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Pokemon - Where will they go from here?

One of the writers at Middle of Nowhere Gaming has asked himself where Pokemon is going next with their series (in terms of the dynamics of Pokemon themselves, the legendary Pokemon, and the story line) and he has given his best answers. Do you agree with him? What's your opinion on the matter?

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Codewow3615d ago

Spend 5 years and some money and make the perfect pokemon MMO. Open world multiple paths to take, Team Rocket, Adventurous trainer, specific pokemon type trainer, Gym Leader. And more that I can think of over time.

Seriously, if done right with communication from the dev and community ongoing, this game could be absolutely amazing.

Codewow3615d ago

Augmented Reality goggles.

levian3614d ago (Edited 3614d ago )

Honestly, the person who invents an electronic card stadium wins all the money.

Cards would need some kind of NFC, or even something as simple as a bar code on the back. There would be spots for all your card placements obviously. There would be one big LCD/LED screen in the middle that would pop up with the character of your card and all his attacks would show up in a menu a-la the Pokemon handheld game. All attacks would be fully animated.

I haven't played a card game since 7th grade, but I would probably get back into Pokemon/Yugioh/What ever the hell does this if the monsters were cool enough.

MylesOffTheMark3614d ago

I dunno if you've ever heard of the Pokemon Tabletop United roleplaying system, you should definitely check it out. I imagine that they could take that system and make one hell of an MMO.

OrangePowerz3615d ago

I think they should have started years ago do bring the full proper Pokemon games to home consoles instead of only handhelds and spin offs to the consoles. When I was a kid I remember that at home I always played Digimon or Jade Cocoon because I didn't want to play on the handheld at home and those games provided a very familiar experience. They could at least make another Pokemon Stadium game and this time use Skylanders like figures.

Summons753615d ago

I honestly doubt we'll ever see a home console pokemon outside of another pokemon Colosseum (maybe). Exclusive games like pokemon or professor layton are the reason why you'd want to own a handheld. Its what Sony needs to do for the vita. Pokemon saved the gameboy and is the front runner for all Nintendo handhelds they won't give that up and potentially compromise sales, they are to smart for that.

That being said I would like another Colosseum or Colosseum type game on the wiiu. The MMo idea would be interesting if done right on every level which would be difficult.

-Foxtrot3615d ago

Honestly an open world Pokemon game would be amazing

I mean look at Ni No Kuni, take that and reshape it into a Pokemon game and it could be amazing. The map when travelling and seeing the monsters in the world would be great if you put Pokemon in their place, hell even the battle system it has is pretty similar

Thing is though what kind of open world will they do. Will they keep it on a steady "linear" like they do on the handheld games or will it take on a Elder Scrolls/Fallout/GTA design and let you go anywhere you want.

It's a tough decision to make. Personally I would combine a bit of both but don't let us travel too far until we've unlocked or progressed in the story.

MylesOffTheMark3614d ago

You're definitely right. I agree on the bit about Jade Cocoon and Digimon too, I loved those games.

LightDiego3615d ago

Pokemon Snap 2, but now with a smartphone.

Summons753615d ago

Yes but no smartphone. Real camera >>>>>>>&g t; crappy cell phone camera.

BlackWolf3615d ago (Edited 3615d ago )

Sorry dude, but you wouldn't get the same thing with a smartphone. The camera can do it's job a millions times better than the replication a digital, smartphone-mounted camera does.

Going from a camera to a smartphone for photographic work is just a downgrade.

levian3614d ago

For something as simple as Pokemon Snap, I think it would suffice. The picture on most phones now is insanely high quality, and the only time it suffers is in motion or at any sort of distance.

Obviously for anything professional or even for any good quality pictures for things with moving objects or at a distance farther than like two feet, yea a real camera is going to be 1000x better.

Summons753614d ago

@ levian

Phone cameras are alright for a quick picture or teenage girls taking 'selfies' but you can visually see the how basic and how much of a downgrade cellphones are compared to a real camera. Even comparing it to a cheap camera you can buy a store and not the professional cameras that cost hundreds to thousands to maintain.

Blackwolf is completely correct on this. You had a professional type of camera in the first then you should have an even new high quality one for a sequel.

Milesprowers3615d ago

Game Freak should ditch Nintendo

KonsoruMasuta3615d ago (Edited 3615d ago )

Yes, they should ditch the company that owns the majority of their shares over (Over 50%) and IPs.

You do realize that almost every thing Gamefreak does is backed by Nintendo, right? Not even that but their IPS are either owned by Nintendo or partially owned by Nintendo.

If Nintendo let them go, for some reason, they wouldn't have many original IPs or the money to thrive.

They wouldn't be able to do anything with Pokémon because Nintendo practically owns it. Pokémon company is owned by three companies, Gamefreak, Nintendo, Creatures Inc (Which Nintendo owns)

MylesOffTheMark3614d ago

I'm not disagreeing with you, nor agreeing. I think they'd be fine, personally. Look at what Insomniac is doing. They're breaking away and making something new. Game Freak would be similar, they'd make something new and get backing because they have such a strong portfolio. They could even pull a Keiji Inafune and make something close to the original, but their own.

user56695103615d ago

To consoles like they should have for years

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The Best Games Similar to Pokemon for PlayStation

There are many worlds out there brimming with wondrous creatures ready to help you on your adventure beyond Pokemon.

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LG_Fox_Brazil27d ago

Temtem is actually really good as a single player experience or as a co-op game. Played the shit out of it when it released

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Pokémon Gen 10 Release Date Predictions: Are New Pokémon Games In 2024?

Even if Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have not yet completed their first anniversary, it is possible to predict exactly when Gen 10 is arriving.

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Pokemon Doesn't Need to Sue Palworld, It Needs to Get With the Times

The Nerd Stash: "There's been a lot of talk about Pokemon and Palworld recently, but if anything, Pokemon's new competition should be a sign to change."

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ChasterMies79d ago

Fortunately for Nintendo, the legal team is separate from Game Freak’s development team.

NotoriousWhiz78d ago

Unfortunately for us, as their legal team seems to be more competent than Game Freak's development team.

gold_drake79d ago (Edited 79d ago )

they do tho .. IF there is something to sue for. IP infringement is such a delicate thing.

but absolutely agree on the change

GoodGuy0979d ago

That, have longer dev time, and absolutely get rid of Nintendo as the exclusive platform. Imagine a AAA pkmn game on current consoles or next generation.

But money, they'll make billions with little effort.

badz14978d ago

you know that's never gonna happen

FinalFantasyFanatic78d ago

Gamer Freak, Creatures and Nintendo all have a stake in the Pokemon franchise, Nintendo especially will never let them go, I don't know how Creatures or Game Freak feels about it. Plus, the other two don't have a financial incentive to ditch Nintendo, they make mega bucks regardless. Although I think Nintendo should help Game Freak out more since they're clearly struggling, other they'll all just have to accept longer dev times and bigger gaps between games, or maybe just make some cheaper low-tier games in-between.

shinoff218379d ago

Idk yall. I'd take a Pokémon jrpg over a Pokémon with guns, online play etc. Plus wasn't Pokémon mobile pretty fking big like 4 years ago then covid hit.

--Onilink--78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

Even Scarlet/Violet had sold 24million as of early November (and undoubtedly sold even more during the Holidays), its not like they are currently suffering.

Yes, there are plenty of things I would like Gamefreak to do better, and yes I happened to like Palworld, but not because its a Pokemon clone, because its not, but because its a good survival game, something that I have zero interest for the mainline Pokemon games to become.

Most publications keep bringing up these topic ls just for clicks, because clearly the game is your typical survival game (most who do well on PC) with some Pokemon sprinkled in and not a Pokemon competitor, the core gameplay loop is clearly just Ark with dinosaurs swapped for Pokemon like creatures

And again, while I’m enjoying the game itself, I hope it doesnt set a new precedent for what we expect from game devs these days because, based on their other games, this developer really seems to basically just try to go as close as possible to ripping off other games without getting into trouble and then not really following up on those projects as promised (Craftopia players seem particularly angry).

I doubt they ever expected the discourse around this game to reach this level of popularity to push those insane sales numbers, and they actually take the opportunity to increase the quality of their work

FinalFantasyFanatic78d ago (Edited 78d ago )

I'm going to say something somewhat controversial, the last set of Pokemon games weren't that bad, it wasn't a great game, but a good game if we ignore the performance issues (and I personally didn't have many bugs).

They just need more interesting towns and NPCs (give them interesting dialogue, there's literally no reasons to talk to NPCs), interesting areas/locations (like the sunken ship and Bellsprout Tower), and some decent side quest, there isn't really any interesting side quests in those games, and fix the barely there lore for the game (Idk even know what was going on with those 4 "legendary Pokemon"). And maybe add less new Pokemon into the next game so they can transition more of the older Pokemon into 3D.

I think Scarlet/Violet had the potential to go from a good game to a great game if they implemented most of those ideas, but they also needed more development time to optimise the game as well.

Profchaos78d ago

Yeah agree id take a remake of red in the style of the links awakening remake any day of the week

Profchaos78d ago

No they don't I don't want any of the gameplay anywhere near Pokemon the only link between them is the idea of Pokemon except there's guns you enslave humans and Pokemon and there's a survival aspect.

Pokemon is fairly family friendly can't see Nintendo going ok let's give them m16s and slaughter each other

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