Pokemon Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire Announced - Update

[soren7550]

(posted mainly for the first few seconds, so consider the rest of it the soundtrack for my happy dance)

Good to see that they're finally doing this. Don't remember Gen3 all too much thanks to the fact that a certain younger brother of mine stole and sold off my copy of Ruby, so it'll be fun to get back into that all the while knowing crap about a balanced party and diverse move pools.

Will be interesting to see what they change from the originals and what they keep (hopefully they fix the trainer rematch finder thing, and bring back secret bases). New Mega Evolutions? Bring back Super Training/Pokemon Amie/etc? And are they going to take stuff from Emerald and put it in the remakes (a-la Crystal's plot about Suicune being added to HearGold/SoulSilver)?

One small thing that will probably be brought back that I'm excited for: ninja trainers [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Ninja_Boy_(Trainer_class)]

Welp, guess this means I'm gonna try to make a Magma Grunt cosplay for NYCC.

Spoiler: I simply love their outfits

 

[seditary]

I wonder what people would say if Activision or EA did this with one of their franchises? To each their own i guess.

You mean remake a 10+ year old game?

I'd probably react like this: 'Oh fucking hell, not another Dungeon Keeper on mobile'

 

[Saucycarpdog]

I'm curious what will be the name of the 4th generation reboot. Cause it seems to me that they are running out of options. Colors, metals, gemstones, more colors, more metals and gemstones, heart and soul + metals, even more colors, even more colors but with innovative mechanic of numbers, letters and now back to gemstones but with other letters. Guess soon we'll get Pokemon C-nickel-blood-opal-brown, or something like that.

Nonsense! There's plenty of names you can use for the pokemon games.

Pokémon: Earth and Sky
Pokémon: Good and evil
Pokémon: Girl and Boy
Pokémon: Nickel and dime
Pokémon: Democrat and Republican
Pokémon: Up and Down
Pokémon: Prochoice and Prolife

The only limit is your imagination.

 

[michael87cn]

So are they going to remake all of the past games, then? Seems likely. In 5 years are they going to remake all the remakes? And then remake the remakes of remakes? Heh?

 

[spartandude]

I fully expect a port of Kanto soon-ish.

While i would like that, I doubt it would happen. Since soul silver and heart gold are avaliable (although Nintendo/game freak could make them more avaliable) you can explore Kanto and get all of the Legendaries from there, Including Mewtwo in Cerulean Cave. It may not be the same journey but its probably close enough.

 

[Dragonbums]

So are they going to remake all of the past games, then? Seems likely. In 5 years are they going to remake all the remakes? And then remake the remakes of remakes? Heh?

Most likely. Especially since newer systems become old and obsolete there will be certain Pokemon that would be rendered unobtainable without said Pokemon version. Granted that may not even be the case anymore since Pokebank allows you to store Pokemon up there for future generations to come.

 

[Zouriz]

Maybe they can retool Team Magma and Aqua into something that doesn't suck as much. I am really looking forward to this Heart Gold and Soul Silver were AMAZING remakes. So were Fire Red and Leaf Green. I didn't really like Gen 3, but I have faith Game Freak will make into something amazing.

 

[Bindal]

so now that the Pokemon community got their Gen3-remakes, how long does it take for them to cry for Gen4 remakes?

 

[Skrimmy]

Really excited about these. I just hope they allow you to battle both enemy teams. It always felt awkward fighting for one side in the original Ruby/Sapphire.

 

[Dragonbums]

As much as I like Steven Stone and Wallace as Elite 4 Champions let's be honest here. Those fucking psychic twins gym leaders should take that spot. That shit was way too fucking OP for a gym battle and 10X harder than the Elite 4 ever was.

 

[spartandude]

so now that the Pokemon community got their Gen3-remakes, how long does it take for them to cry for Gen4 remakes?

probably when DS cartriges cant be used by the next handheld.

 

[Reincarnatedwolfgod]

As much as I like Steven Stone and Wallace as Elite 4 Champions let's be honest here. Those fucking psychic twins gym leaders should take that spot. That shit was way too fucking OP for a gym battle and 10X harder than the Elite 4 ever was.

It has been years since I played one of the gen 3 Pokemon games but I don't recall having a major problems with the twins who have the moon and sun Pokemon. maybe you did not have a good party set up to handle the type of Pokemon they had? I always take the water type starter Pokemon and there is almost always a dark type Pokemon in my main team when I play Pokemon so I am don't have too much of a problem with vs a rock/psychic type.

 

[Dragonbums]

As much as I like Steven Stone and Wallace as Elite 4 Champions let's be honest here. Those fucking psychic twins gym leaders should take that spot. That shit was way too fucking OP for a gym battle and 10X harder than the Elite 4 ever was.

It has been years since I played one of the gen 3 Pokemon games but I don't recall having a major problems with the twins who have the moon and sun Pokemon. maybe you did not have a good party set up to handle the type of Pokemon they had? I always take the water type starter Pokemon and there is almost always a dark type Pokemon in my main team when I play Pokemon so I am don't have too much of a problem with vs a rock/psychic type.

If you had a water starter (which by then it would be a Swampert) you had no chance OHKO Solrock or Lunatone and you would promptly get a solar beam to your face and watch your HP vaporize.

If you had a grass starter type you got flamethrowered to death

If you had a Fire starter you will get a psychic to the face and/or Earthquake/rockslide spammed till you died. None of the Pokemon available to you prior to the gym were any real help except for Absol and even then it was pushing it because Absol had a trashy moveset anyway and could barely live with two hits.

 

[Auninteligentname]

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If you had a water starter (which by then it would be a Swampert) you had no chance OHKO Solrock or Lunatone and you would promptly get a solar beam to your face and watch your HP vaporize.

It's been a while since I fought them, but I can't recall having dificulties with Lunatone and/or Solrock, either. I used a swampert, which would surf them down. If it didn't knock them out, then they can't have floored me with the solarbeam, as it need an extra turn charging. : P

OT: And now I'll fail all my winter exams.

 

[Neeckin]

Now I really want to know if I can transfer my Pokémon from ruby to one of these?

 

[Mr.Mattress]

MUST, GET, ALPHA SAPPHIRE! MUST, COLLECT, NOTHING, BUT 3D VIGOROTHS!!

Spoiler

Ehem... I'll be picking up Alpha Sapphire when it comes out. I liked Regular Sapphire, so I'll be enjoying 3D Sapphire.

 

[Brian Tams]

Anybody remember how adorably stupid the team leaders were in Ruby & Sapphire? There plans made NO sense.

Aqua's Plans: Steal a submarine, try and decommission an active volcano (????????????????????????????????) so it can fill with rainwater (again, ?????????????????), reawaken an ancient ocean deity to make the week's forecast a 100% chance of rain, leading to the entire continent being flooded and drowning all the people and land pokemon because reasons.

As stupid as those sounds, Magma was even dumber.

Magma's Plans: Steal a submarine despite a life-crippling phobia of water, try and make a volcano erupt in order to create more land in the ocean thats actually a fare amount of distance away (but also killing everyone on the volcano which includes the entirety of team magma and its leader), and reawakening an ancient deity of land in order for to cause total sunshine, causing the ocean water to evaporate (yeah, sure Magma. You do that), killing all the sea pokemon. And then killing all the land pokemon they were trying to help in the process because they'd have nothing to drink. And all the people, too.

 

[spartandude]

Now I really want to know if I can transfer my Pokémon from ruby to one of these?

Youd have to transfer from 3rd gen to 4th, then from 4th to 5th, and then (assuming remakes are in 6th) in to the poke bank app and then either directly to the remakes or to x/y then to these games.

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Somewhat off topic, does any one else think Solrock and Lunastone actually look better as slightly pleated sprites rather than the as the newer HD models. The rougher look suited them in my opinion.

 

[Foolery]

Anybody remember how adorably stupid the team leaders were in Ruby & Sapphire? There plans made NO sense.

Yeah. They were fairly retarded. But, I'm of the opinion that no "Team" antagonist since Rocket has made any sense. Their goals were simple. Steal rare Pokemon, run casinos, and make money.

Flare was even worse. Hey, let's genocide a large part of the population because we don't think they're "pretty".

Also, I did not give a shit about that sad, ancient, viking dude and his dumb Flabébé.