Game Freak Won't Let Pokemon Players Be Bad

[Dana22]

And when JRPGs ever gave player freedom of choice and non-linear storyline ?

 

[Something Amyss]

Jesus, I'm making a 2 foot tall bird fly me, my bicycle, my 90 lbs of gear, and five other Pokémon around...How am I NOT the bad guy?

 

[James Raynor]

Why not allow you to join team aqua/magma in the inevitable ruby/sapphire remake? Like after you join you go off to mess up the other team instead of doing the gyms.

 

[Dexiro]

Well at the very least they could mix up the story a little bit. Every time it's exactly the same.

- Start in a small village.
- Get Pokemon from professor
- Get Gym badges
- Waltz into a few Team X hideouts
- Beat the Elite 5

How about something like this instead, following a very similar format;

- Start off signing up to Team X, everyone thinks they're the good guys
- Do a few assignments and ultimately turn against the Team once you realise their motives
- Join Team Y, a small renegade group

- Work with Team Y to take down Team X's headquarters in each city; planning clever heists, intercepting Team X missions and such. Each city has a boss, technically equivalent to Gym Leader.
- Work your way towards taking down the executives, the equivalent to the Elite 4/5.

 

[theultimateend]

Isn't my use of Full Restores and Revives technically cheating?

The AI gets 1-2 items, and only on major trainer battles, like Gym Leaders.

I'm fine with never playing the villain. Never expected to, honestly.

They could do a radical environmental group, like Magma/Aqua. But one that doesn't mistreat pokemon or steal them. And just has evil, misguided goals.

You also steal pokemon in Pokemon XD I thought.

It's been a while. I just remember the mechanic interesting me.

It also comes up whenever people tell me that pokemon has never ever stepped outside their comfort zone.

 

[Scrythe]

Play fair? You're part of a tiny minority that own a Pokedex. That's like walking into the Dark Ages with an Encyclopedia Britannica.

 

[headphonegirl]

Well at the very least they could mix up the story a little bit. Every time it's exactly the same.

- Start in a small village.
- Get Pokemon from professor
- Get Gym badges
- Waltz into a few Team X hideouts
- Beat the Elite 5

How about something like this instead, following a very similar format;

- Start off signing up to Team X, everyone thinks they're the good guys
- Do a few assignments and ultimately turn against the Team once you realise their motives
- Join Team Y, a small renegade group

- Work with Team Y to take down Team X's headquarters in each city; planning clever heists, intercepting Team X missions and such. Each city has a boss, technically equivalent to Gym Leader.
- Work your way towards taking down the executives, the equivalent to the Elite 4/5.

I'd play this.

 

[MorphingDragon]

Cant have innovation in Pokemon now can we.

 

[Macgyvercas]

I've stolen other trainers pokemon before. Using a wonderful device known as a Game Shark.

 

[Pinstar]

Well they very briefly wandered near the idea of something maybe more mature when they brought the question "is what we do to our Pokemon right?"

 

[Sylocat]

. If players took on the role of a character that brought the organization down from the inside, it could be a nice change from the typical Pokemon protagonist.

Hmm, where have I heard that one before...

*coughPokémonColosseumcough*

I was just about to mention, you got to play as a reformed member of one of the evil teams. There's a reason that's my second-favorite Pokémon game (behind HG/SS, of course).

Besides, Masuda didn't rule out the concept entirely; the article title is inflammatory.

 

[Marsell]

Sounds like masuda is a massive wuss.

 

[gizunt]

GAME FREAK INNOVATING?!?
my god what have we done to see this horror!??!
they made more then a dozen games with the same idea and still manage to sell insanely well.
It's a nice idea but it probably won't happen.

 

[Plucky]

I think the main problem is the views of differing countries, im sure Japan would essencially boycott a game where you played the Bad Guys, but extremely more so if it was Pokemon game where you played as a Bad Guys, but the thing is that Team Rocket has firmly stuck itself into the main series' canon for so long now, Team Rocket probally wouldn't work as a- lets say- Tower Defence game.

If anything, id love it if they expanded into the game's universe through alturnate genres or somthing besides making themselves detatched from the canon anyway (Pokemon Link/Trozei was more detatched from the canon than say...Pokemon Ranger, however. Mystery Dungeon doesn't really have much of a canon, the 2/3 main trios/duos of their respective sequals are dissattatched from eachover plus the timeline is too far in an apocalyptic future that you can't tell where it begins and where it ends)


How about a hack and slash game where the main character is in a time where Pokemon arnt kept in ball's and they're misunderstood creatures that could cause bodily harm if harmed? would be sort of a cross between Torchlight and Pokemon Ranger, eventually you discover you have the power of Aura, stop a War and perhaps manipulate Lightsabers.

 

[Epslion.Bear]

Jesus, I'm making a 2 foot tall bird fly me, my bicycle, my 90 lbs of gear, and five other Pokémon around...How am I NOT the bad guy?

Spoiler: I found this while looking for another comic

 

[Something Amyss]

Jesus, I'm making a 2 foot tall bird fly me, my bicycle, my 90 lbs of gear, and five other Pokémon around...How am I NOT the bad guy?

Spoiler: I found this while looking for another comic

XD. I always loved the weirdness of certain Pokémon having obvious wings but not being able to fly, etc. But yeah, that's more or less how I pictured it going. Except the bird having a heart attack due to the weight.

 

[Eric the Orange]

I honestly always played pokemon games like a sociopath, I'm only nice to the little buggers 'cause it makes them fight better. If being mean made them fight better I'd do that.