My opinion is.. just play it how you like it. If you pay up for that, good. If you homebrew or emulate.. cool beans. Up 2 you. Just let the people enjoy stuff.

I just got to Mt Moon on Leaf Green.

I have forgotten how many QOL improvements have been added too the games since these were released.

Fuck Nintendo.

Oh yeah. I mean the 1. Gen Games hit my nostalgia harder, but as you said. The QoL improvements are amazing.

I'm a bit disappointed that they did not upscale it - thats a clear down for me. But anyway, gonna have a blast!

I'm mad that they added nothing, not even Pokémon Home integration.

I thought the graphics would bother me, but it really is things like how slow you walk, slow exp etc that I am finding rough.

Home will be integrated. But only one way Out. Codediggers found IDs belonging to Ruby and Saphire. Lets See what the Future holds

You'll get ways to move faster later. And EXP? Welcome to old school Pokémon. There exists an EP share but later in Game.

As someone leaning towards the "fuck Nintendo" take it is still exhausting to see it posted around maybe 70% of posts talking about upcoming Pokémon games, including in Pokemon's own community. At some point I'd like to still enjoy the IP together with fans and maybe hear about people excited for the games (or criticizing it with paragraphs showing more passion for Pokémon than derision for the series and its fans), instead of constantly bringing up Nintendo's business practices.

Leaf Green was the first pokemon game I played through, so I am familiar with the xp share, shoes, and bike. But it is a joke coming from Violet.

at what point is bringing it up valid discussion, after all, because people need to vent sometimes and air grievances and this grievance does affect peoples' ability to even afford to play the next Pokémon game? And just because an opinion isn't all sunshine and roses and positivity does not mean we should silence it, toxic positivity sucks and censoring criticism just feels bad. And for every person who already knows, some people are newcomers to the franchise or have Pokémon as their only game they really follow and have not really been keeping up with the industry and its bad practices, so what looks repetitive to us still could be new useful information to someone else.

and at what point is it just a buzzkill, constantly bringing the mood down without a big enough benefit (or prevention of big enough harms) to justify doing that? Outrage and scandal and bad exploitative business practices are intruding on everything now so can we at least extract what joy we can from a game and enjoy talking about it with others without the constant reminder about the sucky parts? Can we maybe have a Fediverse community that does not immediately turn the conversation to political or economic complaints or other real-life-sucks complaints? Life is short and we have limited time and resources and there are too many battles to fight and it's exhausting. It's hard to find the will to keep resisting all the things going on in society without any joy. Especially when the joy is constantly being undermined by "here's how the thing you enjoy is supporting bad things actually"—whether from my own brain reminding me or comments online. So I'll play Pokémon instead of $lessRuthlessAnticonsumerCreatureCollectorGame because goddammit I like Pokémon already and I already try to make new purchases ethical and I do not have the bandwidth to drop Pokémon for whatever alternative is not Nintendo. I'm already emulating, leave me be

First option is probably best, but damn if it isn't annoying and exhausting and a reason I really have to stop touching Lemmy comment sections; and I think once enough negative comments reach too much of a mass people will start being turned away from engaging at all for similar reasons. Pinned/weekly posts to hold common topics sometimes felt like a good solution to prevent spam/overwhelm, sometimes felt like "yeah fuck you guys with your posts, to the quarantine zone you go, have fun never getting engagement because nobody checks here whereas if we didn't quarantine you to a weekly post/single pinned post you would get lots more engagement". Not sure what a good solution is for the collective (which probably wants to know these things, but also probably has limited tolerance for negativity).

The meme is Kind of a sum Up of what you've Said. Instead of people being Happy to (re)discover an old gem, they Split Into "Just emulate IT Bro" and people bragging about those fellas.

Pokémon is a nice franchise that means a Lot in different ways to a Lot of people. Lets embrace that. There are other places where we can speak about political and Bad Business habbits.

I absolutely enjoy pokémon, but outraged by the Business slop of Nintendo. But let me keep that in different boxes..

Ah yes okay. I do see people that never played the old Games and dunno that.

I'm not Like "you're Just Not Hardcore enough. We had it rough Back then" people. I do Love the QoL improvements over the years, that value my free time more.