>>43621034>longer, more complex narrativeI know this board likes to shit on gen 5 but I really liked how the story questioned the ethics of something inherent to the franchise.
>Quicker animations, or faster-paced battlesI don't want the "highly detailed" animations from the stadium series. As full-of-personality as they were, they really bogged down the pacing of the battles, lengthening a 10-minute battle to 30 minutes. I'd prefer shorter and less flashier animations, approximately slightly faster than you'd have on Showdown, but also more detailed. The first two PMD games really nailed the style and pace of animations I'd want in a mainline pokemon game.
>hard modeincludes rematchable trainers having EV-trained pokemon and decent movesets. It's a step in the right direction to have dynamax limited to tournaments, I really hated how you could mega evolve or use Z moves anywhere to steamroll some random NPC you'd never encounter again.
>More complex battle facilityit's another thing that /vp/ likes to shit on because they didn't like most of the facilities, but I'd atleast want the battle factory back in some way. I can understand what problems people might have with the more gimmicky shit, but this is basically pokemon showdown randbats, what's wrong with that?
>Aesthetics Stuff that brings the world to life. NPCs having better dialogue and a daily schedule, wild-area styled encounters throughout the region, more worldbuilding shit.
I've long come to terms with the fact that a pokemon game is never going to be like this, and I have better things to do than to call gamefreak lazy for not pandering to my desires specifically, so I'm just not going to buy them anymore. That said, I do like a lot of the new pokemon, and I'm enjoying the new competitive meta, fanfic or otherwise.
gamefreak is really shitty at making games though, but that's a whole other thing. 