>>23505128I kind of agree with you, OP.
Pokemon is stale, but I think the formula has potential. G/S and B2/W2 were good despite reusing the previous game's evil teams (if only for the idea of having Plasma split off into two splinter factions), and R/S/E shook things up by being the first games to have villains wanting to destroy the world for misguided reasons, but DPPt, BW and XY are just the same old, tired shit.
If you wanna do "get the badges and catch 'em all" while taking down a team of bad guys, surely there's more interesting ways to do it.
>>23505421The Gamecube games are unbelievably lazily made, but I give them a pass because they actually did something different with their story and gameplay.
>mfw I saw how pixelly Moltres was 