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Offline Joseph Hewitt

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« on: November 30, 2006, 09:08:29 PM »
Sometimes my advanced class asks me questions about video games. We discuss things in English, so it's a good free talking exercise. One of my students has just recently started playing Pokemon and was having trouble in the second town.

If you try to leave town a guy stops you and tells you to go fight Brock. Well, Chul-ho had done that. He fought Brock five times and still couldn't leave town. Sung-mo and I were puzzling over what could be going wrong, when all of a sudden Sung-min had an idea.

"When you fight Brock... did you win?"
"No. But I fight him five times, and still I can't go to mountain!"

One problem down. We explain to him that he had to win against Brock, not just fight him. I asked what pokemon he used, and he said Pikachu. I told him that wasn't a very good choice, and asked what other pokemon he had. Turns out that Chul-ho doesn't have any other pokemon. Why not? No monsterballs. Why no monsterballs? No money. Why no money? Because he spent all of his money going to the museum again and again (a pointless cash sink in the early part of the game).

He's started again now. Maybe this time he can get further than 20 minutes into the game before painting himself into a corner.
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« Reply #1 on: December 01, 2006, 06:23:37 AM »
Wow. I mean... wow.

There's not even anything useful in the museum.
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« Reply #2 on: December 01, 2006, 01:00:39 PM »
Well, that's what happens when you use the TV show as a strategy guide.
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« Reply #3 on: December 01, 2006, 02:46:53 PM »
*blinks*
If anybody in any forum ever again asserts that Korean people are some kind of nature-born video-game experts, I'll point them to this post.

Yes. I've heard that assertion.
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« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2006, 02:57:10 PM »
Quoting: macksting
*blinks*
If anybody in any forum ever again asserts that Korean people are some kind of nature-born video-game experts, I'll point them to this post.

Yes. I've heard that assertion.


Only at RTSes. They're kind of like lions - at home in the savannah, but try them in a jungle or icecap.

(onlk joking please don't ban me)
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« Reply #5 on: December 01, 2006, 05:38:13 PM »
In Chul-ho's defense, he's only in grade four, and he was playing the game in English which is pretty impressive... Still, the part about not knowing he had to win the fight left the rest of us mystified.
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« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2006, 01:00:04 AM »
But... why would you go through all your cash in the museum?
I'm with Epsilon on this. Wow.
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« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2006, 10:20:11 PM »
Agreed, from what I remember, the Museum only contains (and I repeat: Only) pointles exhibits that are good just for curiosity..and I think there is one point later on in the game where your foes attack it.

Not only that, but the thunder rat is a bad choice against rock types, they're really well grounded..pun pun

But hey, he will get better. Good descisions come from experience and experience comes from bad descisions.
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« Reply #8 on: December 03, 2006, 09:35:40 AM »
Hopefully.
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« Reply #9 on: December 03, 2006, 03:25:02 PM »
Hmm... I guess pokemon yellow needed some kind of tutorial, just so the kids could understand what the game was about.
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« Reply #10 on: December 04, 2006, 01:13:08 AM »
Ouch.  Still, playing the game in another language is impressive.

I remember trying to play through the copy of Pokemon Silver that I bought in Japan several years ago.  Got pretty far---until the English copy was released, making playing through it largely pointless.  I'd play through it again, but the battery in it has long since died.
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« Reply #11 on: December 04, 2006, 10:33:11 AM »
Funny thing, I've got a copy of Pokemon Silver in Japanese as well.
Don't quite know how that happened.
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« Reply #12 on: December 04, 2006, 05:45:40 PM »
I should warn him about the boat before he gets to the orange city. I think that's the only other place he can become perminantly stuck... of course, he might surprise me and find all kinds of other ways to get stuck that I just can't imagine.
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« Reply #13 on: December 25, 2006, 05:54:05 PM »
Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I think this needs to be noted: the museum would provide a lot of 'fluff' text, right?  Maybe Chul-ho kept going back out of curiousity and reading experience?

And it's an understandable (if still amusing) misunderstanding over the semantics of "fight" vs. "win".

And Joe?  Your last post reminds me of a quote I saw somewhere:
"Making something foolproof merely means God'll have to make better fools."
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« Reply #14 on: December 25, 2006, 09:05:12 PM »
Quoting: empath
Sorry for the thread necromancy, but I think this needs to be noted: the museum would provide a lot of 'fluff' text, right? Maybe Chul-ho kept going back out of curiousity and reading experience?

Nope. He thought he was missing some clue that would allow him to leave town.

As of last Friday Chul-Ho had finally made it to the green city. He's gone to Japan this week to visit his uncle, so I won't be getting any more pokemon updates for a while.
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