Why do you guys continue to play this terrible series of games? Every Pokemon game is exactly the same as the one before it. Seriously, what did X and Y add that grants it the title of "best Pokemon game yet?" Pokemon amie? Yeah, shove cupcakes into your Pokemon's mouth until they like you. The ability to purchase clothes? It only took 10+ years to reach the point where a player can customize (ever so slightly) the way his or her avatar looks. Mega evolutions? It's just a regular evolution that lasts until the end of battle.

Nintendo's lazy. They don't care about you. If they did, the handheld games would have gone to console by now. You'd be exploring Kanto, Johto, and Hoenn in a fully 3D environment on the Wii U where Pokemon can be seen running in the fields, swimming in the ocean, or crawling through caves- not randomly popping out from "tall grass" in a jarring cut screen. If Game Freak actually had a passion for their series, they'd put some effort into creating a captivating story and actually attempt to produce characters with some complexity. But they don't, and thus you are treated with the consistently rehashed "small town kid becomes champion while stopping evil Team Rocket/Magma/Galactic/Plasma/Flare" along the way.

So continue to fish on your super rod. Continue to battle monotype gym leaders. Continue choosing between a grass, water, or fire starter. Continue to traverse through the same caves, plain-based routes, and ocean paths, ride your bike, cut down trees. Continue to do the things you've done for the past fifteen years, because you'll be doing it for another fifteen years. There's a reason these games are all the same. They sell. That's all that matters. And as long as people continue to buy the same shit, there's no need to change it. So keep buying, because as long as you do neither Game Freak nor Nintendo will ever feel the need to innovate.

Pic related: An exemplum of Game Freak's dying creative caliber.