Fynn
is an EoFF Hero and/or Heroine
Radical Dreamer

I have an all Wabuffet team that's ready to take on the world.

Well, you're free to like them. Just be aware that after the 450 Pokémon in the Kalos Pokédex, going back to a mere 150 seems really limited. I got so used to seeing new encounters on every route that the older structure seemed a lot more restrictive.

That said, the plot really is quite good once it finally gets going, and they improved the characterization quite a bit. I'm actually looking forward to playing OmegaRuby so that I can see how Team Magma's philosophies play out.

Also, they gave Vibrava Boomburst, making Special Flygon a terror in Double and Triple Battles. I love the dragonfly, so I'm quite happy with that.

i do not have it and probably won't for quite a while (if I do). I still haven't even gotten very far in Pokemon X, haha.

Haha, no :P

HeartGold was good, but at the same time, it felt limited by the source material. Don't get me wrong, Gen II was great. But, at the same time, we had move past things like the stupid phone system to get great new features like the Pokétch. And, again, the world was designed better in the later games.

The biggest problems with the Gen III remakes come from the original Gen III. Hoenn feels like a video game level, not an actual world. The zones are horribly designed. You do so much backtracking, and you always spot the obvious "here's the shortcut to get back to the start" that just makes it feel like a game level. Trekking through feels like a chore, with half of the areas being convoluted mazes that feel unnatural.

The Pokémon selection is really weak, especially early on. There just aren't a ton of Pokémon that you want to use. It took about four gyms to get a team I was actually excited about (and that's including the fact that I actually really like both of Ralts's evolutions). Wingull? Wurmple? Zigzagoon? Yay, I guess? But they just felt lackluster and unoriginal.

The story takes way, way too long to get moving. Whereas most games set you out and you feel like you're going on an adventure almost immediately, in Gen III, you spend the first half of the game feeling like you're on a very structure fetch quest.

The HM requirements get absurd. You need basically 11 Field Moves by the end of the game, meaning half of your team is HM Slaves. Way too out of hand in this generation.

The structure of the world does limit the excellent camera work. You don't get the sweeping panoramas that you had with XY, or even the fantastically well designed areas that we had in Sinnoh and Unova. It just feels so bland. Mauville is perhaps the worst. It's massively redesigned, and built up as a counterpart to Lumiose City, but you can tell just how shallow and empty it feels by comparison.


The mechanics are excellent, though. The AreaNav and DexNav are absolutely brilliant. Being able to track down specific Pokémon, acquire Egg Moves easier, get Hidden Abilities... All fantastic.

The Secret Base system? Great, and functions fantastically as a StreetPass feature.

The new Delta Episode part of the story? From what I've heard, utterly brilliant, but I haven't reached it yet.

Move Tutors coming back? There was no reason they shouldn't have been in XY, since they were in the previous three generations. Kind of the same with the new Mega Evolutions, I feel that they should have been patched into XY.

I did acquire them. They're good, and they improve A LOT of technical details over XY. However, they are still Gen III, and suffer the same problems the old games did. The overall Pokémon selection through the main game is really lackluster, and the Hoenn region is abysmally poor in terms of layout and overall construction (and the lack of XY's excellent camera angles did not help).

It's a great game, and a great update of the Gen III (the plot and characters are especially improved). But, similar to HeartGold/SoulSilver, it only really stands as a remake, and it overall feels inferior to the actual current gen games (in my opinion).

Just got finished going through that thread, myself. Well, I skimmed. Some of the things I was nominated for came as a surprise.

Oh? That's cool. Good luck.

Removing all distractions (if you can) is a good way to help with that. When EoFF was under maintenance and another site I frequent soon followed, I got more writing done in just a few days than I ever had my entire life. I was able to get the second season of WWC finished for a January premier.

Aww that's sweet

Going Christmas shopping this weekend actually

haha xD