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The Top 7 - Fruitless Endeavors

The most insulting rewards for the biggest tasks in gaming

Words: Justin Towell, GamesRadar UK

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It takes about 80 hours to beat the Elite four and claim your crown as champion Pokemon trainer. Then you'll need to do some clever trading/buying/soul selling to catch all of the game's Pokemon, which is probably as big a task if not greater. And then you must do the same for all the old pokemon from other regions. 

When you do finally complete your Pokedex and wait for something special to happen, nothing does. Nothing.

Now, we wouldn't say you've wasted a huge chunk of your life because we understand how important this gaming achievement is to anyone who considers themeslves a serious gamer. Or a seven-year-old. But… it would have been nice for the game to recognise it. Put it this way, if the game itself doesn't congratulate you, who else is going to? Your girlfriend? Er... she left days ago.

You did notice, didn't you?

 

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5 Comments
CuddlyBomber - 29 days 9 hours ago
God DAMN that Luigi! The number of times I tried to get that star are... well... I lost count!
Manny-Faces - 29 days 7 hours ago
nice colossos vid i still need to beat it lol :D
purpleshirt - 29 days 5 hours ago
my friend used hax to fill his pokedex
and i was like siiiick now i can see what proffsor oak says in eternia city
good job!, im happy
now go fuck off
was pretty much the gist of it
so im happy i decided not to sell my soul to that guy on the internet who promised me arceus in return.
really happy
slymaster - 23 days 12 hours ago
it only took me one day to beat the elite 4 and i got it the day it came out. started the next day and beat it around 11:00 pm never got complete pokedex (who realy does not like they give you any thing)
msfootball66 - 23 days 6 hours ago
haha its called cheats when i was little i got pokemon red and i just used cheats but im not really sure wat diamend and pearl are
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