>>56486274Before we knew they were called Ruby and Sapphire it was known as 'Pokemon Advance' in fan circles. There was even a rumour that there would only be one version and not two.
There was a lot of hype around it being on the GBA, the thought was that the graphics would be amazing, when the first screenshots were released a lot of people were disappointed
The belief was that the games would build on what GSC did by allowing the player to go back to both Kanto AND Johto.
My personal theory was that the Day/Night system would be expanded upon to include seasons. I was very upset when Day/Night was no longer a visible thing when the games released.
A lot of fan ideas for new Pokemon were more baby Pokemon and evolutions of old Pokemon so when only two new babies and no new evolutions were confirmed a lot of people were surprised.
Ultimately RS didn't live up to a lot of its hype, especially when no backwards compatibility was confirmed and everybody was wondering how they could get Charizard and Mewtwo. Gen III's reputation didn't really start to recover until Emerald.
