Pokemon Go and GW2

Rawr!

So, I have still been playing a lot of GW2 with my wife, and we are still enjoying it. I gave in and bought Heart of Thorns, and am so very glad we did. Not only is gliding fun, masteries helpful, auto loot wonderful, and the new builds interesting, but now we get to enjoy the new Living Story, and thus far, it has been quite excellent. :)

So, while out and about, we realized that we don't exercise as much as we should, and my wife said she wanted to take walks, but felt no reward. We are gamers, so we decided to give in and try the Pokémon craze...

Pokémon Go was super boring the first time we tried it, so much so, that we actually deleted it when we got home. We walked for 45 minutes, went to 3 Poke' stops, and caught 1 single Pokémon, because only one showed up.

My brother, who is also an adult, said, 'no no, go play in a park', that is where lures get dropped and you get Pokémon every couple minutes.

So, we tried our local park, and still nothing. The only place we actually have found any lures being dropped is by the public library, downtown.

So basically, we haven't deleted it, even though it has bugged out more than once, and even though it kills my phone battery, simply because we keep seeing people obsessed with it, and we figure we must be doing it wrong. Even at the library, where they spawn every 5 to 10 minutes, we find ourselves not really interested. It isn't exciting enough. I would rather just walk with my wife normally than do this, as it is. That would be more interesting. At least we'd have conversations uninterrupted by a trembling phone.

The only 'fun' part of the game thus far for us at all is she likes collecting things, so when we get a new one, she likes to look at her Pokedex, and I like the neat memorials and murals it guides you toward visiting. Otherwise, just huge boredom.

I would rather be home doing WvW than walking around staring at my phone hoping something actually cool will pop out instead of more weedles. Shrug.

Rawr!