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It's not even the stadium game we hoped wouldn't come.
"Pokémon Box" is a gamecube game which only plays with either Ruby and Sapphire attached. When attached via a link cable, the GC game displays some stats and pictures of pokemon in your PC box and thats it. No fighting, no exploring, just stats.
I hope you are all as angry and dissapointed as I am.
> PS2 uses i-link. Bit of confusion there, perhaps?
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> Good ideas, yuou can imagine them being implemented into a
> "proper" 3D Pokemon game, if Nintendo ever bother to make
> one.
Not at all - apparently Nintendo are looking into an i-link option that allows people to link up their GC's. One rumour going around is that through this method, Mario Kart will support upto 8 players. :-)
> What Dringo said about it taking some of the flare away from the
> Gameboy is possibly true, but Nintendo really do need to try and dig
> themselves out of the rut they are in.
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I don't think so, after all, the GBA has been out for ages and there was no Pokemon game for it until recently. Plus the GBASP is selling a truck load, mainly to all those older people who thought it was too kiddy before, they still aren't going to be silly children's games like Pokemon*
Besides, if the GC was the one selling truck loads and the GBA/SP was in the rut, they'd be making more money...
*Not my actual view
*worried* jokes over now, wheres my 3d pokemon?.....
> RAHH
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> Someone will die for this.
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> I mean it's not hard is it, all you have to do is make a Zelda game
> with random turn based battls.
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> I can't beleive how damn stupid you can be to not release one of the
> biggest games *ever* on your struggling home console.
Tiss what I've said for ages. Nintendo are retarded for not releasing a full 3D Pokemon game at the launch of the Cube. Or well any time after!
Just by the shear billions of Pokemon fans outthere, this would be more of a console selling game than Zelda!
What Dringo said about it taking some of the flare away from the Gameboy is possibly true, but Nintendo really do need to try and dig themselves out of the rut they are in.
:)
> It isn't the full epic 3D adventure game we'd wanted.
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> It's not even the stadium game we hoped wouldn't come.
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> "Pokémon Box" is a gamecube game which only plays
> with either Ruby and Sapphire attached. When attached via a link
> cable, the GC game displays some stats and pictures of pokemon in your
> PC box and thats it. No fighting, no exploring, just stats.
>
> I hope you are all as angry and dissapointed as I am.
How do you know all this?
> I completely agree.
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> Like I said, all they have to do is create a Zelda world with turn
> based random battles and some stadiums.
Oh well if thats all...
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> There could also be "major" tournaments which multiple
> players can enter with their pokemon as well. 4 players for example
> (maybe more with the help of i-link)
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PS2 uses i-link. Bit of confusion there, perhaps?
Good ideas, yuou can imagine them being implemented into a "proper" 3D Pokemon game, if Nintendo ever bother to make one.
Like I said, all they have to do is create a Zelda world with turn based random battles and some stadiums.
Also a house where you can decorate your room with stuff you've bought and trophies you've won in different competitions. You should be able to win pokemon in tournaments and there should be a "world" around the stadium to explore in 3D where you can catch all the pokemon that have ever made an appearance in the various games - adding to your sapphire/ruby pokedex.
Maybe as different players use your GC game with their GBA's, there could be a similar (well identical) info share as the sapphire/ruby games. As you play through and see TV's in people houses flashing, progress and interviews with players can come up on screens.
The new GC game could include this too so that when you next visit a house or the stadium, there could be TV's that inform you that other players entered a competition or battled the interviewers and tell you how they did and the reaction they chose to come up with, etc.
There could also be "major" tournaments which multiple players can enter with their pokemon as well. 4 players for example (maybe more with the help of i-link) could all enter the same big tournament and work their way through, possibly facing eachother along the way. Maybe another tournament can be included that acts as a "doubles" competition. You and a friend could partner up and choose 3 pokemon each and then face other pairs, so it becomes a 2 on 2 match with 2 pokemon on each side fighting at one time (until 1 poor sod could be left to face a few opoonents on their own).
Anyway, theres some ideas from me. ;-)