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I think this was the first game I had to force myself to like to stem the disappointment.

They could've went in so many directions with the concept of Pokémon in 3D but it's just a restricted Game Boy port with mediocre N64 graphics.

The models and animations do have character, but it's in service of turn-based gameplay which will always look stupid in 3D.

>> No.9032815

>>9032796
>it's just a restricted Game Boy port with mediocre N64 graphics.
That's not at all what it is ylu fucking retard. Did you even play the game? It's a 3D battle simulator. You're supposed to connect your GB games to play with your team in 3D. Beat the challenges and you can unlock shit for the game boy games to help you complete the Pokedex.

Also the mini games are fucking kino.

>> No.9032819

https://youtu.be/MLGfK-5vYFs?t=1753

>> No.9032858

Everything you said makes me think you tried playing this at 30 and not at 12.

"mediocre graphics", nigga back when this dropped it looked fucking great *to kids*

Grow up and play games meant for your age group, you fucking virgin.

>> No.9032862

Please kill yourself when you get a chance

>> No.9032885

>>9032796
>They could've went in so many directions with the concept of Pokémon in 3D

This isn't the only 3D Pokémon game for the N64. It's not even the first one to have been released. They did try some things. Did you want a Super Mario 64 clone or something?

>> No.9032887

>>9032796
playing pokemon silver on stadium 2 and then going through the gym leader castle with my ingame team is one of my favorite gaming memories. I even owned (still do) 2 transfer paks so I could use my boy alakazam. seeing your pokemon you caught and trained yourself in full 3d on your tv and able to battle was crazy to me as a kid.

>> No.9032890

>>9032815
>Also the mini games are fucking kino.
You just reminded me that the mini games were where I spent 95% of the time playing it to recoup the disappointment. Even then I only really played the eating game because the food sprites looked tasty. You seem to think this was an endorsement for the game which is kind of funny to me.

>> No.9032941

>>9032796
That's exactly how I felt. I realized it was just porting the original game into a much inferior package.

>> No.9032946

>>9032858
I tried it at 8 you fucktard

>> No.9033024

>>9032796
They could have done all kinds of shit. They went with the thing that has basically infinite replay value. The battle system.

>>9032885
Faggot OP wanted a 3D version of that NES bootleg pikachu platformer

>>9032946
So last week

>> No.9033040

>>9032890
>You just reminded me that the mini games were where I spent 95% of the time playing
Let's not be honest here, most people only played Stadium for the mini-games. This shit was the best party game. Part of why the gamecube and wii games sucked ass was their exclusion of mini games.

>> No.9033062

>>9032796
the only thing I ever liked about the pokemon stadium games was the minigames

>> No.9033068
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>>9033024
>Faggot OP wanted a 3D version of that NES bootleg pikachu platformer
was the slur neccessary? CALM DOWN.

>>9032796
Stadium is DLC that only works if you own the gameboy game and connector pak. Not being able to change rental movesets sucks ass and kills the whole raising monsters schtick.

>> No.9033070

Adults as usual getting really uppity someone doesn't like their bug collecting game.

>> No.9033073

>>9032946
In fairness to that anon I can see how it would come off that way from my post. I'm writing it as an adult knowing that it was a lazy cash grab and not how I saw it as a kid, when I just felt let down. Thing is that I'd been tracking the game for ages in magazines and they were always just vague enough to where it felt like it was going to have a much bigger scope than it did.

If it took advantage of the RBY connection more I'd have felt better about it. The whole idea is about seeing your Pokémon in 3D but the only real difference to rentals is that yours aren't levelcapped and maybe have a nickname. Although that illusion of personalisation is more a problem with Pokémon in general than just with Stadium.

>> No.9033103

>>9032815
its spelled KENO dumbass,
& thats an n64 pokemon gameboy player, not a gambling sim!

>> No.9033120

>>9032796
>it's in service of turn-based gameplay which will always look stupid in 3D
Pokemon is a shit franchise but you're retarded.

>> No.9033128

>>9032796
>a restricted Game Boy port with mediocre N64 graphics
It's not even that much, it's just a battle engine and you need other full-priced games to get any worhwhile content out of it.
No adventure mode to speak of. It's literally half a game.

>> No.9033326 [DELETED] 

>>9033068
>CALM DOWN
teh ironing
>slur
OP isn't a slur, faggot.

>> No.9033332

>>9032796
Even as a kid I thought it was fucking OUTRAGEOUS both Pokemon are never seen together during the battle sequences.

>> No.9033405

>>9032796
I rented them and only played the mini games for 1 and 2

>> No.9033497

>>9033040
>Part of why the gamecube and wii games sucked ass was their exclusion of mini games.
The GameCube games were full on RPGs and they were amazing. Please off yourself.
>>9033103
I DON'T CARE

>> No.9033626

>>9033068
>Stadium is DLC that only works if you own the gameboy game and connector pak. Not being able to change rental movesets sucks ass and kills the whole raising monsters schtick.
A "skill issue" as your age group likes to say, git gud nigga

>> No.9033649

>>9032796
It speaks to how strong Pokemania was that you could release something like this as a full-fledged console game and still make bank, and have adults defend it to this day. The minigames are indeed fun but it's cope to say that they're enough to justify the $60 purchase.

>> No.9033687

>>9032885
Don’t be obtuse. What people wanted was a 3D RPG. Even if we know why it didn’t happen in hindsight , it’s what a lot of people expected to happen a lot sooner than it did.

>> No.9033741

>>9033332
>Even as a kid
So, last week?

>>9033687
Don’t be unpsychopathic. What nonpeople wanted was a 3D RPG

>> No.9033749

>>9033649
it also comes with a transfer pak

>> No.9033810

>>9032946
So you're 9 now?

>> No.9033831

>>9032815
>3d battle simulator
>pokemon

aight okay

>> No.9034015

>>9033332
Damn near quints there.
Yeah, it really was disappointing that the pokemon didn't actually fight each other, it was just "attack animation, then cut to the other pokemon reeling from the attack"

>> No.9034043
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>>9033332
Explain this nerd

>> No.9034092

It wasn't a port of the Game Boy games in any way. I fucking wished it was though, all I wanted in life back then was a full on Pokemon RPG on console with 3D graphics. I guess we have that these days, too bad the main series has gone to shit.

>> No.9034168

>>9034092
>all I wanted in life back then was a full on Pokemon RPG on console with 3D graphics
You must've been a fucking idiot kid then, no fucking way were they pulling off a full-fledged 3D Pokémon RPG with 151 monsters. HAL wouldn't have been able to back then and Gay Freak can't even do it now.

>> No.9034196

>>9032796
it had some of the best graphics on the console back then, you fucking moron.

>> No.9034198

>>9034168
Let's Go Pikachu exists?

>> No.9034236

>>9034168
No shit it wasn’t going to happen because it was stuck with shit developers on limited hardware, but do you think kids actually are privy to a developers limits? To any sane person, making a full fledged Pokémon console RPG at the height of its first wave of popularity would seem obvious.

>> No.9034242

>>9032946
No you didn't, queer.
Now fuck off back to /v/

>> No.9034253

>>9032796
Port?
I mostly bought it to be able to play pokemon games because I lacked a GB or Super GB
All the cups and stuff, which took forever to complete, were the cherry on top
>>9032815
And of course, the mini games were freaking great. Played them so goddamn much
>>9032946
I don't understand how you'd think the graphics were bad then. Considering all they had to render was the stadium, they could put the whole N64 power to the models and animations, and man did they look good

>> No.9034494

>>9032796
It was awesome for what it was. It was never meant to be a standalone Pokemon game.
>>9033068
>was the slur neccessary?
Absolutely, faggot.

>> No.9034538

The only thing that would have made the Stadium games more kino would be if the GB tower played the games in 3D instead of just running the gameboy rom on tv like the super gameboy. Imagine those sweet n64 graphics on the overworld. It would have been the definitive way to experience Pokemon.

>> No.9034542

>>9034538
>those sweet n64 graphics

>> No.9034549

>>9034542
See
>>9032862

>> No.9034621

>>9033497
>The GameCube games were full on RPGs and they were amazing.

Amazing presentation, but not great games. Felt more like a quickly tacked on campaign despite the really nice worldbuilding and environments, very limited Pokemon selection, only wild Pokemon in the second game and even limited in that regard. I would love to see a reworked version of those games with a more expanded overworld.

>> No.9034646

I still clearly remember having a lot of fun with stadium as a kid.
Fast forward to now, I booted it up and I was massively surprised that the actual game has so few things to do.
My memory was mostly of playing the minigames over and over and failing at the tournament (never obtained surf Pikachu) and that kept me entertained for hours

>> No.9034918

>>9032796
>mediocre N64 graphics.
Nah, the Stadium 3D models are amazing.
>but it's in service of turn-based gameplay which will always look stupid in 3D.
well, that was 5th gen in a nutshell. 5th gen and onwards.
I don't think it looks bad, the animations of Stadium are some of the best of the era. But yeah basically Stadium is better enjoyed as a companion of the GB games. I recently replayed Blue while using Stadium (for storing pokemon, applying/rearranging items, etc) and it's a godsend.
The stadium cups are also a great incentive to train pokemon of lower levels or different characteristics, on top of serving as a great post-game content with the Round 2 cups.
As a kid, I mostly rented it for the mini-games though. Always a blast to play with friends.

>> No.9034993

>>9032815
clefairy is my favorite pokemon because of the minigame

>> No.9035661

>>9034993
Just wanted to add that it's totally because of the minigame and not because I'm gay.

>> No.9035702

All the early 3D Pokémon games (the entire stadium series, Pokémon XD, XD Gale of Darkness, etc. As well as all of generation V were complete and utter garbage, because I kind feel like the world really wasn’t ready for 3D Pokémon just yet. Nintendo has a long and storied history of using technology before it has developed to the point of being worth a damn (looking at you, virtual boy) but I think generations VI and VIII were both spectacular. Wasn’t really a fan of S&M mostly because they were intentionally making a “vacation” generation based on Hawai’i that was supposed to be different from the rest thematically. Even professor oak was there, but this time with a tan and leis around his neck, plus obligatory old guy on vacation floral button-down. That said, the game mechanics of Gen VII were spot-on and I had a blast playing smogon in the S&M era. Sword and Shield fell prey to the Christmas rush a little but were amazing, especially after the DLC was a thing. More than anything else, I love how they’ve expanded on the one thing that the early Pokémon games desperately lacked, a real feeling of connection between a trainer and their Pokémon. When you interact with your Pokémon in the newer games, you really stop viewing Pokémon as being slaves or tools and start seeing them for what they really are: a consenting party in a martial art built for team play. Mystery Dungeon helped expand on the idea of Pokémon being sentient, feeling creatures, in some ways more prone to violence and competition than humans, and in some ways less so. I used to be really into Poképorn and ironically it was being able to sit in a room with braixen and actually interact with her that mostly broke me of that habit, because I saw that she was better as a friend than as a hooker.

>> No.9035703

>>9033332
They literally are?

>> No.9035734

>>9033103
KINO KINO KINO
KINO
KINO
Your forced meme will never catch on. :)

>> No.9035736

>>9034494
You type like a faggot, faggot.

>> No.9035857

I remember Stadium being a real letdown for some friends, as they were expecting a 3D Pokémon FIGHTING game. Some also expected some kind of overworld.

>> No.9035859

>>9034538
Yeah. Before this (and Snap, I think) came out, I imagined an N64 Pokemon game to be an FPS experience. At least GB Tower was max kino even without altering the games' graphics.

>> No.9035860

>>9035859
*first-person ("dungeon-crawler" but more action elements) experience

>> No.9035981

>>9034198
>Let's Go
>full-fledged

>> No.9036387

>>9035702
Please see
>>9032862

>> No.9037534

>>9035734
leave Australia-kun out of it
honestly I think it's a bot

>> No.9038313

>>9033626
I beat the game with rentals. It's not a difficulty issue. Customization is FUN.

>> No.9038815

>>9038313
Just abuse MISSINGNO. like all the cool kids did and boom, infinite TMs to build cartridge teams with.

>> No.9038890

>>9038313
You beat Round 2 with rentals?
I know it could be done, but man you need some good luck.

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>mfw I snagged a copy of Stadium 2 before prices went through the roof