Extra Punctuation: Pokemon 100 Percenters Are Mad

[badmunky64]

I've only been a 100% guy when I LOVE the game. But I fully agree with yatzee on the not fun part. Part of my devotion to finish with 100% completion was the challenge, but more often than not I found myself not having fun. It didn't quite feel like work like when I toyed with WoW, but it still wasn't much fun. However, I would usually do this when their weren't any good games out and i was bored.

But now I've graduated college and I don;t have the time to waste on these meaningless tasks.

Also I remember being really steamed when all I got for catching all the Pokemon in red/blue was a certificate. Shortly after that they released 100 new Pokemon and i haven't touched the series since.

 

[Electrogecko]

I guess I'm mad.
I got 100 skulltulas
I got every figurine (in two play throughs over the course of 3 years)
I remember in Vice City I got all the stunt jumps and hidden packages
And guess what? I had fun the entire time.

My rule is I only try for 100% if I'm truly compelled to, and this only happens in games that deserve it.

 

[jumb]

After DA2 it looks like Yahtzee has gay-sex on his mind. Has that game turned him!?

 

[Wolfenbarg]

I will never understand 100%ers, but you do bring up a valid point that we are not rewarding these people for tasks they'll end up doing anyway. People who madly play your game the most obsessively should get the rewards for it, right? A game like Donkey Kong 64 would give you special and amusing endings and extras for finding every single thing the game had to offer. Why doesn't Pokemon offer some kind of fourth wall breaking rave party where you hang out with the biggest socialites in town, all named after the developers, and give them a good ass kicking for allowing them to waste precious time you could be spending treating a girl, nurturing your sick mother, or playing a better game? Give them something worthwhile at least.

 

[The Naked Emperor]

I will never understand 100%ers, but you do bring up a valid point that we are not rewarding these people for tasks they'll end up doing anyway. People who madly play your game the most obsessively should get the rewards for it, right? A game like Donkey Kong 64 would give you special and amusing endings and extras for finding every single thing the game had to offer. Why doesn't Pokemon offer some kind of fourth wall breaking rave party where you hang out with the biggest socialites in town, all named after the developers, and give them a good ass kicking for allowing them to waste precious time you could be spending treating a girl, nurturing your sick mother, or playing a better game? Give them something worthwhile at least.

The thing is, playing to 100% is your reward. Yeah, it's kind of nice when you get something extra for it, but at the end of the day I've done it just to do it.

 

[Plurralbles]

if anyh 100 percenters were hot females I woujld take you up on the solution...

the only time I was interested in collecting a ton of shit was for the gold armor in LOZ: Twilight PRincess- and that was mildly useful.

 

[Booze Zombie]

Except not everyone who plays it is a collector. I'm just fine going through the game without getting too many pokemon... except the good ones. They help me kick some ass, you know?

 

[Moontouched-Moogle]

The funny thing about Zelda: OoT is that the creator specifically put an unbeatable challenge in the game just to cockslap 100 percenters. He apparently hates them.

Dare i ask what the challenge is?

I actually dread to think...

After you rebuild the bridge to the valley while you are adult link, you can find the running man in the tent. He challenges you to a race. He gives you a time to beat at first (like 2m38s) and you think "yeah, that's pretty beatable". Turns out he always runs faster than you. There are various glitches you can use like just riding Epona the entire race and you still lose.

Actually, I beat him once by riding Epona, so it's not impossble. Granted, it was by maybe a second or two, but still possible.

 

[CardinalPiggles]

im a 100 percenter, oral sex please

Extra Punctuation: Pokemon 100 Percenters Are Mad

Yahtzee wants you to reward the sick bastards who must "catch 'em all."

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'Although that analogy would only work if English footballers were hired as assistants in virtually every industry and spent a lot of time in grassy areas dogpiling unsuspecting passers-by.'

that made me laugh so hard i couldnt breath, picture your favourite footballer doing this

 

[CardinalPiggles]

I will never understand 100%ers, but you do bring up a valid point that we are not rewarding these people for tasks they'll end up doing anyway. People who madly play your game the most obsessively should get the rewards for it, right? A game like Donkey Kong 64 would give you special and amusing endings and extras for finding every single thing the game had to offer. Why doesn't Pokemon offer some kind of fourth wall breaking rave party where you hang out with the biggest socialites in town, all named after the developers, and give them a good ass kicking for allowing them to waste precious time you could be spending treating a girl, nurturing your sick mother, or playing a better game? Give them something worthwhile at least.

thanks for saying exactly what yahtze said but wording it slightly differently.

that really helps.

 

[crudus]

Actually, I beat him once by riding Epona, so it's not impossble. Granted, it was by maybe a second or two, but still possible.

No you didn't. The game is programed to have him beat you by one second. Even using various glitches has you lose by a second. It is unknown if in earlier versions it was possible, but the official release has it being impossible.

 

[frans909]

Haha. Yahtzee, why don't you go check out what "the Insane" achievement is in WoW.

 

[Moontouched-Moogle]

Actually, I beat him once by riding Epona, so it's not impossble. Granted, it was by maybe a second or two, but still possible.

No you didn't. The game is programed to have him beat you by one second. Even using various glitches has you lose by a second. It is unknown if in earlier versions it was possible, but the official release has it being impossible.

Really? I could've sworn I beat him at least once. It's been a while, so maybe my memory is foggy...
Also, I was playing the Wii Virtual Console version. Maybe they changed it?

Or maybe I just got really lucky. Either way, I'll have to go back and try it again to see if it's possible or not.

 

[Wolfenbarg]

I will never understand 100%ers, but you do bring up a valid point that we are not rewarding these people for tasks they'll end up doing anyway. People who madly play your game the most obsessively should get the rewards for it, right? A game like Donkey Kong 64 would give you special and amusing endings and extras for finding every single thing the game had to offer. Why doesn't Pokemon offer some kind of fourth wall breaking rave party where you hang out with the biggest socialites in town, all named after the developers, and give them a good ass kicking for allowing them to waste precious time you could be spending treating a girl, nurturing your sick mother, or playing a better game? Give them something worthwhile at least.

thanks for saying exactly what yahtze said but wording it slightly differently.

that really helps.

Okay? It's comments section on his article. Most of the comments are going to be "I argreeZ!!" Is there a problem with that? The most variation you can really get in agreement is citing different examples, which I did.

 

[mattaui]

The only game I ever got 100% in (or really even close, I'm usually a 50%-75% sort) was Red Dead Redemption, just because I was having so much fun and I wanted to see all the outfits. Some of them were tricky and challenging, and not every single one of the tasks I had to accomplish was the most fun in the world, but the majority of them were.

I play Pokemon games from time to time, but I never get close to catching them all. I might start out with that ambition (if you could use such a word for it) but I tend to get bored and go back to just finishing the game.

 

[crudus]

Really? I could've sworn I beat him at least once. It's been a while, so maybe my memory is foggy...
Also, I was playing the Wii Virtual Console version. Maybe they changed it?

Or maybe I just got really lucky. Either way, I'll have to go back and try it again to see if it's possible or not.

Yeah when you enter the lost woods he is always there first and always says your time and that he beat you by a second.

 

[FollowUp]

I've damn near played every pokemon game and I've never caught more'n 50 in one play through.

 

[brinvixen]

There's clearly two types of 100%ers. On the one hand, there are ones who aren't having fun while they're going for completion (who, fine, can be considered "mad" since they're continuing something that they don't enjoy). And on the other, there are those people who are enjoying the grind for 100%:: maybe the satisfaction of 100% trumps the tedious tread, or maybe the game is fun and entertaining enough to revisit that many times until 100% is reached. In the case of the latter, who are we to judge (especially if the game is still fun for them while they're going about it)? In the case of the former, what does it matter if we DO judge? ... those people are mad ...

To address Pokemon 100%ers specifically however, it's near impossible to "catch them all" anymore, so even if there are people having fun trying to do so, they might be just a bit crazy anyway....

 

[Something Amyss]

I like getting 100% on games, but give up when it's no longer fun. I'll deal with a bit of grind sometimes, but I;m never going to be considered a 100%er, and that doesn't bother me.

Some people can't or won't stop, and that does have to suck.

 

[timeadept]

Sometimes you just want a reason to play a good game a bit longer though. Most recently I've had a fair amount of fun with Magicka, but i finally completed the story and wanted to play more, but my friends and I couldn't get multilayer to work any more so i decided to solo both the arenas. When Harvender Arena was proving to be impossible i went back to play the story again and look for the rest of the secrets and figure out "what is up with all thous mouses anyway?"

Thanks to Vietnam i'll be starting the game up again soon, because i have yet another reason to play a fun game. I've just gotten bored of the content that's out now.

(btw i managed to solo both the arenas, and some strategies i learned from friends allowed me to solo the entire game, and i'm proud of that too, it was damn tough.)