I hope they DON'T undo the special/physical split. :/ I mean, sure it was good back then, but the game has evolved to the point where complexity is key. Putting it back to the old days where types decided the attack style could ruin certain pokemon. Now we don't want that now, do we? Maybe you do, because you're just taking any chance you can to crap on Black/White.
I don't know why I'm even bothering to post in this thread, but this seems like a load of crap lol. I don't know how the physical'special split made anything more complex. If something makes contact, it's physical. If not, it's special. What's so complex about that? And yeah, the physical/special split also ruined Pokemon...the truth of the matter is that change will benefit some things and hurt others. Just like how Donphan, Claydol, Raikou, Snorlax, Milotic, Suicune, Weezing, Umbreon, Celebi, and Regice got creamed coming over from RSE and Gyarados, Salamence, etc. got big improvements. You can cite "complexity" as an excuse not to go back but honestly, what's the big deal? Personally, my opposition of a return to the pre-split days is just because Ice Punch being special and Shadow Ball being physical...yeah, how does that make ANY kind of sense? lol
But Straightmer and others are right, the designs, though they certainly outdo Happiny, are nothing to write home about. Basically Pokemon design has degenerated to "well let's give the weak Pokemon beady eyes and make them small and fluffy" which means that the only hope for any good designs is with the fully evolved Pokemon, and in DP and RS those were a bit of a mixed bag. I expect the same from fifth gen since hey, it's pretty hard to not come up with at least some cool new Pokemon.
