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I hate pokeman
2010-03-17, 11:18 AM #1
My 13 year old stepson had me take him to Costco last night to buy a video game. It turned out to be POKEMAN. Seriously, people still play that when they're 13? I can't understand how he'd go from Gears of War to POKEMAN. He said all his sister's friends play it ... his sister is 16 years old -- 16 year olds play pokeman? Seriously?

He asked me if I ever played it. I told him I'd rather gouge my own eyes out with rusty spoons than play pokeman. I told him I'd rather watch a my little pony / strawberry shortcake marathon than play that stupid game.
2010-03-17, 11:20 AM #2
GOTTA CATCH EM ALL
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2010-03-17, 11:26 AM #3
I know college students that play them. Apparently the MMO-like grind is appealing.
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2010-03-17, 11:26 AM #4
Around my school, we played well into middle school. But, that was around the time it came out. (Red, Blue, Yellow on Gameboy, then Stadium and Snap on the N64)

The first games were fun, standard RPG type of game with a twist to the battle system. Now days they just scribble on paper, draw an element to it, then spin a bottle on an alphabet wheel a few times and call whatever combination comes out a name.
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2010-03-17, 11:27 AM #5
Also: GARRYMON!
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2010-03-17, 11:30 AM #6
I occasionally play them whenever I can be bothered to find an emulator. They're actually pretty good games.
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2010-03-17, 11:32 AM #7
I'm playing right now.

:psyduck::psyduck::psyduck::psyduck:






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2010-03-17, 11:37 AM #8
Originally posted by - Tony -:
I'm playing right now.


Ditto, and I'm 25.

My girlfriend has Soul Silver and I have Heart Gold, so it's fun to give each other ze pokemans. Also, she schooled me in battle even though I have Croconaw and he's higher level than her Quilava. :P
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2010-03-17, 11:51 AM #9
Not embarrassed to say I was looking forward to the latest PokeMON game. PokeMON. Not PokeMAN, they're not men running around in monster suits. That would be disturbing, and too much like real life (*cough* anime/furry conventions *cough*).

The number of Pokemon in the games are a bit ridiculous, and the storyline is still thin as it always was, but the underlying battle system and raising can be ridiculously complicated if you let it. Getting a Pokemon raised with the best possible moves, types, and EV/IVs (stats) alone requires hours of research, planning, calculations/algorithms, and a bit of luck. Sure, any 8 year old kid can beat the game, but the kid's Pokemon won't be well trained for battle competitively.
2010-03-17, 11:53 AM #10
Yea, where I grew up it was pretty much only the homos played with pokem, no matter what age you were.

I did beat up a fat kid named billy smith once and steal his pokemon cards though.
I sold them back to him for $20.
2010-03-17, 11:57 AM #11
*mon, assuming you aren't Bill Cosby.

I haven't played them since I was about 10 but they were pretty solid games. Theres actually a bloke in some of my mathematics lectures that I've spotted playing it on an emulator on his laptop.
nope.
2010-03-17, 11:58 AM #12
I think YOU were the fat kid that got beat up by Billy Smith and had to buy back your Pokemon cards for $20.
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2010-03-17, 12:06 PM #13
My brother had a small Pokemon business going in college - he would catch or trade for rare pokemons, then sell them to the Asian kids around campus for $10 or $15. Gas money!

I think he had a game genie or whatever to hack the game, but hey, this is a capitalist mixed economy. Whatever it takes, man.
2010-03-17, 12:15 PM #14
GET OFF MY LAWN YOU POKEYMANZ
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2010-03-17, 12:25 PM #15
[http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/495297227_D5F8P-L-2.jpg]
there may or may not be a copy of the japanese version of Green in my desk right now. in my gameboy.

>.>
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2010-03-17, 12:47 PM #16
Originally posted by Brian:

He asked me if I ever played it. I told him I'd rather gouge my own eyes out with rusty spoons than play pokeman.


You must be on hilarious dad. :p
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2010-03-17, 1:28 PM #17
IF I DON'T LIKE IT IT MUST BE STUPID.

Charizard still rapes all modern pokeymans. Haven't played since silver, but then my team was Umbreon, Charizard, Gyrados, and a ****ing ELECTRIC SHEEP. And two other guys I never used.
2010-03-17, 1:44 PM #18
The only pokemans I know are those from Smash Bros
2010-03-17, 1:45 PM #19
I absolutely love Pokemon Red and Blue. Still play them to this day. I just think it's a great way to relax, and it still does offer somewhat of a challenge to finish it 100%. Simple, easy to just pick up and play for 5 minutes, and at least some semblance of strategy.
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2010-03-17, 1:48 PM #20
The President loves Chinpokomon!
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2010-03-17, 1:48 PM #21
I get no sympathy around here -- btw, YOU ALL SUCK.
2010-03-17, 1:55 PM #22
You know, your last name sounds a bit like a Pokemon.

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2010-03-17, 2:08 PM #23
I don't get why people enjoy playing games with these stupid squeaky cutsie little fuzzball animals that make annoying baby noises when instead they could be killing bad guys by hacking them apart with swords or blasting them with shotguns.

Don't even get me started on nintendogs :mad:
2010-03-17, 2:13 PM #24
Originally posted by Emon:
I think YOU were the fat kid that got beat up by Billy Smith and had to buy back your Pokemon cards for $20.


****, I'm busted now.
:huh: Not.
2010-03-17, 2:13 PM #25
Originally posted by Brian:
I don't get why people enjoy playing games with these stupid squeaky cutsie little fuzzball animals that make annoying baby noises when instead they could be killing bad guys by hacking them apart with swords or blasting them with shotguns.

Don't even get me started on nintendogs :mad:


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Will make annoying baby noises while smashing you flat.

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2010-03-17, 2:13 PM #26
You have never played the game. You are not allowed to hate it.
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2010-03-17, 2:18 PM #27
Originally posted by llibja:
You have never played the game. You are not allowed to hate it.


I've watching people talk about it, watched the TV show, seen people play it.

It's pretty ****ing gay.


Like I'm not gay, but I can definitely call out a homo when I see one. Don't gotta play it to call it out.
2010-03-17, 2:22 PM #28
Trying to say the TV show is like the game is pretty bad of a comparison. Considering the TV show relies entirely on a storyline that is even less interesting than the games, breaks about half the game's rules, and pretty much just pushes love and friendship conquering all. The major draw for the games doesn't even exist in the TV show, for adults.
2010-03-17, 2:25 PM #29
Originally posted by Squirrel King:
I've watching people talk about it, watched the TV show, seen people play it.

It's pretty ****ing gay.


Like I'm not gay, but I can definitely call out a homo when I see one. Don't gotta play it to call it out.


How mature!
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2010-03-17, 2:27 PM #30
I've watched him play it -- he was playing when I met him when he was 5 years old, couldn't read, and was stuck at level 1 (or whatever you call "the beginning of the game that he couldn't pass because he couldn't read" -- he keeps insisting there is no level 1). I had to help him read and tell him which options to select to fight (if it can be called fighting).

When I was 5 we were playing COMBAT with TANKS that BLEW EACH OTHER UP. We weren't "choosing" people and throwing stupid little balls at each other (stupid little balls that somehow magically contain ****ing teletubbies and beanie babies).
2010-03-17, 2:35 PM #31
There is no level 1. It's an rpg. The 'levels' belong to the characters, not the world. And they all start at level 3.
2010-03-17, 2:37 PM #32
Originally posted by Brian:
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2010-03-17, 2:45 PM #33
Originally posted by Brian:
When I was 5 we were playing COMBAT with TANKS that BLEW EACH OTHER UP.


So?
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2010-03-17, 2:47 PM #34
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Hey, Blue? I'm loving the things you do. From the very first time, the fight you fight for will always be mine.
2010-03-17, 2:51 PM #35
Originally posted by Brian:
When I was 5 we would play stickball! aheh heh heh

;)
nope.
2010-03-17, 2:55 PM #36
I'm with Brian - Pokeman is pretty suck. When I was five I used to play outside. With other kids.
2010-03-17, 3:05 PM #37
It's even worse now, this new version has a pedometer included in the box... as he's walking to school he thinks he's "walking his pokeman" (as one would walk a dog).

I should invent a game where you have to do the most sissy crap possible. Only I don't have good ideas for that, the character would just be playing pokeman the whole time to gain sissy points. He could take a break to play nintendogs and then go cry himself to sleep on his heart-shaped pillow when he can't get a girlfriend. Then he could wake up in the middle of the night and eat a carton of chocolate ice cream to make himself feel better, then cry some more, but this time maybe he'll remember to use his tissues that have lotion in them so his soft nose doesn't get chapped. After that maybe he could arrange some flowers in a sissy vase and pick out a dinette set that defines him as a person.
2010-03-17, 3:07 PM #38
And you can call it "mscbuck: The Game"
2010-03-17, 3:13 PM #39
You have serious anxiety issues regarding your masculinity.
2010-03-17, 3:21 PM #40
I love Brian's new member title! :D
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