My wishes for Gen VI <3
POKÉMON X&Y
brb hibernating until October (kidding, kidding)
This was something I wanted to do with GenV but was so absolutely late to that party (erm... as a result of constant testing, I assume?) so I'll make it up with this one. Will be listing the things that I'm looking forward to (or that I hope will be included) and crossing them off as they're officially confirmed. Or, you know, when I get the game. Both games? Either game? I don't know.
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::Mechanics::
* Please please please release a 3DSXL before XY
* The real thing isn't going to have such grainy backgrounds right? It... it looks like a jpeg artifact......
* HAVE THE LEAD POKÉMON FOLLOWING YOU AROUND
* Keep the gap between "encountering a wild pokémon in the tall grass" and "beginning the battle"
* Option to have battles/encounters/matches go by faster (none of that time-consuming VS animation)
* Rollerblades instead of running shoes, but bikes should be faster nonetheless (people bike in Europe! [well, a lot more than what I'm used to])
* One dark-type gym leader. Now, I can't think of a region/theme for the type, but there are cheery dark-types too (uh, Umbreon... and Absol... and Sabl... eye...?)!
* The option of multiple routes (more than two ways to reach a destination, I mean)
* Legitimate mazes
* An option to turn the 3D feature off
* Non-customizable characters (I spent three hours on the Skyrim thing and never saw his [or was it hers?] face again)
* Eeveelutions #8 and #9! (Bonus: if the Poison looks grotesque~)
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::Competitively Speaking::
* New battling mechanics, please
* Stealth Rock of a different type would be love forever and some legit hail users would be great too~~
* NO FOUR WAY BATTLES, UNLESS YOU'RE PLANNING ON LEGITIMATE 6v6
* Revise the current mechanics of Rotation Battles
* Battle Subway would legitimately work here, but I would love seeing the Neiffel Tower being put to good use
* A region that isn't dominated by water-types!
* Some OU-tier grass and bug types would love
* If none of the legendaries from GenVI would rank in Ubers
* Give the Eeveelutions (especially Flareon ;___;) some deeper movesets
* Faster evolution sequences
* Quicker way to hatch eggs
* Keep the types and type-advantages as-is, but add some never-before-combined types
* Make one atrociously adorable pokémon that can legitimately Tank (or more, I don't care!)
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::Miscellaneous Musings::
* And I was just getting used to BW2! D:
* I'm masochistically hoping that they'll disable Fly this generation, just because
* I really hope the sequel will be Z, not XX/XY
* Actually, I just really hope that they'll still remake GenIII. GenI remakes included.
* No trumpets, and no foghorns harharhar.
* I haven't even memorized all the types of the GenV 'mons! DDD8
* Oh frickkk, I'll be in my final year of college then!
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Well, that's all the hopes and dreams I have at the moment. To be fair though, I'm not so much excited about the new pokémon so much as I'm excited about the possibility of new gameplay. I just... really couldn't like the majority of the designs for GenV (with many exceptions of course, but the fact that I couldn't be bothered to memorize their names despite logging more playtime on Black and Black 2 than all the previous games combined should say something...) and really, if the final evolutions of the starters are weak or ugly, I'll just port them from Pearl or, uh, Black, I guess. God, I hope they let you trade between games immediately after the first gym.
Oh. The only thing I am disappointed about is Join Avenue. I'm on Rank 30! All that hard work! All those Magnemites I caught! *sighhh*