How would you improve Pokemon

[Lizardon]

Difficulty settings would be nice. Have a mode where all the trainers use the Battle Tower AI and teams would give the game a bit more of a challenge to them.

Unfortunately, we are already there. The last Gen where I was able to complete the Pokedex was in Gen 3.

Anyway, create a new set of Pokemon (please toss out all the Gen 5 Pokemon) and have those Pokemon the only ones available until you beat the Elite Four. Also, new evolutions to existing Pokemon in the Pokedex (come on, we need an evolved from of Rapidash to be a flaming flying Pegasus).

Asides from the special event Pokemon, finishing the Pokedex is fairly simple, it's just time consuming. I've personally completed it in every Generation.

And Black and White do exactly what you are suggesting. They were a soft reboot of the franchise. Only the new Pokemon could be encountered until after the story is completed and it is all very self contained with almost no mention of the other regions or old characters. This is why this is the first new generation to not feature any new evolutions or pre-evolutions.

And I don't want to get into a debate, but there is nothing wrong the the new Pokemon.

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Open world game on modern consoles. The formula works, now just put it on the 360 and PS3 wih 3D character models.

Don't you think it's much more likely that Nintendo would put games from their franchises on their console?

3. A game where I play as pokemon.......not playing stupid mini-games in a pokepark. Basically a different perspective would be nice.

Are you aware of the Mystery Dungeon games? Combat is pretty bland but they do have interesting stories around a world with only Pokemon.

 

[JoesshittyOs]

Open world game on modern consoles. The formula works, now just put it on the 360 and PS3 wih 3D character models.

Don't you think it's much more likely that Nintendo would put games from their franchises on their console?

I don't approve of your comment sir.

I don't approve of your comment one bit.

 

[DanteLives]

Make sure that everyone outside Japan gets the same events. I'd throw a nerd into Vesuvius just to get an event Darkrai.

 

[Scarim Coral]

Everyone made good points but how about a better way to interact with your Pokemon. You know with the cartoon that Ash and co sometimes let their Pokemon out of their Pokeballs so they can relish in the open space.
Ok that would be abit like a pet sim but not too much, you will physically see (well it should be 3D of course) your Pokemon interact you and others and whatever personality is assign to them will be relfected on this e.g. lonely would keep a distance while Jolly is always in a cheery mood.
This will also be an alternative way to raise their happiness level as the more you let them out and interact with them, the happiness will be higher.
Yeah this sound impossible for the current 3DS but maybe on next gen console or two...

 

[Dryk]

I wouldn't keep making a new "totally-not-Pidgey" and "totally-not-Rattata" every generation. Or if I had to I'd do it more like Gen II where Sentret and Hoot-Hoot were different enough and coexisted in the wild, and not just a reskinned complete replacement.

That's where a lot of the bloat in numbers is coming from, making the same damn thing over and over again where existing Pokemon will do.

 

[kingthrall]

gather every shred of accociation with pokemon and launch it into the sun, there is your improvement.

 

[Smeatza]

It should look like this

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The graphics have barely changed since generation 1. I've always described Dragon Quest Monsters: Joker, as how pokemon should be after all these years.

 

[sextus the crazy]

Vanilluxe...oh good lord is that it's name, oh lord what is the chandelier Pokemon's name *looks it up*...Chandelure...gotta admit, they really need to think up better names than that...

Also, forgot to mention Gigalith! Best looking rock-type Pokemon in the series to date for sure!

Sure some of the names are unorignial, but they do have a ton of pokemon each gen to name and the best names seem to be ones that are portmanteaus of different words.

Also, no Samurott, Krookodile, cofagrigus, or jellicent, yet? for shame.

Gen 5 had some good designs and bad ones (like every gen)

Hell yes.

 

[Nickolai77]

Make a Pokemon game that is a free-roaming 3D RPG, with a combat system like in Final Fantasy. I'd love to see that.

 

[Lilani]

Make a Pokemon game that is a free-roaming 3D RPG, with a combat system like in Final Fantasy. I'd love to see that.

Lol, it is already free roaming (more or less) and it already has a combat system like Final Fantasy. Random encounters, turn based, have to flip through lots of menus to do stuff.

I think the games could be improved by fully-rendered 3D graphics, character customization, and more nooks and crannies and sidequests to explore.

 

[Maxtro]

A character creation system like Dragon's Dogma.

Have clothes and accessories to purchase.

 

[CrimsonBlaze]

Anyway, create a new set of Pokemon (please toss out all the Gen 5 Pokemon) and have those Pokemon the only ones available until you beat the Elite Four. Also, new evolutions to existing Pokemon in the Pokedex (come on, we need an evolved from of Rapidash to be a flaming flying Pegasus).

First: This is how Gen 5 works. You have only access to gen 5 pokes until you beat the elite four.

...until Black 2 & White 2, which completely throws that formula out the door. Or should we consider this Gen 6?

Second: Why toss out Gen 5? And please give a better argument than "the designs are ugly / stupid" because this is just false.

I would say that the whole "aspects of Pokemon in Gen 5" is what I want tossed out. Yes, there are unquestionable favorable Pokemon in Gen 5, but I want the whole "moving Pokemon" sprites out and change to more clearly displayed Pokemon sprites. Also, abilities like Prankster are just plain cheap in Wi-Fi battles, yet people continue to use it.

 

[CrazyGirl17]

Probably a better story with branching storylines and better gameplay.

 

[Grey Day for Elcia]

Needs more grit, realism and chest-high-walls.

And more brown and grey.

 

[Aeon_COR]

Full 3d rendering would be nice, One thing that I really could improve the play is eliminating randomly spawning Pokemon it adds such a needless grind now that there are so many Pokemon to capture, and training, and competitions. I like to be able to see the Pokemon naturally interacting with each other, then throw out one of my Pokemon to engage battle mode, having to actually hunt the rares rather than just walking in circles.

 

[Someone Depressing]

Not having an encounter rate of 99/100 steps. Or, maybe have a Green-Yellow-Red feature on your Pokegear of phone or whatever, and when it reaches red, you get in a fight.

And, maybe a more undetermined story. I'm just talking dialouge-options and such, which *slightly* effect later dialouge options or something. I mean ending-determination and story-routes. It'd be alot more interesting, definetely.

 

[Zetsubou-Sama]

An actual story, added regions more post-elite 4 content, less legendary events, better battler AI, more radiant events, more sidequests and i'd like to see a version of the Orange Islands League (The Sevii did not count)

Something to influence the nature of bred pokemons, and ffs reduce the shiny probability.

Oh and a non-bullshit way to get a good amount of pokemon in-game.

 

[xplosive59]

As I said in another thread keep the game formula exactly the same BUT with all the existing regions in one game. I do like the idea of a New Game + mode though.