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Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Remakes Announced for 3DS

Andrefpvs

Member
Is it possible to get all (of the catchable Pokemon, not Mew and stuff) of the Pokemon in just the DS games onward? Or do you need to transfer some in from the GBA titles to fill the Pokedex?

You can get them in the DS games onward. But you needed to get some of the events (for example, Arceus).
 

Kinsei

Banned
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Aww yeah. Kyogre is the best legendary.
 

Orayn

Member
Have we considered that these might be "remakes" in the same sense as A Link Between Worlds?

e.g. Ruby and Sapphire have already happened, but Alpha/Omega is a new-ish story that's set in Hoenn.
 

Anoregon

The flight plan I just filed with the agency list me, my men, Dr. Pavel here. But only one of you!
Hopefully they will ditch Brendan/May and make Wally an actual rival and not just some random trainer you battle in the Victory Road.

Rival will be Joey with an army of rattatta
 
I dunno, the TCG usually explains those changes as the result of some new gimmick that appears in a given set/block. If they're on the covers, there's a pretty good chance of them being mega-evos or formes.

I just think Megas would change more than the colour scheme. *shrug*

We're already getting Mega Lati@s anyway, and probably Mega Sceptile/Marshtomp, seems like overkill to gin up Megas for two already insanely powerful legendaries on top of that.
 

Korosenai

Member
I hope they include Deoxys as an in game catchable Pokemon, or at least do a launch promotion for it like they did for Torchic.
 
They'd better bring back the best Pokemon feature ever. For some reason only in Ruby and Sapphire. That's right. Secret Motherfuckin Hideouts.
 

-Horizon-

Member
Why are they even fucking doing this? The Gen 1 and 2 remakes were necessary because those games were incompatible with Gen 3 onward, but I can still take my 'Mons from the original Ruby/Sapphire and trade them up all the way to X/Y. This just seems like a lazy cash grab instead of making a X2/Y2 instead.

Yeah well I wanted this to happen Pop. So quiet you!
 

Tom_Cody

Member
Out of nowhere.
It looks like they're trying to trickle these announcements out slowly instead of going for one big dump at E3.

It makes you wonder if they are simply trying to side-step the commotion of PS4/X-Bone announcements or if they are saving up their own true bombs.
 

gosox333

Member
For the record, these games were certainly announced earlier than most expected. There had been tried and true pattern for announcing new Pokemon games (in Japan) until now, the earliest I thought we'd even hear about anything new was January/February of next year.

Pokemon hasn't really been an annual franchise in Japan until recently, the West's localization waits are what made it like that here. It's definitely one everywhere now, though.
 

Dr. Buni

Member
Rival will be Joey with an army of rattatta
Nah, Joe will be the ultimate boss of the game, kind of like Red in HGSS, Cynthia in BW, etc.
In retrospect I did it to myself though by turning on that experience sharing. Worst Pokemon related decision I've ever made.
Yes. I really hope that exp. share crap isn't in the remakes. People calling the games extremely easy but refusing to turn off the exp. share pissed me off. lol
 

zhorkat

Member
I like how they slip in that only parts of the game will be playable in 3D in tiny text towards the very end of the trailer.
 

ThatObviousUser

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Why are they even fucking doing this? The Gen 1 and 2 remakes were necessary because those games were incompatible with Gen 3 onward, but I can still take my 'Mons from the original Ruby/Sapphire and trade them up all the way to X/Y. This just seems like a lazy cash grab instead of making a X2/Y2 instead.

Yes, a lazy cash grab that requires completely new graphics and sound. Who would want to relive their childhood memories in a game with more detail and content? Bunch of fucking idiots.

Also, transferring from the originals up to X and Y is an exercise in torture and quite expensive.
 

Boss Doggie

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Why are they even fucking doing this? The Gen 1 and 2 remakes were necessary because those games were incompatible with Gen 3 onward, but I can still take my 'Mons from the original Ruby/Sapphire and trade them up all the way to X/Y. This just seems like a lazy cash grab instead of making a X2/Y2 instead.

You can't bring Gen 3 mons unless you have old DS though
 

Bullza2o

Member
I keep telling myself I'm not into Pokemon anymore, but every time a new game gets announced I get hyped. I'll probably get these too.
 

Sciz

Member
Why are they even fucking doing this? The Gen 1 and 2 remakes were necessary because those games were incompatible with Gen 3 onward, but I can still take my 'Mons from the original Ruby/Sapphire and trade them up all the way to X/Y. This just seems like a lazy cash grab instead of making a X2/Y2 instead.

Kids today don't have GBAs and it's a long ass process anyway.

Dunno why you'd write off X2/Y2 happening either.
 

Orayn

Member
I like how they slip in that only parts of the game will be playable in 3D in tiny text towards the very end of the trailer.

Not surprising that it would have the same 3D limitations as X/Y since they're presumably using the same engine. I just hope performance is a bit better this time.
 

chadboban

Member
It looks like they're trying to trickle these announcements out slowly instead of going for one big dump at E3.

It makes you wonder if they are simply trying to side-step the commotion of PS4/X-Bone announcements or if they are saving up their own true bombs.

What other announcements have they made in terms of new Wii U and 3DS games this year?
 
Why are they even fucking doing this? The Gen 1 and 2 remakes were necessary because those games were incompatible with Gen 3 onward, but I can still take my 'Mons from the original Ruby/Sapphire and trade them up all the way to X/Y. This just seems like a lazy cash grab instead of making a X2/Y2 instead.

New players 100% I know a lot of people that started with X/Y and won't go back because of engine style differences.
 

Rigalo

Member
Have we considered that these might be "remakes" in the same sense as A Link Between Worlds?

e.g. Ruby and Sapphire have already happened, but Alpha/Omega is a new-ish story that's set in Hoenn.

This is what I'm hoping. The names have got to mean something, right? And as far as I remember alpha and omega have nothing to do with the originals. Hope it's plot stuff.
 
Have we considered that these might be "remakes" in the same sense as A Link Between Worlds?

e.g. Ruby and Sapphire have already happened, but Alpha/Omega is a new-ish story that's set in Hoenn.

It would make more sense canonically, since the original Ruby and Sapphire are set at the same time as Red/Blue/FireRed/Leafgreen. X&Y are implied to be set many years later. Though I suppose this sort of thing never stopped Game Freak from doing B2W2...
 

Oswen

Member
The timeline will be a mess since the events of the original RS happened years before those of XY.
I wonder if they are sequels instead.
 

Orayn

Member
I just think Megas would change more than the colour scheme. *shrug*

We're already getting Mega Lati@s anyway, and probably Mega Sceptile/Marshtomp, seems like overkill to gin up Megas for two already insanely powerful legendaries on top of that.

These are just the first steps in a process called Multi-Mega Evolution.

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Pokemon Disk System

Pokemon Net Yaroze

Pokemon 64DD

It's happening.
 

VegiHam

Member
They'll take out day/night so that players can get the "classic feel" of pure Ruby and Sapphire ;)

I totally didn't think of this, but I sure hope night-time in that extinct volcano town I can't remember the name of is as spectacular as I'm imagining.
 

Fey

Banned
Did people have a problem with "but they just came out!!!" when Red/Green or Gold/Silver were remade only 6 and 9 years after they were originally released (in NA)? These will come out over a decade after the original Ruby/Sapphire and it's somehow too soon.
 

Mortemis

Banned
Top trends in Twitter in Japan:

ルビサファ RubySappha
キモリTreecko
カイオーガKyorgre
マグマ団 Team Magma
通信ケーブル Link Cable
バトルフロンティアBattle Frontier
バシャーモ Blazicken
3DS持ってない Don't own a 3DS

Damn Japan's as hyped as GAF.
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