POKéMON DIAMOND/PEARL/ETC. DISCUSSION THREAD

Holy shit. If DuskGold and DawnSilver are trademarked, does that mean a remake is planned? Gold, Silver, and Crystal are the best Pokemon games there is. Period.

Pokemon games are freakin awesome. Pokemon Gold and Silver were definitely the most fun especially playing it every recess and lunch time at school. I currently have collected just about every pokemon in all games. Platinum i am quite looking forward to and definitely am going to pick that up.

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I own one of the new ones. I forget which.

I am thinking of picking it back up again. I was pretty bummed out by the highly inconsistent and shitty interface.

I wish Nintendo would just wisen up and make a Pokemon MMO.

Hopefully one that doesn't fall into the same MMO traps. Something based on the games that already exist, and with PvP being very much at the center of everything.

Basically, just a normal Pokemon RPG, only instead of other trainers being NPCs, having them be players. But how would Gyms be handled? Would they be a player-run thing, or would they be NPC-monster thingies? Or maybe they'd just be moderator-driven....hmm.

This is fun. Pokemon MMO thoughts, go!

Pokemon MMO ideas START:

There can be three to five regions, with different climates and themes. So there could be a heavily urbanized region (i.e. Kanto), an old, historic region (i.e. Johto), a region with lots of mountains and snow (i.e. Sinnoh), etc. Alternatively, each region can be a separate server, although this would take a lot away from the variety of moving from place to place and potential interaction.

Within each region are a number of towns and cities. Within the towns and cities are gyms. Towns and smaller cities generally tend to have local gyms, which are not required for the Gym Challenge. Larger cities might have National Gyms, which are significantly bigger and are required for the gym challenge. Winning a tourney in a National Gym nets you a badge. Every in-game year or so there is a Championship, where those who qualify may compete for trophies, etc. You do not need to win every badge in the region to qualify, but since badges up your Pokemon's stats it may help in the long run.

Regions could have different environmental regulations. The highly urbanized city state could be trying to prevent the rarer Pokemon from going extinct, so only trainers of a certain level are certified to enter that region and observe the Pokemon there. Other regions, like the old, historic region, may not be as organized and may therefore have fewer boundaries. This gives you more freedom, but also puts you at risk of entering somewhere far above your level and getting defeated ridiculously quickly.

Also, you should not have to teach HMs to your Pokemon and it would be kind of neat if you could share Pokedex data with people to get information rather than having to catch the Pokemon itself to find out how useful it is. That's all I can think of at the moment.

That seems like a given. Level grinding and loot farming hardly seems the proper thing to do in a Pokemon MMO. PvP is where it's at.

On the other hand, I'd love to see it develop some sort of really robust economy that gives people lots of options for how to handle things. You could be a Pokemon Trainer, taking the usual PvP arc and probably having some sort of ladder ranking based on victories (possibly these would be tracked per-Pokemon rather than per-Player, since lowering a Player's ranking because he was testing out a new 'mon would discourage experimentation).

But you could also be a Pokemon Breeder, breeding rare Pokemon with awesome movesets, abilities, etc. It'd be neat if the breeding system was even more robust here so that a well-bred Pokemon would be a really prized commodity. There's already a strong enough system in place to offer breeders a lot to do, but I'd love to see a Breeder Ladder of some sort....maybe it could be based on reputation, where players who get 'mons from the Breeders give them points based on how pleased they are with their 'mons, or maybe the game could keep track of the successes of a breeder's mons even after a trainer has taken them over (assuming the player isn't both Breeder AND Trainer). Maybe they could even have some sort of way of letting Breeders earn the right to breed special moves onto Pokemon that would generally be impossible for them to get. As an example, the Surfing Pikachu would be an example--completely impossible in the games short of hacking or getting one from a special event, but in an MMO, why not let high level Breeders (whatever that means) get the ability to do that?

...they could also bump up the Contests system to make that an intriguing option for players who prefer that. Then you've got a handy triumvirate of Trainer/Breeder/Contest....preparing....person. I'd like to see other options, too, though.

Heck, they could probably even work in a way for Players to be Pokemon Rangers, or start or join a villainous Team Whatever.

...basically, I like the idea of more than one way to play the game. There's a lot that could be done with Pokemon and not all of it has to be cockfighting.

I have a unstoppable Pokemon team. Nobody ever plays me, because I always win. Heres my team. Deoxys Lv. 100 (Defense form), Darkrye Lv. 100, Dailga Lv. 100, Palkia Lv. 100, Gratina Lv. 100, and RegiKing Lv. 100. Sorry if I spelled something wrong. I also have a Pokemon called a Shaymin. It's one of the Action Reply Pokemon. It's supposed to be legendary, but it sucks really bad. the best move it learns is solarbeam. It's a spoiler from Pokemon Platinum. I also have an Arcues, but I not a huge fan of it.

Pokemon fight!!!!!!