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Topic: How Many Pokemon Do You Think Is/Should Gonna Be in Gen VIII?

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Grumblevolcano

@-Green- I think the main disadvantage gen 7 has is the Eurogamer rumour (Stars which actually ended up being USUM). The whole "Why is Nintendo still supporting the 3DS when they should be supporting Switch instead?" logic was very common throughout 2017, I think the Pokemon Switch announcement at E3 2017 wouldn't have even happened if it wasn't for the expectations set by the Stars rumour.

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Bolt_Strike

Snaplocket wrote:

@Bolt_Strike I don't agree with you. Like, that's all I want to say. Believe what you wanna believe. I thought the land was plenty big and the main quest was fairly meaty (although the villains sucked). Yes, it was lacking in post-game, but the improved multiplayer and GIGANTIC jump to a full 3D engine made up for it imo.

It's not a matter of opinion though. Games like BotW and Odyssey, and even Mario 64 and OoT are just quantitatively much bigger games.

As for how much that matters, console gamers have been used to that scale for 20 years and many gamers are associating the Switch with games like BotW and Odyssey and expecting nearly every other IP to similarly revitalize and evolve their formulas. So there's at least a reasonable chance that 3DS era design in HD is not going to fly.

Grumblevolcano wrote:

@-Green- I think the main disadvantage gen 7 has is the Eurogamer rumour (Stars which actually ended up being USUM). The whole "Why is Nintendo still supporting the 3DS when they should be supporting Switch instead?" logic was very common throughout 2017, I think the Pokemon Switch announcement at E3 2017 wouldn't have even happened if it wasn't for the expectations set by the Stars rumour.

To be fair, Pokemon has never been an early adopter of next gen hardware, so they should've seen this coming. It's always taken about 2-3 years for it to make the jump to next gen hardware and they've never really had a problem with releasing games on the older hardware in the meantime. Now I don't really like the policy or think it's particularly beneficial, but it's not exactly a big shocker. We had this exact same conversation on BW/BW2 back when the 3DS was new.

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Octane

Buuuttt... How many Pokemon?

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Bolt_Strike

Snaplocket wrote:

@Bolt_Strike Uhhhhh.. no it's not. That's just your opinion. Don't act like it's fact. The world isn't any bigger in Sun and Moon.

No it's not. World size is a matter of measurement. There's absolutely no question that BotW, for example, has larger maps than OoT, and it would take more time to navigate its worlds, complete its story and sidequests, and do everything that can be done in the game. That's all quantitative fact, not a matter of opinion.

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MrGam3andBu1ld

The pokemon could range from anywhere between 100 to I'd about 60

I'd be stoked for an open world pokemon game with more lively characters, like instead of a festival plaza, have those real trainers be AI traveling the region and you can talk to them or challenge them to battle and maybe earn more than just cash, maybe an ultra ball or something
I'ma justa spit ballin here

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Laoak

If Game Freak are gonna be like Sakurai, they'll put all the last ones and about a good 150 more . Please Game Freak, keep the 2player Mechanic from Lets Go!

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Heavyarms55

I'd rather them bring in more regional variants than entirely new species. I really like the idea of Pokemon living in different environments that have adapted to those environments. I think less is more in the case of new Pokemon. There are a lot of Pokemon already, let's get some regional variants of Pokemon from across the generations and then just a handful of entirely new Pokemon.

I feel like we saw with gen 5, a huge dump of new Pokemon, because they tried to be all new, and then many of those Pokemon have since been forgotten because of their mediocrity and the fact that they were just designed to fill roles in the game play. It was quantity over quality. Gen 5 has a small handful of Pokemon that have remained popular and/or competitively relevant, but most are largely ignored.

Thus with gen 8, I'd even go so far as to hope the focus is on regional variations of Pokemon from gens 2-6. Maybe 1 or 2 from gen 7 but I feel like those are still fresh enough that variations are redundant for now.

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Octane

Just do a reboot. Sorry Mankey, you're ugly and you're out. Have us vote for good designs to keep. Bring a good 100-200 over into the reboot gen, and ditch the rest. It could even be a weekly TV show.

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This idea... I love it but it needs some tweaking. At the end of the TV show there's a huge plottwist. All the Pokémon that were supposedly cut will instead become the new official reboot gen. Bye Pikachu and Charizard! Everyone is tired of you mainstreams! Say hello to the age of Jynx and Snubbull!

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KnightsTemplar

As long as all the original pokemon show up as well im not fussed how many new pokemon. I cant friggan wait for this game. Also bring on lets go pikichu

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