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Old July 29th, 2010 (11:36 PM).
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Soul Silver is so much better than any previous Pokemon game. Platinum was good, and same thing with Emerald and so on. But come on, Soul Silver, to me, it relived my childhood. It brought back everything, plus more, that GSC had within.
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Old July 30th, 2010 (12:28 AM).
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I never had a second gen game, so I can't really add anything to this..I prefer SS though.
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Old July 30th, 2010 (12:43 AM).
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I found platinum more entertaining. I'd never played GSC due to my young age and lack of people selling either of the three games, and I really looked forward to it. It is quite fun, I liked using those pokemon specifically, but the storyline just bored me. It was just R/B/Y in a new region. In Hoenn/Sinnoh there is a point other than beating all gyms. In R/S/E you save the world from enviromental destruction, in D/P/P you had to save the world from being destroyed by legendary beings. HG/SS, the Poke-athlon is very fun, but tedious if you're tryin to save for, I don't know, something expensive mid-game. I've played D/P/P over and over agai nand i still enjoy the story. I've played HG/SS twice, and haven't beaten Red on either. I'm a bit strange, I'd rather catch all 493 than trai nthem to level 100.
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Old July 30th, 2010 (5:19 AM).
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i think it was perfect for a remake
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Old July 30th, 2010 (9:33 AM).
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I only have Diamond sop i dont know what you guys are talking about with platinum but i can say, I hadalot more fun with HG/SS than i with Diamond.
in HG/SS theres more to do, however it does get kinda boring.
in Diamond theres better to do but less of it, so it in its own way gets boring....

If you guys ask me, Gen 3 were the best games out of all
Ruby was the only Game that was hard for me and i had a hard time beating it
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Old July 30th, 2010 (9:56 AM).
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The only thing that annoyed me was the lack of reliable training spots, and how hard it was to get items, prizes from game corner etc.

I preferred Platinum's slot machines with loose change in, buying coins by the 1000, vs. seeker etc. to Voltorb Flip, Pokethlon (At least contests are do-able for people who aren't that good with a stylus).

However, Lance, Silver and the Kanto Gym Leaders (particularly Blue/Green) are my favourites, and I liked how Pokegear had a colour screen, and you could change the theme. I also liked the use of the touch screen generally. Especially the running shoes.
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To me it was far from a disappointment since I liked GSC way more than I liked DP, to me its the greatest remakes I have ever played. Plus Silver was actually the first game i actually owned, i had played Gen I but that is because i borrowed, finished, and returned them so in a way its like Im reliving the past.
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You, sir, are correct! I think the same.
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Old July 30th, 2010 (11:36 AM).
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In my opinion HG and SS were faaar from a disappointment. They were some of the funnest games I've played, apart from GSC.
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Old July 30th, 2010 (11:52 AM).
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When i played HGSS, I looked at it very differently from platinum.... in a good way.
The games just had a whole different feel than DPP.
NOt to say DPP are bad, I just think that HGSS was somehow better.
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Old July 30th, 2010 (1:20 PM).
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lol i started playing platinum after i beat SS and now im kicking myself for even wasting my time with first and 2nd gen remakes..the only good ones were FR and LG because they were epic and impacted alot more
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I can't say that I liked it more than Platinum, because I never played Platinum. However, I do enjoy the Johto region more than the Sinnoh region, and I've played my Soul Silver a lot more than I have played my Pearl. I don't think it was a let down at all. It was almost perfect, with only the casino and no VS Seeker to be a problem. But the VS Seeker wasn't in the originals, so meh.
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In some ways I found it a let down, but in others I preferred it to Platinum etc. I prefer HGSS because of the Pokeathelon, and the touch screen menu, and all the Pokemon you can get. But then when I play on Platinum I like it as you have the trainer house on the Battle Frontier, where you can compete against the Gym Leaders without having to call them up at specific times and on specific days.
Overall I think that I like both but for different reasons, but HGSS were far away from being a let down.
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Old July 31st, 2010 (2:41 AM).
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HG/SS is just too awesome to be a let down lol That and you can listen to the old themes with the GB sounds key item! XD Its only the graphics and Pokemon that are new.

I love this game! ^_^
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Old July 31st, 2010 (2:44 AM).
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HG/SS were far from a disappointment for me. Great remakes of great games with plenty of improvements overall that made it even more worthwhile.
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Old July 31st, 2010 (5:34 AM).
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I do like HG/SS a lot, but I wanted to be able to polish my badges, and I really don't like the Voltorb game, but I <3 the Pokeathlon. :D
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Having played through Platinum and being about 75% through SoulSilver, I'd say it's like comparing apples to oranges. Platinum without a doubt made some great strides for the Pokemon franchise. The graphics, the music, the sound quality, the story, and the touch screen were all fantastic additions to the Pokemon franchise. That being said, I'm an old Pokemon fan. I got my first Pokemon game, Pokemon Blue, at the age of eight, and I'm nearly twenty years old and still playing those games. My favorite Pokemon games were Gold and Silver way back in the day. Ruby and Sapphire, though they had better graphics and a more involving storyline, I found to be unable to match R/B/Y or G/S/C. Platinum was much better than R/S/E, but when I found out about the Gold/Silver remakes, all of a sudden my ten-year-old self came out. I love these games, and if anything they've improved what Gold, Silver, and Crystal were.
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Old July 31st, 2010 (10:42 AM).
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I actually have a lot of mixed feelings about this.

When I heard that the games were in the making and going to come out (I think it was back in August sometime...) I simply couldn't wait. Like, G/S/C were my first Pokemon games, and in my opinion, were by far the best. They weren't even beaten by the newer generation games. When the 30 day countdown hit, I counted them off in my head. I thought about it, like, every day. I was excited.

But it just wasn't what I thought it would be. From past re-make disappointments (Tomb Raider Anniversary), I decided that a complete re-make of a game with same story, lines, and everything with only better graphics may be boring. So I accepted the fact that HG/SS were going to be a bit different. Well, I kind of figured that they would have contests, stuff to play with the the Poketch, and for god's sake, I still can't figure out why the got rid of the VS. Seeker. I re-rode the S.S. Anne for a third time, and none of the trainers even wanted to fight me. No one seemed to want to do anything. There was no where to train. I got higher leveled than everyone quickly, then suddenly when I got to Red I had NO ONE to train with but wild Pokemon. It was awful.

I loved it for nostalgia, but the problems stated above (and a couple others, but none as bad as those really) kind of shot the fun out of it for me.
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Yeah, no more easy rematch searcher. That was awesome for grinding. :(
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Ok, for one, we haven't seen following since Yellow, and that was just a Pikachu.
the graphics are epic, and It's placed in the best region. EVER.
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The GB player item was genius, My favorite theme in GSC from what little I did play of it was Violet/Olivine City. HGSS remix was OK, but I prefered the original. Plus, although I never got this far on the original games, I prefer the original Mt. Silver/Indigo Plateau themes just a little bit more.
While it probably WAS more enjoyable for people who didn't play much of GSC, like me, even the people who did play those games should've gotten a good kick out of it.
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Old August 1st, 2010 (1:27 PM).
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since it was a remake, i expected to be just as good as the first one, so to me getting all the extra stuff in the game is a PLUS but is keep to the story so its fine
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I don't think the games were a let down. It was a remake, so we can understand why it's not as newish as the Platinum plot was. There's no distortion world in HG/SS, but Platinum has one map, no Pokemon following you, and it's not Johto.

I prefer HG/SS c:
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I liked HGSS only because i can walk with my pokemon but Platinum was better why?

1. Nice and Short (HGSS is so long I change my team every 2 seconds and Im still not satisfied)
2. Easy to train (HGSS is under powered, in Pt my poke were on 65 b4 the E4 100 after rematches which took 3 days per pokemon but HGSS 51 b4 the E4 73 after Kanto and gymleader rematches are weak on lvl 50-60s)
3. VS SEEKER!!
4. Pretty much Chaos Ruch said everything else
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