>>55966443Gen 4 straight up just didn't need a remake. Platinum aged perfectly fine, and adapting it into a fully fledged 3d game like SWSH would have been a gargantuan effort that would require them to reimagine the game fr the ground up because the switch games have such a different style of gameplay to the ds era, much more than the difference between the gameboy and ds. Gamefreak was obviously more interested in putting that effort into PLA, so we got this half assed shit that isn't different enough from the originals to warrant existing, BUT, if it had been done in the style of SWSH it would have been basicallt a completely different game that barely resembled the original, because you just can't translate that world into free perspective 3D without sweeping changes, so it's likely people would have complained either way. The only reason people wanted a remake in the first place is because the remake pattern has been established and Gen 4 fans were afraid of "missing out" but it really just shouldn't exist. If not for the previous remake cycle, nobody would even ask for them, because Platinum hasn't aged enough to really need to be modernized, not the way that the gameboy games had aged, and again the games have jusr changed so much that it's impossible to translate the ds games in the same way that the gameboy games were translated.
What I'm saying is, give up on remakes. The conditions that made FRLG and HGSS so good just aren't there anymore. Those games were a product of their time and that magic is never coming back. Look forward to Legends games instead as a vessel to explore old regions with a new twist, and don't cry that they're different, because the DPPT remake that you THINK you wanted would have been completely different from the originals too, so why not just try something new. If you're a Unova fan I would be crossing my fingers that they don't remake BW. There's nothing they could do that would please you.
