>>23446724I think it's less about them being linear and more about GameFreak wanting to replicate the same gameplay and structure of a game made for an 8-bit console.
It boggles my mind why they can't make a more detailed game world now that we have real 3D graphics. And yet it's the same sets of flat, straight routes with the same cave full of zubats in the middle, towns that have the same boring NPCs and 5 or 6 sets of houses with a Pokemon center and shop all the fucking time. This worked wonderfully for something like the GameBoy because of hardware limitations, but now it just doesn't cut it anymore.
Pic related is getting remade for the 3DS for fuck's sake. There's no excuse for this shit.
