What if EA made Pokemon?

[Unsilenced]

GOTTA BUY 'EM ALL!


Also: "We've decided to move to a model that disallows trading of pokemon. We only get paid for the pokemon we put into the game at the time of sale. If a player gets a pokemon by trading, we don't get any money from that, and that's not fair."

 

[WhyWasThat]

EA would father the series with care and attention, and take it to even greater heights. Critics would give perfect scores, even Edge. The fans would also be pleased.

 

[KeyMaster45]

People don't give EA ideas....PLEASE!!!!

EA will get their dirty little mitts on the Pokemon franchise and Gamefreak Studios when they pry both of them from Nintendo's cold dead hands. Even then I'd wager Gamefreak probably has the money and resources now to publish the game themselves should anything happen to Nintendo.

 

[Aris Khandr]

Since everyone else is being cynical, I'll take the more optimistic approach:

1. Pokemon on PC. That, alone, is huge. How many times have we asked for that? Seeing our Pokemon in 3D?

2. Pokemon now allows you to import your character from previous games. Mass Effect does this. Dragon Age does this (to a lesser degree, but it still happens). Even FIFA does this. No more scrambling to refill a new Pokedex with the same Pokemon you've evolved a dozen times before. Transfer your trainer and done.

3. Event Pokemon are now DLC. Downside, you now pay for them instead of getting them for free. Upside, they never go away. No coming back to the series after two years and lamenting that you missed certain offerings that never come around again. I'd seriously consider it a bargain to pay $5 to get a Deoxys into my Pokedex.

4. On the go? Download the Pokemon iPad program to catch Pokemon while you're away from the PC. Will sync with your online Pokemon account when you are in range of a Wi-Fi connection. May even allow for playing of certain mini-games with friends.

5. EA loves money. You know they'd make Pokemon the MMO considering how often we ask for it. We're practically begging to give them $15 a month. You absolutely know it would happen.

 

[Eomega123]

Pretty much all of what I'd say has already been said here, but I finally have an excuse to use this video!

 

[him over there]

5. EA loves money. You know they'd make Pokemon the MMO considering how often we ask for it. We're practically begging to give them $15 a month. You absolutely know it would happen.

I don't care what anybody says this sounds wonderful, especially since it would allow it to ape the anime and lore by having an actual world tournament instead of fighting five npcs.

 

[him over there]

5. EA loves money. You know they'd make Pokemon the MMO considering how often we ask for it. We're practically begging to give them $15 a month. You absolutely know it would happen.

I don't care what anybody says this sounds wonderful, especially since it would allow it to ape the anime and lore by having an actual world tournament instead of fighting five npcs.

On the converse, if you haven't experienced the competitive scene of Pokemon, count yourself lucky...

Why consider myself lucky? I've been loving the competitive scene for a while now. Really helping the game and its players use the mechanics full potential.

 

[Terminate421]

It would suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuck

Seriously, they'd leave half the Pokemon out, make it appeal to an even wider audience and make it "mature"

 

[Aris Khandr]

5. EA loves money. You know they'd make Pokemon the MMO considering how often we ask for it. We're practically begging to give them $15 a month. You absolutely know it would happen.

I don't care what anybody says this sounds wonderful, especially since it would allow it to ape the anime and lore by having an actual world tournament instead of fighting five npcs.

On the converse, if you haven't experienced the competitive scene of Pokemon, count yourself lucky...

On the other hand, the MMO that forces you to fight anyone who wants to fight you is a very, very rare thing these days. A Pokemon MMO would simply allow you to travel together, and team up for group battles sometimes, like in the anime. Sure, if your friend is like Ash, you might get stuck watching them battle every person they come across (who also wants to battle), but that's fine. The biggest appeal, at least for me, is that it means that a game will finally allow for true alternate advancement. Sure, you can do the whole "be the strongest, beat the gym leaders, get the badges" thing, but that's repetitive. And MMOs live or die on replayability. So that means that contests will have to be a true advancement path of their own, just like in the anime. Possibly even different contests types. Pokeathelon, Pokemon musicals, et cetera.

 

[HellsingerAngel]

Say nice things. Make ideas/suggestions that would work using the EA-style marketing and DLC.

Do I have to be nice? Fine...

-Cool Legendary cross-over Pokemon like Rawke the Dragon/Flying type Pokemon or Sheepard the Fighting/Dark type! Only available through confirmed purchase of Dragon Age 2 and Mass Effect 3.

-Cloud saving over Origin so you can manage, trade or train your Pokemon not only in the game, but also through applications with any device that Origin can take advantage of! New apps for iPhone and Android Phone users to be able to have these same great features!

-Make sure your Pokemon are super effective by using our new Super Breeder! For a small fee, you too can use the Super Breeder to quickly level up Pokemon you don't have a chance to use often and keep them in your rotation! Found in the same house as the breeder and is much faster at leveling your Pokemon.

-Think your Pokemon journey ends with the Elite Four? Think again! New adventures wait just on the horizon with downloadable content at your fingertips. Take your Pokemon to the luxurious island of Peach Paradise to get some much needed R&R, foil Team Rocket and their latest scheme in Blasting Off Again and search for clues in some recently uncovered ancient ruins and discover how Pokemon have evolved over the ages in The Missing Link!

-Never again have the burden of having to choose just one starting Pokemon. Pre-order your copy today and choose an additional starter Pokemon, complete with matching evolution stone!

I'll put more if any other ideas hit me.

 

[jake557]

If EA made pokemon:

-The franchise would be milked relentlessly for merchandise and spin off series

-A new generation would be released every 1-2 years with mostly cosmetic changes and little/no gameplay innovation

-Each generation would require you to purchase at least 2 versions in order to gain access to every pokemon

...oh wait

 

[pspman45]

starter pokemon would include Bulbasaur and Squirtle, Charmander will be sold as Day One DLC.
you can only name your rival if you pre-ordered, otherwise he is known as Jeff
the graphics will gritty and realistic and will include a ridiculously lengthy leveling system, however, for the mere price of 4.99, you can level all of your pokemon to level 100!
also, if you lose internet connection at ANY GIVEN TIME FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, EVEN AT FAULT OF OUR OWN, your game files will be erased! it's not like we can allow hackers in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME, or god forbid, PIRATES

 

[Ruedyn]

All Pokemon will be replaced with grizzled short brown haired people. There will be a romance scene. All females will dress... pretty much the same actually, but they will be older and have massive tits.

 

[Flunk]

Every single pokemon would be a separate in-app purchase. 150? no problem, just pay $2 a pop for 'em, 250? we'll give you a great deal $5 off!

 

[Brendan Stepladder]

shnip

All of those "added features" could and should have been included in the original games. Also, not all Gameboys came with link cables, as evidenced by the one I had.

 

[Grant Stackhouse]

Well, since EA thinks that Free-to-Play is the exclusive future of gaming, they would release Pokemon as a FTP game for Facebook and phones, with heavy ad support and the option to pay real money to speed up your progress. Then they would pull all support from it after six months, when it no longer proved sufficiently profitable.

 

[gmaverick019_v1legacy]

Well, at least we'd have a full-3D roaming Pokemon game by now >:-|

that is one thing that incredibly irks me (which with the style of pokemon, graphics wouldn't even be a problem/hard to tackle, therefore having it open world wouldn't take too much processing power...)

fuck. i want that game so bad. (and not that pokemon coliseum shit, i'm talking full pokemon game)

 

[I.Muir]

It would suck
That is all

 

[EvilMaggot]

also, if you lose internet connection at ANY GIVEN TIME FOR ANY REASON WHATSOEVER, EVEN AT FAULT OF OUR OWN, your game files will be erased! it's not like we can allow hackers in a SINGLE PLAYER GAME, or god forbid, PIRATES

We're talking about EA, not Activision/Blizzard..

and here i thought he was refering to Ubisoft since they were the first to do the always online thingy even for a singleplayer game

 

[AdamRhodes]

...Needless to say, the game would tank, and EA would abandon it for fifteen years before rebooting it as an FPS.

Assuming that timeline, it's about time for EA to reboot Red/Blue/Yellow as an FPS then.

I'm assuming the reboot would change the world of Kanto into a gritty, dark, post-apocalyptic nightmare where individual Pokemon have mutated into hideous husks of their former beings, and Protagonist, a generic 30-year old white male with a grizzled beard and brown hair, needs to fight his way through wild mutant Pokemon and crazed survivors who have managed to somehow hold onto their old Pokemon over the years, scrounging to survive in the inhospitable wasteland.

The Elite Four is the last bastion of safety in the land, where all of the healthy and sane people have migrated to over the years, and Protagonist needs to fight his way through multiple linear, contrived paths until he can finally unblock the way to Victory Road, where he will face the ultimate challenge!

Super violent mutant cock-fighting sounds badass, though...

Hm.

Allow me to clarify.

Protagonist[sup]TM[/sup] will be gun-wielding, having lost the ability to obtain Pokeballs and wild Pokemon in their new, mutated forms being unable to be caught and trained. The crazed people who still have Pokemon will use them to try and take down Protagonist[sup]TM[/sup], who is essentially a buff armory on legs. After Protagonist[sup]TM[/sup] kills the Pokemon in sufficiently brutal and gory ways, he will also fatally wound previously mentioned crazed trainers in his quest to reach the Indigo Plateau.

Letting Protagonist[sup]TM[/sup] catch and use his own Pokemon would be too innovative and promote fun. We at EA can't stand for that.

Also, Protagonist[sup]TM[/sup] would be voiced by Nolan North's "Nathan Drake" voice and not the dozens of other voices he can do. If you're gonna have a thirty-something, white, brown-haired Protagonist[sup]TM[/sup] who hasn't shaved in over a fortnight, it has to be Nolan North.