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JacobAsmuthtoday at 5:37 AM1 replyview on HN

Fable can beat pokeon red in 50 minutes with only visual input. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ty_50J84fMY


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gamedevo37stoday at 5:52 AM

That is significant, but it seems to have had several issues.

> I love how it only manages to beat the game because it leveled up its Charizard to level 78. Effectively making it stronger than anything else in the main campaign. Everyone else was just filler to revive it.

> There’s a reason this is timelapsed - if you slow it down to .25x speed you’ll see it getting lost in the safari zone lol

> Deeply funny how this timeskip cuts out the 50 hours it spent grinding its shitty charmander to level 22 before Brock, skips from nugget bridge to rocket hideout, skips straight to Champion from Giovanni...really picking and choosing what to show, hey

Some comments mention how it is using strategies that young children use, like mindlessly grinding and then winning through overpowered Pokemon. Also indicates that Pokemon, at least some versions of Pokemon, is a game series that has mostly fake difficulty (fraudulent game design). But it is still impressive that it could get that far, with just visual output, since the domain in Pokemon is significantly complex, even if its world positioning is tile-based.

> For those who don't know, Claude was struggling to beat Brock one year ago in Pokemon Blue. That's considerable improvement

> @techytails18 it is impressive though it's able to finally beat the game. This kind of feels like an "answer by accident" type scenario though. I'm sure six months or a year it's probably going to be speed running it though. Doing this with no harnesses impressive.