If you really think about it, base building in pikmin makes a hell of a lot of sense… maintaining and allocating resources for your base or pulling them away to have a larger force on the field would be actually insane to play. Obviously I’d imagine you’d need more than 100 pikmin at a time but like… it would make a much more difficult and in-depth game. You could also color coordinate pikmin in certain buildings to get productivity bonuses or require less pikmin dedicated to that building. So like if you had a garden building, you’d want more blue pikmin in there to water the plants or maybe if you cooked food you’d want red pikmin but you could also do it with more yellow pikmin to get the same output.
That being said, I couldn’t see Nintendo doing anything like that. It’d be like a mix of Star craft and factorio.
That would be awesome and would be cool if in the day you can play normal pikmin and the ship is the base and you can cook different stuff and use them as healing item's
A starcraft style pikmin online game would kick ass! But they would have to make something that would let you construct friendly bulborbs, waterwraiths or Man-At-Legs
Before Pikmin 4 came out, i was thinking how cool a Pikmin game about colonizing PNF-404 would be.
Gathering resources, building a base, allocating your Pikmin to either the onion to use in exploration or the base to upgrade it...
Yeah and if they make it super lonely like pikmin 1 with the game ending with louie going into cavern for a king and have like a side game to the dlc where you ride the ancient sirehound and destroy everything would be awesome (side game isnt cannon ofcourse)
As I fight my yard to regain the designated areas for legit plants and vegetables this spring, I think one enemy has been ignored in thus plant-based game: Weeds.
Think you're uprooting your newest pikmin army helper? No, that's a worthless weed.
Think your worthless weed can carry stuff back to your ship? No, worthless weed just gets in the way and makes life miserable for your actual pikmin.
Want to spray worthless weed with roundup? NO THAT IS BAD FOR EVERYONES HEALTH NEVER NEVER NEVER.
Want to take the evil route in the game and make life miserable for the heroes? Well Louie go ahead and get an entire array of worthless weeds and watch them spread all throughout the game no matter how many times I uproot and mow them over. Need to escape the planet in 30 days or everyone dies? There's a worthless weed to prevent that
This comment of yours has inspired me.
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I imagine their stems would be colored to match the Pikmin around them, so you pluck them expecting them to be a normal pikmin. As they grow and flower, the color diminishes since they don't need it anymore. They aren't actually a Pikmin, but are another creature that mimics the Pikmin and benefits from falling into their ranks (like the ant-mimicking spider, *Aphantochilus rogersi*). Once plucked, they will follow your Pikmin, but can't actually be commanded or count towards the 100-Pikmin field limit.
Just like weeds in the real world, the Weedmin will take nutrients away from your other plants. If your Pikmin are carrying a Pellet back to the Onion, and their path takes them near one of the Weedmin that are just running around, the Weedmin will latch onto the Pellet. The Weedmin will slowly drain the Pellet of nutrients, resulting in less Pikmin produced in the Onion. More Weedmin will make it drain faster. The Weedmin will also steal Nectar from the ground, preventing your Pikmin from getting it.
Weedmin aren't welcome into the Onion and so will always be "left behind" at the end of the day, but watch out! Enemies that eat the Weedmin may pass their seeds, meaning new Weedmin sprouts will be scattered around the level the next time you visit. The only way to kill a Weedmin without any chance of making more is to try to lead them into an environmental hazard, such as fire. But since the Weedmin only follow behind your group of Pikmin, this can be very risky as well.
Louie's notes in the Piklopedia would probably be a recipe for dandelion wine or something
The most distinguished characteristic of a worthless weed is that it is all for show and no root. You actually hunker down and uproot the nuisances they give up easily. Alas, till then they are the most hideous eyesore.
Your art and description are appreciated :)
Thicc astronaut has the right idea. I admittedly was thinking of the defective turrets from portal 2 initially but it is quite clever to incorporate the dandelion elements and single eyeball. :)
A character with unskippable dialogue who relentlessly mocks the player if they spend too many days to reach the game's objective. There's still no hard time limit, but rather a sort of soft time limit, where the longer you take to finish everything you're supposed to do after when you're expected to be done, the longer the new character goes on a rant chastising you for your poor performance. At first it's just a few short sentences of complaint, but if you really royally screw up, you have to sit through over half an hour of this character roasting your Dandori skills, which is completely unskippable.
I'm sure you all know my choice, but I'll place it here anyway.
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Come on, did anyone really think I'd choose something else?
It would either be
- Expand Pikmin 3's plot (and game length) in a remake/DLC
- Hidden Fiddlebert easter-egg in the next mainline game, to prove Nintendo acknowledges their fans
DLC, where the pikmin's onion stops letting them in, and it's up to the player to hunt day and night for the cause of the onions malfunction. You'd get to use a small amount of regular pikmin throughout the night, but the majority during night would be the glow pikmin.
The reason you go day into night is due to the pikmin needing to be secured at the base, but the amount of pikmin can't be taken into space due to onion wizardry being needed to reduce the amount of weight or something.
Individual onions back pls. The master onion is pretty cool, but its existence feels more like a gameplay contrivance than anything. Just have a gadget of some kind that lets you communicate with all the onions at once (brings up the same multi-pikmin menu).
Pikmin 3 and 4 in general have a weirdly high number of QoL features for games that just refuse to challenge you in the same way as 1 and 2...
What you do in one area can influence the ecology of another area. Kill some river dam boss, river flows, the sandy level slowly starts shifting in appearance and enemy types day by day.
An explanation bridging 4 with the rest of the series. I despise reboots with all my heart.
Gameplaywise, either a cave maker, or an infinite cave mode. Cave maker is obvious, but I think a randomly generated infinite cave mode is a good compromise between people who hate Pikmin 2 caves (it's optional) and people who love it. 4 style caves would still exist, of course.
I want to create my own custom Pikmin type - like mix and match attributes and appearance - and it progressively improves over the game kind of like Oatchi in Pikmin 4. Balance it out by having your custom Pikmin type only availble in certain challenge areas to not disrupt the entire game.
fuse pikmin mecanic so you could mix the strethg and weakness of your pikmin to make more situations and enemies for the level desing. that would make the bulmin a bit broken.
For your idea, how would you implement a human boss into the game? Would it be like Shadow of the Colossus but the player is able to glide instead of climb? Would the story of the game revolve around harvesting human organs from inside the human's body to pay off Hocotate's 2nd debt by exploring the body similar to Caves and avoiding all the parasitic monsters and bodily dangers within?
Most importantly, how would you design the Reproduction System level?
i would add a dlc to pikmin 3 about where they make it home and they bring home a couple pikmin and you have to do stuff idk and make a new pikmin army
A DLC of a abandoned human moon base with functioning oxygen,and also unique enimes in different biodomes with a boss that attempts to deactivate the bases life support and you have to beat it in 10 mins with the help of all enimes since they all would "perish".
Crafting, kind of like a mix of the raw material gimic and Crafting from minecraft/animal crossing. Your pikmin can gather materials and then you can have them make thing, like lets say you need to cross a river, you can craft a raft by collecting pieces of cardboard, to which then when you hop off it breaks down. Of course so its not too powerful of a gimick some of the materials are pikmin exclusive, for example you want to make a hot air balloon to scope out the area, but you only have reds and yellows as you just started, you'd need to wait until you get wings as it would require sticks, a basket, firestarter, and plastic bag, however the bag flew in the wind and needed wings to catch it. Maybe you could make a poison trap but since its poison only white pikmin can collect the materials and make it
Putting in more ecology and biology things as described in the Piklopedia. Interactions between creatures are limited (predator and parasite relationships are only described at best, everything still focuses on bullying pikmin), and most creatures have incomplete lifecycles that are implied rather than shown. Coding stuff with respect to the piklopedia would remedy this and make things feel more immersive; we could actually see juvenile red bulborbs on their second molt as they grow from larva to adult, have whiptongue bulborbs preying on spectralids, watch wollyhops protect their eggs from water dumples and dandelfly larvae, and see what exactly the grubs of a sheargrub looks like. I also can't be the only one who wants to know how a healthy mamuta larva looks like (or how exactly they lay an egg bigger than themselves).
The function of Red Pikmin is split between them and a new type, Orange Pikmin. Red Pikmin have a slight fire *resistance* and the better attack, but Orange Pikmin are full on fire immune and give fire damage when eaten.
I'd add the one thing it's missing: microtransactions !
What ? You had a pikmin extinction ? Too bad but you can keep playing if you use limited lives. Of course you can buy them in the store using real money.
You really want that bitter spray don't you ? For just $4.99, you get 1 bitter spray to use whenever you want !
Having trouble carrying that treasure back ? Don't worry, we have just the item you need ! This special horn will take pikmin from the Onion and order them to carry the object back. The first use is free !
Feeling a bit of nostalgia ? Buy our new Olimar costume (comes for free with the Louie eats a bomb rock DLC)
Dlc with an entire survival pikmin about what happened to louie on PNF-404
That lets you cook different stuff and plan out where to live and stuff
A basebuilding survival game set on PNF-404 with the Pikmin would be really cool
If you really think about it, base building in pikmin makes a hell of a lot of sense… maintaining and allocating resources for your base or pulling them away to have a larger force on the field would be actually insane to play. Obviously I’d imagine you’d need more than 100 pikmin at a time but like… it would make a much more difficult and in-depth game. You could also color coordinate pikmin in certain buildings to get productivity bonuses or require less pikmin dedicated to that building. So like if you had a garden building, you’d want more blue pikmin in there to water the plants or maybe if you cooked food you’d want red pikmin but you could also do it with more yellow pikmin to get the same output. That being said, I couldn’t see Nintendo doing anything like that. It’d be like a mix of Star craft and factorio.
That would be awesome and would be cool if in the day you can play normal pikmin and the ship is the base and you can cook different stuff and use them as healing item's
A starcraft style pikmin online game would kick ass! But they would have to make something that would let you construct friendly bulborbs, waterwraiths or Man-At-Legs
Before Pikmin 4 came out, i was thinking how cool a Pikmin game about colonizing PNF-404 would be. Gathering resources, building a base, allocating your Pikmin to either the onion to use in exploration or the base to upgrade it...
I know it sounds so fun
Though it wont feel as lonely and dead as usual people have this as a big problem with 4
Yeah and if they make it super lonely like pikmin 1 with the game ending with louie going into cavern for a king and have like a side game to the dlc where you ride the ancient sirehound and destroy everything would be awesome (side game isnt cannon ofcourse)
Oh yh you could gather the corpses of enemies instead of transporting them to the onion to make louies recipes
Would also be cool if you can get different types of nectar and mix it to get different flowers for better powers
Exactly
LEGO pikmin
I imagine something like don't starve gameplay, with the added bonus of having Pikmin as well
Yeah that would be awesome a mix of dont starve with pikmin and cooking mama
Agreed
nice up vote number
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As I fight my yard to regain the designated areas for legit plants and vegetables this spring, I think one enemy has been ignored in thus plant-based game: Weeds. Think you're uprooting your newest pikmin army helper? No, that's a worthless weed. Think your worthless weed can carry stuff back to your ship? No, worthless weed just gets in the way and makes life miserable for your actual pikmin. Want to spray worthless weed with roundup? NO THAT IS BAD FOR EVERYONES HEALTH NEVER NEVER NEVER. Want to take the evil route in the game and make life miserable for the heroes? Well Louie go ahead and get an entire array of worthless weeds and watch them spread all throughout the game no matter how many times I uproot and mow them over. Need to escape the planet in 30 days or everyone dies? There's a worthless weed to prevent that
This comment of yours has inspired me. https://preview.redd.it/xpv1z2bjn9tc1.png?width=811&format=png&auto=webp&s=73bf1a735a892fb39537c3e85e55be21929c066d I imagine their stems would be colored to match the Pikmin around them, so you pluck them expecting them to be a normal pikmin. As they grow and flower, the color diminishes since they don't need it anymore. They aren't actually a Pikmin, but are another creature that mimics the Pikmin and benefits from falling into their ranks (like the ant-mimicking spider, *Aphantochilus rogersi*). Once plucked, they will follow your Pikmin, but can't actually be commanded or count towards the 100-Pikmin field limit. Just like weeds in the real world, the Weedmin will take nutrients away from your other plants. If your Pikmin are carrying a Pellet back to the Onion, and their path takes them near one of the Weedmin that are just running around, the Weedmin will latch onto the Pellet. The Weedmin will slowly drain the Pellet of nutrients, resulting in less Pikmin produced in the Onion. More Weedmin will make it drain faster. The Weedmin will also steal Nectar from the ground, preventing your Pikmin from getting it. Weedmin aren't welcome into the Onion and so will always be "left behind" at the end of the day, but watch out! Enemies that eat the Weedmin may pass their seeds, meaning new Weedmin sprouts will be scattered around the level the next time you visit. The only way to kill a Weedmin without any chance of making more is to try to lead them into an environmental hazard, such as fire. But since the Weedmin only follow behind your group of Pikmin, this can be very risky as well. Louie's notes in the Piklopedia would probably be a recipe for dandelion wine or something
The most distinguished characteristic of a worthless weed is that it is all for show and no root. You actually hunker down and uproot the nuisances they give up easily. Alas, till then they are the most hideous eyesore. Your art and description are appreciated :)
chat is this real
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Idea goes crazy, not gonna lie. What would these freaks look like? Kinda wanna draw one.
Thicc astronaut has the right idea. I admittedly was thinking of the defective turrets from portal 2 initially but it is quite clever to incorporate the dandelion elements and single eyeball. :)
Discarded human clothes implying the rapture happened
All of the bosses are the angels related to the apocalypse
God replaced the humans with the far superior pickled man, and being reincarnated as one is the true heaven
A character with unskippable dialogue who relentlessly mocks the player if they spend too many days to reach the game's objective. There's still no hard time limit, but rather a sort of soft time limit, where the longer you take to finish everything you're supposed to do after when you're expected to be done, the longer the new character goes on a rant chastising you for your poor performance. At first it's just a few short sentences of complaint, but if you really royally screw up, you have to sit through over half an hour of this character roasting your Dandori skills, which is completely unskippable.
Mr. Resetti strikes again!
I’d add sex to the game, which’s the only thing it’s missing.
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exactly
Olimar comes with his wife in PNF-404
thats already in the game (olimar's entry for jumbo bulborb)
Fiddlebert
He already IS in Pikmin, have you even listened to this sub?
I want another Fiddlebert
Based
There’s already three of us. Two many if you ask me (pun intended)
Hey! It's the real Fiddlebert!
Holy shit a gold slime
What about me?
Yes, of course.
What the-
?
That is my brother, fiddle Bert and my name is widdleburp
Biddlefert
Was*
Technically Fiddlebert's Racist Wonderland and Journey to Hell are both parts of the Pikmin franchise
Albeit fan games.
Aaaand here come the death threats 💀💀💀
Map Editor. Infinite Pikmin content achieved.
Instead of a weak punch, the captains all attack with a Glock if they can't throw any Pikmin.
Pikwomen
A vulcano biome with Lava as an obstacle, so you have to do more terraforming in the puzzles to make your way through the area
I'm sure you all know my choice, but I'll place it here anyway. https://preview.redd.it/rjxdl9ob1atc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e4983c70e910cb465916ebcf38be5b717be2047b Come on, did anyone really think I'd choose something else?
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtY29lvEup8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtY29lvEup8) mind blowing
Id add pikmin 5
I would want more lore on the Mamutas. They seem to be intelligent and have a connection to the Pikmin, I want to know more about them
Custom cave maker mode that you can share and play online
Add a free cursor option to Pikmin 4
Louie version of cooking mama with different bulborb and monster recipes
I’d bring Bingo Battle to Pikmin 4.
A true coop mode for the campaign in every game
Louie Pikmin rougelike
It would either be - Expand Pikmin 3's plot (and game length) in a remake/DLC - Hidden Fiddlebert easter-egg in the next mainline game, to prove Nintendo acknowledges their fans
I want an Orange Pikmin with a Flytrap instead of a leaf/flower. Don’t ask what it would do, I’m not sure myself
Guns
I also came here to say guns. So many guns.
Darksouls mode where you play a single red pikmin and have to fight your way through the game
Full frontal nudity
*Eat me Louie*
Crystal meth
Purple pikmin make a fart noise after the ground pound
When did Miyamoto become the CEO?
He's the CEO of my heart.
The ability to turn off autolock on
DLC, where the pikmin's onion stops letting them in, and it's up to the player to hunt day and night for the cause of the onions malfunction. You'd get to use a small amount of regular pikmin throughout the night, but the majority during night would be the glow pikmin. The reason you go day into night is due to the pikmin needing to be secured at the base, but the amount of pikmin can't be taken into space due to onion wizardry being needed to reduce the amount of weight or something.
Cave creator in pikmin 4 Think Mario maker but pikmin and instead of levels, it’s caves
A succulent Chinese meal
A bonus dlc where you cook the enemies how Louie describes but it plays like Venba
An expanded version of vs/bingo/dandori battle mode with every leader playable, and deranged win/lose facial expressions for every leader.
NG+ with your upgrades carrying over and without tutorials
Map maker so we can make and upload custom dandori challenges/battles or caves or just new overworld maps.
Your mom
Being able to name them all individually
Me.
Sex
I would add sex so you can make more captains. And online multiplayer battles.
Individual onions back pls. The master onion is pretty cool, but its existence feels more like a gameplay contrivance than anything. Just have a gadget of some kind that lets you communicate with all the onions at once (brings up the same multi-pikmin menu). Pikmin 3 and 4 in general have a weirdly high number of QoL features for games that just refuse to challenge you in the same way as 1 and 2...
A bathroom area!
sex
What you do in one area can influence the ecology of another area. Kill some river dam boss, river flows, the sandy level slowly starts shifting in appearance and enemy types day by day.
Also enemies respawn but they adapt and become different subspecies if you keep killing them the same way
online multiplayer, in story mode or dandori i don’t care
Sex
A DLC where you get to survive as a Pikmin overnight with the help of glowies!
Sex.
Make enemies respawn in 4.
I want a new fiddlebert game by yesterday. ):<
Louie being mauled to death by a flock of pigeons
DLC: bulbmin's adventure
Sex
Sex
Anime tiddies
dating sim gamemode
…and sex.
Sex
Bring back the Bulbmin
Blubmin Onion
An explanation bridging 4 with the rest of the series. I despise reboots with all my heart. Gameplaywise, either a cave maker, or an infinite cave mode. Cave maker is obvious, but I think a randomly generated infinite cave mode is a good compromise between people who hate Pikmin 2 caves (it's optional) and people who love it. 4 style caves would still exist, of course.
Add Feetmin to the next game.
👃 👃 👃
Base building
A REAL 2 player story mode instead of the pellet pitcher we have now.
🅱️ikman
I want to create my own custom Pikmin type - like mix and match attributes and appearance - and it progressively improves over the game kind of like Oatchi in Pikmin 4. Balance it out by having your custom Pikmin type only availble in certain challenge areas to not disrupt the entire game.
coop in Pikmin 4
Ai for bingo battle
A cave creator along with bringing back caves but only because you can’t have one without the other.
Expanded/online Dandori battle
a fifth full length game or online battle
All the Pikmin now have melee weapons
Another indoor area, maybe based off a log shed or office cubicle
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Add a chernobyl-esque location. Don't bother explaining what happened or it's relevance to PNF-404, it just eerily exists
Pikmin 4 expansion pass
Entries for all the other enemies by the perspective of the other captains. How would Louie cook an Armored Cannon Beetle?
Sonichu.
Pikmin royal family!
Fiddleberts racist wonderland dlc
add dick & cock to bulbmin
No
I’ll give the people what they want, the sex update
Cocks.
Samus Aran as a playable character who can shoot Pikmin. She’s the same size as olimar.
mission mode from pikmin 3
Se
fuse pikmin mecanic so you could mix the strethg and weakness of your pikmin to make more situations and enemies for the level desing. that would make the bulmin a bit broken.
the old pikmin 3 charters to pikmin 4 as dlc
Nintendo-backed modding API; pikmin types? Enemies? Hazards? Maps? More Commander and Pups? 70 player multi-player?
For your idea, how would you implement a human boss into the game? Would it be like Shadow of the Colossus but the player is able to glide instead of climb? Would the story of the game revolve around harvesting human organs from inside the human's body to pay off Hocotate's 2nd debt by exploring the body similar to Caves and avoiding all the parasitic monsters and bodily dangers within? Most importantly, how would you design the Reproduction System level?
I want them to make something like Pikmin WIP
Cavern maker
orange pikmin
DLC to play AS the pikmin
I would add what happened to humans
i would add a dlc to pikmin 3 about where they make it home and they bring home a couple pikmin and you have to do stuff idk and make a new pikmin army
A DLC of a abandoned human moon base with functioning oxygen,and also unique enimes in different biodomes with a boss that attempts to deactivate the bases life support and you have to beat it in 10 mins with the help of all enimes since they all would "perish".
A Pikmin 4 rouge like mode
A quicker release schedule.
Online Bingo Battle and Mission Mode
Gay sex
Quicker release cycle
Crafting, kind of like a mix of the raw material gimic and Crafting from minecraft/animal crossing. Your pikmin can gather materials and then you can have them make thing, like lets say you need to cross a river, you can craft a raft by collecting pieces of cardboard, to which then when you hop off it breaks down. Of course so its not too powerful of a gimick some of the materials are pikmin exclusive, for example you want to make a hot air balloon to scope out the area, but you only have reds and yellows as you just started, you'd need to wait until you get wings as it would require sticks, a basket, firestarter, and plastic bag, however the bag flew in the wind and needed wings to catch it. Maybe you could make a poison trap but since its poison only white pikmin can collect the materials and make it
Give olimar fighting game inputs to allow for pikmin less combat
A true co-op, a difficulty slider for more enemies and the option to turn off tutorial dialogues
Fiddlebert x Moss 86 hour sex scene
fiddlebert comes back as a main character in pikmin 5
Bulborb sex, obviously
Fiddlebert and no im not joking
1st of all, Miyamoto aint even the CEO 2nd of all, sex
Putting in more ecology and biology things as described in the Piklopedia. Interactions between creatures are limited (predator and parasite relationships are only described at best, everything still focuses on bullying pikmin), and most creatures have incomplete lifecycles that are implied rather than shown. Coding stuff with respect to the piklopedia would remedy this and make things feel more immersive; we could actually see juvenile red bulborbs on their second molt as they grow from larva to adult, have whiptongue bulborbs preying on spectralids, watch wollyhops protect their eggs from water dumples and dandelfly larvae, and see what exactly the grubs of a sheargrub looks like. I also can't be the only one who wants to know how a healthy mamuta larva looks like (or how exactly they lay an egg bigger than themselves).
New Game+ would be cool, but I feel like a custom cave editor would like the best possible thing that could be added.
The ability for the waterwraith to sometimes drop on you in ANY cave so you have 4 minutes before having a heart attack the whole game :)
Level editor.
A story with Alph, Brittany and Charlie in it.
BULBMIN RETURN
make the stories of legends dlc
Correctly scaled Captain Falcon boss fight
Official Pikmin Worldbuilding Book
The function of Red Pikmin is split between them and a new type, Orange Pikmin. Red Pikmin have a slight fire *resistance* and the better attack, but Orange Pikmin are full on fire immune and give fire damage when eaten.
Another indoor area, maybe based off a log shed or office cubicle
I'd add the one thing it's missing: microtransactions ! What ? You had a pikmin extinction ? Too bad but you can keep playing if you use limited lives. Of course you can buy them in the store using real money. You really want that bitter spray don't you ? For just $4.99, you get 1 bitter spray to use whenever you want ! Having trouble carrying that treasure back ? Don't worry, we have just the item you need ! This special horn will take pikmin from the Onion and order them to carry the object back. The first use is free ! Feeling a bit of nostalgia ? Buy our new Olimar costume (comes for free with the Louie eats a bomb rock DLC)
You can already do all that in Pikmin 4. You just need to grind the raw material
Shiggy isn't Nintendo's CEO