Forum - View topicINTEREST: America's 1st Pokémon Go Master Finishes Worldwide Pokédex
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Barbobot
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4 are region-specific, not 3. Tauros is only found in NA.
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firedragon54738
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Just how much of the world did he miss playing that game
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Splitter
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Sure would be nice to have that much disposable income and free time.
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Lord Oink
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Just buy a 3DS and ORAS and enjoy an infinitely better experience with actual battles and content. |
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Fenrin
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1. Marriot and Expedia sponsored most of his trip 2. On the contary, he probably got to see more of the world than he ever would have without this game |
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Dextres
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spoiler[Johnson's claim to fame is under question, however. British tabloid The Sun claims Londoner Ahmed Ali is the first person in the world to catch every Pokémon. Ali has also caught all 145 Pokémon, allegedly two weeks after the game was released. He traveled to the U.S. to get Tauros but was lucky enough to get the other region-specific monsters via eggs. Ali is waiting for confirmation from Niantic to see if he's the first to complete the game's Pokédex. ]
Frame can sure be problematic. |
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Mr. Oshawott
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Congratulations to Nick for completing the Pokémon GO Pokédex!
 He was quite lucky to have achieved this feat.
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Sheleigha
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How do they know that he's the first? And if it was hack-free?
Just kind of a skeptic, since some guy got so much attention, that his trips got comped for him, too. (I haven't even heard of it until now). |
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BadNewsBlues
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Too much water and likely not enough free time 
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SWAnimefan
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True, but in this case it's just a Tabloid trying to stir the pot, trying to get readers. People can claim they are first, but in this case all Nintendo has to do is verify the logs on the server to verify who really was the first. So congrats to the winner. Though personally, be nice if capturing Pokemon was old school, where you earned that mastership by having to battle than just simply tossing a ball. |
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enurtsol
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Right now, Pokemon Go is more of a collector app than a game app - people "play" it for the collective experience
How Pokemon Go found success — despite not being a very good game
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Hikarunu
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Still waiting devs to add more Pokemons from other generation, prefer gen 2-4. The game will become boring so fast after you caught literally all of gen 1 Pokemons.
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traitorAIZEN
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"So what's your highest accomplishment in life?"
"I caught all pokemons!" 
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leafy sea dragon
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The Pokémon main series was largely a collectors' game when it was new too. Remember the "Gotta catch 'em all!" slogan? You had a lot of people who just wanted to collect them and never battle, though there still are plenty of those people. It was really visible with the TCG though, which had so many more collectors than battlers that many non-players didn't know there was a game around it. Many collectors didn't know either. People assumed you bought these cards to collect them. Some people came up to me asking if I had any duplicates they could trade, and when I said I was holding on to my extra Poliwraths for my deck, they were confused like as if I was speaking Martian. It wasn't until Yu-Gi-Oh! that the Pokémon Trading Card Game took off as a game, as Yu-Gi-Oh! popularized the concept of a collectible card game. (And Magic: The Gathering had always been niche.) As for confusing UI and ambiguous interfaces, I'm a fan of a type of game that's had confusing UI and ambiguous interfaces for a long time (spoiler[pinball]), and it's never had any of that community interaction, and instead becomes a turnoff for people attempting to get in. But I guess Pokémon GO has the factor of explosive growth and people walking around outside in public clearly playing it so they can talk to strangers and ask questions.
I'm guessing you were not in elementary school or middle school when Pokémon Generation I and II were going on. It was such a big deal to have a full Pokédex. You got a lot of school cred over that. |
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Polycell
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