Being able to obtain most of the older Pokémon without relying on the Internet (for the Dream World) or the previous versions, as well providing plot continuation for both Black and White and the older games in question.
That's usually the point of air travel, so the use of "could" is inappropriate.
I take it that you consider remakes a more exciting way to revisit older regions. "All right, are you ready? Your very own adventure is about to unfold all over again. Take courage, and leap into the world of Pokémon where a sense of of déjà vu awaits! Well, I'll be seeing you later, but you already knew that, didn't you?"
But why would a plane be needed for that? There are already five boats that could be used to get to any island in the vicinity of Isshu (including but not limited to Victiny's habitat). If the island is far from Isshu, what makes a limited region stand out that the player would go there of all places?
Completing the International Pokédex alone would be a very good reason, given the relative lack of older species in Isshu. One of the problem with Kanto in Generation II and even HGSS is that only a few species are exclusive to that region, making wild Pokémon for the most part expendable. That wouldn't be the case if Hoenn were added to these games.
Should there be another region in these games, that is most likely where the Battle Frontier will be. The combination of that and Pokédex completion would not make for shallow reasoning at all.
Not if was only an area that was really just a little bit over.
Battle Frontier / Elite Four, I guess.
We barely know any of the contents of Isshu. That's a bit of an early guess. For all we know we might be able to find almost every Pokemon within Isshu in the same way we could get almost everything within Sinnoh.
Doesn't Rayquaza already have that niche?
...What exactly would the player do to fix Ozone Depletion? Go around and hand out fliers about going green?
You're missing the point. Either way, the plane's destination is unlikely to be near Isshu, or it would be redundant not to go there by boat. So to which region would that Battle Frontier belong?
It's been confirmed that few old species can be found in Isshu, making it different from Sinnoh.
No. Rayquaza flies in the ozone layer, but it doesn't control the atmosphere, whereas Reshiram's Pokédex states that it is responsible for moving it.
They would find the legendary Pokémon needed to avoid the impending crisis. Rayquaza and/or the Space Station could be the key to reaching the ozone layer, where a new Pokémon would be able to undo the damage done by greenhouse gases that Zekrom embodies. Reshiram is obviously not the solution as it most likely wants to do away with technology altogether, which wouldn't make for a balanced solution at all. Bear in mind that this might only happen in the third version, but Black and White would need to have these plot elements in the first place.
Not everything is accessible by boat. If it was flying farther inland, a boat would be useless. The Plane's presence on the west side of Isshu gives the impression it might be flying that direction (though not definitely). I agree Staten Island was probably a bad idea, but the other ones I posted in my last post, places in upstate New York or Pennsylvania, could have merit.
Where was that? If it was I guess I missed that. =X
Well, not control, but Rayquaza seemed rather defensive of anything coming into or even passing through the Ozone.
...I don't quite understand. So it's just that Zekrom's role related to the depletion of the Ozone, and Reshiram wants to... Eliminate Zekrom? Can you explain it out a little more?
Let's leave real-life locations out of this; not only is Isshu not confirmed to be based on New York, but that doesn't even affect what we're discussing. Why would the Battle Frontier be cut off from Isshu only to be found further inland? A Battle Frontier isn't associated with any specific environment, after all. Now, if you're saying that the rest of the country may be explored, that changes things considerably, but I don't think that's what you meant.
The July CoroCoro issue (released in June) said that there are many new Pokémon in Isshu and few ones from older generations.
The Battle Frontiers are built wherever Game Freak decides to put them. Having them located out if your reach is the simple explanation of why you wouldn't be able to go to it right away. That's what R/S/E and D/P/Pt did. In those games, you simply couldn't get there until you were invited later on in the game. The same can go for Isshu; except rather than a boat, this time it's a plane ride. Why? Why not? The creators wanted to change it up or something. Whether it's still an island or if it's perhaps "inland", explaining why you cant go there by boat, who knows. It's just one possibility of where the plane may take you.
I was kinda saying that, in part. As I said, I think it's more likely that the Plane takes you to either a post-game area similar to the Battle Zone, or an extra area similar to the Sevii Islands, rather than a whole second region. And the Battle Zone and the Sevii Islands are based on real locations... So, I was just throwing out a few real-world locations of where the plane could possibly take you to the counterpart of. So, I guess, yeah I was saying that perhaps you may explore a little more of the country. Several of the games have off-map areas. Why not Isshu?
To what end? Wherever this location is, it should accommodate at least 300 of the older Pokémon. It would make sense, then, that it would be closer to the older regions than to Isshu. With a plane as a travel method, I just don't see the need to stay close to Isshu.
Sure there's no need to stay close to Isshu, but likewise just because there's a plane doesn't mean we instantly need to be flying to another region either. An in-land location is a very reasonable explanation why one might need a plane rather than a boat. If we were traveling to another region, why wouldn't we use a boat, anyway?
