>>29879590>someone screencapped a post I made Wow, I'm honored.
>>29879492The sum of what I think is in the image linked in the above post, but to elaborate, people don't hate ORAS for its standalone quality, but they hate it because it's a lot worse than what we've gotten in the past. ORAS includes almost zero Emerald content, despite some of Emerald's content being huge improvements over RS, such as its expanded double battle system (the one where two individual trainers on the overworld can team up for a double battle and double battle opponents are allowed to use more than two Pokémon), Gym Leader rematches, and the Frontier. It also removes or negatively changes content from RS, such as the Game Corner, Safari Game, and locations like Granite Cave and New Mauville. It also has more handholding in the form of extra gifts (including a gift Lati@s holding Lati@site you get five badges into the game, instead of it being a catchable Legendary in postgame), warps, and the Gen 6 Exp. Share existing, and the Delta Episode is the most horribly written story arc in the entire Pokémon franchise
riding Rayquaza at the end is cool thoughIt does some things right, and some of the additions and improvements like Dexnav and Secret Bases are sincerely great
shame neither of those things made it to SM, because Game Freak can't ever keep good features. If you've never played a Hoenn game before, and have no expectations from how good past remakes like HGSS have been, it's an alright game. People hate it for what it isn't, rather than what it is. It isn't a good remake relative to HGSS, and it isn't a good Hoenn experience relative to Emerald. It's just inferior to other games in the series and people are better off just playing Emerald if they want to run through Hoenn.
