If the islands in the map image released were all connected instead of being islands, and the map zoomed into slightly, the map would look no "smaller" than Kalos, Unova, or Sinnoh.
The problem people are having is that their idea of what "islands" are like is probably literally derived from stuff like The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker where islands are depicted as isolated dots of land that can be explored in full in just a matter of moments, and maybe never visited an island that wasn't something in some lake somewhere.
In relation to an individual human being, most actual islands are fucking gigantic.
I live on an island that has a four major counties situated on it, a railroad network, a six lane freeway running end to end (not to mention a second four lane highway as well), and it would take about 4 hours with GOOD traffic to drive the entire length, and that's assuming a driving speed of at about 65 miles per hour, though obviously the road isn't a literal straight line so the MPH doesn't automatically equate to the length of the road.
People can basically live their entire lives on this island and really only leave because they feel like it, I've only seen maybe 20% of it and I'm someone who goes out of their way to visit parks and go hiking and go to events in different towns and shit.
And it would take maybe FIVE OR SIX of the island I live on to amount to the land mass of the SMALLEST of the major Hawaiian islands upon which Alola is based.
You guys need to calm down and stop making up shit to complain about before we've even played the games.
>>26569751
The main issue is that they made an archipelago region but wont let you link the different islands by yourself (through surfing water routes)
Instead, you get some useless water routes along the coast and travel between islands will be made on ship through cut scenes
What a waste...
>>26569751
tiny as shit desu
>>26569879
A. We don't know the full details of water routes and travel yet.
B. They just took a shitstorm of criticism for Hoenn having too much surfing in uninteresting water routes in ORAS, what do you expect from them?
C. They'll probably be tons of surfing in some manner, its fuckin hawaii afterall.
>>26569751
>In relation to an individual human being, most actual islands are fucking gigantic.
Yeah, but not the ones in Alola
Pic related, this two scenery that hold in a screenview make up for easily 10% of the total map
>>26570018
but how is the actual scaling fundamentally different from that of Hoenn or Unova except for the fact that it HAPPENS to be on an island?
>>26570093
Different overworld style
More simply put, Pokémon players are used to region design concepts that give the IMPRESSION of traveling large, epic distances without actually doing so, while Mother 3 for instance has a much more "modest" looking map but the scope of exploration when playing the game is similar or greater than Unova or Kalos.
>>26569879
But op image is literally the largest island in the entire game, what point are you trying to prove?
>>26570359
The game on his pic revolves maily around travelling the sea (logical in an archipelago setting)
SM wont give us that, we'll have Sevii tier cutscenes when changing islands
>>26570018
>10% of the total map
more like 3-5%, if you actually look at the real in-game map sizes (pic related) instead of beleiving /vp/ fearmongering memes, you'll see that island is clearly significantly smaller than the other three. The areas in those two screenshots are not ten percent of the map by any means
Obviously the islands are going to be connected through cave tunnels formed from old magma chambers. Also if you look at the tiny island of the cost of [desert region island], it is clearly meant to be traveled to so there must be some way of getting there not involving a boat because we all remember how shitty that was in FR/LG and DP.
Also there is port on the island not surrounded by rock things.
>>26570438
All that useless water is taking over 60% of the map.
>>26570548
>All that useless water is taking over 60% of the map.
Do you literally think the water is "taking up" space that otherwise would be filled with new land?
That's like saying that all the land visible on the art map of Kalos that aren't routes, cities, or dungeons are "uselss" or account for places that SHOULD have "been in the game" but were instead "stolen" from you somehow.
>>26570438 Is right.
Look at the map they released, the entire view is distorted to give a good look at all the islands and their landmarks without having to resort to a fairly boring looking, low detail overhead view as the actual game map is. in this screenshot.
>>26569879
I just realized, that globe would be the size of like a Mario Galaxy planet, its fucking tiny or the islands are fucking contintnets.
The more relevant map
>>26571070
Looks like bullshit.
>>26569879
Chrono Cross
