Explain why people love Pokemon games to me please!

[Salnax]

I'm going to defend and attack every generation now.

Gen 1 was the establishing generation that got 90% of what mattered right. Unfortunately, the 10% was balanced gameplay. Gen 2 expanded on Gen 1 and balanced the gameplay, but was a simple expansion. Gen 3 had a lot of character and interesting types of Pokemon, but abandoned some of the things that made gen 2 great. Gen 4 perfected the raw gameplay, but at the expense of style and interesting Pokemon. Gen 5...

Actually, Generation 5 is about as close to perfect as the series has gotten. Screw the haters!