rms
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seems like Go's 'updates' have had a negative effect on carrying on player enjoyment. The removal of steps/nearby thing was strange to me.
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Krow
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I made it to level 14 before I got bored and tapped out. Absolutely boring in every way.
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the servers just couldn't handle it for whatever reason. notice how they've been fine ever since they got rid of that feature. they did massively improve the nearby list itself though, it's way more accurate and refreshes a lot more quickly now.
i'd be interested to see UK sales for each generation. i mean i know enough people a few years younger than me to be pretty sure they didn't have anything like the same craze as we had for the initial games. i can't speak for japan or the US or aus though. the show stopped airing on prime terrestrial tv n shit too after the first series.
an article from a day ago says: According to the latest numbers from app market analyst Apptopia, monthly active users plummeted from 50.2 million on August 12 down to 32.4 million on Sept 10.
i'm not entirely sure what that means tbh but 32m is roughly how many people bought red/blue i believe? (closer to 50 if you count yellow though)
i'd be interested to see UK sales for each generation. i mean i know enough people a few years younger than me to be pretty sure they didn't have anything like the same craze as we had for the initial games. i can't speak for japan or the US or aus though. the show stopped airing on prime terrestrial tv n shit too after the first series.
an article from a day ago says: According to the latest numbers from app market analyst Apptopia, monthly active users plummeted from 50.2 million on August 12 down to 32.4 million on Sept 10.
i'm not entirely sure what that means tbh but 32m is roughly how many people bought red/blue i believe? (closer to 50 if you count yellow though)
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From wiki:
Pokémon Gold and Silver were critically acclaimed upon release and they are considered by many to be the best games in the entire series, as well as some of the fifth generation console gaming's most significant titles. They continued the enormous success of their predecessors as Pokémon began to form into a multi-billion dollar franchise. The games almost matched the sales of Pokémon Red and Blue and went on to jointly sell millions of copies worldwide. By 2010, the recorded sales of Gold and Silver were at 23 million units.
Pretty good, but wiki says gold and silver came out in the EU a year after Australia and North America got it and 2 years after Japan, so maybe you guys did experience some strange lag-based lukewarmness.
Pokémon Gold and Silver were critically acclaimed upon release and they are considered by many to be the best games in the entire series, as well as some of the fifth generation console gaming's most significant titles. They continued the enormous success of their predecessors as Pokémon began to form into a multi-billion dollar franchise. The games almost matched the sales of Pokémon Red and Blue and went on to jointly sell millions of copies worldwide. By 2010, the recorded sales of Gold and Silver were at 23 million units.
Pretty good, but wiki says gold and silver came out in the EU a year after Australia and North America got it and 2 years after Japan, so maybe you guys did experience some strange lag-based lukewarmness.
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i think gold/silver did pretty well to be fair, i bought them immediately and i think my buddies and i were still into it. i think there was a bigger drop off after that but maybe you're right to a point that we were just too old by then. i just feel like the red/blue craze was absolutely insane here, i was obsessed with pokemon before the games even dropped because i'd bought a guide and seen a few eps of the show (which came first here), literally evvveryone was playing it in playgrounds n shit, trading the cards and having all kinds of merch etc. it didn't seem nearly as big a part of the public consciousness by the time the next games dropped.
idk why i'm arguing about this anyway, i WANT less people to play go so i can own the local gyms lol
idk why i'm arguing about this anyway, i WANT less people to play go so i can own the local gyms lol
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Yeah I remember Silver and Gold were pretty big when I was a kid, I think interest in Pokemon dropped once Yu-Gi-Oh became popular.
Anyways been playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on the Playstation, fuck that game can kill time.
Anyways been playing Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 on the Playstation, fuck that game can kill time.
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US here, Pokemon Red/Blue was the most popular when I was growing up. I think the Gold/Silver was just as popular with the younger kids, but I was entering high school at this point and I never ended up buying it. I fucked up my Blue version of the game because I decided to try and catch Missing No, and it ended up glitching my cartridge to the point that I was no longer able to save my progress.
I remember there being a Pokemon card craze as well, and everyone was trading and selling cards to the point where the middle school administration eventually had to ban Pokemon cards. The buying/selling of the cards really got out of hand, and we were selling rare cards for 10-20 bucks at one point. At least in my area, I dont think Pokemon was as popular with the younger generation, which like mutantllama said, mostly turned into interest in YGO.
Funny enough, Pro Skater 2 was also huge back then as well. Probably one of the reasons why I stopped caring so much about Pokemon. As a skater back in high school, this game was the shit. I dont think it was half as popular as the Pokemon craze though. I was never much into the Pokemon TV show though, so I dont really know how that factored in. It was all about watching DBZ on Toonami. I didnt even watch much of the Pokemon show cause I thought it was lame as fuck.
I remember there being a Pokemon card craze as well, and everyone was trading and selling cards to the point where the middle school administration eventually had to ban Pokemon cards. The buying/selling of the cards really got out of hand, and we were selling rare cards for 10-20 bucks at one point. At least in my area, I dont think Pokemon was as popular with the younger generation, which like mutantllama said, mostly turned into interest in YGO.
Funny enough, Pro Skater 2 was also huge back then as well. Probably one of the reasons why I stopped caring so much about Pokemon. As a skater back in high school, this game was the shit. I dont think it was half as popular as the Pokemon craze though. I was never much into the Pokemon TV show though, so I dont really know how that factored in. It was all about watching DBZ on Toonami. I didnt even watch much of the Pokemon show cause I thought it was lame as fuck.
Phylactery
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My experience was similar to yours - Pokemon Red and Blue were huge and everyone was playing them and trading the cards at school. No one ever actually played the card game though as it was shit. By the time Gold and Silver hit, the hype train had already massively died down, so much so that I didn't buy them. I've been thinking about downloading an emulator and playing Soul Silver because I have heard S and G were the best in the series.
I'm not a skater or anything but Tony Hawks 2 was the shit. Such a fun game! I played the Hell out of it when it came out.
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It's hard for me to gauge it's popularity consistency to be honest, because I never had a lull moment in my interest and fandom. I've never missed a game, excluding Go because I hate cellphones.
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Gold and Silver were really popular in my school in Sweden.
Speaking of which, did any of you actually play the card game? I remember everyone collecting the cards, but no one took the time to actually learn how to play so we ended up gambling with the cards in the best way we knew how. Whoever threw their card closest to the wall won the other persons card...
Speaking of which, did any of you actually play the card game? I remember everyone collecting the cards, but no one took the time to actually learn how to play so we ended up gambling with the cards in the best way we knew how. Whoever threw their card closest to the wall won the other persons card...
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the pokemon go halloween event is fun, i guess? this is the kind of thing they need to be doing more of to keep people interested.
Phylactery
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Yeah no one at my school actually played the card game because it was stupid and didn't make much sense if I remember!
We just used to trade cards. I remember the best one I had was a shiny Charizard.
Your rules sound hilarious and a bit ridiculous.
We just used to trade cards. I remember the best one I had was a shiny Charizard.
Your rules sound hilarious and a bit ridiculous.
CiG
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Is it just me or is Mafia III basically just a racist/post-Vietnam Mad Max? Talk about a real c+p programming engine.
Baroque
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I thought about it, especially since I'm going on a long trip around a week after it releases, but I don't think I will. Too many things I disliked about the previous generation that have not been addressed from what I've heard. I'm starting to find the game series depressingly stagnant, every generation there's new mons, a graphical upgrade, new gimmicks that won't make it into the next generation, some minor polish and that's about all you get in the way of evolution.
It would've meant much to me personally if SM had at least
1) had some semblance of an actual endgame so I could face off against high-level rosters without having to go online. As a kid this was my biggest issue with Silver (which I played to death) and five generations later, they still haven't addressed it.
2) kept the goddamn DexNav from ORAS. That thing was amazing.
I base some of my skepticism toward SM on gbatemp's negative review of it, which is really the only prerelease review I would trust at all. Also I've heard the framerate on the old 3DS is terrible, which is what I have. This is exactly what I feared when the n3DS was announced - that the old 3DS would technically be supported but o3DS users would get shafted with terrible framerates on certain titles.
It would've meant much to me personally if SM had at least
1) had some semblance of an actual endgame so I could face off against high-level rosters without having to go online. As a kid this was my biggest issue with Silver (which I played to death) and five generations later, they still haven't addressed it.
2) kept the goddamn DexNav from ORAS. That thing was amazing.
I base some of my skepticism toward SM on gbatemp's negative review of it, which is really the only prerelease review I would trust at all. Also I've heard the framerate on the old 3DS is terrible, which is what I have. This is exactly what I feared when the n3DS was announced - that the old 3DS would technically be supported but o3DS users would get shafted with terrible framerates on certain titles.
Krow
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It's never really been a fad for me... Pokémon go was cancer though.
I have it. Just started today. Chose Rowlet as my starter. Have 4 Pokémon lvl 12-16. Seems interesting enough so far. Most of the new Pokémon are legendaries though which isn't ideal to me. I do really like Alola forms and wish they did more than it seems they did.
The ultra beasts are Pokémon from another dimension I guess, which is kind of a cool concept I guess. No gym leaders in this game kinda blows my mind.
Current team is Rowlet's middle evo, slowpoke, magnemite, butterfree and that's it for now. Looking for a ground and/or fire type.
Oh and may use alolan golem too because rock/electric is cool typing.
Baroque
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Hmm no gym leaders? How does progress work in the game then? yeah I haven't really skipped any generations so I see myself picking this game up at some point. Might wait for the rumored Switch edition since I too have an old 3ds.
Been playing civ 6 mostly
Been playing civ 6 mostly
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i may play sun/moon at some point, i'm actually going through gold/silver atm. and also still playing go of course 
