02-24-2010, 03:10 AM
What I think they should do.. Is sortof what they tried to do with pokemon yellow. Make a game that makes an attempt at following the show.. But not litterally. Make one that starts in Kanto.. And when you finish that, you move on to Johto.. And then the next region.. And so on until you are done. Make the later gyms and bosses scale to your level. And poof, good game.
An alternative would be to let you choose which region to start in, and thus, which region's starting set to choose from.. And scale the boss fights accordingly. The drawback to that is that they'd need a slightly different storyline for each starting region.
Also, when I say make the bosses scale.. I mean make them be within a level or two of the highest level in your party. That way if you have one max level, and a bunch of weaker ones, you're screwed if the max level gets taken out. But if you level in a balanced way, you're not totally outmatched if you didn't spend 40 hours leveling before the fight. (Or they could scale to the highest you have. But that would get pretty bad if you chose to retire your team from one region, and build another from scratch.)
An alternative would be to let you choose which region to start in, and thus, which region's starting set to choose from.. And scale the boss fights accordingly. The drawback to that is that they'd need a slightly different storyline for each starting region.
Also, when I say make the bosses scale.. I mean make them be within a level or two of the highest level in your party. That way if you have one max level, and a bunch of weaker ones, you're screwed if the max level gets taken out. But if you level in a balanced way, you're not totally outmatched if you didn't spend 40 hours leveling before the fight. (Or they could scale to the highest you have. But that would get pretty bad if you chose to retire your team from one region, and build another from scratch.)
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