Pokemon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire Remakes Announced for 3DS

Forgive me for my lack of Pokemon knowledge but wasn't this generation Ruby & Sapphire & Platinum?

I only played Platinum.

So if I played this remake would I be getting less game play?
 
Forgive me for my lack of Pokemon knowledge but wasn't this generation Ruby & Sapphire & Platinum?

I only played Platinum.

So if I played this remake would I be getting less game play?
Gen 3 was Ruby & Sapphire, followed by Emerald on Game Boy Advance.
Gen 4 was Diamond & Pearl, followed by Platinum on DS.

Emerald and Platinum are 'Director's Cut' versions with extra features, etc. Since OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire are remakes they will likely also feature all of the added features of Emerald.
 
Forgive me for my lack of Pokemon knowledge but wasn't this generation Ruby & Sapphire & Platinum?

I only played Platinum.

So if I played this remake would I be getting less game play?

Ruby Sapphire and Emerald

Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum were the 4th gen. This was the 3rd


BEsides, as shown in HGSS, the remakes will be incorporating nearly all of the 3rd version changes
 
I've skipped this and Black/White so I'll catch Omega/Alpha when they arrive.

Are black/white good Pokemon games? I think I need to get one of them.

I don't know about the sequels, but White/Black 1 are easily the weakest francishe entry. I recommend Platinum and X/Y.
 
Yellow mightve been the first game from the Pokemon franchise I played, and my 2nd major game overall, but damnitt Im a gen 3 kid through and through
 
All the guys that are surprised with this announcement, did you play X or Y?

There were a lot of hints that we were going to have a 3rd gen remake as the next installment, it was only a matter of being this year or 2015.
 
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AWW YISSS!!
new PokeRemakes!!!
 
All the guys that are surprised with this announcement, did you play X or Y?

There were a lot of hints that we were going to have a 3rd gen remake as the next installment, it was only a matter of being this year or 2015.
Yeah but Pokemon games usually do that. Like the Gary/Blue/Green reference in X/Y.
 
MMM this isn't an Emerald remake. Do you know what that means?



Welcome back champion.

hg/ss were remakes of crystal with respective version exclusives of gold and silver how is these games not remakes of emerald in the same fashion ? which would make wallace the champ :P
 
All the guys that are surprised with this announcement, did you play X or Y?

There were a lot of hints that we were going to have a 3rd gen remake as the next installment, it was only a matter of being this year or 2015.
The announcement wasn't surprising in the least but there were tons of references to every gen/region in X/Y so I'd hardly consider that as evidence.
 
I feel bad for anyone who didn't start with gen 1 tbh. I don't mean this in a "GEN 1 IS THE BEST AND THEY ALWAYS WILL BE" (they're the worst games tbh), but they were HUGE in terms of media exposure and popularity. All of the gen 3 kids never got to experience how insanely popular it was or how big the anime and movie were and everything.
 
The announcement wasn't surprising in the least but there were tons of references to every gen/region in X/Y so I'd hardly consider that as evidence.

Come on, the oceanic museum, hot springs, little girl talking about her brother and wedding anniversary references all in ONE game. Little references about other regions are common in Pokemon games, but that many references about one specific region is enough evidence that something was going on.

Besides that, Blaziken is the only starter with mega evolution besides the gen 1 ones and we already know that there are mega stones for Latios and Latias in the game code (will problably be released near the launch of the remakes to promote the game). Never before we got so much evidences for a new game.

Anyway, I'm super excited for this. Can't wait to explore Hoenn in 3D (:
 
I was told by my friend that you had to beat the E4 100 times and then click on the white rock and Jirachi would appear :(


I stopped at like #25
 
The only fake gen 3 rumor I ever heard was that if you beat all of the Pokemon Contests you get a second Master Ball.

I actually believed it since it sounded real enough.
 
ALL STAND READY FOR THE GLORIOUS RETURN OF THE MACH BIKE

It'd be really cool if you get some kind of bonus item or whatever for transferring a Pokemon all the way from original R/S into OR/AS.
 
I was told by my friend that you had to beat the E4 100 times and then click on the white rock and Jirachi would appear :(


I stopped at like #25
I was told to wait until the rocket scientist said that there had been 100 successful launches and then I'd go to space. 100 came and went. "No no, it's 150. No, 200..." I think at 250 I started to lose hope.

Kids on the playground are cruel, sadistic liars :(
I forget, does the launch count go up by number of weeks? Days? Or was it random?
 
Just to let you all know, I'm the biggest Ruby and Sapphire Fan on here (although I'm also very partial to DPT and look forward to their seemingly inevitable remake).

I'm PUMPED!

But also frightened...CoroCoro Weeks are back! :0
I thought this year would be free from them, but it's back to stalking image boards every week around the 15th. :(
 
You'ld be dead by the time the entire process was finished. No point.

Pshaw, son, get on my level. I've already got them ready to trade over from X. All those Pokemon Bank delays gave me more than enough time to get all the unavailable Pokes ready to go in my copy of Black 2, including genuine, accept-no-substitutes, authentic R/S Groudon and Kyogre.
 
I don't even know how to feel rite now...

This week has been perfect for me so far. I just got a Lumia 925, upgraded it to 8.1, Introduced myself to flipping Cortana who introduced herself to me, camera is amazing(best I've ever used), just watched desolation of smaug and I loved it, awesome humble bundle IMO, another system update just dropped for the X1 (second this week), Valiant Hearts announced, Battlefront announced for E3, Sunset Overdrive (Dat Edge cover!) tease arrived with Fizzie and a huge social media campaign, my wife has been happy with me, my kid is officially potty trained and now this.

Is this real?

If any more bombs are dropped I might just check myself into a mental health facility.
 
These have to be sequels. The cover art depictions are mega evolutions. They have to be. Think about it. The regular way they look is already in x and y correct? Why go through the trouble of making them look different and making a new model when they already made them. The answer is that these are mega evolutions. Megas aren't in hoenn. This has to take place in the future. Near xy timeline. Probably after xy. Mega evolutions being in the original story is lazy writing. They would have to timeskip after you beat elite 4 to have it make sense in original story. I bet my avatar that these are sequels and not remakes.
 
These have to be sequels. The cover art depictions are mega evolutions. They have to be. Think about it. The regular way they look is already in x and y correct? Why go through the trouble of making them look different and making a new model when they already made them. The answer is that these are mega evolutions. Megas aren't in hoenn. This has to take place in the future. Near xy timeline. Probably after xy. Mega evolutions being in the original story is lazy writing. They would have to timeskip after you beat elite 4 to have it make sense in original story. I bet my avatar that these are sequels and not remakes.

I know it's the anime, but Pokemon The Origin retroactively added Mega evolutions to the time of FRLG. Mega Evolutions being added retroactively doesn't really bug me, since they're a game feature. Hope they wait till the post game for them to be available, though, since they broke X and Y by having you be one of the only trainers who could use them.
 
Perfect timing to cover up their "We aren't going to make a political message, by making a political message by not including gays."

Also, I've heard many people say this is the worst game in the main Pokemon series, so why are people so excited? I'm sad about no DLC for XY.
 
I know it's the anime, but Pokemon The Origin retroactively added Mega evolutions to the time of FRLG. Mega Evolutions being added retroactively doesn't really bug me, since they're a game feature. Hope they wait till the post game for them to be available, though, since they broke X and Y by having you be one of the only trainers who could use them.

Yea but that was swag master red. If anyone from a different region would discover mega without knowing about it beforehand it would be him.

Plus the games are supposed to be the main canon. The anime was just a fun what if ending.
 
These have to be sequels. The cover art depictions are mega evolutions. They have to be. Think about it. The regular way they look is already in x and y correct? Why go through the trouble of making them look different and making a new model when they already made them. The answer is that these are mega evolutions. Megas aren't in hoenn. This has to take place in the future. Near xy timeline. Probably after xy. Mega evolutions being in the original story is lazy writing. They would have to timeskip after you beat elite 4 to have it make sense in original story. I bet my avatar that these are sequels and not remakes.

The connection linking RSE and FRLG is flimsy enough for a retcon to happen, imo.
 
These have to be sequels. The cover art depictions are mega evolutions. They have to be. Think about it. The regular way they look is already in x and y correct? Why go through the trouble of making them look different and making a new model when they already made them. The answer is that these are mega evolutions. Megas aren't in hoenn. This has to take place in the future. Near xy timeline. Probably after xy. Mega evolutions being in the original story is lazy writing. They would have to timeskip after you beat elite 4 to have it make sense in original story. I bet my avatar that these are sequels and not remakes.

Or they can just add Mega Evolutions and call it a day. It doesn't have to make sense to the original's story.

Also, if those are the Mega Evos on the cover, then they got lazy.
 
These have to be sequels. The cover art depictions are mega evolutions. They have to be. Think about it. The regular way they look is already in x and y correct? Why go through the trouble of making them look different and making a new model when they already made them. The answer is that these are mega evolutions. Megas aren't in hoenn. This has to take place in the future. Near xy timeline. Probably after xy. Mega evolutions being in the original story is lazy writing. They would have to timeskip after you beat elite 4 to have it make sense in original story. I bet my avatar that these are sequels and not remakes.
The alternate explanation is that they're form changes, which don't have to be in sequels (Pokemon Platinum). This makes sense when you consider that the only unknown Mega in XY is Lati@s, the mega stone for which could easily be given out as a tie-in for the remakes. It was also never confirmed that FRLG and RSE happened at the same time.

Making new mega evos would mean that the data for those mega evos would have to be patched into XY.

I think they're sequels, but it's not a certainty.

Or they can just add Mega Evolutions and call it a day. It doesn't have to make sense to the original's story.

Also, if those are the Mega Evos on the cover, then they got lazy.
They're significantly different from the originals. Considering we have form changes like Shaymin and Megas like Kangaskhan, I wouldn't say that you can judge if it's a mega or a form based on how different it looks.
 
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/ir/en/library/events/140508/index.html

The announcement was made only yesterday, so we were unable to include them in the supplementary document for this financial briefing, but the latest installments from the Pokémon franchise, “Pokémon Omega Ruby” and “Pokémon Alpha Sapphire” will be released globally for Nintendo 3DS in November this year. They are full-remakes of the Game Boy Advance “Pokémon Ruby” and “Pokémon Sapphire” games, which sold more than 5.44 million units in Japan and more than 16.22 million units worldwide.

So remakes, not sequels.
 
Awww, that sucks. No new Megas then I guess.

They can retroactively add stuff, you know. And they probably will. Hell, Kyogre and Groudon are definitely in new forms, probably Megas. But hopefully this shit will be kept out till the post game, or they'll change how Megas are so that normal trainers have them, and not only 2 or 3 other trainers the entire game have Megas.
 
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