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Jranation on 15 July 2016

Seriously this is just getting tooo AWESOME!!!! Especially with all the shit things that have been happening in the world and especially in America.



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KLAMarine on 15 July 2016
COKTOE said:
Soundwave said:
Happy for Nintendo's success ... but that ... eh, I kinda cringed watching that. Like, life priorities?

I feel much the same. I mean, good for Nintendo and all. But man....it's a bit fucked up to see people behaving like this. And all the talk around here: It's a huge success, it's a phenomenon, the money, the money! I notice very few, if any users talk about how good it is as a game. I will say it again at the risk of alienating myself from the Nintendo hardcores on VGC: It looks crap to me. Not the worst thing ever or anything, but crap, with a quality to popularity ratio that may be the most out of whack in human history. Love you! :)

Considering it's free, it's really hard to complain about any flaws. Makes for something to do when you're out and about.



Jranation on 15 July 2016
the_dengle said:
Soundwave said:
Happy for Nintendo's success ... but that ... eh, I kinda cringed watching that. Like, life priorities?

"Life priorities" -- guy with 15,000 posts on a video game forum

 

Haha lol! 



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COKTOE on 15 July 2016
KLAMarine said:
COKTOE said:

I feel much the same. I mean, good for Nintendo and all. But man....it's a bit fucked up to see people behaving like this. And all the talk around here: It's a huge success, it's a phenomenon, the money, the money! I notice very few, if any users talk about how good it is as a game. I will say it again at the risk of alienating myself from the Nintendo hardcores on VGC: It looks crap to me. Not the worst thing ever or anything, but crap, with a quality to popularity ratio that may be the most out of whack in human history. Love you! :)

Considering it's free, it's really hard to complain about any potential shortfal

I SO want to jump down the crazy rabbit hole that is appearing before me right now, but I'll leave this one be. I will only say that exonerating it from being critiqued on the basis that it's free is one (valid) way of looking at it.



- "If you have the heart of a true winner, you can always get more pissed off than some other asshole."

V-r0cK on 16 July 2016

I'm all for this and happy for Nintendo but if this kind of stuff will cause constant traffic jams and such then that's not cool.



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SvennoJ on 16 July 2016
Jranation said:
Seriously this is just getting tooo AWESOME!!!! Especially with all the shit things that have been happening in the world and especially in America.

That's probably part of the reason it's such a success. Something to bond over that's not another tragedy. Even any normal event is usually tied to a charity for a horrible disease or event, plus planning, effort etc. Now here's something for free with no strings attached. Go have fun together and leave all the baggage at home. In a sense Pokemon Go makes the terrorists lose. Instead of scaring people into hate and staying at home, they're all having fun outside.

That video looks like close enounters of the third kind is descending into Central park, crazy.



the_dengle on 16 July 2016
Illusion said:
This is the second time now that Pokemon has become a fad to the point that it has impaired people's basic reasoning capabilities (the first time being 1999 when entire playgrounds were emptied during recess as kids huddled around in groups trading Pokemon cards).

I'm no historian, but I can't think of a past fad that has managed to come back in a nearly identical form and become this popular again. I mean, there aren't even new Pokemon, these are just the original 151, right?

Star Wars has done it three times.

However, generally once something has achieved massive, multi-generational appeal spanning several decades, it is ok to stop calling it a fad.



ice on 16 July 2016

lmao I love this game



KLAMarine on 16 July 2016
the_dengle said:
Illusion said:
This is the second time now that Pokemon has become a fad to the point that it has impaired people's basic reasoning capabilities (the first time being 1999 when entire playgrounds were emptied during recess as kids huddled around in groups trading Pokemon cards).

I'm no historian, but I can't think of a past fad that has managed to come back in a nearly identical form and become this popular again. I mean, there aren't even new Pokemon, these are just the original 151, right?

Star Wars has done it three times.

However, generally once something has achieved massive, multi-generational appeal spanning several decades, it is ok to stop calling it a fad.

I don't think the prequels were ever very popular.



Keybladewielder on 16 July 2016

Vaporeon, ha power. Would Flareon or Jolteon cause this kind of meltdowns?