Board 8 > Rate the VG Story Day 234: Pokemon Ruby&Sapphire

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Todays game is Pokmon R&S. How would you rate the story on a scale from 1-10?

You can still rate previous days games if you missed them, just write <game name><rating>. If you want to change your rating you can just specify that you are changing your rating. Nominations for future days are also welcome, nominate as many games as you like and I will get to all of them. Games need at least four votes to count for the list.

Previous Results:
Planescape: Torment - 9.85 (13 votes)
Clannad - 9.75 (4 votes)
Omori - 9.67 (6 votes)
Outer Wilds - 9.61 (22 votes)
Silent Hill 2 - 9.5 (20 votes)
Higurashi When They Cry - 9.5 (9 votes)
Deus Ex - 9.32 (12 votes)
428: Shibuya Scramble - 9.27 (9 votes)
Nier Automata - 9.25 (31 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky SC - 9.2 (20 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Trials and Tribulations - 9.19 (35 votes)
Last Window: The Secret of Cape West - 9.15 (10 votes)
13 Sentinels: Aegis Rim - 9.1 (14 votes)
The House in Fata Morgana - 9.06 (11 votes)
Yakuza 0 - 9.03 (13 votes)
Red Dead Redemption 2 - 9 (8 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater - 8.95 (31 votes)
Steins;Gate - 8.94 (9 votes)
Mother 3 - 8.91 (15 votes)
Umineko When They Cry - 8.89 (14 votes)
Zero Escape: Virtues Last Reward - 8.88 (21 votes)
Return of the Obra Dinn - 8.85 (10 votes)
Silent Hill 4: The Room - 8.83 (6 votes)
Suikoden II - 8.8 (11 votes)
Persona 3 - 8.76 (22 votes)
Grim Fandango - 8.75 (14 votes)
Xenogears - 8.73 (24 votes)
AI: The Somnium Files - 8.73 (12 votes)
Tales of Berseria - 8.71 (15 votes)
Final Fantasy Tactics - 8.67 (27 votes)
Metal Gear Solid - 8.67 (28 votes)
Pyre - 8.64 (7 votes)
Portal 2 - 8.64 (19 votes)
Bastion - 8.63 (12 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty 8.63 (32 votes)
Dragon Quest V - 8.6 (15 votes)
Yakuza: Like a Dragon - 8.58 (6 votes)
The Legend of Zelda: Majoras Mask - 8.57 (28 votes)
Persona 4 - 8.56 (32 votes)
Disco Elysium - 8.56 (17 votes)
Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance - 8.53 (18 votes)
Fate/Stay Night - 8.48 (12 votes)
Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic - 8.47 (16 votes)
Undertale - 8.45 (42 votes)
Mass Effect 2 - 8.44 (29 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky the 3rd - 8.42 (12 votes)
What Remains of Edith Finch - 8.41 (19 votes)
Chrono Trigger - 8.4 (41 votes)
Snatcher - 8.33 (6 votes)
Final Fantasy X - 8.31 (56 votes)
Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door - 8.31 (17 votes)
Final Fantasy VII - 8.29 (38 votes)
South Park: The Stick of Truth - 8.25 (18 votes)
Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus - 8.23 (6 votes)
Ghost Trick: Phantom Detective - 8.21 (19 votes)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor - 8.2 (10 votes)
Parasite Eve - 8.19 (9 votes)
Dragon Quest XI - 8.19 (17 votes)
Final Fantasy VI - 8.19 (43 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney - 8.19 (43 votes)
The Walking Dead Season 1 - 8.16 (22 votes)
Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney: Dual Destinies - 8.15 (17 votes)
Wolfenstein: The New Order - 8.14 (7 votes)
The Last of Us - 8.13 (35 votes)
Conkers Bad Fur Day - 8.11 (9 votes)
Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals - 8.11 (9 votes)
The Wolf Among Us - 8.11 (15 votes)
Horizon: Zero Dawn - 8.06 (18 votes)
Silent Hill - 8.04 (14 votes)
Portal - 8 (26 votes)
The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky - 8 (18 votes)
Xenoblade Chronicles - 7.98 (28 votes)
Hades - 7.96 (22 votes)
Tsukihime - 7.94 (7 votes)
Persona 5 - 7.92 (27 votes)
Life is Strange - 7.92 (32 votes)
Spec Ops: The Line - 7.9 (17 votes)
Bloodborne - 7.88 (20 votes)
Kid Icarus: Uprising - 7.86 (13 votes)
Psychonauts - 7.79 (7 votes)
Deadly Premonition - 7.77 (11 votes)
Final Fantasy IX - 7.77 (26 votes)
Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn - 7.75 (14 votes)
Mario & Luigi: Bowsers Inside Story - 7.75 (10 votes)
Silent Hill 3 - 7.75 (8 votes)
Professor Layton and the Unwound Future - 7.75 (6 votes)
The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind - 7.75 (4 votes)
Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors - 7.73 (32 votes)
The Sexy Brutale - 7.7 (5 votes)
Bioshock - 7.65 (24 votes)
Skies of Arcadia - 7.63 (15 votes)
Doki Doki Literature Club - 7.61 (28 votes)
Paper Mario: The Origami King - 7.6 (5 votes)
Celeste - 7.56 (26 votes)
Half-Life 2 - 7.55 (10 votes)
Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair - 7.51 (31 votes)
The Last Story - 7.47 (6 votes)
Mortal Kombat (2011) - 7.46 (13 votes)
Marvels Spider-Man - 7.43 (16 votes)
Tales of Symphonia - 7.42 (30 votes)
Earthbound - 7.37 (20 votes)
Mass Effect - 7.33 (29 votes)
Batman: Arkham Asylum - 7.33 (23 votes)
Zero Escape: Zero Time Dilemma - 7.27 (20 votes)
Tales of the Abyss - 7.25 (29 votes)
Hotel Dusk: Room 215 - 7.25 (12 votes)
Red Dead Redemption - 7.23 (11 votes)
Uncharted 2: Among Thieves - 7.21 (30 votes)
Resident Evil 4 - 7.19 (25 votes)
Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony - 7.17 (25 votes)
Mass Effect 3 - 7.16 (21 votes)
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots - 7.11 (23 votes)
The Stanley Parable - 7.11 (14 votes)
Super Mario RPG: Legend of the Seven Stars - 7.1 (30 votes)
Broken Age - 7.1 (5 votes)
The Last of Us Part II - 7.09 (16 votes)
Ratchet and Clank: Up Your Arsenal - 7.08 (6 votes)
To the Moon - 7.07 (7 votes)
INSIDE - 7.06 (16 votes)
Warcraft III (overall) - 7.06 (8 votes)
Devil May Cry 3: Dantes Awakening - 7.05 (11 votes)
Assassins Creed II - 7.04 (13 votes)
Final Fantasy VIII - 7.01 (31 votes)
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter - 7 (6 votes)

Nominate Game of Thrones: The Telltale series

I guess like 7. More interesting than "there's a mafia" but not terribly interesting or well executed save for a few individual moments

I'm counting Emerald in this ftr

7.5 counting ORAS

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Nominate Street Fighter IV

Dante's Awakening - 9

I absolutely love the ridiculous cutscenes and characterization of Dante and Vergil, and even Lady and Arkham. Simplicity works for it.

3/10

Its grandiose epic tone gives it more weight than it has any right having. Both villain factions are idiotic in their motives and you as a main character are just there cause you're the main character.

2

Bad

3.5

I miss "there's a mafia", it was a plot that made sense. From a purely worldbuilding standpoint, it's absolutely fantastic - taking the land reclamation environmental debate in Japan and expanding it to two conflicting teams taking the extremist ideologies of each side, yet showing a people entirely satisfied with working harmoniously with both land and sea is inspired. But it both doesn't play really well outside of Japan and it muddies up the whole "be the very best" quest. It takes what was a simple journey and story of growing up and self-improvement and turns it into a very straightforward hero narrative that you REALLY don't have any business getting into other than "you're here I guess" that seems like a side note to a less inspired retelling of the Pokemon narrative than either of the past two games. It's well-intended, but it's incredibly clumsy to the point of being laughable at times, and I'm more just disappointed that Pokemon COULD'VE really moved forward with the pieces of this story, but just... didn't. And continued to not.

3

I love this game, but as a story it's mostly just Pokemon again.

1

Snake5555555555 posted...

Both villain factions are idiotic in their motives and you as a main character are just there cause you're the main character.

This

At least RBY and GSC's minimalistic approach to storytelling didn't get in the way of what the game was all about.

There are bigger offenders later on in the series but I am always gonna give the RSE games the lowest score possible regardless when it comes to story.

3/10

3/10

I like Steven

More votes.

5.5

I liked the idea of a conflict that's more than one side against you but also against each other. Score is based on Emerald where it works best. Perhaps ORAS could bump it up a little bit with the postgame, but it's cancelled by returning to RS otherwise. It's not great, but most Pokmon games doesn't have that. I don't think the story got in the way of anything.

Paper Mario: The Origami King - 7.75

Couldn't choose between 7.5 and 8 so let's go with the Game Informer approach. What a pleasantly surprising game, especially going in with low expectations. Loved the ending.

this is indeed a pokemon title

4

5

It's my favorite Pokemon game

And also the dumbest plot of any villain in any medium, on part with Recess: School's Out

6, counting Emerald

2

it's a pokemon game lmao

I remember as a kid checking out because team magma and aqua were somehow a little more juvenile than team rocket.

3

Nominate Wind Waker

2.

Its just stupid.

3.5

It's a typical Pokemon story that does its world-building right. There are no notable twists and it's extraordinarily simple. Bad guys are bad guys to be bad guys. Protagonist is protagonist to be protagonist. Brendan is a jerk rival to be a jerk rival. There's zero depth beyond that, and both Team Aqua and Team Magma are nonsensical.

The world-building for Hoenn is the only reason it's this high. Other Pokemon games would score a little better, though not much, in part because they're less ridiculous.

3.5

Too much water.

Saying 'it's Pokemon' is a disservice to other Pokemon games honestly, RSE is uniquely dumb even among the series

4.5/10.

BlueCrystalTear posted...

Brendan is a jerk rival to be a jerk rival.

Is he? He's pretty friendly and the last time you fight him is around gym 3 IIRC?

Anyway it's a 3/10 for me. It doesn't make me angry like some bad stories do but it definitely isn't good.

brendan sucks but just to play as him ez

Yeah, Brendan is friendly and you only fight him 3 or 4 times, the last of which is between the 6th and 7th gym and still has him without a fully evolved starter.

too much water