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2nd Gen The originals or the remakes?

Uecil

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    I prefer the original remakes (RBY/GCS), mainly because that's the generation I grew up with and it has epic sprites and music.
     

    Eurydice

    `~♥Eury♥~'
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    i like RBY better than FR/LG. just because those are the first pokemon games i ever played. and i like hg/ss better than GSC. i dont know why i just love the hgss games
     

    psyciceman

    Friendly Neighbourhood Psycho
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    Originals for nostalgia, but the remakes have their perks too. Still I will always play the originals if given the choice.
     

    cazzler

    Feraligatr FtW!
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    I prefer the originals for G/S/C since well It was just plain better, the music, the feel. But I prefer FR/LG over R/B/G because It had graphic updates and new content like the sevii islands implemented, I also really liked the Vs Seeker.
     

    Elite Overlord LeSabre™

    On that 'Non stop road'
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    I like Crystal about the same as I liked HG/SS. But I definitely like FR/LG more than R/B/Y. As much as I liked the HG/SS updates, there's just something refreshing about going back to Crystal... even if Mareep's not in it...

    But as far as R/B/Y, the only gameplay element I prefer over the remakes is the fact that Slash would go critical practically every time when Persian used it. Otherwise FR/LG wins, mainly because they gave us the best protagonist in a Pokemon game ever as the form of the female trainer. But if you've known me for any length of time on PC, you'd have known I was gonna say that Leaf's awesome :)

    Of course, there's the fact that the internal battery's dead on all of my first and second gen games that keeps me from playing them at all...
     

    ParanoidMocha

    Paranoid since '98
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    Remake and Original respectively

    RBY were nice,but FRLG is better,guess it's because it was fixed up,shame mons from other generations can't evolve untill you have NDEX,but beats only Gen.

    GSC,are better than HGSS because the later was too complicated in my opinion.
     

    Meganium

    [i]memento mori[/i]
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    As a classic gamer, I prefer the originals hands down. Back then we didn't have abilities, natures, or even weird berry names (that I still can't memorize). I prefer the simplicity, and the nostalgia the classic games have to offer, but I wouldn't mind trying out the remakes just to see how things have changed, as well as staying on top of Pokemon today.
     

    the :D

    <- heracross ftw!
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    ORIGINALS. All the way.

    The remakes of Gold and Silver (i.e., HeartGold, SoulSilver) were fantastic games, don't get me wrong here. But the problem is, they didn't capture the same magic, the beauty of the originals. The original Silver had terribad graphics, but I've grown to love them. 3D doesn't do it for me.

    The 8-bit soundtrack -- oh my God! It was the best soundtrack ever released for any game of any system. The Gen IV remakes were good, too, but they were just that -- remakes.

    tl;dr -- new games, great. old games, magic.
     
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    HackChu

    I need a haircut...
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    I prefer originals. I play them all today though, hell just for kicks I decided to begin a new game for Yellow the other day just to remember how I loved the game back when there were no stinkin' remakes. I only play the remakes because they're updated and I like to check out the remixed music, other than that, G/R/B/Y/G/S/C ftw!
     

    Sesh

    Subjectively Objective
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    Even if I started by playing yellow I STILL prefer updated games so yeah FR/LG all the way, I never got to play HG/SS but I always like an updated look at an old game, abilities and all that never got in my way and as for berries I admit sadly that it took me a minute or two to figure out what psncureberry and prlyzcureberry meant LOL. Besides the new names have been around long enough for me to name off the ones that heal status effects plus the fact that they're all pointless if you have lum berries anyways.

    As much as I love nostalgia I love a crisp new feel too Pokemon is pokemon and as long as my Typhlosion can learn Thunderpunch via TM in a G/S remake I'm just fine.
     

    dutchmuffin77

    ...not dutch
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    I liked the originals more when they were new more than i liked the remakes when they were new because of the fact that the originals were so far ahead of their time when they came out, no other game could come close to them.
     
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    Remakes, just because they have the Hoenn pokemon in them and the new islands are a good addition. However I can't deny that the old games do hold a certain charm! Although the music in the old ones is unbeatable!
     

    Perriechu

    i make this look easy tik-tik boom like gasoline-y
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    I prefer the originals, it's the same reason as everyone said; nostalgia.

    Although, I do love the remakes, well, only HG/SS; FR/LG didn't sit that well with me.

    plus the originals run super fast on emulators. C:
     

    Dr. McNinja

    Sir Harold of England
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    Originals. You can't replicate the feeling when you first played them, the excitement in battling! The plot twists! Defeating team rocket! Catching your first legendary bird! Charmander evolving!

    The remakes are just like; meh, I defeated team rocket... again... in better graphics.
     
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