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Creative Arts and Media => TV and Video => Video and Traditional Games => Topic started by: Trixsie Vixen on July 15, 2016, 03:15:37 PM
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Love it or hate it, if you want to talk about Pokémon Go, this is the thread!
Any tips, please share them.
For example: I heard if you ignore the first 5 Pokémon Pickachu appears. Can anyone confirm or deny?
GO!!
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I think this would be the only reason for me to ever get one of those 'Smart' phones :P
I don't have one, and don't plan on having one. But if I would, I woudl get Pokémon Go a.s.a.p. XD
So other than that, I can't really give an honest opinion on how it works or the like, but I understood it's for free?
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I can't confirm what you've heard Trixsie, but that sounds really cool! I believe if you have a pokemon trainer club account you get a pikachu, but I'm not entirely sure.
I've been having fun with this game and I just wish I had better service in the area I lived so I could play the game while going for a jog. So far one of the best tips for leveling I've heard is to hoard a bunch of low level pokemon and get all the candy you need to evolve them after obtaining a lucky egg. Supposedly gives you a boatload of exp
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Yes Ventus, it is free! I don't play myself, but my boycub is hooked! So I'm like a co-pilot or something XD
As for smart phones, I resisted for ages too until I wanted to make an Instagram account, then the madness began...
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That is awesome, nice initiative. That it's free, I mean ^^
boycub? Co-Pilot? xD You gotta explain :P
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Lol, I refer to my children as cubs on TFF. Since I have boy/girl twins I refer to them as my boycub and girlcub.
Co-pilot = unlucky assistant/driver/wi-fi hotspot.
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It's a pretty nice game although my whole house hold got it which is annoying as hell. It was better when it was just me and my brother...
Also I don't like that's some people who are getting hurt are blaming the app when they're the ones not paying attention in the first place.
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I love playing pokemon go, it gets me out of the house and exercises that bad ankle I broke in late 2015. In truth I feel bad for the team right now because they have about fifty people or less trying to deal with all the server downtime/bugs/glitches. Makes my blood boil a bit when people get frustrated over the lack of functionality even in knowing they have such a small team to work with.
There hasn't been any injuries in my town yet, but I fully expect there to be some sooner or later. Glad to live in a spot in which people come to late at night to throw down lures, all I have to do is go downstairs and walk a few feet. Growlithe by far is one of my favorite to have, unfortunately they are a little hard to catch for me.
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To Trixsie: Oooh, didn't know you had twins. That's pretty cool! :D
But that makes a lot of sense to me then what you wrote x3 Cool!
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Ughhhh I think the pokemon go servers are down after they opened up in most of Europe x_X
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I've got friends who are playing it and they basically never play games (well maybe a little Candy Crush). I'm really amazed how huge it has gotten so quickly!
It seems to bring people together.
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Definitely. I went to a meet up on Friday and yesterday, it was really packed I saw some furries too (wore tails or ears).
I got some Valor stickers and pins. I might get a shirt this week (as they said they would have more designs next time), but I'm not sure.
Plus I leveled up, and got higher CP Pokemon which was cool.
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If it wasn't for the fact that I made the enormous mistake of getting a Windows phone, I'd probably be running all over the place to try and catch'em all by now.
On a possibly more related note, there was an article related to Pokémon Go in the local newspaper not too long ago.
Apparently people kept littering all over the place while playing, so someone made and placed a Pokémon-themed trash can by one of the stops.
And that was somehow extremely newsworthy.
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It feels bad that people need a "Pokemon" motivation to go out of their house. And still they do look mostly in their phones, not paying attention to anything around them (saw one of them fall down after hitting a car stopper. Fell like a puppet). Also, I guess everyone saw this video where people drop cars on the road to catch rare pokemon in the New York central park (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsiJCQSmvk (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDsiJCQSmvk)). What a brave new world.
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Yes, how awful that a large group of people flocked to an area to achieve a similar goal despite competition between teams and whatnot. Not like that doesn't happen with concerts or other social events. How awful it must be that at the very least more people are going outside, even if it is due to motivation from an app. I'm sure nobody is gaining valuable social experiences based on this phenomenon.
As for people not paying attention, there really should be a disclaimer at the very least. Maybe people will read that. Clearly the app doesn't try its best to sway people from playing and not paying attention every single time the app is turned on.
(https://scontent-atl3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/13907158_1095413827193605_7043987004256549580_n.png?oh=ffdd2ad59c16157f948d592062942493&oe=5855988A)
I'm sure one day Niantic and Pokemon will release a notation of the dos and donts while playing. Just a hunch though.
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Yes, how awful that a large group of people flocked to an area to achieve a similar goal despite competition between teams and whatnot. Not like that doesn't happen with concerts or other social events. How awful it must be that at the very least more people are going outside, even if it is due to motivation from an app. I'm sure nobody is gaining valuable social experiences based on this phenomenon.
If it was sarcasm, I did not understand it. Language barrier + unability of the screen to transfer intonation.
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It was clearly sarcasm.
Pokemon GO at least makes an effort to tell people to not do stupid crap while playing the game -- something it shouldn't need to do because it should be common sense. If people are too distracted by a silly game to make sure they're not trespassing or walking into traffic or off a friggen cliff, that's their problem. People make mistakes, sometimes leading to injury or death, sometimes people like to invade people's property for trivial stuff without regard.
It's foolish to blame the game for that. This sort of crap happened long before the app came out.
Years ago, some teenagers trespassed my yard one night. They jumped on our trampoline (and possibly did other unmentionable things) and left a used condom on it. Should I blame the trampoline for that? Of course not! It's the kids being morons, having a personal excuse (which could be anything) to trespass and having no care what the property owners think.
Anyway, I've yet to play Pokemon Go. I don't have a smartphone with service and my tablet doesn't have a back camera. I'd like to give it a try if I ever get the chance, but I doubt I'll get super into it. I've been a Pokemon fan since I was a little kid and I would have loved it if it came at an earlier time, but I've had very little interest in gaming in general as of late.
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There is one difference between children trespassing the yard and leaving a condom there (Seriously? How did they even get one before 18?). This is a fault of their parents, who did not tell them that there is such a thing as a private property, and that it should not be approached/touched/used/etc. People who do run for pokemons, trespass areas, leave their cars on the roads are adults, not children. President of Israel is one of the players, by the way.
There is a difference between crowds on the concerts and on the streets. Because people gathering for concert paid their money, they are located on a special territory, and they basically are not an obstacle for anyone. Things like this are organised, with high levels of security. With such pokemon obsession, thing how easy a suicide bomber can perform his job by shouting "PIKACHU" in a park?
Overvaluing a bunch of pixels is another state of consern to me. Entire region of South Korea had been invaded with tourists when it came out that Pokemon GO works only there. Central park - no comments. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9JGd4uLVI (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gn9JGd4uLVI) - A guy in Russia hits two TVs worth 300 000 roubles (approx. 4 500$) while trying to catch pokemons.
You can always say that it is their fault they do not pay attention to what is happening around them. I know this may sound too offencive and - hopefully - I may be wrong, but we overestimate the amount of control most people have over their wishes and thoughts. Call me Jack Tompson fanboy with all this "games are bad" stuff, but hey - this time it is actually not far from reality.
And remember, kids: Don't pokemon and drive.
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With such pokemon obsession, thing how easy a suicide bomber can perform his job by shouting "PIKACHU" in a park?
I don't mean to be offensive but...
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
I'm sorry but do you realise that's not how people play Pokemon Go and that would raise some eyebrows? I mean come on. That's just ridiculous.
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Does not seem ridiculus to me after this one: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=o3PCCFN65fY
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And yet the video only shows about ten people run across of those 2000. It's not ridiculous someone would get excited playing a game, even if their excitement is in error.
To explain, the screen capture reads as follows:
Panel 1: "Remember to be alert at all times. Stay aware of your surroundings."
Panel 2: "Do not play Pokemon Go while driving."
Panel 3: "Do not trespass while playing Pokemon Go."
Panel 4: "Do not enter dangerous areas while playing Pokemon Go."
So the people you're listing did not follow the damn warnings.
So sorry to prove you wrong, but I must say that the game has taken absolutely ever precaution it possibly can to prevent people from being stupid. To give you another example of this, there are instructions for using a car, and for that you have to take a test at an officially licensed location to acquire your driver's license. Yet people still crash and die driving. So tell me, do you think cars are bad for the erroneous usage by drivers?
As for your terrorist example, that's a hell of a stretch. First of all, the terrorist has to be a Go player and call out something actually visible in the area, which is server wide and visible to everyone. So not only does this guy have to sit around all day with a bomb strapped to his chest waiting for something people give a shit about to show up, but he also has to be sure there's a crowd of people to blow up to begin with.
Estimated daily visits range from 40,000 on a weekday in the winter to 220,000 on a summer Sunday.
http://www.centralparknyc.org/assets/pdfs/surveyreport_april2011.pdf (http://www.centralparknyc.org/assets/pdfs/surveyreport_april2011.pdf)
Central park is 33,889,680 square feet, which is roughly 3,148,454 square meters. About one square mile with some extra, which is three square kilometers with a bit extra. So basically, even if all of the Pokemon Go players are gathered in one spot when he exclaims what he's found, he's not going to net much more than ten or so people just like that Logan Paul dude did. By that standard the terrorist would likely get far more of a ruckus stirred by blowing himself up in a crowded Walmart full of people not playing Pokemon.
And to show you that South Korea was hardly complaining about the extra tourist traffic in Seoul, go ahead and read the article.
http://www.startribune.com/possible-glitch-sends-pokemon-go-players-to-s-korean-city/386771501/ (http://www.startribune.com/possible-glitch-sends-pokemon-go-players-to-s-korean-city/386771501/)
It was a **censor** field day for the companies in the area that the game worked. It never said people flocked in from other countries - because how would they even know that a Pokemon appeared there fast enough to even respond? Plus, if the game works where they live, I highly doubt anyone would bother. Seoul just had a good day for tourism in the area.
And people are fully in control of their own thoughts, feelings and actions - if they're dumb enough to ignore the warnings, everything they were taught as a kid, every safety course they ever received and defy common sense... well, there's nobody to blame but the individual. No inanimate object, game or application can be put to blame simply because the individual happened to choose to do something stupid. Texting and driving is another example of an instance where one cannot blame the item, and it is purely the person's fault for their poor choices.
The game isn't bad. If someone's willpower is so weak that they do something dumb just to satisfy a game, they are the problem.
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One of my sisters found a cat while playing pokemon go and she named her evee! X3 But i dislike the game because it's a very odd concept but if nobody's getting hurt i guess it's ok. It looks like a game that i would play for a while and forget about it and never pick it up again.
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I quickly read through all the responses, and this is my personal opinion after having seen people play the game (in real life) and also having played a bit myself (borrowing someone's phone to play it while walking with them):
I find it a bit silly that people only want to go out for Pokémon Go. Even to go as far as to avoid common sense. Besides not trespassing and other rules and laws that are already in place, there are some other issues as well. For example: Some places are dangerous at night, and I heard from a friend she actually had to go out with her friend, to make sure she was safe, as she wouldn't stay inside late at night because there was a Pokémon nearby that she hadn't caught yet(the area is dangerous at night).
On one hand I am happy people are walking more and going out more, because of this game. On the other hand, that's the same reason I'm a bit 'sad' about. If people can regulate when playing the game and when not, then it's awesome. However, most people only go out to play the game.
This is where my good experience came in. I went out together with someone who has this game. Now we already agreed and discussed before going out every time: Let's not focus on the game, but just have fun walking outside. During the walk we can actually turn the game on and now and again pay attention if any Pokémon are around, stops or gyms. And since it was regulated, we both had a very fun time.
Thanks to this, we also were able to catch some Pokémon he never caught before or came across (e.g. a Snorlax at a crossing).
So while I think the game is a cool idea, I think people in general are poor at taking responsibility and regulate when they play and don't play (obvious rules, warnings and laws aside).
Summarised: Game seems fun, but people should help each other to regulate how and when to play.
Just my opinion :P
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I'm curious, do you think the format will be adapted to other franchises?
I think there are hoards of potential players who just simply don't like Pokémon.
And what do you think might suit it?
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Oh probably. You see this happening with every type of game out there. As soon as a style of game has been created, other games will follow with the same style :)
I heard many people who never even played/seen Pokémon before even enjoy the App. I simply can't play, because I don't have a smartphone. I only use my phone for the rare call, and few texts xD
Digimon for sure :P
What about a furry-type based game?
Loads of various options.
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I'm fine with Pokémon GO, It's just- ah-
The rip-offs are coming in.
Anyone remember that kid's game? AnimalJam?
Yeah this was confirmed I think.
There's a freaking Pokémon GO with animaljam animals.
It sucks.
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I've never played pokemon before, Yet I like pokemon.
Hmm.
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I play it pretty casually. I am on it pretty religiously when I am out doing errands and other stuff, but I don't often go out just to hunt pokemon since I am generally too busy to venture out just for that. Level 12 right now with a smattering of random pokemon. I haven't really trained up a whole lot since I am saving my dust for pokemon with high IVs.
Oh, and Team Mystic for life yo.
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im a group admin for my towns community XD its great fun turns out there's this thing called outside and its not as bad as it looks ;)
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turns out there's this thing called outside and its not as bad as it looks ;)
So the rumors are true!
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turns out there's this thing called outside and its not as bad as it looks ;)
So the rumors are true!
yes, i mean it's still pretty bad but not as bad as it looks
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I got Pokémon Go on an iPad I'm allowed to borrow now.
Caught 40 diffferent Pokémon since I started playing, which was about 1,5 week ago.
I can't really use it that much, because if I am anywhere were I can't make use of free -and easily connectable- wifi, I can't play it.
It's fine, though. I found out I can walk around most of my town, because there's free wifi in a lot of places.
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I used to have Pokémon Go... then I found out that there is basically like 1 Rattata on my island and it's a 2 hour walk away.