Check Out the Evolution of Visuals in Pokémon Omega Ruby & Alpha Sapphire

I can still remember playing the original Sapphire and thinking how much of an improvement was made in graphics over the original Red and Blue. Seeing these games coming back has made me all nostalgic and giddy!

All I can say now is...
November can't come soon enough...

The current camera set up works great for indoor areas and caves and such. However, they should have zoomed it out more on the outdoor areas to avoid the more claustrophobic feeling that is caused by the smaller field of view. You can even see how in that one cave they removed the circle overlay since it wasn't necessary to obscure the players view.
Other than that it is a general improvement from the original.

God im so hyped for this.

Nintendo/Game Freak, I'll become slightly inclined to buy this when you fully implement the 3D. Seriously - just because you're Pokémon doesn't mean you can be lazy.

Hype level through the roof!

@Geonjaha The problem is that 3D already had issues with frame rate when it was on (especially if you battled a Butterfree/anything that flies by flapping wings).

It seems like this could be a problem in this game as well judging by the screenshot with the Beautiflys flying around above the grass (screen shot 11).

Who knows though, maybe Gamefreak has had some time to work out any kinks in their engine before starting work on these remakes.

So excited for these games. November 21st can't come fast enough. Those new images look amazing and I am so glad I pre-ordered OR/AS.

@Ernest_The_Crab - Most other games on the 3DS managed to give players the option to use 3D. I'm always one to sacrifice a bit of frame rate for the 3D effect because I really enjoy it. Besides, most of the screenshots of the world shown there could easily use 3D without killing the frame rate (If it managed to look like a full open 3D world I wouldn't be asking).

Remember that A Link Between Worlds managed 60fps with 3D on, and this game doesn't look much more graphically impressive. I'd settle for 30fps if the 3D is nice.

@Samuel-Flutter Same here. I was astounded at how much Ruby and Sapphire improved over Crystal, but I was disappointed that Pokemon didn't move in Ruby and Sapphire. Now, with X, Y, OR, and AS, I am astounded that they are in 3D. I guess, with whatever handheld comes next, that I will be astounded by HD Pokemon. Seeing scales on Gyarados, feathers or Pidgeot, or even more realistic flames on a Charizard. Those are thing I used to only dream about, and now we are basically just on step away!

@eaglebob345 - I'm pretty sure they purposefully withheld that just to give Emerald more features over Ruby/Sapphire. It was clear by that point that it was possible. :/

@Geonjaha Oh, I know. It was a little disheartening to have static sprites after Crystal, but I didn't care because Pokemon is awesome. I was also glad that my save data was no longer tied to the life of a battery as well. I lost my progress on Red, Yellow, Gold, Silver, and Crystal because of the stupid batteries, but starting with Ruby and Sapphire they fixed that.

The only thing that annoys me about Pokemon games now is that the Vs. Seeker and the Pokeradar are not standard in every region. HG, SS, B,W,B2, and W2 all should have at least had the Pokeradar, imo, and OR and AS better have it too. I am glad X and Y have it, even if it the region isn't designed for it.

@Ernest_The_Crab
If there were issues with frame rate in 3D, then the game engine is really quite flawed, and inefficient. They should have worked on it more for X and Y, which at times felt rushed. I thought it was cheap for them not to have 3d for the majority of areas. But I suppose the people who the game is aimed at (under 10s) mostly have 2DSs, so they felt they could get away with it...

I definitely prefer GBA graphics than X/Y.

@HandheldGuru97 I've never seen that gif animated before, but its even better! I'm insanely excited to return to Hoenn, my favorite Pokemon region. I might get both so I can do weird playthroughs like only using Kecleon.

I still have a sweet spot for those GBA graphics.

I always liked the style of GBA Pokemon and it's very nostalgic for me, but honestly I couldn't like another 2D Pokemon game that much now that they switched to 3D-ish style. I am so so so much more excited for these than XY ever and I was hugely excited for XY too!

New Rustboro gym is so much bigger on the inside though. Wtf.

@Geonjaha Agreed. The lack of polish in X and Y was understandable given the fact that the visual style had changed so much from the older games, but a big priority for Game Freak now should be figuring out how to properly implement the 3D.

I'm all like... meh.

I've never played any of the gba pokemon games, so I get a whole new pokemon game for the price of a remake.

@Link506 Sadly the price of a remake is the same as an original game.

I didn't play X and Y, but the camera angle worries me. It seems way too low.

Anybody know if they are ever updating the 3DS Pokedex Pro my kids each paid $15 for w/ the X and Y Pokemon? Seems only right that they should, it's their Pokemon, their app, it's called "Pro",and it's missing over 100 Pokemon, mega evolutions and the fairy type. People who make free apps are usually better at keeping up w/ stuff than Nintendo.

On topic, the screen shots look real good. My kids still don't seem to care too much about graphics - they would have beene more than happy just to buy $10 ports of the originals which they never played, but I'm sure they'll like the new look.

The GBA visuals of Pokemon will always be my favorite.

Oh mah gawd.

@Tsurii897 Maybe they just used flash in that photo?? (not being sarcastic just wondering.)

I can't wait for a Pearl remake

@ShanaUnite You can't win them all. :-/

The Game Boy Advance screens actually look better to me, but as with X and Y the 3DS game will look brilliant when playing, much more than it does in stills.

Now that's the way you hype!

@xerneas Its made with the materials from the Tardis.

@KTT
Thats what I'm thinking too. People probably don't realize it but Game Freak hasn't actually done any 3D games themselves. Stadium and Snap were handled by HAL, Mystery Dungeon was all Spike Chunsoft, and the Gamecube games were Genius Sonority. So X&Y were their first ever 3D games in 25 years.

That being said I don't think they did that bad, its how they do going forward thats really important. So far OR/AS look like a nice improvement over both the originals and X/Y.

I prefer the GBA visuals though I really hope Tate and Liza have their much more difficult combo from Emerald, Xatu and Claydol makes a difference!

@SleepyCrossing I love doing wierd playthroughs on rse, the best one I've done is a Mudkip only run, no evolving, no HM slaves (Mudkip can learn all the useful ones) and no catching anyone else. You have to get castform and use it for the 7th gym double battle, but I just kept him in the PC and fainted him with Mudkip in the 7th gym. The hardest thing was beating the E4 with strength, surf, waterfall and rock smash which all have to be used to get there, and you can't fly back to get them deleted -.-

Cant wait till this comes out i just got sapphire recently so Im really looking forward too this

I'm not even excited for this because of smash, but I would be very hyped if there was no smash 3ds. I'll almost certainly still buy this.

Battle environments look way better than XY, cool!

HYPE!!!!

This has gotten me way more excited than I was for X/Y. Although GBA graphics have aged gracefully as they still look appealing to me, travelling through the same environments as before in 3D will also be amazing experience.

X/Y came out on my birthday and this is coming one day before. It is going to be an awesome November!

Hope the gym battles are more challenging and more interesting., and Steven is as a great champion he was before.

Is Minun evolving is this collage?

These pictures just make me realise..... how damn ugly the GBA originals were. I really hated the art direction back then, but the remake looks tons better.

Maybe nostalgia is taking over but I like the GBA sprite graphics more (could have something to do with the trainers hair being silver and not a hat). The new engine makes me feel weird as it is the same game but it isn't at the same time.

@KTT
They probably did, they did the same for the Gamecube games, both colosseum and XD used the Stadium models for the original 251. It makes more sense to reuse those than make them all from scratch.

And yea, I really hope they work on amie and expand on it a bit. With contests making a return they just might too, the two fit nicely together.

@Jazzer94
You know its been a hat all along, right? You can see his real hair even on the sprite. Or at least I hope so, otherwise he'd have to have dyed his sideburns black or something.

These were the games, that got me to quit Pokemon for good until X and Y came around.
So, obviously im not hyped at all still, they look amazing and maybe once if finally finish my Y, ill get one of these too

@Zombie_Barioth I've known it is a hat for years but when I first played it I thought it was hair due to the character sprite having so many spikes and I thought the black bit was a headband.

Looking forward to playing it! Don't know if I'll be able to get it at launch due to money issue sadly. Loving the updates, thanks for sharing =D.

An awesome evolution for sure. I am so excited for these games! I'm especially hyped for the rehashed gyms, they were so much fun in X/Y. I am hoping that they fix the Exp. Share so that my party isn't out-leveled for half of the game. Also, Flannery <3

@2Sang
DON'T GIVE 'EM IDEAS
Mostly because I'm thinking the same thing, but seriously, given how long overdue SSB43DS is, I always fear for the 3DS version being cancelled all of a sudden. It's a scary and depressing thought.

As for me, though, I'm still into these remakes, if only for the cathartic factor of wiping the floor with the Hoenn Pokémon League with Johto Pokémon (because of the whole "not compatible with Gold and Silver" thing, thank goodness for the Pokémon Bank). That, and also the fact that unlike with Pokémon X, I'm going for a physical copy this time around, what with my digital X acting screwy - lately, it's gotten a bit laggy (such as, for example, having to wait up to five seconds between the start of the battle music and the opponent's artwork finally popping up, and similar issues), and come to think of it, I'd like to hear something from @Serebii given he might well be way more informed than me when it comes to technical issues, glitches and whatnot. I'd enlist the NL staff as well, but I don't want to bother anyone more than I just have done.

HYPE!!

@AlexSora89 Sounds like your SD card is fragmenting :/

@Serebii
What do you mean? Can I do anything about it?

Wait, NOW I get it. It's like the thing that happens with PCs when they start getting slower and slower, because the free space in the HDD is kind of messed up, and it needs to activate the lengthy defragmentation process. Okay, so it's not quite as much of a serious issue as I made it out to be. Good. As long as my game still works, I can chill.

Can't wait! Although, the male characters hat looks dumber than ever
I hope you can customize him.

When the announce remakes of gene 3, I was happy. Then they said "secret bases are back and better than before." That's what got me SUPER EXCITED for O. Ruby & A. Sapphire!!!

X & Y spoiled me with customizations....so I highly doubt you we can customize ourselves in terms of clothing and accessories. If they allow me to change the color of my bandana, I'll be content with that! It's good enough for me.

@HandheldGuru97

I seen your gif and legit thought I was tripping.

@JellySplat I hope so as well