Old pokemon flooding Unova I only had a problem with in Black/White 2 because perhaps the biggest selling point of Unova was that there was all new pokemon. It wasn't fully devoid of old pokemon in BW1, but you could only use the new pokemon until you get to the postgame; where you can get all the old ones. BW 2 went back on that completely.
Yeah, but that's exactly WHY they added the old Pokemon in, because so many people complained about being forced to use Gen 5 Pokemon, exclusively.
The story sucks compared to BW1 because it is so shallow in comparison. It does not explore any sort of deep meaning to pokemon like what the first game did; it was just like any other pokemon game of "stop the bad guys because they are doing bad". Taking another of the first game's strong points and throwing it out completely to make it more like a generic pokemon game.
B/W 1's story wasn't really that good. Team Plasma were nothing but thinly veiled PeTA surrogates, and the basic story still boiled down to "stop the bad guys, because they're bad". Even the reveal of Ghestis as a bad guy who didn't care about Pokemon was so obvious from the start of the game that it's absurd, and his motivation is no different Giovanni or Cyrus. X and Y had a much better story, at least Lysandre had a decent motivation beyond "I want to conquer the world"
I enjoyed BW1 because it took the game in a different direction to what Pokemon normally does and the story was actually interesting for once. BW2 took everything BW1 did right and was sold on and threw it out of the window to make it like a generic game and then made most of what BW1 did wrong even worse. Maybe the thing I did wrong was expecting any more than a "enhanced" third version dressed as a sequel. Idk
Again, B/W's story kinda sucked, if you really think about it, and was no different than any other game (bad guys want to take over the world with legendary pokemon), and the lack of older Pokemon was a major point of criticism for the game. You're entitled to your opinion, but the fact is that your complaints about B/W2 are all things that were changed because people HATED those aspects of B/W1. PokeStar Studios and the PWT were massively popular side-content, and giving people the opportunity to catch older gen monsters from the start brought back older players who had stopped playing, and the connected content between the two games was actually really cool, and let you actually see how things have changed in the three intervening years.
EDIT: In fact, with the sheer amount of content being used to connect the two sets of games, the multiple factions of Team Plasma, the number of connections between the various NPCs and the B/W protagonists, I'd even argue that B/W2 were BETTER sequels than G/S/C (the only other direct sequels in the series). Sure, G/S/C allowed you to explore Kanto, again (albeit massively stripped down), but really, you don't have any connection to R/B/Y except for the battles with Red and Blue/Green and Giovanni being in hiding.
Edited by Binx, 11 June 2017 - 06:57 PM.