Is story everything?

I think it's better to have the feeling of wanting more than to be given all the exposition the new games give.

>>27539517
Part of why Gen 1 and the remakes were good is that it felt like you were just a normal person rather than a hero with all the mystical magical stuff of the later games. It helped with the suspension of disbelief.

Story is one part of the equation.
At times, pokemon collecting without substance bore me to death.
For example XY. It had everything for pokemon capturing. Big region with multiple pokedex index and well design map. The story of XY was okayyy, but NO PERSONALITY. I had more fun in the Looker-arc than the ingame "press a to proceed" gameplay.

I feel like lore plays into both aspects of story and aspects of collecting and it doesn't have to be strictly about gameplay vs story. A lot of games disassociate their story and gameplay, so it's easier to choose one or the other. But if you're collecting, you run across Pokemon, who each have their little individual stories, which sometimes plays into a bigger role of your main story.

Only story I enjoyed was Gen 4, and a majority of that was because it had implied stories you didn't come across mandatorily. 1 and 2 kept the story simple and succeeded at that. 3's is where things sort of went wrong and I dislike its story. 5 was okay but the "story" was really just one long simplistic look at an aspect of Pokemon with a final villain that didn't even care about the question. Like 3 the story got too involved with events for my taste. 6 was basically a less intrusive but less intriguing version of 3 and 5. I realize that it's inevitable, but I wouldn't mind if Gen 7 just didn't have an evil group.