I have always imagined that, like the Zelda Timeline, there is a split in the path. Lets say that in Black and White, you can't beat N. N learns of his father's true plan, and N stops him as well. N successfully separates the world, meaning humans (and presumably, normal animals) and pokemon inhabit different worlds. Sound familiar? It is because of N's doing that we have the Mystery Dungeon saga! Which order those games go in, I don't know.
I actually have a great idea for a pair of
Pokémon games set in a region I made up that I was going to make be about this
exact thing! The only difference was that Cyrus and his Team Galactic was going to be involved as well since he wanted to create/reset (Pearl/Diamond, respectively, right?) a/the new/current universe. This idea also takes advantage of the possibility that there might eventually be another pair of games set in between Generations IV and V in which Team Galactic and Team Plasma have a little get-together which either sets the stage for or aids Team Plasma's efforts in
Black and
White to separate the human and Pokémon worlds. In either case, the protagonists of such a game set in between Generations IV and V would have to find a way to
partially disrupt Team Plasma's plans in such a way that they would result not in the successful, complete split of the Pokémon universe into
two universes (one for humans and one for Pokémon) but in a
continuum of universes, traversable via the Reverse World (I
really wish that it was called the 'Distortion Realm;' now
that would be a cool name for it!), with these other two universes as bookends. The earlier protagonists would also have to find a way to send some kind of message to the protagonists of the games that I hope will result out of my game idea such that these latter playable characters will have the information and means to undo the damage done by Cyrus and Ghetsis. Would anybody like to go to or create some other thread where we might go and discuss the possibility/probability of this kind of thing happening?
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I was actually under the impression that continuity didn't really matter in the Pokémon games and, with the obvious exceptions of the relationships between RBY and GSC; and Black/White and Black 2/White 2, it didn't really matter which games's events happened in whatever order.
I mean, honestly, what's the point of having R/S/E take place at the same time as the first generation games when they could easily take place at the same time as the second generation games or even after them.
IMO, it should be something like this:
RBY --> GSC --> RSE --> D/P --> PT --> B/W --> B2/W2 --> X/Y
R/B/Y/FR/LG and R/S/E have to happen at the same time because of how there's an e-mail from Bill to Lanette on the latter's computer in her house on Route 114 in Hoenn, which says the following in the English versions of
Ruby and
Sapphire…:
Bulbapedia said:
Your storage system
offers more convenience than mine.
It has a lot of user friendly features that
make it fun and useful too. It makes me
proud that I played a part in its development.
Here's hoping that you'll continue
research in Storage Systems.
From Bill
…and something else in these games' Japanese versions. G/S/C/HG/SS has to occur slightly before D/P/Pt (that last one is
just a director's cut, so it
can't have it's own place in the timeline separate from
Diamond and
Pearl) because of the fact that a news program featuring the point in G/S/C/HG/SS where the protagonist finds the red Gyarados airs at the beginning of D/P/Pt. As for whether
Black 2,
White 2,
X, and
Y actually
do occur at the same time, has anybody made any headway on confirming that?
