User:StarBP

My Ideas for Gen. V and beyond

(from a Bulbagarden Forums Post made by me in June 2008)

Getting super-rare (maybe even exclusive) gifts on your birthday and Christmas would be great. However, you would have to confirm your birthday over Wi-Fi at the beginning of the game, and you would have to confirm the current date over Wi-Fi in order to receive the gift (so it doesn't become worthless). Also, how about Wi-Fi tournaments? They might not lead to national championships or anything (on second thought, the top 8 players could receive an e-mail with a permission form to print out, with the top 4 players who mail the form within a month or so getting a free trip to the National Championships, and any other people of the 8 who return the form becoming alternates), but tournaments would still be great, maybe even including the ability to make your own, resources permitting. Making your own would probably be done through a My Nintendo/My Pokémon account over the Internet, and signing up on the DS. Another feature that would be good is having an auto-match capability on GTS (I'm offering a Level 85 Moltres for a Level 91-100 Zapdos, and you're offering a Level 91 Zapdos for a Level 81-90 Moltres. Currently, there is no way of knowing that we both are willing to make the trade. An auto-search ability would automatically make the trade). GTS also needs the ability to post a Pokémon and have people offer for it. When taking the Pokémon out of the GTS, you could see the Pokémon people have offered for yours (That feature could also have auto-matching capability, although the sheer volumes might make that impractical). Also, bugs could be easily fixed by having an Internet Update feature that automatically updates your game whenever you connect to Wi-Fi. This is perhaps the longest forum post I have ever made, but it has the ULTIMATE POKÉMON WISHLIST on it!

P.S. The top feature I would want would be a game for the DS 2.0 (Generation V) called Pokémon Ultimate Quest Red and Pokémon Ultimate Quest Blue. It would cost $100. It would have all the lands on it, and you would be able to buy extra generations as they come out for $30. Depending on the version you bought, you would get one of two games that will follow the storyline of your version. Since Generation 6 would be required in order to upgrade to Generation 7, all old updates would be reduced in price, similar to the Wii Virtual Console games when newer versions come out. Also, the "third games" (Yellow, Crystal, Emerald, Platinum, etc.) would be available as OPTIONAL side-story add-ins (versus the normal generations, which would be required to keep with the main storyline). Since the DS 2.0 will have two slots for SD cards, which games will come on, you can buy extra memory cards and transfer the game, a process which would take a few minutes on average. Each Pokémon Ultimate Quest game would last indefinitely, since systems with 2 SD card slots will be the new standard for Nintendo portables. There would be partial rebates for sending an old card back to Nintendo after transferring the data to a new card. The high cost of the game would be due to EVERY past generation being on it (minus the third-game side stories, which would be purchasable using a method similar to the method used to buy Wii Virtual Console games, with similar prices). Pokémon Ultimate Quest would be optional, but it would serve as a replacement to the other games, with latest-generation add-ins costing $30 versus $35-40 for the normal game cards (add-ins would cost $60 and would include a memory card large enough to hold all of Pokémon Ultimate Quest, then there would be a $30 rebate for sending your old card back to Nintendo). All add-ins would update the graphics, Pokémon, and features of the entire world (example: Lucario in Johto with D/P style graphics and D/P breeding and other game mechanics [including abilities], or Pokémon #649 in Sinnoh with Generation 6 graphics, breeding, and other game mechanics) to use the features of the newest systems. Everything would be updated to be the style of the newest games (Pokémon Super Contests and Poffin in Johto for example; updated to Triple Battles, Pokémon Ultra Contests, and PokéFood 3.0 after the release of Generation 6).

EDIT: How about a virtual Pokémon world (on the Internet; virtual worlds are games such as Toontown, WoW, and Runescape) that you could access from your DS 2.0 to battle and trade? The trades would be more open-ended [with a "trade window" system showing stats], and you could battle with anyone in the world. Chat would be limited to a "whitelist" dictionary of words (better learn how to spell Rayquaza lol), and a USB (or Bluetooth, doesn't matter which) keyboard would be able to connect so chat would not go at 5 words per minute. Only players with the latest updates to Pokémon Ultimate Quest would be able to access the virtual world for free; people with the latest version that don't have Pokémon Ultimate Quest would have to pay a small yearly fee (around $30, or $2.50 per month) to access the virtual world. An added advantange to Pokémon Ultimate Quest would be that you would be able to access the virtual world and battle and trade with Pokémon that you caught in Johto! (Pokémon Ultimate Quest would be the only way to access Johto [other than Gold, Silver and Crystal, of course]).

EDIT: How about a special kiosk in the Black Card Club (an exclusive club that would be only for people with 5-star trainer cards, which are black) where you could check the IVs and EVs of any of your Pokémon? Also, every Pokémon game would have a ridiculously long checksum value whose key would be based on the exact time, to the hundredth of a second, that you connected to Wi-Fi for the first time; that would prevent hackers from making their own Pokémon and items (There would be roughly 10,000 default key values, similar to OT numbers but hard-wired into the game, that would be randomly distributed among the games. That key would be overwritten with the more random key provided upon first connection to Wi-Fi). The encrypted checksum would have all of the saved information in your game in it, and the large number of possible values would make the Pokésav impractical.

Note: All information given in this post is hypothetical. It is not to be used to predict the future; rather, it is a wish list for Pokémon games and features.