POKEMON GEN 6 ANNOUNCED

[Koh]

I don't get why people want to turn Pokémon into Skyrim or Zelda. Personalize each gamer's experience? As choosing your own team of monsters wasn't personalization enough. That would completely ruin the style of the game and it wouldn't work. How do you place trainers and enemies in a world where the player can go anywhere? Having them be dynamic in levels (example: the trainer's pokemon is always 10 lvls stronger than yours) would make it kinda bland honestly, and wouldn't help the overall design at all. Or if it were like old RPGs, where you could stumble in a high level area early on the game, well, that's basically the same thing as shutting off the area anyway (unless the player wants to grind and then just stomp over the other areas later)

Dragon Quest Monsters can show you how they did this. After you finish the first Traveler's Gate, you almost always have two open at a time and can choose which one you want to do first. One is usually SLIGHTLY harder than the other, but you're able to take on both. Once you participate in the next class of the Starry Night Tournament, you open up another two Traveler's Gates, and can choose which one you want to do. The random Monster Masters you can encounter within these gates are scaled based on the gates, so they'll always be about the same strength of one another within the same gate, but weaker than others in later gates. Pokemon did the same thing TWICE with Red/Blue/Green/Yellow and Pokemon Gold/Silver/Crystal. For R/G/B/Y, after you get to Lavender Town from Rock Tunnel, you can do Celadon City, Saffron City, and Fuschia City in any order, before finally getting to Cinnabar Island and then Viridian Gym. As for G/S/C, after you finish Ecruteak City, you can go east to Mahogany Town and then Lake of Rage, or West to Olivine City and then Cianwood City. Either way, you're able to handle both, and can choose freely, before finally meeting up at Blackthorn City, after dealing with Radio Tower.