Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver
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Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver
...is out today!
Much like how FireRed and LeafGreen were updated remakes of the original Red and Blue, HeartGold and SoulSilver retell the story of the second generation games, Gold and Silver, in the Johto region. The game has been revamped to the new DS engine that Diamon, Pearl, and Platinum run on and tons of new features have been added. The Kanto region is fully fleshed out after you beat the Elite 4 and there's additional story events allowing you to capture all the legendaries from previous generations that were not in the first DS games.
2nd generation is easily my favorite and I literally feel like I'm a 12-year-old again playing this. I bought the HeartGold version. So who else is still awesome enough to handle Pokemon?
Much like how FireRed and LeafGreen were updated remakes of the original Red and Blue, HeartGold and SoulSilver retell the story of the second generation games, Gold and Silver, in the Johto region. The game has been revamped to the new DS engine that Diamon, Pearl, and Platinum run on and tons of new features have been added. The Kanto region is fully fleshed out after you beat the Elite 4 and there's additional story events allowing you to capture all the legendaries from previous generations that were not in the first DS games.
2nd generation is easily my favorite and I literally feel like I'm a 12-year-old again playing this. I bought the HeartGold version. So who else is still awesome enough to handle Pokemon?
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I don't have a DS and don't plan on getting one. My GBA SP is the only pokemon system I own..
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I will never be too old to play pokemon. I've played every one thusfar and will certainly pick one of these up eventually.
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Pokemon Silver was the very first game I ever played... So I will probably get a copy for sure =D
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Gold was probably my favorite pokemon game ever...
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Kendall and I are buying the two this weekend. I can't wait to walk around to my senior classes and work wearing my Poke'walker. Heeeell yeah!
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Re: Pokémon HeartGold & SoulSilver
I thought that this would be some dumb gimmick I would never touch but it's turning out to be really cool. I can only have one Pokemon on it at a time, but it looks like there's two more slots to unlock. You start with two courses and about a dozen more to unlock. I guess you're able to get some awesome Pokemon if you walk a decent amount and you can port the over early in the game.GyroVorbis wrote:I can't wait to walk around to my senior classes and work wearing my Poke'walker. Heeeell yeah!
The new music owns, running shoes toggle on/off, touch screen drag and drop for the storage boxes, goddamn, this game is amazing. I've having so much fun running around with my Totodile following behind.
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Man, that sounds like so much goddamn fun.
The Poke'Walker reminds me of putting my Sonic Adventure Chaos onto my VMU and training them any time I went to school, out to play, or anytime away from my Dreamcast.
I think Kendall and I are both doing Chickorita.
But yeah, I definitely agree that Gold/Silver were the best versions. I loved the hell out of Blue/Red, but with Gold and Silver you get Johto AND Kanto? Holy shit!
The Poke'Walker reminds me of putting my Sonic Adventure Chaos onto my VMU and training them any time I went to school, out to play, or anytime away from my Dreamcast.
I think Kendall and I are both doing Chickorita.
But yeah, I definitely agree that Gold/Silver were the best versions. I loved the hell out of Blue/Red, but with Gold and Silver you get Johto AND Kanto? Holy shit!
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eff yeah ^^. My friend had some extra money, so he bought me a copy of Soul Silver and himself a copy of Heart Gold!!!! I'm so stoked right now =DGyroVorbis wrote:Man, that sounds like so much goddamn fun.
The Poke'Walker reminds me of putting my Sonic Adventure Chaos onto my VMU and training them any time I went to school, out to play, or anytime away from my Dreamcast.
I think Kendall and I are both doing Chickorita.
But yeah, I definitely agree that Gold/Silver were the best versions. I loved the hell out of Blue/Red, but with Gold and Silver you get Johto AND Kanto? Holy shit!
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Damn I kinda stopped with Leaf Green/Fire Red, I gotta say though it's damn nice to see the updated graphics and new features like the Poke'walker and it looks sexier than ever!
Same heredandymcgee wrote:I don't have a DS and don't plan on getting one. My GBA SP is the only pokemon system I own..
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So I was going to head out and get these on release night, but got caught up at a Brawl party until about 7 in the morning....
Needless to say, the whole next day was spent sleeping, so I didn't have a change to get it then, either.
Reading this topic, however, has made me decide to run to gamestop before work. XD
Needless to say, the whole next day was spent sleeping, so I didn't have a change to get it then, either.
Reading this topic, however, has made me decide to run to gamestop before work. XD
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Goddamn, I'm racking up points like crazy just walking around campus. This thing is awesome.
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haha, that is awesomeBakkon wrote:Goddamn, I'm racking up points like crazy just walking around campus. This thing is awesome.
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Once I get mine, we should all post our friend codes and hook up for some trading and shit.
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