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Gen 4 Remakes? My take.
8 years ago
To be honest... Hell no.
Now here is my take on Gen 4. Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.
Gen 4 added things that were great. Wireless Battles, Wifi Battles, Special Split, Awesome Berries and Hold Items, some great Pokemon (Buizel after all) and the Pok'etch was pretty cool. Hell the afterstory stuff was better than Gen 3's.
Here is where it failed: The gameplay is way too slow, the rival is just too annoying, the region is... Pretty uninteresting..., honestly I do not like the music in D/P (the Trainer themes and wild Pokemon themes are the weakest to date, I am not talking about the Champion or Legendary themes), the contests in Gen 4 are worse, the Battle Frontier is INTERESTING but not as good as Gen 3's in my opinion (Though it is still good)
Now... Other than fixing the gameplay speed. What can a remake fix? Not much. Here is a list I can think of:
Infinite TMs.
Able to actually Wifi Battle because your servers aren't shut down.
Updated move pools
3D graphics that look terrible and chug like all hell?
Gen 5-7 and maybe more Pokemon
Maybe they can make Cheren/Pluto not useless in the grand scheme of things (Seriously, why did Platinum add him?)
????????????
In fact as we have seen with the Gen 3 remakes, it could make some points even worse. This is my point. I don't like Gen 4 that much. I'll be honest with you. But I honestly don't get what a remake would do to make it THAT much better. The only thing I kinda want is us finally getting a Arceus storyline in the Azure Flute that was cut from the game. Though it probably have a anime as all hell character telling us what to do and make us go into Space to fight Giratina while riding on Arceus... Seriously people actually didn't cringe during that scene in ORAS? Okay... I'll stop.
Like Gen 3. Gen 4 does not need a remake. People are just asking because they like Gen 4, they get it, and then are like "Wow this is kind of underwhelming... It's just Diamond and Pearl with less content" Diamond and Pearl are the worse Pokemon games to date. But Platinum is still fine and you can still trade Pokemon from it. Would I prefer Gen 4 remakes over US/UM? Too early to tell.
But anyways! Give me your views below! Wanna hear what you think!
Now here is my take on Gen 4. Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.
Gen 4 added things that were great. Wireless Battles, Wifi Battles, Special Split, Awesome Berries and Hold Items, some great Pokemon (Buizel after all) and the Pok'etch was pretty cool. Hell the afterstory stuff was better than Gen 3's.
Here is where it failed: The gameplay is way too slow, the rival is just too annoying, the region is... Pretty uninteresting..., honestly I do not like the music in D/P (the Trainer themes and wild Pokemon themes are the weakest to date, I am not talking about the Champion or Legendary themes), the contests in Gen 4 are worse, the Battle Frontier is INTERESTING but not as good as Gen 3's in my opinion (Though it is still good)
Now... Other than fixing the gameplay speed. What can a remake fix? Not much. Here is a list I can think of:
Infinite TMs.
Able to actually Wifi Battle because your servers aren't shut down.
Updated move pools
3D graphics that look terrible and chug like all hell?
Gen 5-7 and maybe more Pokemon
Maybe they can make Cheren/Pluto not useless in the grand scheme of things (Seriously, why did Platinum add him?)
????????????
In fact as we have seen with the Gen 3 remakes, it could make some points even worse. This is my point. I don't like Gen 4 that much. I'll be honest with you. But I honestly don't get what a remake would do to make it THAT much better. The only thing I kinda want is us finally getting a Arceus storyline in the Azure Flute that was cut from the game. Though it probably have a anime as all hell character telling us what to do and make us go into Space to fight Giratina while riding on Arceus... Seriously people actually didn't cringe during that scene in ORAS? Okay... I'll stop.
Like Gen 3. Gen 4 does not need a remake. People are just asking because they like Gen 4, they get it, and then are like "Wow this is kind of underwhelming... It's just Diamond and Pearl with less content" Diamond and Pearl are the worse Pokemon games to date. But Platinum is still fine and you can still trade Pokemon from it. Would I prefer Gen 4 remakes over US/UM? Too early to tell.
But anyways! Give me your views below! Wanna hear what you think!
Also, for me the weakest link is XY (and ORAS to some extent), but that's aside the topic :P
But yeah, I'm not a big fan of Gen 4 either. Unless they added new pokemon in the MAIN STORY of the game, I'll probably pass on it.