5th Gen If you are given your starter by a professor

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Well in RSE you don't actually get the starter given to you hand on like in gen 1 or 2 as you just grab it to save the prof.

 

[Gymnotide]

Unless they give out actual Pokeballs with little monsters in them, I think Black and White are fine. :P

I don't think that you can count Lyra as a rival in HG/SS, Red was your actual Rival. Lyra was just a childhood friend, like in the phone. It'd be cool if they could come up with a plot that didn't involve bad guys doing something bad, but that'd require thought that could maybe get too complex for a Pokemon game.

You mean Silver. He's the one who appears and battles you everywhere.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

I hope they make the Evil team is there is one, Epic!

 

[Azure-Supernova]

I am going to kill someone. Same with a generic "Team -name-" having some new power Pokémon (Ruby/Sapphire was cool controlling the weather. Space and time was just a step too far. What next, life and death? Heaven and hell?).

Bayonetta already did Heaven and Hell :P And if the next team does go for either of those dimension... we'll have to assume that the storyboard developers have lost their sanity.

They really need to try a new format. Myself and quite a few people I know just never got into d/p because when we started it, it was like "oh, here we go again.".

Indeed. Wouldn't it be a better idea if instead of getting it from a Professor, you had to catch it yourself? Hell I'd settle for being given it as a present from mum (or better yet a present from the ever elusive father).

Same goes for making a "third" version. They are just pointless. HG/SS proves that you don't need a third version.

Platinum... giving us stuff and fixing stuff we should have gotten in the first two games ¬_¬

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Speaking of father, I hope they show the characters dad like they did in RSE :)

 

[Gymnotide]

Bayonetta already did Heaven and Hell :P And if the next team does go for either of those dimension... we'll have to assume that the storyboard developers have lost their sanity.

More than likely, based on Reshiram's affinity for nature and Zekrom's affinity for technology, we're going to have a group of super-environmentalists, tree-huggers, and animal rights activists versing industrial architects, corporation owners, and expansionist lumberjacks. Heh.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

More than likely, based on Reshiram's affinity for nature and Zekrom's affinity for technology, we're going to have a group of super-environmentalists, tree-huggers, and animal rights activists versing industrial architects, corporation owners, and expansionist lumberjacks. Heh.

Haha that reminds me of RSE where we had sea lovers and mountain/land lovers :P

 

[Luck]

Neither Rowan nor Birch actually gave you a pokemon, they just let you keep it.

 

[blueguy]

In regards specifically to the starter, it seems that it might be given to you by someone else, considering you seem to be opening a "present."

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Oh that's true just look at the pic where you choose the starter...I didn't realize it until now...

 

[Nikolai Fox]

@ Dominus. You raise some good points, although I don't think they should keep a good 70% of the game the same for the sake of tradition. Zelda for example have started to really mix it up in terms of story, such as Twilight Princess.

The "I will kill someone" wasn't being rude to anyone in particular, it's just a figure of speech. I don't actually say to people that I will kill them if they disagree :p

And others haven't been polite, but none have outright decided to try to ridicule me (duh, is generally a term used to ridicule someone).

@ Magmaruby. You have a point with R/S/E, that was actually a nice change of pace.

To those saying Rowan didn't give you a Pokémon, I'm quite sure he does? He has his little speech about giving you a Pokémon then tells you to get one from his bag.

An interesting way to mix it up for example would be to be sent to a forest or something to find someone, and you hear the trainer shout from the forest. You find a bag at the entrance of the forest, and you decide to borrow a Pokémon for your protection. Afterwards you rescue the trainer, and he says those Pokémon were freshly caught, and that you have bonded with tha Pokémon so you should keep it.

Just something different you know?

@ Azure. LOL at the ever elusive father comment. It's so true :s

And someone said we can't really speculate on the story as none has been revealed. That is why this thread is here, because we don't know what the story will be like and I just hope it won't be another clone but with new faces and Pokémon.

 

[MartinJF]

They need a fresh story idea, like the one in RSE, where they made legendaries more important to the story and added two teams DPPt had much focus on legendaries, but only one team, to make it slightly different, but still kinda boring...

RSE Are best story-wise...

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Well I am comfortable with the same thing myself but a few changes won't harm anyone :).

 

[Nikolai Fox]

I'm not saying I won't get the game/s (Too right I will, the animated battling and all those other features have been a long time coming!). I was just making a somewhat light hearted thread (which some have taken otherwise, because it's not flooded with smileys). I just hope they have boosted their creativity story-wise as well as gameplay wise for hopefully the best Pokémon game yet.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7YXgVN0JqE&feature=fvw

This guy tells me point really well.

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Yeah we need a good story plot better than the one in Platinum and RSE :) that is the only thing BW is missing so far to take it to the top :)

 

[Gymnotide]

@ Magmaruby. You have a point with R/S/E, that was actually a nice change of pace.

To those saying Rowan didn't give you a Pokémon, I'm quite sure he does? He has his little speech about giving you a Pokémon then tells you to get one from his bag.

An interesting way to mix it up for example would be to be sent to a forest or something to find someone, and you hear the trainer shout from the forest. You find a bag at the entrance of the forest, and you decide to borrow a Pokémon for your protection. Afterwards you rescue the trainer, and he says those Pokémon were freshly caught, and that you have bonded with tha Pokémon so you should keep it.

Just something different you know?

Birch does give you the Pokemon, but under similar conditions to what you want. You're sent to Route 201 in order to find him because he wasn't in the laboratory when you were to receive your first Pokemon. He shouts and is under attack by Poochyena. His bag is dropped a good distance away from him. He orders you to grab a Pokeball out of the bag and borrow it. Then you use it to fight off the Poochyena in battle. Afterward, he says that since you showed true teamwork, you should keep the Pokemon. It's not much different than what you want, except for the fact that the Professor gave it to you.

 

[Nikolai Fox]

In the one I made up (which I just made up on the spot) the only real similarity was the fact you find a bag with Pokémon in. (This is kind of vital, having an option between three because nobody would want two or less). There was no professor involved, and the little side-quest could have you go through a few wild battles, and the trainer you found could provide a little foreshadowing into a side quest later on in the game. This could be your reason for leaving town, rather than because the professor told you so.

As opposed to "You have to find the professor before you leave town/try to leave town and be interrupted by a professor. Then he will give you a choice of three Pokémon, take you back to the lab and give you the Pokédex and tell you to do one and go get badges"

 

[.Awesome]

It's a Pokemon Game. That's why. What do you want? Some Mario game? :P

 

[Nikolai Fox]

LOL that would just be one big parody game. You have to rescue princess Jynx from evil king Charizard or something o.0

 

[OmegaRuby and AlphaSapphire]

Uh, Mario repeats the same old moves all the time...