Have any of you been embarrassed purchasing a Pokemon game?
I picked up Pokemon Platinum for the neighbour kids birthday today, and the guy just looked at me like I was nuts buying the game. So, after I was done explaining to him that it was for a nine year old, I decided to stop and re-evaluate.
I then told him some straight up facts. Pokemon has easily sold 200 million units of game. It's been made into a long running tv show, and sells a poopload of merchandise. To top it off, it's a well established RPG (albeit kiddy) that has managed to find success on many of Nintendo's largest consoles (see: gameboy, DS), and outperforms every series out there but Mario. (And yes, that includes Halo).
After I totally embarrassed myself defending Pokemon, the guy's mouth just dropped. But really, I don't see why it should be shameful to purchase a game like Pokemon. It's proven to be such a strong series - whether we, the original audience, still love every new Pokemon or not. Have any of you been embarrassed by it? Will you purchase the games? Have you ever defended the series?
I buy the games, however I always have a slight sense of embarrassment handing the cashier a pokemon game to pay for. My dad works at best buy, and get's a nice employee discount, so he usually picks the game up for me at work if I give him money and ask him to. It's sort of embarrassing telling him "hey could you pick up pokemon platinum for meh today?" but i get over it.
181.77m units last time I checked. It's probably viewed as kiddy by many simply due to the Anime/Movies; I know that's the main reason I view it as that a bit.
As for the games, whenever I buy one, once in a very long blue moon, I go with the spin-offs. Mainly due to the fact that I can't stand a story that's a complete copy and paste of the previous one when it comes to RPG's.
I don't find it embarrassing to buy. Just embarrassing when I'm there buying it with a girl friend of mine and he assumes we're dating and nags me about not paying for her. Which of course is when you tell him "she's my sister" and leave.
I defend it in Mack's style whenever someone gives me poop.
...Which will probably happen with I buy HeartGold or SoulSilver.
I've only bought one Pokemon game, and I wasn't embarrassed by it. I didn't think to be. Nor would I feel theneed to defend myself. I'm a consumer, I can buy whatever the intercourse I want.
I once got a hard time at Gamestop for trading in the movie "Cabaret."
Gamestop chick: This is a good movie.
Me: Yeah.
GC: Was it your girlfriends?
Me: No.
GC: ?
Me: I'm a theatre major.
I'm pretty sure she assumed that meant "gay," but what the intercourse do I care? I just wanted to get rid of it. Bob Fosse intercourse ed that movie. And I do like Fosse.
When I pre-ordered Platinum, the cashier said "Pokemon?", but when I picked it up the next month no one looked at me weird or anything.
I expect the purchase of HeartGold to go smoothly.
Whenever I tell my parents about the next game, they're like "Another Pokemon game? I thought we were done."
Quote from: PokemasterJ on January 17, 2010, 06:09:16 PM
Whenever I tell my parents about the next game, they're like "Another Pokemon game? I thought we were done."
My mom calls it Poke-ee-mon and that pronounciation really gets on my nerves. They never do THAT though. :/
A little when getting Platinum, but hey, I'm collecting them. I'm buying both HG and SS, so I wonder what kind of reaction I would get.
Quote from: K on January 17, 2010, 06:37:24 PM
My mom calls it Poke-ee-mon and that pronounciation really gets on my nerves. They never do THAT though. :/
At least it's not "polkaman" anymore.
Quote from: K on January 17, 2010, 06:37:24 PM
My mom calls it Poke-ee-mon and that pronounciation really gets on my nerves. They never do THAT though. :/
That must be the old-people pronunciation. Assuming I'm correctly remembering Professor Oak saying it like that once, that is.
No. Just... No. Why should I be?
My family jokes around with me about liking Pokemon when they see I have a new game, but nothing to be embarrassed about.
I feel embarrassed when buying the games, but I get over it real quick. Every now and again Pokémon gets on the topic for the guys I hang out with, and at first when I told them I still played Pokémon they're like "lolwut, you're a loser man." Then like the next day they say "Pokémon rules, I still play it," then I'm all "wut."
And just so you know, my friends aren't as nerdy as me, it's a combination, I'm the nerdy guy that stays quiet.
Really though, Pokémon will like never really go out of style, even for the "tough guys," they only go out of style for people who liked it, too embarrassed to buy it, then get over it. Just about everyone knows it's nerdy, but most won't care in the end.
WHEN I BOUGHT PLATINUM, I TREATED IT LIKE A DRUG DEAL. I WORE A COAT, PAID THE MAN DISCREETLY, AND TUCKED IT AWAY AS I WALKED OUT OF THE STORE.
I buy Pokemon games from the cute girls that work at gamestop late at night.
They don't care if you buy Pokemon games.
"Why are you buying Pokemon?"
"It's fun, so shut the intercourse up."
Simple.
Quote from: Violet on January 17, 2010, 06:09:16 PM
Whenever I tell my parents about the next game, they're like "Another Pokemon game? I thought we were done."
This is pretty much what my parents do. Of course, I usually ignore them and buy it anyway. I really don't care what a bunch of random people in stores think about my purchases.
Quote from: Red on January 18, 2010, 07:02:54 AM
WHEN I BOUGHT PLATINUM, I TREATED IT LIKE A DRUG DEAL. I WORE A COAT, PAID THE MAN DISCREETLY, AND TUCKED IT AWAY AS I WALKED OUT OF THE STORE.
Quote of the week.
The only time I was embaressed buying anything was condoms. And I payed a friend 10 dollars to do it for me. I'm a ninny.
Pokemon is awesome, if someone thinks it's lame they can go to hell.
Quote from: The One Link. on January 20, 2010, 07:56:26 AM
The only time I was embaressed buying anything was condoms. And I payed a friend 10 dollars to do it for me. I'm a ninny.
It's not embarrassing at all, unless you need to buy them in the smallest size.
Wait... :U
Quote from: The One Link. on January 20, 2010, 07:56:26 AM
The only time I was embaressed buying anything was condoms. And I payed a friend 10 dollars to do it for me. I'm a ninny.
Yeah, be embarrassed that a girl wants to have sex with you. Ooooooo
No one gave me any crap when I bought Pearl but I sort of distracted from that by paying entirely in quarters, dimes, and nickles...
None of the people who no me ever bothered me about it, but that may be because they think I'm freaking scary. When buying it, no one ever says anything; probably that scary thing, again.
Quote from: Mystic on January 20, 2010, 05:18:29 PM
Yeah, be embarrassed that a girl wants to have sex with you. Ooooooo
Oooo good point.
Magnum and I are going to go to a town where no one knows us and hold hands and buy condoms.
It's going to be really funny.
Quote from: The One Link. on January 20, 2010, 08:33:02 PM
Oooo good point.
Magnum and I are going to go to a town where no one knows us and hold hands and buy condoms.
It's going to be really funny.
I hate to be off topic, but that sounds like something my friends did. Only they bought condoms, duct tape, rope, coloring books, crayons, and a shovel. Then screamed coitus in the parking lot. I couldn't have participated, since people actually knew me in the town; it was my hometown. >>
Quote from: Mystic on January 20, 2010, 05:18:29 PM
Yeah, be embarrassed that a girl wants to have sex with you. Ooooooo
What if you're buying them from the girl that you want to have sex with?
Quote from: Lotos on January 18, 2010, 07:37:12 PM
Quote of the week.
Though it was in character, I actually 100% meant that post.
Quote from: Customrobo13 on January 21, 2010, 05:57:39 PM
What if you're buying them from the girl that you want to have sex with?
This reminds me of a joke.
A 17 year old guy walks into a pharmacy. He says to the pharmacist (bragging) "Yeah, my girlfriend is starting to get really hot for some good lovin. I think it's time that I buy some condoms so that I can give it to her good. Tonight we are going to have dinner at her parents house and then going out to inspiration point". The pharmacist recommends a brand of condoms. The guy buys them and leaves.
Later that night at the parents house the family and the guy sit down to dinner. The guy asks to say grace. The family obliges. He starts "Dear god, Please protect us and forgive us for our sins," as he continues his speech gets more and more religious. He begs for forgiveness, he asks for world peace, he wishes that everyone could be all knowing. As he continues the family (and his girlfriend) sit in amazement. Finally he finishes, 'God bless us every one."
"Wow" his girlfriend says, "I didn't know you were so religious."
"Yeah well, I didn't know your dad was a pharmacist".
lol I don't look like the type of guy that would play these games at all so yeah the cashiers look at me weird, but they don't say anything. I'm intimidating.
I preordered both HG and SS, one's for my girlfriend. I already have one of them paid off too.
Rob, I was thinking of that same joke.
I WILL NEVER BE EMBARRASSED ABOUT BUYING A POKÉMON GAME--EVER. I WILL ALWAYS BUY WHATEVER GAME I WANT. I WILL ALWAYS SUPPORT AND DEFEND THE SERIES. I AM A DIE-HARD FAN. NONE OF THIS WILL CHANGE.
Call me a crazed nerd, but it's true. =P
In all seriousness though, I've never been embarrassed or anything like that when buying or talking about Pokémon. I'm proud to be a Trainer and fan of the animé, movies, manga, and all that. I'm usually never in a situation when I could be made to feel embarrassed anyway, though. I will recount one story in which I defended my honor as a Trainer.
STORY: Some Random Schoolgirl Bully Tries to Insult a Die-hard Pokémon Fan
Every year since 8
th grade (I have yet to this year), I have put about 20 Pokémon and Yu-gi-oh! figurines (including plush toys of Sudowoodo and Bonsly) in my locker and proudly displayed them to all who wanted to see. I made no effort to hide any of them. Most kids would just come over, laugh, play with them a bit, pretend to steal them, etc., but it was all in good fun and they never wronged me in any way. However, one girl came over and decided to be the first one to insult me. Just after other kids left my locker from looking at the various action figures, she comes up and looks at them with her mouth agape. Keep in mind that this girl was nothing special; she was unattractive, very short, crabby, easy to anger, made a big deal out of everything, cursed excessively, was an all-around unpleasant person, and almost no one liked her. I'd never really spoken to her before this incident, but had witnessed her "wrath" before. Anyway, she looked into my locker in disbelief, to which I replied with something like, "Is there a problem?" She looks at me the same way and says something like, "Are you serious? You like Pokémon? You're such a little kid. You're so immature." And she laughs a bit with contempt and arrogance, thinking that she had "won." The next day, I put a cut-out of Pikachu on her locker. The next time I looked at her locker, it was taken down. Then I put a little label (from a label maker) on her locker that said, "You like Pokemon?
[sic]" The day after that, I walked down the hall to my locker in the morning and she said, "Hey buddy!" At first, I gave no response, but when she came up to me at my locker, she said something like, "I know you put this on my locker! *Points to label stuck on locker* Why did you do that?" I said something like, "Because you had no right to make fun of me just for something that I like. I didn't deserve that." She just looks at me funny (probably because she can't understand the fact that mature people don't insult each other, especially when they're not even acquainted) and says something like, "The next time you do something like this, I'm telling [the assistant principle that she apparently thinks I'm scared of just like everyone else]!" I finish it off with, "I don't need to do this again; I've made my point!" And that was the end of that.
She transferred by the way
(good riddance), so I'll likely never see her again. Muahahahahahahaha. :D
You have "action figurines" on display on your locker..?
Also, Putting a Pikachu and then putting up that little note is immature.
The way you responded with "I didn't deserve that" and junk, was also very... IDK, geeky? IDK the right word for it, but it's probably the real reason she looked at you funny.
She transferred so she won't be a suspect in his murder.
I love you TF.
Quote from: JrDude ½ on January 24, 2010, 02:24:31 AM
You have "action figurines" on display on your locker..?
Also, Putting a Pikachu and then putting up that little note is immature.
The way you responded with "I didn't deserve that" and junk, was also very... IDK, geeky? IDK the right word for it, but it's probably the real reason she looked at you funny.
Even if it was immature, it did the job. What should I have done instead? I don't insult or hit girls. Also, geeky or not, it's what I said. You may be right though about her reaction though. Thanks for reading it anyway. ^_^
Quote from: Link. on January 24, 2010, 04:33:39 AM
She transferred so she won't be a suspect in his murder.
I love you TF.
:P
Concerning the lack of a spine...no, I have not.
I'm far too comfortable with my geek level to be embarrased by buying Pokemon.
Quote from: Mystic on January 18, 2010, 07:29:50 PM
"Why are you buying Pokemon?"
"Why aren't
you buying Pokemon?"
that's what I said to a dude a Target who was waiting behind me, to buy Halo 3 >.<
But I don't really care, I buy what I want & don't care about what other people think about it. Like my dad looked at me funny when I bought Banjo-Kazooie, I just shrugged & paid for it
Quote from: TUROK on January 30, 2010, 11:04:54 PM
I bought Banjo-Kazooie, I just shrugged & paid for it
I intercourse ing love that game :3