Legit Pokemon
Pokemon has been around for over a decade now. When it was first new, I was part of the targeted age range of about 7 to 12 years old. I was right in the middle at age 9, and the internet wasn’t really a big thing yet. Cheats, hacks, tools, and other various ways to hack in the Pokemon dream teams they desired or an infinite supply of master balls wasn’t a problem. Today, I feel it can be and for several years took the fun out of Pokemon for me when my local friends did not play the games anymore. I am going to address what is now a potential problem depending on where you live and why cheats are bad.
For many years throughout my teens, no one seemed to play Pokemon anymore, including me. I had a little desire to buy the new games, but not enough to purchase it without having my friends get it as well. I might have had a stronger desire to play if I could connect with other people over the internet about it, but you never know who is on the other end and I was to skeptical about whether or not people would hack in their Pokemon, making the achievement of getting a rare shiny Pokemon be a diminished accomplishment or if their level 100s were really done themselves. With that in mind, it was just too much for me to think about and be bothered with. I just kept the thoughts in my mind, and not even trying to branch out to find websites with decent people.
Once Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver came out, it was like the game had come alive again throughout the entire world! This was an amazing thing, as it finally gave me a chance to buy it once more and play with real life friends. Being in the country side of life, neighbors are spread out a little more, and it can be much harder to find a good Pokemon friend to play with. Either way, turned out my closest friends at the time got the game, and so did Foisko. So with four of us having the game, I was very excited to trade Pokemon, do battles, have a nice legit experience and do my best to make my experience unique and try to show off my collection. We set a goal to see who could capture all of the different Pokemon faster then the others, but my two friends were used to using cheat devices from time to time so they could change their favorite Pokemon to shiny ones, which I was truly upset about. I felt they should be an achievement, and we decided on a few things. Any Pokemon that was unobtainable such as Charmanders etc, we decided we could all hack in to help our collection be complete, but they would all be level 1 and we had to properly train them to make them good. We had a few simple rules like this one that worked well as a small group of friends playing together, but if I ever met any random people and talked about the game I would feel I might not be as legit as those players who have passed down their rare Pokemon from generation to generation! This is why I would never use those certain Pokemon in any battles to keep my own level of fairness within myself.
It’s a very complicated subject, but overall I am just trying to say that I feel being legit in a great multiplayer type game such as Pokemon should be played without cheating when you are talking about it or playing with a public community. There is a standard that I feel most players uphold and with everyone else did, and I don’t care if you cheat personally. It’s when you take those cheated files and spread them into the legit world that I feel it gets messy. I’m not trying to be a snob about it either, but I just want to know that if I travel around and had random battles or trade Pokemon with other people that it is going to be a legit experience and not a fake one.