Pokémon Has No Respect for Your Time
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 28 ก.ย. 2024
- I spend countless hours of my life playing Pokémon. While I love the series, I can't deny that sometimes the team put in some game mechanics that "pad out" player engagement.
In this video we discuss what I feel is one of Gamefreak's worst additions to their games, the Soot Sack, which prompts the player to do nothing more interesting than walking back and forth with the promise of lackluster prizes.
What is strange about how lame this is is that this is placed in Pokémon Emerald, a game chock full of other interesting game mechanics. These developers are fully capable of designing interesting and engaging gameplay. So why did the Soot Sack fall flat?
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The best thing about the three flutes is that they're infinite-use items. So once you get one of each, you never need to make more of them again. You effectively get a Poké Flute from volcanic ash!
I remember a friend told me I would get a boost in my contest stats if I had both the pretty chair and table...I spent so much time just to get both and by the time I was done Dimond and Pearl came out.
Haha playground rumors at their finest!
I have every item from that guy. I don't regret a millisecond of my wasted time.
I am glad you are proud of your achievement!
Did you get asthma in the process?
I grinded the flutes in ORAS and that was miserable enough (tho i guess it's cool enough for the lvl 1 first route mons, or dexnav level customization) but full respect for anyone who got these items in rse
In ORAS it's actually faster to get the flutes because there are "big soot" spawns. I almost included that detail in the video but decided to stay focused on gen 3
@@TheGameCubicle yea, I figured. between this and pokeblocks, you can tell the devs really did not want to repeat the horror some of these questionable mechanics were back in the day lol
This is still better than completing the Unown Report because here you at least you get something for your time.
So much missed potential with Unown. I love collecting all the letters but it's really tedious.
A video idea I have. The odd way to complete a fully seen regional Pokédex in Pokemon platinum. As some pokemon are only possessed by one trainer in the game usually optional. Like a female swimmer in the ocean to victory road is the only trainer in the game to have a Lumineon. Or a beauty south of veilstone city is the only trainer to posses wormadam on her team. Her team consists of all 3 wormadam variants.
That sounds like a great idea for a video! I actually remember on my first play through going back and fighting every trainer in Diamond until I found that exact trainer with the Lumineon.
Would you want for me to cover that subject in a future video? I would credit your comment!
i will point out super repel here is more cost effective, i did the math back in the day, this side quest was very not fun to do
I actually didn’t even consider that. Interesting that super repels are better
@@TheGameCubiclethe thing i did to make it suck less was to try to speed run the route with the mach bike, i would count the number of times is cleared the route instead of steps
To think I grinded for all the flutes as a kid…
It be like that I wasted so much time as a kid well still do unfortunately
The logistics of blowing a flute underwater always makes me laugh.
To be fair, the flutes are infinite use, so the blue one especially will save a good bit of money in the long run. I’d rather have the money to put towards balls & potions than an awakening or have to waste a precious Full Heal. I do like your suggested improvements though.
Counterpoint: its satisfying cleaning off the soot.
Correct me if I am wrong but isn't Toxic Spikes a gen 4 move?
Oh wow! It totally is. I guess I don't use that attack very often and didn't even realize it wasn't in gen III. I suppose it would still be cool if the glassmaker taught that move if the soot sack existed in a game that had toxic spikes but the developers wouldn't have been able to put it in in the original Hoenn game.
At risk of sounding dismissive, this video works well for an audience of adults who play the pokemon franchise. We all need to value our time more I think. Pokemon has always had an adult audience, but I think more towards the release of gen 3 it was still a franchise specifically built for kids, who don't really have a time limit on things - some people can't afford new games consistently so I'm sure for some kids who didn't know better it was just another thing to do in the game.
That being said, your suggestions 100% would've made grinding better, but a lot of kids are willing to hit a wall until it breaks, so to say.
1998-2005 is a seven year gap between Gen 1 and Gen 3 (in America but it's basically the same in japan) Even if you were 11 you'd be 18 by the time Gen 3 rolled around. There was clearly an audience building for adults. That and just because someone is willing to waste their time does not mean they should have to do that for not great items? Kid's are not the brightest - but that doesn't mean putting in a bad mechanic just to make them spend more time in the game is okay.
It really depends, as a kid me and most people around me did not bother when we learned that we'd essentially get nothing out of it.
We weren't against trying, but it was not something we were crazy about doing (Battle Frontier was like that too, why bother when you only get berries out of it. But I did it later on and got the star for the gold, the battle factory is a bad as everybody says).
Kids are willing to hit a wall until it breaks, so long that you promised them a giant dragon will be on the side.
To be fair to this mechanic: it gives you more opportunity to soak in the theme for that route, which is one of the best tracks in the game.
Toxic Spikes didnt exist in Gen 3
I remember getting all these items. As a kid and this game being new, once I found out about secret bases and Emerald having more items than Ruby (my original gen3 game), I wanted all base items I could find. With no internet much back then, it was this game, school, and random daily stuff. Got the gold symbols as a kid too. I got an Action Replay eventually and got Mew and Deoxys from it, maybe maxed TMs.
Yo raise the encounter is useful to shiny hunt. I think the white flute is the most popular one.
You would want to raise your encounter rate for RE shiny hunting.
It does not. But neither does the Xeno series and I am still playing those games, so respect for my time was never a priority.
New to the channel. Really fun videos
How tf you only have 700 subs
Appreciate it! I’m still relatively new and working my way up!
@@TheGameCubicle had me laughing, interested, half chubbed. The whole shebang. Quality stuff man. I'll be sticking around that's for sure.
@@Queaziiblowing on, or inserting the flute?
Love the idea of the glass ball !
I don't mind the mechanic, as someone who EV trained on spindas for sp atk i got most of the items and a shiny spinda too. Pokemon is not just catching and progress in gyms.
So you had a reason to be in that area- which is part of what he says it needs. It's just your reason is a bit niche I guess. Also yeah it isn't just gyms and catching, hence why he cares about a side mechanic. (also EV training is for progress is it not?)
I am glad you found enjoyment in the mechanic!
I have that table, proud to have it in my Secret base
You earned it!
My recommended tab has a tendency to be prophetic. The last three channels I saw with your sub count had 50K subs within two years. I'm looking forward to other things I never considered being revealed.
Thanks so much! I'm working hard at it!
The flute that lowers encounters could be useful for a challenge where you cant buy anything perhaps? It would probably be one of the only ways to lower encounters when repels are finite
Free though innit
Very well thought out video. I loved your ideas for alternatives. Hopefully someone will use them in a ROMhack for gen 3.
I would play the game with those improvements for sure!
3:40 not to be that guy (im that guy) but you cure attraction by having yoir pokemon hold a mental herb :)
I enjoyed it actually
I’m glad you had fun with it!
@@TheGameCubicle In 2005 I was just glad to have the GBA SP and my mom knew I loved Pokemon since 99, so I got that with Ruby. I'd stay up all night
So The White Flute is Useless if you have a pokemon with Sweet Scent (Just an FYI)
Also I did get the Pretty Chair
The answer is 40 super repels
Well what do you mean by respect your time? Isn't the point of these games to keep your kid distracted by saying "Here, do this for and f*** off for an hour". Given that line of thought, the point is to waste your time.
That's not the point of a piece of art at all. Please do not give your children media for that purpose. Children are much smarter than that and deserve to engage with content that stimulates their mind (which Pokémon does a great job at accomplishing most of the time and is why I criticize it when it doesn't).
Stories and video games are meant to provide entertainment value and meaningful experiences in our downtime. If these games were only about wasting peoples time I would not play them and I definitely wouldn't have a channel discussing all the different aspects of them.
So yes, I expect the developers of games to respect the time of the people who are playing their games and fill those games with meaningful and engaging aspects.