What do YOU like the most out of pokemon games?

I just like super powered animals. They're neat.

Catching 'em all. It's always been my goal, and the whole reason I buy each new game. Call it autism, but having them all gives me good feelings. Collecting things is my favorite part of any game.

I don't even like battling that much. The stories are just okay. The exploration is nice, but secondary. I'm in it for the collecting.

Battling is fun, especially vs. real opponents.
Also the porn.

The story, the lore, and the characters. I never had the patience to do Competitive.

>>32378670
It's the exploration. I love exploring all sorts of places in any game and learning about what sort of world its like. It's made even better when a certain area has tons of items/trainers or if there's some sort of lore or story behind a certain area. It's a bit of a shame that newer games don't give you that freedom.

I also really like the Pokemon. Training them and building teams is so much fun to do.

I like everything except for the narratives and the PvP.

Exploration and Pokémon raising are my favourite aspects.

The adventure and the quest of the league are my favorite things. That's why I usually stop after finishing the post-league quest, I like breeding and all but this isn't why I play pokemon. I play it for the adventure, each are unique, with its own pokemon and own incredible moment. But that's also why I don't replay the latest game: there's too much text and now cutscenes. I have a dozen of 1st generation cartridges with each a unique adventure inside, plus after the 2nd badge you can do the gym in almost any order you want. I can't wait to replay gold/silver, less freedom but a way longer adventure await me.

>>32378670
the cute animals, carefree atmosphere and the incredible potential for it to actually be good again some day

>>32378670
In PMD, I like the music, the story/characters, and the thought of me being the main character fucking my partner in those hay beds

The Pokemon themselves.

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>>32378670
Asked a few years ago, the answer would be battles. Now, the main thing is the story, followed by Pokemon design, raising and interacting with them, battles, exploration and lastly catching them all.
Pokemon is not as exciting a game I used to think it was. What makes the series for me now is how they bring the world to life. And story can do that the best. That is why I cannot stand playing a game with lackluster story anymore. The world feels dead and boring. Generation 5 and 6 had TERRIBLE stories. But I will always put them ahead of Gen 1 to 4, because they had no stories. They were dead. There's nothing to play.

i don't like pokemon

>>32378670
Pokémon designs and Lore

Literally everything listed in the OP

Plus the customization in newer games

>>32378766
>>32379266
These.
The rest is fun, but without a good story, it all falls flat on its face.

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>>32378670
By far the designs.
I love SM purely because of how damn good the designs are. The story is nice too.

I also collect things and love collecting rare Pokemon. I don't care about battling at all.

>>32380548
The games are better without a story.

Basically every element of the games except the story. The games with heavier story elements are all made worse by it.

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>>32381653
>I love SM purely because of how damn good the designs are.

>>32381724
Not him but I disagree. The story is nice, and one of the things I didn't like about the older games was the lack of it.

>>32381768
Yeah, Null is ok. Not one of my absolute favorites but it's an interesting concept. I prefer the bugs this gen, and the UBs are amazingly creative.

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>>32378670
The Pokemon

>>32381795
I can't hear you, take that Gamefreak cock out of your mouth and speak clearly.

>>32381990
>liking the new Pokemon is GF dicksucking
Consider fucking yourself with a molten metal rod.

>>32381990
He wasn't even saying anything about the actual games there, just that he liked the designs. Are you so easily triggered by people liking things you don't like? I bet your favorite ones are shit too.

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Exploration and collecting Pokemon are the best parts.

It seemed like the exploration wasn't as fun as usual in Sun though. Maybe because the npcs stopped me all the time.

>>32382043
It's probably because the level design was the worst it's been in the series.

>>32378670
If the games actually had competent writers, story could be amazing with this type of game. Story should be something optional, that way players who want it can pursue it at their leisure, while those who do must actively search for the story.

The world-building could also use some work, especially when it comes to showing Pokémon in the overworld actually doing wild Pokémon stuff. Honestly, wild Pokémon should be encountered in the overworld the same way as in games like Mother or the more recent Dragon quest games, where you can see them and touching them initiates a battle.

It also wouldn't kill Gamefreak to develop an actual vast world like Breath of the Wild. A bigger world means more things to do, more Pokémon to encounter and an actual way to make diverse biomes make sense in terms of placement.

Towns should also actually be towns. None of that five buildings-per town bullshit.

>>32381990
I bet this guy's favorite Pokemon is Delphox

>>32378670
>the story?
I never really care about the story, I'm a huge self injection so whatever it is as long as I get to be the hero I'm okay.
>the battles?
I love battling, hence why I'm a smogon fag. I love the depth that comes with it and how its just more then what moves are super effective. It was how I battled as a kid but seeing how deep the battling can go is really fun.
>the exploration?
same with story, love listening to the music when I go to a new place
>the pokemon raising aspect?
I do enjoy seeing my team evolve and level up over the course of the game
>the pokemon designs themselves?
oh yeah this is huge for me, love the cool monsters and the crazy animals, like i said before huge inject myself kinda guy so living in a pokemon world and getting to interact with these crazy things is a huge fantasy
>anything else?
not really, pretty much mentioned everything that draws me to these games

>>32379266
You think gen V had a terrible story? That's a strange opinion, I don't hear it often. If you check back in, care to elaborate on why you didn't like it?

>>32378670
Battles, exploration, and Pokemon raising aspect.

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>>32378670
I liked the adventure and exploration aspect of it, but there's hardly any of that anymore.

GF fell for the "story makes a game good" meme

>>32378670
I like the pokemon in general. Usually im more excited about getting to catch and use new pokemon over quality of life stuff or plot.

>>32378670
The story

>>32378670
Wait a minute, Pikachu doesn't have a black colorization at the tip of it's tail.

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Being good at something lmao

I like the battles and the actual Pokémon.

Also that pikachu is triggering me so bad

>>32378670
nothing, the pokemon games are utterly trash i only like the designs

>>32384203
Nothing made sense. The very foundation of the story, that Pokemon are unhappy, was bullshit. Pokemon are nothing but happy. There are wrist watches in Pokemon that can tell you how happy they are.
The entirety of Team Plasma was bullshit of highest grade. You see them physically abusing Pokemon and stealing from kids before second Gym, and they even raid the second Gym in broad daylight. They even steal Bianca's Pokemon before third Gym. And no one does anything about it. Whenever you meet them, you just let them walk away. When confronted about it, it's just chalked up as "difference in opinion". The one time they are arrested by Clay, Ghetsis comes and just takes them away, and everyone just stands there watching.
If I began to list every problem with N, this post would be over 10k words long. He is the very definition of a Villain Sue, but also mixed with traits of Mary Sue and having no personality beyond the word "Pokemon". A character worse than Zinnia in that not only does everyone just lets him walk away for what he does, the player character also supposedly falls in love with him for no explainable reason.
There aren't even any stakes involved. At least with Platinum, there was the threat of world ending, and the villain had the power to achieve that. That wasn't the case in BW. Separating people from Pokemon is quite literally impossible. How would you go about it? How would you make it so that humans never interact with Pokemon? You put all Pokemon away? How and where? They failed at even the most basic thing, something they've been doing since Generation 1.

I would be hard pressed to say something positive about BW's story or character. The best character, Bianca, was also mediocre at best. Even one of the main conflicts her character faces, her trouble with her dad, was just resolved with an asspull speech by a random stranger.

>>32386688
>Also that pikachu is triggering me so bad

Why? It's canon.

>>32386802
I agree with you on everything but the start, wasnt the point that pokemon ARE happy and team plasma are just being braindead morons following a herd to look morally superior?

>>32386706
if you like the designs then you like something from the game, you silly willy.

>>32386917
Had they been treated as such, it would be fine. They were idiots. But in story, they were given the moral highgrounds. People of Unova actually believed what they said. The Ghetsis speeches made them rethink. Team Plasma weren't treated as idiots. They were treated as the ones in right, like they made sense, but we just don't agree with it.

>>32378670
Everything except the gameplay.

>>32386948
So it's being realistic. That's your problem. You do realize that real people are idiots too, right? If the recent surge of bullshit like SJW isn't enough to convince you on this, maybe you should look at Pokemon fans. Almost everyone who played BW believed in Team Plasma. There are people who think they were right, and that people using Pokemon are actually abusing them. This is real people we're talking about. Some of who had played Pokemon for 15 years. They know about Happiness Evolution, they know about how happy Pokemon are just being with humans, they've seen Ash and Pikachu together, yet they still believe that humans are abusing Pokemon because Team Plasma said so.

This is reality. People are idiots who believe everything they're told. You don't, that means you're better than others. But you shouldn't use yourself as the standard. People believing Team Plasma makes sense in the context that people are retarded. This is just about the speeches, though. The stealing and raiding parts are valid points, and I agree on that being just bullshit with you.

Nothing pokemon is shit

>>32381724
>>32381775

The games from the first and second generation had no story because the point was that it was YOUR story. You, the player. You go on an adventure, capture your pokémon, and become the champion. You could (kinda) make whatever you wanted.

In gen 3 however, GF started trying to create deeper plots. So the games were not anymore just you and your pokémon on a journey to become the best, they started with the "You need to save the world!" thing.

While the first method allows for more liberty, the second one allows for a deeper story and characters (Or it would, if GF could write a good plot). I personnaly think both methods are fine. They are just different. I would really like a newer game with the method used in gen 1 and 2, though.

>>32387020
but then why are you here?
go to a board about something you actually enjoy

>>32387026
No, it wasn't YOUR story. It was no story. You don't call being given nothing a "liberty". You can't add your own story. You can pretend you do, but you will be following a set path, laid out by GF, doing only what the game allows you to. There's no "your story". There's no story.
In the games with a story, you are given a story you will be a part of. A story you can enjoy. In the games without a story, you try to imagine a story and make do with that. That's like saying that if you aren't given any food, you can imagine whatever you want to eat, and it will be just fine. It won't be.

>>32387052
>It was no story
Not him, and I do agree with the general idea, but you're exaggerating a bit. It did have story, between the basic "be the very best" plot there was also the rocket team part of the story too.

>>32387052
The open world of Gen 1 and 2 and the multiple interactions with NPCs were enough to sustain an adventure, which in itself is a story, even if you exclude anything with team rocket.

What you mean is that they have no plots. That began with Gen 3.

>>32386641
Cosplay Pikachu

>>32387098
That's just the setting, anon. Story and setting are different things. My description of story is the events that happen after the start. Almost nothing does. You find a town, you see the setting of the town, you resolve the problem, you move on. Giovanni and Blue are the only two things with any "story" in them. And Mewtwo, I guess.

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>>32388104
>That's just the setting, anon.
>I was actually dumb enough not to realize this before posting

I just liked the creatures themselves.

>>32378670
Mainly the designs(including humans and the world), its what drew me in in the first place along the concept(though I later found out it isnt a 100% original thing but i'm already in).

As for the aspects you mention, a little bit of those too. The pokemon world is a great framework for stories and seeing how they develop (and since gen 5, actually try to tell a story) is a draw in the games.

Exploration is also a nice aspect that develops the world.

As for the mechanics, I like how accesible they are. You dony really need to know then deeply if you just want to have fun and beat the games which is why I could never get into other rpg franchises that end up being math problems more than anything.

>>32378670
The new pokemon and their designs
and mostly the porn

>>32378670
I love them for the creature design and raising aspects. Mainly for the fact that I really love animals and get emotionally attached to them really easily. I'm also aiming to work for a studio, so I love seeing the creativity in Pokemon design.