Hi, I notice that you're fairly new to the forums and that might explain your somewhat confrontational tone in not only this quote but some of your other posts that I've noticed. I didn't suggest that I am, or anyone else is, the head figure of the fanbase. That's ridiculous. You also told me to 'stop pretending any change to the system is bad.' - i didn't say that change is bad, nor would I ever suggest it. What I said is that I am slightly concerned about any changes being made and I hope that if they do change anything, they do it for the right reasons and execute it well. Which I'm sure they will. That doesn't mean, however, that I give up the right to be anxious when it's a game I hold so dear.
Please dial down the aggression in your posts.
alas we dont even know yet which rumours if any are true. For all we know the whole rainbow rocket thing could have been a extremly lucky guess. Until then there is no real reason to feel anxious about the new game.
Also the head of the fanbase wasnt directly directed at you but at all who say that pokemon will die if they abonden the turn based system.
Gen III is an odd case in general, the pokemon craze died down by that point and it was the first pokemon you couldnt play on the orignal gameboy (besides crystal i think).And people need to understand that many people are very attached to the way Pokemon is, remember what happened during gen III? A large group of people stopped playing because they didn't like the direction and that was due to relatively minor changes and not being able to transfer up Pokemon. Imagin the fits of rage we will see if Pokemon becomes a ARPG. Would we still be able to transfer up Pokemon? Maybe but I doubt it because such a transition will so fundamentally rework the way stats work that such a transfer system will be difficult to implement.
Those two factor are the main reason so many fans never played the games when they where released or only much later.
And if you play gen 3 way later for the first time then of course it will be seen more negative, it did change many things some for the better others not. But thats the nature of change.
One thing i still miss from those days are pokemon contest, a thing they really should have expanded on instead of letting it go away for the most part. Another thing are the Secret base.
Also people didnt understand back then and some still dont do that the trading up of pokemon couldnt be done due the way the gba was build. it just couldnt connect to a GB/C