Rumor: Pokemans: Let Nintendo sell you them again

I haven't played a Pokemon game since Red on the original Game Boy. I want to try Pearl/Diamond but I don't know any of those newfangled Pokemon - apart from Mudkip. I feel I may be overwhelmed by all the monsters. Plus, some of the newer Pokemon look sort of retarded.

If they released a game with just the original 150, I'd buy it.

*I just added the word "Pokemon" to my Firefox spellcheck

Never played a Pokemon game, but I'm thoroughly tempted by the upcoming Mystery Dungeon pair. If only I knew how to pick between the two.

Not knowing pokemon doesn't really matter. You can usually run through the entire game with only your starter, ignore types and just out level everything to get through it. I sat out this round of pokemon by the way.

If it is a G/S type remake I'd gladly shell out the cash. Just thinking of a game that encompasses all four regions, gyms and everything, is awesome. It would honestly be the best game in the series since G/S themselves.

I'm not particularly interested in another game that is grouped in with the Diamond/Pearl series, as the whole point to two versions is to have different Pokemon in each version. However the use of GTS has been a more practical way of catching them all without having to buy both versions of the game.

If it were a G/S remake, I'd buy it right away.

D/P was the least inventive iteration of the franchise and I was sorely disappointed with it--I bought it on the release day with high hopes and ended up putting it down about two weeks later after beating the elite four, and I haven't touched it since. New crops of pokemon just aren't enough to cut it anymore--the designs are too ridiculous and, more importantly, catching them all is too much of a chore and has been since R/S/E when one had to have Ruby, Sapphire, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Stadium, and an Action Replay to be able to get a complete pokedex. That's too much effort for zero reward--I remember what a downer it was to get all 150 in R/B, go to the man in Celadon City who tells you to come back when you have a complete pokedex, and instead of unlocking new content, a special item, etc, you get a certificate of congratulation. I don't even think you get that anymore.

I think I might be rambling, back to the main point. There was zero innovation in D/P and because of that it made all the old collecting tasks passed on with each iteration of the game even more arduous and less rewarding. I know I'm not exactly growing out of the franchise, because I still have warm feelings toward the era of the games when there was still a sense of newness, and would love a Pokemon game that can bring that back somehow. Until then, I'm not putting down money on whatever D/P spinoffs they decide to release.

Any guesses on what the next precious stone might be? Topaz? XD

My bet's on Amethyst.

It pains me to say it, but I got only about halfway through Diamond before giving it up. It was more, and more, and more of the same. They added a lot of overwhelming complexity to it (the breeding's reached insane levels, and the fact that you lose all your berry plants if you don't water every damn one of them across the whole continent every damn day), while the core gameplay is monotonously identical. Honestly, I don't mind the core gameplay staying the same if fun aspects were improved. Finally getting 3D battles would go a long way, and improving the story, new forms of battle techniques, etc. But so far all the improvements lately seem to be entirely in side distractions and not in the actual game, and those side distractions aren't grabbing me. Improve the core and strip away some of the extraneous crap and I might buy another Pokemon game. But not until then.

I'd buy it.

I bought Diamond and finished it - but then my copy (and DS) got stolen.

I never got further than the 3rd-4th gyms in B/R/Y or G/S/C, and skipped right to D/P. So the "same old same old" wouldn't apply so much, especially since I'd play it different - different starter, different team, etc. So much replay value, imho. If I didn't have a life right now (*cough*girlfriend*cough*), I'd give into my Poke-cravings!

Hmm, maybe I should get her a DS and Pearl... *evil grin*

wait a minute.

why's it red/green?

i thought it started red/blue, then released yellow where pikachu followed you?

was there even a green in the first place?
not counting LeafGreen..

I agree with most people here, if it were a remake of gold/silver then I'd buy it. Pearl and Diamond were fun for maybe.....one play. They were disappointing, I liked fire red better than Diamond, and I didn't like Fire Red very much.....:-/

Wow, DS Fanboy linked to my blog, I think I'm gonna cry ;-;

No, I did not send this in to DS Fanboy, only to GoNintendo =d

i thought yellow was the follow on to red/green and blue was just the uk/american version of green?

scans come this thursday