Hmm... have you really played Pokémon Stadium, or even better, Pokémon Stadium 2? I really think not. Pokémon Stadium 2 is, as of today, my favorite console Pokémon game. Yes, you may think it blunt just having a bunch of modes for battling, but isn't that one of the main aspects in Pokémon games? Also, VS mode was made to play against human players, not "PC1" with a "Very Hard" difficulty setting.
All right fair enough, I played the rom which sucks cos u lack the trading ability.. Don't get me wrong, I love battle modes too, I do really - I am fond of Mt Battle, and I enjoyed Battle Frontier in Emerald so far, despite having all but one of my team on another game .. I liked the idea of rentals in Stadium (but hated the idea of picking my opponents). I just didn't get the hype about the Stadium-only rumour cos I thought Collo/XD was just Stadium with a story mode (minus a few things I know, I'm not that newb, but still.. there's a choice, variety.. which I like). What I like about storymode is that, even though most of the time the matches are easy, you're battling for something, and well it's not a good thing to lose. I don't care that much if my friend beats me.
All I can say is that some games are way more fun when played along someone else.
True, I can only play with one friend (no other friends play the games) and well, most of the time we end up not bothering cos we don't have even levelled teams. I know that doesn't usually matter, but it does if his team is mainly level 20's, with one "uber" level 70 starter, and mine are all evenly 30/40's.
What I want to stress out is, the Stadium games where heaven for Pokémon fans on their time, and for a reason.
Yes, I played Colosseum and XD, which where good for a while, yet they never had that charm.
Ok ok.. I wasn't trying to change anyone's minds, I wasn't. What I wanted was what you gave me, I just wanted to know why Stadium was so appealing to everyone over a story mode with a possible battle mode as well. I have admitted that I was limited by the rom (rookie mistake), I knew there was more to it, hence why I asked. So thanks for that.
It would be a good idea to either fit both of these type of games in one release, if possible.. please everyone. Meh. I didn't mean to upset anyone, apologies if I did.