After playing on Yellow for a while tonight (and then SoulSilver too, gotta love Roms) I was wondering if this (That being the fact Yellow is keeping this generation alive) was the soul reason for the two Generations still being played.
The logic behind this basically stems from the fact that Yellow is a completely unique game, the reason being that it follows the Animé rather than another storyline (Those being the game-only storylines). I mean, if someone wants to go on Blue or Red but they also have the option of playing on Yellow (Love the fact this sentence rhymes) then I'm betting most people will choose Yellow, and, given that Blue, Red and Yellow are all essentially the same (apart from the aforementioned difference) they wont play Red and Blue after they have completed Yellow because it will seem boring and repetitive.
Before this year I always thought it was just the Metal era keeping these games alive but now that we have HeartGold and SoulSilver it seems that the era is all but dead, after all, people will want to play on these two over Silver any day.
However, there are people in this world like me who love the style of the older games, the 3D feel of the DS Games just doesn't work for me sometimes and I want to kick back to basics and play on the older games, this can admittedly include LeafGreen and FireRed too but sometimes it is the first set of games, I love the style, look and feel of them more than any other Pokémon game, yes, it might be nostalgia that keeps bringing me back but the point is that it always will because I love these games and they need to be respected and played just as much as their remakes (LeafGreen, FireRed, HeartGold and SoulSilver)
BUT!
This could very well happen to the Advance generation in the next few years, I'd be willing to bet that sooner or later we'll have games based off Ruby and Sapphire that will put the Advance generation in this same crisis, the crisis of being taken over by a new game, will this mean that people give up on even the original two Generations as well?
Surely if the Third generation is all but forgotten then the predecessors to those games will suffer as well.
Saying that, maybe the start of the problem, LeafGreen and FireRed will actually save these three generations because there are no DS alternatives to the original Kanto storyline.
Hopefully we wont see a worsening of this problem, hopefully the first Two Generations and even the Third one will live on.
I guess only time will tell.
The logic behind this basically stems from the fact that Yellow is a completely unique game, the reason being that it follows the Animé rather than another storyline (Those being the game-only storylines). I mean, if someone wants to go on Blue or Red but they also have the option of playing on Yellow (Love the fact this sentence rhymes) then I'm betting most people will choose Yellow, and, given that Blue, Red and Yellow are all essentially the same (apart from the aforementioned difference) they wont play Red and Blue after they have completed Yellow because it will seem boring and repetitive.
Before this year I always thought it was just the Metal era keeping these games alive but now that we have HeartGold and SoulSilver it seems that the era is all but dead, after all, people will want to play on these two over Silver any day.
However, there are people in this world like me who love the style of the older games, the 3D feel of the DS Games just doesn't work for me sometimes and I want to kick back to basics and play on the older games, this can admittedly include LeafGreen and FireRed too but sometimes it is the first set of games, I love the style, look and feel of them more than any other Pokémon game, yes, it might be nostalgia that keeps bringing me back but the point is that it always will because I love these games and they need to be respected and played just as much as their remakes (LeafGreen, FireRed, HeartGold and SoulSilver)
BUT!
This could very well happen to the Advance generation in the next few years, I'd be willing to bet that sooner or later we'll have games based off Ruby and Sapphire that will put the Advance generation in this same crisis, the crisis of being taken over by a new game, will this mean that people give up on even the original two Generations as well?
Surely if the Third generation is all but forgotten then the predecessors to those games will suffer as well.
Saying that, maybe the start of the problem, LeafGreen and FireRed will actually save these three generations because there are no DS alternatives to the original Kanto storyline.
Hopefully we wont see a worsening of this problem, hopefully the first Two Generations and even the Third one will live on.
I guess only time will tell.
