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Title: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: "Alvin" on February 18, 2014, 07:40: The largest amount of people playing a single player game simultaneously is happening right now on twitch.

http://www.twitch.tv/twitchplayspokemon

People input commands in the chat: a, b, start, select, up, right, down, left, and then it happens in the game (though there is some delay), so you've basically got a ton of people working towards one goal. We reached a peak of 75k people or so playing at the same time but it's around 50k now that it's late. Thousands more are playing every day, which is making it more difficult. We have 4 badges so far, but have been stuck in the Team Rocket HQ for 15 hours or so because the maze requires a lot of precision and it's near impossible to navigate it when thousands are playing at the same time. Hell, it took us 8 hours to cross the ledge in route 9 because people kept saying "down." :s

It has been running for over 5 days now and it has been a great experience. The players want to work towards different goals sometimes (e.g. whether or not to get Eevee), items are tossed all the time, trees are insanely hard to cut, ledges cause a lot of backtracking, the S.S. Ticket and Helix Fossil are used all the time during battle and battles are down to luck. Everyone has grown attached to the Pokemon in the party. Everyone shed a tear when we accidentally released our starter, Abby the Charmeleon as well as Jay Leno the Rattata. Everyone praises Based Pidgeot for being OP and sweeping teams when given the chance.

Thoughts everyone? Where do you guys see this going over the course of the next few days? Weeks?
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Richard and Blaziken on February 18, 2014, 08:27: I tried watching, it's a mess. I appreciate that it is spawning all kinds of memes and fun for many people, but after seeing them stuck on the route before Rock Tunnel for 9 hours, I was pretty much done.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: "Alvin" on February 18, 2014, 08:30: Yes, parts like that I prefer to check on occasionally. I'm about to sleep through the mess we're in now. :s
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Mew King on February 18, 2014, 10:41: Last I heard they're in Silph Co.

Also, all glory to the Helix Fossil.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Spriter on February 18, 2014, 12:54: It's a bit ridiculous to be honest, with all of them struggling to get anywhere quickly...but what do you expect from an army of people trying to "press" buttons at the same time.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Awkward Squirtle on February 18, 2014, 15:47: I just tuned in and anarchy has happened. In the middle of a battle. Oh dear.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Delicious_Scout on February 18, 2014, 15:48: (I don't consider it publicity)

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Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on February 18, 2014, 16:00: Sounds like pure chaos. Why aren't I causing it?!
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Del on February 18, 2014, 16:03: zzzz the new Democracy/Anarchy system has completely ruined any entertainment value this stream had. voting for 20 seconds on what button to press isn't fun at all, we're basically watching a boring, slow Let's Play at this point.

sure we've been in this maze for 26~ hours, but using Democracy to beat it is so boring and cheap. we got past the ledge to get into Rock Tunnel, we cut the tree to get into the fourth gym, why do we need to use Democracy to get through some dumb maze?

i can't imagine playing Pokémon only pressing one button every twenty seconds, i dunno why anyone would want to watch it like that. at least with the 70k inputs at once it was entertaining.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Awkward Squirtle on February 18, 2014, 16:11: I don't know, I'm quite enjoying this. Its still going catastrophically wrong.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Del on February 18, 2014, 16:17: It was far far far more entertaining when Anarchy was the only setting. Everything that's happened, all the funny jokes about the Ledge, the whole Helix Fossil meme, the accidental releasing of Charmeleon/Rattata, digging out of Rock Tunnel however many times that happened; all of that wouldn't have happened if Democracy had been enforced the entire time.

To have Democracy come in now just because we've been stuck for a while ruins the entire feel of the run. If we're just gonna turn Democracy on every time we're stuck for ten minutes, where is the opportunity for funny stuff to occur? It won't happen. So what if we'd gotten stuck in this maze for another 12 or so hours? EVENTUALLY we're gonna make it through, and we'd know that we didn't do it through some cheap democracy method.

And again, 20 seconds for each input is so boring to watch. I understand that you might be able to enjoy it but it baffles me how you could be in the majority when nothing is happening for 20 seconds at a time.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Awkward Squirtle on February 18, 2014, 16:20: I can imagine. Anarchy went on for a while in a battle, and that was interesting. Lots of sand attacks, lots of uses of TMs. Maybe they'll turn it off when rocket HQ is done.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Trainer Dave on February 19, 2014, 11:49: I've actually been watching it somewhat, it's quite an interesting little experiment.

The democracy system was necessary in my opinion. It may be boring to watch when in that mode, but as the stream got popular it's become inundated with people deliberately trying to obstruct progress. At one point the entire thing was being flooded with bots throwing the 'start' command and other random buttons, although they seem to have resolved that somewhat for now.

Anarchy is the better mode of play, but is being hindered by the large numbers of trolls. The chaos should come from poor coordination, not people trying to push the character down off a ledge over and over. As such, I don't mind democracy being used when hours are needed just to pass a small obstacle.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: MonsterMon64 on February 19, 2014, 14:09: A friend linked it to me... and I think at that point they were in Cerulean City still. It was both painful and amusing to watch, so I couldn't watch it more than a few minutes.

I just don't get the subculture/memes/whatever that's spawned from it, though. Are people that suggestible? It's times like this where I question my association with the Pokemon fandom. Now if you'll excuse me, I'm off to draw some Pokemon gijinkas.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Richard and Blaziken on February 19, 2014, 14:29: I think the memes are the most fun part of all of this, heh. Watching the stream for more than 15 minutes is insufferable for me, but seeing all of the things spawning as a result of a now 16 year-old game is pretty amazing.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Awkward Squirtle on February 19, 2014, 16:32: Oh dear, it's hit Lavender Town.

Attacking moves which hit Gastly include dig and confusion. That's it I think.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: the bread dragon on February 19, 2014, 20:49: start trolls are great lol

the democracy trash is so boring though. its the only way anyones going to get anywhere, but really. who wants to see one button every 20 seconds?

also. helix fossil ftw
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Awkward Squirtle on February 19, 2014, 21:09: democracy results in start9 half the time, so I've lost faith in it. Let anarchy reign.

http://askhelixfossil.com/

Just leaving this here
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: the bread dragon on February 19, 2014, 21:25: http://askhelixfossil.com/#6jjfr1 (http://askhelixfossil.com/#6jjfr1)

helix fossil has a strong opinion
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Joe_Pokemon2015- MEGA RAYQUAZA! on February 22, 2014, 01:45: They keep asking the Helix Fossil, and somehow gave up afterwards.

I guess they'll consult the Pokeflute next.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Mew King on February 22, 2014, 02:21: Quote from: bread on February 19, 2014, 21:25
http://askhelixfossil.com/#6jjfr1 (http://askhelixfossil.com/#6jjfr1)

helix fossil has a strong opinion

I don't know. I heard something completely different from it: http://askhelixfossil.com/#ita5xt (http://askhelixfossil.com/#ita5xt)
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Hitmonchu on February 22, 2014, 02:24: http://askhelixfossil.com/#o45uol (http://askhelixfossil.com/#o45uol)
How specific.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: the bread dragon on February 22, 2014, 02:39: http://askhelixfossil.com/#6jubbs (http://askhelixfossil.com/#6jubbs)
^your argument is invalid
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Kpyna on February 22, 2014, 06:40: (https://scontent-a-lga.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn2/t1/1654095_10152200507739330_860148856_n.jpg)

bird jesus inspired me to make a quick drawing of his knights
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Hahex and Oshawott on February 23, 2014, 01:51: how... how have they managed to make it back all the way by cerulean city?
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Petzbreeder on February 26, 2014, 15:21: They just beat the last gym!

On to the Elite Four ........ eventually anyway!
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Hahex and Oshawott on February 26, 2014, 21:09: They've almost finished the game and its only been two weeks. This is going a lot faster than I thought it would
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: The Shrub Dragon on February 28, 2014, 23:49: folks.

i- i think it's happened.

i think we've come close to beating lance.

someone make bunting.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on February 28, 2014, 23:51: I swear, hell just froze over and pigs are flying over it with ice skates.

In other words, Georgia just froze over, again.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Hahex and Oshawott on March 01, 2014, 01:46: One day, they will finish the game. I believe in the twitch chat.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: The Shrub Dragon on March 01, 2014, 09:21: today has been the day.

a momentous occasion for mankind.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Hahex and Oshawott on March 01, 2014, 14:33: Quote from: Lalice of Shrubs on March 01, 2014, 09:21
today has been the day.

a momentous occasion for mankind.
I am now completely confident that a group of monkeys can, in fact, write out the entirety of Hamlet.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on March 01, 2014, 14:46: Or that a theater troupe can actually perform Macbeth without someone dying. (The curse is real!)
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Del on March 02, 2014, 13:23: They started Crystal about an hour and a half ago for anyone interested. So far they've managed to pick Totodile and get stuck on whatever the first Route is. At least Totodile is strong now.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on March 02, 2014, 13:36: How much more time until they release totodile?
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: OpalRhea on March 02, 2014, 13:59: Now imagine if they did this as a nuzlocke
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on March 02, 2014, 14:01: To the above user:

You are twisted and flat out evil. But right, that would be interesting.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: OpalRhea on March 02, 2014, 14:11: Yes. Yes I am. But it would be funny to watch
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on March 02, 2014, 14:13: I'm liking you more and more every day.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Delicious_Scout on March 02, 2014, 14:16: Quote from: ShinyBlaziken2000 on March 02, 2014, 14:13
I'm liking you more and more every day.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrtkiLEGbE (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcrtkiLEGbE)

(I had the urge to post this)

Anyway, if Red is sane enough to live without harming a squirrel every step he makes, I am sure Gold can do this within one month without worrying PETA.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on March 02, 2014, 14:28: Well, that is true.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: Hahex and Oshawott on March 02, 2014, 14:38: seeing as it took 16 days to beat the elite four and get 8 badges last time, i'm predicting an entire month to finish crystal
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on March 02, 2014, 15:05: I'd say a little over a month.
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: the bread dragon on March 03, 2014, 02:44: nah bird jesus will do it for em in a week
Title: Re: Twitch Plays Pokemon: Tens of thousands of people playing Pokemon Red together
Post by: SirBlaziken on March 06, 2014, 00:30: Within 2 hours of playing crystal, they made it to Morty. What the Hell kind of magic is this?! *Flips table*