>>32746236(2/2)
Pokémon, as a JRPG, is a numbers game, and if your numbers are too small compared to your opponent you can't win. Either you have to grind to survive later areas, or you can just rush to a later area, throw a Pokéball at a Level 40 wild 'mon, and then stomp the early game while getting enough XP to plow through the rest of the game. You could heavily change the game and how stat progression and capturing Pokémon work, which might work for a spinoff, but you'd pretty much be pulling a Symphony of the Night and irreversably splitting the fanbase like Castlevania's if you replace the mainline games with something that drastic.
>>32746160>They can develop the game around catching side quests and filling out the Pokedex along side the main story.Might work for a spinoff but not for a mainline game, see above.
Removing trainers and streamlining the game to have more plot and less battling is part of why the newer games have sucked.
>they could make it where you can only chalenge Gyms with the pokemon caught in the Gym's regionThis is also something I've seen a ton of. If you do this, you're essentially making multiple standalone games with linked save files and a shared PC, and Game Freak can't even get single games right, let alone multiple games packed into one.
>>32746102As I said, every 12-year-old has thought of "open-world MMOs with all regions!" The oldest /vp/ archive I can find goes back to mid-2013 and you can find people calling for the exact same shit back then, except they compared it to Skyrim instead of BotW. This is not a new concept at all, and the only reason you don't know that is because you're a newfag who didn't look.
