Ok so I don't play Pokemon but even I've noticed everybody talking about Pokemon Go. There's already three threads about it on this forum (not including this one), and yesterday it was all over the http://emptyclosets.com/forum/chit-chat/215758-what-you-thinking.html thread. I also saw people all over Twitter. What exactly is this game and why has it become such a big deal so quickly?
It's an AR (Augmented Reality) game in which Pokémon appear in the player's surrounding, marked on a map and the player has to physically move to that location to encounter the Pokémon. Once you encounter it, the game will use your camera and then insert the pokémon so that it looks like it right in front of you and then you throw pokéballs at it to catch it. I guess people are just appealed by the idea of physically moving through the world to catch and collect pokémon.
It's become a big deal so quickly because older teens/people in their 20s grew up with Pokemon. Either through trading cards, TV show, games, it was everywhere when I was young amoung stuff like YuGiOh. It blew up because of the nostalgia I guess, like everyone going crazy for crash bandicoot coming out on PS4 or them making Finding Dory/The Incredibles 2.
Yeah those were very different times. Feels really weird now doesn't it? I also remember Bakugan being super popular and everybody wanting them.
Oh my God. Bakugan. Was. The. SHIT. I used to be really into Bakugan. Like REALLY into Bakugan. I was the only girl in the third grade who knew how to play, and I was DAMN good at it. I showed those boys who was boss. :eusa_danc Never got into YuGiOh though. And my little brother's more into Pokemon than I ever was-- he watches the show and has all the games. And I do mean all of them-- like even the old GameBoy ones. Thank God he doesn't have a smartphone-- I'm sure he'd be all over Pokemon Go, and the last thing I need is him roaming the streets at midnight to find special nighttime Pokemon or whatever like I've seen some of the neighborhood kids doing. :lol:
It was that long ago. I still remember people collecting them back in 2007. I also remember everybody (including myself) being obsessed with Legos back then.
What's Lego Island. I remember borrowing Lego Star Wars (based on movies 4 through 6) from a friend once. Getting the complete saga was one of the first things I did once my family moved to America (when we were still in a hotel and looking for a house to buy).
I was mostly asking why everybody's talking about it all of the sudden. Like, I've noticed other games taking the internet and social media by storm (like Undertale) but it never felt quite like Pokemon Go which just 3 days ago, I never even heard of and now I see it everywhere.
somewhat new gaming tech+VR is finally coming+one of the world's most easily hyped franchise. it's been anticipated for a while, this is just the emergence producing fruit. Pretty simple formula.
^-----yes I've been playing Pokemon since 99 and I never stopped. Most of my friends never did either. We've grown up with the game and to be able to experience it, somewhat realistically(ish) like this is incredible. It's boosting business and attendance for a lot of attractions that normally don't get a lot of headlines. Local parks, gardens, and zoo's are happily welcoming and encouraging visitors to not only come find Pokemon and Pokestops, but come explore and enjoy new places they might not have thought to come to otherwise. There are....those idiots....that are ruining it for the rest of us. I promise not all of us cause twenty car pile ups on the highway to catch a Pikachu, I promise not all of us setup traps to rob people, and I promise not all of us become so engulfed in the gameplay we lose touch with whats going on around us. It's just fun to do out on walks or when I'm in a parking lot at a new place I haven't been, "oh cool, let me catch this Drowzee real quick" kind of thing.
I was wayyyy into pokemon in 1999/2000. I watched the show all the time but I had to share my cards with a friend though, as we bought them together so we could collect them. Then she traded the shiny Venusaur for utter rubbish. I got really mad after that...I really want to get Pokemon Go....
