>>48824220>but you can't ignore the existence of fans of the original who want a remake that is as close to that original experience as possibleLike who? When BDSP was announced, all the speculation was about what new things we'd be getting in Sinnoh. The standard remakes set for the series, and the very notion of a "remake" implies a brand new experience, I refuse to believe there's a significant niche of people who wanted a remake...to be identical to the non-definitive version of Sinnoh, that feels like a reactive cope to the games just being underwhelming.
>There have to be some fans of RSE who were alienated by how different ORAS was.ORAS arguably going too far does not suddenly justify a remake so unambitious that people struggle to find a reason to play it over the originals. And even then, most of ORAS' complaints were born from a REMOVAL of content more than anything else, i.e the removal of the sea Mauville dungeon or the removal of the roaming Lati, and of course, no Emerald content. No one was complaining about character redesigns, or the game having all the Pokemon. People loved the new Archie and Maxie, people loved the new Wally fight, people loved that Hoenn Pokemon got new Mega Evolutions, you don't get to sweep all the positives under the rug nor can you pretend there wasn't a sizeable amount of people happy with ORAS overall.
What's worse is that BDSP falls into the exact same trappings that made people dislike ORAS, removing the option to turn off EXP share, removed Contests (the part that actually matters, anyway), forced amie bonuses and zero Platinum content. It's like GF listed to zero of the criticism of ORAS and did what you're doing and went "hm...changes...are bad actually?" with the result being the most pedantic Pokemon game ever. Pandering to this alleged group who wants an identical experience is about as stupid as pandering to people who want Pokemon to be a dating sim.
