Can we merge this discussion back into its rightful place in the
RSE Remake Speculation Thread, please?
Actually the fans clamoring for the remakes aren't that high in number. The most vocal are the minorities so really it would be about 20-30% of the fans want the remakes. Maybe 60% don't care, the rest get pulled into different fields. I mean if you make a post in any given area, a lot of the people that respond "positively" to it would be names that pretty much appear here, Serebii, and Bulba, maybe Smogon and other large name fan sites, but a lot of them are on all the sites or multiple sites.
Locally where I am, majority of the fans (this is over 100 people as I met a ton of people in college that play Pokemon) about 80 do not want remakes...any kind of remake. 20% would not mind, but don't see any major need for such things. I'm with the 20%. I'd like them sure, I'd buy them despite them being maybe my second least favorite behind Johto.
But 20% is one
fifth of the fan base! Besides, I'm sure that we'll get the RSE remakes pretty soon (GameFreak will most likely start to develop them as work on X and Y starts to wind down, so maybe they're at it already?)
I personally don't want any more remakes because then every gen we will hear stuff about a Hoenn remake, then a Sinnoh remake, and so on. IMO Sinnoh looks as "bad" as Hoenn graphically speaking, well not so bad, but considering the next game is in full 3D it makes all old games look quite bad.
Maybe GameFreak will update the games every once in a while once they or their remakes all end up being distributed digitally via the eShop?
X and
Y will be available there (placeholders are already up,) so that takes care of the main-series Generation VI games. If they remake both the Hoenn and/or the Kanto games this generation (I would prefer getting the former, but I wouldn't mind if I also received the latter if there were some way to transfer Pokémon and/or save data from their original copies to their newer versions,) then that would take care of getting Generations I and/or III into this update loop. Generations II and/or IV could be remade next generation (that would be number VII since Generation VI has already been announced,) and that would get everything into the Nintendo eShop. After that, it would be a lot less work for GameFreak to keep all of the games up to date as compared to one another, especially since Nintendo has allowed game developers to update even
cartridge-based games via a patch system.
I would love Hoenn remakes. Ruby was my second pokémon game and even though Hoenn isn't my favorite region and doesn't have my favorite pokédex or anything really, the games are still my favorites. They still work and aren't outdated in the same way as a half-colored GBC game is, but a Hoenn game in X & Y style, now just think about how much more epic Groudon's awakening would be! Not to mention diving and going through the desert and rainforest! Plus, I'd love to hear the music again in new fonts.
So even though I think the Hoenn games are still fully playable and enjoyable to this day, I would like remakes. It would make trading Hoenn pokémon easier, too, right?
Hey, we have something in common:
Sapphire was
my first game, too! (Actually, that's not entirely true: my older brother purchased both
Ruby and
Sapphire and loaned me the latter game until I obtained
FireRed for my birthday – I should have bought
Emerald, but it would't have been the same, would it have been? – ; by the time he offered
Sapphire up for purchase within my family, my sister got to buying it first…)
Sure, I love R/S/E as much as the next guy, but I wouldn't really want a remake. Rather, I'd want a sequel. Playing a carboncopy of something I've already played, but with enhanced graphics and slightly different mechanics isn't something I'd want them to aim for. I would like Hoenn back, yes, but with a slightly different approach to it.
Maybe
both will come eventually…
The technological advancement jumping from the 8-bit RBY to the graphics of the GBA is just as significant as the jump from the old GBA graphics to the new 3DS graphics.
I actually believe that Kanto will be remade a second time before any hypothetical Sinnoh remakes. There are so many new younger fans to the series, in which remakes are a good opportunity to give them an opportunity to play through what others have. I, for one, have enjoyed playing many remakes (not just pokemon remakes!) which otherwise I would not have had the opportunity to play, because their systems were outdated. So there is no risk, because when a new fan picks up the game, they'll be just as eager to play it as a nostalgian would.
Despite being an older player, I have the... uncommon experience of only starting playing pokemon at Pokemon Diamond version. I never played GSC, yet was really happy to play Johto for the first time when HGSS came out. Likewise, I've never owned RSE, nor do I own a system that could play it, so I stand as an example of a non-preexisting player who would love to play Hoenn, with nothing to do with nostalgia.
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Funny thing is, if there are Hoenn remakes, we will most likely have a Ruby remake and a Sapphire remake, but no 3rd version remake. (Al beit that the plot of things like HGSS followed Crystal as opposed to either Gold or Silver. :P )
Speaking of 'funny things,' playing
Diamond partially counts for me as well since I received
FireRed a lot longer after it was released, so
Diamond popped into my sights just as I was finishing up my first play-through of
FireRed and, having slightly better graphics and a longer and more complex story, stuck in my memory more than
FireRed did. I still remember
FireRed fondly and am playing through it a second time right now, but doing so is awkward even with an original Nintendo DS because of how I have to use either my Game Boy Player or my original Game Boy Advance in a bright room (it lacks the front-lighting of the GBA SP and the backlighting used afterward) just to trade with my siblings. As mentioned before, I did play
Sapphire for a time before acquiring
FireRed, but it's the game that I remember the least and, as such, want to play again with an updated story that, like
HeartGold and
SoulSilver (the second of which I was also glad to buy and play even though my experience with their predecessors is limited to having started a new game in a copy of
Crystal that my brother bought without saving so as to not overwrite his file) did when they merged the story of
Crystal into the story originally told in
Gold and
Silver, merges
Emerald's story back into those of
Ruby and
Sapphire as these games are remade into new versions of themselves that update their own graphics and game mechanics. To summarize, I basically agree with what is said in the quote whose author I responded to in this post, so thank you, Shrew, for giving me a springboard for my own thoughts.