/vr/ - Retro Games

Pokemon innovated gaming by being the first series where the handheld was the real game and the console versions were the shitty spin-offs.

>rushed out to rent this game with my bro
>we're expecting the gba game but in 3d
>instead get this crap
>only part we enjoyed was the mini game before returning it

>>9608553

Man, say what you will about the N64 Pokemon Stadium games, but they were top-tier expansion packs. Just being able to take your Pokemon to the big screen and see them battle in 3D was great, but then you had things like the Gym Leader Castle which added an extra challenge beyond anything in the regular game, and then you had the mini-games which were always good fun. And if nothing else, being able to play the actual Game Boy games through the Game Boy Tower without digging out the SNES and Super Game Boy was also really nice. Worth the retail price at the time? Debatable, especially if you didn't have well-trained Pokemon to transfer over (rental Pokemon are a joke), but they were still well worth owning at the height of Pokemania.

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.