>>54801443the people nostalgic for hoenn have been around long enough to dictate the community's unspoken assumptions but haven't yet aged out of the fandom entirely. if you go into a discussion board and everyone is saying that emerald is good, even if you're indifferent about it, you're gonna start seeing emerald as a good game.
it's the same position HGSS were in a few years ago, before johtofags got mindbroken by youtubers.