Ooh goody, thread for me to rant about the newer games.
X/Y started out good, probably since I was all "ooh, pretty graphics..." but once all the "new" wore off, I started thinking about it and realized that they just... weren't that great. Say what you will about the plot, I actually didn't mind it (perhaps because I've just learned to not give a crap about the story of Pokemon games), but the games themselves just... needed some more... polish, I guess, and this continues into OR/AS.
The EXP. Share is so broken (and if you're gonna say you can turn it off, yes, you can, but see
this image), some of the bosses have terrible movesets (Drake's special attacking Flygon (off of that amazing 80 special attack stat, I might add) has SCREECH, multiple recurring bosses have only one or two Pokemon, you're given incredibly overpowered Pokemon around halfway through the game (as mentioned in that image)... They're just so disappointing, especially when compared to Platinum-B2/W2, where bosses had multiple Pokemon, they had good movesets; heck, B2/W2 have a (poorly implemented) hard mode where bosses are actually given held items on ALL of their Pokemon that aren't Sitrus Berries! Heck, even in normal mode, Iris' Druddigon has Sheer Force + Life Orb with moves that take advantage of that!
And then there's the removal of the Battle Frontier, sans the Battle Tower clone. Like, come on, those were actually fun!
It's not
all bad, though. I appreciate how EV training is easier in Gen VI, and how the characters in OR/AS were actually given more... well, character.