I suppose you were talking to me. I dont find Sonic adventure 2 childish. I'm not sure what you are getting at. I find the Art style on Sonic lost world to be aiming at a very young demographic. If you hear the dialogue, its pretty clear aswell. As far as Sonic lost world's gameplay, i havent played it. All i can tell is from the video footage.

This is a recurring trend I've seen in gamers, they 'mature' out of certain games then a few years later they usually wake up, actually mature a little bit and realize it's okay to like things your friends may or may not.

Usually it occurs around the 18-25 year timespan (and no it isn't a coincidence that is the PS360's main audience). They play video games because they are cool and fun from introduction to adolesence, then they have to play 'mature' sex blood drugs gore games until they actually grow up and decide which games to actually play on their own and not let others decide for them. Happened to me (a little younger, I was 15-16 when I quit the kiddy console games and played only PC for a few years - then I realized that I was missing out on some awesome stuff by being narrow-minded)

What I'm trying to say is: is Pokemon for everyone? No, but it's a damn good RPG with a lot of depth and amazing replayability. Yes its in a 'kiddie' wrapper, that just means it's okay to play even if kids are around not that they will get all of the depth (hint: they'll grow into it, then out of it, then into it again :) )

The pokémon company is affiliated with Nintendo though... so Nintendo does own the IP in the end.

Teenagers always want to feel like/more adult, so is normal to reject something that children like too.
I have 27 years old and I don't have any complain about Pokemon, in the truth I feel like the Franchise is better than ever before.

They put in   changes every generation while holding true to the formula.

The people who mostly talking about the game being the same every time are people who don't really even play it.

See what I meant when I said it's usually the people who don't really know anything about the game that talk about it being the exact same thing?

You are a perfect example of this, as I knew you would be.

The premise that some of you are using in which a game that changes it's formula a lot is a game that can keep up-to-date with modern standards is flimsy, at best.

For starters, these so called "modern" standards are in no way or shape better than the standards of previous video game generations. If anything, those standards have lowered in a large example of VG series, whose quality has shown a large drop from previous entries, just because they tried to "modernize".

Keeping up with the OP, it's also another premise which is flimsy. Why would you think that any other developer/publisher would do better with a franchise that they know nothing about? Do you actually believe that they would do better than the original developers/publishers, whose core idea they have been developing, updating and improving for the past 18 years?.

I would say that there's some large hints of discrimination coming from the OP, because I don't think a similar thread would be made coming from him if it was a game from a developer/publisher he preferred.

From what I hear its dialogue aimed at deadpan snarkers. Sorry I dont let my children partake in watching shitty cartoon filled with sarcasm.

You little girl - cuddling an azurill... phew.

Real men cuddle Ferroseed - until they bleed - and then a bit more.

Real men cuddle a Slugma, and they actually get hearts!