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Well again, it's not so much about wanting to experience their own stories, it's about wanting to experience their own adventures. It's about making the exploration, not necessarily the story, a self-directed journey driven by the player's own curiosity instead of a guided tour through areas in...

Ehh, kind of feels too little, too late. If you want to go in a "do whatever you want in whatever order you want", it's best to do so from the start to get the full benefits of that kind of system. Having to go through an entire other region to get to that may be too much work to get through to...

To be fair, storylines can be told in any entertainment medium (books, comics, TV, movies). Video games are the only medium where you can interact with the world of the story. So it makes sense that many might value gameplay over story and consider a linear, formulaic story an impediment to the...

They're probably not going to make a game similar to SwSh, LA, or SV unless it's a Legends style reimagining. It's too drastic a change for a remake and would feel like a completely different game, similarly to how LA was ancient Sinnoh but was almost completely unrecognizable to DPPt. Really...

Not necessarily. There's a lot of things they could do with Johto that aren't BDSP or LGPE styled remakes. They could do a Legends Johto. They could do a GS2. They could just do NSO ports of GSC. They could come up with something completely different that we're not even thinking of. I agree...

Doubly so because Game Freak seems to have changed the direction they want the series to go in over the course of the Switch. Initially they seem to have thought mobile gameplay was the way to go, but after seeing BotW's success they want Pokemon to be open world. If they do another game like...

Again, this is a pattern, not a guarantee. Patterns can be broken at any time. Also, there's still time for (although I'm not sure this is going to end up happening) the successor to release Holiday 2023 and the first Pokemon game on Switch to release on 2024. That would satisfy the pattern of...

Hardware timing is not Game Freak's decision but they still have to plan around it because as you say, there's pressure to transition to the next gen device ASAP (I'm actually glad you mentioned this because I was about to myself, hardware transitions tend to be the biggest pattern breaker for...

No, no it isn't, and you're looking at the situation far too broadly. It's not just about whether or not they're actually doing a new generation, remake, or third version but how, when, and which one. There's been varying situations each time that's resulted in deviations from the typical...

The 3DS VC ports and LGPE weren't on the same hardware, so they could sell to different audiences. At best they could only repeat that strategy if Nintendo releases their next gen hardware by 2024, and I'm not even sure that Game Freak would try the same strategy over again because they know now...

Yes, that might make sense, but who said that's what they're doing? You don't know that. There are reasons they may not give Johto another game and give us nothing more than an NSO port or even nothing at all, Kanto is significantly more popular than Johto and the main purpose of LGPE was to...

Don't be so sure about that, we don't know what's coming next until we see it. There's been numerous instances in the past when a lot of people thought they knew what was coming next and we didn't (a lot of people thought we would get RS remakes after BW2, Z after ORAS, 8th gen after USUM, LG...

It wouldn't be 100% the same, but Johto with Gen 9 mechanics, especially if it's a faithful remake like BDSP, is going to be about 90% the same. Which is enough for NSO to cannibalize sales of a potential remake. Only way we get both GSC on NSO and a new Johto game is if the new game is...

So I had a thought about Johto remakes. I think Nintendo is probably adding GB games to Nintendo Switch Online soon (there's been rumors of this, but it feels like it's going to be close to time for this to actually happen). That means we could actually start to see main series Pokemon games on...

Honestly choosing between a BDSP and LGPE style remake is like choosing between getting slapped upside the head or punched in the chest, neither option is particularly appealing. I want either a BW2-sequel, a Legends style reimagining, a straight port of the original priced appropriately (like...

I think if they're going to play the BDSP "we can't change it because nostalgia" card, the opposite scenario is more likely (Whitney stays a Normal type gym leader and they keep Clefairy on her roster despite it no longer being Normal). Really, even if they do any larger changes, the one thing I...

:bulbaWave: YES! Thank you! I agree with just about everything you said here. I wouldn't mind going back to Kanto if Kanto gets a sequel or Legends game itself, but otherwise yes to all of this. You lost me here though. You're missing the point, the point is that Miltank is nostalgic and...

I think Miltank is a pretty strong argument in favor of keeping Whitney a Normal specialist (that and her name corresponds more to Normal than Fairy). I also suspect that if they went the BDSP route they'd just keep Clefairy even though it switched to Fairy. They seem to prioritize nostalgia...

The more relevant disconnect is the disconnect between the desires of the hardcore fans on the internet and message boards and the casual fans. Despite the numerous issues with the series and the games getting worse and worse, the games keep selling. And Game Freak and TPC pay more attention to...

I don't think Nintendo has anything to do with the remakes being too faithful, the Pokemon games don't seem to follow quite the same design philosophy as Nintendo's other IPs. It's probably another entity like Game Freak or TPC deciding to make the remakes ridiculously similar to the originals...