>>27879335>Were you around back then?Yes.
And Gold and Silver were riding on the backs of Generation 1 and the popularity they had. With that said they dropped slightly because of the delays of the game.
>No one really cared how similar to Gen 1 it lookedExcept for the majority of people who were old enough not to eat the shit given to them. In other words most people who initially picked up the game.
> but it was awesome at the time that there was even another regionSee above. Also being a lazy and tacked on region instead of something new certainly killed the appeal for most people that expected to see certain areas that were removed. Kind of like when gen 4's BF was revealed and it was so much different from gen 3's. It's basically a mockery to fans.
>though I still don't see any evidence that it killed Pokemania.Except for the sales and ratings dropped drastically at that point.
>(at least that was fixed somewhat after D/P).Eh, barely. The battle speed was increased but it was only really noticeable if you paid extremely close attention to it. Then there's the fact that in Plat and HG/SS certain cities even dropped frames to sub 30 and "saving a lot of data" took considerably longer in Plat than in DP.
>I can't comment on Battle Frontier since I never played it in either gameTo give you the TL;DR on it, the gen 4 facility removed 5 from the previous game and replaced them with 3 completely different facilities that didn't offer nearly as much variety as the previous one as a whole it was much easier to finish.
>Don't know what you're talking about with the downgraded overworld sprites since they both look like shit to meFor one because of the pseudo 3D going on everything had this odd warping effect to the point where NPCs would appear to squish. It carried over to Black and White but was a little less noticeable because of how they were designed.
