Extra Punctuation: Pokemon 100 Percenters Are Mad

[KaiusCormere]

I can't even be bothered to finish the game the normal way a lot of the time. 100%? In your dreams.

 

[sergnb]

But come on Yahtzee, don't tell us that your not playing this game right now...we all you know you are, and we all know you secretly love it

Soon Yahtzee will want every single Pokemon, making him a 100%er

My friend, you have sucked in to the world of Pokemon

You have exceeded the allowable limit of the same emoticon in a single post. The appropriate authorities will present themselves at your residence shortly. Please do not resist.

So what's the allowable limit, 1?

0. It's fucking nothing.

 

[ThatFanBoyGuy]

I use to be a 100%-er of Pokemon games...kinda...sorta. I didn't care that they had to be all on one game. As long as I had them within the right generation, I was fine. So I had 150 original within Red, Yellow and Blue. I had a checklist to make sure I did, marking what game the Pokemon was in. Then went it went to 250, I got the new 100 in Gold, Silver and Crystal, meaning I had 250 within the six games. Once again, I had a checklist that told me which game each Pokemon was in. This even stayed true for the third generation. I didn't mind that I didn't have 380some in one game. I had them in the nine games, and that's all that mattered, even though you couldn't transfer first generation to third generation. Then came the 4th generation, where 110 more were added. Around the same time, I had found out my original Red, Yellow and Blue, for the original Game Boy had died, and my Gold, Silver and Crystal were dying (probably the reason they made FireRed, LeafGreen, HeartGold, SilverSoul). At that moment, without those original 150, and having trouble to catch the latest 110/120, I viritually gave up trying to catch them all. I just play Pokemon for the main story line. But when the main story line, in the basic form, is very repetitive, I wonder how long I'll stay hooked into the series. Maybe this is why I don't feel rushed to buy Platinum, HeartGold/SilverSoul or Black/White.

The other reason why I quit trying to catch them all was half of the "new" pokemon were "newly discovered" evolutions, which were a pain to get. Take Sneasel, for example (I believe I have the right example). To get it to evolve, it has to be holding a certain item, it has to battle during the night, and it has to level up to a certain level range during a certain time range. This is ridiculous! Even if this isn't the right example, I know there are other examples similar, even more adding on the ridiculous. I liked it when most only evolved by leveling up, some evolved by a stone, and only a few required trading it.

 

[Psycho Cat Industries]

Eh,if they are buying the game then the developer ain't doing anything outside his interest.

 

[Jezzy54]

I actually did collect all the figurines in Wind Waker. I liked to be able to look at them, and I like photography anyway.

 

[buhee]

Apparently i'm a mad person who should be offered oral sex instead of being allowed to enjoy an apparently 'unenjoyable' activity. Q-Q

I like catching all the pokemon. But i can't /just/ catch them. I have to have actually used them before they are allowed into my fully ordered PC box. Also, my proper team are specifically bred to have decent IVs with a beneficial nature, and then they are ev trained. And then, with that team I do the other thing you dislike...socialise with them. Hook my ds up to the wii and battle my friends with other people watching the fight on tv.
I am also working on getting 100% in the pokethlon so i can have all the trophies in the trophy room on soul silver, which is where i store all my pokemon. Black and White are annoying in that respect, as it means i either have to transfer all my pokemon over, keep the black/white pokemon seperate, or start all over again.

 

[Delicious Anathema]

I did get all the skulltulas in OOT, I'm insane.

But if you think that's bad, Wind Waker and Majora's Mask went totally bananas with the sidequests, Twilight Princess might have step back a little though, and Phantom Hourglass surely did. Link's Awakening had in my opinion the perfect balance.

I like linear games that have large areas to explore and backtrack to if I want, aka Resident Evil 4.

 

[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

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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.