Pokémon with Your Friends and in Your Family?
Just out of curiosity, how do your friends and family think of Pokémon? Do you have any "irl buddies" whom to talk about Pokémon, possibly play the games and watch the anime with?
I used to have. I think I'm old for a Pokémon fan now. I don't think if I'm even a fan or just your annoying nostalgia fanboy. I played R/B/Y with a couple of friends somewhere in the late 90s / early 2000s. When G/S game out, I only had one friend left to play Pokémon with. After that, I took a break myself, then game back, took another break, and here I am again finding myself enjoying the newer games... I need to get a Gen V game also; maybe I wait for the third installment or something.
I have no friends left with enthusiasm towards Pokémon that I know of. I don't really have the nerve to ask people if they're into it. Many might be. There's one friend of mine with whom I occasionally talk something about the games, but he's not a "fan" by any means. Just a casual player (like me?).
Surprisingly, when I was in the army a few years ago, I had, like, 5 roommates who still played the games!
This thread came to mind as the day before yesterday, I was enjoying breakfast when I was visiting my mother. I played there in the breakfast table. I went to grab some food and left the DS there on the table. There was a random encounter battle going on, with my level 54-ish Staraptor battling a similar Machoke at Victory Road. I told mom to push the FIGHT button and then use either Fly or Aerial Ace. When she had OHKOed that Machoke with an Aerial Ace, I asked her, "How did the first Pokémon battle of your life feel?". She answered something like, "Nothing, luckily I didn't get hurt". She couldn't care less about Pokémon in general, and I doubt she could even define what Pokémon is if she was asked. It's the same with my whole family actually.
What about you guys? Have friends or family interested in Pokémon?
Just out of curiosity, how do your friends and family think of Pokémon? Do you have any "irl buddies" whom to talk about Pokémon, possibly play the games and watch the anime with?
I used to have. I think I'm old for a Pokémon fan now. I don't think if I'm even a fan or just your annoying nostalgia fanboy. I played R/B/Y with a couple of friends somewhere in the late 90s / early 2000s. When G/S game out, I only had one friend left to play Pokémon with. After that, I took a break myself, then game back, took another break, and here I am again finding myself enjoying the newer games... I need to get a Gen V game also; maybe I wait for the third installment or something.
I have no friends left with enthusiasm towards Pokémon that I know of. I don't really have the nerve to ask people if they're into it. Many might be. There's one friend of mine with whom I occasionally talk something about the games, but he's not a "fan" by any means. Just a casual player (like me?).
Surprisingly, when I was in the army a few years ago, I had, like, 5 roommates who still played the games!
This thread came to mind as the day before yesterday, I was enjoying breakfast when I was visiting my mother. I played there in the breakfast table. I went to grab some food and left the DS there on the table. There was a random encounter battle going on, with my level 54-ish Staraptor battling a similar Machoke at Victory Road. I told mom to push the FIGHT button and then use either Fly or Aerial Ace. When she had OHKOed that Machoke with an Aerial Ace, I asked her, "How did the first Pokémon battle of your life feel?". She answered something like, "Nothing, luckily I didn't get hurt". She couldn't care less about Pokémon in general, and I doubt she could even define what Pokémon is if she was asked. It's the same with my whole family actually.
What about you guys? Have friends or family interested in Pokémon?