>>58267661I don't assume every person talking to me is the same. Saying "I'm biting" already implies they're jumping into a conversation they had no part in to spew the exact same nonsense ad nauseam that already infests this board like cancer. Most of my problems with Hoenn stem from them blatantly being rushed games, just as every Masuda game is rushed. GS were rushed starting 1998, RS were rushed, FRLG were rushed, DP were rushed. He shat out new content for his corporate overlords. People who bow to these games as gospel are actual children
Now for a real opinion, I actually prefer RS' pacing to Emerald's. I think too many people shit on RS for being "incomplete". Emerald is really just what the modern DLC structure is doing, adding content to the game that doesn't really fix core issues. I have a lot of beef with the new Magma Hideout for being a massive pace breaker, but most people are only going to play Gen III through Emerald because RS are the "inferior" versions with no redeeming qualities, apparently
RS might be better due to it being faster, if you care about that. imo nothing beats the speed of Gen I so I can't really say it's more fun because of how fast it is to play. I can say later games get way too text heavy and like to waste your time talking about friendship and the player being sugoi strong which is why I don't like to replay them. RS is also the game that introduced the curse of force legendaries that plagues this series
I have fondness of my Ruby playthrough I did a few years ago. It made me realize why I didn't like ORAS as much even if I do think that game had good aspects to it. It's a good parallel to Old and Nu by really showing how much worse things got going in this linear, suffocating direction. One last, frankly irrelevant thing. These Hoennfag like to shitpost about Hoenn having more popular characters on image sites. I did a test removing May from the search results and dropped the Danbooru search of RSE from 242 pages to 107
