I wonder what to expect from these remakes. Sevii was a really poor choice imo, as they left almost everything the same in Kanto (adding some cosmetic differences that looked really bad imo, such as the Pokédex), while HGSS did a great work of incorporating new things, while at the same time not touching the worst issues with Johto (shit Gym rosters, poor Johtomon distribution, lack of NPC trainers everywhere). I think RSE were great games so even if they don't change much I'd be fine, but of course they will change
something and, if they really hear their older fanbase, it might have... horrible consequences. Like shrinking the ocean. Please no.
Sugimori or someone from GF actually stated they were thinking rebalancing Parental Bond since VGCs made it pretty obviously broken. I wouldn't count out anything from them yet.
W-what? I'm pretty sure GF had said pre-release there would be no balance patches. Do you have any source for that?
It's very likely that there are megas in the game - isn't Steven supposed to be a collector of "rare stones"?
Steven will find new Mega Stones from outer space that fell in Meteor Falls, and one of them will be Metagrosite. If you believed in Fairies, you will also believe me.
I'm hoping for new types for Mega Groudon and Kyogre.
Looking at the cover, my guess is:
Mega Groudon: Ground / Fire
Mega Kyogre: Water / Electric
A Ground weakness for Kyogre would be ideal since they're supposed to be fighting and stuff but the truth is that Kyogre shits all over Groudon. With new types, Groudon can hit Kyogre with STAB SE Earthquake ftw.
Yep, I was betting on that too. That Kyogre artwork doesn't seem too Electric-type to me, though... but Groudon is almost literally vomiting lava, he can't NOT be part-Fire lol.
Speaking of berries, maybe this is what nintendo meant about getting berries from other regions. Im sure there will be more berries released in these games.
Yep, there are a couple berries (Cornn, Magost, etc) that cannot be obtained without cheating, and they were all only useful for making Pokéblocks/Poffins. Weirdly enough, their flavour text mentions... Unova... instead of their home region.
If all past experience is anything to go by, new abilities are highly unlikely. Since no such abilities exist in the coding of X/Y, (...)
But are we
sure they don't exist? The PC search doesn't matter because we know special moves (Light of Ruin, Hold Back, etc) don't appear already, and I haven't heard of anyone actually checking whether there were new abilities or at least "blank space" for them.
Regardless, they could simply make K/G's Mega Stones work as super Damp/Heat Rocks lol.
Never underestimate Nintendo's ability to power creep. I was one of the people who thought mega evolutions would be mostly cosmetic or make token changes. I was wrong. So, power creep gonna happen.
This is something alarming, in fact. I don't like this "power creep" argument too much whenever a new gen is released, but it can be sensibly observed once the "third games" are released. Just look at DP and BW1, even with all the high-powered shit going on in the beginning of those generations, by the time the new games were about to be released, we'd managed to balance them (see: Garchomp banned, BW1 Rain actually getting manageable). Whatever we do from now until November, all will be thrown out of the window by ORAS' move tutors, unreleased legendaries and possible new MegaEvos.
HOWEVER, if Game Freak really has acknowledged Parental Bond might need some balancing in the near future... Who knows. They might have learned their lesson for once.
Something that hasn't been brought up yet, but....what kind of development cycles is Gamefreak running on?
There's Team A and Team B since... RSE, I think. They are always working on new games; A releases a pair, then comes B, then A and so on. I'm not sure now, but iirc A released BW1 while B were working on "Gray"... then dearest Satoru Iwata said Game Freak had to either move on to the 3DS, or make something new. As only A had had access to 3DS's devkits and B were working on the DS already, they changed their plans and made BW2 instead. A then released XY and B most likely was working on ORAS.
Which means A is either working on "Z/XY2", or on 6th Gen already. Or maybe they now have a Team C, but I doubt it.
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