About the action game, some effects for attacks:

Sand attack:
If it hits, it blurs the enemy's screen somewhat, actually lowering their accuracy.
Flash:
Anybody with the pokémon using flash in their line of sight has their screen go completely white for a few seconds.
Quick attack:
Basically zaps you forward in a straight line until you hit something, and if what you hit is another pokemon it damages them.
Agility:
Temporarily increases your movement speed.
Counter/Mirror coat:
Only works if you push the button the instant the attack hits you, but if you get the timing right they get hit by the attack instead of you, and you take no damage. Note that it would make beam attacks bounce back at them, but not necessarily damage them automatically.
Reflect:
Puts a shield around you that will block (your spcl.atk./4) damage before breaking.
Fly:
Push and hold down the button to take off, and release it to land, or at least stop flying(!). Different pokemon will fly differently. You can use other attacks while in the air, but Fly itself does no damage.
Dig:
Push down the button to go underground, and you can move around at half your normal movement speed. You are undetectable while underground. Release the button to pop up and do damage.
Rollout:
Roll into a ball and accelerate forward for 7.5 seconds. (You can still steer somewhat, but it reduces your speed.) Damage done to opponent is porportional to speed at time of collision.

Basically, make the world about two times bigger, with new towns and areas in both Johto and Kanto. Perhaps add in some of the towns from the cartoon? Yes, that would work. While wandering around on network play, you'd be able to see the other people playing moving around in buildings, the water, the routes, et cetera. Talk to them, and you can discuss whether you wish to battle or not. If you do, start up a battle. If not, then you can simply communicate, or leave. Battles would also change depending on the area, level, etc. you are on.
Actually, with Pokémon's popularity, the spaces in the world would get quite filled easily. The world would have to be quite large. Maybe add in a few more areas, in addition to Johto and Kanto. Plus, make the Pokémon Centers and the towns themselves larger.

Can't forget a battle arena! Srictly in GBA play or offline play, there would be another town where you could battle with anybody in the town that you wish, unlimited. Each one would have a team of six Pokémon, equal to the level of your Pokémon. They would each have teams that make sense, use strategy, etc. They WOULD give experience.

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Originally posted by Jman:
Have a Penguin Pokemon. And a Squirrel.

Penguinz 0wn.

So do Lobsterz:

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Originally posted by SDShamshel:
Actually...can't Teleport get you out of Wrap and Mean Look?

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Originally posted by Haste2:

Heh, there's already a Penguin Pokemon. Smoochum. =P

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If you have a GBA for a controller, you should get the Pokemon-cam, see the world through the eyes of your Pokemon camera...

More Pokemon of varying types... change the current types, perhaps?

Make less shitty baby Pokemon.

Pokemon should age... there should be a prime... Speed would start high and go down. Attack and maybe Defense would peak at the prime and go down... Special would increase with age... perhaps?

Varieties of Pokemon within species. ie, a Pink Butterfree has higher Speed, etc. Slight moves-learned variations within breeds.

Make the Nidorans one species... Nidoran, Nidorino, Nidoroyalty (or some suitable abbreviation) would serve as such.... or, just make species names vary by gender?

More stats, perhaps, and less emphasis on DVs. Level-up bonuses would be different, but they'd be more or less uniform when maxed (a la Lufia 2).

Perhaps keep Fire, Water, etc. as Special attacks, but add a new type of stat (Magic? Mentalics?) for Psychic, Dark, Light, whatever. Add an accuracy-modifying stat...?

DECENT TYPE BALANCE.

MAKE CRAPPY POKEMON BETTER. Make moves learned among Pokemon more or less equal: same with stats and types. Nintendo would need to do some serious playtesting here, but they could pull it off. (Who knows? Maybe one of us could be a playtester).

Furret and Delibird should suck less.

Get rid of evolutions, or make them like titles more than actual species in and of themselves? This is a big fat maybe. Or make evolutions per species equal.

Different "breeds" should have type variations as well.

Get rid of Pichu, Magby, etc. Please. No one uses these. They suck ass.

Make attacks miss more often.. perhaps have some sort of "skill matrix" where you can see how good your Pokemon is with individual attacks.

Stop Pokemon from sucking. Everything should have some sort of use... in doing this, we'd increase the number of usable Pokemon for battles without adding more species at all.

Remove crappy attacks. Spark? Psybeam? Present? Razor Wind? What jokes!

As a matter of fact, perhaps having one offensive move per type wouldn't be too bad. In conjunction with the "skill matrix", people could design their own moves for Pokemon.

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Originally posted by Mentar the Malady Monkey:
More ideas.

Get rid of Pichu, Magby, etc. Please. No one uses these. They suck ass.

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Originally posted by Crimzonite:

I doubt Game Freak will ever remove any Pokemon from the game. That would be like telling Disney to remove Donald Duck, or telling Cartoon Network to remove Mojo Jojo from the Powerpuff Girls. They're not the main characters, but they still make money. Marketing and merchandising strikes again. 9_9

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Make cut into a bug attack

2-turn attacks should be more powerful than all their 1-turn attack counterparts of the same type. That way, they would be risky, but worth it in some cases.

How about a real-time battle system like in Final Fantasy? The two opponents must wait until their ATB gauges fill up before they can choose their attack. As soon as one of the gauges fill, the other one stops while the player picks his/her attack, and then resumes once the attack has been performed. If two Pokemon fill at exactly the same time, they both get to attack at the same time. This can cause lots of mayhem, including tie games! Moves like Agility speed up how fast the ATB gauge fills. Quick attack would only need half the gauge full before you can use it. Because of these things, it would be possible to attack twice before the other can retaliate. This might be unbalancing to the game however, as fast Pokemon may be favored too much.

(I feel like I said that one before, or someone else posted a similar one. Apologies if either case is true.)

Another system I was thinking of was to have the opponents each take turns defending and attacking. The way that would work is that the defending Pokemon wouldn't be able to do certain attacks, but be also be able to do attacks it wasn't allowed to do in the attacking mode. There would still be some, perhaps even most of the, offensive moves in defending mode and defensive ones in attack mode though. The faster Pokemon would go into attacking mode first.

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Originally posted by SDShamshel:
One thing would make this game a 1000x better.

Extremespeed Pidgeot.

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Hell yes!

We sure can expect a lot of mini games, since card e-reader is already out.

One thing I was thinking about... since a lot of these GBA games have multiplayer mode for 4 players, what about battles involving more than 2 teams? Like a tag tournament.

A way to customize yours Items & Pokémon boxes. It is too boring when you don´t have a N64 with Stadium.

What about some others choices intead of becoming a Pokémon Master? I really want to join Team Rocket, or become a Gym Leader. Yes, this could be a way to customize your character: "So, you are now a Team Rocket member lad. Take this uniform and always remember our oath" or "Ah, you´re the new pokémon researcher from Azure city? Get your things and start to work!"

Hmm... on G/S/C you can be a Pokémon Master and a Pokémon Breeder on a lower level. What about your own day care simulator?

Maaaaaan!!! Instead of a diploma or something like this, when you fill up your pokédex, your receive an e-mail sending an up-grade file to your pokégear. It would just have all the information we all look the internet for, like max stats for all pokémon, move lists, breeding guide... would bt the Ultimate Pokégear.

Just, a new set of Pokemon, with none of the old ones. A new group to fall in love with and all.

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Originally posted by SDShamshel:
I'd actually like a new Pokemon game to have NONE of the old Pokemon

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Lots of good ideas, here. Poison, Grass, and Flying seriously need a boost. Notice how in RBY, the Fire type (Charizard) was (or was made to look liek it was) the dominant one? And how Feraligatr plays a similar role in GSC? Getting all the hype, and the super-powered TCG cards, and whatnot. I say in Advance, if they stick to the starting formula, it's high-time Grass got a decent starter. A giant cactus tyranosaur, or something! Tyrothorn! *evil grin* I have pictures, if anyone wants one.

Also, for a Poison/Dark type, I came up with Hackindoom! An evolved Weezing, of course. And very ugly. Koffing should be used more often, though...

Sure enough, there'll be more baby Pokémon. >_< Not that anyone will use them, but... There's sure to be babies of several species, especially Chinchou (in Crystal, both Chinchou and Lanturn's entries speak of a pre-evolution with a fin on its back instead of the... lighty zap-thingies). There shoulda been baby Kangas and Vulpix in GS, if the Pokedex is any indication. there's more, I'll have to look again...

It'd be cool to chose an appearance and classification for your character. You could always be plain TRAINER like in RBYGSC, but that'd be no fun. SUPERNERD CURTIS found X-RAY GUN! Hehe... You could also be a Rocket that way, or a breeder, or researcher. Yeah, four classes: Trainer, Researcher, Breeder, Rocket. Trainers simply train, like in other games, but need to rely on Breeders and Researchers to provide them with fresh blood and info, and the former will no doubtedly charge for such services. Trainers get all the standard Pokemon tools, Researchers alone get Ultimate Pokedexes (other trainers get regular ones, which only hold basic data. Ultimate Pokedexes can hold base stats, formulas, attack lists, etc...), and Breeders get a small house with a pen to breed Pokemon in, and charge for the priviledge. Rockets simply steal from the other three. They'd all need to work together in an online environment, or have sims in a stand-alone game. Hm, Trainers still get the good end of the stick, though. I'll have to think this out, some more.

Hey, weather was my idea! Definately have Summer, Winter, Fall, and Spring, and have each with its dominant weather (half times be that weather, half be normal. Or about that) Sunny for Summer, Snowing for Winter, Raining for Spring (less often in other seasons) and, I dunno, Leaf Flurry or something in Fall, which aids Grass types somehow. Plus, have a desert area where it sometimes Sandstorms, an urban area (Gringy City?) that sometimes has Toxic Gas weather, and mountains that vary between snowing, normal, and wind (not Razor Wind, they would need new attacks for weather-inducing). There's a lot that could be done to make out-of-battle much more realistic.