Catch Both Escapist Pokemon Quizzes!

[Kailias]

100% on the normal quiz, 80% on the impossible. Not bad I must say.

Edit: I took the impossible again and aced it. Since I have 100% on both quizzes, do I get a badge?

 

[John Funk]

I don't care about competetion; I only care about the fun. And storyline. I'm really bothered about the pokemon games loosing their storyline.

Wait, really? The original games had very little storyline other than "Team Rocket is bad, your rival is a dick, go catch 'em all." At least in the recent ones, there's stuff where the various villain groups actually have plots rather than "be ambiguously evil."

I mean, look at cubone! It is only called "The Orphan Pokemon" because its mother was killed in the game's plot! Retroactively, it is said that marowak would prolly die soon after giving birth, (in order to explain that they are orphans and where all those skulls come from) but one can breed marowak without any negative repercussions. I think its safe to assume that more than one cubone can be found in the original pokemon tower for the fact that if it were a one-time find, it would have the status of some sort of rare or legendary, like articuno or snorlax.

...but you can catch more than one Cubone in RBY. There's more than one Cubone in the anime. It's not like this was a hugely deep plot point that they all of a sudden did away with.

In context of the first game alone, it makes sense to think of cubone and marowak as unique creatures that inhabit the pokemon tower with the hereditary duty to protect the pokemon spirits.

But... they aren't. It's a cool idea, but it's just not true.

I mean, Bidoof and Bibarel can learn an obscene number of HMs. I could say that Bibarel's ability to learn HMs is indicative that it's really some sort of idiot savant Pokemon with an inherent ability to adapt to any environment, but that's me just making up story where there's none.

The events of the game effect the story actually have an impact on the behavior of the character. You don't see that anymore in pokemon games, save certain pokemon with forms. Even then, its only how they battle, rather than their behavior and personality. By making so much possible, (personality, color, movepool) they keep making the game and the world shallower and shallower.

Wait, what? I have no idea what you're talking about. How does ANYTHING in RBY affect the behavior of the character other than what you do? You aren't giving the guard the soda because his ceaseless devotion reminds you of the father figure you've never had, you're giving him the soda because you want to get into Saffron City. The main character was *always* supposed to be an approximation of yourself.

I mean, no one remembers that Eevee is supposed to be near extinct and very frail because of its unstable genes! The one you're given is very special, and very rare. If the game weren't so damn popular, and you were the only one you knew with the game, that would make that eevee very special and involved.

...except that from the beginning with RBY, you were supposed to be social. You were supposed to seek out friends with Red/Blue to trade. That was the entire purpose of the game. And hey, nothing wrong with a species - even an endangered one - being able to breed. Like, you know, most living creatures can

I dunno, I love the first games because you aren't expected to think about which are most competitively viable; the game was meant to be played with the idea that each pokemon was a character of a party of a JRPG. The game's fame made a new concept in people's heads that separated the games from the usual expectations and connotations of the JRPG genre.

And in DPP, you go up into an alternate dimension where you battle God.

Doesn't get more JRPGish than that, folks.

The actual answer is noticeably different from the others.

Couldn't you have pointed out what makes the other three pokemon alike? If you didn't know anything about what made the other one different, you'd still be stumped, but out of lack of knowledge and not uncertainty.

Well, this is why it's supposed to be challenging. If it had been, say, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Manaphy, then the odd one out would be obvious (without being the intended reason). The one that's different is unique even among legendaries - it's not supposed to be an easy question It's supposed to test your Poke-knowledge!

That being said, I will still always prefer the Gen1 Pokemon. When ever I pick up a new pokemon game I only use the old school guys

Hey, whatever floats your boat. A lot of the Gen1 guys bore me these days

 

[Jonatron]

heh heh heh, I haven't watched played pokemon in years.

You don't watch an RPG, silly!
(With the exception of a couple in the normal quiz, it was knowledge of the games.) The media that matters! Because the anime is painful to watch, even if you try to watch because of love of the games.... Past the first two seasons nostalgia wasn't enough to sustain...

 

[Erana]

Spoiler: snip

I don't care about competetion; I only care about the fun. And storyline. I'm really bothered about the pokemon games loosing their storyline.

Wait, really? The original games had very little storyline other than "Team Rocket is bad, your rival is a dick, go catch 'em all." At least in the recent ones, there's stuff where the various villain groups actually have plots rather than "be ambiguously evil."

I mean, look at cubone! It is only called "The Orphan Pokemon" because its mother was killed in the game's plot! Retroactively, it is said that marowak would prolly die soon after giving birth, (in order to explain that they are orphans and where all those skulls come from) but one can breed marowak without any negative repercussions. I think its safe to assume that more than one cubone can be found in the original pokemon tower for the fact that if it were a one-time find, it would have the status of some sort of rare or legendary, like articuno or snorlax.

...but you can catch more than one Cubone in RBY. There's more than one Cubone in the anime. It's not like this was a hugely deep plot point that they all of a sudden did away with.

In context of the first game alone, it makes sense to think of cubone and marowak as unique creatures that inhabit the pokemon tower with the hereditary duty to protect the pokemon spirits.

But... they aren't. It's a cool idea, but it's just not true.

I mean, Bidoof and Bibarel can learn an obscene number of HMs. I could say that Bibarel's ability to learn HMs is indicative that it's really some sort of idiot savant Pokemon with an inherent ability to adapt to any environment, but that's me just making up story where there's none.

The events of the game effect the story actually have an impact on the behavior of the character. You don't see that anymore in pokemon games, save certain pokemon with forms. Even then, its only how they battle, rather than their behavior and personality. By making so much possible, (personality, color, movepool) they keep making the game and the world shallower and shallower.

Wait, what? I have no idea what you're talking about. How does ANYTHING in RBY affect the behavior of the character other than what you do? You aren't giving the guard the soda because his ceaseless devotion reminds you of the father figure you've never had, you're giving him the soda because you want to get into Saffron City. The main character was *always* supposed to be an approximation of yourself.

I mean, no one remembers that Eevee is supposed to be near extinct and very frail because of its unstable genes! The one you're given is very special, and very rare. If the game weren't so damn popular, and you were the only one you knew with the game, that would make that eevee very special and involved.

...except that from the beginning with RBY, you were supposed to be social. You were supposed to seek out friends with Red/Blue to trade. That was the entire purpose of the game. And hey, nothing wrong with a species - even an endangered one - being able to breed. Like, you know, most living creatures can

I dunno, I love the first games because you aren't expected to think about which are most competitively viable; the game was meant to be played with the idea that each pokemon was a character of a party of a JRPG. The game's fame made a new concept in people's heads that separated the games from the usual expectations and connotations of the JRPG genre.

And in DPP, you go up into an alternate dimension where you battle God.

Doesn't get more JRPGish than that, folks.

The actual answer is noticeably different from the others.

Couldn't you have pointed out what makes the other three pokemon alike? If you didn't know anything about what made the other one different, you'd still be stumped, but out of lack of knowledge and not uncertainty.

Well, this is why it's supposed to be challenging. If it had been, say, Articuno, Zapdos, Moltres, Manaphy, then the odd one out would be obvious (without being the intended reason). The one that's different is unique even among legendaries - it's not supposed to be an easy question It's supposed to test your Poke-knowledge!

For the snipped part: ...But you missed the point.
I don't think I can explain what I was trying to say to you, I guess.

For the rest:

Spoiler: Just for good measure

I first got that question wrong because I looked at which were bipedal and which were quadrupedal.
That's based on my knowledge of pokemon, isn't it? And its technically correct.
But that wasn't what you were asking.

I got punished for not understanding the question.

 

[CaptainCrunch]

But, you have to breed to get Volt Tackle... What could be more natural than breeding?

Neat quiz though - I don't feel bad about getting 80 / 50.

 

[WaderiAAA]

60 percent on impossible. Well, I guess that's fairly good. Why name the dificulty impossible though?

 

[Shadowfaze]

i got 10/10 for the easy one, and 8/10 for the impossible (i have not played colloseum)
easy quizzes- yay.

 

[John Funk]

For the snipped part: ...But you missed the point.
I don't think I can explain what I was trying to say to you, I guess.

I suppose I did. I honestly couldn't see what you were trying to get at, other than "It's different, now it sucks."

For the rest:

Spoiler: Just for good measure

I first got that question wrong because I looked at which were bipedal and which were quadrupedal.
That's based on my knowledge of pokemon, isn't it? And its technically correct.
But that wasn't what you were asking.

I got punished for not understanding the question.

[/quote]

Except that there's no "one" that's different from the others, then. Groudon and Mewtwo are bipedal, Raikou is quadrupedal, Phione doesn't have any legs.

Go by types: They're all single-type - Raikou is Electric, Phione is Water, Mewtwo is Psychic, Groudon is Ground. Again, there's no *single* thing that sets them apart from each other.

whereas the actual answer, there is one noticeable thing that sets it apart from the other three, very distinctively. You understood the question just fine, but you didn't have the required knowledge to get it right. Which is... what it was testing.

 

[Chubbfish]

woot! 100% on both tests and third place in impossible

 

[IamQ]

90%, failed on the mimik pokemon...Curse the fact that I can't remember their names!

 

[Ghost]

Full points in the normal quiz, and did crap in the Impossible one... But I haven't watched the show since i was 11 (6 years ago) and haven't played one of the games since ruby.

 

[jericu]

90% on the hard version! Not sure if I should be proud or ashamed. No idea which one of those learns volt tackle normally.

Also, 100% on the easy test. No surprise.

 

[Katherine Kerensky]

heh heh heh, I haven't watched played pokemon in years.

You don't watch an RPG, silly!
(With the exception of a couple in the normal quiz, it was knowledge of the games.) The media that matters! Because the anime is painful to watch, even if you try to watch because of love of the games.... Past the first two seasons nostalgia wasn't enough to sustain...

What happened to the Anime of it then? Erased from existance?
and also, I suppose I haven't played it in years either...
But the Anime... It's an Anime.

 

[Amnestic]

heh heh heh, I haven't watched played pokemon in years.

You don't watch an RPG, silly!
(With the exception of a couple in the normal quiz, it was knowledge of the games.) The media that matters! Because the anime is painful to watch, even if you try to watch because of love of the games.... Past the first two seasons nostalgia wasn't enough to sustain...

What happened to the Anime of it then? Erased from existance?
and also, I suppose I haven't played it in years either...
But the Anime... It's an Anime.

It's still going last I checked. We're currently on Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles if wikipedia is to be believed.

 

[FROGGEman2]

heh heh heh, I haven't watched played pokemon in years.

You don't watch an RPG, silly!
(With the exception of a couple in the normal quiz, it was knowledge of the games.) The media that matters! Because the anime is painful to watch, even if you try to watch because of love of the games.... Past the first two seasons nostalgia wasn't enough to sustain...

What happened to the Anime of it then? Erased from existance?
and also, I suppose I haven't played it in years either...
But the Anime... It's an Anime.

It's still going last I checked. We're currently on Pokémon Diamond and Pearl: Galactic Battles if wikipedia is to be believed.

And it is horrible.

Like... ugh.

 

[Jonatron]

heh heh heh, I haven't watched played pokemon in years.

You don't watch an RPG, silly!
(With the exception of a couple in the normal quiz, it was knowledge of the games.) The media that matters! Because the anime is painful to watch, even if you try to watch because of love of the games.... Past the first two seasons nostalgia wasn't enough to sustain...

What happened to the Anime of it then? Erased from existance?
and also, I suppose I haven't played it in years either...
But the Anime... It's an Anime.

The Anime is still being produced, Japan likes it.
They're on something beyond the tenth season.

 

[dalek sec]

8/10 for the normal one and 3/10 for the hard one.

 

[SirSchmoopy]

Some of the questions were a bit wonky in terms of terminology.

 

[Abedeus]

I got 100% on the Easy, about 40 or 50% (don't remember) on the Hard.

I'm not sure if I should be proud of those scores or not. I played only until the 2nd generation and watched till the end of first half of the second season.

 

[dstryfe]

You picked Infernape and it couldn't kill everything, you are doing something wrong because Infernape is pretty much Blaziken on STEROIDS.

Funny story: he's not. Sure, he's a ton faster, and each of his defences average 2 points higher, but everything else is notably lower. Given how they have the same types and Blaziken has a better moveset, your opinion, sir, is provably wrong.

Quizzes weren't that difficult. The only one I got wrong was the one about the afro-guy. Though my times are pretty high since I was making food at the time.