>>54049951It was the first time that I felt that mainline Pokemon really focused on an additional story to "fight bad guys, get badges, become champion," and that is not something I look for in Pokemon. Gen 4 skirts this following Cynthia and the legendary lore, but it's still ancillary to the main plot which has you chasing after the bad guys who are chasing after the legendary Pokemon.
Pokemon is about the player, not about the NPCs in the game. The player and how they interact with the world is the focal point, your story takes place in the region and follows you, not you and your five childhood friends and a hippie loser.
I'm partial to gen 6 because it was a point in time where I was able to actually play pvp with others at a high level, and I feel that it could have really accomplished a fleshed out region had it been given time to develop or a DLC/third version to take you to a lot of the background locales you see scattered around the region.
Best gen was probably 4, there's an argument for 3. Past 6 every gen's game has fallen into the "buddies saving the world from evil person you should definitely care about," and I don't think I can replay Kanto/Johto unless I'm playing the remakes, they're so crusty. Weather Wars also made me stop giving any form of a shit about postgame/pvp.
That's really my problem with 5, I can't give it points for single player/main story, and I don't enjoy the pvp from that gen either, where at least I can accept that the gens past it excel at pvp because that's what GF realized that that's what people want form Pokemon, an insanely customizable turn based pvp rpg.
And I'm not sure if it came through with my original post but I really do enjoy Trubbish. Thank god the TCG was able to save gen 5 for me.