Personally this is what I'd like to see in future Pokemon games:
1) Something that doesn't revolve around being a trainer who's gotta be a Pokemon Master who battles other trainers, gym leaders, your rival, one or more evil teams, the Elite 4, and the Champion.
I mean there's gotta be other avenues Pokemon could follow. Like having stories as ambitious as the Pokemon movies. Hell several of the later movies are tied together story-wise. Colosseum while being poorly executed had a story that was different than being a Pokemon Master.
2) Actually drop turn based battles for live battles. The battle system could play like Tales of... or be based on Brawl (without Brawl's rules for combat).
3) Instead of different versions having the same gameplay and locales, but different Pokemon, why not have the versions have different locales? Like (and I know it's way too late) for HeartGold and SoulSilver, have Johto in Gold and Kanto in Silver.
4) Actually allow Pokemon to have more than four moves. So instead of forgetting or replacing moves, you keep the old moves, but you equip what moves you want out of what the Pokemon knows (up to four max).
There's nothing more annoying that finding a good, but weak Pokemon you missed early only to be so powerful late that one attack KOs the target all because you couldn't keep Tackle in favor of Double Edge.
1) Something that doesn't revolve around being a trainer who's gotta be a Pokemon Master who battles other trainers, gym leaders, your rival, one or more evil teams, the Elite 4, and the Champion.
I mean there's gotta be other avenues Pokemon could follow. Like having stories as ambitious as the Pokemon movies. Hell several of the later movies are tied together story-wise. Colosseum while being poorly executed had a story that was different than being a Pokemon Master.
2) Actually drop turn based battles for live battles. The battle system could play like Tales of... or be based on Brawl (without Brawl's rules for combat).
3) Instead of different versions having the same gameplay and locales, but different Pokemon, why not have the versions have different locales? Like (and I know it's way too late) for HeartGold and SoulSilver, have Johto in Gold and Kanto in Silver.
4) Actually allow Pokemon to have more than four moves. So instead of forgetting or replacing moves, you keep the old moves, but you equip what moves you want out of what the Pokemon knows (up to four max).
There's nothing more annoying that finding a good, but weak Pokemon you missed early only to be so powerful late that one attack KOs the target all because you couldn't keep Tackle in favor of Double Edge.