That said I have not tried playing it, but I think it looks like shite.

-BUT-

I am one of the BIGGEST Pokemon fans you will ever meet. I was still playing my GBC and Pokemon Crystal up until a few years ago when a young lass "borrowed" it from me. Permanently.

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Anyway. I have no idea why and I haven't played it but think Pokemon Go sucks and I won't play it, almost 100%.

I'm sorry, but you're an utter moron.

Criticising something and stating that you almost 100% won't play it when you have no idea why and have not tried it is just silly. It's even sillier when the game in question is free to play - you have literally nothing to lose by giving it a try.

If you're as big a Pok�mon fan as you say, you would love this game. No, the graphics aren't anything special. No, the game isn't perfect and no, the servers aren't anywhere near capable of handling the demand at present. Yes, it's a pretty minimal 'game', even as far as mobile games are concerned these days. However, the experience brings as close to life as possible (to date) everything every 20-something Pok�mon fan has dreamed of since 1998-9. Walking round with AR on, hunting down and catching a wild Pok�mon that you find in the actual park near your house is a magical, childish experience.

It's silly, it's brilliant, and you're an idiot for dismissing it in the way you have.

So, Stiltzken, I am an UTTER MORON for not liking this game, and having my own reasons, and an Idiot for dismissing it the way I am?

It's one thing for children to be playing this furiously, but the hundreds of thousands of young adults who absolutely REFUSE to grow up have no excuse.

Okay, DT. You don't like Pok�mon Go. I think everybody knows this. I think everybody outside of CoN probably knows this by now too. Please do us all a favour and calm down.

DT, you are doing what you seem to do fairly often on these fora - presenting a zealous, dogmatic rhetoric which devolves into tangential arguments as soon as your initial premise is challenged. It isn't big or clever, and whilst it makes it largely impossible to argue against you, it doesn't mean you are right.

For the record, I did not call you an utter moron and an idiot just for disliking this game. I would never insult somebody purely because their opinion differs to mine. I called you these things because you purported to be an avid Pok�mon fan, yet had dismissed this game without ever trying it. Even more so, you were actively railing against it with a passion. You had a preconception before you came to this game and this conversation and nothing was ever going to change your mind. That is foolish, and I feel sad for you.

TheEvilEye is correct - you are entitled to your opinions about this game (as are we all), but it isn't appropriate to divert the thread onto issues of global politics or to make such allegations against people.

Oh, and it's Stiltzkin. If you're gonna call me out directly, have the decency to get my name right. Ta very much.



TL;DR?

Wind your neck in, calm the f*** down, and stop babbling vitriolic, inane shite at everybody. Thank you.

I won't respond again, because I don't want to divert and disrupt this topic any more than I've already helped to do. I respect your decision to dislike this game, please respect our decisions to like it.

While I appreciate the opinions on the subject of Pokemon Go and everyone is free to like or dislike it (say whatever you want about it here, I know it doesn't float everyone's boat!), it is highly unfair to equate this game to the masses not caring about the larger issues of the world.� People are more than capable of feeling, thinking, and caring about other issues while also capable of playing games, living their lives, and everything else.

It is completely great for you to have the opinions you have, but please keep your opinions about the state of the world for other topics that relate to it, or create your own thread about it.� I would rather not this devolve into bickering over something completely unrelated. And yes, Pokemon Go players are a separate, non-related issue to the problems in Turkey, France, Police profiling, and other world issues.

I don't think it is highly unfair to relate, not equate, this game to the masses of millennials who very clearly are living in a delusional state of ignorance. You over-estimate 'people', which is wonderfully naive. And that isn't an insult. I'm glad you can so easily defend people you don't know and seem to think highly of them as a whole.

So, I apologize for getting the topic off track but if I came flying in here calling you a moron for liking the game and all the while, justifying my insults and trying to make the argument about right or wrong, while never asking you why you liked the game so much, would you not have been upset?

And I still don't see anyone offering a substantial reason for liking the game. Other than it's fun. Which is great. It's okay to have fun with it. But that doesn't mean the game itself is good (it isn't) or that this phenomenon, as it's being called, is anything more than mostly lonely, irresponsible young adults who haven't gotten over their traumatic childhood experiences.

And I will flat out say that yes, especially millennials, are incapable of thinking about issues in the world while playing videogames, since that is whole reason behind videogames or other mediums of entertainment. Escapism. It is to forget about the issues happening right in front of us.

Why I am worked up about Pokemon Go! is that it has taken it to the next level. This is death of Western Culture. Our government is PRAISING the Islamists in Turkey right now for restoring a non-existent Democracy.

But there is a Farfetch'd at my local Wal-Mart, so I gotta go.

ANYWAY. I'm fairly sure I'm reaching the end of my run with this game as it has begun to feel quite a bit like a grind to get any experience now that I've hit level 20 and caught most of the pokemon I've ever had any attachment to. Unless some big update happens that adds trading or a trainer vs trainer real-time battle system, or at the very least, legendary pokemon start showing up, I'm pretty much burnt out already. Especially with the added frustration of the step-locator glitch and how frequently the servers have been overwhelmed for hours at a time. Still, it was a really cool experience to see how many people were willing to group and form hunting parties or hold gyms and draw lines in the sand about who belongs to what team.

A bar not too far from where I work is a gym and they offer a free pint to anyone on whichever team holds the gym at midnight on designated nights. I know a lot of businesses around here have leveraged the game to increase their traffic into their stores but this was one of the more brilliant ways to draw a crowd of pokedrunks. It lead to some pretty hilarious Mystic vs Valor drinking games. (We left Instinct out because they're basically the Hufflepuff of Pokemon Go.)

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I'm going to not bother with the idle sociological hypothesizing and continue to assess whether I want to play Pok�mon Go on my own personal basis.

Also, investors are idiots.

I had a coworker actually tell me the same thing. That has a lot to do with why I started and why I've stopped for now. As it is. The game just kinda sucks atm. But updates can kill a game also instead of making it greater. I was a runescape guy for years and I watched as two updates pretty much destroyed anyones appeal to play that game. Thats why I'm crossing my fingers. I'm hoping the updates are good. But know they can also be bad.

Or in the case of Bethesda, they make a good game with horrible glitches a good game with... bad glitches, haha.

We had a guy get fired over the game a few weeks ago. We work in a "sterile" environment (no cell phones, no laptops/tablets, nothing in your USB port other than the mouse and keyboard the company provides, etc). Fella was trying to catch something on the main floor where most of my department work with sensitive information.

Well, well, well. Looks like Pokemon Go! was just a test-run for the Let's Go! games. I was right in that Go! was an unfinished app that could hardly be called a game.

I knew there was something more to it. At least it's free.

I held out and now we have a remake of the first two Pokemon games in pretty much the same engine, with the same interface.

Don't hurt yourself patting yourself on the back, lol. It still might not be your tastes but PoGo is a wildly different game than it was when it was released. It's still got some really rough parts to it but it's far closer to a real game now than it was two and a half years ago.

You know I'm still playing as we're already friends. I finally just got Meltan yesterday. There are a couple players who sometimes crop up in Discord, they'll likely see this thread again at some point.

Still playing! 3968 9472 7918 if you want to add me, I'll send you some gifts!