@Beastwolf: Depending on which game you want. There are legio GBA/N64/PSX emulators for android, with varying amount of ads/freemiumness/support for save states. I use MyBoy Free. Don't know if there's a DS emu already, but you can already play the first four gens.
Pokemon GO is a wasted potential. Totally wasted. Massive pokemon game outside your house, that was a potential to make game making people haveing fun going outside, meeting other people etc. But then they fucked up, Pokemon GO has nothing to original series and only feeds on nostalgia.
it's great for people who live in cities.. less so for smaller towns but doable. but if you live in the country the programmers absolutely hate you. where i live absolutely zero pokemon show up.. ever. i did give it a chance and walked about 100 kilometers and not a single pokemon appeared here.
It was really a cultural phenomenon, with genuine bonding moments with strangers, and you could literally just chat people up on the street and they'd be pretty much instantly your friend. I'm so angry that Niantic seems to have killed that comradery, I was so looking forward to it in the spring.
Pokemon Go was so amazingly awesome, and I played that game HARD over the summer and fall. Like, going out every night, hanging out downtown with COMPLETE strangers, having a group event with people I didn't even know were going to be there when I left my house.
@Kate Blackwell: I would pay unusually large sums of money to play pokemon on my phone
Wait a second I have android, there might be an emulator
But I'd still outright buy a game on phone if it was available.
I installed pokemon go, looked at how to play the game, and uninstalled it. Pokemon makes a great turn based rock paper dynamite collectible monster game but what is it when you take out abilities?
@GabeZhul: (2/2) And as an added bonus, it's one of the most successful mobile games of all time despite being less than a year old (even now, it's still the #15 grossing app on the App Store). To say it wasn't successful or that "there was only so much it could do" is beyond ridiculous.
@GabeZhul: (1/2) The point of the game wasn't longevity, it was to make the Pokemon series as a whole more popular. People wouldn't shut up about Pokemon Go (and by extension the series itself) for ~3 months and it led to Sun/Moon having the most successful launch of any Nintendo game ever.
I enjoyed Pokemon Go while I was able to play it. Unfortunately they patched it to prevent rooted phones being able to play it, so stopped careing. I'd probably go back to it if for some reason they changed their mind, but that's pretty unlikely.
@TheMiscGamer: This is actually untrue. Pokemon Go has a hidden 'migration' mechanic tracked by fansites which makes nests of Pokemon 'move around' on a regular basis. I could see it happen with Tauros in my neighborhood, which began as rare appearances and then spawned everywhere for like 2 weeks.
It's fun to complete your Pokedex and honestly getting people to walk more to hatch eggs is probably a good thing. Problem: completing the dex doesn't work if you're not willing to wander 2 miles to find new terrain, and old terrain never has Pokemon. If they rotated Pokemon habitats or something...
Maybe the reason this game is so void of anything interesting is it's an experiment at getting people to replace the Google Cars? if they have the Ar as an extra layer in the game data they're essentially getting people to run around pointing their camera at things exactly like google cars do.
@Hyperstar: Yes, it made a lot of money in one big burst by riding on a combination of the nostalgia of Pokemon and the novelty of an AR game. Once people realized both parts were shallow as fuck, they left the game in troves, but by then the company already made a huge profit.
Meh, it's mobile I automatically don't care. Could be whichever franchise I'd like, I doubt it'd be any good. Mobile "gaming" is a market for shallow games that sucks you in with a generic gameplay and then begs for money.
There were really bizarre things with Pokemon Go in Russia. All sorts of political activists, priests, members of patriotic organizations and all sorts of people were writing articles about how Pokemon Go is pure evil and should be destroyed. That was weird.
It's fun to go out and do it with a group of friends but since there's no real end game or reward and the gym ownership lasts a few hours tops so you never actually get anything... yaa........ I dont play anymore.
What I have been saying is that someone should make a generic AR game. And then someone makes a pokemon mod out of it with everything that pokemon go should have but never did.
Man, Pokemon Go sounds less and less appealing every passing days huh?
If only there were a game where you can own every single pokemon, with interesting battle mechanics, where you could even pet your pokemon, maybe even trade and do online battles, with a decent story to boot.
If they had actual game play and deeper mechanics they would have gathered a smaller but lasting following vs the huge but temporary following they got now. People who want combat like in the pokemon games are already playing the pokemon games or emulators like showdown.
I'd play this just for the sake of taking a walk every once in a while.
But I don't have a smartphone and I don't feel like I need one. I maybe kind of want one of the rare dying QWERTY ones, but they're too expensive.
