Like with most threads, let me start by apologizing for being a little late here. But, nonetheless, onto some of the things I really want to see, whether it be in Pokemon Z or just in future games in general.
Okay, so, these first two things, are things that I really can't stress enough and that I think have made for great games in the past and that need to be done again.
1) Post games activities:
And I want a lot of them. After I beat my Pokemon Y and did the Looker Bureau, I have just found myself walking around, trying to think of something to do, and coming up empty and then going onto the Wonder Trade, only to be disappointed and just shut my 3DS off. One of the huge things in Kalos is supposed to be Rhyhorn racing, but, it isn't present in the games. And the extent of Daily and Weekly events that we have are so minimal and dull that they can be accomplished in 15 minutes and you feel like you still haven't done anything yet. I want contests like we had in HeartGold and SoulSilver. I want the PWT back from BW2, although with some major fixes in it. I just want more things to do. I didn't spend 10 months practically "fangirling" over these games only to just set it down and be down with it after I beat the main story. Now, I could continue ranting on this one subject for days but, I have other points, so, moving on.
2) Partner Pokemon:
This was one of the greatest things about HeartGold and SoulSilver and honestly, it's one of the reasons that they are my favorite games of the series. I know we have Pokemon Amie now to make us bond with our Pokemon better but, there's only so many games I can play, so many times I can pet my Pokemon, so many PokePuffs I can feed them, and only so many dumb faces I can make until I'm fed up with it and I'm pretty sure that my Pokemon is too. I appreciate Amie, don't get me wrong. They put so much more work into it than they get credit for and I absolutely love the in-battle affects of it but, nothing says you have a good relationship with your Pokemon more, than them walking around with you, experiencing everything with you, and just doing everything together. Just something about having my Pokemon follow me around makes me feel closer to them, closer than shoving endless amounts of PokePuffs in their face until they can't eat anymore will ever make me feel.
Okay, as for the rest of these, they aren't as huge of a deal to me, but, I still see as quite important.
3) Rivals:
What happened to the days when whenever you saw your rival, or heard their theme music, that you just start to cringe and want to beat them, and their Pokemon, to a freaking pulp? Now, I do enjoy what they did with having the idea of this big group of friends travel the region together, I loved it, I did. But, if they were going to do this, then they should have actually been with you. And even still, they could have added another character, that was an actual rival. Someone who is a straight up dick that you just hate the sight of. I like having friends in the game, it makes me feel more immersed into the world of Pokemon, but, I also need someone to hate. Someone that is an actual RIVAL. Not just a friend or two that started their journey at the same time as I did.
4) Legendary Pokemon:
And I know I'm not the only one who thinks this way. Watch a Pokemon movie and you see a legendary Pokemon ripping through a city, destroying things, sending people running, and stirring up some chaos! Play a game and they're all practically just sitting patiently in a cave. There are a few exceptions, granted, but, I want a legendary to feel like a legendary. I get more interaction with a Snorlax on a bridge than I get from the giant bird of death and destruction and that just isn't right.
5) Previous Player Character Interaction:
This brings me back to HG/SS and BW2. HG/SS let us battle Red which is something everyone loved. In every game, you bring down a major crime team and become champion of the region...so what happened to these people? I mean at least with BW2, when you go back to the previous player characters home their mother tells you that their off somewhere and she seems all sad about it. I just want to see some of these people again. Make Nate and Rosa sitting in one of the Plazas and you can stop by and make some idle chit chat. Make Blue at the Pokemon Center of the Pokemon League yelling at some Trainer telling him how good he is before walking off saying "smell ya later". Just give me something. I feel like there aren't enough characters in the games that are unique and give you genuine interactions, although I will admit, the NPC's this time around we're a lot funner than before.
6) An "Apprentice":
They did this in Emerald but, it could have been done better. And like I just said, in every game you take down a major crime team and become Champion. You mean to tell me that there isn't even one person looking up to me that wants to be mentored or something? I just feel like this could be a fun thing to do after the games story.
7) Bigger cities and routes:
I guess I'm just asking for the regions to be bigger altogether but, my point is, in the anime, every city seems huge and takes days upon days to reach. Yet, every small town or city in the game has 8 people living there and one larger kind of important building. I can beat the game in two days but it takes Ash Ketchum 2 weeks to make it from one town to another? Something went wrong here. Things just need to be bigger. They need to feel like an actual region and not like, some small island I can tour through in a few days and then be bored with.
8) Pokemon Voices:
Enough playing favorites with the rodents. In the anime and such, they all say their own names. In the games, every Pokemon sounds like a freaking crack fiend acting like a zombie. There isn't much to say on this one. Just make them all say their own name and be done with it.
I could rant for days on what I think GF and Nintendo is doing wrong with the games but, I'll leave it at that for now.