>>14082370Well, yeah, of course they wanted the money, but I mean, they weren't stealing them to change the world to meet their vision, or liberate pokemon from their evil trainers.
Team Rocket was just bad guys doing bad guy shit, and it was good.
I really hate story in my pokemon, and the hand holding makes it all even worse.
I want that feeling of adventure and wonder that I got playing the first games, but they railroad me through the new games, hand ABSOLUTELY EVERYTHING TO ME WITHOUT EFFORT, and by about half way through the games I just want it all to be over so that I can start enjoying the post game content on my own without being pestered by the story anymore.
Like seriously, being handed a lucky egg for doing jackshit? What the fuck is the point of it even being a god damned item?! I spent fucking WEEKS using thief on Chanseys, they destroyed the entire point of the lucky egg,
Pokemon is getting casual to the point of playing almost being pointless, and if they don't stop dumbing it down each gen, I'm just going to stop playing.
Not because the core game itself is getting worse, but because the way it is presented to me makes me feel like I've been lobotomized.
People can scream "GENWUNNER THE GAMES ARE OBJECTIVELY BETTER EVERY TIME!!" but they are fucking wrong when it comes to the narrative, player control over the pace of the game, and exploration/secrets/and puzzles, those things get worse, and worse every single gen
