I have honestly never seen the connection to gen 1, but I think it's pretty interesting, especially with the Pokemon. I remember people constantly comparing gen 1 and 5 Pokemon, but not these guys (especially ralts). Gen 3 really feels like Pokemon settled it's its format from then on.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I love a lot of the Hoenn Pokémon but it’s hard for me to not compare most of them to their Gen 1 counterparts. At least they aren’t all like that

@ivanvalentin7713

11 ай бұрын

I remember comparing gen 1 and 3 as well. In fact I myself have never heard of gen 5 comparisons to gen 1 I'll be honest with ya, maybe it was true they "settled" on a style from them on, but gen 2 was not only much smaller than the previous one but felt extremely novel at the time. It may seem crazy seeing as there's so so sooo many gens now but even back then people were already saying stuff like "Game freak running out of ideas bleh bleh" TLDR: It was the third generation dude. There was not a lot to compare to so anything that was in any way similar was bound to stand out

Shoutout to my level 40 blaziken when I was 6 and didn’t know how to switch out Pokémon🙏rly carried my team of lvl 6 wurmples and a torkoal

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Haha that immediately made me think of the one trainer in Morty’s gym on Gold/Silver who talks about how he and his Haunter trained through all of the seasons together.

I like how you not only talk about the games as if they just came out. But I also love how you let us know what was popular in the world at the time as well. Really puts a new perspective on the games for me.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I’m a very nostalgic person by nature so I feel like discussing the time period is important! I’m so glad other people tend to agree.

@Soafia

Жыл бұрын

I believe you mean "Really puts a new Paraspective".

That opening will forever be ingrained in my mind. Pokemon Sapphire was the first game i ever owned for myself.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Seeing Duskull appear is always a treat

Playing Sapphire when it was new was a very unique experience for me. I had just finished 4th grade at the time, and I distinctly remember Pokemon as a whole falling out of style around this time. While the first 2 gens were games I played alongside friends, gen 3 was more of a solo experience since Pokemon was seen as kind of a social faux pas. A lot of kids back then thought Gen 3 would be the last games because it just wasn't 'cool' to like Pokemon anymore. I actually suffered a bit of burnout around the time too, didn't really get back into the series until Platinum and HGSS.

I moved to Alaska (for a time) around the release of these games. Those sunny beaches and tropical environs kept me warm during those long cold winter nights... I also managed to carry my original team though each successive generation until finally returning home to Hoenn in the Gen VI remakes, that's where I ended up retiring from my own personal pokémon journey. Gen III Forever!

@JKLeScH777

Жыл бұрын

Dear Diary

My favorite generation of Pokémon. Such a beautiful region. Such great memories.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I really do like Hoenn

Gen III was my childhood, was obsessed with Pokémon sapphire as a kid.

Nice I am so excited for this video!

The intro to ruby/sapphire is so nostalgic that my finger twitched to go press A to skip the intro and load my save. There are a lot of fun things to learn about this gen from listening to the creator's interviews. For example, he really wanted this game to feel completely new and refreshed since people apparently complained that gold/silver was too similar to red/blue. The only reason we see any of the old pokemon is for balancing reasons; there wasn't enough variation in the new stock to justify a complete separation from the oldies.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Wow, I feel like these are much more similar to Red/Blue than Gold/Silver ever were. Even in name alone

@donutmonk

Жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre Parallels are definitely there! It was meant to be the red/blue of the new times, new tech, new graphics. If everything went as planned, there wouldn't even have been trading from the previous games into ruby/sapphire because it was meant to be it's own soft reset. Many of the designs reflect this too as he tried to make pokemon that pushed a humanoid form and made people question what could be a pokemon. It's all very fun stuff to look into if you're interested, especially the thoughts behind torchic's evolution line.

I've been playing Pokemon since Red and Blue. Until SwSh I ended up loving each generation of Pokemon. For the longest time I've never been able to single out a favorite but over the past couple of years my nostaglia for Sapphire and Ruby has really deepened and I'd say that Pokemon Sapphire is my favorite Pokemon game ever. I picked Pokemon Sapphire because sapphire is my birthstone. My top 5 Hoenn Pokemon are: Camerupt (I love it so much that it is my second most favorite Pokemon in the entire series), Grumpig, Claydol, Cacturne, and Banette. I distinctly remember when I first started the game being sorely disappointed that it did not have a day/night cycle like Crystal. I was even more disappointed when we couldn't go back to Kanto/Johto after beating the Elite 4. I love the music in this game so much. That legendary 7/10 that Gamespot gave it for too much water and too many trumpets feels like a personal attack against me. Hoenn's starters are ok. I don't have any strong feelings towards them and I don't have a favorite start among this trio like I do with others. They're all just super well designed. Sapphire is probably the Pokemon gmae I played the most and I will get into that more when we get to Platinum.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Even though the nostalgia for these games isn’t there for me, I think they’re still really fun games. It’s a nice middle era between classic Pokémon and the DS/3DS ones. Also, nice top 5 list. I always felt like I SHOULD like Banette more than I do.

“play “in da club” by 50¢ to get in the spirit. it was the no. 1 song that week.”this dude then proceeded to play it in the background 😂😂

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

It seemed like the only option ☺️

@chrisclifton192

Жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre solid choice my man.

15:40 Gamefreak: You want to see me do it two more times?

I do feel bad for having negative feelings towards the Hoenn region. I was 16 in 2002 and that was an extremely difficult year for me as my grandmother painfully and suddenly passed away, when Ruby and Sapphire released it felt like I was denied something sentimental since I couldn’t trade the Pokémon I had caught and raised while she was alive. I was resentful until I was able to inject those original cartridge saves over the 3DS eShop copies. Lately I’ve been trying to give RSE a second chance.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I can see that being difficult to get into the games if you’re going through a hard time too. I feel like my childhood mons are forever stuck on Stadium 2

@AkamexAris1023

Жыл бұрын

Missing out on the best games in the series. Understandable why you skipped back then

@Vasileva85

Жыл бұрын

@@AkamexAris1023 I didn’t skip them, I just couldn’t connect with them. I have to credit FRLG, XD, and Colosseum for drawing me back.

About to be a banger

Don't be sorry for the long intro. Love the whole dive into the rest of pokemon media at the time in addition to the actual games.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I personally think it’s very important. I wish I discussed this more thoroughly in past episodes actually

Nothing in my life has ever been more relatable than the "I didn't even bother buying Crystal and definitely thought I was too cool for Pokemon by the time R/S came out because I was busy playing Animal Crossing and Magic the Gathering" bit. That 90s kid life

@superilikeeggsyo

Жыл бұрын

Swap out "Magic the Gathering" with "Yugioh" and you have the late-90s kid life too lol.

Duskull in a top 10? I see you're a man of culture.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Top tier ghost right there

Your videos are nostalgic af and really well done. Under rated channel dude.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Why thank you!

R/S/E was my first Pokémon game and still my favorites to this day. :')

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Well like with Yellow and Crystal, Emerald will be getting its own episode ☺️

This was a great retrospective video! The timeline intro was great! hope to see a similar format for future retrospectives.

I just found your channel through your vintage TCG content, something VERY close to my heart since the GBC game first came out all those years ago. I'm at home recovering from an injury, and binging your channel has brought me a lot of joy

Wally catching ralts teaches the player of rarer pokemon in grass too. Also in the desert theres a trainer that says his sandshrew loves his sandwitches, it's cute.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

That’s a good point. It wouldn’t have the same impact if it was a Wurmple that you’ve been seeing 30 times

Really enjoying your Paraspective videos!

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Thank you! There are so, so many more to go

Awesome video, really enjoyed the context for the time that the games originally came out.

Your videos are literally amazing! It doesn’t matter if we already know the information, I love the way you set the scene & how you story-tell! Thank you man ☺️🙏🏼

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I appreciate that! I’m sure most people watching know more than I do, but there’s always that one piece of info that somebody may not know.

The Spy Who Loved Me is an awesome film. When I finally got a Gameboy Advance, Pokémon Sapphire was my first game.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Then you realize they have the exact same plot. It was meant to be

@ggrarl

Жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre "Nobody Does It Better"

I skipped Ruby and Saphire at first as well, until a friend of mine and I started playing the original Red/Blue because we wanted to be cool like the kids in Megaman NT Warriors (yeah). Then the remakes came out and that kickstarted Phase 2 of my Pokémon love and I went back to Ruby/Saphire.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing about FireRed and LeafGreen coming out but almost nothing about Ruby/Sapphire. It’s like I put blinders on for these back then or something

I’m with you on the #2 and #1 favorites. Love the content!

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Top tier ghosts right there

HECK YEAH I’ve been waiting for this video for OVER A MONTH

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I hope the month hype didn’t disappoint! 😅. But I appreciate that.

Gen 3 BABY! Can’t wait for the next part! ❤

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

This will be interesting, as I’ve only ever played R/S and FireRed among the whole Gen 3 era ☺️

As someone who was a kid during gen3 I do have the nostalgia for this generation. I appreciate the take of someone who was around during the original pokemania. Nice videos dude I hope you blow up in subscriber's just one will have to do for now through.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

It’s cliche but “every 1 counts!” Now if I could just figure out this algorithm…

Another brilliant paraspective :D I love these games

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Lmaooo in da club was a banger. I remember bumping that and crashing latios in ruby 🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Haha I was wondering if anybody played these games to the songs I feature

Love your video and love you bro :3 So high quality

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Haha thank you!

Really great video and series, I look forward to more. I’ve been playing Pokémon since age 7 in 2002, so I grew up with Gen 3 although I started with Gen 1&2 in 2002.

The paras line is underrated

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I would have to agree

great info and video! i love these games!

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Thanks!

Finally! A video of yours in which I am relevant. Mwahahaha. I actually had this name since 2003. My second ever online account name... and it stuck! Glad to see it's also your 10th favourite GenIII Pokemon! It's also a brand of insecticide here in Australia!

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Nice, Flygon is awesome. Possibly my favorite Dragon

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Forgot about Rayquaza 😅 Basically, Flygon is up there

@flygonbreloom

Жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre Don't worry about it. I'm glad to be around at all hahaha.

12:00 I was today years old when I realized the R/S intro was dew on leaves. I somehow never registered that before.

Ah Ruby, my first game. I still revisit Ruby and Sapphire often, and I ended up taking up Emerald speedrunning during lockdown. :) It's nice to take a look at it from the perspective of a younger self again.

@loulou3676

Жыл бұрын

Emerald speedrunning is so wild because it's like 99% standard Pokemon speedrunning stuff, 1% BE INSANELY GOOD AT THE FAST BICYCLE IN RAYQUAZA TOWER

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I’ve surprisingly never played Emerald

@thecatherd

Жыл бұрын

@@loulou3676 Sky Pillar biking is the stuff of nightmares honestly.

Played a lot this game when my mother bought me the Gameboy advance SP and the amount of masterball I farmed playing over and over this game was a lot

Love these videos ❤

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for keeping up with them!

If anyones wondering, many if not all gba pokemon fakes can still allow to trade with legit copies. Might not work with gamecube titles and time based events wont occur in RSE

Good old time clocks. By far my favourite kind of clock.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Sucks that it doesn’t matter all too much

Literally just found a fucking goldmine of content, thanks man. Keep pushing, more people are gonna learn about ya, and then you will have a fuckin mansion or some shit

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Haha 10/10 comment. Appreciate it!

6:56 the 50 cent instrumental In the background 😂😭

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

It’s synonymous with Ruby and Sapphire 😎

Damn, my most played and favorite Pokémon games!

Got a Blaziken tattooed on my thigh, my first partner!

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

That’s pretty badass. I love its design

These are the first pokemon games I played, so I have a lot of nostalgia for them. I do prefer Emerald though, it's just better

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I’ve honestly never even played Emerald!

A real movie buff nice!

Gameboy advance was dope

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I really haven’t played many GBA games. It was a weird time in gaming for me

Even though I have been playing since Red and Blue. 3rd gen was and still my favorite.

In da club was a slapper bro oh yeah I got sapphire

Ruby and Sapphire were excellent games. Blaziken is my favorite fire starter. Team Magma could be like Mad Max.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

In my opinion, fire starters keep getting better. Blaziken > Typhlosion > Charizard. Yeah I said it.

@Dublin.655

Жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre You'll hear no argument from me!

Haaaaaahaha you should definitely just catch a Shroomish

Every time you read off the back of the boxes you sound like the narrator for the half-life full life consequences videos

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Haha is that good or bad? I’ve been doing that stupid voice since the Bond retrospective. I can’t stop now!

Thank you

Dang forgot there was another pinball game 😂. Remember when this gane hit my BF went to reserve Ruby, but couldn't cause many already did before, so he ended up with Sapphire. Also remember how much he invested on getting Latias lmao, good times. Great vid as always.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Were there a lot of preorder problems back then? Interesting. And I haven’t played Pinball R/S yet but I haven’t heard many great things 😅

Do you have the full version of The In the Club Pokemon remix?

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

It’s on KZread somewhere ☺️

I was 10 when this game came out. Easily the best game update. I went from playing DBZ on my GBA to exclusively this game it was that good. And we didn't play games as much back then.

13:14 It’s pronounced ‘Kiooshoo’ 🙂

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Fair enough. I wouldn’t have any idea 🤷🏻‍♂️

this might be nostalgia goggles, but I really feel like the Ruby/Sapphire box art was inferior and um, maybe rushed, especially compared to Crystal.

@Zyklon_B_still_and_know_God

Жыл бұрын

Naw you right. The TCG style art was superior imo

@LiteDrift

Жыл бұрын

I completely agree.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Yeah I would agree with that but I’m not sure why. I will say that when I was getting the Groudon art to show, it’s literally the exact same pose. Crystal’s pose of Suicune is unique to that cover.

I can hear the brass instruments already

They were the best games for the Gameboy advance at that time.

3:e6 how fuck that is the biggest decrease iv ever seen in a series.

Still to this day, i play Ruby / Sapphire / Emerald with my brother as a regular basis. All the data from the secret bases of my friends from that time is like a time capsule from those days.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I’m the same way with R/B/Y and G/S/C. I’m actually playing Crystal (casually) again right now

@AdvanceAudio

Жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre you know a game is really great when you can go back to it and enjoy it, even if it's from 20 years ago.

Blazekin is also my favorite starter

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I think it’s a great line overall!

Even as a kid, I couldn't understand why types were still restricted to physical or special in gen 3. The limits of the old system were so staggering.

@enoyna1001

8 ай бұрын

I assumed the game internally classifies moves based on their name/assumed category 😂 Didn't matter anyway during in-game battles.

I have a stupid question for everyone. Are any of the standard top-down Pokémon games available as an iPhone app?

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Seems like it should be a thing

NOICE

*too much water*

@TheJinzoSpoon

Жыл бұрын

I was waiting for this!

Damn, you’re almost 40?!?

"Engage in intense multi battles with up to four friends!" So it's max 5 person multiplayer? You and 4 friends? Also Kyushu, not Kayushu :P

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Yeah that’s true, it DOES insinuate that five people will be involved. False marketing ☺️ As for the pronunciation, I just winged it.

Best gen pog

Did you say "the spy who loved me?" - I've never heard of that movie. Only "the spy who shagged me".

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

The Spy Who Loved Me is the legit Bond title for the book and movie that Austin Powers is parodying

No love for my boy Wailord

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

Wailord eh? I’d say I’m neutral on it.

@MeriadocMyr

Жыл бұрын

What about the shiny version? Big pink? He looks so happy to be there.

What’s everyone’s home console and why?

7.8/10 too much water

Yeah, gen 3 was when Pokémania was truly over and it shows. Didn't play them at all, honestly. Just played Emerald when I was 27 or so. The connection to gen 1 is interesting, it felt as if gen 2 was basically gen 1+, but gen 3 was the 1st time Game Freak made a game to stand on its own feet similar to gen 5 later.

You _would_ like Blaizeken Blaizeken started the trend of furry starters. Starter pokemon who evolve to look _exactly_ like a person wearing a suit. Its out of control! That grass kitty from Paldea, who evolves into a dirty furry, it broke my heart. I wanted a giant, leaf cat so bad. I blame blaizeken for all of it! Blaizeken was so popular, the pokemon execs went "wow, kids really love these stupid, furry-looking pokemon, who are basically just a person in a costume, clucking like a chicken. We need to have _way_ more of these. Anthropomorphic starter pokemon in every generation!" We need a cleansing fire 🔥 😫

Here to remind everyone that TamashiHiroka claimed that Gen III told a story about Japanese politics when it merely took creative influence from those ideas. The game did not make a political statement or tell stories about real Japan.

hey, do you need an editor? i find your videos, specifically the writing, intresting and worthwhile, but you seem to be struggling with some of technical aspects of video editing and presentation. if you're open to it, id like to experiment in working together.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I’ll be the first to admit that there’s plenty I still don’t know about editing since I’m basically self taught, but I’d still prefer to handle it all myself at my pace. I feel like I could absolutely use some help with the audio portion of it. That stuff doesn’t click with me.

No Absol as a top contender??? Interesting...

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I would personally put Absol in a B tier. It’s good.

@sirwolfy9372

Жыл бұрын

@@Paraspectre it's strong and have an amazing design and lore and surprisingly no evolution or baby/pre Evo either

Like with Pokémon Crystal, I also never got Ruby, Sapphire, or Emerald (you guys already know why). I just played Ruby on an emulator. I did, however, got LeafGreen even though I had the option to get Emerald during that time. I guess nostalgia won over me during that time.

to me gen 3 was a step back from gen 2 especially crystal. no day and night, no timed events, no animations from pokemon, only one region. compared to other games like golden sun it looks pretty rough too. for me it just felt empty, gen 2 felt like a living breathing world that i went back to even when playing ruby to check if i won at the goldenrod radio station or see the clafairy on mt moon.

I'm sure game freak intentionally did not allow gen 2 to 3 connectivity because they already planned fire red and leaf green.

@lilylopnco

Жыл бұрын

Nah, they had a decent excuse back then. The Pokémon were programmed so differently between Gen 2 and 3, it would've been a major hassle to faithfully translate all the data over.

@RudyGGames

Жыл бұрын

@@lilylopnco I felt the same at first, but after I saw Goppier make a home device and did the transfer by himself proves it's possible. This is what I watched. kzread.info/dash/bejne/m6KBxNawnbnSe7Q.html

@kylehennkens9578

Жыл бұрын

@@RudyGGames Well sure but at this point we have 20+ years of the games existing, with hindsight and newly accessible technology to aid making a transferring process possible I wouldn't doubt if Game Freak had to decide between adding features and put the time and effort together to hack together an adapter

@sand-attack

Жыл бұрын

@@lilylopnco I feel like randomizing stuff like abilitites, EVs, IVs, etc. wouldn't have been that difficult. But I don't know anything about programming so maybe not

26:35 - Your favourite pokemon is... Sandshrew... not Parasect...

@TigeriPlaysGames

Жыл бұрын

new here? welcome to the channel!

@traveller400

Жыл бұрын

its a mascot, not his favorite lol

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I had a handful of name/logo ideas when I started this of Pokémon I like and Parasect was the one I chose to go with ☺️

For al gore's rhythm

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

To Al! 🍻

FOURTH COMMENT

@johnzale7748

Жыл бұрын

Maybe fifth

@wicked396

Жыл бұрын

👏👏👏👏

A year without a Pokémon release. We could only dream of such a year nowadays Also. Sorry dude but this video was kind of uninteresting. Just a lot of stuff I already knew about the games.

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

That’s fair! It’s hard to surprise people with new knowledge for these 20 year old games but since I’m going through every game in the series, there’s gotta be stuff people don’t know, me included.

@EWOODJ

Жыл бұрын

What’s your point? Most Pokémon videos are essentially the same with nothing new. We’re here for his opinions on them.

get a new mic

@Paraspectre

Жыл бұрын

I’m on my third mic!