Pokemon Battle Revolution for Wii announced

Praxis · Post by **Praxis** » 2006-06-07 05:31pm

Not a big Pokemon fan, but the graphics are impressive (that we can see from the low quality video) and I'm sure some people here like Pokemon.

It's got DS-Wii connectivity of some sort with Pokemon Diamond and Pearl for the DS and will be out this year.

Click here for the video.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-07 05:34pm

Hey, combatants can finally touch eachother. Looks cool.

The one thing I didn't like about the original Stadium (yes, I know, technically it was Stadium 2) was the lack of an "instant replay" mode where the attacks were shown without the menu pauses and with actual physical hits. This looks like it rectifies the omission.

Qwerty 42 · Post by **Qwerty 42** » 2006-06-07 06:25pm

The arenas take damage too? This is just too cool for words.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-06-07 10:15pm

This looks like it'll make up for the horrible travesty that was Coliseum.

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-06-08 02:30am

I don't care how good it looks like. It's fucking pokemon. Unless they make a game where you can kill pokemons on the most gruesome manners, I'm not interested

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-08 04:20am

wautd wrote:I don't care how good it looks like. It's fucking pokemon. Unless they make a game where you can kill pokemons on the most gruesome manners, I'm not interested

You know, underneath the cuddly animals and sickening sweetness of it all is a pretty good RPG combat system. Have you played any of the games ?

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-06-08 04:39am

They aren't exactly all cute and cuddly either. Some of them are pretty badass.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-08 04:49am

*I* know some of them are badass, but that won't convince someone who wants to kill the lot of them

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2006-06-08 04:55am

Bounty wrote: You know, underneath the cuddly animals and sickening sweetness of it all is a pretty good RPG combat system. Have you played any of the games ?

There's also the whole forcing animals to do violence to the point of unconsciousness thing as well. It's like legalised dog fighting.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-08 05:00am

(OT) What really goes on in a Pokéball (/OT)

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2006-06-08 05:00am

Bounty wrote:
wautd wrote:I don't care how good it looks like. It's fucking pokemon. Unless they make a game where you can kill pokemons on the most gruesome manners, I'm not interested
You know, underneath the cuddly animals and sickening sweetness of it all is a pretty good RPG combat system. Have you played any of the games ?

Off course not. Where did you got the impression I was being rational or having a point based on a fundamented opinion other than it's looking far too cute

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-08 05:06am

Was that...sarcasm

Anyway, about BR, I wonder if they might add voice control through the DS's mic. Now that would be great

Stark · Post by **Stark** » 2006-06-08 05:07am

This may ruin my status as 'That Guy That Hates Everything On SDN', but once I got past my derison for Pokemon and played the old 64 games, they were actually kind of neat. Typical Japanese turnbased combat, but very polished and well done.

And I still want Monster Rancher EVO to come out in Australia.

Pezzoni · Post by **Pezzoni** » 2006-06-08 05:52am

Where's the real Pokemon RPG we've been waiting for for years?

Archaic` · Post by **Archaic`** » 2006-06-08 08:24am

Bounty, apparently, Diamond and Pearl will have worldwide VOIP during battles, so it wouldn't be a stretch for this game to have voice control, especially considering the already detailed DS connectivity to Wii.

Pezzoni, while Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon will be out soon in English, if you mean something more like a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest of Pokémon, you're probably out of luck. There's a few text based forum RPG's which have things to offer, but nothing from the company itself.

SAMAS · Post by **SAMAS** » 2006-06-08 11:38am

Ford Prefect wrote:
Bounty wrote: You know, underneath the cuddly animals and sickening sweetness of it all is a pretty good RPG combat system. Have you played any of the games ?
There's also the whole forcing animals to do violence to the point of unconsciousness thing as well. It's like legalised dog fighting.

Pokemon tend to have a higher intelligence than normal animals, and several times, a Pokemon will often refuse to fight for, or even listen to, a trainer they don't respect. In the anime, Ash had a similar problem with Charizard for two whole sesons.

Pezzoni · Post by **Pezzoni** » 2006-06-08 12:10pm

Archaic` wrote:Pezzoni, while Pokémon Mysterious Dungeon will be out soon in English, if you mean something more like a Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest of Pokémon, you're probably out of luck. There's a few text based forum RPG's which have things to offer, but nothing from the company itself.

I was thinking of somthing along the lines of Red/Blue/Yellow or Gold/Silver, except in beautiful 3D on the Wii or Gamecube. I watched my brothers playing through the two already on there, and they really didn't do it for me, whereas the style of play on the gameboy lead to some of the best games ever.

I can always dream, I guess

Ryoga · Post by **Ryoga** » 2006-06-08 12:40pm

Watching the video:

Ugh, I hate ubers! Watching Groudon and Deoxys getting the shit beat out of them was very therapeutic.

More seriously, I hope they take this opportunity to make up for the blandness of previous 'Stadium' titles...ever noticed how every Pokemon has one or two 'attack' animations, and they just show a different graphical effect every time? Lame.

Noble Ire · Post by **Noble Ire** » 2006-06-08 04:22pm

Pezzoni wrote:Where's the real Pokemon RPG we've been waiting for for years?

You know, that's actually a pretty good idea. Tone down the "cuteness" a bit, try to work in an actual story, and keep the fundamentals, or some form of them from the GB games (which, I think, are the best of the console series in terms of replayability and sheer fun value), and you'd have a pretty good game.

Still, this looks like it does have some promise; its predecessors... just weren't fun.

Post by **Sea Skimmer** » 2006-06-08 04:39pm

I bet I could buy a pair of fighting roosters in Mexico for less then the cost of this game; I’d basically be getting the same thing only with blood and better sound quality. Heck I don't even strictly need to go to Mexico for that, as cockfighting is still legal in New Mexico and Louisiana, they'd just be cheaper south of the boarder.

Bounty · Post by **Bounty** » 2006-06-08 04:46pm

I’d basically be getting the same thing only with blood and better sound quality

And I can get a gokart and do laps around a roundabout, but it's not quite the same as Gran Turismo now is it ?

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-08 08:45pm

Man, this makes me nostalgic. Still, I'll be frank, I hate any Pokemon designed past Silver. They started getting a lot of especially stupid looking designs. Pokemon Silver was the highlight of Pokemon as far as I'm concerned, and God damnit Lugia will always have a special place in my heart!

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » 2006-06-08 09:08pm

SAMAS wrote: In the anime, Ash had a similar problem with Charizard for two whole sesons.

Of course, it didn't help that Charizard was just a fucking asshole.

No, seriously. He was.

Pick · Post by **Pick** » 2006-06-08 09:34pm

Ford Prefect wrote:Of course, it didn't help that Charizard was just a fucking asshole.

No, seriously. He was.

It's true, and it never stopped, really. I always thought Ash's was a bastard, which was kind of amazing since I really loved Charizards in general. How obnoxious can you make a mostly-mute dragon?

Incredibly.

Darth Raptor · Post by **Darth Raptor** » 2006-06-08 10:11pm

I really hate the show. Even when I was 14 and lived and breathed Pokemon, I couldn't stomach that inane crap. My own personal fanon is so much cooler.