>>44300818When they didn't appear to really be adding anything significant gameplay-wise. I could have handled not having the full roster, or not having decent new shit, but not both. Especially for the first main series game on a home console.
I mean, I like the idea of a freely explorable wild area, but I knew the implementation was going to be shit. Gamefreak has no excuse when you look at the shit romhackers are doing with the 16 year old GBA entries.