My internal voice read this as "Pokemon Carbon Dioxide"
Oh my gosh this. Exactly.
I enjoyed both your comments. I really love playing these games and the different tweaks people throw in (Love suzerain's HM items, SO much), and the official games have a special place in my heart. That being said, I wish we could see more games moving away from the whole badges, evil team, league formula and trying out other RPG flavors. One idea I've mentioned elsewhere on the forums is a story of a disease outbreak at a university and what that would be like with pokemon Pokemon Contagion? Heck, there could be a story where you're an ecologist trying to STOP people from catching them all. As an example of different RPG flavors, I really enjoyed Super Eevee Edition's different battle mechanics. The Speed based turn system made so much more sense to me in that game than it does in official games (kinda feel like speed is an "underused" stat. It determines who goes first and nothing else. I guess there's gyro ball and electro ball, but still So all that extra speed your electrode (or whatever) has is totally wasted on that shuckle). Another example from SEE, the fact that pokemon could learn more than 4 attacks. SEE also has an item synthesizing system. Anyway, kinda rambling at this point. Love the discussion, really hope it happens.
Edit* Oh, Pokemon Apex is an interesting example of new stuff. For me, it's kinda like Pokemon and Kingdom Hearts had a child.