So...it looks like Nintendo
is making Ruby and Sapphire remakes after all. I'll be honest, I was
skeptical when people were getting hyped over a random bit of dialogue
in X and Y. This was because I felt that Nintendo had absolutely no
reason to remake Ruby and Sapphire. In addition, while some people are
super-hyped over this, I'm actually going to go out of my way to avoid
these games.
If you're curious as to why, it's because...well, I still have my DS
Lite and a copy of Sapphire. So, ironically, not only is there no
reason for Nintendo to do a remake of the third-gen Pokemon games, but
there's no reason for me to even get them. On top of that, I actually
find Sapphire to be the dullest story I've ever played through; this is
my fourth time playing it and that's only because I feel as if I have to
in order to have a secondary Hoenn team to send over to X and Y. Hell,
I never even actually beat Sapphire on my first playthrough - I only
managed to get about halfway through the Elite four before finally
saying "screw this", erased the save file (confident that I was never
going to pick it up again) and moved on to a more current generation at
the time.
I only picked it up again to build up a Hoenn team, deleted the second
save because I decided to change my starter halfway, finally built a
team to send through on my third playthrough, and now I'm currently on
my fourth to build up a secondary team to make up for the fact that I
ended up having two teams for the B/W & B2/W2 generation while
having only one team in the generations before it.
It's not that I don't enjoy old Pokemon games - Leafgreen and Heartgold
are among my favorites, but Sapphire...I get really sick of it really
quickly. It's got one of the worst Pokemon stories, the most idiotic
villainous teams, the most tedious environmental puzzles...playing
through it is an agonizing chore for me and I'd rather not have to go
through it again in 3D.
