>>53483144It's not as simple as not entertaining though.
>publisher rushing>soulless 3D which still has worse animations than Stadium 2 from the 90s>gamefreak incapable of coding>cut content>promises never delivered>pokemon bank and all that other shit you need to pay for just to keep your pokemon, which you wont even be able to use because why pick your favorite mon to be included for the new game when they need to add pikachu and charizard again?>overall laziness in designs, game mechanics, game development, stabilization (i know the switch isn't a power house, but come the fuck on), etc>pandering to no one with the stupid gimmick forms since people who like the original mon just want the original mon and many people don't like any of the new designsThe games are just worse. The games peaked with HGSS and BW2. Everything after has been a completely downhill spiral of bad decisions. There have been a few good things, but not enough to save the franchise. Most side content is cut over and over again, every game post BW2 has been just throwing a dart at a wall of gimmicks they can pick from (some good, some bad, none of them interesting), and it just feels so lacking. They don't try, because they don't have to as the IP is too big to fail. And gamefreak has a stranglehold on the mainline games even though they have been proven time and time again to not know what the fuck they are doing and not only get outdone by 3rd party pokemon games (stadiums, mystery dungeon, ranger, pokken, etc), but also romhack creators which are just NEETs working basically all alone for free.
Imagine having the largest and most lucrative intellectual property in the entire world, even dwarfing disney, a budget so high they could be making the best games on the fucking market, and yet they relegate their games to being lowest common denominator shit meant to push toy and plushie sales. It's shameful.
Go fuck yourself with your reductionist crap
