@@Sush I know whenever I explain stuff to my partner I start jumping around topics excitedly until she reminds me she has no clue what I'm talking about lmao
@@Sush Yeah, he should've just left it at "I tried to use Azumaril, in the earlier games, and it was bad. But, in the later games it got better" maybe he could've added "Because they update pokemons' stats, types, abilities, etc between games."
I feel like Justin would be into Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. He'd probably recognize more of the Gen 1 pokemon and it would be a good intro to the mainline Pokemon game style.
Totally agree, Kanto is easily one of the best regions to explore and it gives you a ton of options for teambuilding even if I'm not the biggest fan of some of the game's structural changes like being forced to fight your rival at the Pokemon tower before entering the Rocket hideout or even getting the Fly equivalent for some reason
When he started explaining the physical special split and they started laughing, I fucking died LMAO my guy just said “umbrella type” and he’s explaining the intricacies of physical special lol Edit: then Scott interrupts to ask if they ever wanted to have or be a Pokémon LMAO
Make Scott play a nuzlocke, as we all know his favorite things are Pokémon and rpgs in general so OBVIOUSLY making it arbitrarily more difficult would make it much more appealing
@@nicolasbastion6183depends on how serious you take them. If you enter knowing your beloved mons are gonna die based on stupid mistakes and you may end up going to the elite 4 on your third attempt with a level 35 hm slave on your team of junior varsity rejects. I think issues with causal fun come up when people attempt to min max and speed run nuzlockes.
i would honestly argue the villain in sun and moon is the most non cartoonishly evil, hits em with the "sorry about my child abuse i was posesed by a space jellyfish hat"
It would be interesting seeing Eric or Sam playing Pokemon while Scott and Justin try to influence their decisions. I want Scott to tell them to press B during Abra's evolution.
At first I was worried about Scott being his friends on. I thought “here we go, silly skits that get in the way of the video I want to see,” but honestly I ended up loving these guys and their skits & conversations. Keep it up.
No joke, id LOVE a side series of Sam and Eric playing pokemon while scott and co. ask a BUNCH of questions like "the hell is that????" and "why do we go here?"
"Salamence freed the slaves" "We're gonna have to fact check that" *wiki showing Salamence freeing an enslaved rayquaza in the manga* Editing on this is top notch, that whole bit had me rolling
Diggersby is one of my favorite | 12:14 | its Hidden Ability is Huge Power, which doubles the Attack stat. There are far better pokemon with this ability but it was really useful in my playthroughs that I formulated. So one playthrough I'd only allow myself Normal & total stats of 499 or less. Another playthrough, I could only use mammal pokemon. In a list of favorite mon, Diggersby would be near the bottom, though. On the top is Araquanid, Reuniclus (really slow but really great for Trick Room shenanigans), & Serperior
I would like to point out that actual animals in Pokémon were only really ever mentioned or showed in the first season of the anime and some random dex entries like how Raichu can knock out an Indian elephant. Later this was retconned into Copperajah who is a Pokémon equivalent to an Indian elephant. As for the anime, it was just weird. Christianity was canon. Misty had a cross and tried to use it on a Gastly. I don’t take the anime seriously when it comes to lore discussions. Pokémon do eat each other though. Like a lot.
I always forget that Scott’s known Team Fucked since childhood. Its awesome that he’s stuck with them for as long as he has. Like him talking about how Eric was as a toddler.
I love Pokémon, ever since I was a kid I loved the games, and I still love the series even with the recent downturn with the switch games. But the ultimate appeal to me is just finding cool animals and fighting each other with those animals, that’s all there is. I think where people find it confusing is focusing on the outside things like,”Ew this is anime”, or, “Hey what’s the story of Pokémon?”, it always cool to see the weird, and cool creatures that Pokémon produces, wether people like the designs or not.
I’ve always loved just slowly building up my team and going on an adventure with them. The story makes for a decent backdrop to that even if it isn’t great
Personally for me, the Switch games are as good if not even better than some of the other games: the only one I really had problems with was BDSP as it was TOO similar to DPPT. And yes, I love Sword and Shield, it was my second Pokemon game actually: say what you want about the glitches and Dex Cut, but it darn didn't stop me from playing Scarlet and Violet as well (which is my second favorite game behind Sun and Moon) Edit: if you want to give a scathing reply to my comment, please be reminded that this is all a matter of personal opinion. Don't try to force things like "oh no you support Dexit" or send me a death threat (that's why the fans did back in 2019 during the National Dex drama), okay?
Playing games like monster hunter stories or shin megami tensei (very different games i know) has made sure i can never get through a mainline pokemon game again without being annoyed at how limited i feel
Hi Scott, if you don’t know where to start then definitely play Pokemon Emerald. You don’t have to be a pokemon fanboy to appreciate how well they managed to pull off an open world rpg on the damn GBA. Genuinely one of the best games/soundtracks on the console and in my opinion, a must play regardless of whether you grew up with it or not. I haven’t had the pokemon itch scratched since HG/SS and replaying Emerald recently finally scratched that itch for me.
Intresting to see a pokemon video from scott. Pokemon is a big part of my childhood and im one of the guys who still play it even with the flaws of the recent gens. Despite of peoples hate toward scarlet and violent and bdsp. I enjoyed them.
Is Sam the beard dude on the far left? Whoever that guy is, his story of starting _young_ with Gen 3 and playing through gen 4 without friends to trade with (so i bought more than one version) resonated hard with me. Even came back with ORAS just like he did, and contrary to the "popular opinion" I think ORAS were fantastic, mind-blowing remakes. They were everything my small kid mind _imagined_ and _wanted_ Pokemon to be as I played it as a kid. It's what I DREAMED ABOUT. I REALLY wanted 3D pokemon that I could like pet or interact with and just bond with while I played the game. Granted, you always bond with your mons, but like bond with them _as a mechanic_ with a whole system where I can stand there and pet the mon I bonded with and loved and feed them stuff. Even if it's a freakin' Rayquaza. (this was just the first part of a much longer, MUCH less safe-from-deletion rant post, which I will make separately in the interest of providing positive engagement. Assuming it isn't nuked from this comment section, the full comment will be posted as a separate comment from this one in a manner of seconds.)
If he is actually serious with starting pokemon, I would have suggested either LeafGreen or FireRed for the gameboy advance. It's the 1st Generation but with the graphics & mechanics of 3rd generation. So it's still technically the starting point, but not completely dated.
This is a very cute idea for a video, kinda wish I had been in the room and now I'm editing this comment cause I want to see Scott actually play one and do a vid on it lololol
🎉 scott and gang! You guys all play thu the pokemon series from gen 1 all the way to the last gen, and before every gym you all have to fight eachother! Nuzloc optional
I started with blue, then yellow , gold and ruby right when they came out. Never got into anything after that but I did finish leaf green at some point.
The sheer amount of Pokémon content that we've been getting on Scotts Stash this year is, by all accounts, f*cking bizarre. As for my experience with the franchise, my knowledge doesn't extend past having a friend over to explain the basics of TCG and watching everybody play the GBA titles on the bus while I was busy with Namco Museum and Driver 2 Advance
(This is the original comment I _wanted_ to make. Hello, reddit or 4chan or whatever, if some gawker screenshots this absolute trainwreck of a comment. I still mean every single word of it. I admit i'm drunk, but I would say much the same if I were sober, just more politely perhaps. Or I would not care enough to voice it at all.) Is Sam the beard dude on the far left? Whoever that guy is, his story of starting _young_ with Gen 3 and playing through gen 4 without friends to trade with (so i bought more than one version) resonated hard with me. Even came back with ORAS just like he did, and contrary to the "popular opinion" I think ORAS were fantastic, mind-blowing remakes. They were everything my small kid mind _imagined_ and _wanted_ Pokemon to be as I played it as a kid. It's what I DREAMED ABOUT. I REALLY wanted 3D pokemon that I could like pet or interact with and just bond with while I played the game. Granted, you always bond with your mons, but like bond with them _as a mechanic_ with a whole system where I can stand there and pet the mon I bonded with and loved and feed them stuff. Even if it's a freakin' Rayquaza. It took me back to my resurgence with Pokemon, and reminds me how conflicted I am with the games as they are now. On one hand I love the new designs, and the obvious desire and intent to make strides in open-world and QoL design. I love the _concept_ and what is _there_ of the new regions, as well as what they are based on. It's fresh. It's not another Japanese region. It's international and suggests a whole _planet_ of Pokemon and trainers all with their own unique cultures based around the same core thing that all human beings and Pokemon in any part of the world have in common: each other. Battling. Training. Befriending. Learning. (Possibly more suspect things in ancient times but that's true of real life too.) On the other, whoever is up in Gamefreak corporate setting release dates and wanting yearly releases regardless of polish or quality NEED to go. By literally any means necessary, legal or otherwise. They are actively advocating for the degradation of their own brand in the name of money in the short term. They're old farts who have not a single care for the people who actually consume their products. They are the cynical side of Capitalism that is so popularly shat on and generalized nowadays. If they would just let the actual developers take as much time as they _needed_ to polish and ACTUALIZE a fantastic, passion-filled game like it is obvious they WANT to make, they'd make exponentially more money, just a little later down the line, but the old shrivs are incapable of thinking big-picture. They're like children. People are stupidest in two points in life: pubescence and the "early old person" phase where you are crotchety, bitter and cynical but you haven't manifested the wisdom and perspective to realize the lessons live taught you. That or they're so rich they cannot see beyond their coffers and need to have an unfortunate accident happen to them. If this comment gets deleted, it's because it's in the interests of some ultra-rich money hoarder to suppress this idea so that he isn't torn limb from limb in the streets by the people who cannot make a living in the system they have manipulated to give THEM more capital at the cost of everyone else's jobs. Rant aside, the DEVS have heart. They have talent. They were probably Pokemon fans growing up. Their situation is a lose-lose. They cannot put the care they want to put in due to arbitrary, counter-productive time restrictions, and they cannot whistleblow how they are being treated because they'll lose their damn livelihoods. The obstacle is not a lack of passion or skill, it's a lack of time imposed on them by some prunes who sit in offices and talk about profit margins and focus groups, all the while having never played a single goddamn video game in their entire lives. They are poison. They are not worth the budget they give people or the profit they bring. If they didn't do what they do to poison the well, the industry would make even MORE money because there would be good games out there that people would be buying like HOTCAKES purely based on sheer quality, fun, and/or narrative richness. The shortcuts are not making them the maximum profit, they are making quick, easy stacks. They're wrinkly idiots. They're fools and they need to go. That said, it is not as simple as "put the fossils to sleep." I don't know what the solution is. I don't think it's okay to just boycott the entire franchise if you REALLY love it and want to play; that hurts everyone _under_ the perpetrators too, including the overworked artist or programmer who works on the series despite the dystopian work environment out of pure love for the series and what it means to them. Don't talk to me about "means to an end," that's bullcrap, and I will NOT advocate for the innocent or the hard-working to suffer. Hell, not all or even _most_ old people need to be targeted and besmirched for the actions of a few dinosaurs in fancy suits sitting at a conference table somewhere. I think the attack should be towards the people at the very top. Like _specifically_ the ones who profit but have no idea about the franchise they are running, why it is successful, what the customers who are _giving them all their money_ want, and do not care to learn ANY of these things because they're rich, detached business types who care NOTHING for WHAT they sell, just that it does. Capitalism is not the issue; the issue is PEOPLE. THOSE people. The wrong type of businessman. The quick-buck types. The optimize profit without understanding what is actually behind their company's success types. May they all have gruesome, fatal, viscera-soaked car accidents on live TV for me and a million others across the world to CACKLE at.
ORAS might be the best ones to play. you get fairy types and megas, and Hoenn is a good region. the Let's Go games might be the most visually appealing ones
I wouldn't say Black and White are the best entry point into the series mainly because you're limited to only gen 5 Pokemon, which isn't the best for experiencing the iconography and flexibility of teambuilding. I'd actually say that FireRed and LeafGreen are the best entry points into the series because Kanto is both incredibly open and decently challenging, something that most games in the series have a hard time balancing. X/Y and Sword/Shield give you 4-500 available Pokemon most of which are available really early on, but both games just don't have the difficulty to support it. Scarlet and Violet is the only other Pokemon game with the closest mix of both, but unfortunately we all know how that runs
It nice to see Scott educating his friends on Pokémon, a franchise he’s always loved and knows a lot about
Yes
Yes
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He supposedly loves but rarely talks about
Eric saying the phrase "The Physical and Special split" and watching Sam start laughing was so good
ikr, man I was like "You do NOT start talking about physical and special split this soon". The explanation had no structure whatsoever lmao
@@Sush I know whenever I explain stuff to my partner I start jumping around topics excitedly until she reminds me she has no clue what I'm talking about lmao
@@Sush Yeah, he should've just left it at "I tried to use Azumaril, in the earlier games, and it was bad. But, in the later games it got better" maybe he could've added "Because they update pokemons' stats, types, abilities, etc between games."
14:50 for those curious
"Prior to the Physical/Special Split" Eric, he doesn't even know what a Gymleader is yet and you're bringing _that_ up?!
I love how sometimes Scott knows what he's talking about and other times he's like a toddler echoing words he heard.
The duality of the woz
"Tell me about... Chikorita."
this might be the most revolutionary scott the woz video to date
Scott has the energy of a 5 year old who doesnt wanna go and take a nap
27:39 “No No No No!”
Fun Fact:
During Alpharad’s egglocke, Scott literally sent Alpha an Watchog, with no moves, no nature, and no ability.
Nothing.
Keep him in the dark.
"This pokemon has an item?"
"It doesnt look like it has"
"Uh, I just looked through the Pokedex and picked a funny looking one"
UH, I JUST LOOKED THROUGH THE POKÉDEX AND FOUND A FUNNY LOOKIN ONE
I do enjoy that even though Scott isn't into pokemon he still uses the music a lot
Sam, Eric, and Dom holding an intervention with Scott and Justin about Pokémon?
This gon’ be good!
Eric talking about the complexity and ideologies of Team Plasma and Scott just goes “yeah that’s cool and all, tell me about that Chikorita guy.”
idk why its so fuckign funny seeing 4 meen nod their heads after scott says, very happily, "monkey! thats a monkey!"
If Scott ever posts like a 2 hour Pokémon series retrospective and just played every game , I would be able to die happily
Keep dreaming
But Scott's not a RPG guy, that'll never happen.
if scott can make a video on fucking onichabara i think pokemon isnt that farfetched, one day I pray@@unquestionableexistance8704
@@piranhalettucehe did say he liked Live Alive
I'm sorry you will never be able to die happily. 😔
I don’t know why but Scott sorting through a bag of food to find his meal made me laugh weirdly hard
I don't know why but I didn't see the word 'laugh' on my first pass of this comment lmao
@@nicholaslogan6840 bro
I feel like Justin would be into Let's Go Pikachu/Eevee. He'd probably recognize more of the Gen 1 pokemon and it would be a good intro to the mainline Pokemon game style.
Totally agree, Kanto is easily one of the best regions to explore and it gives you a ton of options for teambuilding even if I'm not the biggest fan of some of the game's structural changes like being forced to fight your rival at the Pokemon tower before entering the Rocket hideout or even getting the Fly equivalent for some reason
When he started explaining the physical special split and they started laughing, I fucking died LMAO my guy just said “umbrella type” and he’s explaining the intricacies of physical special lol
Edit: then Scott interrupts to ask if they ever wanted to have or be a Pokémon LMAO
“So uh… d’you like monkeys…?”
Both talking about pokemon attacks
And then scott in the corner thinking about monkeys
The Scott The Woz series finale has to be Scott finally playing Pokemon and slightly enjoying it. Its going to be epic
And talking about My Little Pony.
It's good to know the most built guy of Scott's crew is also the nerdiest.
A very different vibe
Eric drinking beers drinking bears carrying door carrying bears smoking having a full beard, ranting about jojo and Pokémon
Plenty of built guys are nerdy. Lol
Scott trying to name every pokemon would be funny as hell
Boy do I got a spoiler for you. He just adds the word "skunk" to whatever pokemon he tries to describe.
this video really just cements that scott loves trying to guess the names of Pokemon
Make Scott play a nuzlocke, as we all know his favorite things are Pokémon and rpgs in general so OBVIOUSLY making it arbitrarily more difficult would make it much more appealing
No, make Justin play the nuzlocke
Nuzlockes really are overrated and unfun
@@nicolasbastion6183depends on how serious you take them. If you enter knowing your beloved mons are gonna die based on stupid mistakes and you may end up going to the elite 4 on your third attempt with a level 35 hm slave on your team of junior varsity rejects. I think issues with causal fun come up when people attempt to min max and speed run nuzlockes.
Nuzlocke's are the worst way for a newcomer to play @@phantomkrieger2744
Scott talking about being a pokemon makes me think he should play the Pokemon Mystery Dungeon games
I love that Scott brought up Rowlet of his own accord, made me smile. Best starter (Spriggy is also my beloved tho)
As someone who has played every main-series Pokémon game not named Brilliant Diamond, this is WILD to watch
i would honestly argue the villain in sun and moon is the most non cartoonishly evil, hits em with the "sorry about my child abuse i was posesed by a space jellyfish hat"
Eric knows so much. He’s wise behind his years
Within the first few minutes, we got “Cumbistin” and the Ultra Beasts being the first for Scott to guess. This is gonna be good.
It would be interesting seeing Eric or Sam playing Pokemon while Scott and Justin try to influence their decisions. I want Scott to tell them to press B during Abra's evolution.
how did the gex crew swerve treecko being a gecko. serendipitous
The intervention episode is a finally here!
At first I was worried about Scott being his friends on. I thought “here we go, silly skits that get in the way of the video I want to see,” but honestly I ended up loving these guys and their skits & conversations. Keep it up.
Justin would probably enjoy the Let’s Go games since those are the closest to Pokémon Go. They look (relatively) fine as well.
No joke, id LOVE a side series of Sam and Eric playing pokemon while scott and co. ask a BUNCH of questions like "the hell is that????" and "why do we go here?"
Important note about Cherubi: it’s pokemon #420
Time it took for rats/mice to be mentioned in this Scott's Stash episode: 5 minutes, 8 seconds
Another classic Scott "playing with his toes" the Woz video!
I learned to read from Pokemon Yellow, the first story here is too perfect.
"Salamence freed the slaves"
"We're gonna have to fact check that"
*wiki showing Salamence freeing an enslaved rayquaza in the manga*
Editing on this is top notch, that whole bit had me rolling
Diggersby is one of my favorite | 12:14 | its Hidden Ability is Huge Power, which doubles the Attack stat. There are far better pokemon with this ability but it was really useful in my playthroughs that I formulated. So one playthrough I'd only allow myself Normal & total stats of 499 or less. Another playthrough, I could only use mammal pokemon.
In a list of favorite mon, Diggersby would be near the bottom, though. On the top is Araquanid, Reuniclus (really slow but really great for Trick Room shenanigans), & Serperior
RPG guys helping non-RPG guy learn about RPG
what timing! i've been binging this channel while grinding in pokemon black for the past three days
I feel Scott would feel more at home with the Pokemon ranger games
this is like teaching a baby it's first words lol
Wonder in a year or two we’ll have an actual Scott the Woz review of Pokémon
43:52 Scott casually predicts what region the Indigo Disk DLC is based off of
If it isn’t Scott “The Pokémon Superfan” Wozniak
You talked about Groudon, which is all that really matters. Thanks for the shoutout!
Ah yes a perfect vid for somone who only cares about Pokemon as long as its in a game that starts with S and ends with Uper Smash Brothers.
I’ve noticed that this entire freind group is just Scott with different stats
if this leads to Pokémon content I am all for it
I would like to point out that actual animals in Pokémon were only really ever mentioned or showed in the first season of the anime and some random dex entries like how Raichu can knock out an Indian elephant. Later this was retconned into Copperajah who is a Pokémon equivalent to an Indian elephant. As for the anime, it was just weird. Christianity was canon. Misty had a cross and tried to use it on a Gastly. I don’t take the anime seriously when it comes to lore discussions.
Pokémon do eat each other though. Like a lot.
I always forget that Scott’s known Team Fucked since childhood. Its awesome that he’s stuck with them for as long as he has. Like him talking about how Eric was as a toddler.
I love Pokémon, ever since I was a kid I loved the games, and I still love the series even with the recent downturn with the switch games.
But the ultimate appeal to me is just finding cool animals and fighting each other with those animals, that’s all there is. I think where people find it confusing is focusing on the outside things like,”Ew this is anime”, or, “Hey what’s the story of Pokémon?”, it always cool to see the weird, and cool creatures that Pokémon produces, wether people like the designs or not.
I’ve always loved just slowly building up my team and going on an adventure with them. The story makes for a decent backdrop to that even if it isn’t great
@@AvEli484it’s great the lore is so vast and unique and the stories are one of a kind
Personally for me, the Switch games are as good if not even better than some of the other games: the only one I really had problems with was BDSP as it was TOO similar to DPPT.
And yes, I love Sword and Shield, it was my second Pokemon game actually: say what you want about the glitches and Dex Cut, but it darn didn't stop me from playing Scarlet and Violet as well (which is my second favorite game behind Sun and Moon)
Edit: if you want to give a scathing reply to my comment, please be reminded that this is all a matter of personal opinion. Don't try to force things like "oh no you support Dexit" or send me a death threat (that's why the fans did back in 2019 during the National Dex drama), okay?
Playing games like monster hunter stories or shin megami tensei (very different games i know) has made sure i can never get through a mainline pokemon game again without being annoyed at how limited i feel
I still play the gba,ds, and 3ds games since they’re more fun than the ones on switch
ah a new installment in "scott half pays attention as his freinds infodump"
Eric has to be one of the most funny person I have ever seen. His jokes are absolute GOLD
I saw this video an immediately said, "Oh S*** this should be good"
New Scott the Woz episode
“YOU’RE NOT A POKEMON GUY!”
I just wanna see a Pokemon video from Scott in my lifetime tbh
0:49 My first Pokemon game was Ruby as well, but it was only because I found it in the grass during gym class outside lmao.
This js why you keep your cartidges in your bag
34:07 Pokémon pinball kicks ass, absolute fire game
If you want a hard pokemon experience simply turn the xp share off in an x&y playthrough
Hi Scott, if you don’t know where to start then definitely play Pokemon Emerald. You don’t have to be a pokemon fanboy to appreciate how well they managed to pull off an open world rpg on the damn GBA. Genuinely one of the best games/soundtracks on the console and in my opinion, a must play regardless of whether you grew up with it or not.
I haven’t had the pokemon itch scratched since HG/SS and replaying Emerald recently finally scratched that itch for me.
I love the chemistry of Scott and his friends
If Scott played Pokemon platinum id be the happiest boy on earth
20:41 actually, the exp. All was first introduced in Pokémon blue. It wasn’t in any games until Y .
Scott nuzlocking a Pokémon game would be a great charity stream
32:11 the ASMR starts
I’m surprised they didn’t go into the lore to Scott with the creation and arceus and all that
this is sick but the streets are begging for Eric explains Stardust Crusaders. i need him to talk about the funny dog
Intresting to see a pokemon video from scott. Pokemon is a big part of my childhood and im one of the guys who still play it even with the flaws of the recent gens. Despite of peoples hate toward scarlet and violent and bdsp. I enjoyed them.
Is Sam the beard dude on the far left? Whoever that guy is, his story of starting _young_ with Gen 3 and playing through gen 4 without friends to trade with (so i bought more than one version) resonated hard with me. Even came back with ORAS just like he did, and contrary to the "popular opinion" I think ORAS were fantastic, mind-blowing remakes. They were everything my small kid mind _imagined_ and _wanted_ Pokemon to be as I played it as a kid. It's what I DREAMED ABOUT. I REALLY wanted 3D pokemon that I could like pet or interact with and just bond with while I played the game. Granted, you always bond with your mons, but like bond with them _as a mechanic_ with a whole system where I can stand there and pet the mon I bonded with and loved and feed them stuff. Even if it's a freakin' Rayquaza.
(this was just the first part of a much longer, MUCH less safe-from-deletion rant post, which I will make separately in the interest of providing positive engagement. Assuming it isn't nuked from this comment section, the full comment will be posted as a separate comment from this one in a manner of seconds.)
Thats Eric, then Sam, Scott, Justin and Dom
25:17
“Jaguar”
“That’s a football team”
The Jags are cannon in the Scott The Woz-verse lfg
Well, to be fair, the Packers and the Titans (to an extent) are also canon in the STWCU
@jerrysgardentractorsengine2243
The Chargers, too, thanks to Luis Castillo
12:06 Eric you literally look like Diggersby
LMFAOOOO
Well I think we know what comes next:
The boys helping Scott play through Pokémon White or Black
You guys ever see the show Brandon Plays Pokemon from Easy Allies? These dudes should do that but with these lads. Thatd be pretty lit 🔥
Hearing them mention MySims at the start had me unnecessarily excited I adore MySims lmao
glad to hear scott is playing peak
I like the idea that this is an intervention
If he is actually serious with starting pokemon, I would have suggested either LeafGreen or FireRed for the gameboy advance. It's the 1st Generation but with the graphics & mechanics of 3rd generation. So it's still technically the starting point, but not completely dated.
How about Pokemon Emerald? Personally I prefer the story in that one to FRLG (but it's just opinion)
Now let me explain EVs, IVs, Abilities, Natures, and the different competitive tiers and metagames...
DAMN Scott’s absolutely hammered in this one, I love it
"How do you feel about monkeys?"
"Sam doesn't like DIGGERSby"
Guy we are getting *dangerously* close
Technically, Applin isn't the apple. It's the worm inside the apple.
Ive played the pokemon games since yellow version. Since 2018 ive been a competitive pokemon tcg player.
I never thought it will come. Still waiting for the L button episode
This is a very cute idea for a video, kinda wish I had been in the room and now I'm editing this comment cause I want to see Scott actually play one and do a vid on it lololol
“Learn with Pokémon-“
“NO!!!!”
[Insert Scott RPG Comment Here]
wow, so scott just loves gen 5
8:50 No, that's a Bidoof.
The "grass owl" 😂😂😂😂
🎉 scott and gang!
You guys all play thu the pokemon series from gen 1 all the way to the last gen, and before every gym you all have to fight eachother!
Nuzloc optional
I feel like Scott should play several Pokémon games just to see how far he can get without looking anything up
I really hope Scott actually plays Gen 5
And gen 7
I started with blue, then yellow , gold and ruby right when they came out. Never got into anything after that but I did finish leaf green at some point.
Gotta learn them all !!!
It’s refreshing to see Scott be the most clueless person on the subject for once
The sheer amount of Pokémon content that we've been getting on Scotts Stash this year is, by all accounts, f*cking bizarre.
As for my experience with the franchise, my knowledge doesn't extend past having a friend over to explain the basics of TCG and watching everybody play the GBA titles on the bus while I was busy with Namco Museum and Driver 2 Advance
(This is the original comment I _wanted_ to make. Hello, reddit or 4chan or whatever, if some gawker screenshots this absolute trainwreck of a comment. I still mean every single word of it. I admit i'm drunk, but I would say much the same if I were sober, just more politely perhaps. Or I would not care enough to voice it at all.)
Is Sam the beard dude on the far left? Whoever that guy is, his story of starting _young_ with Gen 3 and playing through gen 4 without friends to trade with (so i bought more than one version) resonated hard with me. Even came back with ORAS just like he did, and contrary to the "popular opinion" I think ORAS were fantastic, mind-blowing remakes. They were everything my small kid mind _imagined_ and _wanted_ Pokemon to be as I played it as a kid. It's what I DREAMED ABOUT. I REALLY wanted 3D pokemon that I could like pet or interact with and just bond with while I played the game. Granted, you always bond with your mons, but like bond with them _as a mechanic_ with a whole system where I can stand there and pet the mon I bonded with and loved and feed them stuff. Even if it's a freakin' Rayquaza.
It took me back to my resurgence with Pokemon, and reminds me how conflicted I am with the games as they are now. On one hand I love the new designs, and the obvious desire and intent to make strides in open-world and QoL design. I love the _concept_ and what is _there_ of the new regions, as well as what they are based on. It's fresh. It's not another Japanese region. It's international and suggests a whole _planet_ of Pokemon and trainers all with their own unique cultures based around the same core thing that all human beings and Pokemon in any part of the world have in common: each other. Battling. Training. Befriending. Learning. (Possibly more suspect things in ancient times but that's true of real life too.)
On the other, whoever is up in Gamefreak corporate setting release dates and wanting yearly releases regardless of polish or quality NEED to go. By literally any means necessary, legal or otherwise. They are actively advocating for the degradation of their own brand in the name of money in the short term. They're old farts who have not a single care for the people who actually consume their products. They are the cynical side of Capitalism that is so popularly shat on and generalized nowadays. If they would just let the actual developers take as much time as they _needed_ to polish and ACTUALIZE a fantastic, passion-filled game like it is obvious they WANT to make, they'd make exponentially more money, just a little later down the line, but the old shrivs are incapable of thinking big-picture. They're like children. People are stupidest in two points in life: pubescence and the "early old person" phase where you are crotchety, bitter and cynical but you haven't manifested the wisdom and perspective to realize the lessons live taught you. That or they're so rich they cannot see beyond their coffers and need to have an unfortunate accident happen to them. If this comment gets deleted, it's because it's in the interests of some ultra-rich money hoarder to suppress this idea so that he isn't torn limb from limb in the streets by the people who cannot make a living in the system they have manipulated to give THEM more capital at the cost of everyone else's jobs.
Rant aside, the DEVS have heart. They have talent. They were probably Pokemon fans growing up. Their situation is a lose-lose. They cannot put the care they want to put in due to arbitrary, counter-productive time restrictions, and they cannot whistleblow how they are being treated because they'll lose their damn livelihoods. The obstacle is not a lack of passion or skill, it's a lack of time imposed on them by some prunes who sit in offices and talk about profit margins and focus groups, all the while having never played a single goddamn video game in their entire lives. They are poison. They are not worth the budget they give people or the profit they bring. If they didn't do what they do to poison the well, the industry would make even MORE money because there would be good games out there that people would be buying like HOTCAKES purely based on sheer quality, fun, and/or narrative richness. The shortcuts are not making them the maximum profit, they are making quick, easy stacks. They're wrinkly idiots. They're fools and they need to go.
That said, it is not as simple as "put the fossils to sleep." I don't know what the solution is. I don't think it's okay to just boycott the entire franchise if you REALLY love it and want to play; that hurts everyone _under_ the perpetrators too, including the overworked artist or programmer who works on the series despite the dystopian work environment out of pure love for the series and what it means to them. Don't talk to me about "means to an end," that's bullcrap, and I will NOT advocate for the innocent or the hard-working to suffer. Hell, not all or even _most_ old people need to be targeted and besmirched for the actions of a few dinosaurs in fancy suits sitting at a conference table somewhere.
I think the attack should be towards the people at the very top. Like _specifically_ the ones who profit but have no idea about the franchise they are running, why it is successful, what the customers who are _giving them all their money_ want, and do not care to learn ANY of these things because they're rich, detached business types who care NOTHING for WHAT they sell, just that it does. Capitalism is not the issue; the issue is PEOPLE. THOSE people. The wrong type of businessman. The quick-buck types. The optimize profit without understanding what is actually behind their company's success types. May they all have gruesome, fatal, viscera-soaked car accidents on live TV for me and a million others across the world to CACKLE at.
ORAS might be the best ones to play. you get fairy types and megas, and Hoenn is a good region. the Let's Go games might be the most visually appealing ones
I was hoping to see scott witness 252+ SpA Choice Specs Tera Fairy Beads of Ruin Flutter Mane Fairy Aura boosted Moonblast
I wouldn't say Black and White are the best entry point into the series mainly because you're limited to only gen 5 Pokemon, which isn't the best for experiencing the iconography and flexibility of teambuilding. I'd actually say that FireRed and LeafGreen are the best entry points into the series because Kanto is both incredibly open and decently challenging, something that most games in the series have a hard time balancing.
X/Y and Sword/Shield give you 4-500 available Pokemon most of which are available really early on, but both games just don't have the difficulty to support it. Scarlet and Violet is the only other Pokemon game with the closest mix of both, but unfortunately we all know how that runs