I actually didn't like Black/White at all (except N, he was cool). I did LOVE Black2/White2 because they were better built from the foundation up. Vanilla BW were not terrible games, but they felt empty to me. B2W2 embraced the Pokemon Series as a whole, and brought together everyone from old school gamers to the newest players of the game. I only play vanilla BW just to say that I at least experienced it, while on the other end of the spectrum, I have Black 2 with 600+ hours of gameplay, while my white 2 has 400+. That's over 1,000 hours of playtime. I have spent more than 41 full days on Pokemon Black2 and White 2 alone!