Anyone still play PBR?

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iloveshinyglaceon

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Anyone still play Pokemon Battle Revolution? I still do, because it is fun, but I went to try the wifi battles but no one was there. Anyone still play?
 
I had it but stopped playing a while ago. Its basically the Battle Frontier just with different arenas, and they turned it into a huge game. It gets old fast because there's no interaction with your Pokemon at all, no training, evolving, teaching new moves, or even equiping items. It boasted random matchup through wifi, but that was annoying because of all the people running around with a bunch of ubers. To top it off, B/W now has that as well.
 
I still occasionally play, just because I haven't beat it yet. Unfortunately, it means that I need a good team on my DS first.
 
It has horrible replay value. It's only practical post-game use was for DS battles, but that is now useless as it doesn't support BW.
 
I haven't plated it in months. Although I keep asking people on here if they have it so we could play Wi-Fi.
 
Haven't played in over a year. It was fun customizing your character and all the first time, but when they released HG/SS I had to start a PBR file completely from scratch if I wanted to port the pokemon from that game across. Wasn't very impressed, and I never liked 3v3 matches all that much tbh, it's too hard to fit in counters.

It's funny remembering how excited everyone was, awaiting its release back in like, what.. 2007? XP
 
I play Stadium more than I play Revolution and I play Stadium a heck of a lot. (Playing Red on a 32 inch? Yes!)
No-one plays PBR, but I know a lot of people who still play Stadium. Colloseum too! I love that game. Recently got a new adapter so I can play against teams with my almighty LG team.

All of the console games were great, apart from Revolution.
 
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No-one plays PBR
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I feel compelled to post now because contrary to what the OP says, if you logged on to Wi-Fi right now you'd be able to get into a match in about 1-2 minutes, as always – and I can speak from experience because that's what I just did yesterday :p (1.5 million in units sold is a pretty big number…). Frankly, I think the vast majority of arguments trying to bash PBR contain the same bleeding-heart nostalgia nonsense that's plagued Pokémon forever, coupled with growing consumer cynicism in general during recent years. To be fair, PBR lacked two main components that are brought up in favor of the Stadium series (assuming Stadium draws a closer structural comparison over Colosseum and XD): minigames and the Game Boy player. However, inevitably one has to point out that these are auxiliary features, despite how much I and a ton of other people personally do love them (and for the latter, the technology to play DS games on a console/TV doesn't even exist…yet). The Gym challenges can be closely enough related to PBR's own Pokétopia IP to be thrown out of the argument here, and other than that, PBR maintains a healthy growth in graphics/sound presentation and refined gameplay that one ought to expect moving along in Pokémon's console history. And with the graphics in particular, I find them to be some of the best on the Wii period, even if that's attributed to the turn-based gameplay style that isn't system stressful (especially since Genius Sonority took the time to revamp all of older Pokémon models that HAL Labs and Nintendo gave them from the Stadium series, which were used on the Gamecube as well) – though my one hope for future games is that Pokémon will be textured in the same manner as environments (and still retaining traditional "manga" styles). And while PBR's Wi-Fi is incredibly frustrating at times, the fact that it existed period was a godsend to players in general at the time of its release, it was the one and only truly random battle online front. Bear in mind too that it was the first Nintendo console game ever to even use online functions, and so you can largely thank the experimental nature of PBR's Wi-Fi for the stability and evolution we've seen in the Wii's online gameplay over the years (as sarcastic as that statement might seem at times BRAWL, haha). The fact of the matter is that the Stadium games and PBR are equally well-made games for their eras, and the rest can just be left to personal opinion (not to veer off-topic…), as a lot of the differences and gripes between the two entities are largely trivial. And perhaps it's my bias because I still play PBR a lot, but I think PBR falls victim to the same fate as every game; the more current a game is, the more people are playing it. We'll have to wait and see if/when that playing percentage plateaus off and PBR joins the Stadium series in novelty (a.k.a. old school glory – I mean we're in Gen V already, so PBR's that one step closer already :D).
 
Meh, it's an okay game. I prefer playing on Wi-Fi than actually playing the CPUs. Using the Pokemon on a 3-dimensional game is cool, but if Christmas hadn't yielded me this game, I wouldn't have gotten it. Still fun nonetheless, but using a DS is just more convenient (plus, whenever you want to upload Pokemon, I have to trade my Pokemon to D/P to get them on there).
 
PBR was absolute crap. The attacks are still generic, the Pokemon look very unrealistic (Stadium 2 and Colosseum's looked amazing), and they give you few options. If they make a sequel, they should have better online, the ability to stream your DS/3DS games to the TV to play, and full 1080p graphics.
 
I remember me and my friends used to play PBR 1 or 2 years ago but we stopped because the guy who brought over his Wii for the tournaments was too busy doing stuff and now he's quit coming to run them entirely plus he was doing other video game tournaments like for Super Smash Bros at the time as well. I wanted to bring over my Wii in place of that but my parents wouldn't let me thinking I'd lose it.

I don't know what's taking Nintendo and Game Freak so long to release a sequel for this game for Gen V with Black and White. It would be amazing but like the others have said it does need better online capabilities and after you've beaten the game you can still battle others on Wi-Fi. I guess Game Freak is just waiting for Pokemon Grey to be released before they decide to release a Gen V sequel for PBR.
 
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