Pokemon GO
 

It released last night and the servers are taking a bigger dump than a game on the PC. If you've downloaded and managed to get in, how many Pokemans have you caught? Moreso, how many times have you walked out into oncoming traffic to catch a Bulbasaur?

This game seems like a ripoff. And yes, it will be hilarious when someone gets run over trying to catch a Charizard in the middle of the street.

Although I wonder if I have a Zubat in my toilet or an Alakazam in my closet...

Looks fun.



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As far as I know, it's not available in Norway. But, I'd love to play it mostly for the novelty of finding Pokémon at odd places.

I'm tickled by the fact that they're apparently using a lot of the location data from another game called Ingress.

(A game I might be hopelessly addicted to at the moment...)

poliwrath 20 balls and still not caught
 

i used 20 balls

i caught him 8 freekin times w/ the raspberries and he still wasnt' caught!

That's because its developed by the same company. Nintendo partnered with them because of Ingress' success.

All I've been catching is Pidgeys, Rattatas and Spearows. Did evolve one of my Pidgeys the other day though. Oh and I started out with Squirtle.

The game and servers crashed a lot in the beginning when I started playing it earlier this week. Although it's been much better today. I've mostly caught Rattata's and Pidgey's, but did manage to catch a few gems like two Eevee's, a Nidoqueen, and a Gastly. :tgrin:

I ended up joining Team Mystic. What teams did you all join?

I pretty much spent all weekend playing this. I have 63 different kinds of Pokemon caught (and tons of duplicates, of course). It's super fun, and I see myself going on mini adventures instead of spending time at home bored.

Team Mystic!

Pokemon Go bringing joy and happiness.

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I have it, but unfortunately, it doesn't work here since the game system hasn't been fully set up here in Japan yet. I'm curious what the deal is with the game, which is why I decided to download it.

The only Pokemon I do have is the starter. If I use the app, there are no Pokestops or Pokemon anyplace. Just a wide open map.

Saw a news article that was discussing the popularity.

Apparently Westboro Baptist Church is a gym location and is guarded by a clefairy named Loveislove.

Makes me wonder how many casuals playing this will pick up Pokemon Sun/Moon for 3DS in November. Nintendo seemed to have found a great way to get casuals interested in the franchise agian.

I choked. :tlol:

That couldn't have happened to a nicer group of people.

I had no interest in this game until I read more about the app this game is based on ingress and that one seemed far more interesting to me. I had no plans to download the game to even check it out until I saw how this thing exploded all over. Not only is it all over the mainstream outlets just like Pokemon was in 1999 but I also had School friends who never admitted into liking Pokemon back when we were kids tweeting about catching a flippin' geodude.

I never expected it to be this huge and I finally downloaded the game to see what I'm missing out on.

I wouldn't really call this a "game" its more like a walking app where you capture pokemon. I imagine that's the hype with casuals.

Be careful when hunting for Pokemon, muggers apparently exploits the app.

https://www.theguardian.com/technolo...bers-dead-body

Tried it a little bit yesterday and today, for fun. It's all right for what it is.

I cant get the app cause the type of phone I have, but the other day I walked in front of a car with my friend looking at my phone (it was off) and the guy in the car beeped us and I said "jeez man, I'm tryna catch a Pokémon here ohmawgawd fight me right now pokebattle" and we ran away

Pok'emon Go! Oddities
 

http://www.businessinsider.com/best-...1&noRedirect=1

http://qz.com/728225/augmented-reali...armed-robbers/

http://www.collegehumor.com/post/703...a-catch-em-all

http://www.ibtimes.com/pokemon-go-lo...acters-2390555

My mom put the game on her phone yesterday after she caught her boss playing it at lunch, haha.

Since she can't have her phone turned on during exams, she's letting me have it during the day so I can go catch Pokemon. Me and my brother are going to go to the lake tomorrow to check things out.

For now all I have is a Bulbasaur [best gen1 starter :DDD] but I've seen all kinds of silhouettes in the nearby tab, including eevee and cubone ;w;

Looks like people are being robbed in Baltimore while playing Pokemon GO.
http://www.wbaltv.com/news/pokmon-go...ville/40471596

The absolute madman

All these casuals playing Pokemon Go, yet I bet none of them will buy Sun/Moon when they come out in November on 3DS.

Literal casuals.

Hey man some of them are just people that go on walks and thought it would add more fun to their walk. And that's fine. Let people play games the way they want.

Like this, which is hilarious:
http://kotaku.com/pokemon-go-players...use-1783516346

This is true for the majority, but I'm sure that GO will bring a lot more attention to the games.

News Anchor walks right in the middle of a Weather Forecast playing Pokemon GO

Well, for one thing, the app is free. The game is not. Neither is a 3DS, which a lot of people playing the game may not even already have.

Of course there are going to be people who are only into Pokemon Go, it's a hot thing right now.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2...n-go/86928150/

Westboro hate group features a Pokemon gym with Clefairy as the opponent.

When I first heard of this I thought it was the stupidest thing, now I'm on team valor and walking around town with my kids trying to find Pokemon.

That escalated quickly.

Your kids are old enough already to use a cell phone? I see your profile you're only 28 so I can't imagine them being more than 5 or so.

My brother's taking mom's phone everywhere instead of his own now because the game won't work on his phone and he wants to catch pokemon omg

It can work on his phone, he just needs to download the latest APK file and side load it.

Greatest thing ever

Pokemon go is the best thing ever.

He pronounced it "Poke-e-man."

Somehow I feel like we time traveled back to the year 1999 again. God this is bringing back flashbacks. Only now its phones instead of Gameboys with Pokemon Red/Blue.

lmao you're talking to smartphone-illiterate people for the most part, as not even I know what that means.

His phone appears to be compatible but the game crashes instead of starting. Not the only game it happens with.

Others have mentioned it, but yeah, beware now...

And if you thought people were already too distracted by their phones, well get ready:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...icle-1.2710266
http://www.people.com/article/pokemo...hile-using-app
http://www.cnet.com/roadshow/news/th...o-in-new-york/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pokemon-go-...tracks-1570308

...And I guess some are even playing it at inappropriate sites: