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in the past


(2023 update) I’ve been playing it again for about over a year now almost daily cuz for some reason I have insane shiny luck and it’s really funny to piss off other people I play it with.

Eu me diverti bastante no começo do jogo, mas a demora em trazer novas mecânicas acabou me desanimando e eu parei de correr atrás.

EDIT: AGORA TEM MUITO MAIS COISA E EU TO FELIZ DEMAIS DE JOGAR POKÉMON GO

Summer of 2020 is going to be SO different from summer of 2016

dropped quickly, fun for the first few days. gets boring


Pokemon without any singular thing that makes Pokemon Pokemon. Pokemon.

The first couple months this game was out was incredible, the world became legit magical as everyone lived the fantasy of Pokemon being real. It's improved more and more with time, and it's the longest I've ever stuck with any game. This game also legit helps motivate myself to go outside more, it's a net positive for me and possibly the world.

Come on you know I don’t walk outside Gamefreak

Eigentlich ein sehr gutes Spiel für Zwischendurch, wenn es nicht oft laggen würde.
Durch neue Updates gibt es zwar mehr Aufgaben, die man täglich bearbeiten kann und Team Rocket-Kämpfe aber man bekommt selten Münzen und hat oft nicht genug Items um wirklich jeden Tag zu kämpfen und in der "Story" voranzukommen.
Insgesamt ist das Konzept, Pokémon im echten Leben zu fangen toll und man kann (auch mit Freunden) zur Abwechselung mal ein paar Stunden draußen verbringen.
Das Spiel wird mit Aktionen auch aktuell gut geführt und regelmäßig geupdatet, was andererseits auch ein wenig nervig ist.
Das Spiel bekommt von mir 74%.

when i wake up im grabbing my phone

my opinion of this fluctuates between "really good and kinda flewed" and "pretty good but super flawed", it always skews more towards the latter with every update

Have played alot but it's really about just catching pokemon and having a giant pokedex than actual strategic battles.

This app was a sign to tell us that the world was coming to an end and it tried to distract us from the impending doom.

this really was the closest we came to world peace huh

More a prototype of an interesting game than an actually interesting game. Fascinating as a mass-scale social experiment, though.

Fun for a bit. Got repetitive and pay to win fast.

This game has definitely led to people dying and that's something only a few games can lay claim to

At the launch of Pokemon Go, I made a lot of cool memories. Overall, the brief cultural phenomenon surrounding this game was a treat, and I'm glad I participated in it. That said, I believe there has never been a larger waste of potential than Pokemon Go, and that such a thing should never have been entrusted to a company like Niantic. At launch, Pokemon Go featured a built in tracker which allowed players to "hunt" Pokemon, following their little phone-compass to track down invisible, valuable beasts. This experience of Pokemon hunting was incredible and made collecting Pokemon an absolute joy. This feature was broken mere days after I started playing, and stayed broken. Across the globe, millions of players wondered when this core mechanic of the game would be "fixed" and received no answer. No communication on the subject at all, for weeks upon weeks. As it turns out, the tracker was never "broken" it was simply removed without explanation or notification. The thrill of Pokemon catching sharply and abruptly declined following the change, but for me personally the biggest takeaway was that Niantic was completely inept. I tried desperately to imagine some parallel universe where any other company had a pivotal feature of their wildly popular multiplayer game stop working as it previously had, and the change went unaddressed for weeks on end. I tried to imagine if raid instances in World of Warcraft simply broke and Blizzard just never said a word about it to anyone. This was my primary indication that Niantic, as game developers at least, were incompetent and wildly unreliable.

Pokemon has always and will always be supported by three core pillars. Trading, battling, and collecting. Of these three core pillars, one was entirely missing, the second existed only as a pale and lifeless shadow of itself, and the third was crippled shortly after launch. I realize that trading now exists in Pokemon Go, but launching what is essentially a Pokemon MMO without the ability to trade Pokemon is as close to heresy as I've ever heard. Players were also unable to battle each other, an even more grievous sin. PvP is essentially the lifeblood of Pokemon. It is pretty much the entire premise of both the anime, and the main plot of every main series game. Essentially the Pokemon MMO that I had dreamed of for years, launched without any of the features I would want such a game to have, and without the battle system that makes Pokemon worth playing.

While Pokemon Go's catching system is interesting (although frustrating what with the precious real life monetary value of Pokeballs) its battle system is a farce. The rich and complex systems of the main series games have been stripped out entirely. The outcomes of battles are mainly decided by the levels of Pokemon involved, how fast a player can fill their screen with filthy fingerprints, and how well they can play around maddening lag. There is little semblance of balance, with Vaporeon, an extremely easy to obtain Pokemon, dominating the early meta. Playing Pokemon Go outside of a major city is an infinitely worse experience than playing it in a bustling metropolis and cheating is rampant.

There are two reasons I can't rate Pokemon Go lower. First, its GPS mechanics and its capturing of the public's imagination created a beautiful once in a lifetime experience, where strangers met in places both familiar and not, and a great social time was had by all. Second, and I know that players of the game have been screaming this at me the entire time, the game has improved drastically since launch. Trading is in, PvP is in, along with several other systems that just straight up make the game better. Honestly, the state of the game at launch left such an awful taste in my mouth and set such a low standard for my confidence in Niantic that I don't think the game can ever win me back. Besides... the battles still suck.

UPDATE: It won me back.

I mean, not only hunting Pokemon is everyone's childhood dream, it even allowed me to meet new people and hunt Pokemon with them while making me leave my home to play... It deserves so much credit for what it has done. Only complaint about this game is the battle system, they could just make it like the canon games and it would be perfect.

no jueguen esta mierda me gaste un monton de credito por esta poronga

its neat for what it is but i never really can stick with it for too long before it wares thin

mat pat has some fire theories on the game, but it is not pokemon leaf green

Bruh reviews are wrong this game slaps


How innocent we were when this came out.

I have a hard time with this one, because Pokemon GO is a social game more than anything else as far as I'm concerned. I spent a lot of time playing this with my sister and because of that, it was fun. On my own, it just wasn't very enjoyable, and it strongly depends on where you live. I lived on a Pokestop in my last place and now I live without any anywhere nearby. I am very glad that Pokemon will be able to be transferred into Pokemon Sword and Shield though, seeing as how I have a ton of shinies in this game.

Collecting and trading is fun but battling still sucks. I like cute pokemon though so I still occasionally play.