6th Gen Come on! Let's take a dive!

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

I hope that they expand it, rather than lower the diving experience. I have a bad feeling that we might see a lot less areas to dive in ORAS, rather than actually taking this opportunity to make a really cool and interesting dynamic. The visuals have the potential to be thoroughly incredible. I reckon we'll probably see the introduction of a HM for Dive again, too. We only seen 5 HM's in X&Y, so there's room for Dive to become HM06 or something.

Either way, this is one feature I really hope GameFreak take full advantage of.

The dive areas on the map are as extensive as those in the originals (but more detailed) so I think we'll get as much area as before.

Something I'll love to see are underwater caverns where we can't go back to the surface until we exit them.

 

[antemortem]

Something I'll love to see are underwater caverns where we can't go back to the surface until we exit them.

I'd like this plus the lack of enter/exit sequences so we can smoothly transition into underwater caverns and even into dry land portions.

 

[Yato]

A smooth transition would be really lovely; can see the screen fading out from where you were and fading into the area you go into. It'd be aesthetically pleasing <3

 

[Salzorrah]

I hope there would be an animation sequence when it does happen haha :33 I'm thinking that the splash effect wherein you are battling while surfing should happen haha

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

I wonder how the in battle graphics would look, can you imagine being surrounded by tall seaweed or Kelp?

 

[Salzorrah]

Maybe those things will be present in the background, and have a chance of giving you an item, like in XY. Maybe give you a Pearl or something if you use Dive in battle?

 

[BeachBoy]

The water, and diving, made Sapphire for me. Nerfing it would be the ultimate disappointment these games could provide (I don't care about megas, but I do want an amazing underwater experience).

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Maybe those things will be present in the background, and have a chance of giving you an item, like in XY. Maybe give you a Pearl or something if you use Dive in battle?

Maybe pearls if one is battling a Clamperl, and shards if one is battling Relicanth? I wonder if the shards will return with their original purpose. One of the reasons I did so much diving in the originals was to find them and trade them in for evolution stones.

 

[Heir]

I loved diving in the old games, and was sad when it was not in any other games. The animation for going under the water will hopefully be cool. Putting the new water-type mega stones underwater would be an interesting.

 

[Salzorrah]

Have you guys ever wonder if the rare underwater items in Unova, the relics, will appear in Hoenn as well? I hope we do get them, and sell them to a high price haha :P

 

[blue]

How else would we gain access to Sootopolis City, or the Team Aqua hideout? at first I thought they might not include it, but thinking about it now it is such widespread over the region and is required for story progression, I would be surprised if it didn't make the cut.

 

[BeachBoy]

How else would we gain access to Sootopolis City, or the Team Aqua hideout? at first I thought they might not include it, but thinking about it now it is such widespread over the region and is required for story progression, I would be surprised if it didn't make the cut.

They could really piss us off by making those a cutscene. Shows the player performing the action, like Fly, with no control underwater. Would be a shame, though. :(

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

I think Dive will return, as will the Underwater. HgSs brought back Whirlpool which had a lesser role in Johto than Dive does in Hoenn...by far...

 

[Altius]

Diving in Unova was pathetic. I was utterly disappointed that it wasn't given more attention in Gen V.

Gamefreak better do a good job this time.

 

[Salzorrah]

Now that we think about it, Dive has a big impact on the game haha, considering one of the cities need that HM.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

It truly is. It's nearly as important as surfing, and is the second most used HM imo (discounting Fly which is probably first) in the exploration of the region.

 

[RandomDSdevel]

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I really hope they incorporate more sea-life and such around in the area, too. Maybe like some wild Pokemon that can't be caught just floating around on the rocks, maybe some coral reefs and such, sponges, seaweed, anemones, etc.

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I really hope they have even more Pokemon for the underwater routes, too. 3 Pokemon just didn't seem like enough Pokemon that would live on the ocean floor, ya know?

Perhaps some of the features which you would like to see under Hoenn's waters could contain Pokémon that resemble these parts of the environment, Jellicent♀? For example, Corsola could hide in the coral reefs, and Skrelp could pop up out of a kelp forest as you swam through it.
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Diving was one of the best and unique parts of the game; why wouldn't it come back? ;) Although I do hope that we don't get trainers down there - it was quite nice to be all alone. Especially if they're like Sky Trainers and we can only battle them with Water Pokemon - I usually only have 1 with me at a time and it might even be a Dive/Surf HM slave so there's no way I could fight those trainers off.

On the topic of this, something I don't quite understand is how diving in this sense works anyway - so your Pokemon can learn to dive, fine, but how does that help the trainer breathe underwater indefinitely? :P

…or maybe the Pokémon on your team to whom you have taught 'Dive' spews out and maintains a giant air bubble around your head for you and, when one or more of your Pokémon is participating in a battle, your battling Pokémon?

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Perhaps some of the features which you would like to see under Hoenn's waters could contain Pokémon that resemble these parts of the environment, Jellicent♀? For example, Corsola could hide in the coral reefs, and Skrelp could pop up out of a kelp forest as you swam through it.
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…or maybe the Pokémon on your team to whom you have taught 'Dive' spews out and maintains a giant air bubble around your head for you and, when one or more of your Pokémon is participating in a battle, your battling Pokémon?

I would love to see the bubble around the trainer for these Games. It'll be awesome to ride on a pokemon with a bubble around us :).

 

[Salzorrah]

Yes a bubble! Or maybe an item similar to the Go-Goggles? Maybe you can receive it after you get Dive or something?

 

[Altairis]

I always just assumed you had a breather. Or Diving could just be one of the video game logic things that won't be explained and you just have to roll with it. I personally think that a bubble would be annoying, so I'd rather not see anything unnecessary.