>>36984023I just feel fucking beat down over how everything that's happened recently. I don't have any hope anymore. The whole appeal of the series to me is having the freedom to make my team how I like it, and going on an adventure with my favorite pokemon. The designs are overall pretty nice, too. Now this game, coming out after the letdown that was Gen 7, cuts 80% of the designs, forces you to use specific pokemon and have overall less freedom, and has zero respect for the source material. Not only that, but it looks like spinoffs as a whole are totally dead.
After all that, how am I supposed to have any hope for the series? I cannot lie to myself and say "gen 8 will be the best ever!" especially not after the pathetic attempts at programming that have been commonplace with GF. They say Gen 8 will look nice and be aimed at long term fans, but how am I honestly supposed to believe them? They're a company, of course they're going to say things like that. Not to mention, they plan on making more LGPE-like games, which'll take dev time away from mainline and leave no timeframe for spinoffs to release in.
I want to be wrong, I want gen 8 to be good, but I have no faith in GF. Whatever they say, I won't believe it's good/bad until after it releases and people talk about how it is.
