OR&AS

Did they run out of gems and colors so now they have to add a prefix to the names?

You should play Black and White 1 and 2. They're great games, some of the best Pokemon titles currently released.

I haven't bought Alpha Sapphire yet, but I'm looking forward to it. X and Y were pretty crappy though so I'm a little worried.

I ended up getting Omega Ruby the day it was released, and I had played the demo beforehand. The graphics in Omega & Alpha are modeled after the Ruby & Sapphire Anime, so if you thought Professor Birch was a large, bumbling oaf in the anime, well... I have some bad news for you.

I'm actually really disappointed by the games themselves. They carried over the new Exp. Share from X & Y, which causes you to be severely over-leveled for almost every battle in the game. I was more than ten levels stronger than most of the Elite Four, and I didn't even fight all the trainers in the game on my way through. I actually found myself avoiding them because I was tired of every battle being easy and pointless. The story got a major overhaul, but it's still only half there. Fellow trainers had their personalities improved, but they fill the same role. Customization went out the window, contests are back, and there's still very little post-game content, meaning Gen VI has yet to provide any substantial non-story content outside of online tournaments.

Oh, and they added a crazy new method of encountering wild Pokemon that will end up adding a couple hours of play time if you're not careful. In the end, I wish I hadn't spent $39.99 on it, but I'll just sell off Y Version to lessen the blow to my bank account.

EDIT: Lag is present. On a cartridge-based game. Yeah.

@Backwards_Cowboy/Topic: Yeah, it seems like they nerfed a lot of the difficulty. I recently started over since I fucked up my team badly in my original run, (so I have yet to reach the late game) but I remember even the early game of the original being way harder than OR and AS are.

I don't understand a lot of the changes they made. Why cut out Dewford Cave and railroad the player into beating Brawly straight away? I always used to do the cave first in the original. They added some new characters that are just throwaway/annoying like that contest girl. They recycled most of the trainer and NPC graphics from X & Y, which is sad since RSE had some pretty nice looking sprites that I would've enjoyed seeing in 3D.

A lot of my complaints are nitpicky, yeah, but the culmination of all the small things can build up pretty heavily. Go ahead and call me out for wearing nostalgia goggles if you must, but whenever I play these games I'm just nagged by the thought of having paid ~50$ for a barely improved remake of a game I already own. They aren't as reprehensibly awful as X & Y, but I feel that this has more to do with them being based off of good games than being good games in of themselves.

EDIT: Lag is present. On a cartridge-based game. Yeah.

Yeah, this is pretty shitty. Can the 3DS not handle showing two Pokemon models on the screen at the same time or...? A lot of the lag seems to come straight out of nowhere, as least judging by what's going on when it slows down.

If you plan on buying it, DEFINITELY don't pay full price. I mean, no one game is worth ~50$ but this really isn't.

To tell you the truth, I'm probably going to trade in my Gen 6 games on something else next time I venture to EB Games.

author=Pizza
To tell you the truth, I'm probably going to trade in my Gen 6 games on something else next time I venture to EB Games.

I'm doing the same once something big comes along that I want. Either the next big Zelda title or some kind of big RPG.

At this point I'm pretty sure OR/AS is just an expansion to X&Y. It just adds more Mega Evolutions and allows you to catch old legendary Pokemon while re-introducing contests.