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by tshadwell 3621 days ago
I tried to enjoy ingress, but didn't and I enjoy pokemon go.

Obviously the Pokémon brand is a draw, but ingress felt like a platform for a game that people had to construct. I got contacted by people who told me I needed to join these groups and talk in these IRC channels to have fun. I live in an area that's not so tech-savvy so there's few ingress points / Pokéstops but I can still walk over to the park and wander around some time through the few Pokéstops and gyms there are and have a lot of fun.

To me, ingress feels like an endless RPG quest where you have to retrieve items from various points. Sure, if you gather and co-ordinate efforts over the IRC channels and chat rooms I was invited to promising great depth you can create enough of a social element to make it pretty fun but I could be doing anything else.

With Pokémon Go, I feel confident to flip it out anywhere and gain a little bit of ingame development and fun that I can share with my friends, and I don't lose anything if I don't.

1 comments

Yeah i totally agree, it was a while since I played ingress and forgot about some key points, but it was more about the totallity. But again good points you give here and valueble to other readers!