Dude! GameFreak, I don't care what the cities look like. What do the player characters look like? Can I adjust their clothes or appearance? Will you retain the longer input of letters for names? Is the probably-necessary-to-appear villain team a huge improvement, compared to Team Flare?

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I'm more concerned with whenever or not it will be a continuation to gen 6's storyline, it feels like XYORAS was building up to something and it'd be a shame if there wasn't some kind of machine.

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What are the odds of this being a New 3DS exclusive?

What's there to continue in X/Y? Maybe AZ's story, but that would just prove how his story had more potential than Flare from the get-go. Nothing was really left... open. And ORAS? That felt pretty self-contained as a Gen III remake.


You know, between Sun and Moon, I'm probably more inclined to get Moon... can't say why.

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Mysterious noises being heard in Lumiose.

The freaking ghost girl who shows up in both XY and ORAS!?

The fact that XY's data seems to indicate that there should have been one more gen 6 game before gen 7.

I've had fun designing regions of my own from time to time, so I'm looking forward to learning what part of the world the new region will be based on.

Hoenn was likely based on Hawaii or tropical areas

Iirc, Gens 1-4 are all based off of various parts of Japan. It wasn't until Gens 5 and 6 that they started to base them off of other countries/areas.

As for the ghost girl in the Gen VI games:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLgP1Iwmixs <--- Her in ORAS
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gyzrvfbw-VU <--- Her in XY

I'm kinda guessing the ghost girl thing in Pokemon has started to become some kind of running trend, though I'm unsure. I recall there being a ghost girl in the Gen 5 games as well on one of the bridges.

...what ghost girl?

Did you not see all the discussions about the ghost girl when XY and ORAS were released and what the heck she's talking about?

I didn't get XY or ORAS until at least a year after they released, nor did I spend time on any forum checking out their threads.
Also never encountered any ghost girl in my games.

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I generally don't go out of my way in Pokémon. Especially not in Lumiose, once I unlock the botique. That place is obnoxious to traverse.

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I think there's a huge chance that the ghost girl is there just to scare/troll people. They probably did it for the laughs in XY and since the girl became so popular, they added it to ORAS.

Hmmm, BW/BW2 seemed to be based on New York; Hoenn was likely based on Hawaii or tropical areas and Kalos is France-based... maybe a European area? I doubt they'll do something middle-eastern based, but it might be neat to see something like that. Mmhh, an Egypt-theme would be nice. Or beach-themed, but more like California.

see she owned the old chateau in sinnoh with her butler, Jeeves, before Gardenia, her landlord, kicked her out. then she bought a house in the desert in unova and made up the darkrai story to commit insurance fraud before a series of lawsuits from the people trapped inside the house made her sell it and relocate to kalos. she lived in a lumoise city apartment for a bit but the rent was so high that she went to hoenn to live with phoebe until she "gets back on her feet"

That's canon actually. They confirmed it on April 41st last year.

Seriously though, there's plenty of stuff in Pokemon that they never explain. Like that writing on the back of the sign in Lumiose station. And then there's the greatest mystery of all, the mysteriously disappearing dancing people in Black and White. I doubt the Ghost Girl will be any different.

The dancing people in BW was more of a joke though...

And the things scattered in XY feel like they were deliberately put there to foreshadow future things. The strange souvenir supports this because if the Sun/Moon hawaii theory is correct then that just means they were planning sun and moon since 2012.

But when you think about it, it's really bizarre! A group of people who all look exactly alike, dancing in front of an main intersection without letting anyone going past! And while they're doing so, they all say the same thing, all foretelling their eventual disappearance, never to be mentioned on the game again! I refuse to believe that that was just a lazy, shoe-horned excuse to keep you from moving to the next area early.

Also, what do you mean by the strange souvenir? I'm not sure I've heard of that one...

There should totally be an Antarctica region.
Actually that's a terrible idea. I think an Egypt region would be pretty cool. Or perhaps a region based on China.

That's canon actually. They confirmed it on April 41st last year.

So it's gotta be Sun and Moon's region right?

Or it's just some random talking that never actually means anything. An NPC in Tales of Symphonia refers to a flowergirl in the slums - clearly, a reference to Aerith. But she doesn't appear in the game, so whatever.

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Or it's just some random talking that never actually means anything. An NPC in Tales of Symphonia refers to a flowergirl in the slums - clearly, a reference to Aerith. But she doesn't appear in the game, so whatever.

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