Next Pokemon RPG's: what would you like to see in them.

[Mad1Cow]

I always laugh how a lot of these can simply be answered by combining this with the MMO template we see copying WoW...one thing I also love that Pokemon does is that in Black and White, the 3D bridge actually made me physically happy, so much I went back and forth on it grinning with glee over the effects. I then later put it down, went to do some work and realised, "Wait, all my other games have such better graphics then that, why did that make me so happy?" I find it remarkable how they can be so behind the times with every other game and still make me happy thinking it's a technological leap...

Anyway back to the point...
-Ability to travel to all the zones (like in G/S/C)
-Ability to fly anywhere instead of cities/towns
-Ability to interact with the environment or do crazy wicked things like in the anime in battle (for example, Pikachu standing on it's tail to avoid earthquake, fire water gun at that rock to rebound the shell to repel the epic beam of epicness)
-Hyper beam's miss to destroy a small part of the world...
-Magikarp to be renamed "I'll be back!"
-A regular Eevee evolution (normal type)

Also because I've already said some pretty farfetch'd things:
-Real time pokemon battles...not necessarily in the hand-held but in the colleseum thing they'll eventually release for the big console. So remember in Pokemon Stadium where you assigned each move to one of the C buttons? Why not have it so you have like 3-5 seconds to decide, yes pretty much a quick time event. But instead of the usual quick time events (press x to not die) these are ones that you've programmed in and after use, should memorize them...I remember how in pokemon stadium I selected the attack I wanted to use in a split second because the animation's playing out made me think about my strategy...with some refining, this could work and would make a much more engaging game to me and it would mix up the battle system but still making it not a drastic change...it would just be refreshing is all...

 

[TheIr0nMike]

I'd just like to see Pokemon as a (sort of) MMO.

I still want the single player portion to be the core focus of the game, but I'd like to see a hub world much like the battle frontier that has the same battle options plus a trading system that isn't terrible.

 

[EHKOS]

I would like to see a much longer game. They always are too short. I would love it if there were like 50 gyms. Plus little events everywhere and side missions.

 

[ANImaniac89]

The Ability to have rematches with every NPC trainer, but have them level up in between matches.

Diamond/Pearl/Platinum had this.

The Ability to join up with the villein team.

No point in joining any of the teams. Its just not something Gamefreak needs to add.

Also multiple endings based on in game choices.

Its Pokémon. Not Dragon Age. There is no moral choices. Theres "Should I catch this asshole or should I KO him?" On the other hand, multiple endings based on how filled your Pokédex is by the end of the Elite Four..

Customizable main character including: age, gender, skin color, clothing, and other aspects of physical appearance.

You can barely see your character why bother adding customization? Its not a story driven RPG.

Oppositional Gyms (kind of like the fighting gym from R/B/Y/FR/LG)

There was no Fighting type Gym in those games..

Dude why you gotta piss on my parade?

Also:
Yes their is a fighting gym in Kanto, you get Hitmonchan or Hitmonlee for beating it
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fighting_Dojo

 

[Mad1Cow]

I would like to see them incorporate the more honourable Pokémon battle used in the anime, I'm talking about those 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 Pokémon Battle in the anime. Well ok there is that 3 on 3 on online battles but I think it still not fair on using full team against 3 or 2 from the AI. You should only limit yourself to the limit given making you to choose your Pokémon wisely.
To make it even more challenging they should make most of the AI trainers carrying a full team but again having the 3 on 3 matches and thus making it some what random on which Pokémon?s they choose in battle.

They tried doing this in the stadium games which to this day I still think is the way battling should be done crossed with the HGSS system. TBH though, the only reason they let you use 6 against 3 is because you usually have to go through a cave. I get what you mean only pick 3 of your 6 and go nuts, but in a cave there have been times when I only have 2 left alive, one in the red...

 

[Onyx Oblivion]

Oppositional Gyms (kind of like the fighting gym from R/B/Y/FR/LG)

There was no Fighting type Gym in those games..

He's talking about the Fighting Dojo in Saffron.

Which USED to be the Gym, before Sabrina came to town.

OT:

Infinite TM Use.

OH WAIT! Black & White just did that shit!

Really?

I don't need anything. Whatever GameFreak does, I'll probably like it.

 

[Scarim Coral]

I would like to see them incorporate the more honourable Pokémon battle used in the anime, I'm talking about those 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 Pokémon Battle in the anime. Well ok there is that 3 on 3 on online battles but I think it still not fair on using full team against 3 or 2 from the AI. You should only limit yourself to the limit given making you to choose your Pokémon wisely.
To make it even more challenging they should make most of the AI trainers carrying a full team but again having the 3 on 3 matches and thus making it some what random on which Pokémon?s they choose in battle.

They tried doing this in the stadium games which to this day I still think is the way battling should be done crossed with the HGSS system. TBH though, the only reason they let you use 6 against 3 is because you usually have to go through a cave. I get what you mean only pick 3 of your 6 and go nuts, but in a cave there have been times when I only have 2 left alive, one in the red...

Oh yeah I forgot about those evil random battles. How about using that for the Gym leader battle? That is if you willing to leave the gym to heal the team and return.
Too bad this doesn't happen in the anime otherwise Ash would have completed his Pokedex in terms of captures.

 

[Kjakings]

Screw RPGs, I want a Pokémon RTS.

That's right, the first three generations gave us enough good Pokémon to accomplish this for every single style of RTS play (defensive, quick, offensive, supporting), the world has a lot of pre-developed infrastructure for things like research and all that fun stuff (Pokémon Labs upgrade your Pokédex which allows you to have more Pokémon units and a wider variety of them, PokéMarts are your main industrial centres, Pokémon Centres would be your main bases, etc) and almost every Legendary has its own specific building or area, meaning you can have ultimate units.

With extensive player testing and a copy of CnC open in another window it could easily be done, and done well.

 

[ArchAngelKira]

I would like to see pokemon be played more wide open area that could have them run around in 8-way format where your "speed" stat acually is useful. Thing more over like the show, doing things you wish you could.

 

[masterjiji]

I would like to see them incorporate the more honourable Pokémon battle used in the anime, I'm talking about those 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 Pokémon Battle in the anime. Well ok there is that 3 on 3 on online battles but I think it still not fair on using full team against 3 or 2 from the AI. You should only limit yourself to the limit given making you to choose your Pokémon wisely.
To make it even more challenging they should make most of the AI trainers carrying a full team but again having the 3 on 3 matches and thus making it some what random on which Pokémon?s they choose in battle.

They tried doing this in the stadium games which to this day I still think is the way battling should be done crossed with the HGSS system. TBH though, the only reason they let you use 6 against 3 is because you usually have to go through a cave. I get what you mean only pick 3 of your 6 and go nuts, but in a cave there have been times when I only have 2 left alive, one in the red...

They did this with Pokemon Revolution for the Wii. You see the opponent's team of six, and choose three to bring into battle. Double battles had you choosing four. However, the main thing in modern competitive battling is to go at each other with full teams of 6 at a set level. What HGSS did was enable the flat level 50 battles, meaning people who didn't have a freshly baked batch of level 100s could still fight on a mostly even keel, but even with that it mostly came down to individual skill. Having the equal number of pokedudes against a common trainer sounds cool, but it would mean that many more tedious trips back to the pokemon center and would break down the general flow the pokemon games have had since the beginning. What I mean by that is that you never really had to spend a stupid amount of time grinding like with some RPGs. One gym leader might give you trouble CLAIR DAMNIT COUGH HACK WHEEZE, but past that you were largely able to just keep going. Having the extra trained 'mons you'd have to wade through would do a bangup job of throwing off that flow. But that's just my unprofessional opinion spewed out onto the internet. I ain't got no college degree in this stuff, I'm an English major.

 

[ANImaniac89]

I'd like to see gyms that focus on strategies instead of types.

ALSO WHY THE FUCK IS IT THAT IN ALL OF THE POKEMON GAMES IS THEIR ONLY ONE BLACK PERSON?

This new one has three

Spoiler: Gym leader Lenora

Spoiler: Elite Four Marshall

Spoiler: Hoopster

Yes and they are all anime versions of black stereotypes
you got the black basketball player.
Blond Mr.T without the Mohawk.
and knock off Aunt Jemima.

 

[ArchAngelKira]

Screw RPGs, I want a Pokémon RTS.

That's right, the first three generations gave us enough good Pokémon to accomplish this for every single style of RTS play (defensive, quick, offensive, supporting), the world has a lot of pre-developed infrastructure for things like research and all that fun stuff (Pokémon Labs upgrade your Pokédex which allows you to have more Pokémon units and a wider variety of them, PokéMarts are your main industrial centres, Pokémon Centres would be your main bases, etc) and almost every Legendary has its own specific building or area, meaning you can have ultimate units.

With extensive player testing and a copy of CnC open in another window it could easily be done, and done well.

what he said. Also I want the ability to battle ash.

 

[Mad1Cow]

I would like to see them incorporate the more honourable Pokémon battle used in the anime, I'm talking about those 1 on 1 or 2 on 2 Pokémon Battle in the anime. Well ok there is that 3 on 3 on online battles but I think it still not fair on using full team against 3 or 2 from the AI. You should only limit yourself to the limit given making you to choose your Pokémon wisely.
To make it even more challenging they should make most of the AI trainers carrying a full team but again having the 3 on 3 matches and thus making it some what random on which Pokémon?s they choose in battle.

They tried doing this in the stadium games which to this day I still think is the way battling should be done crossed with the HGSS system. TBH though, the only reason they let you use 6 against 3 is because you usually have to go through a cave. I get what you mean only pick 3 of your 6 and go nuts, but in a cave there have been times when I only have 2 left alive, one in the red...

Oh yeah I forgot about those evil random battles. How about using that for the Gym leader battle? That is if you willing to leave the gym to heal the team and return.
Too bad this doesn't happen in the anime otherwise Ash would have completed his Pokedex in terms of captures.

Also ever notice how Ash's pokemon are ALWAYS fully healed? This brings me to my next point:

-Sleep function. Ok, I know it wouldn't work with this whole POKEMON AS AN MMO god-send, but since we're not there yet, why not have it so you can set up camp. That way, to heal yourself, you just have to turn off the DS, or better yet just replicate the Pokemon centre. Also I've noticed that you get an eff ton of money and never end up really spending it, so we could spend that money on supplies for camping. Like buy a refill of an adventurers kit that lasts for 3 sleeps, otherwise ya can't sleep and can only rely on pokemon centres. Just a thought, something they seem to do in the anime but can never attempt to do in the games...

 

[masterjiji]

I would like to see a much longer game. They always are too short. I would love it if there were like 50 gyms. Plus little events everywhere and side missions.

That's just too long. It sounds like a ludicrous extent of gameplay we might find in something like Mass Effect. M.E. wasn't bad by any means, it was quite decent and so was M.E. 2, but nobody can argue that there was an obscene quantity of different... STUFF to do in there. Doing that with Pokemon would just make it feel like a crapton of filler.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

The Ability to have rematches with every NPC trainer, but have them level up in between matches.

Diamond/Pearl/Platinum had this.

The Ability to join up with the villein team.

No point in joining any of the teams. Its just not something Gamefreak needs to add.

Also multiple endings based on in game choices.

Its Pokémon. Not Dragon Age. There is no moral choices. Theres "Should I catch this asshole or should I KO him?" On the other hand, multiple endings based on how filled your Pokédex is by the end of the Elite Four..

Customizable main character including: age, gender, skin color, clothing, and other aspects of physical appearance.

You can barely see your character why bother adding customization? Its not a story driven RPG.

Oppositional Gyms (kind of like the fighting gym from R/B/Y/FR/LG)

There was no Fighting type Gym in those games..

Dude why you gotta piss on my parade?

Also:
Yes their is a fighting gym in Kanto, you get Hitmonchan or Hitmonlee for beating it
http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Fighting_Dojo

Fighting Dojo

 

[moose_man]

More Eevee Evolutions.

Seven isn't enough? What do you want, one of every type?

YES.

OT: Once we hit 1000 pokes, I want a 'worldwide' version. You start off in Pokepan and move on to Unova, then... Pokenited Kingdom, Pokerance, etc.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

I would like to see pokemon be played more wide open area that could have them run around in 8-way format where your "speed" stat acually is useful. Thing more over like the show, doing things you wish you could.

And your speed stat ISN'T useful now?
Go ahead and try playing an online Pokémon battle.

 

[DJDarque]

I'd like to see more battles with previous major characters (Maybe insert a battle with the previous generation's protagonist and rival, like the battles with Blue and Red in G/S/C/HG/SS)

That would be pretty sweet. Kind of like how you could fight Giovanni in HGSS if you got the Celebi. You can also fight Cynthia, the Sinnoh champion, in B/W after you beat the Elite Four.

 

[NuclearPenguin]

Oppositional Gyms (kind of like the fighting gym from R/B/Y/FR/LG)

There was no Fighting type Gym in those games..

He's talking about the Fighting Dojo in Saffron.

Which USED to be the Gym, before Sabrina came to town.

OT:

Infinite TM Use.

OH WAIT! Black & White just did that shit!

Really?

I don't need anything. Whatever GameFreak does, I'll probably like it.

Black and White has infinite TM use?
Seriously?
JESUS CHRIST WHY WON'T MY COPY ARRIVE
[Goes Fetal]