Favorite Moments in Video Games

[Ditchy McAbandonpants]

Warning: Slight tangent, here.

some guy: Interesting how you should mention Pokemon, actually, because my friends and I have been discussing a very similar issue just recently; is it just me, or have the Pokemon plotlines been going a little too far recently? I mean, I understand the fact that the writers and designers are always going to want to throw in some new cool, rare and powerful monster, but the more you increase the stature of your legendary beasts, the less and less plausible it seems that said beast should happen to get caught by a ten-year-old girl in a short skirt and a beret. I mean, it was already somewhat silly to have the protagonists of Pokemon Red capturing Zapdos, the mystical thunder bird few humans had ever previously glimpsed; come Pokemon Diamond, where our prepubescent heroes are now taking on Dialga, the Pokemon who created time, it's starting to get ridiculous.

Nothing, however, literally nothing, can possibly top Diamond/Pearl's rarest Pokemon, the one you can only get from special Nintendo events; Arceus, the "Original One" spoken of only in ancient lore, from whom all the universe was born. That's right, boys and girls, come to the Nintendo roadshow and you can CAPTURE THE GOD OF ALL POKEMON. Give God pretty ribbons, and enter him in the Pokemon contest! Take God into the fields, and battle him against Pidgeys for EXP! Feed God berries and tasty cookies, so he'll grow to love you! Just don't feed him sour ones, though, or he might get mad and decide to erase the very fabric of your being with sheer force of will.

Needless to say, I'm eager to see how they go about topping this one.