I don't see why a new game introduction has to specifically be set in Kanto. Go was on like Hoenn at the time anyway. Could have even created a brand new game with it's own set of new Pokemon and characters that people could get attached to.
Gee, that sounds like what Sword and Shield is in a way... maybe they could have skipped Let's Go and put an extra level of polish into Sword and Shield and gotten better games out of it in the process.
It was a remake of gen 1, handled by a young team that grew up on Gen 1. Get over it.
Let's Go didn't kill your dog, the game was not some kind of betrayal many tried to make it out to be. It was its only little thing targeting newcomers introduced from Pokemon Go.
The constant hate filled negativity in this goddamn piece of shit "hardcore" Pokemon community has turned my stomach into knots that I hardly participate in any of it anymore. It's toxic. I make very rare appearances in Pokemon threads on ERA these days. I had already been joining less and less in the days of GAF over the past number of years which span 3 or so Pokemon generations.
Pre-release and speculation is especially terrible. I remember back in the days of Black and White. Some growing sentiments of anger were even seen bubbling there because some idiot leaker did not know how to properly dump a ROM, so some people thought the game was buggy and glitchy and there were sentiments of calling Game Freak lazy and incompetent. It being a bad ROM dump and buggy also triggered anti-piracy mechanisms like no EXP, etc. And it only grew with each passing generation around pre-release information, footage, and the speculation. Rotting away decent discussion each gen. I had thought the peak of this bubbling anger appearing over the course of generations was going to be with Let's Go from people feeling betrayed by its very existence and harassing YouTubers and streamers for even showing enjoyment in playing it. But no, now after all the crying wolf, this is the real shit. And don't get me wrong, there are legit criticisms to be had for SwSh, but my god, the sheer hatred some people have for Game Freak. Like making a fake Twitter to make accusations that Masuda raped them, harassing and sending death threats to devs, harassing YouTubers and Streamers for showing interest to a point where some will be playing the game off stream only, that is if they even buy the game from all the harassment which can push people out of a community. Or the hashtag #GameFreakLied regarding the models, when none of them know a goddamn thing about what goes into models (hint: IT'S MORE THAN JUST WIREFRAMES AND TRIANGLES). The list goes on and on. No one in "hardcore" Pokemon communities can even talk about Pokemon like normal people. It makes me not want to be part of the Pokemon community at all anymore.
