>>34533207Red and blue are at least mostly passable because of the limited technology at the time, and they were the first in the series so there was no real standard back then (Although they aged like shit in basically every way possible).
SM/USUM on the other hand have no such excuses. While they were fun, they are complete shit in comparison to almost every other main pokemon game, especially after gen 4 and 5. The 3ds technology wasn't limited at all, its just that they deiced to sacrifice large solid areas and huge amounts of original content in favour of pretty graphics and cheap nostalgia pandering. The amount is singleplayer content in those games is tiny, but yet again all people care about is the metagame nowadays.
>>34533135>microtransactions, loot crates, DLC, on-disk content locked behind paywalls, and moreGF has been doing that for a very long time now in the form of 3rd games, event pokemon and the pokemon bank. Unlike EA and Activation they get next to no shit from the fans for it.
