Pokemon GO

[RED-DOG]

The concept is totally brilliant. Outdoors, interacting, shared interests etc.

If people of all ages enjoy it and they are harming no one then who are we to to judge?

Do you play pokemon Go?

Care to give us a review or let us know why it is enjoyable?  I relly know nothing much, just feel pretty strongly about not giving my 8 year old daughter a phone.  She has a cheap tab FWIW and the summer holiday is long.

No Doobs, I don't.

I agree about giving your daughter a phone BTW.

[bunnydas8888]

Do you play pokemon Go?

Care to give us a review or let us know why it is enjoyable?  I relly know nothing much, just feel pretty strongly about not giving my 8 year old daughter a phone.  She has a cheap tab FWIW and the summer holiday is long.

I find it enjoyable because there is a competitive aspect between my mate and I.  I want to do better than him by catching stuff he hasn't got.  There is also a sense of satisfaction when you eventually find an elusive pokemon that you've been tracking.

Granted I personally haven't been playing "properly", I've only fired it up when i'm going between places (work/pub/shops), but, what the game has done is get me walking to and from these places where normally I would have driven.

My mate has actually gone out and walked round his local area searching for stuff and he loves it.  On my excursions to the pub, I have seen lots of groups of people all playing the game, walking/cycling around to different locations and generally having a fun time.

[HutchGF]

For balance...

In my household my wife and I have a constant battle to get my 7 yr old away from various screens and technologies. Today we walked a couple of miles around my home, talked to about 50 different people ( including the often maligned 'teens') who were all really patient and showed him how to do things on the phone. We visited a local library, two charity shops and a local environmental spot (the rock gardens). Whilst he was observing the pokemon on the phone, he saw a couple of frogs hopping towards the local lake and he trotted after them with a joyous look on his face at the natural beauty of the sight.

So what if he was playing a game whilst he was doing this; we got much more fresh air,exercise and world experience than I usually get out of him with a football/rugby ball/cricket bat etc. I'm looking forward to picking him up from school tomorrow and going to the beach with him to find some water pokemon.

[Newportlad]

Today at work, we had several people capturing Pokemon that were located about the building.

Think this is a bit too much.

[david3103]

What a ridiculous outlook.

Who are you to judge how people decide to spend their time?

Who are you to judge my outlook?

[tikay]

What a ridiculous outlook.

Who are you to judge how people decide to spend their time?

I think he's entitled to air an opinion on a subject which is being discussed.

I might equally say who are you to judge whether Alan Pardew is a good or bad manager when in reality he knows a great deal more about football & player management than you ever will. You ridicule him regularly, but have the same right to discuss AP as David has to discuss this Pokéman thing.

We are all entitled to air opinions, surely? You are certainly are not shy in doing so.

[Cf]

Yes everyone is allowed an opinion.

But saying you think less of someone because you don't understand the appeal of something and listing things you should be doing instead is taking things too far.

Also Alan Pardew is just awful

[david3103]

Yes everyone is allowed an opinion.

But saying you think less of someone because you don't understand the appeal of something and listing things you should be doing instead is taking things too far.

Also Alan Pardew is just awful

FFS I entered into the debate and used exaggeration for comedic effect.
This isn't a thread about gun control in America, it's not about the millions of displaced people in the Middle East, nor is it about the potential risks of The Donald becoming The President.

It's about the latest online craze.

[Cf]

Yes everyone is allowed an opinion.

But saying you think less of someone because you don't understand the appeal of something and listing things you should be doing instead is taking things too far.

Also Alan Pardew is just awful

FFS I entered into the debate and used exaggeration for comedic effect.
This isn't a thread about gun control in America, it's not about the millions of displaced people in the Middle East, nor is it about the potential risks of The Donald becoming The President.

It's about the latest online craze.

Fair enough. In which case I shan't think any less of you for thinking any less of others

[Tal]

I respected Cf's opinions more when he posted in blue.

[RED-DOG]

Yes everyone is allowed an opinion.

But saying you think less of someone because you don't understand the appeal of something and listing things you should be doing instead is taking things too far.

Also Alan Pardew is just awful

FFS I entered into the debate and used exaggeration for comedic effect.
This isn't a thread about gun control in America, it's not about the millions of displaced people in the Middle East, nor is it about the potential risks of The Donald becoming The President.

It's about the latest online craze.

Fair enough. In which case I shan't think any less of you for thinking any less of others

I hate to say this because a fair percentage of CF's posts tend to rip my knitting, but I wish I had said that.

[POWWWWWWWW]

Went to Yorkshire Sculpture Park yesterday for a nice day out with the missus. There were a lot of groups of young kids around all phones in hand. Sure enough I opened up Pokemon Go and every sculpture in there was a PokeStop and it was teaming with Pokemon. Not sure whether kids frequent there as it's the only time I've ever been, but if they were just there for the Pokemon seems like a great idea to me. All out in the glorious sunshine, in social groups taking in some culture(ish). Don't know how Nintendo work out what's a Pokestop but if they could assign rare pokemon/items to places of culture/historic etc then I think they are on to a real winner. If for only a short term and even if the kids aren't really interested it's a free to play game and some of them might actually take an interest in some of the places.

[exstream]

The developers of Pokemon Go had a previous game called Ingress in which the 'pokestops' in that were all user submitted. Basically lots of statues and landmarks

[Woodsey]

[HutchGF]

For balance...

In my household my wife and I have a constant battle to get my 7 yr old away from various screens and technologies. Today we walked a couple of miles around my home, talked to about 50 different people ( including the often maligned 'teens') who were all really patient and showed him how to do things on the phone. We visited a local library, two charity shops and a local environmental spot (the rock gardens). Whilst he was observing the pokemon on the phone, he saw a couple of frogs hopping towards the local lake and he trotted after them with a joyous look on his face at the natural beauty of the sight.

So what if he was playing a game whilst he was doing this; we got much more fresh air,exercise and world experience than I usually get out of him with a football/rugby ball/cricket bat etc. I'm looking forward to picking him up from school tomorrow and going to the beach with him to find some water pokemon.

Me and the lad walked 4km today in the beautiful sunshine down Blackpool Promenade while he looked for 'water pokemon'. I got chatting with a few other Dad's who were up to the same as me and Zachary made a new friend as they exchanged information about the location of various pokemon. What a fantastic game, I'm having so much fun with my Son, getting loads of exercise together and we're both meeting new people.