Very true, so I'll give you that, however I just don't have that much faith in GF as I did back during Gen 4. Especially after ORAS was a bit disappointing to me
Given what has been posted, rest assured for all your fears have been confirmed.
I don't know gen 4 so far is very similar to 8 to me. Decent base games that look not too great (and swsh is better than dp in this regard), followed by an expansion that turns the boat around gameplay wise, and then remakes.
HGSS are the best games in the entire series. it never got better. is there any room at gamefreak to go up from there? I imagine they'd only go down, "upgrading" graphics but removing features. I'd love to be wrong.
if they remade gen2 again, instead of trying to upgrade HGSS further I imagine they'd sidestep, like a Let's Go Johto
...which I'd also be down for
Or they could do a switch virtual console release like they did with RBYGSC on 3DS, I'd buy it
What do you think? We're expecting some announcement during february, isn't too early to activate a domain?
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But picture Dawn instead
This is HD development and I don't think Gamfreak can make a radical improvement like they did with sprite based games. Especially as it is increasingly more costly and eats into their profits, which is their biggest concern.
Gen 4 was the peak of Pokémon IMO but I'm struggling to get excited for this. I just don't trust gamefreak to deliver.
I didn't hate the game, I just found them boring. I'm not a big gen 3 fan though.
I'm looking forward to seeing how they do it considering how different D/P is from the current stuff.
My brain and soul can't take any more Pokemon fan discourse after the lead up to Sw/Sh though so I'm just gonna sit out all the speculation this time lmao
My brain and soul can't take any more Pokemon fan discourse after the lead up to Sw/Sh though so I'm just gonna sit out all the speculation this time lmao
Without knowing when they activated the subdomains it's hard to say. Could just be up for testing reasons ahead of it. It's just a subdomain...it's hard to say
ORAS suffers a lot from the battle frontier meme. Besides that it was better than Emerald in almost every way to me
*Sigh*
They are going to recycle the Arceus, Manaphy, and Darkrai events for season pass filler, aren't they?
They are going to recycle the Arceus, Manaphy, and Darkrai events for season pass filler, aren't they?
Aren't these some of the least regarded games in the series? I'd actually have preferred another G/S remake.
Excited but seeing as SWSH were a let down in many ways I'm not sure they can improve enough to make them great remakes. I'll still take what they're giving though and hopefully they can introduce the Pokemon that didn't make it into SWSH. I hope they bring back the events for shaymin darkrai and arceus and that underground thing.
Ok the contrary they are some of the most applauded other than D/P being very slow.
Even the DLC they did for Sword and Shield looked much better than the original Wild Area that was in the original game and even then the towns and regular routes in the looked alright.
Its not fair to denounce the entire games art style and visuals especially for a newer game that's had more time to cook in the oven when they've historically always improved the visuals for later titles and even in the original game still had a handful of appealing locals that were overshadowed by the Wild Area
I would seriously prefer just a straight up HD remaster of D/P over whatever kind remake is coming out later this year.
News: The generation in most need of a remake is getting a remake.
Seriously, go back and try to play the original Diamond/Pearl. It's atrocious in terms of pacing, visuals, music and just general design (why are so many new evolutions/evolutionary lines with new forms locked behind the post-game?!); I would take vanilla Sword/Shield over it any day.
Platinum is only slightly less painful to suffer through.
Seriously, go back and try to play the original Diamond/Pearl. It's atrocious in terms of pacing, visuals, music and just general design (why are so many new evolutions/evolutionary lines with new forms locked behind the post-game?!); I would take vanilla Sword/Shield over it any day.
Platinum is only slightly less painful to suffer through.
No clue but ngl, I've checked in at least once a month to see if that jam is still going and sure enough.
It depends.
Diamond and Pearl are very flawed, but Platinum is good enough that people overlook DP not being great when they hype up Gen 4.
yes i am sure gamefreak is really hurting for money
(this is more commentary on gamefreak's decisions than on your post)
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I'm a bit out of the loop. Did we ever get a crystal remake? Gen II was my favourite.
I wish they wouldn't release two versions of things anymore.
I wish they wouldn't release two versions of things anymore.
May want to add this as we've found their source
You're not wrong that Diamond and Pearl are awful and even base Sword and Shield were a step up over them but Platinum and HGSS were the main reason Gen 4 was perceived as fondly as they are. If they pulled a Gen 6 with DP and the only Sinnoh games were Diamond and Pearl I can promise you that Gen 4 wouldn't be nearly as fondly remembered now as they were back then
Do you honestly, truly, trust modern GameFreak to not fuck up Black/White/Black2/White2?
It's Game Freak remaking one of their games, why do you have any hope they won't screw it up?
