
Think about it - if you played R/B, you probably had a veritable army of strong and rare Pokémon. What did you do when you got G/S? Most likely you transferred all of them to the new game, trading them for Pidgeys or whatever backwards compatible crap you could get your hands on. In essence, Gold travels three years back in time to steal all of Red's Pokémon. Red is then left to rebuild his legacy with a bunch of Ratattas, which he does. The one problem I have with this scenario, though, is if I had been living in a mountain for three years, training and patiently waiting for my day of revenge against the time-travelling kid who stole all of my Pokémon, I'd probably have something better to say to him than "..."
But then again, if you didn't take any of Red's Pokémon, you still battle him at the end, but you can just pretend he's just a crazy cavedwelling 13 year-old. It's like those recent WRPG games where you can do good things or evil things but the ending is roughly the same regardless.
Maybe he doesn't speak because he's got a cold or something, it's probably pretty cold up there on the mountain.
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