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    Okay, we might as well face it, the standard Pokemon formula has gotten a bit stale in the past couple of years. The last real tweak the series saw was in Ruby/Sapphire in 2003, and everything else after that just replicated that while just adding new areas to existing games. While I'm sure the next evolution will come with the DS games, I thought it might be interesting to try and come up with cool ideas of our own.

    Let me just note that this thread is for GOOD ideas. No need to put down such stupid entries as "Kill off Pikachu" or "Add blood and boobs". Post something that you think might actually add to and help improve the games.

    My suggestion would be to add "Paper Mario" style action commands to the attacks... pressing A at just the right moment would give your attack a little extra "omphf".

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    How about a more 3d type game. The ds can handle the power or put the game on a console, not through the GBA player. I mean a true console based pokemon would be cool. Being able to use more that 4 moves would be a nice touch or be able to at least switch out moves not completly delete them. Granted a game that you can kill pikachu in would be sweet, I think they need to make a true console pokemon rpg.
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    Quote Originally Posted by s1lence
    How about a more 3d type game. The ds can handle the power or put the game on a console. a true console based pokemon would be cool. I think they need to make a true console pokemon rpg.
    Agreed! That would be awesome!

    Add in the ability to:

    Link up to some GBA versions of the games:
    -Import Pokemon from previous games
    -Battle others with their games
    -Add Online play!
    -Add Online Ranking


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    I would add porn. And nuclear weapons.

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    I haven't played Pokemon since the Gold version...but I think it would be cool if there was some sort of breeding system.

    Like take a male and female, each with their own respective abilities (like resistance to electricity or something)...then their offspring would be a sort of super-powerful breed combining the qualities from both parents.

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    they definetly need ONLINE play, i think pokemon could quite possibly be the best multiplayer game ever with online features if they did it right. im hoping if they ever get that ds warpipe thing working that maybe itll work with the new ds pokemon.
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    i would add blood and boobs

    also, i would add BFGs, Shotguns, and Tanks

    i would have it be on the DS and have the stylus do something really cool for a change

    ...and i would kill Pikachu
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    Pokemon Snapped article

    Tooke me long enough to find that article... Its a pretty good *6 page* read that was written by the folks at N-Sider.com for IGN.

    It pretty much represents everything that I would like to see Pokemon turn into. It doesn't necessarily have to be an MMO game though. I'm really hoping Pokemon XD turns out to be the real next step for the series as a modern console RPG game... I'm tired of distancing myself from a once great series.

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    I've always thought the franchise is just begging for an MMORPG.....

    With really interesting handheld connectivity too.

    Adding a couple of pornstars probably wouldn't hurt either though...

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    Either a true 3d RPG for a non-handheld system, or allow you to play as team rocket and try to steal pokemon as you work your way up through the ranks to become head team rocket guy.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord007
    I haven't played Pokemon since the Gold version...but I think it would be cool if there was some sort of breeding system.

    Like take a male and female, each with their own respective abilities (like resistance to electricity or something)...then their offspring would be a sort of super-powerful breed combining the qualities from both parents.
    Well, there is a breeding system already...the offspring get the species from their mother, and can breed moves from the father. As I understand it, their stats are also based on the parents using some formula I've long forgotten.

    They need to use some of the things they had from GS. The idea of time and days was awesome, and they took it out in the followups in the series.

    There's also ridiculous amounts of Pokemon, making it more difficult to balance out the game when you get to the trainer duels, the biggest replay value. The advent of online play could make that extremely helpful, as making it easier to play other people would do wonders for the game.

    How about an "injuries" concept? An injured Pokemon is weaker in some aspect until it heals over the course of a few days. The more fights you put it in without a break, the more prone to injury it'd be. This'd put a nice twist on powertraining one pokemon.
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    Hmmmm.. I'd say a game where I had the ability to torture and kill every character in the Pokémon world would hold my interest (God do I hate Pokémon..)

    HOWEVER, to stay on topic, perhaps a cel-shaded version of the game? I think cel-shading would work well with Pokémon
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord007
    I haven't played Pokemon since the Gold version...but I think it would be cool if there was some sort of breeding system.

    Like take a male and female, each with their own respective abilities (like resistance to electricity or something)...then their offspring would be a sort of super-powerful breed combining the qualities from both parents.
    You sorta can, visit the pokemon breader on the route to golden city, give him a male & female pokemona nd after a while youll mysteriosuly have an egg. Walk with it and after a certain number of steps it will hatch. You now have a new pokemon. Ive done this in crystal but it should work for gold/silver.

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    I'd kill the yellow rat, myself, for starters (and maybe replace all the female characters with lesbian porn stars, but then we'd be sending this thread to the Pub.....).
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    Have it include some of the original manga before the US censorship.

    Online would be nice, maybe an MMO setting, but if nothing else trading online would be great.

    I'd like to see some sort of a trap / bait system, if you were looking for a certain pokemon you could set bait for it instead of running in the grass for an hour trying to find one specific one.

    Portrait artwork when talking to gym leaders / other important characters outside of battle would be a nice touch.

    I agree that the "hit a at a certain time to up attack" kinda thing would be good as I do it anyway, but keep in mind that you can turn off battle animations.'

    Just some ideas. PS: if you want to play a game where you steal pokemon, try out Colosseum.

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    Actually an MMORPG for Pokemon is a GREAT idea. It would actually get an enormous audience into online play. It would be a goldmine for Nintendo. So many kids would beg their parents for online Pokemon...it would be a huge revival of the series.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Lord007
    I haven't played Pokemon since the Gold version...but I think it would be cool if there was some sort of breeding system.

    Like take a male and female, each with their own respective abilities (like resistance to electricity or something)...then their offspring would be a sort of super-powerful breed combining the qualities from both parents.
    Play Ru/Sa.

    They need to make it bucketloads harder.

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    I didn't read any of the posts, so I am sure somebody has said this, but it is time for Pokemon to evolve from a 2D RPG style game to an almost zelda style 3D game.

    Pokemon has gone to the 3rd Dimension and they could have made Pokemon Colloseum an all out Pokemon game, but they chose not to for reasons that I don't know.

    Pokemon GX would be awesome. A Full blown 3D pokemon adventure in 3D. Of course, they would have to make it a little different. It wouldn't be that hard. You could have different commands when you are Ash to throw out one of your 6 pokeballs, and then you could actually control your pokemon and fight. You could have regular hitting attacks, but then you would also have special attacks that would be based on the Pokemon you have that all could be done at the touch of a button instead of going through boring menu screens. Pokemon is very action oriented and not very story driven, so they need to make it more of an action game instead of an rpg.

    I could go on and on about how they could revamp it, but this is just a start, I am sure others can throw things onto my idea.

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