gaming What features/ mechanics would your ideal PKMN game have?

[ManaMinori 4,149]

If you were called upon to help create the next Pokemon handheld main series game, what features, characters, Theme, etc. Would you choose to incorporate into the game?

 

If I had my way, it would be in the Orre region, a remake of the Original Pokemon Colluseum, but for handheld. Double battling would be mandatory, not just against trainers, but against the gym leaders and E4. We'd get the return of Wes and also, Red, and fight alongside them both, at different times during the story. Then, post game, they'd acknowledge our growth a trainer, and we'd battle them- first a double battle with Wes, then with Red, later in the post game.

New pokemon types, Astral typing. With the theme of the games being sun and moon, or solar and lunar, star and moon....or something to that extent. Exploring the origins of Solrock, Lunatone, Deoxys, and other pokemon who came from space. We'd be able to get a legendary celestial pony Pokemon. And a Mew distribution event. Maybe redistributing Pokemon who could never be traded from past gens (I'm looking at you, Surf Pikachu, Fly Pikachu, and spiky eared pichu)

 

Then once the Orre gyms are out the way, the player would board an airship and go to Kanto. Also, ball seals, pokemon snagging, trainer customization, contests, Friend safari, and gym leader rematches would return

Edited August 5, 2015 by Nightmare Muffin

[Fox 5,331]

A game where I can snifff.

[Kyoshi Frost Wolf 42,202]

A multiplayer shooter that is all about player personalization and it being updated all the time with free content. Basically a multiplayer shooter that is about personalizing your experience. Customizing your character completely, customizing your weapons, and many different aspects. I really am tired of annualized shooters that offer barebones customization, I would rather see one that is long lasting and gives you many options to make the game YOUR game. The gameplay would be pretty standard.

 

That is one of my ideas. 

[The Pixelated Pony 883]

A game where you are tasked to invent something to transport people who are really lazy down the road to the shop and back with catapults, wheels, track, cable, and cannons. It would be fun because I could create a steam powered bike something that I actually wanted to do and also inventing stuff

If that's not possible then let me dig a tunnel because that's a better use of my time

[Ochre_Dust 329]

@ @Nightmare Muffin

 

You might want to adjust your thread title to account for how your question is specifically with regards to the main line of Pokemon games on handheld systems.

[Justin_Case001 4,934]

Yeah, I don't know about Pokemon, for for my ideal game in general, just let me be Kratos in Skyrim and I'll be sound as a pound.

[ManaMinori 4,149]

A multiplayer shooter that is all about player personalization and it being updated all the time with free content. Basically a multiplayer shooter that is about personalizing your experience. Customizing your character completely, customizing your weapons, and many different aspects. I really am tired of annualized shooters that offer barebones customization, I would rather see one that is long lasting and gives you many options to make the game YOUR game. The gameplay would be pretty standard.

 

That is one of my ideas.

 

that's not a bad idea, but doesn't sound suitable for a Pokemon game

[Ochre_Dust 329]

For a pokemon game, an open world adventure game with an environment like Skyrims (but done up with pokemon-like vistas), and the player controls one pokemon in the wild.

 

That is what I'd love to see the franchise used for, but that's never going to happen, because Nintendo would never bother putting any amount of risk with its cash cows.

[CandyStrike 603]

The battling element of Pokémon has never been my favorite thing. I just want to build a farm and take care of Pokémon. Maybe a game where you run a Pokémon Center would be cool. I would want a story and adventure element to it, but always at the end of the day come back to the homestead.

[ManaMinori 4,149]

The battling element of Pokémon has never been my favorite thing. I just want to build a farm and take care of Pokémon. Maybe a game where you run a Pokémon Center would be cool. I would want a story and adventure element to it, but always at the end of the day come back to the homestead.

but the battle aspect is kind of the whole point to main series games. I like your idea, but it could be better as a spin off game, like the Poke' Ranger series.

 

But back to your idea, I like it, as I already said. I've always wanted a game where I could play as a member of the bad guys' team, or as a gym leader, or E4 member, anything different than just a trainer who does the same gym to E4 routine. Working as an assistant to Nurse joy could be fun. Maybe the game could also focus on farming berries or other ingredients to make natural cures and remedies for sick pokemon, like an Herbalist. They kinda did it in HGSS, whee you had to go to one, to get meds for the sick lighthouse Ampharos, but didn't have the game focus too heavily on it, beyond that detour.

[09thRoad 104]

More than anything, I want to see HMs removed from the general move pool, and instead reimplemented in a sort of "field move" system. Ideally, each Pokemon would be able to learn four combat moves (as they currently do now), as well as one field move. Field moves are essentially the current HMs except they can only be used out of combat, and are limited to one per Pokemon. This gets rid of the need for things like HM slaves, using up one of your four moves for a shitty HM, and the hassle of trying to forget HM moves. Replacement combat moves for the useful HMs (Surf + Waterfall) would be easy enough to create. 

Edited August 6, 2015 by 09thRoad

[cmarston1 5,964]

Keep all the main core features of Pokemon (like training, evolving, catching pokemon, battling gym leaders and elite 4 and all that.)

But also have trainer customization like in XY as well as have a place like in Diamond/Pearl and Platnium where you can rematch gym leaders and tag along trainers.  As well as rival rematches in post game like in Black and White and DP.

Add in some new post game areas where you can catch previous gen pokemon you couldn't catch before including legendary pokemon and add the return of the pokemon world tournament.

[Twi The Totodile 200]

Give me the option to play as the villain for once and I'l be happy :3