Current Events > Is the in-game human population in the Pokemon series below replacement rates?

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Are humans going extinct?

In the games you have like 10 people living in most towns at most. Sure you do have cities, but at their size you can fit a few thousand at most. So how many humans are actually alive in the Pokemon universe? A few hundred thousand at most? Probably less...
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It's almost like the games are scaled down so that they can be processed on handhelds because GameFreak has an obsession with hosting shit consoles
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This could probably be said about most 2D JRPGs. A village consists of less than 15 people most of the time and only half of them have anything good to say.
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In the Shin Megami Tensei universe it makes sense, since most of the games take place during the apocalypse
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There's the theory that the original games take place after a major war, but it doesn't exactly have a lot going for it. All it has is that the player has no father and Lt. Surge did fight in a war at some point.
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