So what are our thoughts on Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen coming bacc?

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bikingjahuty:
I'm confused about the outrage I've been seeing online. It's like people forgot game companies have been releasing old games on digital store front fro the past 20-years or something. I remember seeing games like Pokemon Snap and Ocarina of Time on the Virtual Console back in 2007 for like $12, which is practically $20 adjusted for inflation. I have no idea what Fire Red and Leaf Green go for these days physically, but unless they're over $100 loose, I'd say you might as well just get the physical cart and skip the digital copy. On top of that, I can't imagine it's very hard to find the roms for either of these, which seems to be a more and more common route people are taking with older games.

weirdfeline:
Pricing is pretty crazy and the Let's Go games already exist to experience the first gen on Switch. I'd like a way to experience the second gen again.

marvelvscapcom2:
Garbage. Predatory. Typical of Nintendo post pandemic. Wildly silly. To use a few expressions lol. But they arent to blame. People will buy it. Nobody will stand against anything with their wallet. It feels like cultism at this point. But I will say I Guess it's better than repackaging last gens games for 70 dollars which has NEVER been done to this extent before. Be like N64 having super mario kart for 60 bucks at launch. You just bought a new ps2? Here is crash bandicoot for ps1 for 70 dollars. Slightly better textures. Horray. That's how silly all this is. Modern gaming feels like a bad dream sometimes. The leaf green is the least of the nonsense but still way overpriced. Especially non physical. Someone going to the store and deciding to buy last gens zelda from 5 years ago for full 70 USD on a console that is literally the same exact form factor. Now thats twilight zone level nonsense.

Leaf Green and Fire Red should have either been part of a monthly subscription with 30 other GBA games or 2.99 on Eshop.

If its not physical, it becomes no different than emulation for me. Buying a digital access key to a very common free rom?

20 dollars for a game that you can emulate easily on any phone for free is just asinine. It's literally cheaper to buy a fake physical version of the game. It's almost as much money as Pokemon Sword used. An actual recent title on physical cartridge. I just really feel they have lost the plot. The switch was incredible. Switch 2 is the new Wii U. Inflated reseller sales won't save this company by year 3. Mark my words.

sworddude:

--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on February 23, 2026, 10:45:10 am --- but unless they're over $100 loose, I'd say you might as well just get the physical cart and skip the digital copy.

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so unironicly they are over a 100$ each for loose carts and not even from retro stores that put a markup on em, actual market value

--- Quote from: weirdfeline on February 23, 2026, 11:03:05 am ---Pricing is pretty crazy and the Let's Go games already exist to experience the first gen on Switch. I'd like a way to experience the second gen again.

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while you are right and while it's technically gen 1. that game got baby vibes it's not ideal for everyone. While 20$ is a scam for an old retro port I'd easily pay that over let's go at 20$. even if let's go was 5$ or free i'd take a port of the gba games at 20$ each over it. it's a godly deal in comparison. let's go is not a good gen 1 experience it's a terrible game. if let's go was released back in the day as the first games I really doubt pokemon would have been as popular as it was today. kids would drop it at really young ages, ain't anything cool about that game. it's really kiddy like 5yo kiddy. yes pokemon games are made for kids but let's go is too on the nose while older gens looked cool and made for all ages, let's go looks like a game for 5yo's. ost also murdered and disneyfied.

weirdfeline:

--- Quote from: sworddude on February 24, 2026, 06:41:13 am ---
--- Quote from: bikingjahuty on February 23, 2026, 10:45:10 am --- but unless they're over $100 loose, I'd say you might as well just get the physical cart and skip the digital copy.

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so unironicly they are over a 100$ each for loose carts and not even from retro stores that put a markup on em, actual market value

--- Quote from: weirdfeline on February 23, 2026, 11:03:05 am ---Pricing is pretty crazy and the Let's Go games already exist to experience the first gen on Switch. I'd like a way to experience the second gen again.

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while you are right and while it's technically gen 1. that game got baby vibes it's not ideal for everyone. While 20$ is a scam for an old retro port I'd easily pay that over let's go at 20$. even if let's go was 5$ or free i'd take a port of the gba games at 20$ each over it. it's a godly deal in comparison. let's go is not a good gen 1 experience it's a terrible game. if let's go was released back in the day as the first games I really doubt pokemon would have been as popular as it was today. kids would drop it at really young ages, ain't anything cool about that game. it's really kiddy like 5yo kiddy. yes pokemon games are made for kids but let's go is too on the nose while older gens looked cool and made for all ages, let's go looks like a game for 5yo's. ost also murdered and disneyfied.

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I played Let's Go, Eevee! with the Pokéball controller and enjoyed it quite a bit. My initial reaction to it was that it's just for non-gamers that played Pokémon Go to introduce them to the full series but it was a more memorable experience than I had playing X or Omega Ruby which I just breezed through. I'd say X/Y with a fairy type Pokémon is a more of a "kiddy" game than Let's Go is. Slurpuff one hit KO'd everything in that game. I also only paid about $30 new for the bundle with controller and traded it into eStarland for double what I paid lol.

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