One thing that I actually liked about Hoenn (and why I find it unique) was that you can get lost in the sea routes. I was never that lost in any other pokemon game, but in RS I find myself constantly referring to the map every once in a while when traveling in the sea routes.
Referring back to XY, there's this swimmer at Azure Bay who claims to have swam all the way from Hoenn. I'm actually rather intrigued by this. Could Hoenn be somewhat near Kalos in the Pokemon World? Maybe it's just game talk but it is definitely possible since the western bank of Kalos is facing the sea (the other side could be Mossdeep/Ever Grande)
Whenever I tread into Hoenn's "sea" (AKA, anything beyond Lilycove City and Pacifidlog Town) I can generally make my way between the waters of Lilycove City (swim left!), Mossdeep City (swim up-right!), Sootopolis City (swim until you see huge diving areas), and Evergrande City (swim really right!) from memory alone, but occasionally I still have to reference the Hoenn map because all the water eventually just blurs together and kind of looks the same. XD Fly helps to mitigate the issue, though!
That "swimming path" thing sounds interesting, though.
Don't take this too seriously.
Recently Junichi Masuda has been visiting Kyushu quite a bit. Although it's not really that much of a surprise (he lives in Japan, plus he has relatives there), he has one twitter post that has a pic of (Google Earth) Kyushu region attached. I wonder what is the significance of that.. since he can just make that post without the screenshot.
Screenshot below:
AAGH, despite the fact that relatives are a logical reason to visit Kyushu, it's like Game Freak is creating multiple opportunities for me to yell "HOENN CONFIRMED" and just dragging it out as long as possible.. All of these instances that I really want to tie to "hints" of Hoenn remakes potentially existing (and from what I've learned, practically anything can be perceived as a "hint/clue" in retrospect), yet there are other reasonable explanations.. T_T
I just had a random thought... what iiiif:
In RSE Remakes, They make an event where YOU CAN GO TO SPACE to catch Jirachi and Deoxys? Like in those old rumors.
Yeah, those events totally need to happen. Then the rockets and that "mysterious" white rock can have much more significance than just tabulating how many weeks your game file has been active and just sitting there as a
Red Herring, respectively. Oh, and that old rumor of the infinitesimal chance of encountering Celebi west of Lilycove City!
I'd say RSEmakes are likely. I think Nintendo didn't make them in Gen V because they wanted to move on to the 3DS while it was still "new". However, I'd say we'll see them before X/Y 2.
What do you guys think would be good names?
Maybe you're Dad could give you a Mega Ring when you beat him? I dunno, it seems like soemthing he might have.
Also, if we do get remakes, I'd love to see some Hoenn pokemon get Mega's. Slakoth, Spinda, Relicanth, Breloom... It'd be pretty cool.
Norman having a Mega Ring makes a lot of sense; he practically lives for Pokemon battling. XD There are a lot of Hoenn Mega Evolutions that I'd like to see, but the two that have to exist in my opinion are Mega Swampert and Mega Sceptile, so that Mega Blaziken stops imbalancing things/receiving favoritism.. On that note, I don't even know why Mega Lati@s even exist(s) as opposed to Mega Swampert and Mega Sceptile; they're already overpowered with the Soul Dew item as it is (which in itself is practically banned everywhere where it could actually be put to great use).
Maybe they'll be ExplodingRuby, and TempestSapphire. Or RadiantRuby, and ShimmeringSapphire.
Maybe looking back will give us some hints. The gen I remakes had nature related names, which makes sense as one of the Kanto region's themes was natural and artificial (at least legends and mascots wise). Johto however was more spiritual, with it the region having been based on a part of Japan that was heavily influenced by Buddhism.
Now Hoenn's themes are nature, and opposites. Maybe they'll be called LandRuby and SeaSapphire. Or perhaps they'll share their name with my username
As for names, I'm hoping that Game Freak gets beautifully creative with the names like they did for
Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver (from what I've seen, practically no one guessed those titles;
(Dawn/Dusk)Gold and (Dusk/Dawn)Silver were the names I saw suggested the most).. Although FireRed and LeafGreen were somewhat blatant themselves, at least LeafGreen opted to use "Leaf" rather than "Grass"! Most names that I've seen so far either don't "counterpart/oppose each other" properly in my opinion or are too blatant (mostly anything involving the land/sea duality or magma/aqua duality)..
HeartGold struck me as a unique title in that it wasn't too obvious, it seems like one would be more inclined to link Ho-Oh with the skies, rainbows, or the sun before linking it with "heart", of all things (at least the title has a little precedence with the legend about Ho-Oh seeking out someone 'pure of heart', which arguably could be likened to the phrase "heart of gold").
Sounds good to me. I'd like to play something familiar for a change.
This is what happens with a rumor. The rumor is started, everyone goes, "where?" And then, gamefreak busts the rumor and bursts out laughing. Perfect analogy right there.
{XD} (On a
Super Smash Bros.-related note, you could probably replace "Hoenn remake" with "Mewtwo" or "Ridley" and get the same effect. XD)
This image reminds me of when
Pokemon Ruby and Sapphire: Super Music Collection was announced on The Pokemon Company International's Facebook page (for some reason, I've scoured their page but can't find/see the post at the moment :(); complete with album artwork - due to not seeing anything specifically
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire-related on the page in ages, a
lot of people initially thought that the image signified
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire remakes rather than "music of
Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire officially released" (but hey, that's great, too!). XD I was aware of the "periodic release of
Pokemon core series videogame soundtracks", so thankfully I wasn't caught off-guard. :P
But honestly, the proposal/existence of "Hoenn remakes" will probably rank among "the great videogame achievements of our era that got dragged on for
so, so long", right in rank with "Mewtwo's return to the
Super Smash Bros. series as a playable character" and "Ridley's debut as a playable character in the
Super Smash Bros. series". I mean, seriously, as much as I want the remakes to exist, I'd like to see something other than "Hoenn remakes plz?" on the English
Pokemon Facebook page. >_>
Additionally, I laughed at this comment on the English
Pokemon Facebook page (among other hilarious remarks)...:
Pokémon
Visiting a Day Care for the first time in Pokémon X and Pokémon Y? Put a Pokémon with the Flame Body or Magma Armor ability in your party and Pokémon eggs found at the Day Care will hatch twice as fast!
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...51.53034.230809307041021&type=1&stream_ref=10
Joseph Brandon Crihfield The only time i want you guys to use the word magma is when you tell us that team magma and aqua are causing trouble in the remake of pokemon Ruby and Sapphire
Source:
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?...omment_id=2076942&offset=0&total_comments=289
