Googleshng:
For a second I thought you said a thousand puns. Wonder which would be worse?

Anyway though, nice to see someone finally mentioning the most recent RPG to be released around here.

Googleshng:
I personally pretty much gave up on the Pokémon games when they announced the GBA remakes of the first two. We started with a nice game with a funky gimmick (which soon became the gimmick every game was using). Then we get a weird little extra version of it designed to capitalize even more on the cartoon series, which can largely be ignored. Then we get a sequel which really does a great job of improving on just about everything, and has backwards compatability so that you can carry over all those Pokémon you've spent the last hundred hours collecting and improving. And of course some weird tie-ins, and another alternate version which isn't really noteworthy.

THEN comes the third game, for the GBA, and it's honestly pretty much just a remake of the first one. We have a bunch of new Pokémon though, and there's a bunch of old ones we need the old games to get- but what's this? No backwards compatability? Perhaps there was some issue of hardware compatability, and we'll need some sort of gimmicky adapter?

But then it turns out, no. If you want to have every single Pokémon horded on one cart (and let's be honest, we do), we must now repurchase the first two games, in their various colors, reinvest all that time into catching them all, and possibly have to do it all again the next time the series gets a hardware upgrade. Count me out.

In any case, for those keeping score, the most recent announcement would be 3.5. History tells us it will be a slightly more gimmicky remake of Ruby/Sapphire that you can most likely live without.

Googleshng:
I have always been strongly against cell phone games in any form to be honest. There's a variety of reasons for this, ranging from soundly rational to over the top supervillain rantings, but I think the one that best applies here is that, quite frankly, a cell phone can never hope to be able to provide a better gaming experience than an actual videogame system. You don't have the proper focus, the installed user base, or the proper price range. Plus the interface of a cell phone just isn't designed for playing games, and if you try to change that, you get the N-Gage. Enough said there.

So ultimately, cell phone games are doomed to be a novelty, not unlike calculator games and watch games. A few people may end up doing some fairly interesting things before the novelty wears off (like FF7:BC here), but odds are they won't really pan out, especially outside of Japan, dropping off the radar until being rereleased later in some form of anthology.

Incidently, am I the only one who finds it odd how both these people happened to use the handles of former Q&A hosts?