Is Pokémon Go actually fun?

Is Pokémon Go actually fun?

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Ingress is better

Not really.

Who care? Nintendo is going down wafter the amount of lawsuite that will follow case like this:
theguardian.com/technology/2016/jul/10/pokemon-go-armed-robbers-dead-body

Not that any of those are particularly good but fucking XKCD is awful. Not only is it forced it also doesn't make sense. Did he even play the game?

>In Wyoming on Friday, the game led a teenager to a dead body in a river. “I just got up and went for my little walk, a walk to catch Pokémon,” 19-year-old Shayla Wiggens told local KCWY news. The pursuit led her to a highway bridge over the river, where she jumped a fence to approach the water. She spotted two deer near the water’s edge, and then a black shirt and pants – a corpse lying prone in the water, 6ft to her left.
Fool, it's just a new Ghost Type pokémon: lyingcorpus. It's the only ghost pokémon to have Rest.

I'm not American but Jesus isn't it your own problem if you wander somewhere unsafe while playing a game?

>Wiggins said the discovery of a corpse would not deter her from returning to the game. “I might go get a water Pokémon,” she told CNN. “I’m going to try.

i like it. Casual, no doubt, but its not that bad. There's a lot of hate for it being a mobile/nintendo/not sony but when it comes to the game itself, its half decent. good for walks. Like playing tetris but with a reason to go outside.

There is exactly zero ghost Pokemon that can't learn rest

Im so triggered.

Its makes no fucking sense that someone would go over a bridge for a pokemon. It fucking shows up on your god damn map and all you do is tap on it holy fucking shit you can be a mile away from it and you just tap it to engage the pokemon.

In the middle of the street, shady houses, a pool of cancer. you dont need to fucking go anywhere near places like that.

These comics are so fucking stupid and dont make sense.

>comparing tetris to this trash

Even the knee has a pig nose.

And what the fuck is up with that stick figure comic? Gyroscope? Has the author been called out?

I wouldn't know, because it doesn't fucking work on my phone.

both casual games user.

You can't be that far away. Not even close. Maybe half a block instead, and they don't just spawn. You have to walk around to get near them.

Consider that by playing it you are providing Nintendo with so much tracking data that they'll single handedly be able to provide Google with the map data to run their unmanned vehicles and maintain maps without any street view cars. You are a big data social experiment and Nintendo is making bank off your ignorance

That penny arcade made me laugh
Send help.

>and Nintendo is making bank
>off your ignorance
>your ignorance
You said that as if it would make people stop if they knew about it.

More so a reason why the game is so shit. They're not making money off micro transactions so they don't need to put any effort into it. Merely by dangling the Pokemon carrot they've solved any financial problem they have for the next 20 years.

Not really. You could Google your daily routine on Google maps years ago and this isn't much different. This is just more up front with it

Its pretty much impossible to play unless you live in a big town or city.

The game is fun but why is the app so shit? Starts slowly, drains battery, can't idle in the background. Fuck off.

Do you have to carry the phone unlocked and running the app to hatch eggs?

It's funny sometimes. Big deal.

only if you're in a city. pretty much innawoods here and the nearest pokestop is ~20 miles away and no idea where the nearest gym is

>that xkcd strip

Fucking hell, you know the joke is shit when even Buckley makes a funnier one than you.

I doubt the XKCD is talented enough to make a believable Squirtle figure.

Ya, I mean you can do battery saving mode to turn the screen off when the phones in your pocket. Otherwise the app has to be on.
It's my main problem with the app

No, its not even a game.

All you do is walk around and then tap on the screen a bit. Its nothing but wasted potential. They could have added a basic battle system, trading and whatnot. But instead all you do is walk and tap.

yes

>set up doll to look like Pokémon looks in game
>person sees it without looking at their screen
>person believes they're hallucinating
Tell me which part doesn't make sense?

Loading screen warns players to remain aware of their surroundings. With how bad the servers have been it's impossible to have not seen it.

>The game is fun
Stop using buzzwords for one goddamn second and explain what's so entertaining about it.

Can you battle with other GO users?
Can you train your mons?
Can you pet your mons? Can you interact with them in any way?

Don't believe the hype OP.

The battling is the most turboshit load of bollocking I've come across.

In the comic the guy isn't hallucinating. The problem is that XKCD guy implies that people go around looking for pokemon through the AR camera. That's simply not now the app works. So either he didn't play it or he realised his shit joke didn't work and posted his anyway because his gay fans would defend it anyway.

>tetris
>casual game
It's like you've never played tetris.

>fun is a buzzword

You wouldn't believe how many people haven't figured out that you can interact with Pokémon outside of your radar ping.

There are failure states - not catching a Pokémon or not defeating a gym. It's an incredibly easy game that's reliant on RNG and grinding over any kind of real skill, but it's a game regardless.

>Tell me which part doesn't make sense?

Are you actually retarded? How impossible and expensive it would be to create a gyroscopic Pokemon that looks like a videogame character that hopefully the person sees with their phone instead of their actual eyes?

Jesus you dumbass.

Notice how you can't answer my simple questions.

>tetris
>casual
youtube.com/watch?v=8kqKOlcaZuI

>FUN IS A BUZZWORD

Of course there's not a bunch of technical words for this you retard, its a F2P AR phone game. You just hate anything the masses latch onto so you're trying to sound advanced on a imageboard.

Pathetic. Who gives a fuck what people enjoy for free. It's like the ultimate casual walking game.

NOOOOOOOORMIESSSSSSSSS

LOL
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Local strip club is one of the stops.

I guess the comic is just to ~smart~ for you, user. Thankfully ~I~ am more enlightened and educated so I'm able to fully appreciate it.

Man, my farts smell so good.

In Burgerland that might actually work.

In actual first world countries they would laugh you out of the courtroom.

Still can't answer my questions, I see.

>The Buckley comic has the fewest WORDS

What universe is this?

are you actually retarded? It's a joke. You know, "haha this thing to make Go players feel like they're hallucinating is funny because it's relevant and at the same time, very expensive and impractical to do."

>every joke involves practical, believable circumstances
>anyone involved made the argument that he sincerely does this

Every funny joke is a half-truth. This is inaccurate.

Unless, again, like I said, you are retarded.

We all know it's a joke the problem is that it's shit.

Because you're too lazy to google...

Can you battle with other GO users?
yes
Can you train your mons?
yes
Can you pet your mons? Can you interact with them in any way?
no

Happy now?

Are people actually calling them "mons" now?

Jesus fucking christ.

You think that's something?

I didn't even think that Buckley comic was unfunny.

>Really playing Pokemon GO
Are you stupid?

Fun is an easy out when you can't describe what specifically about it makes it fun for you. It either says that you're incapable of the critical thought to recognize why you like things or that you're mindlessly going along with it because it's popular.

You don't look for pokemon in Go through your camera.

You have to TAP on a pokemon from a bird's-eye view in order to make them show up in AR mode.

The joke doesn't work because that's just not how the game functions.

If it was how the game functions, that'd be hilarious.

>1988-2016
> literally 28 years old
> playing pokermans

I don't even play this shit I just get tired of seeing autists like you trying to pretend like they are some ultimate debater of facts on fucking Sup Forums. Its pathetic. Like, NEET weebo wizard pathetic. Its a f2p casual game and you want a bunch of reasons why it's great? God damn you're autistic.

>NOTICE HOW YOU CANT ANSWER SIMPLE QUESTIONS

>le ultimate enlightened Sup Forums user le hardcore gamer

hows that basement working out for oyu champ

>Can you battle with other GO users?
>yes


You cannot battle other GO users yet.

You can battle an NPC controlled version of their pokemon.

I find the stories about people getting robbed for their phones at 2 am because a gang of niggas put up a lure and then rob these kids with guns more funny than these comics

Oh boy, another thread.

Niggers can be fucking hilarious, honestly. I might be Sup Forums but I wouldn't wipe them out if given the option; they add so much fun to this world inbetween being filthy criminals

>A Bum Tickley comic with no words
What's happened

>about to go out shopping
>pokemon trainer servers down again
>have to starve until they're fixed

>Pokemon GO leading unsuspecting children to real life traps.

The fuck is happening?

see someone with go active, beat him up and take his money and pokedex

That's what they deserve for going out at 2 am. Night mons appear any time throughout the night, hey should go out at like 8pm, not 2 am.

>'mons

Notice how you can't respond to this simple retort, anonymous neckbeard?

Normalfags have destroyed video games.

Are you so autistic that you can't get the point?

I chuckled, but it's fair for you to think it was a bad joke.

still, to see something you expect to see through a phone at any stage would be confusing enough as is.

>tfw CAD is better than Penny Arcade now
>not because Buckley has improved, but because Tycho and Gabe have gotten so much worse

Even casual games can be taken seriously, like competitive Pokemon.

Wouldn't be the first time.

>There is exactly zero ghost Pokemon that can't learn rest
Oh sweet so Dusclops is OU now?

even if thats how it worked, in the first panel the guy doesnt even have his phone out. why would see a physical thing in real life and think "I need to take my phone out and catch that pokemon"

Jesus Christ you're just going in circles with your stupidity.

The joke doesn't make sense unless you have no experience with the game or think really, really simple jokes are funny.

Goddamn just move on

Buckley's art is so appalling.

I wish it would led me to a real life trap.

WHERE'S THE JOKE FU-

oh, there it is

>is walking actually fun

No, it's the same randomized collectathon bullshit with an AR gimmick
It's another fucking mobile fad that will be dead in three months

that one comic with the 6 reapers and one asking for a mccree was actually funny

>Started hitting the gym again after a four year hiatus thanks to demanding school bullshit.
>Start working out again last week, right as Pokémon Go releases.
>Have been active for more than 8 hours a day ever since.

Ninten-does what Michelle can't.

more

I go out catching 'mons pubis all the time.
;_; is what i tell myself

do my eyes deceive me, is that an actually funny ctrl-alt-del comic? No word bubbles either

XKCD is reddit
Buckley is 9gag

If I ride my bike will my eggs still hatch?

oldie but a goodie

LOL

your eyes deceive you
it is not terrible like the standard
Honestly though, out of the ones shown in OP the only disgustingly bad one was xkcd, the rest were mediocre-bad

THIS is the only funny CaD

Why do muricans think that blaming other people for their own stupidity is a valid way of thinking? I'm kinda surprised the death rates is non-existent.

>be skinny and femenine looking but not a fagot
>a friend told me as a joke that i shoild cosplay a female character.
>do it once, dress, wig, all of that stuff i even use a stuffed bra
>that was a wierd day but it was fun

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look closer

>PA
unmemorable
>Bim Fuckley
not bad considering the source
>XKCD
trash worthy of a lol thread
>Ronnie
hilarious but typically narcissistic. love the frames-within-frames emphasising the punchline

t. anonymous webcomics expert

I think normies feels a little cringy everytime they say Pokemon outside their house.