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Are you ever too old for pokemon
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nah
There's so much so very wrong with today's world that it's a waste of time and energy to be worrying about something like that. Even if the world was totally ok, it's still just something like enjoying a certain video game series and not some actual problem.
There's so much so very wrong with today's world that it's a waste of time and energy to be worrying about something like that. Even if the world was totally ok, it's still just something like enjoying a certain video game series and not some actual problem.
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Never ever lol. I've been playing since I was 7 or 8, am 33 now and have no intentions to stop. I know people far older who play too. It's a family-friendly series - anyone can enjoy it.
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It's a waste of limited mental energy to worry about something like this.
If someone tells me "I'm too old for a video game", I'd honestly prefer they don't project those insecurities onto me. Life is short and often cruel. Let people escape into a hobby they enjoy.
If someone tells me "I'm too old for a video game", I'd honestly prefer they don't project those insecurities onto me. Life is short and often cruel. Let people escape into a hobby they enjoy.
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Not at all. I'll be 40 next year and I'm more into Pokemon now than ever. I'm also huge into cartoons, anime, comics, manga, and I own and display many collectibles of all those things. Most of my fashion sense(or lack of 😂 ) are t-shirts and hoodies with prints from all my fav shows, movies and cartoons too. I've pretty much been told my whole life that I should grow up or that I'm too old for this and too old for that. I'll never grow up, and I'll continue to like what I like without a care in the world. Don't worry too much about what others think, just enjoy what you are passionate about and be happy 😊
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Nobody is too old for Pokémon as long as their brain still works.
You don't need fast reflexes, good aiming, ability to handle advanced stick/button combinations, sense of timing or spatial awareness, or any such skills that many other games do require. All you need to use for the core gameplay of a Pokémon game is a head capable of memorizing things, choosing commands, and making strategies and decisions without any time limit.
What decides who's too old to play a game is not the art style or visual themes, it's the gameplay formula and mechanics.
You don't need fast reflexes, good aiming, ability to handle advanced stick/button combinations, sense of timing or spatial awareness, or any such skills that many other games do require. All you need to use for the core gameplay of a Pokémon game is a head capable of memorizing things, choosing commands, and making strategies and decisions without any time limit.
What decides who's too old to play a game is not the art style or visual themes, it's the gameplay formula and mechanics.
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No, Pokemon is designed to be accessible for younger people; but it's ultimately for all ages like most Nintendo franchises. As long as you're still deriving enjoying from the series, you're not "too old" for it.
Doesn't matter if it's Pokemon or anything else you wanna get into. I don't really think being too old for something exists, and you're gonna be stopping yourself from doing something you want to do that'll make you happy if you think it does.
Pokemon's been going on for almost 30 years now and I don't think the people who have been enjoying it for that long are anywhere near being "too old" for it. Go for it, enjoy yourself!
Pokemon's been going on for almost 30 years now and I don't think the people who have been enjoying it for that long are anywhere near being "too old" for it. Go for it, enjoy yourself!
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Been playing Pokemon since a kid starting with Red/Blue. Usually in and out playing the games once most of the time and then waiting for the next one.
Haven't been wasting considerably more time on them since far more recently with shiny hunting and what not lol
Just play what you games you feel like playing =3
Haven't been wasting considerably more time on them since far more recently with shiny hunting and what not lol
Just play what you games you feel like playing =3
You don't know how much it made my holiday season to know I am not the oldest here or the only one here above 25.
I just turned 38 last Saturday (Nov 30) and I don't admit that lightly. I even jokingly insist with my own family that I am 24.
And no, there is no such thing as too old for Pokemon.