• Kalkaline English
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    Niantic has the tools in place to pull off the next big thing, digital graffiti. You don’t need a shoot-em-up FPS or quests or anything like that, just give people the creative outlet to scan an object and draw a massive penis on it and share it with the world.

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      Niantic can’t even make a good Pokemon game let alone anything else

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        I just said they had the tools, I didn’t say they were going to do it.

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          Fair enough. I feel like they exist at this point to just bolt a licensed IP to Ingress.

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            It is so sad that they killed Ingress with their shitty new scanner app. It is out for years now and is still running like crap on my 2 year old upper class android phone. I really loved that game

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              I loved that game for a brief time, but I felt like I could have gotten into a car accident with how much I was trying to take over outposts.

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      You’ve almost described Jet Set Radio Future or Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, although those games are single player.

      There is a multiplayer mod for BRC though.

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        Yeah, but IRL buildings, statues, art, etc.

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          It is not really IRL when you put tags and graffiti on photos, even when it is combined with AR.

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            You got me there, your pedantry makes me never want to talk about hypothetical video games again.

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      Generally the type of people who make graffiti worth looking at aren’t the sort of people who want to draw with a tablet and stylus.

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        Seems like a win for society if a significant percentage of the people making graffiti not worth looking at would switch to digital instead of physical graffiti then.