I know that you want to decide areas first, but I still think I have an idea for a plot. And, in all actuality, it may carry a couple of ideas for area too. Idk.
You see, I was thinking about ideas for Pokemon earlier today, or more specifically, ideas for fossil Pokemon (don't ask...I just like them), when I got the idea of a Velociraptor Pokemon. And if you've ever seen a picture of what they thought the Velociraptor would look like, you understand why I thought it would fit in well. My problem was, however, that I couldn't see a Velociraptor being given the simple fossilized, rock look, thanks to the common knowledge that Velociraptors are believed to have feathers. That's when I got the idea...
There should be a machine that has been invented that doesn't just bring fossils back to life, but brings them back in their original form. Now I will admit, I thought the idea was rather out there and stupid at first, but then I remembered this show I saw on the Discovery Channel a long time ago about dinosaurs, and I remembered how nearly every scene showing dinosaurs attacking each other and stuff was in a jungle-like area. After that, I then remembered the animals that have been considered for what we were basing these Pokemon off of, and I noticed something: they're from all over the world. Or in other words, this tropical area, if every idea that's been introduced so far was kept, would basically resemble what the world would look like if the continents suddenly came back together overnight and gained the appropriate climate. We would have
Pangaea all over again.
Of course, because we would be running through something like Pangaea, fossilized things would have a bigger play into the actual them, and you could even base the plot off of it. My idea was basically that, thanks to there being little to no separations and shifts in the tectonic plates (or whatever it is that creates the movement of land masses) over the millions of years, fossils are much easier to come across. Because of this abundance, many scientists have taken into studying these fossils to further understand the process of evolution among Pokemon. After years upon years of study, however, they have finally run out of angles to study the fossils from, and decide to build a machine that completely revives the Pokemon in their original form. Years later, the device is finally finished, and they introduce it to the public. Not long after, however, the device gets stolen by a criminal syndicate who plan on using the device to revive these ancient Pokemon and use them as weapons to take over the world.
And...that's what I've got so far. I also already figured that the hero would be too late and the syndicate would revive some of these ancient Pokemon; including the legendary trio (which would be the bugs already mentioned...and I think one of those bugs needs to be a giant ****ing Mosquito, btw). The hero would then beat the syndicate's leader, and something would happen that would inevitably destroy (preferrably blow up) the lab. Before that happens, however, the leader of the syndicate would set the ancient Pokemon free, unleashing them upon the world in an effort to destroy it; claiming that if he can't rule the world, no one can (or something like that. Hopefully it wouldn't sound so lame though). And then, well, you know the rest. Go rescue the world from rogue Pokemon and blahblahblah beat the Elite Four yay we're done!
As for whether to include a few particular areas tailored to these prehistoric Pokemon or to squeeze them into different areas among the map with other Pokemon after the event happens, however, idk. I personally prefer the first, or a mix of the two with emphasis of the first, but that's just me.
And...yeah, idk...I just thought it sounded good. It would open up new ideas for Pokemon, and the plot, from a personal opinion, already sounds better than AT LEAST D/P/Pt. Plus, fossils would no longer just be 'rock/whatever' types, and it could even open up alternate forms to the current fossils. So uhh...yeah. What do you guys think?
