One thing and one thing only for me - Its the story.. its bad.
Normally pokemon games are all about just going to the other towns and challenging the gyms with the occasional ruffians along the way that want to use some legendary power to rule the world or something. It's not epic, it's not "grand" .. Black and White tires this, and.. it's very very clumsy plot wise. I mean, the ides is something everyone's joked about.. using pokemon as slave labor of sorts, and it's nice to see them try to put some actual honest thought into a story for once.. but.. my god. Hire some writers or something, Game Freak. Team Plasma, the Sages mostly, spill ALL kinds of vital info like, how many there are, who the sages are, what their master plan is.. probably in the attempt to make them sound mysterious and threatening.. and you don't even fight them for any of it. Every time they talk, they remind me of the brainswarm in Futurama. In that voice no less. Going on about how smart they are and how they can never be thwarted.. and yet they're totally inept. And N is no better.. he literally tells you where and how to catch the legendary pokemon so you can stop him. A more realistic approach would probably have the main character researching it on his own, I dunno.. a Gym Leader or something help him out with it. Its like Team Plasma is afraid of success or something, and literally set themselves up to be defeated. They literally WANT you to crush them mercilessly.. What the hell is this? Explain yourself Gamefreak, explain yourself!
I honestly like the old way better in this case. Sure the interactions were kinda goofy, but you didn't have the bar raised so high.. you can't just start talking about legendary kings and dragons and then totally drop the ball just like that. The initial set up deserves more than that. I just can't help but laugh and roll my eyes at how stupid everyone is in Unova. And coming from a pokemon game that already has a pretty stupid virtually non-existant story, thats saying something. I kinda want a game where there is no badges.. cuz I mean, really.. isn't that the point? Just let me run around and catch and breed and battle.. this plot line nonsense is getting old.