Board index › General Discussion › General Autism Discussion

Pokemon Relaxes Autism!

Page 2 of 2 [ 20 posts ]  Go to page Previous  1, 2

Previous topic | Next topic

DancingCorpse
Veteran
Veteran

Joined: 12 Dec 2015
Gender: Male
Posts: 1,532

23 Jul 2016, 8:23 pm

On the whole playing through the older pokémon games and roaming through their charming pixel splendor conducting repetitive leveling and endless rotating of the critters chills me, occasionally I come across some absolute craphead trainer when I least expect it and they have some infuriating move that takes me a few goes to figure out, I swear I got stuck when this swine had a Miltank in one of them and I was stuck for about fifteen minutes raging!



sweeToxic
Blue Jay
Blue Jay

User avatar

Joined: 25 Apr 2015
Gender: Female
Posts: 99

28 Jul 2016, 5:50 am

I've started it, but unlike some... it hasn't gotten me out of the house or anything. Not anymore than I usually do that is. I don't care that much for it, and I prefer the original pokemon games. I can play them for hours on end. It's getting to be the biggest trend ever that even my mom, who's never played a pokemon game in her life, is playing it as well. I find it rather useless, considering I have crippling anxiety. Also, I live in the middle of nowhere as well... so it's really hard for me to actually play.


_________________
“It doesn't matter what your challenges are as long as you're ready to try to overcome them.” - Carly Fleischmann
Diagnosis: ASD Level one; speech delay until age four, learning disability, Requires some support.


ocdgirl123
Veteran
Veteran

User avatar

Joined: 10 Oct 2010
Age: 28
Gender: Female
Posts: 2,809
Location: Canada

28 Jul 2016, 5:49 pm

I've tried and honestly? I can't play it for 10 minutes without getting bored. And it's too hot for me.

I wish I found it fun because I am quite overweight and find most exercise boring. Basically, if I'm not moving 24/7 and eat anything over 80 calories, I will gain weight. :(


_________________
-Allie

Canadian, young adult, student demisexual-heteroromantic, cisgender female, autistic


RabidFox
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl

User avatar

Joined: 21 Jul 2016
Age: 36
Gender: Male
Posts: 159

28 Jul 2016, 5:57 pm

As much as I like PokeMon and as much as I wish I could play PokeMon Go, PokeMon gives me a heart attack every time I try to catch a PokeMon. So for me, well, it's not that relaxing. :(

Especially this latest PokeMon they have out called X and Y. For some reason, catching a PokeMon is next to impossible once you advance further into the game. In the beginning, it's easy enough, but you always need to have the best PokeBalls... and even those will stop working with no remedy. People are used to the older games, which only required you to weaken the PokeMon in order to catch it. But X and Y are different. Now you not only have to weaken the PokeMon to near death, but you also have to just go on plain luck. It's become completely random and you run out of PokeBalls very quickly.