What I think pokemon should do.

No online battling? What?

The game has the perfect fit for an MMORPG scenario. I think online battling should have a smaller fraction of significance. Now I'm "discussing" this under the assumption the gameboy games will still be released, so this is a whole new spectrum in general.

And yeah nate, that kind of stuff. What if you joined Team rocket, make a subplot of actually playing with them.

Now to further elaborate!

I envision something of a mixture of Custom Robo's battle system, with Fable's freedom. Like, for example, in a legitimate battle (as in person to person challenge) it would switch to that type of game field. Now if you want to wreack havoc, lets do it mercenaries playground style with pokemon. Then like in fable, Officer jenny comes to kick your ass. But that type of enviorment would be Fable type of gameplay. That keeps battling condenced, and random fuckin around, really random fuckin around.