actually made me cry because of how emotional it was. Keep in mind I was around 11 or 12 back then, so who knows how well it might hold up nowadays for me 14 years later.
@@raxadian I remember always wanting to get Blue Team after playing Explorers of Darkness but never getting it. Years later I played the demo of the 3DS one and found it disappointing and just forgot about the franchise after that.
The mystery dungeon games are definitely not for everyone. I would say they mostly appeal to hardcore JRPG fans who appreciate the strategy of turn based battles. They are very fun and addicting games once you get into them.
Eh, i'd say even a lot of hardcore JRPG fans won't care won't care for the game because of a lack of strategy and variety. People who enjoy randomized dungeons mixed with simplistic turn based combat might enjoy this and that's a niche of a niche.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is generally considered a favorite series with the Pokémon community. Out of all of them, the Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky are regarded as the best one, with Sky being the definitive version of Time and Darkness. I remembered I played Darkness first when I was slowly getting into the Pokémon series and I was very enamored by the game's story and takes on certain Pokémon. Most, if not all, have unique names, but many people remember the Pokémon in here, due to their characteristics, traits, quirks, and memorable moments that help them grow as iconic characters. Game-play is another element that attracted me as it plays from a top down grid perspective and moves from the mainline game have some slight twists to them. I'll admit it can get repetitive with every mission or quest feeling the same, but it is always rewarding to obtain new items and recruit Pokémon to your team. Finally, the music in this game is so astounding. Almost every area is memorable and iconic that you can actually remember where they come from, whether you first heard it in a dungeon or in a cut-scene, the music plays an important role in setting the atmosphere, environment, and emotion for what is to come. That's just a short summary of why I like the Pokémon Mystery Dungeon series.
The PS2 has some weird behaviors with DVD playback using component or s-video cables, meant to prevent people from making full-quality 480p copies of their DVDs.
Pokémon Mystery Dungeon is the best Pokémon spin-off series. For me, the appeal mostly came from putting the player directly in the world of Pokémon. No humans- you don’t just command Pokémon, you are the Pokémon. And it had a much bigger focus on story, which was really good. The Explorers games had the best Pokémon story at the time- maybe still?
Reasons Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is cool: - The story and writing of these games is a lot better than youd think. It reminds me a lot of the Paper Mario series, they really didnt phone it in and ended up creating some really well put together stories with great characters and surprisngly interesting worldbuilding. Definetly leagues ahead of the main Pokemon games. - The gameplay itself was unique and challenging. This is a kind of game we didnt really see a lot of back in the day, not just a Roguelike but a ROGUElike: A game that really plays like the classic game Rogue. (A Berlin Roguelike, as its known in the business). It was super unique for its time since during that era the only people still carrying the dungeon crawler torch were mostly indie PC developers, but PMD introduced that gameplay to a new generation, taking familiar Pokemon mechanica but giving them so much more depth by the introduction of movement and posituoning mattering, as well as random generation providing endless rwpkay value and thw games being surlriaingly challenging, especially the end game bonus dungeons which are legit on the level of the classic rogue like dungeon crawlers. A lot more strategic and interesting than the main Pokemon titles imo. Theyre definetly more "hardcore" titles than the main Pokemon games, you gotta be into the unique gameplay in order to really be able to sink your teeth into it, but if youre willing to (and as kids a lot of people were) theyre some really quality titles
No way your defending the gameplay, its the most insulting part of the games by far. Its should have been a management game instead, _then_ it would have been a game of the century lol
@@aturchomicz821It's certainly not for everyone but I really enjoy it. Especially the later games like Super and RTDX where they really challenge you to make good resourceful use of items and building a team with synergistic abilities.
I get the feeling that sometimes in between shooting he just sees something, picks it up, and says "Hold on, I need to rant about this for 40 minutes."
Guitar Hero: World Tour and Rock Band 2 are both regarded as legendary games in their series respectively, and are still thriving to this day through modding. Its quite interesting how much songs both games shared in their base setlists.
I love every pokemon game i play… after i beat the first section. I dont like the beginning of pokemon games, but the late game and post game is always a blast. catching gods (legendary pokemon), taking the region’s favorite person (the champion) and effortlessly slaughtering their partners, collecting the entire pokedex, its great
I'm fairly sure the reason your DVD from the PS2 was only in green is likely because, if you're using component cables, the video was only sending information through the G part of the RGB. The DVD was likely only made for composite output
honestly the gameplay of pokemon mystery dungeon is whatever but i absolutely LOVE the world. i love how YOU'RE the pokemon. you aren't training animals, you are going on an adventure as a monster and meeting monster pals. idk i think that concept is just so appealing to me.
Brawl is hands down my favourite smash bros, I think ultimate is outstanding but I had way too much fun with brawl, I literally phoned work and told them I was sick just to finish the side game and have a tournament.
I definitely understand the challenge with finding game trailers on RU-vid. I’ve had to use game trailers for some of my own videos and, anything before the Wii U just looks horrendous. It would be nice if there were some publicly available library of digital media like this, but if there is I haven’t found it yet
Yeah about the point at the beginning the Wii is alongside the Star Wars prequels one of the elements where I felt the biggest generational leaps on the internet, because back then a lot of the gaming community hated the console, I remember having to "defend it" against people who said the only good games were Twilight Princess, Galaxy and 2 or 3 more titles, and the rest was all casual shovelware with terrible graphics, and now I see younger people saying it was "peak Nintendo" and that Nintendo lost their soul after that era and I'm like .....what?
Honestly, I felt the same way with the games from that era. Granted, I don't have constant access to the internet at the time, but from what I've heard, people hated the frequent shooter games (especially military ones), cinematic games, the gray/browness of the colors, reboots and sequels, rise of online console games, etc. Then several years later, people became like "Ah, that era was the last one to have innovative and fun games" or something, and I was like "Wtf? I thought people hated that."
This channel is so chill, I love these types of vids! Pokemon Mystery Dungeon love is abound in these comments, but I'll add that, if you're into the RPG self-insert aspect, Pokemon Mystery Dungeon has it down pat. The gameplay can get repetitive in the early easy dungeons, but once the story gets going it's compelling getting your new form and your new partner through increasingly wild obstacles, and getting a great dose of Pokemon re-contextualized around the monsters themselves more than ever before, to boot. One is also one of the few games that actually made me cry as an adult. The best have some great surprises.
6:40 PMD in the 2000s lived and died from its story, if you loved the story then you put up with the epic gameplay of "Time to go rescue some more idiots for that sweet sweet payout". I think the "Team America" playthrough from Something Awful says everything about those games quite nicely💀💀 Like fucking hell, this is the series where your "accidently" same sex couple gets its child ripped away from them after an entire arc because you just "arent capable" of supporting it, wtf Spike???😭😭(Those are the same people who went on to make Dangenrompa so it kind of makes sense if you think about it...)
Well since you asked Scott, the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon Series, in particular the Explorers entries, have some really in depth stories, especially for Pokemon. And they go to some dark places. Like Drowzee actually kidnaps kids, Wurmple fears Swellow will eat him, there's an entire plot around whether the sacrifice of some lives is good for the survival of everyone, heavy stuff. It is admittedly the sort of thing that a younger Pokemon fan entering adolescence and getting this darker take would be fascinated by. But also there's the aspect of taking a personality quiz to determine which Pokemon you are, which is always something that's fun.
Thank you for the MarioKart Wii love. It is definitely my favorite and it gets so much flak now. I love that you could have heavy characters on bikes.... which is why I lament not having Wario Bike to this day; my perfect vehicle. I also loved the trick/mini-turbo/mini-jump system... like finding where the gophers were going to pop up so you could trick off of them with motion controls!
So I think you hit it spot on when you said the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games are for people who love Pokemon and like the Mystery Dungeon Rogue like style genre, but I do genuinely think they are good games when it comes to this category. Obviously not for everybody though
19:14 I like how on that page they refer to My Pokemon Ranch as a "game". It's more like a semi-interactive box you put Pokemon in. You really only sit there and watch them walk around. Sometimes there are "events" but they're just stupid things like a bunch of Pokemon of the same type running in a circle.
27:10 I kinda agree, but moreso with 4 than Brawl. The funny mods you can get for Brawl are SO fun with friends, especially Brawl Minus where all the characters are completely unbalanced and even adds a few characters to the roster to spice things up.
i had the black ds lite as a kid because i thought it was badass (and in march 2011 when the 3ds came out, i wanted to get the black one until the red one came out a few months later)
29:03 Rock Band's appeal was originally about being in a rock band. Not just playing songs from other bands. You customized your character in the PS3 and 360 versions and it was a lot of fun. I remember playing Guitar for Lead and Bass, and trying out the Drums. Never used the mic, myself, never had the interest, but it was always really cool to have those options. I have none of the accessories or the game anymore. My parents probably pawned it off on someone else for quick cash and to "clear space" like they did with most of my childhood, the pricks.
pokemon mystery dungeon was the first game of my childhood where i got invested into the story and didnt just skip all the dialogue so i think thats worth something
The Mystery Dungeon series can be very addicting if you get into them. The dungeons are randomized so it can be really fun to try and figure out the best way to optimize your route through the dungeon while completing all quests you have to do as well. The Pokémon MD games specifically also have really good stories, which I remember being very surprised by when I played my first Mystery Dungeon game (which was Explorers of Darkness) when I was like 16 or 17. Just picked it up on a whim because it was used at GameStop and I had just gotten paid recently. I’m glad I did because I ended up loving it. But I have played some of the other Mystery Dungeon games, like Shiren the Wanderer, since then and they are also very good.
i also played the nintendo on the playstation. I played the legend of zelda 25th anniversery orchestra on the playstation 3, it was pretty good and the songs did not turn green
For the longest time, I didn't realize Kirby: Nightmare in Dream Land was a remake of the original NES game. So I definitely fell for that renamed remake trap before.
Pokemon Mystery Dungeon is special to me because it gave all of the Pokemon more personality and depth than ever before in the games. The stories in it can actually be emotional and its a genuine Pokemon RPG dungeon crawler. Pokemon Ranger is special to me because circles.
The main reason Brawl will always stick with me is Subspace Emissary. Granted, I sucked ass at competitive smash, but the storymode was so much fun growing up, heck I recognise all the enemies and feel the pure hatred I buried years ago rise from its grave
Super Sluggers was a sleeper banger with a fun and interesting story mode of all things. I bought a copy of Chrono Trigger from a consignment shop once, and that evening is how I learned that the DS apparently had a serious issue with pirate cartidges. The only distinguishing factor, being it didn't have the square enix logo, and you would play it, function just like the game, start going back in time from the fair, and it just infinitely loops the purple swirl effect, I was so sad.
As someone who skipped Mystery Dungeon games as a kid, but picked them up here and there in recent years, I fully agree with your assessment of Mystery Dungeon. Mystery Dungeon games are fine, but def only something you get if you're already into the game's subject (e.g. Pokemon) or already into Mystery Dungeon games in general because of a previous game whose subject you were into.
Im not sure if Pokemon mystery dungeon holds up now as its combat is pretty basic. But when I played it as a kid the story truly touched me. First and only game to make me cry lol
pokemon mystery dungeon fan here: i'd say you're like 60% right. i got it when i first got my GBA (well into the life of the DS), and i asked my grandparents for pokemon, and instead of one of the mainline ones i was expecting, i got red rescue team. i was confused at first, but i was relatively open minded for a kid and kept playing, and over the next months i grew to love it. i'd definitely say it isn't for everyone, i will say that i hate a lot of turn based RPGs, but what's different for me in this is that it's not *just* clicking menu options. it's sorta like RPG chess where your position in a grid matters, and i think that brings the combat to actually enjoyable to me. the thing that really made the game for me, though, was the soundtrack and the story. the story does start off a bit basic, but it builds on itself, and to this day i at least tear up at bits replaying it (i downright cried at the ending originally). i still think that the music, some of the art and general ambience is where this game is at its best, but again i absolutely can see that it's not for everyone. i agree with you that if you didn't grow up with pokemon, it's probably extremely hard to get into it, i'm not a fan of the stuff that released when i was older (which is to say, pretty much everything released after gen 4). so yeah
“I think we can all recall when we were younger not registering that games were remasters.” Me, who was born in the 80s, “I can’t say that I can, Scott.”
I had to go do something while about half way though this video, only to unpause and hear Scott say "STUPID ASS MEGA MUSHROOM" Needless to say... I was NOT prepared
Fun fact: there was another top down camera Nintendo exclusive GTA game before Chinatown Wars called GTA Advance. It doesn't seem very popular considering it no one knows about it and those who do never played it, including myself.
I originally played kirby superstar on the snes back in the late 90s and I didn’t realize it was full of old kirby games from the gameboy and nes. So yeah, there is a continuous cycle of oblivious kids to repackage games to lol
I first played mystery dungeon this year and I’m 17 yo, I didn’t grow up with the Pokémon games or with mystery dungeon games or rouglikes or whatever yet I still really enjoyed my time with it! I think that mighttttt just be a you issue (saying this as someone that also doesn’t like mainline Pokemon games). The story was interesting and the gameplay wasn’t anything groundbreaking but it was pretty fun imo. Pokémon Mystery dungeon has the same appeal to me as Mario RPGs
Pokémon mystery dungeon is in my opinion the best Pokémon has to offer (and the only Pokémon series that I actually enjoy playing), is very much is not for everybody. It definitely takes some level of initial commitment to accept the initial premise and get to the emotionally striking core of the series. PMD is less about Pokémon or the mystery dungeon gameplay, and more about the story. Especially Explorers of Time/Darkness/Sky, which was particularly gut-wrenching.
