>Pokemon Go releases
>Get a group of my friends and go exploring at night because the servers aren't shit at night
>Meet other people and have a fun night socializing
>Go to work the next day and everyone is talking about Pokemon Go
>Have a fun day at work talking about Pokemon
>Come home and expect Sup Forums to be ecstatic
>Everyone complaining about it being casual trash
>No one talking about having fun with other people
Have I become to normal for Sup Forums?
>fun
There's your problem. It's Sup Forums kryptonite.
And another garbage pokefags threads.
Have you seen that battle system?
How can you have fun collecting pokemon that serve no purpose?
>>>/livejournal/
>>>/blogger/
So whats the gameplay if its such a good '''''''''''''''''''''''''game'''''''''''''''''''' the gameplay must be pretty good right?
>No one talking about having fun with other people
>Sup Forums having fun with other people
>Sup Forums having fun
Socialization is better without this trash app involved.
I was surprised how neat it was first, but im already bored.
You cant do fuckall with any of your pokemon unless you can catch 1000 of the same one.
Anything that isnt extremely common is useless, youll never find enough of them to evolve or power up.
Your only option is to use the most common types which results in everyone using pidgeots, evee, butterfree etc.
This will be dead next month if they dont change this.
By hanging out with real life people
...
>Get a group of my friends
you were always normal
you can do that with literally any game
What is the point of /vp/?
>to
>having friends
>having fun
lol?
is this a joke? are you still in grade school?
>group of friends
>socializing
Yes, leave.
splinter board to prevent Sup Forums from getting flooded with Pokemon threads during leak season
>Get a group of my friends
that's already too normie for Sup Forums friendo
Alright and why is there like 20 Pokemon threads up at all time on Sup Forums?
Nah, you have social skills unlike most of Sup Forums.
The game is fun as shit with friends.
>PoGo comes out.
>Download that shit.
>Already been trying to lose weight by going on walks, so just use it while doing that.
>Catching stuff, meeting people in the neighborhood who are playing it.
>Folks at work are all playing it.
>Enjoying chatting about it with coworkers.
>realize it's impressive from a social aspect because I'm not an aspie/autistic fuck.
>Sup Forums reacts according to tradition: It's popular so Sup Forums must hate it.
>>>/reddit/
>>>/facebook/
>>>/instagram/
>im pretending to not be part of Sup Forums lol xD I have friends and a social life!
i never said i had friends ;_;
>can't play Pokemon Go because it's 4.4 and up and I have Android 4.1 phone
m-maybe it'll still be popular in 2 years or something when I decide to upgrade
...
i feel you, i have a samsung galaxy trendlite running on android 4.2
i swear this phone is self aware everything i try to do with it takes literally at least 5 seconds (changing music, checking the internet, texts...)
it's all so tiresome
but i had enough i ordered a new phone monday
um? neo/v/?
Alright faggots LISTEN UP.
The best things in life are simple - and that's just what pokemon go does. It's not that it's fun because we can go outside, this game is the DRIVE to go outside. It's the fucking catalyst for socializing and going outdoors. It's a reason to do something. Name one game today that does that?
Hmm? Having trouble? Yeah it doesn't fucking exist. So between MUH NOSTALGIA and the human drive to collect things and socialize, it is a fun game.
Now go play dark souls you autistic fucks.
So its a shit game? Glad we can agree.
I can't get past the fucking starter selection or log in 90% of the time because the game is a buggy heap of shit.
Because we need to wage war against the normies that have killed our hobby.
>having a group of friends in the first place
You were always too normal you piece of shit.
But the majority of the threads are normalfags defending this shit.
>lol itz fun wt friends xd
>Name one game today that does that?
Why do you need a game for that? It's called hanging out with your fucking friends. Do you also need a videogame to "motivate" you to take a shower or brush your teeth?
>the catalyst for going outside is tapping your phone screen and catching 20 of the same pokemon
Brilliant
>having fun
I remember when I used to have fun.
It was terrible.
>Will never find enough Horsea to make a Seadra
Any game with multiplayers? What user you don't have friends and you needed pokemon GO to make some?
lmao
>implying there isnt a way for it NOT to be casual trash
literally
>some normie gets all excited about catching a fucking 300 cp growlithe
>im just sitting there capturing the same growlithe but it came up as cp 700+ for me
>people come up to me and we start chatting
>wait for the moment they ask me what I've caught
>their envy when I bring up my screen
casuals will never know this feeling
I had to go pick up my drunk wife from a bar at 11pm last night because she and her girlfriends spent the entire day drinking and wandering around downtown playing pokemon.
fucking shit
How do we measure the quality of a game if its not by how much fun people have with it or how much fun it enables people to have?
Sup Forums has to measure the quality of a game by complexity or how dense the writing is because Sup Forumsirgins believe that 'taste' in video games has a correlation with intelligence. Video games define them because they have nothing else in their lives. If they had friends then of course they would like Pokemon Go. So they hold onto their so-called hardcore games, claiming that its the simple minded masses that don't understand the appeal; that liking obscure games no one plays makes the Sup Forumsirgin better than the "normie" rather than worse.
>Catch a 330 Weedle.
>Finally I can get a bitchin Beedrill, one of my favorite pokemans.
>Evolve it twice.
>Ends up being 410.
>Evolve my 367 Eevee.
>1167 Jolteon.
What the fuck man.
It boggles my mind how autistic you have to be just to not be able to ignore these threads.
People just hate popular things, this board is nothing but hipsters.
This happens with every decent game release, you'd think they would of learned by now.
What level are you user? Tell me your secrets
make sure to get the pokemon to max cp before evolving for max effect
Sup Forumsirgin on suicide watch your nintendo will end up making FUN games for your everyday person.
Op are you literally me? I've had the exact same experience, night exploring and then waking up to this shit show. I don't understand why everyone wants it to be a hardcore experience. it's such a comfy time when you're out with friends and meeting new people, you don't have to be training your Pokemon to have perfect stats to have fun. I feel like even though it could be a hardcore experience, the gentle nature of it makes it easy to just pick up and enjoy for a few hours with friends and then do it again the next day.
level 21.
I hang out at a strip mall all day talking to normies and making friends while farming pokestops nonstop.
like ALL day. I dont work much since im switching jobs soon so this game came up at a good time for me to wreck normies
I know almost everything in the game, but I won't be an elitist so feel free to ask me anything that confuses you about the game and I'd be happy to help out right now with any info I know
>Socializing
Found your problem. People around here are misanthropes. We want nothing to do with people.
Why do pokeballs magically turn 90 degrees at times?
>have natural competitive streak
>enjoying PG and having fun
>gf is bright, loves to win arguments and debate
>introduce her to Go
>she starts catching up exponentially, picks different starter, team to compete with me
>talking shit to each other as we play and level up
>rivalry is lighthearted yet spirited
>sex has always been passionate and intense but now has the fire of competition as an added bonus
>deeply in love with my partner and rival
life is beautiful
this is the greatest thing ever
this shit is amazing
Please kill yourself or fuck off.
I was walking around downtown Toronto and saw a few lures but not a lot of people playing. Maybe it has to be on the official app store before it gets big.
>she
GOING OUT WITH FRIENDS AND MEETING PEOPLE IS GARBAGE. PEOPLE ARE GARBAGE.
IT'S NOT FUCKING COMPLICATED. IT'S A GARBAGE GAME WHO'S ONLY VALUE IS INTERACTION WITH OTHER PEOPLE. NOT THE ACTUAL GAME, JUST OTHER PEOPLE WHO PLAY IT.
PoGO is garbage. It's shallow nonsense and no amount of "it's fun with friends" can change how fundamentally shitty it is. Go do actual things with your friends. Go to a beach, go play Lazer Tag or see a movie. Don't give into FotM mobile garbage just because "everybody's doing it"
Can we just move this thread to fucking /soc/? What the fuck does this cancerous normalfags blogging shit have to do with video games?
artificial difficulty so you dont throw lame straight balls 24/7.
the game wants you to throw curve balls, which is whats happening on your screen (except in a random direction)
curve balls are a mechanic where you
>grab pokeball
>twist it in small circle on your screen
>throw it the side
>get used to the mechanic
it eliminates the random direction mechanic and its easier to get greats and excellents while doing so, plus you get 10 extra exp
>One guy at work mentions playing Pokemon Go
>Everyone makes fun of him
>Only reason people bring up the game is because their kids are playing it
I personally think the "game" is trash. I don't see why you wouldn't just play an actual Pokemon game.
>decide to try this out and actually leave my house
>Go to park where there are like 3 poke stops
>Just chill out on a bench and this cutie shows up and we start to nerd out on pokemon
>I try to hide my power level but she has no shame and knows all of them by heart and the weaknesses
>After 3 days straight of just chilling out and bustin up gyms I get to finally lose my virginity
t..thanks nintendo
faggot
Good thing I don't have friends because then I'd have to make excuses for not wanting to play this gimmicky shit, ending up with all the other friends getting out together playing it and eventually forgetting you exist because you don't share their same "interests" anymore.
Nah that pretty much explains it. I work in a place right on a pokestop so i have a healthy supply of balls, but only zubats, pidgeys, and rattatas, and I'm only 14.
What have you found is a good way to find rares pokes? Just visit new places? And how useful is the lure to find rarer pokemons?
ok, grampa
>be me
>meet cutie
>lol lost my virginity
yaayyyyy
>a group of my friends
lucky jerk
Great deflection. I bet you'd use the same retort if I was shitting on youtube celebrities or twitch streamers. Some new popular things are objectively shitty. Deal with it.
try going to a mall or some place where you think might be popular.
if its a hoppin spot full of peeps, rares are usually more likely to spawn and there will probably always be someone popping a lure module. strip mall, mall, a popular beach..
its really useful for finding rarer pokemon, though itll spawn a lot of commons too
>Come home and expect Sup Forums to be ecstatic
Fucking newfags
Jesus.
I don't get why people think playing with others is such a big part of the game. I've been playing alone since day 1 and still having a good time. I guess I enjoy the grind and fighting for territory.
I ask whats good about the gameplay? Why none of you can answer this?
>GOING OUT WITH FRIENDS AND MEETING PEOPLE IS GARBAGE
>Go do actual things with your friends. Go to a beach, go play Lazer Tag or see a movie
kind of contradicted yourself but I get your point. I agree. the game isn't so much a game but a game where people socialize through their pokemon.
there isn't much to the game in that regards. its pokemon snap in real life. I rather they had made pokemon snap tho.
It encourages playing with others, moving around and exploring, and feeling immersive in a game and the real world.
It also is (apart from Ingress ) the first of it's kind, allowing plenty of room forward for imagination and creativity, with much to improve on.
It's also fun.
Whoa there user, this sounds like a problem that goes past Pokemon
The gameplay is strategically travelling to maximize your daily gains towards building a strong team in order to own gyms. The game is nothing without the travelling part.
>eventually forgetting you exist because you don't share their same "interests" anymore.
this is so true. people drift apart because of this.
Thats not gameplay.
>encourages playing with others
How? You might see some people playing and go "xD pokieman!" but nothing in the game benefits you by playing with other people.
Metroid Prime is a great example of game with a shit combat system but is still enjoyed by tons of people. I don't stand for it either
>Get a group of friends
Get the fuck out of here normalfaggot.
The gameplay leads to this though. Itself the gameplay isn't all that, but it's what stems from it that makes the game so good.
What's the difference between game mechanics and gameplay user?
from what I understand it's regular pokemon just in real life through AR.
walk around, catch pokemon,
(do you ffight other trainers?)
stuff you'd do in the regular game.
I guess, I don't have a smart phone that actually works.
Really? I've kept the same friends for 10 plus years and we only have a few things in interest really, which is video games.
I'm the only one who likes or plays football, and they all do drugs while I don't, including many other things that we do or don't enjoy respectively, but we're still exceptionally good friends.
It's not a game.
It's their way of getting lazy people doing something they should have been doing before; using their legs. But people today won't do that without a phone held out in front of them.
That's how the game is played, hence gameplay.
A little too late for that. 90% of this board is normalfags.
>First of it's kind
>Except for the game that came first.
What?
Simply because it doesn't benefit doesn't mean people won't partake in it together. I left office with a co-worker today and he was playing as well, so we both went the same direction talking and essentially playing the game together.
It is actually to some extent.
The moment people hear to don't enjoy going to parties or clubs that much but would rather stay at home or go some place where you can actually hear each other talk, they try to convince you at first but eventually just stop calling.
And it's not like they are bad friends and you don't get along, they just each have their other groups of friends and each time it comes to doing something "fun", you are never their first option.
game mechanics = press A to jump, jump on top of enemy to defeat it
gameplay = traverse obstacle and enemies to get to the end of the level
its how you do it as opposed to what the purpose is.
Meant to say "one of the first of it's kind"
>having fun
TRIGGERED
uh, no it isn't
The fights are about as mechanically complex as a game of thumb war. There's nothing there resembling the pokemon battle system.
just online though right? do you see each other in real life still?
my friends are like this too, and even then I rarely talk to them online anymore. I used to see them in real ife but they're weed heads and aren't doing shit with their lives. they're kind of a downer.