Twitch Plays Pokemon

J_E

Not sure if people have spotted this, but there's a livestream on Twitch right now where a game of Pokemon Red is being controlled by Twitch viewers.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

Democracy VS Anarchy...I'm fairly surprised they've gotten this far to be honest, was pretty sure they'd never make it out of Pallet Town but they're currently around Celadon City as far as I can see! Very interesting experiment going on, give it a watch. I'm for democracy myelf

gnfnrhead

Being talked about in the general thread now. It was in the Silph building earlier but it was on Anarchy which is just annoying so I only watched for a minute.

Amazing they made it so far. Thought Mount Moon would be the end, then SS Anne, then Rock Tunnel but they just keep going. Safari Zone wont be easy.

J_E

gnfnrhead wrote: »

Being talked about in the general thread now. It was in the Silph building earlier but it was on Anarchy which is just annoying so I only watched for a minute.

Amazing they made it so far. Thought Mount Moon would be the end, then SS Anne, then Rock Tunnel but they just keep going. Safari Zone wont be easy.

The thing that makes it work is the Democracy mode, means it isn't all chaos and they can get the tougher parts done. Love it!

Urizen

Christ, the Safari Zone is beyond a joke. Just check back every six hours to see how it's going...

gnfnrhead

Urizen wrote: »

Christ, the Safari Zone is beyond a joke. Just check back every six hours to see how it's going...

They back in it? Were on Cinnabar Island last time I checked in.

Urizen

Yeah, they were trapped in a Rest House for a while there :P

shruikan2553

Nah, safari zone was done a few days ago. Went surprisingly well. Few digs and walked straight out after paying but managed to get through it with 115/500 steps left.

Urizen

I was watching it literally 2 minutes before I posted, they were trapped in what looked like a Rest House. Unless it was part of Silph or Pokémon Mansion, maybe?

EDIT: Must've been the Mansion, my bad.

Wobbuffet

Every morning I wake up and the first thing I do is check to see have they accidentally released anyone overnight. I'd be devestated if anything happened to Bird Jesus at this stage

A Neurotic

Can't believe how well it's gone, considering. Will need some serious grinding to take on E4 though.

J_E

They were stuck forever in the mansion because an NPC trapped them in a corner. Even in Democracy people couldn't use the menu properly because they didn't account for lag...

Wobbuffet

They have all the badges so now it's on to Victory Road. But Route 22 has one of the longest ledges in the game, it's going to be hell just getting to the Victory Road entrance

gnfnrhead

gnfnrhead

Just realised, if/when they black out, they'll have to do it again!

gnfnrhead

What happened? Back at Cinnabar Island again?

Guessing 255 hours is the max time the games were able for back then? I usually restarted before getting that much time.

Wobbuffet

I think they're trying to level grind.

A Neurotic

Yeah, the idea is that Cinnabar mansion is ideal grinding for the Surfers (Omanyte, Lapras, Nidoking), who are a bit low-levelled for Victory Road.

I really hope that the plan to get Gastly doesn't happen, I don't see what he could add to the team and it's a bit of a trek.

cherryghost

The current team:


The fallen heroes:

Wobbuffet

They've made it to the Elite Four. Just seen them sweep Lorelai with Zapdos

A Neurotic

Can't believe how strong Omastar is for his level. Took a Thunderpunch from Hitmonchan no bother and KO'd it with two water guns.

gnfnrhead

Nidoking just did in Bruno!

gnfnrhead

Made it to Agatha's second Gengar. No clue how they made it that far to begin with.

Think this is when you really need democracy.

gnfnrhead

Lance has been beaten. All that remains is Blue, but they only have a lv 37 Venomoth left. It'll be a miracle.

gnfnrhead

Missed it but:

deathrider

Level 81? That's huge! Fair play to them though. I'll look forward to seeing some highlight videos when they start doing the rounds on youtube.

gnfnrhead

Zapdos was wrecking the Elite Four when I was watching last night. Bruno was the only exception.

New game starting tomorrow. The assumption is Gen II but that's not a guarantee.

deathrider

Just watched the video of the final battle. Very entertaining indeed. Fantastic stuff. I really enjoyed reading all the comments along the side of the screen as the the battle got closer to the end. You could feel the excitment.

gnfnrhead

Crystal started at midday.

Every hour it switches to Democracy until Anarchy wins a vote to switch back. Its a good solution because some parts will almost definitely need democracy.

gnfnrhead

I'm pretty sure the Elite Four was a fluke. 3 hours into Crystal and they are still stuck on the first route! Expected them to be in the first gym town by now.

TheChrisD

Great, another two-three weeks of this TPP ****e all over Facebook and Reddit...

gnfnrhead

TheChrisD wrote: »

Great, another two-three weeks of this TPP ****e all over Facebook and Reddit...

You must hate fun :P

2/3 weeks is optimistic. Three hours in and they havent even made it past the first route yet. Blacked out four times already.

TheChrisD

gnfnrhead wrote: »

You must hate fun :P

I don't mind fun. I just don't care for this particular endeavour and would rather not see it plastered all over my social media outlets.
I don't want to have to unfollow people/pages or unsub to subreddits just to get rid of it and miss out on everything else that isn't TPP related.

deathrider

gnfnrhead wrote: »

I'm pretty sure the Elite Four was a fluke. 3 hours into Crystal and they are still stuck on the first route! Expected them to be in the first gym town by now.

I don't reckon it was a fluke. I reckon it was just due to the level of their Zapdos. He did all the work, and was a hefty amount higher than the Elite Four's teams.

Wobbuffet

TheChrisD wrote: »

I don't mind fun. I just don't care for this particular endeavour and would rather not see it plastered all over my social media outlets.

I don't think there will as much hype this time around. The first one captured the imagination of a lot of people. But starting another TPP so soon will also cause a lot of people to loose interest. I suppose it all depends on what happens in the game itself

gnfnrhead

Wobbuffet wrote: »

I don't think there will as much hype this time around. The first one captured the imagination of a lot of people. But starting another TPP so soon will also cause a lot of people to loose interest. I suppose it all depends on what happens in the game itself

80,000 playing right now. That was the average in the build up to the Elite 4. Obviously the Elite 4 saw an increase but it's still roughly the same amount as before.

Caught a Pidgey and Sentret to go with the over leveled Totodile.

Urizen

There was a column in yesterday's Irish Times about this.

It is officially no longer funny.

Angron

Welp, it had a good run.

Randomfriend

gnfnrhead wrote: »

80,000 playing right now. That was the average in the build up to the Elite 4. Obviously the Elite 4 saw an increase but it's still roughly the same amount as before.

Caught a Pidgey and Sentret to go with the over leveled Totodile.

gnfnrhead

In Morty's gym for over two hours now.

They got to Morty on Democracy but lost and havent been able to get back yet on Anarchy.

gnfnrhead

Long, but well worth reading:

Fish Plays Pokémon

What a time to be alive....