Journey Back to Hoenn – Roar of Time: Generation III

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It seems like only yesterday I started the Journey to X & Y article series, when in actuality it’s fast approaching six months since I did! Admittedly the inferno of hype for X & Y has flickered down into a smouldering cinder, but that’s expected, the games are out. Many of our readers enjoyed the articles we ran last year, and we’ve decided to continue the generation weeks we failed to complete before the release of the games. They’ll be a little different however—just a title change really, but still a heap of fun!

In Roar of Time we asked our readers what they would add to older games, if they gained the ability to travel back in time and make any change or additions they wanted. This time round it’s the same deal! If you could take control of Dialga and morph time back to the early development stages of Ruby and Sapphire (or any of the other Third Generation games!), what would you change? What would you take away? What would you add?

We don’t want you to be too outrageous here, keep things realistic. You could also pick something completely obvious, but what’s the fun in that? As we said in the first article don’t forget to consider how your change or addition would have an effect on the future of Pokémon games.

Get those brains working and tell us your ideas, we’ll be featuring our favourites in the next Roar of Time (who can guess what that will focus on?)

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  3. If i could change something about Ruby and Sapphire it would be the characters, they’re not very memorable and can get annoying sometimes

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  4. Hmm, well. This should be fun.
    I would have added Shellos and Gastrodon in Gen III, because they were designed and had sprites. They are two of my favorite Pokemon and deserve to exist within the greatest overall generation.
    I also would have added the day/night feature from Diamond and Pearl, considering that the hardware would not limit said feature. It would have added some interesting visual changes, and perhaps even provided some remixed songs.
    And that’s about it, really. 😀

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  7. If I could go to the early development stages of R/S, what I would’ve added in was:

    -Fairy type, since types back then were either Physical or Special, we would’ve had 9 physical and 9 special types.

    -Kept Shellos inside of the game (in case anyone didn’t know, it was concealed in the games coding)

    -Less water routes. About 80% of the region was Water filled (which will be lovely with updated graphics, specially diving but was tiresome in the old ones)

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    • Well concidering Hoenn was more…island-ish, it makes sense that a lot of the routes would be water.

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  8. add a dark gym, remove contests, add ditto, keep day/night events, keep team rocket, more evolutions and pre evos, keep previous regions and badges in postgame, new types like fairy, in-battle evolution, a dolphin!, the ability to assign EVs to the stat you want like other rpgs..
    do not repeat concepts like krabby-corphish, seel-spheal , etc

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  9. Biggest thing I’d change would be graphical style. Overworld, sprites, text. Everything basically. I really, really hate it and it’s difficult to explain why. Everything sort of looks stretched and warped. Maybe music too. I don’t like the music.

    I’d probably fix some of the routes and stuff too. I don’t like all the water.

    My least favourite generation. Bleh.

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  14. Reading comments from below and I agree, with all the water Hoenn had, it was lacking a variety of wild water Pokemon. Every wild was either Tentacool or Wailmer. Diving was Clampearl.

    When they remake Hoenn I hope they don’t literally make it a remake with better graphics (with national pokemon available after dex)

    I want a revisit/update, with more wild water Pokemon added in, Shiny Stone available earlier on so we can get Roserade etc. I don’t want to wait til post elite 4 to do that stuff.

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  15. Alright before I go to the gym
    If they remake Rube and Saff I want a prominent return of a more interactive multi use of Secret Bases!
    Manage your friend codes
    Decorate it anytime
    enter it anywhere
    invite people over for minigames

    I remember refighting the Elite Four a bazillion times to earn Secret Base Dosh

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    • Yup. I would like it if it worked similar to Friend Safari’s. The Secret Bases will pop up on our region if the FC’s we have registered cleared the elite 4.

      I would also like Winona to be a Sky Battle gym trainer so it’ll require you to use a flying Pokemon (since her town is high up in the tree’s).

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        • I believe zygarde is supposed to be a defensive rayquaza :/ I dunno why but it just suggests so, needs more stat moves like rock polish and iron defence

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          • But it’s pretty much a given that it’s going to mega evolve from 600 base stats to 700 base stats with increases in attack and speed. It even gets extremespeed and dragon dance. Mine will be offensive.

          • I doubt a mega evolution since they are abusing it a bit much rather than forme changes, reckon it will become a offensive forme. I’ll still go defensive with him though, since he is pretty bulky HP wise

          • It its base stats were like 660, yes I would’ve believed a form change. But its base stats are SUPER low for a trio legend, 600. Mega’s give a poke 100 stats, they did it like this intentionally. 700 base stats will tie it with Mega Tyranitar/Mega Garchomp

            From Aura Break ability (which reverses the effects of Fairy Aura/Dark Aura), to Its mega ability (which will reverse the type effectiveness of Yveltal/Xerneas) making Zygarde’s dragon moves super effective against Xerneas, and Ground moves supereffective against Yveltal. This is why Inverse battles can only be done out front of Zygarde’s home (in front of Terminus Cave).

          • Good ideas! I speculate that Zygarde will get two Megas because why were version exclusive Megas introduced. It has to be a foreshadowing of Zygarde’s two Megas. Also, doing this would make more money for Game Freak.

          • I wouldn’t mind if it got two mega’s. This would make it possible for Zygarde to be able to learn Geomancy and Oblivion Wing maybe from a special tutor. Just like how Arceus got Roar of Time & Spacial Rend, and Victini got Fusion Flare/Fusion Bolt

  19. An improvement I’d make on R/S/E is something we’re ALL thinking about. DECREASE THE AMOUNT OF WATER!!!! THERE’S TOO MUCH!!!! Oh, and I’d add Diving Gear (a new Key Item) for Diving.

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  21. 73rd! Anyone here? Just got back from school. Hatched a shiny 5 IV Beldum. Check my Starbound server. HOENN CONFIRMED. Look at this cool soundtrack. GG, that Eearthquake got me. Anyway, need to go, byebye.

    PJN comments in a nutshell.

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  23. Some more things I would’ve done while RS was in beta stages

    -Tropius a pre evolution
    -Gardevoir a female only (and included Gallade in the game, male only)
    -Only 1 pseudo legend (having 2 pseudo’s in a gen was & still is confusing)
    -Jirachi capturable in Emerald
    -Day & Night cycle’s

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  24. I’m sure the huge Hoenn fans among us will be thrilled with this article. If Hoenn was to be remade, it would be incredible. Features like Dive, Secret Bases and the main cutscene in Sootopolis; coupled with Super Training, PSS and Pokemon Amie would be amazing with XY’s graphics. In a potential sequel on the other hand, I think teams Aqua and Magma would try and capture Rayquaza to find and control Kyogre/Groudon respectively. Also I wouldn’t be surprised to see the The Weather Trio to get Megas, and Blue, Red and Jade orbs to have their Mega Stones inside them, or undergo some kind of mutation. Either way, seeing Hoenn in 3D is something I look forward to. One great thing about B/W was the Gym Leaders’ last Pokemon theme. I’d like this to be implemented again in Hoenn remakes/sequels, only with this theme:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv87lkkSr18

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