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Pokémon Alpha Sapphire & Omega Ruby - Spoilers inside

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    #32
    MartinTWD_
    Registered Users Posts: 38 ✭MartinTWD_


    gnfnrhead wrote: »
    Weren't X and Y released globally on the same day? Wonder why they changed.

    Yeah, it was a global release for X and Y. if I remember correct, the first trailer said worldwide release, no idea why they changed it.


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    #33
    TheChrisD
    Registered Users Posts: 4,498 ✭✭✭TheChrisD


    Absolutely fúcking retarded delayed release bullshít.
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    #34
    Atavan-Halen
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 15,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Ah feck, I was hoping to be in japan for the release but I think I'll be coming back on the 18th.


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    #35
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Can only think the issue with the Bank scared them off doing something like that again. Bit crap if everyone else gets it a week earlier though, fair enough if it was a staggered release again.


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    #36
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    hoennmap.jpg

    New Hoenn map from Serebii......which is the same as the old one, I'm guessing. They're keeping my one harboured resentment with gen III, that being the over-reliance on sea-routes. Yes, I get it's meant to make sense based on the Japanese region it's based on, but even then, my high-enjoyment of Emerald always had that slight cloud of dread when getting to the sea-portions; they just go on a bit long, regardless of having the odd nice idea involved, like the abandoned ship, or the underwater routes.

    The clouds are concealing some new tasties, I guess/hope. If I'm not mistaken/informed wrong, they're obscuring the Battle Frontier as it is.


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    #37
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    One of my big problems with XY was how they blocked off routes. With all those water routes it's going to be a tonne of unnatural obstacles.


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    #38
    Mr.Saturn
    Registered Users Posts: 3,911 ✭✭✭Mr.Saturn


    Wonder what that nasty looking dungeon-thing is on the North of the pic.


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    #39
    A Neurotic
    Registered Users Posts: 3,779 ✭✭✭A Neurotic


    Mega Sableye. Looks interesting!

    http://youtu.be/GhBSCthYTLE


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    #40
    deathrider
    Registered Users Posts: 3,699 ✭✭✭deathrider


    I'm sure you've probably all seen the craic with the Primal evolutions/de-evolutions of Groudon and Kyogre by now, but if you haven't, HERE you go.


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    #41
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Seen on reddit that it's only 151 days to release, which means 158 for us. That's a lot sooner than I thought. While I'm not thrilled about a remake, I'll still get Sapphire (it's what I got first when the originals came out, my brother got Ruby) because of how much I liked X and Y.


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    #42
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    I'm still annoyed about us getting in 7 days later than the rest of the world.


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    #43
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    Secret bases are confirmed for the remake, though that's not really surprising.

    http://www.polygon.com/2014/7/9/5883203/pokemon-omega-ruby-alpha-sapphire-secret-bases-street-pass-feature

    Interesting description of what's gonna be in there.


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    #44
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Such a waste of time. Never got why they were so popular.


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    #45
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    They'll be slightly more useful now with streetpass features, before they were kinda just a thing that was there.


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    #46
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,842 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    One thing I loved about secret bases in RSE was that their owners were inside with their team ready to battle - handy for XP if you pass by someone who's beaten the game!


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    #47
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    I didn't really have any friends that were still into pokémon at that stage, so I never got to experience that :P


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    #48
    PopePalpatine
    Registered Users Posts: 11,842 ✭✭✭✭PopePalpatine


    Having a brother with another GameBoy and having all three RSE games helped. :o


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    #49
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Everyone I knew hated the originals and stopped playing.


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    #50
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    Yeah, we've been over that one before :P


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    #51
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Angron wrote: »
    Yeah, we've been over that one before :P

    I still finished them :p

    Nobody I knew was bothered, that was how much they hated it. One of them started playing again recently with X, but I dont think anybody else has.


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    #52
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 10,972 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    RSE are my second favourite set of games, after RBY.

    Will Alpha and Omega use all the new features established since Gen 3?

    Reusable TMs? Physical/Special split by move, not type?


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    #53
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    Well it'd be ridiculous to change the physical/special split back to what it was in the original RSE, so that'd stay. Every time I go back to play them I forget about that, and wonder why Shadow Ball does next to nothing with Kadabra :pac:

    Reusable TMs will probably still be there too, seeing as it will be gen 6 like X and Y.


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    #54
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    Would be retarded to remove all that good stuff considering the crap they are adding in with Secret Bases and Contests.


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    #55
    Atavan-Halen
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Regional Abroad Moderators Posts: 15,183 Mod ✭✭✭✭Atavan-Halen


    Oh yeah it'll definitely keep all the newer features since it'll be built off X and Y.

    It was the same with heart gold and soul silver.


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    #56
    chopperbyrne
    Registered Users Posts: 10,972 ✭✭✭✭chopperbyrne


    Might be time to get a 3DS. How much is the cheapest version?

    EDIT: £79 for a 2DS on amazon. Not bad.


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    #57
    Angron
    Moderators, Computer Games Moderators, Music Moderators, Regional Midlands Moderators Posts: 24,124 Mod ✭✭✭✭Angron


    Yeah, I'd reckon the 2DS would be the cheapest you could get, unless you got a deal on a second hand 3DS or something like that.


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    #58
    MyNanoh
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭MyNanoh


    Is the 2DS, besides being cheaper, very useful?


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    #59
    gnfnrhead
    Registered Users Posts: 12,478 ✭✭✭✭gnfnrhead


    MyNanoh wrote: »
    Is the 2DS, besides being cheaper, very useful?

    I have one. The only thing it doesn't have is the 3D sections. Everything else is the exact same as far as I know. It also doesn't flip closed which is slightly annoying but not a deal breaker. On a budget and it is definitely worth getting. If the budget doesn't matter, you may as well go all in with the 3DSXL.


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    #60
    MyNanoh
    Registered Users Posts: 11 ✭MyNanoh


    That's cool, but I don't understand the purpose of playing 3D games in 2D.
    There's no new experience, it's just like a regression.


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    #61
    cloud493
    Closed Accounts Posts: 11,835 ✭✭✭✭cloud493


    He doesn't mean it literally goes 2D, the game will be displayed in 3D. The 2DS is just incapable of showing the actual 3D bits (like stuff popping out of the screen) that the regular 3DS and XL do.


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