Train Pokemon While Walking In Gold/Silver Remakes

[rockingnic]

It's too easy... I mean train your pokemon by fighting, if you have to do this you just suck.

So doing something like exercising instead of sitting and grinding yourself stupid in tedious battles is a lack of skill now? I'd like to point out that Pokemon has never required much skill at all. As long as you can play rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock you can play Pokemon with a degree of skill. And this is coming from someone that used to grind himself stupid on the original Silver and practically every game after it.

Looking forward to it even more since it's bundled with the game. Please don't just be a Japanese exclusive.

If you're going to exercise, don't do it for a game, do it for yourself. If you do it for a game you're only going to do it when you need to or until you lose interest in the game because that will only make exercise for a short period of time which isn't enough to change anything. Sure it has a good idea behind it but so does the Natal and whatever else. I see it as just another gimmick that won't do much. Exercising is about bettering yourself, not some fictional creatures so you can beat your friends. So if Pokemon doesn't require any skill, then no RPG requires any skill, just luck I guess. Well then just because of that I'm going to stop playing every RPG.

 

[Zivlok]

It's a neat idea, and it's not like this hasn't been done before, just in game. After all, remember the daycares? The number of levels your pokemon gained while under the care of the old man/old couple was based on how many steps you took, and in the DS series, you even got an in-game pedometer. So really, instead of just sticking a couple pokemon in the daycare center, and zooming around on your bicycle for a while, you could go out for a jog. Like, an actual one. And true, the pokemon will probably have not as good stats, but that's true of the daycare, anyway, right? I'll mostly level up the usual way (especially because the Gold/Silver games are the best in the series, IMHO), but when I want to quickly evolve a pokemon, just for the pokedex, or that creepy guy who liked looking at pictures of pokemon (the dude in the Kanto region, north of the Water Gym), I can just go for a run, and get it to level 30 or whatever (especially if doing this will make your pokemon like you more - thus, evolve quicker).

Really, this is just a cool way to do some real-world grinding, if you will. I just hope that you can transfer eggs to the device, because that would be really cool.

 

[LivingInStereo]

Really? Shouldn't they be focusing on innovating the series as opposed to adding useless gimmicks? I know it's a remake but come on. Will people even walk-like remember digivices, how (I did this at least) all you had to do was sit and shake it (lol) and annoy your family?

 

[Break]

"Watts"? So it really is just an updated Pocket Pikachu, then. They did this with the original G/S. Hah, they've even kept the infrared linkup, although that's a cheeky bit of obsolete technology added in to make the DSi more attractive...

 

[Doc Theta Sigma]

It's too easy... I mean train your pokemon by fighting, if you have to do this you just suck.

So doing something like exercising instead of sitting and grinding yourself stupid in tedious battles is a lack of skill now? I'd like to point out that Pokemon has never required much skill at all. As long as you can play rock, paper, scissors, lizard, spock you can play Pokemon with a degree of skill. And this is coming from someone that used to grind himself stupid on the original Silver and practically every game after it.

Looking forward to it even more since it's bundled with the game. Please don't just be a Japanese exclusive.

If you're going to exercise, don't do it for a game, do it for yourself. If you do it for a game you're only going to do it when you need to or until you lose interest in the game because that will only make exercise for a short period of time which isn't enough to change anything. Sure it has a good idea behind it but so does the Natal and whatever else. I see it as just another gimmick that won't do much. Exercising is about bettering yourself, not some fictional creatures so you can beat your friends. So if Pokemon doesn't require any skill, then no RPG requires any skill, just luck I guess. Well then just because of that I'm going to stop playing every RPG.

I can't help but feel you're missing my point. Sure, you should exercise for yourself. I do. But having the opportunity to exercise while training my Pokemon is appealing. And it's so very nice you decided to be mature in those last two sentences

 

[Easykill]

I like the idea, but it would be so damn easy to cheat that it would wreck the game.

 

[Cortheya]

haha I can bring this to school in PE and level my cyndaquil!!!!!

 

[TwistedEllipses]

I don't like the way game designers are incorporating more exercise into games...if we liked exercise we wouldn't play as much we would exercise instead...

 

[Pimppeter2]

Can't wait for the gazzilions of people to get ripped.

Not from walking, but from shaking their arms up and down trying to cheat.

 

[Zivlok]

Can't wait for the gazzilions of people to get ripped.

Not from walking, but from shaking their arms up and down trying to cheat.

QFT.

Though, really, shaking your arms up and down is no more cheating then mashing left and right really quickly to increase your walk count inside the game.

 

[WolfMage]

pedometer

Am I the only one to notice this?
But yes, this seems to be a good idea.

 

[Yoshi_egg80]

Doing this will probably give your Pokemon terrible stats.

I will raise my Pokemon the old fashion way. Through hours of pointless grinding.

That is my only concern with the whole effort point system *tear* now I just gotta buy a bloody ds.

Edit: Does that mean all my pretties in emerald/firered can be transfered?

 

[snuffler]

Or possibly a alever marketing ploy to attract fitness-

Call me meticulous.

Personally I didn't mind the grind of pokemon when I did play. I used to derive satisfaction from beating the elite four +rival with 1 pokemon.

 

[nova18]

Yes, sweet mother of god yes.

Im going to buy about 5 of them and strap them all to my legs while I go jogging.
Ill have the most unstoppable team in the world.

Havent actually played a Pokemon game since the original Gold/Silver, so its fitting that the remake will be the one I buy next.

 

[Quaidis]

This is a good idea. I would buy a copy in a heartbeat.


However I can see it in the headlines: Young Child Dropped Dead from Jogging for Pokepoints, Dehydration to Blame.

 

[Yegargeburble]

That sounds like a good idea, but very little of my exercise involves running, so my pokemon would not level all that much with that.

 

[I III II X4]

"Watts"? So it really is just an updated Pocket Pikachu, then. They did this with the original G/S. Hah, they've even kept the infrared linkup, although that's a cheeky bit of obsolete technology added in to make the DSi more attractive...

Good, I ain't the only one who remembers that thing...

Anyway, I never liked the Day Cares (My Hitmonlee is stuck in Red, I can't get him out!!), this idea, however, is interesting...yet I think it takes the purpose out of the battles, even if they are just grinding.

 

[The Brian J]

FINALLY!

I have always calculated my walks not by how many miles or how long I walk, but by how many experience points my Dugtrio would gain if I spent the time playing Pokemon instead!

BUT NO MORE! All those clumsy flow charts and spreadsheets I have created can go in the garbage!

Now, if only they would make a way for me to knit a pretty blanket whilst playing Elite Beat Agents.

 

[scotth266]

I can see this being a fun addition to Pokemon. Of course, I won't be using it: I prefer eating sticks of butter to going outside.