A 2019 Rumour About Gen IV Pokémon Remakes Might Be Coming True

I never got to play the games, so I would be down for it. only thing Game freak might F it up like they always do.

Is it weird i miss doing the pokemon fasion shows...... im in

Noooooooo give me the option to not have lets go catch mechanics XD

Why is this under News?

I have a theory a to what happened. With their initial plan to release 1 pokemon game per year, they had planned to give everyone the long awaited Diamond and Pearl remakes, but in the style of Lets Go Pikachu and Eevee. This would be easy to do as they could easily reuse a ton of code and assets from those titles.

However, they could have easily reflected on the massive fan backlash of Sword and Shield. (As well as the negative criticism of the Lets Go titles) and as such, they decided to scrap and restart the remakes development. But wanting to avoid another Sword and Shield situation, they decided to restrict the artstyle from fully 3D to something along the lines of Lets Go. Simple, cute, and possibly they could still reuse a ton of assets to save time. Visuals asside, it will most likely keep the games traditional gameplay as a way to appease fans. Though, like Omega Ruby and Alpha Saphire, they could still possibly add in gameplay features from other pokemon titles. Possibly bringing back Dynamax. This is all just a theory.

@patbacknitro18 Unfortunately, the backlash of Pokemon Sword and Shield meant nothing because they sold like crazy. It won't matter how much people complain if they keep buying the games and DLC in those quantities.

Uhhh this rumor is obvious BS.

Sword/Shield DLC was all the Pokemon content anyone was going to get in 2020. There was no way Gamefreak was ever going to release the Diamond/Pearl remakes in 2020 too.

I'm interested in these remakes for sure, but Gamefreak botched the gen 3 remakes as well.

It's a big nope from me if they ditch random battles and force motion controlled throwing again.

Just remake D/P in the S&S engine. That's literally all they need to do.

Oh yey another rumour news

If this has Go style catching that already ruins the games for me. It was fine for one set of games but it really just should stay in the mobile game. Let us just battle wild pokémon please. Or at least give us the option to like, choose.

@roy130390 The truth is here. In gaming as well, the only real feedback is the money. Even more true with developers like Nintendo or Game Freak where social media are even more worthless

Yay, another article using a rumor of the They-said-this-and-it-was-right-so-other-thing-they-said-could-be-true variety. That has ALWAYS worked out brilliantly...

The only good thing from let’s go was that you could see the Pokémon if you didn’t want unnecessary battles other than that it was mobile trash, so if they do a remake, hopefully is like the one they did with gen 2 and bring back The Underground mini game with online and not mega galarian gimmicks I rather have mega evolutions back

I liked a lot of things about Let’s Go Pikachu, but the motion controls for catching were horrid. I really hope they aren’t bringing that back or if they are, they at least make it optional.

I’d love this as I never played them

They are the next logical remake step anyway aren’t they?

"The last prediction - of three - was that there would be "Sinnoh remakes" in 2020. While this didn't happen, the pandemic was obviously disruptive to a lot of game releases last year."

Pretty sure DP remakes were never planned for 2020 since at the time that guy made that leak GF was already working on the DLCs for SwSh and I'm sure that's all they've planned for 2020.

@patbacknitro18 @roy130390 what do you think about sword and shield? I’ve just completed sword and I’m playing through the dlc now and have loved every second of it. Only criticism I have is performance. Resolution and frame rate. But apart from that it’s awesome in my mind.

My fav pokemon game along with ruby, hoping it's true, but without the let's go mechanics.

If my Chatot can't swear in this game, then I don't want it.

I think there's a happy middle ground to be met. I enjoyed Sword and Shield, but my biggest gripe with it was the battle mechanics feel so dated and slow now.

Having a wild pokemon in the red and with a status condition and just selecting Ultra Ball from a menu screen over and over again and having no luck? Infuriating and dull in 2021. I'd actually prefer Let's Go catching to that today, where the quality of your throw can make all the difference to whether or not you catch the pokemon or not, rather than some random catch rate stat in the background.

I actually loved Lets Go Pikachu but i loved it as a spin off game, i want Lets Go Johto for instance but a Gen 4 remake i would rather was a remake in the style of FR/LG, HG/SS and AS/OR rather then forcing Lets Go on it. Again i like Lets Go for smaller spin off games but i want the proper mainline games and remakes to stay the way they should be.

@westman98 Yeah exactly, if the DLC wasn't a thing we would have got a "3rd" game instead but as DLC is easier for Switch then 3DS they decided to drop the "3rd" game and just use the new content that game would have had as DLC for S&S.

I've been playing Omega Ruby lately that game is pretty good I never finished the original Gba game.

What’s missing from S&S is... drum roll... a whole lot of Gen IV Pokémon.

@patbacknitro18

They brought the DLCs.
This is like a additional Version for them.

i never had a problem with the lets go games , also means i can still use my pokeball plus

We're getting all these Pokémon rumours for its anniversary and nothing for the Zelda anniversary... Either the Zelda team does better hiding stuff or people like Pokémon way too much.

When they say “Let’s Go style catching” I hope they simply mean motion controls to throw the Pokéball. If it’s traditional battles with wild Pokémon but motion controls for the catching, I’m ok.

I honestly wouldn’t fully be against a Let’s Go Sinnoh but a traditional game would be my preference. I spend about 80 hours w/ Let’s Go but over 300 with Sword.

Would it be possible for them to include both options? Let's Go-motion control style could be turned on or off, same for random wild encounters. People who want the original experience could just turn that stuff off and boom - back to random encounters.

If this game sucks, I'm out. If gamefreak can't even make me like my favorite pokemon game, then I think it's time I moved on from the series.

@NinjaWaddleDee
You sound like you've halfway made up your mind already. Maybe you just skipped your cereal this morning.

@patbacknitro18,

I think your massive backlash comment is deluded, there are people that do not like the Sword and shield games, these people will have been very vocal on the internet, but they are still such a minority it's hardly going to impact GameFreaks plans whatsoever.

Not saying any of these complaints are not valid at a personal level, but GameFreak will be looking at sales figures to decide what to do, and in that respect both the let's go games and Sword and shield have done very well.

@rallydefault lol nah, I'm just tired of buying Pokemon games and disliking them.

If this rumor happens to be true, then I am happily skipping these games. The catching mechanics is the sole reason I skipped the Lets Go games. It made it feel very uninvolved to me. Surely, Game Freak wouldn't be this tone deaf.

@Nintendan64 "Interestingly, though, Centro Pokémon earlier this month said these rumoured remakes wouldn't be all that similar to the 2018 releases and closer in style to the DS titles."
Considering that statement I feel it's actually pretty unlikely forme to include let's go style.

I mean, Let's Go worked because it existed -apart- from traditional releases AND remakes. And currently gen4 is the one that's due for a proper remake so it wouldn't make sense to make it into a Let's Go game, unlike Pokemon Eevee/Pikachu whose Kanto could still be played in traditional fashion in both the GBA remakes and 3DS eshop virtual console rerelease.

Short of giving Sinnoh(which currently can still be only played through the original DS release that is no longer sold) the same rerelease treatment in parallel(through a collection/etc)... a Let's Go release wouldn't make sense and only splinter the community.

After all the choice of Kanto worked in Let's Go due to the strong connection with the anime/Pikachu (and with Pokemon Yellow that had lain the ground for such) but there's none of that in Sinnoh which at best was just one season against many others... and don't even have the equivalent of a Pokemon Yellow to strengthen that connection.

Yeah, I don't think that's gonna happen at all.

@Ludovsky Though I liked lets go style Id much prefer a traditional pokemon remake, maybe a 'Lets go johto' or something later down the line

I highly doubt that will happen. Game freak knows that doing this will piss off a majority of pokemon fans, most of which are already pissed off because of sword and shield.

You lost me at let's go mechanics.

Yikes. Wven i who quit the pokemon series awhike ago was looking forward to Gen 4 remakes until this. I hope this part of the rumor is wrong.

Centro hasn’t posted a new leak in 2 weeks and NL posted a story about it back then. So I guess yall had to dig through internet archive to find a link to the story from last year so you could get leak hype clicks? That seems pretty desperate, but I guess NL gonna NL.

@roy130390 I agree. I got Shield and it annoyed me (I'm 35 but wtf I've played Pokémon since Red, Blue, Yellow days!) but I still felt compelled to play it through to scratch my Pokémon itch. Same with Let's Go Pikachu too, the mechanics were irritating but I still had fun.

The point is as much as we complain or are dissatisfied we'll still buy these games in their millions! Let's see if Game Freak come up with something and I'll still end up buying it for my "kids"!

If GameFreak end up massacring my favorite gen with Let’s Go mechanics, I’m gonna

Be mildly irritated. 😐

Though not technically a Nintendo game, I really wish an actual new game was on the horizon. Getting sick of remakes, remasters and Wii U re-releases.

let's go catching might pass cause of that let's go is just pokeball throwing simulator

I hope that the more recent leak is the accurate one. The LG style is so lazy and completely unnecessary. Please don't continue LG in any way, shape or form.

I actually didn't mind, the catching mechanics in the Let's Go games, it was definitely unique to any other Pokemon game. It actually made me feel like I was inside of the game, on my own Pokemon journey which I thought was pretty cool. Of course, having said that, I can see why other people wouldn't have liked that, as a game feature.

Either way, I would love for a Diamond and Pearl remake, to make its way to the Nintendo Switch. That said unless something is officially announced by Game Freak/Nintendo, I'm not going to get my hopes up.

A Pokemon rumour? Those have never been false. Not a single time. Therefore I guess we should all believe it without a doubt.

@Ralizah could be that it has the random battles, and the catching from let's go.

Reporting on a 4chan rumor is pretty low.

I had and beat both diamond and pearl on the DS, and I would absolutely love a remake. I never had either of the Lets go games, but I tried the demo and did not like the catching. I really hope that its either not true or at least theyres a way to make it normal catching.

While I don’t want the gameplay of let’s go, I hope they actually remake diamond and pearl in the style of let’s go. It’d make development easier on them, as they wouldn’t have to redesign the region to fit sword and shield’s style, and instead could give us a more accurate recreation of the region, while focusing on adding back features and adding more features. Not to mention, if they were to bring back the distortion world in post-game, it’d be easier this way as well, as they’re building a map on a grid. I just hope we get let’s go’s style (since it looks really polished), and normal pokemon mechanics.

Let's Go Sinnoh! And Let's Go Johto! ( id buy both)

....Of course they would screw this up by making them Let's Go games. If that does end up happening then I truly am done with the main Pokemon games for good.

@sandman89 I recently played it since it was gift from my brother. I love the Pokemon games, to me it's core gameplay is almost perfect as it is now. However, looking it as a solo entry it was quite disappointing to me. I don't expect a BOTW Pokemon games like many (to be sincere I don't even know what they mean by that) but I do think that it doesn't feel as a console experience. My cons:

1. It's such a small, bland world in which you don't have much to see or discover and somehow it felt even more linear than previous entries. Nowadays it's hard to have secrets undiscovered with the internet being so accesible, but there are so many games that manage to surprise the player with constant discovery of new places and other things. Pokemon doesn't even have to be on the same scale of games like Skyrim or BOTW, it just needs more content even if it has a map size similar to the one on this game. More ruins, cities, towns, caves, buildings, etc. Also, the size of those places needs to be bigger. Caves, buildings and forests on this game were much smaller than in previous entries.

2. Lazy details on some things and limiting stuff like not being able to capture stronger pokemon (even if they don't obey you) and allow you to buy uniforms when you can't even change your uniform and you can just use them as normal clothes was quite dumb in my opinion.

3. Graphics aren't a problem to me, but many animations are quite inferior to others. Looking at Scorbunny play with a flame ball and then comparing it to other pokemon that literally just turn, move a bit up and down or do something insignificant shows that some animations need to be reworked. It doesn't even have to be new animations, they already have many unused from Colosseum, Stadium and other Pokemon games. I'm aware that there's a lot of Pokemon, but the game's world is much more smaller than other games on the system and the move pool is shared by many. Human NPCs also need that, since they look really weird specially on cutscenes. Combining stiff animations with lack of sound was terrible to look at and backgrounds not matching when a fight started were baffling to me.

4. The story and some characters (mostly champion and rival) were terrible, even by Pokemon standards. Many people justify this on being a game for kids, but that's a horrible excuse. To begin with the game is trying to be for everyone, and many animated movies, books, series and other games (including other pokemon entries) deliver in those regards.

5. The lack of the trading system (I forgot it's name) which allowed to put a pokemon and ask for another specifically. If someone disliked it they could simply ignore it.

Don't get me wrong, the game is still a 7 for me because like I said, Pokemon games have such a good gameplay that it's hard not to deliver at least a good game, but it was still quite mediocre to what they can do with what is possibly the biggest gaming franchise. Sorry for the long text and I'm glad that you enjoyed it, I also enjoyed many new things like the trainer animations and dialogues during fights, pokemon camp, etc. I won't mention everything because the comment was getting too long. Honestly I would have been happy with the game just by addressing my first con.

@roy130390 yeah I guess that’s true the world is a little small and underwhelming I do remember going through the cave early on and when I got to the other side I thought wow is that it 😳 another thing that was a let down I’ve just thought about was the lack of voice acting. Made those scenes really weak. But I love dynamax

The inability to fight wild Pokémon in Let’s Go made for a miserably simplistic experience. If the Gen 4 remakes incorporate anything like that again, count me out.

oh Pokémon Company/Game Freak you never learn/cease to disapoint us, Pokémon Sword e Shield isnt enough for us.

Oh please god no. The gimmicky catching ruined the Lets Go games. Its awful

@Mando44646 i doubt it will have Let's GO's catching mechanic, cos they know what Generation 4 means to everyone, and i'm sure they don't wanna kill off 95% of their Fan base

@roy130390 5. you are thinking of the GTS

If it’s Let’s Go, I’ve lost my interest

No to Let's Go catching battles.

I'm eager for whatever Pokemon has in store for me next. I have to say I'd prefer a classic Diamond/Pearl remake (a la OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire) over a Let's Go style iteration, but I know I can enjoy both kinds of games.

At this point, they might as well port over the game from the DS systems. Or surprise us with an art style similar to the Zelda Link to the Past. I do prefer if it was iust Platinum they remake. The two game thing is just cash grab for me.

I might be in the minority here but I'd love it if they added the Let's Go catching mechanic with the Pokéball Plus and Pokemon GO support with these rumoured remakes. That said, I also still want a Let's Go remake of gen 2!