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Like I said, 64 Pokemon found this way :p I only used the map once because a Pokemon I wanted was on the nearby list but impossible to track down. You have a set amount of time til it despawns and it could take hours to go down every road within the 3 step radius. I know I'm not the only one who has used it out of the people I know playing Irl. What about on here?

How did you see the Pokedex entry for Pikachu before you found one? Ironically just found this on my way home, Professor Bob will be happy to know without the use of the map...

Sure. I bet in the original games you never once looked up where to find a specific pokemon. You just crossed your fingers and hoped that pressing up and down in Viridian Forest for half an hour would eventually net you a Pikachu. PS, sometimes just saying "lol joking" doesn't make what you're saying less rude.

Well, I am at 64 and only one have I actively gone after using the map, a Kadabra that appeared near my house (which normally has nothing but Weedles and Pidgeys). And I would've gone for the Wartortle if not in working hours. You have 30 types, but if it ever came down to that one last one that you needed, and the 3-step system was still broken, bearing in mind that's the intended method of playing the game, you wouldn't do anything about it? Not sure how you can consider a tool that uses Niantic's publicly available API to map pokemon to be cheating, although I consider it against the spirit of the game - if it was working properly.

Perhaps you don't understand how the game is meant to work? There's meant to be an indicator that you're getting closer to pokemon, but it has been offline since almost when the game began. Without it, all you know is that the pokemon on your screen are within 1km, in any direction. How are you supposed to search for them, in the mean time, without the map? If I was a cheater, I'd have all the pokemon by now by spoofing my gps.

You are right, but I was looking at the map. If the distance guides weren't broken, I wouldn't be using it but... what can you do

There was a Wartortle down the road just now but my boss wouldn't let me go get it. Well, time to start looking for a new job.

Backers who spent over £20* are going to get Toybox access on Steam sent out soon. From their mailer: * I believe this is the case, not sure if there was also an opt-in.

Hold on a second. U wot. *fires Sonic 2 back up*

On Gameboy VC games, is there no option to run them in Super Gameboy or GBC modes to get a bit of colour? Can't find it (or any options really).

You can filter out pokemon you don't want on pokevision but still, all those pidgeys and stuff would net you a tonne of xp, loads of easy evolutions.... Where I am there's typically about 2 crap pokemon within a mile.

This game is so rad. I got up this morning specifically to catch a Kadabra. Then there was a Wigglytuff nearby but I cba to go back out again :p Currently saved up a bunch of pidgeys and ratattas for levelling up with a lucky egg active. Couple more zubats and weedles and I'm ready to go Keep going a longer way home to get more pokestops... Really wish they would roll the distance services back out. A lot of people will never have even experienced the actual searching aspect. Now so many people are using the map that they probably won't go back when the ability returns. The hype and nostalgia this game brings (and a well-timed discount) prompted me to buy Pokemon Blue on Virtual Console.

Mentioned it in the 3DS eShop thread but until the end of today, Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow are 30% off making them £6.29

They just reduced the price by 30% for Pokemon so they're back in my good books :p

Why the fuck are Pokemon Red, Blue and Yellow out of stock? How the hell can a digital game be out of stock? Are they insane?

This is the one thing I'd agree with, it has to be more than this.

Sooo... what's the deal with the title of this thread?

But it was never referred to as fact by Eurogamer. There's a difference between multiple sources claiming something (which can be anyone), and publishing something based on how much you trust your sources. Anyway I'm not saying this is 100% certain, just that I would be very surprised if Eurogamer embarrasses themselves over this.

Eurogamer are being pretty ballsy if this turns out to be fake. They're not even calling it rumours, they're saying this "is" the NX based on multiple sources. If it turns out to be wrong, they're going to look like idiots, so I doubt they'd take such a forward approach if they're at all skeptical.

Yes... exactly... I don't understand the confusion here, I thought that was obviously the whole point of the system (although I never said multiplayer).

Well, the idea is for it to be played on the go right? So you take it to a friend's (without the docking station, because presumably that adds more features and a power brick or whatever) put it down and play. In this circumstance, absolutely it would need a stand.

I wish caterpie was more common around me. I'm drowning in Weedles, Pidgeys and Drowzees but still haven't evolved a Butterfree. What I really want is more Gastlys! Do they only come out at night? Went for a walk near Manchester on Saturday, around a reservoir, caught loads of water types I didn't have, as well as Dratini, Slowpoke and Slowbro. It was obvious that loads of people were playing as well. Tried my first attempt at a gym but didn't realise that the leader would have multiple pokemon, higher than the one showing. Their first was a 400 Pidgeot but their best was a 1000+ ice type, forgotten which. Afterwards, hanging out with a bunch of my younger family members and their close friends... we were all playing it and talking about it :p I took my first gym as well, yesterday morning, but the Vaporeon I left there was returned to me before I'd even gotten home :p Hatched Mr Mime and Aerodactyl on that walk. No matter how much content there was, the buzz for the more casual players would die off very quickly. Almost every very "casual" player I know doesn't know a thing about the game, I've taught all of them what evolution is for example. So ultimately the game will lose interest within weeks no matter what but if a significant update comes out a) it will pop up on their phone that the game was updated and they will investigate and b) the buzz might be rebooted on social media. I think it was best that they launched the game as-is. I wouldn't really call it buggy either, at least not in my experience. Server-side features struggle and the main one is currently offline (distance measurements) but that's a result of the overwhelming popularity, which would've happened no matter what. No degree of testing and debugging could've prevented that.

The main reason I never played UA2 was that it never dropped in price, even years after release. Now this is announced and the price is still ridiculous. $60 for two old last-gen games that weren't that amazing in the first place, with hardly any upgrades? "We wanted to stay as faithful to the originals as possible" is like calling a small room "cosy", just a way of spinning the fact you spent no effort upgrading the visuals. Typical Activision...

No it can't run in the background but why would you think you have to hold it? Put battery saving mode on (the in-game option, not a device setting) and put it in your pocket upside down, the screen will go off to save battery but the game is still running.