10 Reasons Pokemon Is The Greatest Franchise In Video Game History

2. Rewards For Hard Work Are Tangible, Not Aesthetic

Star Wars: Battlefront had a developmental budget of $50million, and the most you'll get for investing weeks of your life is a rotatable statuette of Darth Vader, oh, and an advert for the latest expensive DLC.

Now, it's not like Pokemon is posting out gold stars or iTunes vouchers to players who've won a couple of tricky battles, but facets of the game that encourage you to invest your time also offers rewards for doing so. Breeding, training, and battling all leave you with progressively stronger Pokemon to use online, and the more time you're willing to put in, the more options are going to be available to you.

Most games do this with unlockables, but the depth available in Pokemon means that the amount you're able able to reap is limited only by the amount you're able to sow. If you're so inclined to grind away and breed a Pokemon with incredible stats and a moveset only possible by teaching things to it's great-grandparents you'll be looking at losing a good few days of your life, but you'll be left with something that only a handful of other players in the world will ever have.

What's more, you can then go online and absolutely demolish other players with it. The pride that comes with that is the whole reason your Facebook feed is forever crammed with pictures of your friend's children.