The real reason why Pokemon sucks now isn't because of the lack of a national dex, or the ugly graphics or whatever. Pokemon Red and Blue were great because they presented a pretty effective illusion of a grand journey. You traveled across a world that felt large, even though it wasn't. You encountered plenty of dynamic and interesting monsters, even though they were really just static sprites. You crossed fists with a lot of powerful opponents - even a mafia, but there was no real depth to any of these characters.

It was a game designed to LOOK like a great adventure, designed to SEEM like an incredible quest. But that's all it was, an effective illusion. Nowadays we have REAL adventure games. Things like BotW, Xenoblade, the Witcher, etc. These games aren't just making you FEEL like you are traveling across a huge world, you ARE traveling across a huge world. They have deep characters, incredible events, and so much to see and explore. With so many options to experience the real deal, the fake just doesn't cut it anymore.

Pokemon is a cardboard cutout of an adventure, it's a hollow, shallow experience meant to imitate something greater. That worked when that greater thing was unobtainable, but now it just looks laughable. When you travel across a small linear cave you don't think "Wow this is amazing, it's like I'm really going on an adventure in a dark cave!" You think, wow this fucking sucks, why couldn't they make a real cave?

Pokemon is a relic of the past, a dinosaur that should have gone extinct ages ago, kept alive purely by nostalgia. It can't stand up to new games and it needs to either reinvent itself or fuck off.

>>58014708 (OP)
>now
LMAO
Nice copypasta btw faggot

>>58014708 (OP)
>When you travel across a small linear cave you don't think "Wow this is amazing, it's like I'm really going on an adventure in a dark cave!"
I did have this thought though when I went into the glittery linear cave in XY.

Sharty spam thread btw

Good take OP. Too many of the recent games have been coddling kids that pokemon are these cute and fun creatures who just want to be your friend. Ash got hate fucked by a squad of Spearow in the first episode. Pokemon ARE dangerous.

Another issue is the games focus too much on Pokemon, making it a parody of itself. In early gens Pokemon were either naturally part of the everyday world, and battling was a niche aspect of it. Now entire countries revolve around training and battling pokemon.

I think a critical error is replacing every real animal with a pokemon equivalent as it devalues them as an other.

>>58014733
its still objectively correct though sharty or not.

>>58014769
Sharties will never be right doe

>>58014708 (OP)
You sound very autistic
No, having the real thing is better than being forced to fill in the gaps for all the actually interesting shit they were too lazy or incompetent to actually do

If you don't like Pokémon just move the fuck on, retard