>>22663770The anon considers a good incentive to explore having already visited every single area in the game pre-elite 4, obviously. All the points you mention clearly make HG/SS the most explorable-worthy game in the series. But there is this hivemind on /vp/ that they somehow sucked despite they obviously having the most content of any pokemon games, the oinly reason gen VI is more replayable is because all of the online goodness that was rather lackluster in gens IV/V.
>>22663794So they have a more ambiguous story instead of the exact same "villanous team attempts to control cover legendary's power" that every new game since Gen III has copypasted. They have a good story, it's just, like gen I,, it's more resembling of a normal Trainer's journey that all the legendshenanigans of later generations. Beats the gyms, the elite four, then travels to another regions and also competes in their gyms, eventually travelling to the ultimate training zone. Yeah, so you meet Red, but that's actually is a coincidence, unlike the league, which you were aiming for all along. In other games you are constantly getting told that your pokemon journey will continue after you become the champion but barring battle facilities, it's for all intents and purposes, over.
>>22663820BW2 are probably the ones that introduce the second most postgame content, I probably would have played them more, but their online got shut down way too fast after their release.
Oras has the best online and breeding of any of the games by far, add contests to that and yeah, they have a pretty good postgame, but let's face it, it's because online. But the main game is is just "literally the same shit you played 10+ years ago" in 3d, and it has no postgame zones other than the maison and the done in 20 min delta episode.
