>>21751 Funny, I thought that seeding random conversations was one of the plus sides to what is otherwise a dull, battery-sapping, data-harvesting shadow of the original games.
Not if you're disabled, which is why I use it. I wouldn't be able to play it otherwise and I like the collectathon element. I turn all the other shit off, there is one where you can throw a perfect ball every time. That's definitely cheating. Way I see it, if you can walk, there is no reason why you shouldn't. All you two legged, strong spined bastards don't know ya' born.
I'd be willing to stand witness for the modder against Niantic in court for shits and giggles using the Equality Act 2010 and Fair Use as his defence. "Reasonable adjustments" and all that.
>All you two legged, strong spined bastards don't know ya' born.
I've actually been waiting for some kind of click-bait article about how Pokemon Go is evil ableist filth and needs to be made more inclusive.
In this case though I think that would be a fair point, considering Pokemon is a game with a very universal audience appeal. Making the mechanics so exclusive for disabled people seems like something they can't have just overlooked- They thought of it and then just went ahead anyway.
Also you could ride a fucking bike in proper Pokemon games, so why doesn't it register if you go at anything faster than a slight jog.
>>21758 >They thought of it and then just went ahead anyway
Because it's a great idea and trying to address that issue would just result in no game at all. There's already over a dozen other Pokemon games that don't require any physical activity. And in a broader sense, there are so many different types of disability that just about any game - or indeed any thing - could be considered ableist.
>why doesn't it register if you go at anything faster than a slight jog
Because biking speeds are pretty fast, such that registering movement at that speed would also include a large portion of car travel, defeating the point of the game.
>>21759 I think upping the speed limit for the eggs to 20mph would be a good idea, you're not likely to break that cycling unless you're one of the lycra-clad road-bike brigade at full pelt but most people will drive at least 30mph.
I stopped playing. I wanted to try it out to see what all the hype was about. After a few days and thirty odd Pokemons, I have to say that it is really shit. I don't know what people see in it. Maybe the people who enjoy it played the other Pokemon games on Gameboy or whatever. Something I have not done, but I did watch the Pokemon cartoons as a kid, so maybe that played a part.
Disabledlad is such a whinger. Blind people can't play first-person shooters. Encouraging cheating at Pokemon Go for the mobility impaired is like having constant audio indicators of everyone's position in an FPS for the benefit of the blind.
Letting a player remove X from a competituve game of which the main challenge is X is not a reasonable adjustment.
>>21763 >Blind people can't play first-person shooters.
Your typical blind person doesn't tend to wake up one morning and find most of their circle of friends are suddenly playing the same FPS.
I'm a big proponent of accessibility, but walking is integral to the design of Pokemon Go. Allowing people to use GPS teleportation completely breaks the game. It would be like Call of Duty having an accessibility mode for the visually impaired that turns on an aimbot. It's unfortunate that people are excluded, but there's no reasonable accommodation that Niantic could make.
On a brighter note, Pokemon Go is having a hugely beneficial impact on the lives of many people with autism.
There really isn't much game in the game. Every aspect is massively simplified compared to earlier Pokemon games. What makes Go interesting is the real world interaction. All the excitement about the game comes from that - the impromptu flashmobs when a rare pokemon appears, the detours to weird places, the daft kids who fall down manholes.
A comparison was made upthread to geocaching, which I think is quite pertinent. Take away the travel from geocaching and you're left with rummaging around in some undergrowth for a tupperware box and signing a logbook. That hobby is just an excuse to go for a walk, a way for people to share interesting places, an overlay of play on top of the mundane world. It sprinkles a bit of geeky fairy dust over canal towpaths and abandoned quarries.
Allow people to play Pokemon Go without leaving their homes and they will, because human beings are naturally lazy. Do that and all of the fun disappears. No more little adventures, no more chance meetings, no more stories, just a slightly shit version of a 20 year old game.
Just to throw a bit of cold water on this poz party I'm using that right, aren't I?, these adventures mainly take place in town centres and can never last too long because your phone's battery certainly won't.
Despite my disability, I still do go out every chance I get, but I live in a field and only get support twice a week. Going out the other day for example and seeing a Snorlax shadow and following it to the edge of the village was exciting, and I went down the bike path beside the bridge on the edge of town and I'm thinking "Where the fuck is this thing?" My support worker is shouting at me at this point saying "Don't push yourself!", but this was a shitting Snorlax. I doubled back and went under the bridge so I could walk up the other side and it popped under the bridge.
That half kilometre walk, even with my crutch, left me bedridden for the rest of that day and I spent the next in agony, so I turned the Geospoofing on and went walking about using the joystick near the bridge trying to catch another one until my next support day came around and we went out again.
My life is one of walking/swimming/rehab/doing any exercise at all for a bit and then not being able to walk or get out of bed at all as a result for anything up to 2 days. Before Pokemon Go, I didn't have anything to distract me from the pain when I was stuck in bed and I'd hit all my local geocaches already going out, because I live in the middle of no where and almost anything else, solitaire and those shit phone games are piss and I can't hold a book to read it never mind concentrate enough to read it. I haven't read a book in six months. I've probably walked further and done more exercise in that six months than some of you.
This app, and before that geocaching, completely changed my life, I go out twice a week and I meet my friends while I'm out and people playing the same game and geocaching on nice days and doing the same activities. The rest of the time I sit in the house trotting about catching and hatching, because I'm usually in bed.
As mentioned I also go geocaching when I'm out. I do a fucking lot of shit, I go swimming to help with my rehab and I walk about a village from the comfort of my bed when I'm in pain. It's hardly like I'm living in the middle of London and getting tons of rare drops, I have caught more zubats and drowsees than everything else combined. That anyone could be so bitter they'd grudge a guy with limited mobility a way to play a game in a way they can't as a distraction from chronic joint and back pain is a cunt.
Also, I've discovered Landmarks and PoIs by walking a little beyond the boundaries of the village in attempt to "see what the blue Pokestop was we passed coming back from Tesco" that I never even knew existed.
I think you're jealous of my ability to play it without going outside. I'll trade any of you if you like? My app and my fibromyalgia for your app and your apparent, fully functioning, working body.
>>21778 I'm really happy for you that Pokemon Go has given you a reason to go outside and push yourself. That said, I'm still wondering why you wouldn't want to play literally any other video game ever made when you are stuck at home? I just can't see how Pokemon Go can be anywhere near as enjoyable as any of the other Pokemon games when you take out the whole 'being outside' element of it.
On a side note, I got my girlfriend into Go despite her comments when I started playing that it was sad and childish (she was one of these bizarre people I had no idea who existed, who apparently managed to grow up in the 90s without engaging with pokemon in any form). Now somehow she's got more addicted to it than I and has managed to catch ever so slightly more of the different 'mons. Which I find pretty amusing in light of her original comments.
>>21781 Ah right that makes sense. If you were interested in playing any of the other Pokemon games there are emulators you can download onto your smartphone, you should be able to reach all the 'buttons' on the screen comfortably with one hand so long as your phone isn't ridiculously large.
I've next to no experience with emulators, but if any of the Nintendo DS games interest you, the emulator I've used had the ability to rebind the keys to whatever suits you.
>>21781 So you'd rather hack Pokemon Go than look into how handhelds can be made more accessible for you? Christ you're not the only disabled gamer on the planet, I bet there are communities where people are discussing how they've managed to play their 3DS one-handed as we speak.
Before I knew his circumstances I too disapproved of the lad's actions, but with both greater knowledge of those circumstances and how wank the game in question is, I find it hard to give a monkeys. As such I'm forced to ask, why do you? Especially when he pointed out things he gets from the VR geocache nature of Go that he obviously wouldn't from an emulated handheld title?
>>21793 Yep, Lapras, Vaporeon, Slowbro - those are all the ones I keep seeing dominating the local gyms.
It's a shame that the nature of the game means you can point to a few Pokemon and say 'catch these if you want to win'. There was more variety on my Game Boy. If I played Go, I'd be like 'sod it' and invest all my time training up a Pidgey to beat them.
>>21794 The annoying thing is they rebalanced the move damage a few days ago. Which means they saw that there was a problem and had an opportunity to do it properly, but didn't seize it. It's marginally better now (a Jolteon can actually beat a Vaporeon when it couldn't before), but the same few pokemon are still dominating.
People who played Ingress have been saying that Niantic is a shambles of a company who persistently exhibit gross incompetence and fail to listen to the desires of their users, and I'm increasingly finding myself agreeing with them. Pokemon Go just isn't the game that it could have been.
>>21796 I added those, overwriting their names. It's how close their IV stats are to the maximum values. If you google 'Pokemon Go IV calculator' you can do the same.
>>21797 Cheating how? I honestly just play the game too much, I have it running almost every hour that I am awake.
It's getting a bit stale for me already. All I ever seem to find around me are pidgeys, rattatas and weedles and the new update has made even them a ballache to catch. Gym-battling feels pointless when you aren't with mates on the same team who can help build it up to something that will actually resist being taken over straight away. And half the time I swear the eggs don't count the distance properly.
Might start playing more if and when they release the gen II pokemon.
>>21800 >Gym-battling feels pointless when you aren't with mates on the same team
...he said on the Internet.
Are you telling me there aren't already forums being set up for Norwich Team Mystic co-ordinating a concerted attack on the Cathedral Gym at 2pm and the like?
>All I ever seem to find around me are pidgeys, rattatas and weedles and the new update has made even them a ballache to catch.
This and having to stick to what Go defines as roads has made the game pretty lackluster for me too. I went for an hour and twenty minute walk/shopping trip yesterday and has all but ready to give up when my 5.0km egg hatched a Growlithe, but up until that point I'd mostly been stuck with the same repetitive triarch you described. Even walking along a river literally all I was finding was Rattatas. Apparently there was a Squirtle somewhere on a local housing estate though.
He'll probably turn up burnt and soaked in piss then.
Pokemon Go must feel like Christmas for the scrotes though, all these oblivious nerds who never normally leave the house walking around with expensive smartphones in hand. How soon until we hear about the sudden spike in muggings?
>>21803 You can hardly complain that the social aspect of the game is lacking if you don't live somewhere with people with whom to socialise. We're talking about the most popular mobile game in history and you have no-one to play it with? Move out of your fucking backwater.
>>21805 Oh don't worry I'm moving out very soon. Also it's not that I don't know people who play the game, but due to a lack of foresight we've all ended up pretty evenly split between the game's factions which doesn't help.
