>>28651924There are two ways to pander, I feel.
1. Straight up bringing back old shit.
2. Putting a new twist on old shit.
Likewise, there are two ways to counteract these two forms of pandering:
1. Bringing only new shit.
2. Adding new twists to the formula, but only applying them to new shit.
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What BW did, was not bring back any old shit. All new shit.
I feel like there's a happy medium, where you could mostly introduce new shit, but what little old shit you bring back you provide a twist on.
I'd rather see Mega Charizard and Alolan Marowak in a game as a form of pandering than seeing Pidgey on Route 1 of the new game.
There's modifying old shit (what GF's been trying to do since Gen 6), and there's just straight up keeping old shit around with no changes (what BW remedied).
