Concretely, we know that Pokémon Go is a game where people will have to travel to real-world locations to capture, trade or battle monsters. This detail, along with the fact that the game requires interacting with other people in real life, opens up a lot of possibilities. Imagine, for example, having to travel to an actual volcano to capture a Charizard—Pokémon are region-specific, after all. Imagine making eye contact with another stranger, and feeling the need to challenge them right there, just like you would in the games. Imagine banding together with other players to form a real-world Team Rocket, whose sole aim is to cause havoc and steal Pokémon—Ingress certainly had its share of trolls. Or what if people take it upon themselves to free Pokémon from their masters? Imagine real-world PokémonLeagues forming, complete with actual gym leaders or Elite Fours. I can’t even fathom all the cool things that could happen. Nevermind the bonkers things that probably will happen. A lot of the things I just mentioned, well, they’re not exactly the sort of things you’d want a little kid to be involved in on their own. I’ve seen a lot of people joking about the possibility of kids getting lost or in danger for trying to play a game like Pokémon Go. Unsurprisingly, the trailer for the game shows mostly full-grown adults playing the game. It might be the first Pokémongame that’s aimed primarily at adults, which in of itself is cool and worth supporting. Just the same, I fully expect to hear ridiculous stories like “Florida man gets shot while fighting over Mewtwo,” “woman dies in Antarctica while searching for Articuno,” if not “Pokémon players arrested for breaking into [insert place here.]” At the very least, I wouldn’t be surprised if some phones, accounts, or actual money got stolen. Pokémon is already the sort of game where people are willing to cheat if it means being able to catch them all, and doing so has never been easier. If people get upset and worked up over special Pokémon being limited to certain stores and locations, I have no idea how they’re going to react to an entire game with that very premise, especially if there’s any semblance of scarcity. I have a feeling we’re going to see some wild stuff. There are still a lot of unknowns at play here. We don’t know how the nitty gritty of how the game will work. We have no idea what the microtransactions will be like. And we don’t really know if people are really going to brave wearing this fuglything: [Yes I am aware it’s optional!] For now, we just have a nice trailer for a game that nobody really knew they wanted. Nobody might have asked for Pokémon Go, but it might legitimately be the most exciting thing that’s happened to the franchise in years.
I am so pumped for this! I was an avid pokemon card collector growing up, I was roughly 10 I think when it all started happening, not exactly sure, I'll have to check the dates, but man, playing that on my gameboy was great, then I heard about this a while back and cannot wait. I think it is aimed at teens and adults because of our ability to be able to travel, but also to any kid with a smart phone. There isnt a whole lot of info on it yet but I'm seriously so stoked. I hope its all original red, blue and yellow types, I never could get into the newer ones. Also, did you write that? Seems a bit too editorial..... if not, you should give due credit to the original author.
inb4 "Boy hit by car for trying to catch Pokémon in street." But in all seriousness, I'm pretty hyped. I heard it's free but in-app purchases. inb4 pay 10 dollars for 1 ultra ball inb4 pay-2-win
Its android and ios, not gameboy. It uses your location, maps and your camera to find and virtually see the pokemon.
I love Pokemon so much. I've known Pokemon since the game boy version. I've collected so many Pokemon related games: diamond, pearl, heart gold, soul silver, platinum (used to), black and white 1,2 and now has x and y. I did collect Pokemon cards before and watched a lot of episodes all the time. So yeah, I'm a total Pokemon fan :p
Inb4 humanity dead because everyone keeps getting ran over by cars, trucks, vans and huge Charizards as everyone is too addicted to the game and can't stop looking at their phone. Don't call me a twit but I might try the game out and see how it goes.
Who is really going to be bothered enough to leave their house and find a volcano to get a camerupt? I won't be.