They were decently made games as far as I was aware. The main issue I was seeing brought up with them was that they were direct copies of the originals without any real improvements, so you might as well play the originals. I can’t remember seeing any complaints that the ILCA games were made incompetently, just that what they ended up making was uninspired.
That’s what I’ve heard as well. I played the remakes without having played the originals and aside from some minor control things in the overworld and the E4 difficulty spike I had no problem with them. Most of the criticism I heard came from people who were expecting content from Platinum version to be included and basically boiled down to “WTF, this isn’t a remake of Platinum”. Most gameplay criticism outside of that comes from Diamond and Pearl themselves not being great, and the “not Platinum” argument applies there in that they didn’t draw from Platinum to fix the problems Diamond and Pearl had. If, like me, you hadn’t played gen 4 before playing these games, I doubt you’d likely have too many criticisms of the game. But it’s the internet, so if it’s not perfect it’s the worst thing ever.
Even then, every remake that came before it added something more to the originals than just a 2D sprite to 3D model conversion. Even if they had included the improvements from Platinum, it still would’ve felt lacking because they added nothing to justify buying and playing the remakes over the originals. Not even the National Pokedex was expanded beyond what already existed back in gen 4, so you couldn’t even get the novelty of playing with your newer Pokemon in Sinnoh.
I guess I’m more upset about this than I realized, but to ILCA’s credit, none of my complaints come from the perspective of the game being poorly coded or full of bugs.
They were decently made games as far as I was aware. The main issue I was seeing brought up with them was that they were direct copies of the originals without any real improvements, so you might as well play the originals. I can’t remember seeing any complaints that the ILCA games were made incompetently, just that what they ended up making was uninspired.
That’s what I’ve heard as well. I played the remakes without having played the originals and aside from some minor control things in the overworld and the E4 difficulty spike I had no problem with them. Most of the criticism I heard came from people who were expecting content from Platinum version to be included and basically boiled down to “WTF, this isn’t a remake of Platinum”. Most gameplay criticism outside of that comes from Diamond and Pearl themselves not being great, and the “not Platinum” argument applies there in that they didn’t draw from Platinum to fix the problems Diamond and Pearl had. If, like me, you hadn’t played gen 4 before playing these games, I doubt you’d likely have too many criticisms of the game. But it’s the internet, so if it’s not perfect it’s the worst thing ever.
A common complaint I saw with them was they were Diamond/Pearl remakes, not a Platinum remake (since Platinum had so many improvements).
Even then, every remake that came before it added something more to the originals than just a 2D sprite to 3D model conversion. Even if they had included the improvements from Platinum, it still would’ve felt lacking because they added nothing to justify buying and playing the remakes over the originals. Not even the National Pokedex was expanded beyond what already existed back in gen 4, so you couldn’t even get the novelty of playing with your newer Pokemon in Sinnoh.
I guess I’m more upset about this than I realized, but to ILCA’s credit, none of my complaints come from the perspective of the game being poorly coded or full of bugs.