Pokemon Go

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Beginner Tips

Lures & Gyms

What can you get from an Egg?

Where to find Pokemon?

How to find a specific pokemon

Buddy Pokemon - How far to walk to get candy?

 

Links

 

Pokevision

https://pokevision.com/

 

Is Pokemon Go Down or Not?

http://ispokemongodownornot.com/

 

Pokemon Go Tools inc IV Rater

https://thesilphroad.com/research

Edited March 21, 2017 by gospvg
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[Nespresso]

Well that escalated quickly.

[revlob]

Gotta catch 'em all.

[DC Lemon]

If it's like the advert, it will be great. Hordes of adults gathering in the street to watch Pokemon battle it out in a city centre.

And that's exactly what it will be like.

[Keyboard Koala]

Gotta catch 'em all.

I don't think so...

Damn, I hope this is just a (experimental) side-project and not a sign of the genreal new direction Nintendo is heading in.

[NEG]

Does this spell the end of normal Pokemon?

Real life EV training: get off your fat arse and jog around town.

[scottcr]

It's like Streetpass type stuff but on a phone is it not? You've always got your phone with you - so as you walk around, I imagine you'll find Pokemon, but also be encouraged to go off the regular path of an occasion to find other ones... so, head out at lunch time down the street. It could work really quite well. I'd rather not strap a Pokemon thing to my wrist though....

I don't have an iWatch, but it would make sense for them to make a watch app for it.

[Jarik]

So they're bringing the Pokemon world into ours through AR?

Does this mean that towns will be setting up Virtual Gyms, Stadiums & Pokemon Centres?

I guess they could, but somehow I can't see them going as far as allowing kids to forgoe all that 'education' nonsense & just head off on epic journeys around the country to catch, train & battle their virtual creatures in lieu of an actual career though.

[Cyhwuhx]

Apparently nobody played Ingress. This is going to be awesome. Just hope it'll allow a bit more casual play as opposed to Ingress.

[McSpeed]

Agree with Cyhwuhx. This looks seriously amazing, like a proper next step for gaming

I never really got intro Ingress because it felt unrewarding - being on either the Resistance or Enlightened side and 'occupying more areas' wasn't a real incentive to keep playing.

Providing Pokémon Go goes sort of back to basics (the RPG games sort of lost me past Emerald), this could be huge fun to play.

[Takizawa]

Pokemon: Global Offensive

[JLM]

Always wanted to catch a vulpix down by the corn exchange. I'm in.

[Triple A]

I think that this is really very special indeed. Brilliant.

[DarhkFox]

It's also not part of the DeNA deal.

[Hitcher]

Is it 1st April? How will it even work?

[BruceBruce]

"I got arrested after trying to catch a squirtle from my neighbor's bathroom."

[Cyhwuhx]

Is it 1st April? How will it even work?

It's actually rather easy to see how it works. Smartphone projects pokémon on real-life environments, you use bracelet to perform gestures like throwing balls to interact with them. GPS/Wifi determines location for pokémon to appear and start raid-style multi-player events (like the Mewtwo from the concept trailer).

It's basically Ingress with a more direct AR component. The only way this could've been better is to project everything positionally through Google Glass/HoloLens.

[Hitcher]

No-one's going to do that.

[AlwaysBeClosing]

From the phone screens it just looks like 3D world Pokemon instead of what the advert shows it to be.

[NEG]

Excellent

[shynra]

Nintendo investing up to $30 million into the team that are making this:

http://recode.net/2015/10/15/nintendo-google-to-invest-up-to-30-million-in-niantic-maker-of-mobile-pokemon-game/

Former Google team new start up making the pokemon AR game - Nintendo investing 20 million + additional 10 million if targets are met!

[JohnC]

A companion "wearable".  A $35 button for catching Pokemon. 

[JPickford]

This looks awful.

[Retroid]

I wanted this game back when Pokemon pretty much first came out, I thought about it as a kid for quite some time and now it's finally here... I couldn't really give a shit. It's stll a cool concept but there's no magic left there for me.

[NEG]

So if I don't travel the whole real world I'll never catch them all, right?

[CactuarBill]

So anyone playing this? I know it isn't available in the UK from the app store but managed to download it anyway.  Just gave it shot and I like it.  Will be fun when I go for a walk to see what Pokemon I come across.  Like if I head to the river, I will find water Pokemon there.  Also there is a Gym in the distance but it is quite the walk. 

[John0]

Damn this has arrived just before hayfever season finishes. I'll be all over it in a coupla weeks. Excited to hear people's impressions, hope it's good!

[gingerling]

Just downloading now.

[CactuarBill]

I will head out properly later and see what Pokemon I come across. I found a Pidgey in my back garden but those fuckers are everywhere anyway.  

[StephenM]

1 hour ago, CactuarBill said:

So anyone playing this? I know it isn't available in the UK from the app store but managed to download it anyway.

 

How do you do that?