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

[sworddude]

The mostly positive reaction to Winds and Waves make no sense to me. It still looks like garbage despite being a Switch 2 exclusive. The waves in the trailer look fine but the ground textures still look like garbage. Those starters though.. wow. They are really out of ideas. I'd say starters started falling off around gen 5 with gen 9 being particularly bad but now they aren't even trying.

Weird choice to show very little gameplay of Pokémon Champions which is finally releasing for free on the original Switch in April.

I personally love the Pomeranian starter, so long as it doesn't evolve into Macho Man Randy Savage like Litten in Pokémon moon.   They keep making cute animals evovle into humanoid wierdos that walk like humans.

[bikingjahuty]

but unless they're over $100 loose, I'd say you might as well just get the physical cart and skip the digital copy.

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

Well id that's the case than I really don't have a problem with this. Unfortunately, accessibility becomes an issue over time as games age. This includes price, and despite Fire Red/Leaf Green being good games, they're nowhere near good enough to justify that sort of money. I feel like the entire Pokemon brand has become a bit of a Ponzi scheme in the last year or so and I'm not surprised the games have become part of that. If I didn't already own both games and I wasn't comfortable with emulating, then yeah, I'd fork over $20, or even $40 for both games just so I could avoid paying $100+ for a single loose cart + a GBA system assuming I didn't own one.

[bikingjahuty]

The mostly positive reaction to Winds and Waves make no sense to me. It still looks like garbage despite being a Switch 2 exclusive. The waves in the trailer look fine but the ground textures still look like garbage. Those starters though.. wow. They are really out of ideas. I'd say starters started falling off around gen 5 with gen 9 being particularly bad but now they aren't even trying.

Weird choice to show very little gameplay of Pokémon Champions which is finally releasing for free on the original Switch in April.

I've come to terms with that fact that Pokemon isn't a franchise for me anymore. It's sad when the last few generations make Sun and Moon look like a masterpiece despite Sun and Moon being the first Pokemon generation I just couldn't get into. I tried getting into Sword and Shield, and couldn't be bothered anymore just a few hours in. I still enjoy 6th gen and prior, but the new Pokemon games are just bland, soulless, and seemingly cater to toddlers and adult fanboys who've made their childhood nostalgia for Pokemon their personality. New Pokemon design has been crap for over a decade, and going down hill well before that. The formulaic gameplay has overstayed its welcome and somehow become even more watered down. I could go on and on, but new Pokemon does not appeal to me whatsoever. I'm at least happy I can still enjoy Red Version or Ruby, but it's undeniable that seeing Pokemon where it is now has made me a fraction of the Pokemon fan I used to be.

[ssj4yamgeta]

The mostly positive reaction to Winds and Waves make no sense to me. It still looks like garbage despite being a Switch 2 exclusive. The waves in the trailer look fine but the ground textures still look like garbage. Those starters though.. wow. They are really out of ideas. I'd say starters started falling off around gen 5 with gen 9 being particularly bad but now they aren't even trying.

To me, the water and human characters do look significantly better. Where it fails are the namesake pokemon, which Gamefreak insists on putting no effort into anymore. Would it have been too much to ask the AAA developer to put just a little bit of fuzz on Pikachu to make it look like a creature instead of a plastic blob? That's got to be my biggest problem with the 3D pokemon designs: They all look like injection-molded plastic toys instead of living creatures. They look like they're made out of the same material as rubber duckies and squeaky toys. And I agree about the starters. This is the third time there's been a gecko starter, and the second time it's been a water type. The grass-type bird (second one in the past 4 generations, by the way) looks like an Angry Birds reject. The most appealing one is the fire dog, but even that one is just Temu Growlithe.