LyokoGirl5000
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Same here. Maybe because it's already released in Japan and some parts of Europe and I think Australia, too?
2nd Gen GSVC Countdown Chat
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Same here. Maybe because it's already released in Japan and some parts of Europe and I think Australia, too?
Ammako
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Meh, if all you need is for people to be around sharing their game experiences, I can make an effort to show up around here more often so that there's at least me lol. But no doubt there will be many more.
I got Gold. I could just have picked up any old rom and started playing right away, but I wanted to try and kinda "relive" the forced wait for a new release. It generates hype and makes me more motivated to play it once it becomes available (and more likely to stick with it for longer, lol.)
They may still release Crystal later on, but I think I may just stick with Gold regardless. As unpopular of an opinion as that may be, I really like the paired versions style with their own set of version-exclusives, where both games are the same and you just have to trade with the other to get everything. A third version just doesn't feel the same, because then everyone just gets said third game and the whole point of paired versions is kinda lost lol (and meh, Crystal doesn't have that much new stuff over Gold/Silver...)
I had zero interest in Gen. I VC. I don't even like Gen. I, and I didn't care about transferring Pokémon over to Gen. VII because I could already get all those Pokémon super easily from... literally every other Pokémon game ever, really (I don't do competitive battling; I don't care about the hidden abilities or exclusive moves either.)
Gen. II interests me here because it took everything that Gen. I had and improved upon it.
The inventory doesn't suck; the box system is a lil bit easier to use; it has held items; it's in full color; it has game mechanics and balance fixes.
You start in a new region, but you can still go to Kanto without having to buy Gen. I; it has all the same Pokémon, except with 100 more of them; shinies are an actual thing (instead of "oh, turns out this Pokémon had shiny DVs" by blindly transferring them over.)
This time around, with shinies being an actual thing, any shinies I find in Gen. II can join the rest of my collection instead of remaining separate. Gen. I had nothing I'd be interested in transferring.
Gen. II aged really well. Sure, Gen. I is still good for what it is, and back when it was first released it was amazing; I just don't think it's really worth playing nowadays unless you were a fan of the series since the beginning and want to play through them again for nostalgia. I could recommend Gen. II VC for any newer player who may have started out with X/Y or Sun/Moon, because aside from being a 8-bit GBC game, it feels really similar to the newer games, while Gen. I may be more difficult to enjoy.
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I mean, I guess to be fair, Gen. I still has the starters, the fossil Pokémon, and Gen. I legendaries as exclusives, so just for that I'm still partially considering getting Red at some point just so I can send them over to Gold before abandoning Red... the other part of me just wants to say "screw it, I'll hack them in/get someone else to trade them to me."
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I think excitement is likely to wear off more quickly for these than for the newer games, but there should still be some interested people. Since there's no wifi, people don't have as much motivation to interact with people here about their play throughs as they would for newer games, and there is nothing new to discover because, well, these are old games. Couple that to the fact that the people who are most excited about these releases probably played them as kids, and are now adults with a lot of other responsibilities, and I could see how interest could drop quickly (or how people might opt to play and enjoy the games, but not post that much about them).
That said, there may be a surge of new buyers come the holidays, and I'm sure you could encourage some newer players who otherwise would overlook these releases to pick the games up if you posted on the newer game boards with some well-placed comments in your signature.
I'm personally really excited about these, and will be playing them for a while. I still play the RBY releases, though that has definitely died down a bit since release. My posting is a little more variable (depending on life and such), so I can't say whether I'll be here expressing my enthusiasm, but I can try, and I'm sure I won't be alone.
I'm definitely looking forward to having a new, relaxing, nostalgic game to play before bed to help me fall asleep. I'm sick of grinding in R/B, and I've been more reluctant to restart my save files than I expected to be, so G/S will be a nice change of pace. Plus, I find the older graphics easier on my eyes when I'm trying to get sleepy. Still, the timing of this G/S release is such that I have a feeling my restart-Sun-every-week-to-get-each-event-Pikachu plan may not pan out as well as I had hoped.
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According to the eShop, the games will be live Friday at noon EST. In Singapore, that should be Saturday at midnight. The wait is killing me, even though it is only 4 hours.
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