>>47043655i guess i sort of do. i'm a hoenn kid though so i started there and lost interest after bw and the string of bad games that came after. sorta gravitated to other jrpgs after playing final fantasy ix.
i think what did it for me was
>declining quality of pokemon designs, which started in bw and went to shit completely in swsh>lack of content, not building on features implemented in the past. again, started with bw (though bw2 is ok on this) with the removal of contests, secret bases and frontier in one fell swoop. i think one thing you misunderstand though is that pokemon has always been gameplay driven rather than story driven. there are some things that i wish they'd do better, or cues they'd take from the anime (league conference tournaments being one, the rendition of this that they do in galar is horrid and representative of everything wrong with gf's direction), but i think the stakes they set are generally fine. they used to at least have side games like colo, ranger, pmd where they can experiment with the world and story.
also if you are a jrpgfag remember to check out trails, it replaced my pokemon obsession
haha... 