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It worked well with pokemon but Nintendo isnt trying to appease nostalgia of older gamers. They are just trying to develop another game cheep working off an old blueprint. This is fine since the majority of pokemons fans tend to be younger and did not play the original blue and red.
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Despite that, older fans still enjoy the games. I find it much more pleasant to play through the remakes as opposed to their originals, partially because they're just more refined in terms of gameplay. I've been a Pokemon fan since my fingers were big enough to fit on a Gameboy. Nostalgia is fine, but often time, remakes are just better than the original product.
If you want a good example of this sort of thing, watch any old cartoon that has received a recent reboot. Thundercats, My Little Pony, whatever. Odds are very, very good that the reboot is genuinely superior to the original series because people have had time to learn from their past mistakes and cherry pick the best aspects of the original. It still upsets a lot of fans who don't know how to enjoy it with their nostalgia filters off, but most newcomers who go back and watch the older stuff often have negative reactions. It's how I feel about a lot of old cartoons and comic books.
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While with a final fantasy 7 remake you would need to appease the nostalgia crowd other wise there will be such a critical feedback that the game will fail.
I suspect this is the main reason squareenix has put off a very requested remake. As its near impossible to not disappoint with a classic remake
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I'm just here to remind those people, the original version is still there if you want to go back and play it. Just because you don't like the idea of a remake doesn't mean that those of us who haven't touched it won't enjoy it.
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The Pokemon games would be a great remake on a console instead of just a handheld. And even do online, maybe even in the manner of an MMO. (I've always thought that Pokemon as an MMO would be ****ing amazing. Period.)
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Nintendo has stated that the main Pokemon games are staying on handheld systems because it has to do with the gameplay experience as a whole. I mean, having the games on a console is fun and all, but half of the game is interacting with other people who play it in the real world. A Pokemon MMO wouldn't interest me because to me, that's not what Pokemon is about.
That said and done, I wouldn't mind MMO elements being incorporated into Pokemon, like, say, being able to join a double/triple team with your friends over wireless connection/wi-fi. The Black/White games tried something like this, but it really didn't work out too well.
An MMO wouldn't sit well with me because I like to sit down and play the game by myself. I've put countless hours into carefully constructing teams and completing my Pokedex. In an MMO, I just couldn't grind like that. Plus, there's no way a Pokemon game would ever be released on anything that isn't a Nintendo system.
At this point, all I want out of Pokemon is more plot-heavy games like Black and White. I feel like they really nailed it with the last two games. I mean, Pokemon fans are a lot older than they used to be. I started out when the series was as young as I was and I'm 16 now. I like a little more depth than just being a kid who wants to become a Pokemon master. Nintendo seems to be acknowledging that the crowd who plays these games is a lot older than it used to be and improving their current formula would be best for the series' future.
You'd be hard pressed to get what Black and White delivered out of an MMO. It's the only game in the series that brought tears to my eyes -- more than once, even.
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It'd be nice if Spore was remade. Into the game it was meant to be.
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Spore is too recent to deserve a remake -- what it needs is a really good sequel. It's by no means a bad game, and it offers you a lot of freedom, but I feel like they could have done even more with it than what they actually did.
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