Nintendo chooses to announce Pokemon Gold and Silver remakes

I was a huge fan of Pokemon Silver + Pokemon Stadium 2. I'll buy the new Soul Silver version for sure.

this is gonna be so awesome, but i think that they should remake pokemon crystal for wii

just go buy a used copy of one of the existing Pokemon DS games if you actually want to play them, and aren't just looking for an opportunity to spew the first thing that came to mind onto the internet

yeah but this milk is sweet :)

This quotes from last week have been over NeoGAF, GoNintendo, VgChartz, Nintendo Everything and any other site with a heavy Nintendo fanbase: aparently, Nintendo delayed all the last year games (unanounced) and they will show all those games and new games to be released this year. They used the New Play Control games and remakes as fillers:

"As for our deployment during the latter half of this year, I would like to announce on the other day as it is not today's main topic. I
would like to address that Nintendo recognize that we have been short of new proposals during the former half of this year, so far.

From that viewpoint, we at Nintendo have to reflect on domestic Wii software deployment in the former half of this year. Like what had been to be released in the former half of this year was postponed to the latter, we were not able to reach the original goal - to regularly make new proposals." Iwata.

They are aware of that... we definitely need to wait until E3...

Also: Nintendo has released tons of games since 2006, both "hardcore" (I hate that term) and casual games: more than Sony. Problem is, Nintendo has to do it all alone, and Sony don't: they have good third party support, that's why you don't notice that Sony have released less games than Nintendo. Basically, Sony is just receiving all the 360 multiplatform games too...

Wtf fernando? I was talking about them milking the hell out of pokemon, i don't know what you're referring to. These games aren't even 10 years old yet, and besides it's not like series has drastically changed since the originals. It's pretty much the same thing still. So forgive me if I don't get the excitement here.

Damn... fair enough. I haven't played any Pokemon game tho, so, I can't tell anything.

Now I feel bad for that post =(

@FernandoRocker

Why did you have to suddenly drag the console war into this from out of nowhere? This was supposed to be our "General Pokemon fanbase happy time"! Unless it was meant for a completely different topic...

:(

Yeah, my bad...

My Nintendo Defense system mode was active, so sorry about the post.

'we at nintendo'

fernando is a nintendo employee CONFIRMED! :P

anyways, i'm fine with a remake of G/S. that was the best era of pokemon yet and having it all rendered in the current D/P engine is worth $210... silver got me into gaming. even though i don't support nintendo now, they made me the gamer i am today and i appreciate that.

yeah, never mind the thing about you at nintendo... i didn't see the 'iwata' after it. my bad...

Dont worry bro... I wish, but I don't work for them.





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Guitar Hero: Pokemon

Those darn udders are so darn sweet, its like a goddamn river of nestlé strawberry milkshake.


Man, i'm soooo excited ::D

My wife has nice big boobs and she said that when she was milking they felt really nice, I say:

"LET THE MILKING OF POKEMON CONTINUE!"

Do you play Pokemon? The series HAS drastically changed since the originals, largely in part due to Gold/Silver. While the basic premise of each game is the same (collect badges, beat Elite 4, explore post-game stuff), the actual mechanics of the games have seen significant improvements for the hardcore and casual Pokemon players.

Not counting the new Pokemon themselves, there's been the addition of Pokemon natures, a reworked stats system, new methods of evolution, Pokemon contests, 2 on 2 battles (seems trivial but really changes strategy), Pokemon abilities (huge!), Pokeball seals, Underground area, and the special/physical moves split (major gameplay change). But the Gold/Silver generation has probably the largest number of changes with the introduction of Pokemon genders, breeding, times of day and days of the week, the special stat attack/defense split, shiny Pokemon, and hold items (almost all MAJOR gameplay changes). Gold/Silver even allowed you to return to the region in the original games (though it was dumbed down a little... Still, no later Pokemon game has repeated this).

And what does the game not being 10 years old have to do with anything? Are you saying it's not possible to have a remake of a game until a full decade has passed? And actually, the Japanese version will be 10 years old later this year around the time the remake is due, and the North American version will be 10 years old next year. Ignoring that magic number, look at the systems the games have been on... Red/Blue were on the ORIGINAL Game Boy and moved to GBA. Gold/Silver were on Game Boy Color and are going to the DS. Are those not significant jumps?

I don't want to sound like a jerk, but please, don't make assumptions about things you know nothing about. If you are not excited about this bit of news, fine. That's your right. But just know that for Pokemon fans, this IS big news. I'm not saying Nintendo isn't milking the series, but that doesn't make this announcement any less significant. For some fans, these are considered the best games in the series, and this announcement has been a long time coming.

what they really need to do is bring back item pc storage.

/tissue

/fireplace
/wailing souls escaping

you and your FAQs

Not that anyone cares about Lapras......

@ Foetoid

But, Lapras is a solid Boltbeamer, thank you very much.

Should i feel sad or proud that i actually remembered that?

Very, very proud

Lapras is like my 3rd fav

I prefer sporepunchers like a custom breloom!

Tuesday and thursday is bug catching contest day ;)

You forgot saturday... But i only know that cs i just rebought gold and silver. just in time for them to announce this.bad timing :(

Re: Pokemon MMO.
www.pokeglobal.org.

We're working on an MMO. Pokenet's gonna be released soonish. Hope to see ya there!

Pokemon really isn't suited to being an MMO, there's just so many problems that would come from that. Having a specific area where you can go and meet up with trainers to talk, trade and battle is enough, and we already have that.

Replacing all trainers with actual players, etc, would be hell, as you come across players who have grinded up those EV's and use nothing but Mewtwos and Lugias and prey on trainers on route 1. Not to mention the slow pace of the turn based battles..

@Snowblind

YES. It's good to see someone else who realizes a Pokemon MMO would not be as awesome as people think.

well that really isn't much of a problem in MMO's like WoW. once you get to a certain level, you really have no need to go back to the lower level places. i still think a Pokemon MMO would be awesome. they could come up with a way to make sure that people leave an area when they reach a certain average level or something. maybe have the trainer himself have a leveling system for better matchups.

ya first day purchase.

MMO? I dun think so. Lets see them pull off a real-time action game. I've got it in my head; lets hope they get it in theirs.

Don't worry your pretty little mullet Fernandos....I am SURE Nintendo will incorporate some DSi features in the REMAKE remake or the remake of the remake of the remake.

So that I'm not buying two more pokemon games. I already have Pearl, given Platinum does have some extra fun stuff.
Silver's still my favorite pokemon game, so this may be the last one I need, and is probably the best one for getting the remaining Pokemon I want to get my hands on.
Platinum just doesn't seem as necessary and this would have probably been a slap in the face if I didn't hold onto the thought in the back of my mind that there just may still be a chance for GS remakes.