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ORAS: (Hoenn) Friend Safari?
So, as you all know, the release date for ORAS is getting closer with each day passing by. Pokemon X and Y have already been out for over a year now, which gave us plenty of time to play these games, and (for example) hunting down all Friend Safari Pokemon :)
Even though I really hope the Battle Frontier will make it's appearance again in ORAS (like it was back in Emerald), but the idea of the Friend Safari returning in ORAS seems really fun and accurate for me as well. :) I'm not sure whether the Friend Safari will return in ORAS (maybe not because it's a remake or it was not possible anymore to program this in the game), but part of me kinda hopes it will, I really had a lot of fun spending time in there! It was also a fun concept to discover your friend's safari and exclusive Pokemon you could not encounter anywhere else! ^_^ I think it may be a nice idea if the Friend Safari replaces the Hoenn Safari Zone before Lilicove City at Route 121 (only available in Emerald at the time), which you can access after the Elite Four (and National Dex) or something. :3 So, what do you guys think? Would you like to see a return of the Friend Safari in ORAS? And if so, where should it be located? :) |
It seems to me like the DexNavi and the secret soar locations will be replacing the Friend Safari. They fill a similar purpose, since you can get hidden abilities, special moves and pokemon with high potential through the DexNavi......and you can get pokemon not native to Hoenn in the secret soar locations.
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It's been confirmed that all the legendaries that weren't in XY will be in ORAS (except event ones of course) so I think it's fairly likely that there's an emphasis on having almost every pokemon available between just the 6th gen games. Given that, I figure there will be a something like a friend safari where a lot of non-Hoenn pokemon can also be obtainable.
I also think part of why they'd they've put so many pokemon in XY and will probably do likewise with ORAS is because of how easy it was to hack pokemon into the games gens 4 and 5, so the idea is the more pokemon that can be legitimately obtained in gen 6, the better. |
That depends on how they define 'event legendaries'. Ho-Oh and Lugia were event Legendaries in Generation 3.
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Anyway, I hope they do bring back the Friend Safari if only because of the possibility of having HA Hoenn and Johto starters in them, the latter of which aren't currently obtainable legitimately so that would be especially nice. I have a feeling it's probably not going to happen, but I can dream... |
I hope they bring back Friend Safaris, and have different Pokemon options than XY within them. I can definitely see them being in the same area as the Hoenn Safari Zone, since the Friend Safaris aren't actually that big so it would be easy to cut off a little area for them.
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It would be nice to get both. But if it's a remake, go with safari.
since chrome messed up on me and didn't get a poll heres the original poll http://strawpoll.me/2856563 forgot to put both fml |
I think it'll likely stay the way it was in the originals, which in this case is a regular Safari Zone. Game Freak have so far been making these games look so close to the originals so it's expected that will be the case.
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The friend safari was fun, but I really prefer the regular safari, so that's what I'm guessing will be present in ORAS.
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I'd prefer the regular safari zone - friend safari was a nice idea, but it was too random in terms of what you got from it. At least with the normal safari zone you know what you can get and where...it's just a lot harder to get it. But I'd take that over the uncertainty any day. Hopefully they'll go with the original safari since these are remakes...although I don't see why they can't include both. But then, they do like taking things out for no discernible reason between games.
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I hate Safari Zones.
I think ORAS will have a Safari Zone, but Safari Zones are bad, period. I don't know if I told this in the 4th gen journal thread, but catching a male Yanma with Speed Boost and a good nature in the Great Marsh was one of my worst gaming experiences of all time. It simply won't stay in the ball, and it almost always flees in the first turn. I don't wish such torment upon even my worst enemies. |
The Friend Safari was one of the worst new features introduced in X and Y.
I shouldn't have to be forced to search the Internet to find people to add just to be able to use what was a standard feature in previous generations. |
I'd like for them to put a new twist on the Safari Zone, although they'd probably keep that for the next generation.
I just don't want another Friend Safari. |
The Friend Safari was interesting, but we haven't had a proper Safari Zone since... HGSS! I'd like to see the original Safari Zone return, perhaps it could have some new twists to make it more interesting (like HGSS' Safari Zone)?
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Friend Safari would be great!
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The normal Safari Zone, but all the Pokemon there still have at least two perfect IVs. Also Ditto should be catchable in there. They could add a couple of more areas after you've beaten the E4, kinda similar to the Safari Zone in HG/SS which allowed to catch gen 4 Pokemon after the Pokemon League.
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Just give us the good old safari but add the HA and at least 2 IV pokemons. The only problem would be catching them with Safari Balls using pokeblocks.
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At the same time I could get why people may not like the old safari as it was. |
Regular Safari Zone is great, and most of us are used to it, which is definitely understandable (considering how many games they have featured the place in thus far), but personally, I'm a lot more fond of Friend Safari, to be honest.
First and foremost, their new version of Safari seems to house a better range of Pokémon, and includes those which many of us might find valuable, such as Charmander, Torchic, Treecko, and so forth. Alongside, it also has us utilize our Friend Codes, making better use of them. Though, only down-side I see for this feature is, those who don't have access to wireless internet at home could possibly miss out. For them, I believe it'd be nice if they were able to find a better middle-ground, so to speak. |
Unless they change what pokemon are in the original safari zone I want Friend Safari instead, if they added pokemon like the new megas (pigey, hoenn starters), and ditto (this needs to be in every pokemon game IMO) with hidden abilities + minimum 2 perfect IVs I'd be happy with the safari zone, gives you something to go through trying to get TMs and all, maybe a mega stone will be in there...
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Friend Safari. Yeah, there's not much to it besides the interesting Hidden Abilities + 2 IV mechanic, but the Safari Zone is one of the most frustrating places in any Pokémon game. With the Safari Zone, you can't battle a Pokémon and have to use rocks and bait instead. It doesn't help that you use Pokéballs at Pokémon with full health. Not only that, but the rock and bait mechanic never made sense to me, so I prefer to leave them. Plus, the Friend Safari has much more Pokémon to offer. I like having a wide range of creatures to catch.
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I hate old safari mechanics so I'm in favour of the Friend Safari. The whole thing with pokeblocks, going closer, throwing rocks or whatever, I can never remember what they do and what the ideal way of catching a pokemon is. The Friend Safari was a bit of a pain when it came to adding friend codes of random people over the net so you could have the best pokemon available but really if you want a HA pokemon, it's not too hard to find one over the net as people breed them all the time as trade fodder. I'll still take the Friend Safari where hundreds of pokemon are available and you can go in and catch the ones you want with little fuss as opposed to doing the whole limited steps safari ball only torture that was the old method. Like seriously, if you're playing Emerald and you want to catch a Wobbuffet, you're liable to spend 15 minutes trying to find and catch the bugger. You want one in XY? Pick the friend whose Safari has it, it shouldn't take more than 5 encounters to find one, put it to sleep, False Swipe, Dusk Ball, easy. Shouldn't be anymore than 2 minutes.
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Of course, they could just sell Pokéblocks like they sold Poffins in Platinum, but I'm not so sure they'd include that feature. |
Why not both?
I'm in for it. |
They could have both.
I'd prefer if the regular Safari Zone stayed the same and they added the Friend Safari to a post game location. It's possible the features of the DexNavi will make the Friend Safari obsolete though. (Since you can use it to get pokemon with hidden abilities etc) Being able to find non Hoenn pokemon by soaring to new islands probably doesn't help either. |
I like both. Regular safari has set pokemon in them but can bring that sensation of working for the catch. Friend safari made it easy to pick what safari you want, and help with breeding. I think both are good and I would like to see both in the games.
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Even GF admits that. In RBY, they said catching a Chansey in Safari Zone was "all up to chance". ^^ |
It's unlikely that they'd remove the regular Safari Zone - you have access to it before the post-game in the originals, but to replace it with the Friend Safari, they'd have to block it off until after (because the Friend Safari has non-Hoenn Pokemon, and, though they don't care about trading, they've always made it so that you can't get something not in the Pokedex by yourself).
Plus, the Hoenn Safari Zone is pretty important. With some exceptions, it is mostly inhabited by Pokemon that can only be found there - there's a theory that, all of the Pokemon in it were imported, that none of them are normally native to Hoenn. Where in Hoenn would you expect to see Heracross, Pinsir, Rhyhorn, etc, other than the Safari Zone? |
I'd be okay with the Safari Zone if and only if they make some additions to it. The Pokemon that you find there in the originals aren't worth catching, but if they add more to it and maybe even allow you to use the DexNav while there, that would be great. Otherwise, I'll take the Friend Safari, although with the DexNav being a thing I don't see them bringing that back- why would they when you can catch most HA Pokemon in the wild?
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Besides all the safari ball thing, I really hope it's the regular safari zone - I used to have a lot more fun trying to catch pokemon, and there were more of them, not just three... Plus, it didn't require to find people who had them to be able to catch the ones you wanted. AND it was a bigger area to explore!D:
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I loved the old Safari zones... I just think they need a few updates. I know many have said it but they need to add HA pokemon to the Safari zones and give them the 2iv mark. I would actually like to see an even bigger safari zone with a lot more pokes added. I did not care for the friend safari at all. I spent way too much time searching for someone with a ditto safari... While others who had it could have a lot easier breeding experiences.
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As someone with an almost-full 3DS friends list I definitely prefer the friend safaris. Sure there are only three per but with many rare Pokemon included, boosted shiny rates, and guaranteed 2+ perfect IVs I have a hard time saying no. I value that sort of thing a bit more than a mixed safari zone full of Pokemon I already own (having completed my Pokedex).
Though I certainly wouldn't say no to both of them. :3;; |
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Yanma took close to a month to catch, but the backup plan was to accept Halie's Yanma trade. I ended up doing both and evolving one into a Yanmega ^_^ |
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I prefer the regular safari. I'm just hoping that they'll include rarer Pokemon in it at even harder rates of capture.
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Hm....I think they will bring the old safari back, like they have done with FR/LG and HG/SS. However, there will be changes made to make the safari zone more...fun. XD In HG/SS, we got to move around decorations and affect which Pokemon resided in the zones; a customization feature in the loosest sense of the word. It was kind of enjoyable, but I hated waiting for the decorations to take effect....>.>
I guess I would be all for a new and imporved safari zone, since we already have friend safaris in X/Y. |
I was watching a YouTube video which compared scenes from R/S/E to OR/AS and a few months back there was that one scene from a trailer which depicted Brendan sneaking up on a Pikachu whose tail was sticking out of the grass (which was a patch of normal grass while there was some very tall grass at the top in the same scene) and I think that might be what is the Safari Zone now, given it's the only place in Hoenn where wild Pikachu are found.
There was no really tall grass there in the original games as far as I was aware of, so it appears they completely changed some of the grass patches there which I think is a first for a remake compared to its original version, because as far as I know in Johto there was no really tall grass other than the National Park and it stayed that way for HG/SS. Here is the first case of a remake actually changing the grass compared to what the original was, but we have to remember Hoenn has a lot more space now compared to the originals if the video was anything to go by. |
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Both would be ideal. The safari has always been a wonderful place, and with the nature in Hoenn, it just makes too much sense to have one in there somewhere. Also, Friend Safari was an awesome addition to the games as it supports interaction and gives players an incentive to help each other out in an easy way.
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Although technically all grass is "tall grass", and some grass is simply taller than the other. |
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