POKEMON GEN 6 ANNOUNCED

[Gwen]

But instead of "plain old evolution" as you call it, they're spicing it up, throwing in something new, and it's not like evolution at all, it's the same pokemon, given a new spin in a way.

But why not keep on exploring the new region? Why do you need to go back to an older region, it's not part of the story, and I'd rather not have them shoed into the game for the sake of "more" exploration. Because in the end, if you went back to the older regions, it'd be the same sights and possibly? different gym leaders, but that's it. More Gym Leaders.. It's just fluff, and it'd feel like filler if you ask me.

It isn't something new. It's something that's been done to death in various other sources, such as the aforementioned Digimon, Transformers, Sailor Moon, etc. It just looks like bandwagoning.

Black and White proved that what was post content region (the other half of the circle) was not at all worth just shoving at the end. There was no reason for any of that to be post game, except maybe because of the higher leveled trainers, and would have easily given the players a branching point from the bottom half of the circle, instead of just having to traverse the region in a straight line (literally, by map, since the right half of the circle was completely closed off Pre-league). Instead of being bored out of my mind in the same region, I'd rather visit an older region to see what changed over the years, in addition to possibly being able to battle the original protagonist of said region (Red and Kanto), since the games almost never show what happens to the player characters after they become champion. It's also a chance for new Pokemon players to actually see these other regions that are sometimes mentioned in the game. The kids who are just now getting into Pokemon have no idea what a Hoenn is or what it looks like, until they either find out about emulators and get the roms of old, GameFreak decides to finally remake the set with the current Generation standards, or if the games allow them to visit said region.

Pretty much every single series ever in one way or another has some sort of method of powering up something/somebody by adding to it. I don't get why Pokemon all of sudden is singled out for bandwagoning, when those series probably got the idea from something else as well.
Not to mention that in Digimon, and Transformers, they just added mechanical limbs and shitload of weaponry.