I see a lot of people picking what game they will be playing plus an entire set of 6 Pokémon plus reserves. I’ll end up buy both games but haven’t decided which version will be my main game yet. The only thing I know is that I’ll end up choosing Chimchar since I do not care too much for the other two starters and then I’ll probably just build a team as I go and see what happens.
I don't get why people are paying over $100'- for what will be essentially the same game.
Incoming hot-take.
In all fairness. I've originally played Diamond and Platinum as a rom on a R4-like device, so I never paid full price initially, but I've since bought a copy of Platinum and Pearl second-hand, since the R4 started to give troubles (basically bricking one of my DS's) - and my girlfriend wanted to give these games a try. The Platinum-copy literally fell apart after playing 1000's of hours and only I managed to unload the save file by taping the two sides together. I honestly love these games to death. GenII (again, I played Silver to death and bought a Gold-copy years later second-hand (which was dead on arrival due to the internal battery already being roasted)) and GenIV are the only games where I personally bought both versions, but only after having played them to death. I also have access to both Black and White, but one technically belongs to my girlfriend.
That doesn't mean that I still bootleg these days though, since those R4-days, I've bought SoulSilver, White, White2, Y, OmegaRuby, Sun and Sword. However, I'm still partial to speedy runs of games I already own, by usage of an emulator. I am playing
Renegade Platinum. A romhack that basically ups the difficulty of the original games to previously unthinkable terms. Roark had Geodude, Onix (both at Lv.12) and Cranidos (at Lv.14), in RP, he has: Nosepass Lv. 15, Bonsly Lv. 15, Geodude Lv. 15, Onix Lv. 15, Larvitar Lv. 15, Cranidos Lv. 16 all with good items, abilities and moves.
And that's the thing that's really holding me back on deciding if I'm going to commit to these remakes. That romhack is just such an incredible game in terms of adding difficulty and making positive changes to the availability of pokémon. It's literally the perfect bland of nostalgia and the improved difficulty you always wanted from a pokémon game (especially when Nuzlocking) - and it keeps all the improvements of the franchise up to USUM! The only thing is that it's the old GenIV-skins. But that's the thing, BDSP are barely changing that portion, at all.
If these remakes go back to just DP-dex and only have updated movesets. I don't know what to tell you. Well, that €55'- is a big investment for a shinier version of a game which I'm already playing a vastly superior version of.
Platinum-dex is simply a must. Battle Frontier should be in it.
Don't get me wrong, I want to buy these games, but if they don't show vast improvements in the upcoming months up to release, I'm not getting my copy of Brilliant Diamond. And that's a darn shame, since I've always been incredibly vocal about wanting Sinnoh-remakes.