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Twitch Plays Pokemon Emerald: Right A Down, Right A Down

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LSauchelli

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Found this on reddit:
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http://www.reddit.com/r/twitchplays..._releasing_our_two_fire_starters_i_feel_like/

Lazor Gator: The Croc who Lived
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You're a lizard, Harry.
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Helix Who Must Not Be Named
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HELIX FOSSIL WAS A HORCRUX THE WHOLE TIME
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Heh. Wonder what's going to happen to the starter at Random Fire Red.
 
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Axass

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Great fanart and lore, it's a shame Emerald is getting worse numbers than Crystal, which was a snoozefest in comparison.
 
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silver.tongue

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Axass said:
Great fanart and lore, it's a shame Emerald is getting worse numbers than Crystal, which was a snoozefest in comparison.
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Some people don't realize you are just watching a bunch of randoms playing a game that you could be playing yourself. Seriously, the fact that they have over 10.000 people watching is insane.
 
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RiggyRob

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As much as I didn't want Zexy to be released, I am feeling that this run is much better entertainment-wise and fanart-wise than Crystal was.

The Fullmetal Alchemist comic is glorious.
 
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Axass

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silver.tongue said:
Some people don't realize you are just watching a bunch of randoms playing a game that you could be playing yourself. Seriously, the fact that they have over 10.000 people watching is insane.
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Sure, but my point stands that Emerald deserves better numbers than Crystal.

Love the Shedinja/Zexy stuff.
 
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Too many people talking down Crystal. Sure, Crystal had a really slow start and the over-use of democracy meant it took a much longer time for a clearer story to emerge, but I maintain that the ending was absolutely fantastic and legitimized the whole struggle. The showdown of the titans between Bird Jesus and General Lazor was perhaps my favourite fight in all of TPP. Emerald's great and is off to a much better start than both Red and Crystal (imo), but it's early days; don't force it.
 
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ratcliffja

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Crab said:
Too many people talking down Crystal. Sure, Crystal had a really slow start and the over-use of democracy meant it took a much longer time for a clearer story to emerge, but I maintain that the ending was absolutely fantastic and legitimized the whole struggle. The showdown of the titans between Bird Jesus and General Lazor was perhaps my favourite fight in all of TPP. Emerald's great and is off to a much better start than both Red and Crystal (imo), but it's early days; don't force it.
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I totally agree. Crystal was actually my favorite because we actually managed to make a very good team and managed to keep our starter the whole game despite all the b spammers and the constant cries for him to be released.
 
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Maintenance

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DaBoss said:
I find this Emerald run so boring cause they are even more uncoordinated than the Red and Crystal run.
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But the chaos is what makes it fun to me. Yes, we get stuck everywhere and take a long ass time to do anything, but when we manage to do it (.TT evolution) is so much gratifying.
 
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DaBoss

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The Red run had lots of chaos, but it was ultimately more coordinated than this Emerald run. The Crystal run was like a speedrun lol, but it was nice seeing it as it was contrasting to the Red run. This Emerald run is a much worse version of the Red run.
 
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ratcliffja

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Crab said:
There's chaos and then there's chaos. Emerald is taking even longer than Red did for comparable obstacles at this point.
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The sad part is that they're still mostly underleveled for where they are in the game despite all the extra time. If they release or deposit marrill, they're going to be in really bad shape.
 
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RedShift

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The main problem in Emerald is how long it takes to use the PC.

In Red within an hour or so you'd have either got what you wanted or released your Pokemon. In Emerald, sure, maybe you're less likely to release things, but it takes half a day to withdraw anything as well.
 
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LSauchelli said:
Emerald has more annoying puzzles and the gym leaders are arguably more difficult.
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Yeah, I don't think it's that Twitch got worse, I think it's that Emerald is just much more difficult. Compare Emerald's third gym: Lv. 20 Voltorb, Lv. 22 Magneton, Lv. 20 Elektrike, Lv. 24 Manectrik to Red's third gym Lv. 21 Voltorb, Lv. 18 Pikachu, and Lv. 24 Raichu. Wattson is marginally higher-levelled and has more Pokemon, with an overall better roster type-wise, two fully evolved Pokemon and thus better stats, much better movepools, smarter AI, and more access to healing items. No wonder we're having problems.
 
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Akuun

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ratcliffja said:
I totally agree. Crystal was actually my favorite because we actually managed to make a very good team and managed to keep our starter the whole game despite all the b spammers and the constant cries for him to be released.
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I'm still surprised how good the Crystal team was in the end. Most of the pokemon in it were decent to good.

In contrast, Red's team was clearly carried by Zapdos, Bird Jesus, and maybe Fonz.
 
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ratcliffja

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Akuun said:
I'm still surprised how good the Crystal team was in the end. Most of the pokemon in it were decent to good.

In contrast, Red's team was clearly carried by Zapdos, Bird Jesus, and maybe Fonz.
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Solid Snake, Brian, Lazor, Katie, and... the Espeon that has no valid nickname were a great team that didn't even need a sixth member to win. At least the emerald tween finally has variety, though I have no idea how viable it is longterm.
 
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Pureauthor

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Azerare said:
Is shedninja any good? I never used him in my playthrough. Always stuck with ninjask.
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He's good insofar that you arm yourself beforehand with knowledge of which trainers he can completely stonewall.

Otherwise he's going to keep getting knocked out 24/7

Also to people complaining about Emerald taking longer than before - I invite you to look up Bulbapedia and see the Gym Leaders' teams and the moves they have.

Emerald and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum are as tough as Pokemon maingames get.

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Pureauthor said:
He's good insofar that you arm yourself beforehand with knowledge of which trainers he can completely stonewall.

Otherwise he's going to keep getting knocked out 24/7

Also to people complaining about Emerald taking longer than before - I invite you to look up Bulbapedia and see the Gym Leaders' teams and the moves they have.

Emerald and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum are as tough as Pokemon maingames get.

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I used a Shedinja on my Ruby playthrough. If only I had patience to bring him over.
 
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Crayolan

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We beat Wattson? Amazing, I knew we could do it. As far as I'm concerned, it's his fault we lost Torchic. Now where's the art of A brutally taking revenge on the fat laughing bastard?
 
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RiggyRob

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Crayolan said:
We beat Wattson? Amazing, I knew we could do it. As far as I'm concerned, it's his fault we lost Torchic. Now where's the art of A brutally taking revenge on the fat laughing bastard?
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Considering we evolved Nincada to get Shedinja and then released Zexy, I think it works better as a sacrificial event (i.e. the thread title, Blood for the Blood God).
 
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