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Originally posted by Rei the Giant Koffing:
I'm wondering if you'll be able to trade between advance and older versions.
Also, I wonder if they'll decide to make 2 different versions before release?

/shrugs

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Originally posted by New Guy:
Perhaps pokemon battles could take place in real time, instead of just turn-based combat.

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Originally posted by Tghost:
Chop off Slowpokes tail and sell it!
Rip off Cubone's Skill and sell it!
Steal Kadabra's Spoon and sell it!
Bottle Oddish's Stun Spore and sell it!
Bribe Officer Jenny to look the other way!

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Bottled Stun Spore - ¥250
Kadabra spoon - ¥1,000
Slowpoke Tail - ¥1,000,000

Eating out Jenny's box so she'll let you get away with it - Priceless

their's some things money cant buy. For everything else, theirs oral sex.

That would be cool, kind of like a Super Smash Brothers game. ::imagines Machamp kicking Snorlax around and then sending it flying into the distance like Team Rocket::

1. See the story about a Bluetooth adapter for the GBA in Karp Park.

Or...

The first thing that needs to be changed is the battle system. Reworked and a lot less based on luck, strength of the Pokémon but more of the skill of the trainer and the strategies he or she posses.

Battles need to be reworked to be more realistic, ie more Anime like. Turn based is no longer an option, although I doubt they will stray away from it. A semi-turn based game would be more realistic. I mean, like Final Fantasy 9, a bar at the bottom fills up at the speed at which a pokemon can react to and attack. Pokemon's attacks, such as Solar Beam should have long wait times and even longer recovery time for the next attack, just as that is how it probably would be in real life.

Items should be done away with. They are unnecessary and unnatural.

Battlegrounds should play a vital role in battles, ie a Pokémon can't dig in rock or fly too high, a Pokémon could hide behind rocks or trees to avoid attacks. Thing that make the game much more realistic. Water types should have a major advantage in water(duh.).

Overall, smaller Pokémon, should, obviously, be harder to hit, giving a slight advantage to a Rattata, than say a Snorlax. Higher evasiveness, however slight it is, can make a difference and promotes use of generally underused pokemon.

Legendaries need to have some weakness(other than natural in game things) or penalty, what I'm not sure.

The introduction of new types is a bad thing. However, new hybrids are not bad.

New Pokémon will probably confuse the game, I'd like to see them keep the new amount to a minimum. New attacks need to be well thought and more balanced. Going back to that Attack prepare time and attack recovery time thing, Water Gun is the weakest attack, but fastest to recover and prepare for. It could work for different pokemon and such.

First of all, none of the Legendaries would be able to be caught there, and even if they could, there's no way they can breed. However, when normal Pokémon breed, the stat EXP they had gained would be passed down to the baby. There'd be ways to improve specific stats higher than the current maxes (you'd be able to get Rhydon's Special into a range where it could USE its Elemental attack variety). However, it'd be hard to do this, and the Legendaries would only have 50/60 levels to do it in (while everything else has an infinite number 'cause everything can breed).

Though the stat EXP would be hard to obtain, the experience gained would be *at least* 10x. So, it'd be 100 000 EXP to Lv. 100. (100 000 EXP used to get you to Lv. 50, which took about an hour.) So you could get levels up quick so you could battle, but you'd also be able to work on specific stats by breeding and starting again. Plus, the Legendaries would have much less time than usual to gain stat EXP. However, there would be a limit on the number of total Stat EXP you could gain. You could improve your Dragonite's Special Attack, for example, but while you're doing that its Attack might suffer. Also, focusing too much on offence might hurt your overall defencive stats.

As for the super legendaries (which I consider Ho-oh, Lugia, and Mewtwo), they should be so hard to get that by the time you earn them, you won't want to use them too much because you got good using other pokemon. Like perhaps you have to have 500 real person battles or something.

What I would really like to see is something where training and relationships with you're pokemon matter more than stats. Right now, the game is just numbers. Pokemon don't have enough personality for me, which is why I never got into battling. An example would be where a Dunsparce with 100 hours of training could be designed to beat a Snorlax with 50 hours of training. Dunsparce could be trained to anticipate and avoid Snorlaxes attacks and have a chance at winning.

What that implies is that you don't have direct control over you're pokemon. You could designate four buttons for four attacks. When you press a button, it's like telling that pokemon what to do. Kind of like the show, only less retarded. Look at it like this. Scyther has reflexes and speed that is beyond human abilites. It can react to it's opponent and counterattack faster than the human eye. You could train it to attack automatically faster than you can tell it too in a battle.

As New Guy said, battles are all numbers. We can figure out our Pokémon's DVs and Stats, find out how much damage it will do to every other Pokémon, and things of that sort. A team can't consistantly be competative if it has Butterfrees and Dunsparces against Tyranitars and Suicunes. Its just mathmatically true. However, I envision a world where there are no levels. No limits. A Pokémon uses an attack, it becomes better at it every time. It may be slight, but it makes a difference. It gains strength and intelligence from battles. It can start to think on its own, countering attacks and attacking if it thinks the time is right. This is how the game should be. A trainer is only as good as his pokemon and the training they have recieved.

Example:
A Snorlax vs. a Wobbuffet

A trainer will probably pick Counter, because Snorlax's generally use physical attacks. The Snorlax trainer knows this, and will order a Fire Blast that turn. Wobbuffet, because it can see the flames being prepared to engulf it, can, instead of using ordered Counter, use Mirror Coat because it has experiance in this type of fighting. Pokémon should know what they are doing. This, of course, should not happen every round. It depends on the pokemon's intellegence and amount of training doing that kind of stuff

Back to the stats. These stats should not have a limit. There are definetly some Butterfrees that are stronger that some Snorlax's, just because they are better trained, or naturally just stronger. A lazy trainer will never have a great team. I think a bond can form between the trainer and pokemon, IE Charizard, for the longest time, didn't trust Ash, so it didn't follow commands or fight for him. Something of this nature should be added.

Battles need to be real time, but with a twist. Attacks have a "Set up" time. The more powerful the attack, generally, the longer it will take to preform it.

Example:
A trainer orders his Tyranitar to use Fire Blast...
The Tyranitar pulls his head back and starts to start the flames... Meanwhile, the opposing trainer orders her Chikorita to use Vine Whip, sucessfully attacking before the Tyranitar. This would, like the TV show, ruin Tyranitars attack and he'd have to start again. However, the Chikorita has a wait time because it did attack. The Tyranitar does not. This "Wait" time will also depend on the strenght of the attack. A Pokémon will need to recuperate from an attack, so it will have a slight time to wait to prepare for another attack. This gives a slight advantage to the Tyranitar.

A trainer needs to feed off instinct and try to decide what to use and when. Multiple buttons (A, B, R, L for GBA; A, B, X, Y for GCN) will be assigned for the attacks. These attacks will be commands(much like New Guy said). They will be real time commands, so a trainer must react a soon as possible.

Environments must play a key role in battles.

I really like Kero Kato's story, he had it so that the moon stone crashed into the earth, wiping out a lot of people and technology. The radiation from the moon stoon mutated ordinary animals into Pokemon. A group of bandits (future team rocket) captured and trained some of these monsters, and used them to terrorize the survivors. They had no choice but to capture and train their own monsters to fight back. They managed to defeat them. The survivors rebuilt everything to accomodate Pokemon. New technology was found, such as teleporters. They found that they could use this technology to store living things, like Pokemon, as data.

The way the game would progress would be a lot different too. You wouldn't be able to level pump whenever you felt like it, because there would be heavier restrictions on how hight of a level you could control a Pokemon at. You would have a trainer level, which describes your training ability and charisma and stuff like that. The higher the trainer level, the higher the Pokemon you could control. You wouldn't boost your trainer level from experience necessarily, but from being at different points in the game, or by actually learning stuff from other Pokemon trainers. Stronger pokemon are harder to control, and therefore, can't be at as high of a level as a weaker one at a certain trainer level.

Also, TM's and HM's would be harder to get ahold of. You would only find a few good ones on the ground or as Prizes for defeating trainers. You wouldn't find most of the good ones until later in the game. Very late in the game, you get a deal from Silph Co., and can buy any TM or HM straight from them, even ones that were pulled off the market back in G/S.

Naw, I really dislike all the "save the world" stuff Pokemon tries to pull off. I think it's why all the movies have sucked.

The best episodes of the show are all about regular old Pokemon, and I think the game should focus on that.

As for lesser used Pokemon, if the system I mentioned or a similar one was implemented, it would allow lesser used Pokemon to be used. You would be able to control them very easily, so they would be quite a bit more attractive than they are now.

It shouldn't be so easy to catch Pokemon either. All you have to do is find them, weaken them, and throw a Pokeball at them. I think someone mentioned in the other thread a way of making the system more interactive. For example, you would have to search hard for the Pokemon, and then you have to set up a trap to try and corner it. Or you would use baited Pokeballs and leave them sitting in the place you suspect a Pokemon you want is and wait for them. And other things like that that would require you to be more cunning. Hmmm, perhaps more interactive stuff should be involved with training too. You would have to do more than just fight battles to make it tougher. This would also make Pokemon have more variety. Perhaps 2 level 100 Alakazams with max DV's, SE and the same moves, would turn out to be completly different because of how they were trained.

And, all sorts of barriers should be put up in the game to prevent people from taking shortcuts. You wouldn't be able to trade from other games until the end of the 1 player game (which would make you close to level 100 anyway), and some sort of anti-sharking program that will shut off the game if it detects Bits being altered externally.

Oh... no, wait... I just got a better idea. If you trade a Pokemon from another game, it won't listen to you for a long time until you train it well, even if its at level 2 and you are at the max trainer level. You would especially have to train level 100's well, not through battle necessarily, but through other ways.

There is a lot of potential for a great game in Pokemon Advance, but I'm betting that it will probably just be a 3-D version of the same old stuff. Guess that's just the way gamefreak will do things. Hmmmm... give it to the people that made Secret of Mana instead!

Oh, and K: Neither the first movie nor the 3rd movie (nor the Mewtwo Special on video) had anything to do with saving the world.

The first movie is still my favorite out of the Pokemon movies, merely because it dealt more with questioning humanity and all that freaky stuff.

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Originally posted by Mr. K:
Pokegod: Instead of going around beating gyms, you have to save the world from Armageddon or something along those lines.

Naw, I really dislike all the "save the world" stuff Pokemon tries to pull off. I think it's why all the movies have sucked.

The best episodes of the show are all about regular old Pokemon, and I think the game should focus on that.

I would really like to see some way of making the lesser-used Pokemon viable in real battles, but that's probably too much to ask for.

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Pokemopois remains my favorite episode of the anime, along with the one that Pidgeotto evolves in.
(Aside from that gay part where he promises to be back in a few days and then gets sidetracked for at least a year or so)

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It was commented that Pokemon exceeding 350 kinds appeared.

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Confidence was shown also as gayer casting than the former.

That's sig material!

Thinking about it, I wish we could get more personal with the Pokemon we encounter. Not as lame as Hey You Pikachu, and not as repetative as Pokemon Yellow, that is, but more a matter of building a two-sided parternship with my Pokemon.

Playing from a Pokemon's point of view would be interesting too, though I'm not sure how that'd work--either as a wild Pokemon fending off other wild Pokemon, or as a tame Pokemon doing much the same thing.

it'd be more fun if there was more freedom, the opportunity to take an active role in the decisions of the game, and a lot less emphasis on battling. An option for traveling with other trainers, or joining team rocket to lead an actual successful attack on some law-abiding citizens, or being able to observe pokemon living out their daily lives as described in the Pokedex but never witnessed.

The digusting gaps between the general ratings of Pokemon really irritates me. There shouldn't be any reason why Dratini is less powerful than Dragonite; sure, one is more "evolved" than the other, but the evolution stat bonus just peeves me to no end. There's no solid reason for it, except to perhaps prevent people from just keeping their Dratini as Dratini all the way up to Level 100. What's worse, in overall stats, Dragonair is *equal* to Dodrio, a *fully evolved* pokemon!

What's the use of there being 250-odd Pokemon if people only use 25 of them? There are a few who use "quirky" pokemon, but generally not an entire team for fear of everyone else who uses a mindless standardized-moveset-got-it-off-the-internet team.

Caterpie should at least have a *tiny* chance against a Charizard... Or at least the chance to get an attack in. For that matter, how about some actual attacks?

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Originally posted by RainStrom:
or joining team rocket to lead an actual successful attack on some law-abiding citizens

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Originally posted by Mr. K:
I would really like to see some way of making the lesser-used Pokemon viable in real battles, but that's probably too much to ask for.

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Or entice them to wear latex boob costumes.

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Originally posted by RainStrom:

The digusting gaps between the general ratings of Pokemon really irritates me. There shouldn't be any reason why Dratini is less powerful than Dragonite;... There's no solid reason for it, except to perhaps prevent people from just keeping their Dratini as Dratini all the way up to Level 100.

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That's too extreme. Of course there's a reason unevolved pokes are weak. They're unevolved! Dratini is weak because it's little more than a eel. A very strong eel, as eels go, but an eel nontheless. What's the point in training my poke to evolve if it gets beat by some low-level nothing you just caught?

I do agree that the number of battle suited pokes should be increased, but it should be reasonable. Some pokes should not be fighters. Caterpie is supposed to be cute and sit around my neck string shoting people I don't like. It should never do any fighting, unless you want Butterfree.

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Originally posted by Artie Cuno:
Anyone here ever played Dragon Warrior Monsters?

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