Pokemon, what happened to you?

[Alpha Six]

I think that the reason you didn't fight Gold at the end of RSE is because Gold and Silver is more or less a direct sequel to R/B/G/Y. Hence why you can travel back to Kanto, and all the past references they make.

3rd gen is its own game. So, the 4th gen should have been a sequel as well. Instead, they made 4th gen its own story arc, as well. No connections from the 3rd gen were made. You couldn't even go back to Hoenn.

Which is another thing that I think makes the 4th gen kinda odd in my eyes.

Instead of following the really neat pattern they had, they just kinda broke it and decided to make Sinnoh this super-incredible area and made no connections to the 3rd gen.

And that's okay-- I'm sure everybody agrees that Johto was probably the plainest out of the regions.

But I still think that if they pulled back some of the legendaries and saved them for gen 5, and made gen 4 more related to gen 3, there wouldn't be nearly as many complaints.