I honestly don't get why people keep asking for Pokémon to be a game it isn't
I've been seeing this since 2017 on this form and I feel like I really need to say that whether you intend it or not this is on some "No True Scotsman" level of trying to shut down dissenting opinions and critiques towards the games.
Pokemon "is" so many different things to different people, from shiny hunters, to competitive battlers, to people filling out the pokedex, those who take play here and there with their friends,those who look for lore, or speedrun, and of course those who just play through the main campaign and then may not pick up the series again to the next one.
Personally the simplest form of pokemon to me is: a turn based rpg, where you collect your party members through exploring a world as you battle various trainers who have different agendas.
I don't want to put words in other people's mouths as to what Pokemon is to them but I'd imagine lots of other people would view Pokemon in a similar way.
So to dismiss things perfectly reasonable like:
So you don't think series should evolve and transform from what we've gotten in 7 generations? At a certain point, it becomes absurd to stick with the same gameplay (keep in mind I am NOT saying it shouldn't be turn-based, I'm focusing more so on exploration) and exploration elements that we've gotten and largely left undisturbed from the GB era. If Pokemon has access to better technology, then I think the extra power should be put towards building a more believable world (in terms of scale and size), as well as better fleshing out the Pokemon world. This is why comparisons like BotW and Xenoblade, at least from an exploration and world-building standpoint, isn't absurd.
Which I personally believe don't upset any of the core tenants (explore, capture, battle) of Pkmn as he is basically is just asking for a better fleshed out and more explore able world. It makes commenting in threads like these exhausting sometimes when you have a thread about hopes and dreams and then have someone just refuting your opinion on where the series should go because it "just isn't pokemon" in your eyes. It's fine if you disagree link them to comments of your opinions if you've made them in the past or please just take a few more seconds to write out why you may disagree with them, but having nebulous dismissal of people's is extremely unpleasant.
wrote more than I meant so I guess tldr:
pkmn means so many different things to different people that just saying "people want pokemon to be something its not" or "sounds like you don't want a pokemon game" to dismiss their hopes for the series is pretty off putting.
