Now I'm not a Pokemon fan right now but I'm intending to hopefully enjoy the series starting with S&S so let me know if any of this doesn't make sense.
As a warning lets keep this spoiler-free, I haven't seen any leaks or anything for S&S and it's not relevant to the upcoming discussion so please keep all spoilers contained in the spoiler thread for those games.
I view Pokemon as animals, so much so that I still expect Gamefreak and Nintendo to eventually develop real-life Bio Pokemon for people to bring home as pets. Imagine how awesome it would be to have a Drowsee who wakes you up in the morning with a snort or something like that. Animals in real life aren't seen all over the world, if I walk down my street I wouldn't expect to see a chimpanzee, a turtle or a bear but I would expect to see perhaps a dog, a cat, and a pigeon. We have a great variety of animals in this world but they all have their own places they feel most comfortable in and so they choose to stay there.
I think Pokemon should be the same, with each different region in each different gen there should be a whole new group of pokemon that fit the region and only a few returning that make sense. Like Charmander wouldn't choose to live in a place with a lot of water but you'd be more likely to see a Squirtle and other water-loving pokemon. So I say Gamefreak, starting from gen 2 should have cut the majority of Pokemon from the first gen and come up with just entirely new designs to fit the new region they made. Then gen 3 cuts the majority of gen 2 pokemon for new ones that make more sense and so on. This would make a lot more sense and make the world of Pokemon feel like an actual world with unique Pokemon for each region. Bringing over Pokemon from previous games would still work and make sense cause it'd be like if you brought your pet dog with you to africa, it might not fit in there but it's still allowed to go.
It would also make Pokemon feel more special cause maybe Poliwag shows up in gen 1 but then doesn't show up again until gen 5, seeing him again would be like seeing a long lost pal or something like that. I know people would initially be disappointed but it makes a lot more sense for the Pokemon world and in the long run it would be seen as the correct decision. It didn't happen back then, hopefully from now on it will in future Pokemon games.
As a warning lets keep this spoiler-free, I haven't seen any leaks or anything for S&S and it's not relevant to the upcoming discussion so please keep all spoilers contained in the spoiler thread for those games.
I view Pokemon as animals, so much so that I still expect Gamefreak and Nintendo to eventually develop real-life Bio Pokemon for people to bring home as pets. Imagine how awesome it would be to have a Drowsee who wakes you up in the morning with a snort or something like that. Animals in real life aren't seen all over the world, if I walk down my street I wouldn't expect to see a chimpanzee, a turtle or a bear but I would expect to see perhaps a dog, a cat, and a pigeon. We have a great variety of animals in this world but they all have their own places they feel most comfortable in and so they choose to stay there.
I think Pokemon should be the same, with each different region in each different gen there should be a whole new group of pokemon that fit the region and only a few returning that make sense. Like Charmander wouldn't choose to live in a place with a lot of water but you'd be more likely to see a Squirtle and other water-loving pokemon. So I say Gamefreak, starting from gen 2 should have cut the majority of Pokemon from the first gen and come up with just entirely new designs to fit the new region they made. Then gen 3 cuts the majority of gen 2 pokemon for new ones that make more sense and so on. This would make a lot more sense and make the world of Pokemon feel like an actual world with unique Pokemon for each region. Bringing over Pokemon from previous games would still work and make sense cause it'd be like if you brought your pet dog with you to africa, it might not fit in there but it's still allowed to go.
It would also make Pokemon feel more special cause maybe Poliwag shows up in gen 1 but then doesn't show up again until gen 5, seeing him again would be like seeing a long lost pal or something like that. I know people would initially be disappointed but it makes a lot more sense for the Pokemon world and in the long run it would be seen as the correct decision. It didn't happen back then, hopefully from now on it will in future Pokemon games.
