>>34381432The games would be better with as little story as possible like in gen 1-2. You're right. The stories in Pokemon are boring as fuck and since they are made for six year olds you know nothing interesting will never happen.
To be honest, as a hypothetical, in gen 8 I'd just have you make your character, pick a starter, walk out of your house with your starter, six pokeballs, and your running shoes already in your inventory and let the game start right there with 0 interruptions. That would be best for the franchise I think, and encourage kids to make up their own back stories with their imaginations. At least they wouldn't get bored and stop playing after an hour of mashing A through boring insulting cutscenes. It would do wonders for replayability as well.
I'm fine with villains as well, but they should serve to be a delivery system for more gameplay. Not a delivery system for some stupid ass story nobody gives a fuck about. Give me a dungeon full of trainers and just tell me they are bad guys because they steal Pokemon for money and I need to beat them all. Fine, simple, easy, nobody cares. Don't assume I care about what some dumbass organization that would never actually exist with retarded ass goals like Lysandre is actually interesting to anyone.
Just cut the fucking fat out of the franchise. Let us start the game and go. If my "friends" want to stop me then let it be for a battle, not to talk to them for five minutes and be forced to do some stupid shit I don't care about.