>>58422599What? People weren't upset because Diamond and Pearl got remade. People were upset because
>The art style now looks like utter garbage with the loss of sprites, like a really cheap Link's Awakening>The games weren't even finished upon release, there was no intro, no credits, no online, no Ramanas Park, the music was copied MIDI files from DP without the soundfonts>All of Sugimori's gorgeous 2D art was replaced with ugly 3D renders>Not a single new form or Pokémon, not even Sylveon>Not a single new character design>All the maps, all their 3D geometry, was copied directly from DP and just given new textures, there was very little actually "remade" from scratch like the other remakes>Much of Platinum's content, mainly the Battle Frontier, wasn't included, and this was the biggest problem people had with ORAS compared to Emerald>New bugs like with the calculator and with non-grid movement even though Sinnoh was designed with grid-based movement in mind>Old bugs that were patched in later Gen IV games made their way back because they were being adapted from old builds>Not even remade by Game Freak, they were outsourced and done in a year>The ROMs had a single byte difference that could be flipped to play as the other version>Compromised battle system with the inclusion of AffectionBDSP did not bring a positive surprise or excite people like a remake would. Expectations were not met. Yet I would have still chosen them over any of the other Switch games at the time or even the 3DS games because at least they were based on fundamentally good games, and a lot of changes (Elite Four rematch teams, Gym Leader rematch teams, outfits, Giratina Origin Forme + Distortion World, Ramanas Park, Grand Underground, Professor's assistant as a rival, online contests, etc.) were actually good.
