Orphalesion
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Well, or those "Pokemon Stars" rumors about it featuring a handful of new Pokemon are true.
A Gen 7.5 if you will *dodges flying eggs and tomatoes*
A Gen 7.5 if you will *dodges flying eggs and tomatoes*
Well, or those "Pokemon Stars" rumors about it featuring a handful of new Pokemon are true.
A Gen 7.5 if you will *dodges flying eggs and tomatoes*
Except the Eurogamer rumor specifies a 2017 release, so that would mean the Eurogamer rumor is wrong. But at this point, at least something about that rumor is most likely wrong anyway.
Why does a 2017 release date make it wrong? We're still within the window of opportunity for a game to be announced for release later this year.
I don't really see how having no more event Pokemon signifies the end of a generation.
I mean, it's kind of obvious. The Eurogamer rumor specified a 2017 release date for Stars. If Stars is Gen 7.5 in 2018, then Eurogamer is wrong.
What makes the whole thing unlikely now is that we have no event Pokemon for 2017, which implies that 2018 is Gen 8. Gen 8 being the game after Stars defeats the purpose of having Stars be a Switch game, that would make sense if Gen 8 wasn't ready for a few more years but not if it's coming immediately after.
People continuing to cling to the concept of "generation-point-five is"... puzzling, at best? Maybe by the time we don't get a 7.5 or an 8.5 it'll pass.
And I think half the problem is we continue to mistakenly conflate "I really want this to happen" with "this could happen" to varying degrees, as if the former somehow boosts the chances of the latter.
and there is at least some logic for a .5 generation to exist
Too much time and discussion has been wasted on pandering the idea of a "Generation .5".If we're going with the idea of Gen 7.5, then Stars could be 2017, and 2018 or 2019 could have Gen VII Sinnoh remakes, making Gen VIII 2019 or 2020. The apparent lack of event Legendaries would be solved by the very nature of a Gen 7.5 game, as it would introduce a new event Pokemon.
I don't know about other people, but I just love the idea so much and really want to see it happen. I'm totally willing to admit it's not likely, but right now it does seem like a possible, even if unlikely, solution to situation caused by running out of event Legendaries, so I'm speculating about it.
There isn't, though. It's born of this reflex we have when we finish a decent game, that there must be more, because that can't possibly be it.
I certainly can't stop you from believing as you like and I won't belabor the point further, but I do think if people took a step back and determined how much (i.e. how little) of the idea makes sense and how much of it is built on a foundation of "but I want it to happen," what little basis there is for the idea to begin with would evaporate even further.
Even if game freak were to introduce new event pokemon in the next installments and nothing more- that would not constitute a new half or quarter of a generation. Much in the same way that Mega-Diancie and Hoopa Unbound did not have people up in arms about a gen 6.5 despite only being added in ORAS.
The only reason the speculation of a "Gen 7.5" arose was due to XY's noticeably lower number of new pokemon compared to previous installments (And the forms that became prevalent in the end of the XYZ anime arc). But as the release of Sun and Moon has confirmed- generations introducing less than 100 new pokemon is not something to be speculative about.
I'm also expecting Mew at some point in the future. Not much point in giving out Mewnium Z if you can't even legally obtain Mew anymore outside of link trade.
I don't really see how having no more event Pokemon signifies the end of a generation.
Because new mythicals are constantly released yearly as a way of promoting movies and they have nothing else to promote for Gen 7. It's extremely rare that we don't have a year with a new mythical, the only time that's happened in the last 10 years is in Movie 11. That's a pretty consistent pattern if ever there was one.
But are Mythicals necessary? Can't they release a movie featuring other Gen 7 Pokemon, or perhaps a new form/e?
"Pattern" is no longer a strong argument nowadays considering Pokemon has broken a lot of "traditions".
Every generation has lasted 3-4 years. That's a pretty consistent pattern if ever there was one. Oh, and Movie 11 had Shaymin; it's Movie 14 and Movie 16 that merely showcased Victini and Genesect around a year after their game debuts.It's extremely rare that we don't have a year with a new mythical, the only time that's happened in the last 10 years is in Movie 11. That's a pretty consistent pattern if ever there was one.