So what are our thoughts on Pokemon FireRed and LeafGreen coming bacc?

[spyrofanx]

I'm uh........ conflicted to say the least. On one hand, it's good to see more titles be preserved through rereleases. On the other hand, this is a p lazy port. Also, 20 Bucks each for GBA games is not great. Better than what most people expected outta Nintendo, but still. Gonna get em, but will DEF feel dirty doing so after the fact.

[kamikazekeeg]

I thought it was cool for a moment, until I saw that it was 20 bucks, per version, of which there are technically 6 versions (3 languages per version) because Nintendo/TPC are doing almost no work on these.  Basically on the level of rom dumps, but slapping 20 bucks on them.  It's embarrassing, lazy, and totally what I expect of Pokemon.  If they were 20 bucks for everything in one nice package, that would be better, abit more justifiable, but I'm ignoring them once I get my Switch 2.  Just sucks to see and a continuing example of why I hate Pokemon these days.

[sworddude]

even in the old days I couldn't understand why people would spend 5$ on a port of their favourite games on multiple consoles. it's a big waste of money always has been. rebuying that stuff again for a new console.

Don't have joy playing old games on new consoles. so I would pass on it no matter the price. I'll say this considering how scarce nintendo has been with it's ports for the good stuff, enough people will buy this. especially the ones that dislike piracy morals/ massive savings compared to going original.

still imo gba games should have been 3$ each max with a discount if you buy multiple. even in the old days ports where overpriced at 5 to 10$ if you'd ask me.

[ssj4yamgeta]

There's nothing that makes one of these worth $20. It's the laziest port job I've ever seen. They literally just dumped the original roms for the games and charged $20 each for them. The bare minimum effort would have been to include all language variants in the same rom. From my experience with modding, that would entail just copying all of the regional variants on top of each other (thereby patching all of the language files into the same rom), then spending maybe an hour or so coding a new menu option to allow the player to select the language pack they want. This would at most be a 2-hour scripting job for one person. And even then, each game should only be about $8 maximum. The only way I could see charging $20 each is if each game was a physical copy on an actual game cart. For that matter, since each game is about 16mb, just put both on the same cart with all languages patched in and charge $25 for it. That would actually be pretty cool. But there's no reason for me to pay $40 to do what I already do on my PC for free. This kind of ultra-low-effort crap is what convinced me to dump the Pokemon franchise.

[dhaabi]

The bare minimum effort would have been to include all language variants in the same rom.

This action wasn't taken to avoid the software being reevaluated by video game content rating boards. Because these games feature in-game gambling, an age rating that's more mature than the current ones for general audiences would have been assigned. Since no code was adjusted, there was no plausible reason to be reevaluated.

[bikingjahuty]

I'm confused about the outrage I've been seeing online. It's like people forgot game companies have been releasing old games on digital store front fro the past 20-years or something. I remember seeing games like Pokemon Snap and Ocarina of Time on the Virtual Console back in 2007 for like $12, which is practically $20 adjusted for inflation. I have no idea what Fire Red and Leaf Green go for these days physically, but unless they're over $100 loose, I'd say you might as well just get the physical cart and skip the digital copy. On top of that, I can't imagine it's very hard to find the roms for either of these, which seems to be a more and more common route people are taking with older games.

[weirdfeline]

Pricing is pretty crazy and the Let's Go games already exist to experience the first gen on Switch. I'd like a way to experience the second gen again.