The Pokemon X and Y Thread: 8/10 Gamespot (Total Number of New Pokemon Leaked)

[QUOTE="NationProtector"][QUOTE="Maroxad"]

I am not saying that Black and White 1 werent easy. Of course, the game only gets easier if you only use one pokemon.

What I am saying is that exp gain from random encounters will NOT be sufficient push you to the 50s territory unless you grind. Even by the time you reach elite four. I strongly recall my party being level 50ish by the time I beat the game (I used a party of 3). Also, you will only encounter pokemon between level 37-42 in victory road, unless you fish, surf or take advantage of rippling water. On Soul Silver, I played most of the game being underleveled, so I had to make due with proper usage of passives, items, and moves.

Point is: If you were to skip every trainer battle, you would find yourself so underleveled, you might regret doing so.

Maroxad

I never said you did.

You stated that the game would be really short if you could skip every trainer battle. What I am arguing for is that even if you could skip them, you wouldnt want to turn down an opportunity for EXP and money.

Edit: And regarding the difficulty. Pokemon is not quite as hard as something like Shin Megami Tensei. But I did find it more challenging than most modern Square Enix RPGs.

GAME UK will now be offering a shiny Mewtwo to all players with copies of Pokemon Black, Pokemon White, Pokemon Black 2, and Pokemon White 2.

Someone grab one and trade it to me :P

Nintendo has announced a Pokemon X and Y dedicated Direct for all regions tomorrow; the Direct will air at 7am ET/6am CT/4am PT. It will be hosted by Masuada and not Satoru Iwata.

Check out the Japanese stream of the Pokemon X and Y Nintendo Direct here.
Check out the American stream of the Pokemon X and Y Nintendo Direct here.
Check out the European stream of the Pokemon X and Y Nintendo Direct here. 

The full stream will be embedded into the third post on the first page of this thread tomorrow, as soon as it is made available.

I'll go with the safe assumption of AAE based off their recent games.

Anyways I'll be getting Y. I love evil death birds.

Anyone else been avoiding as much info as possible? I want to have a fresh experience with this game without knowing too much. With Black/Black2 I knew a lot of stuff like the gym leaders, and what legendaries were in the game. The only thing I really know is mega evolutions for certain pokemon. Capitan_Kid

[QUOTE="Capitan_Kid"]Anyone else been avoiding as much info as possible? I want to have a fresh experience with this game without knowing too much. With Black/Black2 I knew a lot of stuff like the gym leaders, and what legendaries were in the game. The only thing I really know is mega evolutions for certain pokemon. charizard1605

Sounds like an mmorpg to me ;) Actually ditch that, the hype is where 99% of the fun in an mmo nowdays, considering how crappy most of them turn out. I do follow the game, but then I forget everything again shortly enough, now that I think of it, I forgot who the 3 starters were.

Edit: Mostly everything, I will never stop being butthurt over the digi-evolutions...err mega evolutions.

Nintendo has announced a Pokemon X and Y dedicated Direct for all regions tomorrow; the Direct aired at 7am ET/6am CT/4am PT.

Check out the Japanese stream of the Pokemon X and Y Nintendo Direct here.
Check out the American stream of the Pokemon X and Y Nintendo Direct here.
Check out the European stream of the Pokemon X and Y Nintendo Direct here. 

New announcements:

• Pokemon X and Pokemon Y will feature the three Kanto starters for the player to choose from shortly after the game begins. These starters will be given to them by the Pokemon Professor (unlike the Kalos region starters, which are given to them by their friend)
• Each of the three Kanto starters Mega-evolves; they also gain stat boosts and new abilities once they do that.
• Megaevolutions are directly linked to Pokemon happiness in some way.
• A new cloud storage solution has been announced for Pokemon: Pokemon Bank. Pokemon Bank utilizes universal IDs, lets you upload your Pokemon to the cloud, and then retrieve them as well. You can store up to 3,000 Pokemon, and you can store a full box of Pokemon at a time, instead of doing it Pokemon by Pokemon, like before.
• The Pokemon Bank cloud storage solution also makes it so you can retrieve your Pokemon stored in it to a new game file or new copy of the game, assuming you lose your old one.
• Pokemon Bank will not accept any hacked or illegitimate Pokemon.
• Pokemon Bank costs $5/year, although every user gets a free trial period to begin with.
• Pokemon Bank can be accessed with PCs and Macs.
• Pokemon X and Y are backwards compatible with Black, White, Black 2, and White 2. Transfers are done via Poke-Transfer, a free 3DS app that acts as an add on for Pokemon Bank.
• Nintendo will release a special Pokemon X and Y edition Red 3DS XL and Blue 3DS XL in Europe and North America on September 26, ahead of the game's launch; the game will not be bundled with this model.

Okay so do megaevolutions only happen in battle? Have they clarified this?

Not sure how I feel about them giving you two starters, I'll probably immediately store the Kanto one if I get a 3DS.

I'll probably buy Pokemon Bank :PBlabadon

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]I'll probably buy Pokemon Bank :Pbbkkristian

[QUOTE="bbkkristian"][QUOTE="Blabadon"]I'll probably buy Pokemon Bank :Pcain006

[QUOTE="Blabadon"]I'll probably buy Pokemon Bank :Pbbkkristian

Okay so do megaevolutions only happen in battle? Have they clarified this?

Not sure how I feel about them giving you two starters, I'll probably immediately store the Kanto one if I get a 3DS.

cain006

Game won't be bundled with the special edition 3DS? U srs?darkspineslayer

[QUOTE="cain006"]

Okay so do megaevolutions only happen in battle? Have they clarified this?

Not sure how I feel about them giving you two starters, I'll probably immediately store the Kanto one if I get a 3DS.

charizard1605

I'll be using the bank only to transfer pokemon from black 2 to Y. though i wish I didn't have to. damn it nintendo why couldn't that be free?

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="cain006"]

Okay so do megaevolutions only happen in battle? Have they clarified this?

Not sure how I feel about them giving you two starters, I'll probably immediately store the Kanto one if I get a 3DS.

cain006

[QUOTE="darkspineslayer"]Game won't be bundled with the special edition 3DS? U srs?charizard1605

I'll be using the bank only to transfer pokemon from black 2 to Y. though i wish I didn't have to. damn it nintendo why couldn't that be free?

TheShadowLord07

I never transfer Pokemon anyway.

I prefer to start fresh (like Ash, even though his Pikachu seems to go from level 999 to level 5)

[QUOTE="cain006"]

[QUOTE="charizard1605"] Only in battles, and you can only have one Mega-evolved Pokemon per battle (meaning even if all six of your Pokemon can Mega-evolve, if one of them Mega-evolves, the other five won't).charizard1605

Holy crap the mega evolutions for Blastoise and Charizard look freaking terrible. Especially Blastiose. What the hell were they thinking? It's sad too, I was pretty excited considering they somehow made Blaziken look more badass.

I don't know which version to get. :(Zero5000X

X because the X Pokemon looks cooler.

I never transfer Pokemon anyway.

I prefer to start fresh (like Ash, even though his Pikachu seems to go from level 999 to level 5)

PhazonBlazer

I don't know which version to get. :(Zero5000X

Oh yeah that would be good. The way it was worded on bulbapedia it sounded like you had to use a regular item. It seems fair considering you can only do it once a battle.

Holy crap the mega evolutions for Blastoise and Charizard look freaking terrible. Especially Blastiose. What the hell were they thinking? It's sad too, I was pretty excited considering they somehow made Blaziken look more badass.

cain006

[QUOTE="Zero5000X"]I don't know which version to get. :(PhazonBlazer

X because the X Pokemon looks cooler.

[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="Zero5000X"]I don't know which version to get. :(Zero5000X

X because the X Pokemon looks cooler.

[QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]

I'll be using the bank only to transfer pokemon from black 2 to Y. though i wish I didn't have to. damn it nintendo why couldn't that be free?

charizard1605

[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="Zero5000X"]I don't know which version to get. :(Zero5000X

X because the X Pokemon looks cooler.

We don't know yet, just the two legendaries.

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]

I'll be using the bank only to transfer pokemon from black 2 to Y. though i wish I didn't have to. damn it nintendo why couldn't that be free?

TheShadowLord07

and charizard, do you know about getting torchic in the game? people keep saying ot gaf but I don't remember it being mention in the direct.

[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

[QUOTE="Zero5000X"]I don't know which version to get. :(Zero5000X

X because the X Pokemon looks cooler.

Xerneas, Swirlix and Clauncher for X

Yveltal, Spritzee and Skrelp for Y

and charizard, do you know about getting torchic in the game? people keep saying ot gaf but I don't remember it being mention in the direct.

TheShadowLord07

[QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]

[QUOTE="charizard1605"] You get a free trial, so you can transfer all your Pokemon to X and Y and never have to worry about a fee.charizard1605

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]don't think I'll be ale to make it for the free trial because I have to wait for the 3ds xl and pokemon y to be shipped after the christmas time. any word how mucch the cloud app suppose to cost, in USD that is? I'm hoping its $5 cause that is how much it is in pounds and yen.Ultrabeatdown55

Oh it's only $5.

Still no deal for me.

[QUOTE="TheShadowLord07"]

and charizard, do you know about getting torchic in the game? people keep saying ot gaf but I don't remember it being mention in the direct.

charizard1605

I'm not a fan of the Pokemon games. But I definitely wouldn't mind owning one of the limited edition Pokemon X and Y 3DS units! They are pretty smexy! Especially that red one!

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I'm not a fan of the Pokemon games. But I definitely wouldn't mind owning one of the limited edition Pokemon X and Y 3DS units! They are pretty smexy! Especially that red one!

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Micropixel

Damn, I'm so gonna get Y.rjdofu

That's what I'm thinking! :)

Those 3D's looks so awesome.

So...it's either one of them or a Wii U...

Those 3D's looks so awesome.

So...it's either one of them or a Wii U...

PhazonBlazer

[QUOTE="PhazonBlazer"]

Those 3D's looks so awesome.

So...it's either one of them or a Wii U...

charizard1605

I know I am.

[QUOTE="charizard1605"][QUOTE="cain006"]Ah I just looked some stuff up. I guess the pokemon needs to be holding an item and you have to use an item? Doesn't seem like it would be worthwhile in most situations unless it dramatically affects stats.

cain006

Holy crap the mega evolutions for Blastoise and Charizard look freaking terrible. Especially Blastiose. What the hell were they thinking? It's sad too, I was pretty excited considering they somehow made Blaziken look more badass.

Looking overdesigned is a common theme among these digi evolutions.

I really hope this megaevolution thing just turns out to be a huge joke. Not only does it destroy their aethestics, but it also seems like it wont do the game balance any favors. At least you will only be able to have one pokemon digievolve per battle.

I have to say, Mega Evolutions is one of the two only design choices I have disliked in the entire series (the other one being removal of the day/night system for Ruby and Sapphire).

Holy hell.

That Y 3DS looks amazing.