[QUOTE="Kekira"][QUOTE="-RPGamer-"][QUOTE="kuza_9999"][QUOTE="-RPGamer-"] Pokemon titles need to change, I wouldn't mind seeing the following take place:
- STOP adding damn pokemon. The original set was fine, and you add some types cool, so add some then. But I don't need 8 different starting Pokemon for the fire element alone. :|
- Make it 3d, the DS can handle it.
- Change the battle system, hell I wouldn't mind a Tales/Star Ocean style battle system.
-RPGamer-
wouldn't work. for your first point, all the starters aren't available in every game, only 3. and they need to change the pokmon in the games to add variety and make every game a new experience. for the 2nd, the DP 3d on the ds is more than enough for me.
for your last point, this could work and might make them more interesting, but the original pokemon battle system is easy to use, and remember their target audince is young children.Â
I know not all are available in any single game, that wasn't my point. I don't need different variations that do the exact same thing. Especially between iterations, when all they essentially do is take the odd creature I got used to before and just put a new name and art design on it despite it being essentially the same thing.
Also, changing the Pokemon name and art doesn't make it new, it just a pseudo fix for what's really repetitive/wrong (the actual game and it's repetitive gameplay over all these iterations).
To be honest I give younger gamers enough credit to move around a pokemon, rather than shift through a menu.
If you compare the water starters of all the versions, you'll see that they all wind up differently. It you do the same with the fire and grass starters you can see that they all wind up different. I could go on a full explanation but only if you are willing to hear.
How they end up? I wouldn't really know to be honest, i usually don't use my starters all the way through. This doesn't stop the fact they're overly redundant at start.
I'm simply saying throwing more Pokemon at us isn't the answer to making the titles better. I think it takes away from the games actually. I like how all these completely common Pokemon aren't even heard of in earlier iterations, but in later ones they're a dime a dozen.
Then you can't talk about how all the starters are the same all the way through if you don't even get them to their third forms. Here's the grass starters compared by type:
bulbasaur(grass/poison)
ivysaur(grass/poison)
venusaur(grass/poison)
2nd gen:
All of chikorita's types were grass.
3rd gen:
All of treeko's forms were grass. However, Treeko's stats and movepool were vastly different enough to make it stand apart from past grass starters.
Fire types:
Charmander and Charmeleon were fire types while charizard was a fire/flying combo and has a few dragon traits as well.
2nd gen:
All of cyndaquil's forms were fire type and didn't have too many good attacks or stats IMO.
3rd gen:
Torchic was a fire type, but Combusken and Blaziken were both fire/fighting types.
 The for water types of the first and second gen. They all were pure water type but had different movepools and stats, but in the 3rd gen Mudkip(pure water) becomes a mud/ground combo in it's two evolved forms Marshstomp and Swampert.
 There's enough variety in the starters to make each generation different from the last, but a little familiar as well.
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And if you must know why there's always new pokemon, it's because there's always new land to explore. Different species belong to different regions so that could be why the people from different continents wouldn't know much about foreign pokemon well since they all care more about their own homes.
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