>haven't played Pokemon in years, played halfway through gen 7 but stopped because I lost my interest in video games
>heard of a new gen being announced and a number of pokemon not appearing in the new games
>think it sucks, but assume it'll probably just a rather small numbers
>cousin is currently visiting who hasn't played Pokemon since gen 5 and I saw him playing the new game
>watch him play a bit since I've never seen the game before outside of a commercial I saw a few times
>look up how many Pokemon were actually cut
>mfw reading through the list of cut pokemon
As I said I haven't kept up with the series in years so someone please explain to me how anyone with an interest in the series can support this shit. I've played every gen since gen 2 but I wouldn't have bought this shit in a million years.