Things you want to see in future games

[Benzo]

What are some things you would like to see in future Pokémon games?

Some of the things I would like to be added are:

An item to change a Pokémon to be shiny. You breed away trying to get the right nature and IV's, but the chance to get it to be shiny AND just perfect is time consuming and based on too many factors to get a shiny. There is the bp costly ability capsule (which doesn't even do hidden abilities btw), so I can see the possible option to get a capsule that changes the sprites on any Pokémon you choose.

The ability to go to a "gate" in the game that allows you to take out your current game and pop in another game to continue on, sort of a link-up between games that integrates the two together. Some would say that it would be better to just have one game that has all the regions in it with all the Pokémon- (which would be awesome and all but a huge loss if you lost your cartridge or it got damaged)- but the ability to do that would be interesting in how the games synch up and allows you to basically keep the "story" mode going.

The return of the Capsule balls. Decorate away! having a shiny Pokémon pop-out with the Capsule feature is rather shweet IMO. Plus, I liked being able to put "Bring it!" words as a battle cry sort of thing when the Pokies came onto the battle field.

A wifi City where you can go global and open a trade market so you can put some trade offers. I know, I know- we have the GTS, friend safari, FC's, and the what-not to trade- but this way you could have say 3 pokies in your shop and it makes your trade options more controlled vs waiting on ONE possible trade via the GTS and not really being able to offer something else in return for trading.

All I have at the moment, some other ideas as well but I'll toss that in later to further contribute discussion-

What are some things you would like to see?

 

[P_A]

MOAR, MOAR, MOAR! Yeah, I thought about that a lot, and I suppose it's worth repeating, but here is a comment I made earlier:

Yeah, I'd like to see the return of secret bases, mind you, I'd like to see more content there. It would be nice to be able to call up people from your secret base and have a battle, call up your "friends" from your friend code and do a mini safari game, or a catch-em-all competition, or maybe use that base as an avenue to call up pokemon from an earlier game. It would also be cool to make more use of farming berries - maybe even underwater berries where you have to fend off certain pokemon that love to eat them, and the use of underwater caves. Perhaps even more content after you learn how to climb rocks, and dive? I doubt this would happen, but it would be nice to see the use of cross-breeding, and more of the mechanic that made Black and White Kyurem. I'm sure on the average, most current pokemon game owners will jump at the chance for another adventure, but this could be a game with so much more than the standard - using online capabilities as well - possibly making it into the facebook of the pokemon world. How about maybe giving previews of who your next gym battle will be with, and what kind of battles you'll face there, so you can catch specific pokemon to help you out if you so desire. How about level of difficulty instead of just playing the game as is? How about letting a pokemon follow you through the game (or not) if you desire, a la pokemon yellow? And if you do end up letting a pokemon out of it's pokeball, when another pokemon touches it (instead of you), you can battle, or talk as well. Better communication between you and your pokemon .... how about fatigue like another person suggested in another thread? How about finding bully pokemon that you have to try to tame? Bully trainers that you have to try to liberate their pokemon from? How about the return of dark pokemon?, and maybe even the birth of a new type of pokemon - light pokemon? Pokemon X and Y brought the fractured pokedex - how about doing a rock/paper/scizor thing with this pokedex so that regardless of what type the pokemon is, they have a minor advantage over another specific region (as an explanation maybe there's just something in the water in a particular region, and something else which gives a disadvantage to another region). How about bringing back more time of year and weather effects? How about bringing in a map where you aren't constrained to going down a specific path but can wander aimlessly from any point of the compass - but only with the right conditions. There would be certain obstacles that you would need to learn to overcome - like brambles that poison YOU and your pokemon if you try to go through them where you need a specific pokemon in your party to either eat the obstacle or heal you and your pokemon, fences that you need a Gogoat for, and the usual high wall or water crossing that you need the requisite moveset to overcome. That way you could learn where you need to go by your experiences - if you wander into an area that has significantly higher level pokemon and your pokemon all faint you go back to your last pokemon center and choose a different path. Eventually you still will need the 8 badges to challenge the pokemon league. How about more tm's and the ability to use 5 moves instead of 4? Button combo moves? How about instead of turn based moves, you have the option to use the speed of the reaction of the player to base the attack on - such as if the player is quick to input what would normally be a slow move, it still attacks before something like Extreme speed, or Quick attack, due to the fast input of the attack. How about continued use of the Horde mechanic - possibly expanded to being able to catch more than one pokemon at a time if you have enough of the right pokeballs to do so - or maybe even one or two of the horde pokemon with slightly higher stats or levels, or the ability to flee. How about fitness based experiences as well - for example, if you treat a pokemon well, and make sure it's used a lot, it makes a better companion and more useable pokemon in battle, but if you don't feed it regularly it becomes underweight and it's stats suffer, or overfeed it and less exercise and it becomes too slow and the stats suffer. We've already seen some customization for trainers with outfits and accessories and such, but how about customizable music selection, and the ability to listen to your own music in your travels? And how about more rewards - possibly even more usable in-game items, collectable badges or certificates for achievements? How about wider results and outcomes based upon your responses to the game? Addition of more puzzles.

Along with that comment, I'd like to see a bit more weird content - In some of our latest games we've had to ride mamoswine to cross an area of snowbelt, how about like a sky city where you need to watch where you step, or ride a flying or bug pokemon to access certain spots, an underwater city possibly where you need to ride a water pokemon (edit: one that can learn Dive) to survive the depths, also a mountain type city where you have to ride an earth or possibly a fighting type pokemon to access certain heights, and a mirage type city where you need to ride a ghost or fairy type to even see certain rooms. EDIT: How about an industrialized area where the air is so toxic you need to ride a poison pokemon to survive? Or how about some races where you ride all different types of non-flying pokemon to see which species is the fastest? Or how about racing the same specific pokemon and the winner has the best speed stat, or is determined by the ability of the player's racing skills? How about more Sky Battles? I really liked the battles where the effects were opposite - can't remember the town or the trainer I faced, but where water was not effective against fire, but grass attacks were super effective. I'd like to see more battles like that - but random so you never know where that type of battle may occur. You'd need to see from how the effect of the battles was going and adjust your strategy accordingly. Or how about if the effects switch after lets say 5 turns, so you have to continuously switch your strategy. Yeah, I can come up with a lot of new scenarios.

 

[P_A]

Well, at least one of the things I mentioned will be present on ORAS. You get to ride Latias/Latios around the clouds and encounter legendary pokemon. Mind you, I suspect that will be a feature after you beat the pokemon league - just my opinion. I guess we'll have to wait and see if any other cool new stuff is available in ORAS.

 

[vaporeon]

Not really a feature but I would like to see a new story, with old teams. I would like to see a partnership with Team Rocket and Team Galaxy. I would also like to see open flying, where you can get to new locations you cant get to otherwise.

 

[P_A]

Yeah, that would be nice if we could fly/transport to another region (with updated graphics of course).