@@slickl9608 it is for me. Lol. I struggle finding motivation to go back into it knowing that my pokemon can take out gym leader pokemon with even ineffective moves and without getting to that power by actually winning. They just leeched off one another. Currently playing B2W2 instead. Lol
@@slickl9608 It's boring. You can only ever use one mon and still have 5 high levels in the back, despite never having used them. It takes away their individual developement. One of the most fun things in past games for me was leveling a freshly caught pokemon, getting comfortable with it and experiencing it's growth. Not anymore, use another one for a while and the rest have grown 4 lvls outta nowhere. It's convenient if you don't care but whyy is it forced?
I loved those Roller Blades. Completely forgot they existed like 80% of the game (mind you that is largely due to being hilariously over-leveled the whole time because I would always grind expecting a difficulty spike that never came.)
They really could’ve made mega evolutions worth it. When I first got it, I thought you had to had max friendship to mega evolve. I thought if that because the anime put so much emphasis on the friendship part.
I 100% agree. It gives you a point to use Pokémon amie and it just makes sense. You have to be connected and involved with your Pokémon to evolve it. Ash Greninja was a special case and isn’t actually mega evolution. It’s called the bond phenomenon. And even when ash Greninja was put in sun and moon, you didn’t actually need friendship with it to use the ability. I think beyond Pokémon amie that other ways of boosting friendship or a bond would have been good too. How many battles you’ve won with the Pokémon should matter before they can mega evolve. How long have they been in the party etc. It would have made it so much better.
One thing I liked about the story was the fact that team flare members felt like they trully belonged to a fascist organization. They were losers who were told by someone they were special (and probably hated mankind) and worship the guy who gave them purpose. When team flare disappears, you can find a guy trying to still make it alive. Ngl, this(and some of their funny dialogues) are why team flare is the best pokemon team. Plus, Lysandre.
idk, I felt like gen 6 as a whole is one of the best we've seen. especially compared to sun/moon and onwards. S&M looked garbage compared to the art style of gen 6
Exactly! As someone who has always been interested in other paths that aren't just becoming Champion, I think the friend characters had a lot of potential. Making Tierno a Contest Champion and Trevor a Pokémon researcher would have been amazing-if you have to introduce a battle, maybe have Tierno say that he wants to show you how beautiful his Pokémon moves or have Trevor say that he wants to study how certain Pokémon moves work. It'd feel out of character if their Pokémon were at the same level as yours; maybe crafting teams for them with Pokémon that don't show up often and have moves that aren't common would make things less boring?
I think your main problems with X and Y are that they're unfinished. Something about them feel like Game Freak had to scramble to make everything work, most likely due to the P.S.S. system and all that stat balancing. That along with OR/AS gave Kalos no proper time to shine, which is probably why Game Freak took an extra year to make Sun and Moon.
ChaosController316 Left and right you can find areas that were just left unfinished and Game Freak themselves said they were so rushed for time that island trials were added at the last moment during the debug phase.
Honestly I want to see more subjective reviews. Art is an entirely by-the-individual type of thing, and I want to hear what a game/book/ etc did for a PERSON rather than what it did for a medium.
What in the fuck are you talking about lmao every single review you ever see is subjective. There is no objective truth to entertainment. This is just a salty Pokemon fan speaking to the choir of other older Reddit Pokemon fans that love to complain about everything.
@@merlotpapi4930 Buy product, consume product, then get excited for next product. Don't ask questions. Complaint is Crime, Complacency is Virtue. You're pathetic...
@@ummelofilo9642 You got so mad at my response you doubleposted. And then you called me "pathetic" like I give a fuck about your character assessment, especially after you posted all that cringe lmao jump off a bridge
I really liked x and y, but the game lasted less than 10 hours wich is terrible for jrpg standards. But It's definitly still better than 40 hours of cutscenes
I liked them too (unpopular opinion: They are my favorite editions, closely followed by ORAS, lol). It's just sad that they somehow lacked post-story and even some things in the main story. I hope that they'll remake them and that they will be better.
I love x and y. I’m a casual player to the max and I find these games to be really fun and comforting, and honestly because it’s so easy I can experiment with interesting teams and play with Pokémon I want to play with instead of ones that are “best” for the gyms/your rival/the champion. Although I wouldn’t call x/y perfect I find them to be nice stress relief.
I feel like we can't blame X&Y for the introduction of gimmicks being dropped, as it only introduced a new mechanic. The blame should fall on later games like Sun and Moon, as they were the ones that actually started the trend of ditching cool mechanics.
at least in sun&mon the new mechanics were explorative (super powerboosted moves? heck yeah, alien pokemon from other dimensions? heck yeah) in gen 8 we got what... big pokemon? big mega-pokemon, big z-moves?
I'm really glad more people are coming to like X and Y. They were the first steps into 3D and I think it's a really cutesy game in general. Wish we got a third edition but the two we got are still fun
@@brya9681 nope, the "real" hardcore pokemon fans are just a bunch of whiney babies who can't comprehend that their circlejerk isn't the only objective truth
I don't know why but X and Y was like the only game where I felt like I was going on a journey around the region. I don't know why but I don't really have connections to previous region's towns and stuff. I can't remember most towns in older generations. It's one of the reason why I want a remake of X and Y. Just image running through Kalos with a free camera and HD graphics. Honestly though, If they do remake X and Y or make a pokemon Z then they don't really have to fix much. Fix the difficulty, pacing, characters, and the story a bit. The team building is great in this game. Honestly, every other game makes you wait like 3 gyms before you get interesting pokemon and that's just annoying.
michael james I can’t really remember them all that much honestly. The only reasons I remember some is because I had to grind in those area or they’re the some of the first areas. To this day I still forget that hoen has a tall grass section because I just breezes through that area. I also can’t for the life of me remember the later half of shinnoh.
"Sun and Moon retroactively made X and Y better" That's like saying being kicked in the chest feels better comparatively after you just got kicked in the nads
@@randombloke165 yeah idk I had more fun with x and y. Idk and idc if that's a wrong opinion. The second time making the same mistakes will always be worse than the first. Doesn't make the first good, for example, imagine if x and y were like gen 1 with free form routing, and kept all the scenery, and then after elite 4 you could go to the sinnoh region or something. It would be so much better. There was a lot of missed opportunity, but I still think it was better than sun and moon, being the first game with exp after catching the Pokemon if memory serves me right, lmk if it doesn't.
Mello_ I disagree. The first time and second time making a mistake are the same. It’s annoying that they didn’t fix the mistakes, but it doesn’t somehow make the first time any better. For me though, Kalos was just really boring. Sun and moon were at least interesting enough for me to continue until the end. I haven’t beaten X and Y to this day because I always lose all interest half way through. I think one time I almost got to the elite four, but still, I couldn’t pull through until the end.
@@randombloke165 good point maybe I should replay them. When I played it a bit ago I enjoyed it and the scenery, while underdeveloped, kept me interested. It's all about what you prefer. I couldn't get through sun and moon, I had the same issues you had with x and y. I do like the alola pokemon though, pretty sick.
X and Y were the last famed with a national pokedex. That alone makes them great games in comparison. And that might be kinda sad.
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I love XY, but they could definitively have been quite better. I'd have loved to have some things, but I think the best way to pull it is with a list: -Exp. Share could have been "broken" at first by only giving experience to the last member of the party and then the professor or someone "fixes" it in the postgame or before the E4. -Serena/Calem becomes your serious rival and don't "ask" you for battles, they simply challenge you unwarned like Silver and Blue did. The other three are still your "friends" and challenge you to some battles here and there, but they also have other functioons: Tierno checks your Super Training skills and gives you new rewards or levels, and in postgame he becomes a move tutor; Shauna checks your Amie care and gives you more accesories and higher level minigames, and in postgame she increases your Pokemon's happiness and affection; and Trevor gives you Pokedex reviews. He offers you rare TMs or items by completing a certain amount of pages, and in postgame he talks you about swarms or increases chances of finding hidden ability Pokemon in the wild. -The Kanto starter is a postgame exclusive after fighting the professor; this way, they do an actual nostalgic easter egg and your new starter feels like a reward and not a free boost. Mega Charizard X gets replaced with Mega Flygon. -You get to use Mega Lucario, but only once; it then can be rematched in the postgame in order to obtain its Mega Stone. -More trainers get access to Mega Evolution like Ace Trainers, Veterans, every Elite 4 member, and Gym Leaders on their rematches; Lysandre on his final battle uses a machine that forces his entire team to Mega Evolve. -Southern Kalos features an actual Safari Zone. -Unova Musketeers become Kalos' trio (it makes more sense; besides, they already have the genies) OPTIONAL, but very appreciated: -The Z update gives you access to a new mini region in Southern Kalos where you can catch more Pokemon (those which are exclusive to Mirage Islands in ORAS), contests, some secret bases, and compatibility with ORAS Mega Stones. Tierno becomes your Secret Base rival, Shauna your contest rival, and Trevor helps you find new Mega Stones. -There's a new episode like Looker's where you have to stop Team Flare from obtaining the second Zygarde and fusing it with the other one. -There's a new Battle Factory clone, Amie minigame, and Super Training set of levels if you want. I feel those changes would make XY pretty amazing games. There would still be some flaws like the pacing after the 3rd gym and how AZ was used, but the games overall would feel way more complete and interesting.
I really love of the idea of having more southward expansion in Kalos! Also, I really like your idea of making the friends feel more a part of the adventure instead of just being there.
The main thing I liked about Lysandre was the fact that he purposefully ingratiated himself with the Prof - it makes so much sense for an antagonist to try to get close to the region's source of pokemon knowledge/rare pokemon that I don't know why more villains haven't done it?
Gotta say, it's nice to see some Gen 6 love around here. Gen 6 is my 2nd favourite generation (after Gen 3, which was my first gen), and I know it's definitely not a lot of people's favourites. And while I agree with what was said in this video, you neglected to mention the most important aspect of Gen 6: There's a T-Rex Pokemon Objective best region 10/10
@@slickl9608 Doesn't change that he resembled a T-rex, even though I am pretty sure he is based on a different species in general. Everyone just calls it a T-rex.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 Rampardos was actually based on an herbivore dinosaur, Pachycephalosaurus. The dome on their heads is theorized to have been used in mating. Sure, the arms were small, but the head shape was all wrong, in both that the jaw was too small and the dome that T-Rex simply didn't have
But team flares goal is litteraly to destroy the world and rebuild it into there own and game treats it's like a big deal over the course of the game, so I don't realy get why you think they are refreashing. Team skull in that sense is a little bit more original since they are more gofy for the most part and aren't supposed to be taken to seriously.
team skull was also a bait and switch for the aether foundation which was the true evil team of the game, an idea they tried to reuse in Sword/Shield but since that game was only 40% done we got one short tower sequence that made no sense and then got dropped entirely when the game remembered there were 0 stakes
I just recently played through Y with the experience share off and the mode on Set. Although still not hard, it at least forced me to strategize and sometimes do multiple battles against gym leaders. I think they should have had 2 different exp. shares, the classic one for the adventure, and the new one that you unlock after beating the game in order to make EV training way easier.
X/Y Pokemon's designs are simply the best ones, there's a Lot of taste on their creation, they feel so clean so poluted. Kalos is also the pretiest region (with Galar i gess)
I feel one of the best games that made consistency possible where hoen and sinnoh. Especially sinnoh, every single route and place in sinnoh feels they are from the same region, meanwhile being really memorable. Even to the music they all sound very diferent while having the same feel and instruments in all. The places all seem you know kidna cold, european region. Even Sunyshore which is like on the ocean and its the warmest city in the game feels like it wouldnt be something as tropical as alola. Sinnoh is a mountainous, cold, and very old region, and every place feels like that even when having unique things that make them stand out. Snowpoint and hearthome give off the same vibe while still being unique, one being a solitary, snowy place in the edge of the world, while the other a heartwarming city that is the center and heart of sinnoh, but they both still feel sinnoh. Plus the music, omg the music, you can tell which song is which and from what place it is from, but you can still hear a piano medley of sinnoh songs and they blend so well together that they feel like just one long song
X and Y are not easy BECAUSE of the Exp Share, that's such a surface level analysis it's unbelievable. The game is easy because the levels of enemy trainers are too low and the elite 4 don't even have full teams of 6. Having the exp share makes it so much more satisfying to plan out a team and get access to some cool moves because your levels will be higher, instead of not being able to access the full potential of some of your pokemon before the champion battle because it doesn't have 4 half decent moves. When I got back into pokemon in my late teens (I hadn't played since red about 15 years before) I played Soul Silver first, arguably the best game in the franchise and loved it, then I played Y and I really enjoyed it until I got to the E4 when I was disapointed by the lack of full teams. My next game was black and I absolutley hated it.
I think you’re right in some ways. Looking back on the game, I had a hard time because it was my first Pokémon game. But almost every gym leader and important fight was missing moves on their Pokémon or a full team. So I don’t think the exp share was completely balanced but it did fit the game mostly. It’s just that the gym battles and such were far too easy.
I agree, first game was diamond and I could never beat it because I basically only used my starter. If there was an exp. share I probably would have been able to beat it.
hahaha when you mentioned the gap between the first and second gyms, there was definitely a lot of confusion and panic in the tumblr pokemon community. everyone was like "where's the second gym wtf??" likewise on tumblr i remember lots of people saying "how do I take off these roller skates?" and "where the HELL am i in this giant city??"
I loved these games because I felt like it was the first game where they made training for online battles actually doable. I grew up playing these games and all my friends in HS got it. We all go into battling, breeding, trading, shiny hunting and stuff. The online features were amazing and I never felt more connected to other players in a Pokémon game.
X and Y had fun elements tho, I felt like Sun and Moon was empty somehow. I think the gym leaders is probably what I liked more about X and Y, plus mega evolutions were new and people liked them. Z moves were kind of dumb and didn’t make sense
Regardless of what the majority says, X&Y were still pretty decent games. Unfinished games? Maybe But any pokemon game that gives you Two starters is a good idea in my eyes. The designs were the best I've seen since Hoenn. I've always said we don't need another 100 pokemon.. 30-60 will do just fine. And then.... There's the PPS.. A Gawd Send. Hello Wonder Trade.
Mega evolution was actually really nice, it should've followed with every generation. The way they made them just 1 gen throwaways is such a dumb decision.
as much as i’d love to see remakes of the old games for the switch, i also think that if GF revamped kalos without any rush, it could turn out absolutely gorgeous.
I believe kalos was the most beautiful region of the Pokemon world. Its the largest and most diverse, even larger them the games that followed. Its all 3d, and for me thats great. There is the character customization, the music is great and there is lots of colour. The Pokemon although few are also great designwise. Also the region is including later games the most populous region of all, there is a sense of life to it. The plot or mechanics may not be the best, but it is has beauty all around. I played it as a little kid so i never got the difficulty problem. However the immersion and adventure in this beautiful world is something i'll always remember.
In terms of the Kanto starters. Lots of people have been complaining that you dont have access to these rare pokemon til post game, and it gives you the opportunity to play with them if you want
After getting all nostalgic i started replaying every Pokemon Game from Gen 1 to Gen 6 and what I found is that all of them are rather easy. What people tend to negelect is that we are adults now and we therefore don't play like children anymore. When i frist started playing pokemon I palyed like a complete noob, which was a given since I was like 7 or 8 years old. For example, I used hydro pump and hyper beam on Garados and pretty much used hyper beam on every single pokemon since I had no idea about the special and attack split (I generally had no idead what the Stats ment xD). I didn't start bothering to learn the game mechanics before Gen 4, that's when I started playing Pokemon efficently, like caring about stats as well as the special and physical split of moves and I started using satus moves like sword dance, which suddenly made everything become very easy. As and adult you understand very well which Pokemon teams are best for which specific game and know very well which pokemon should be used with which ability and with which move and which hold item. Even as a young teenager i still didn't understand the correlation between abilities, moves and items. I for example used leftovers on Swellow instead of giving him a toxic or flame orb to activate his guts ability since i thought it didn't matter (and overestimating his defensive stats at the same time). You think i ever thought of using facade on it? No, Double Edge was cooler. Even when replaying Gen 2 a couple of month ago I found it way too easy since I knew how to handle it. Whitney with Miltank a Problem? No, just trade for the in-game machomp and catch yourself a Geodude and you are in for a rather easy win. Even without and exp share i found myself currently overleveld (without grinding) in Gen 1 since I never switched party memebers and only caught Pokemon I was going to use throughout the game (only certain Pokemon like mankey were used for certain gyms but dropped after I didn't need them anymore). This led to my Pokemon being overleveld at a certain point due to not having a full party before the 6th Gym. To conlude: If you want a Game for children to be difficult you will have to play like a child. That's exactly why people started doing Nuzlocke Challenges, to make a easy game more difficult. As I long ago stopped caring about the main story (let's be honest, it's very repetitiv) I only really cared about the gameplay and game mechanics as well as the quests. If we consider filling the Pokedex for the shiny charm, beating gyms and The Elite 4 as well as the post game contend I think X and Y did fairly well. What sets it apart from the preceeding generations were it's 3D graphics, which I found astounding at that time. My dream of being able to play a 3D Pokemon game with great animations finally came true which is the main reason i love X and Y. I also liked the exp. share which helped me fill the Dex. I overall liked X and Y as much as the previous generations but it's true that it got overshadowed by Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby (my up to date most favourite Pokemon games). But it overall was very great, I still love playing them over and over again. Sorry for the long post.
Man, your comment is so true! Very accurate! Add to you perfect scanning of the question the fact that what helps to make Pokémon games easy is the system battle in shift mode! When you are allowed change Pokémon every time you defeat the one of opponent, the game turns a piece of cake! Well, the only thing I disagree with you is that I still believe that XY is a better game than ORAS!
@@pedromonteiro2248 I have to admit that I prefer ORAS over XY out of nostalgia because Ruby was the first ever Pokemon game I played on a console. You are certainly spot on with the shifting system, it makes the game way too easy. That's presicely why I mostly play Pokemon hacks or do challenges, they are to some degree challenging. Try a monotype challenge or a nuzlocke challenge. Escpacially nuzlockes can fuck you up mentally, I stopped mine halfway after all of my favorite Pokes died :( Another classic way of making it harder is to not switch Pokemon, always battle with your current one until it faints. Still to easy? Well how about not using any medicine items in battle? I even stopped using full Pokemon teams, I usally have 3 main fighers and the rest are just HM Slaves. Still to easy? How about a randomizer nuzlocke? There are many ways to make Pokemon more challenging but if you play it the regular way than it won't matter which Gen you play, as an adult they will all be too easy
They definitely should've kept mega evolution, it's so much better than gigantamaxes cause it's more practical. Like a lot of gigantamaxes make the Pokemon 30 metre taller like really isn't the stadium gonna break or something like that.
This is the most fair video about x and y I have seen. also if u ask me I think the game was supposed to be longer but instead they ended up spending a long time remodeling a 2D game into 3D so a lot of the content got cut probably. Such as the powerplant facilities
10:15 I was honestly angry when this happened I caught a Riolu, leveled it up, and it was awesome. At the time had never used a Lucario on my team before. When they straight up gave me the Lucario I was pissed. It’s like if you trained up the Charmander into a Charizard by that point and the game decided to give you a fucking Charmeleon. Makes no sense!
I played Pokémon moon for the longest time and then I started playing X (by the way, people worldwide still play those games as evident from the PSS) and when I went back to moon this year, I noticed how the loading times for literally EVERYTHING is so long. X takes little time to save, maybe a second or so. Moon takes a full 5 seconds just to save progress!
I am a Gen 5 fan through and through but I have to say X and Y were amazing nuzlocke games just because every route had like 10 pokemon to find even from route 1. great variety compared to straight up rattata/pidgey parties most nuzlockes start with.
Pokemon Y is my favorite, 5 minutes in you have your starter and Dex, 1 hour in you have your first badge, meanwhile in alola 1hr in I beat Hau 2 times and I got my pokedex and the tutorial never ends until the 4th Island
Am I going crazy here or was a game called Pokémon Z supposed to come out? I remember them introducing this green Pokémon that was going to be the legendary but then they did nothing with it.
Jack Glaser My guess is that since people highly criticised B2W2 because they were tired of 3rd versions back then, GF listened to them and released the betas of gen 7 instead. Also, celebrating the 20th anniversary of pokemon with a 3rd version would have been stupid. And a new game, even incomplete was still better than another gen 1 remake (looking at you Let’s Go).
OK...just try to train more than 6 pokemon in heart gold and soul silver. It takes forever. The point of exp share isn't to just get your team to level 100. You can level cap yourself which allows you to train about 10-18 pokemon throughout the game without having to stop and kill a bunch of pokemon in a field for 2 hours.
I loved the 3D rendering. Maybe it's because of the generation I come from but I know a lot of older people like it too so eh. Also I love that the Kanto starters were added. I never got to play the beginning games and in my opinion if I could I wouldn't... I've played the newer games for so long and I only have a 3DS, it was refreshing that 3D became a thing but 1 other thing... Completing the Pokedex in ORAS (Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby) because you cannot transfer Pokemon from Black & White 2 and previous games into ORAS, basically, Pokemon X and Y made completing the Pokedex in ORAS so much easier. All I care about is collecting every single Pokemon I possibly can and for me, both X&Y and ORAS allowed me to do just that... To catch all 600 Pokemon in just 2 game sets
Actually, Pokémon XY is the best Pokémon game to fulfill you Pokédex! It is not quite easy but they don’t made this impossible as past generations (XY is even better than SM/USUM)!
I actually think gen 6 is my favorite the newer generations. Maybe that’s because I actually played it when it was new, unlike gen 5 which I didn’t play until later on. I really didn’t enjoy b&w or s&m they just felt bland to me but maybe it’s just because I played gen 6 a lot more
I played X and Y a few months ago and it was the most boring game I ever played. The definition of bland. It's the only pokemon game I actually didn't finish in one or two weeks, and took months, since I thought it was awfully dumb and boring. The story is so shit and the game is so damn easy. Different experiences I guess
And I found it awful and boring when I played it at the times, especially compared to Black and White. I couldn't even imagine how bad these games would feel if I discovered them now.
@@CHICKENmcNUGGIESMydude everything he said is true. X and Y's story was crap and the game was piss easy. And those are only 2 of the problems with it.
the reason why I like Pokemon X&Y so much is not because of the gameplay, which was, like you said, pretty weak in comparison to previous generations, but because it's a really memorable and beautiful(?) game. The Kalos region might be my favourite Pokemon region to date, as it has a lot of beautiful and vast places to explore. Even after beating the Champ I enjoyed skating through the streets and alleys of Lumiose City, where I kept finding a lot of stuff I had previously missed. While, yes, Kalos doesn't make much sense geografically, it had really cool looking places in it and great soundtrack to make them really come to live. And like you said, the newly introduced Pokemon where few in number, but we're great design-wise and made sense for the region in a way. I don't know how to explain that, other than the Pokemon available in X&Y made sense for a region that's based on France and for the story that it introduced. I also really enjoyed the character costumization and the fact that the boutiques actually switched up their sortiment based on the day of the week, which made me revisit them often, so I could buy all their clothes. Mega-Evolutions and the fairy typing we're 2 of the best things X&Y introduced in my opinion. The fairy type became my favourite type, because of it's type advantages and weaknesses in battle and because there are a lot of really cool fairy type Pokemon, like Xerneas, which is my favourite legendary or Mimikyu, which is from Sun&Moon but still cool. The mega evolutions worked well for the gameplay, even though they gave you 2 great megas for free and early in the game. But they made battling more interesting for me and gave a new boost to Pokemon that needed one (and some that didn't). I think the reason why the mega evolution is barely ever talked about, is because it was a one-time event for the franchise. Sun&Moon was quick to abandon them and instead introduced something that was in no way adequate to the mega evolution. (On another note I really disliked Z-Moves bc they we're pretty useless and I never used them. Except for Mimikyus special move, just because it's called never-ending nightmare). In short X&Y did some things pretty well. It had a memorable region that felt whole in a way without making much sense. And the new mechanics it introduced added to the enjoyment of the game. But yes, X&Y suffer some losses, simply because they we're the easiest games so far.
I have a strong opinion on the EXP Share but I’ve honestly not seen this view around the web much even though to me it feels so obvious. I DO strongly agree that XY were too easy, and the lack of challenge is a real problem. But I don’t think that’s the fault of the EXP Share. When I played through XY, I came to appreciate dragging around random Pokémon in my empty slots to even them up and evolve them without even using them directly, to the point where I ended up finishing the game with only four team members because I wanted to keep levelling up everything unevolved in my PC box. Levelling up all of my actual team members helped too, so the EXP Share was something I really appreciated. The problem was that it was optional, and the game’s level balance was built around not using the EXP Share, which was true for Sun/Moon too. This is why I’ve thought for a while that the EXP Share should NOT be optional, and instead, the game’s balance should be built around having it enabled. When Sword/Shield were revealed to be making the EXP Share mandatory, everyone kicked off, but I was chuffed. Apparently that game is still ridiculously easy, surprise surprise, but I hope we can get to a point where people don’t criticise the EXP Share itself, but instead criticise the games for not fully committing to their great concept. But anyway, cheers for giving XY a bit of praise, I really appreciate them for having easily the most varied Regional Dex for great team building options. XY hasn’t held up to the test of time that well, but it felt great at the time and I’d rather appreciate that. PPS I don’t really like Team Flare but your reasoning is precisely why I love The Deadly Six from Sonic Lost World, don’t @ me
ever since iv'e started noticing this large spike in easyness (if that is a word) I've limited myself to a max of 1-3 pokemon in my party from beginning to end in each new game, to up the challenge I crave.
@@Darkfoot21 Wouldn't limiting the number of pokemon in your party make the game easier? It's less pokemon to split the exp with so your team is higher level than normal.
@@tvboxmimic7887 I think you are overestimating the overall exp that is granted throughout a playthrough. With just my Hawlucha and Linoone, we had countless wipe outs during gym battles especially mid-late game and trainer battles were no longer mash "A" to win. We had to be more tactical and take advantage of moves I would normally discard like harden, sand attack, etc. It lead to more memorable and clutch moments, creating a stronger bond with my pokemon
"When I played through XY, I came to appreciate dragging around random Pokémon in my empty slots to even them up and evolve them without even using them directly." Yeah no. I don't see why a player should be rewarded by just dragging random Pokémon around without even using them. Why shouldn't you be challenged for evolving new mons. Being forced to actually use new mons in a battle makes it more enjoyable because you actually notice the mons strength , weaknesses, type advantage, move poll, etc. Dragging it around, evolving it without using it, and saying it was fun is the same to me as saying that getting shinies in Pokémon Lets Go is fun, its fun because its easy. You say the problem isn't the exp share, but it is, it absolutely is. You haven't explained why the new exp share should be used instead of the old system except that its convenient. There is no incentive of using other mons than your starter anymore, there is no point in learning to use new, weaker mons if your stronger mons can carry it to high level. If anything you demonstrated why the new EXP share made the games easier, despite the fact that you "enjoyed it". Ok, lets say a game is built around having it, you still haven't solved the problem of using weaker mons in an actual battle. If your stronger mons are defeated, your team will be able to beat the threat, even when you barely use them. The old system forced you to switch around because otherwise your other mons would be too weak. If one mon has the exp share, you would have had to use it in battle anyway to get double exp, and you start from an unreliable weak mon to a dependable strong mon, an experience you can't really have now because the game give an incentive for that. You CAN do it, but forcing yourself to do it vs having a system around it is not the same, just like forcing yourself to less than 6 mons because the game is too easy isn't the same as having an actual difficult game where you can use all 6 mons. You lack the new EXP share because of its "quality of life improvement" despite the fact that you don't even bond with new mons anymore, because there is no incentive to do it. I don't really care if you say that's not true. Because I don't see why a player should be able to evolve other mons "conveniently" aka easily. You can say its enjoyable, but that doesn't mean anything. Having evolved Pokémon in advance in the Battle Factory means I get to use strong mons without the hassle of growing them and catching them, but then you'd say "but they aren't yours" or "Pokémon is about catching and growing your own Pokémon" and then I'd say the new exp share doesn't give you any incentive to bond with your mon, because you don't even use them directly as you said. There would be no difference if they were in your PC.
This generation of pokemon is my favourite of all. I just bought a 3ds to get these pokemons. I player sun and it was the most favourite gamę of the entire series, because it was simplified. Everything was easy and comfortable to reach unlike previous generations.
Mega evolutions were undoubtedly the greatest part of generation six. I truly wish that Game Freak would have continued to build on the concept rather than trash it not but two games after their initial introduction.
Following grades for the vanilla release, original games of the corresponding generations: Gen 1: A Gen 2: A+ Gen 3: B+ Gen 4: C+ Gen 5: B+ Gen 6: C- Gen 7: D+ Gen 8: D+ These are for the sequel/third game releases: Yellow: A Crystal: A+ Emerald: A Platinum: A+ Black/White 2: A+ ... Ultra Sun/Moon: C
I might be alone in saying this but I like EXP all. I don't want to go into a battle, realise that my lead pokemon isn't a good type matchup for the random encounter, and waste a turn switching in a different pokemon. I also don't enjoy grinding. I'm playing pokemon, not Undertale genocide. Maybe it's just me but not having EXP all feels like I'm wasting more time in battles.
X and Y were my first games back in the series after gen 2 and I still find them more fun than the other games out afterwards. I would wish game freak would make the worlds larger though, and not via wild areas.
Hi. I’d like to look at this from a different perspective. I found Pokémon x while browsing for my bday present and decided I wanted to try it out. I feel it was a great introduction to the series and I feel they thought about this while creating it. It seemed to me like x and y brought a lot of new players into Pokémon and i honestly think they knew this would happen so they knew they would have to help these new players out. I think the kanto starters can be explained because most people know them three. Even if they don’t play Pokémon. So, having familiar faces would make it obvious what game it was. Anyways just my opinion lmao
Mega Evolution always felt like it had the potential to be the next big mechanic in Pokemon battles like weather, abilities, the physical/special split, and hidden abilities in generations prior. But instead of sticking with it and improving this concept that had a ton of potential, they threw it away and replaced it with two far less interesting "nuke button" mechanics in Z-Moves and Dynamax. Out of all of them, Mega Evos were the only ones I ever felt interested in or excited about, and removing them entirely in sword and shield feels like the biggest waste of potential in the series so far.
X and Y for me was the first Pokémon game I ever dove into the VGC side of the games and I loved it. The entire community at that point was my favorite it has ever been. I could be looking at it through rose colored glasses because I was younger, but I absolutely love 6th gen.
While the execution was hot shite, I think this is still my favorite Pokemon League. You come out of Victory Road, eager to arrive already, when you come across this big fuck-off fortress-cathedral looking-thing. The outside architecture is fuckin' magnificent- especially at night. I still have a photo saved to my 3DS of the place framed against the beautiful starry sky. You enter the main chamber and, while rather boring as a hub room, imposes an amazing ambiance. You stand in an elegant chamber- a regal dark blue carpet, a theme I find hard to describe (not quite imposing or oppressive), and wondrous subdued lighting peering in through stained glass windows. Upon entering an Elite Four's chamber, you rise up onto a fuckin' _gorgeous_ stained glass floor, in a thematically designed chamber... Only to suddenly be greeted by a (then) magnificently animated effect- whether it be giant plumes of flame erupting out of braziers, to spouts of water flooding the room to create a constant waterfall, to _giant swords dropping in from the sky_ . As you clear each of these rooms, you are now allowed access to the Radiant Chamber which, to this day, is still one of my single most favorite spaces in the series (comparable to Cynthia's Platinum room). An elaborate golden throne sits empty in a chamber so awesome and splendorous that it'd look more at home in the Vatican or some high-fantasy heaven. You may even take your place on the throne and bask in the majesty, but no, you have not yet earned it. You step onto the lift, and rise into a room that seems more like an artpiece than an area to walk in. The entire floor is a giant work of stained glass, arranged in rings and dotted with splotches of rainbow color. The walls of the room are a white and gold that belies the beauty of the room. And while she was underwhelming as a Champion, the intro to Diantha's theme perfectly punctuates the aesthetic of the entire League. I still get goosebumps when listening to the opening notes. Say what you want about the region, but the Pokemon League itself is nothing short of a masterpiece of thematic design. Or maybe I'm just biased because Gothic architecture and cathedralic aesthetics _are my jam_ .
I think they can be used to bring new life to old Pokemon, like Megas did for ones like Beedrill and Absol. They also help spice up the competitive scene to different degrees.
@@JB-bc2ry honestly think we should fight Ash Greninja as be able to catch him after the elite 4 so it can be like a post game idea to help him with his mission or something
If we could have a Pokemon game that encompasses all the good points/things of all the Pokemon games combined and there's an actual plot that feels like it fits well with a well designed/thought out region and great characters and awesome Pokemon, and the choices of which difficulty we want then that would be the ultimate Pokemon game.
I really liked XY, it had great pokemon allotment, where the beginner areas were not 100% trash. It was monotype viable in ways the first 5 generations were not. You could get up and running with your monotype from the get-go without massive amounts of compromising. My normal monotype had a litleo super early, pyroar isnt a super powerful pokemon, just good. Dark had absol and panchan early, good but not game breaking, and so on and so forth. Plus, XY had the best overall batch of new pokemon, with Tyrantrum and Heliolisk being my favorite pokemon in general. 3D sprites are a bummer, especially with the animations. Nothing was more disappointing for me than finding Mankey in Ultra Moon and having it and Primeape's animations turned from angry monkey to generic bobble animation. Look what they did to my boy.
I actually prefer X and Y over gen 3, the original one at least. The fact you can fly over the whole region in the remakes is so amazing that alone made them better than X and Y to me. Other than that, I agree that the musics are extremely good, probably the best ones after those that got added into BW2 compared to BW. But god did I hate those "rivals", they got me annoyed to no point.
Coming from BW2 where there's a SHITTON of things to do during the game and post-game, XY felt surprisingly empty in comparison and yet I still played over 400 hours because I'm nuts. Still sucks that most of the content was way too repetitive. BW2: - PokeStudios - PWT - Battle Train - Join Avenue - Black City/White Forest - Dreamworld - Entralink - MEDALS!!! (That alone added a lot more replayability that the entirety of XY "post game" ) XY: - Battle Maison - Battle restaurants - Friend "Safari" - Super Training - Medals** (online only with GTS, and that was a stupid decision) They did add some interesting features in XY like the "nature objects" whereas we could obtain items after the battle even if used certain moves to "interact" with the background, but as usual that was scrapped in the next games. If only they had give us "Z" or "XY2" so we can finally access the power plant and see where that train leads.... Unpopular opinion, they should have kept the "chibi" 3D aesthetic of XY and stop trying to be "realistic".
I feel like the XY games are the best of the series for me personally even though the lack of postgame and no attention to Zygarde at all. If they ever remake the games I have a bucket filled with ideas.
A stone that makes a Pokemon breaks its limits and posibly be a match for Legendaries.... "Here's another starter and your stone cuz you defeated me. No build up, no explanation of why would i give this to you, just get the fuck out of my Lab already"
Having attempted Nuzlockes in Y version (got to Alakazam on Victory Road last time), I have really started to appreciate these games. Team Flare could have been stronger but Lysandre more than makes up for that with his Gyarados who is an absolute unit. Even with Yveltal and Mega Blastoise, I still had a lot of trouble with it. I kept the Exp. Share off and banned Lucarionite for balance. (Yes, Mega Blastoise is strong too and Yveltal is a legendary but I caught Yveltal by battling it and if I had caught it with a Master Ball I would have made it Avatar State [its death being an autolose]) I also balance patched Eviolite to Pokemon that could evolve anyway (in Eevee's case, Lv 30). I did notice the difficulty spike in Victory Road though. Next time, I'll try to get a Pokemon that can use Sweet Scent so I can train on R21. The roster is very good, while not having many new pokemon it showcases many good pokemon as well as many that were underused in other games, for example in one of my games I ran Granbull and Lapras as my main two. Steelix also gets an honourable mention along with late game mons like Drapion and Tyranitar which I had never been able to use in a Nuzlocke due to the lack of availability of Pupitar. The main feature I didn't like was the Battle Chateau because I tried very hard but could not get decent Exp there. A lot of money for MooMooMilk though. I definitely would play again.
Something I've never understand is in the main pokemon games I've always had 400+ hours of playtime, with shiny breeding, breeding competitive pokemon, making teams, completing the pokedex, so I dont understand people complaining about end game.
today I think that every Pokémon main series game leaves a lot to be desired in a number of ways, but each of them also has something special, unique and genuinely good
Megaevolutions are NOT new pokèmons. In the PokèDex they are indicated as "alternative forms" instead of actual pokèmons with a specific Number in the Dex
I guess no one played Pokemon X and Y as a girl because APPARENTLY Caleb can't and doesn't exist as a Rival. By the way, Caleb should have gotten a spot in the anime, how come Serena got in?!
I played my first Pokémon game way back in the 90s (Blue) and Gen 2 (Gold) is still my favourite game. But I stopped after Gold because of the Gen 3 lack of backwards compatibility. Pokémon Y is the game that got me back into Pokémon, I bought a 3DS just to play it, as it looked like Pokémon was finally reaching its potential. I was a bit late to it, only got it in 2016 after a more than 15 year gap between Pokémon games. Unfortunately Sun and Moon didn't quite live up to X and Y, and although I am enjoying SwSh for the most part it too has gone backward in some respects. I don't understand the hate for Gen 6, it is fun and the map is diverse. The balance is refined and megas were OK, at least they weren't mandatory. I am trying to play SwSh without using Dynamax but it is difficult to do so. All in all I would say Y is my second favourite Pokémon game.
I would've like Fairy Type much more if they didn't change so many old Pokémon to Fairy Type. Even if it made some of them better or some lore says that they're Fairies I still dislike a hefty portion of the changes. Also, I can push my sanity off the deep end by arguing why Mega Gyarados should be Water/Dragon.
They should include Exp Share All on every new generation, it makes the game normal to me rather than killing all Pokemons in grass and grinding, I easily forgot about the story because of the time I spend on grinding in past generations
Florancer why not, but the problem is that the Exp gains are too big and you always get friggin overlevelled since Gen 6. Exp share is actually not the problem, too big Exp gains/too easy levels of opponents are.
I love Gen 6 with all my heart! It was Gen 6 who brought me back to Pokemon after Gen 5 terrible games! Really, after playing BW I consider to quit with Pokémon! The unova Dex is a shame for GF! It is full of dumb rip offs of Kanto Pokémon (Like Audino that is a garbage copy of Chansey) and it’s Pokémon are suffer with an overdesing! The game itself is BORING! Too slow and take a lot of time to you caught something who is not worthless. The starter trio are the worst starter Pokémon ever (man, I hate Emboar and Samurott) and the competitive metagame is a shame: every strategy was reduced to weather war. Otherwise, XY brought to us a Great Dex giving priority to quality over quantify and great new competitive metagame! XY gave us the best Gimmick of all franchise: MEGA EVOLUTION! The concept of Pokémon evolve even beyond to get max of its battle potential was amazing. And the Megas designs are just badass! Love the transition graphical to 3D. Pokémon models were great for its time! And all game looks so gorgeous! Great new online features like wonder trade and GTS (properly done). And a big improvement on the shiny hunter mechanics! And, although some people say it, I don’t think Gen 6 pandering Kanto as anyway! They just put Starter Kanto Pokémon cause they created Megas for them! And it is really nice you could get two started in the same quest! Kalos dex was very well balanced and has a lot of great evolutions line! And, Finally, Gen 6 has the best and most creative competitive scenario of all generations! Megas pushed the battle system so forward and the metagame was never so balanced and enjoyable to play! All of it said, I can easily see that Gen 6 brought Pokémon Back to the top of World!
@@pedromonteiro2248Speed boost Blaziken LUL,Everything else that XY has is garbage unlike BW2 imgur.com/a/Mx4oSBh Thats a great game not that incomplete shit of XY PS: The Gen 5 meta was years ahead of the gen 6 meta
FrozenVoltz Lol! Pathetic argument! Mega Evolutions is a so beloved feature that Genfivers urges to ask Game Freak to give them to the lame Gen V starters. After this comment I already know you know nothing about competitive battling because Gen V meta game was the worst ever! Everything was reduced to weather war and was impossible to find a team that wasn’t based in weather condition. Boring af! Gen VI metagame was revolutionary with the Megas and the introduction of fairy type. It was much more balanced and we saw a boom in competitive scenario with many new players! Otherwise , Gen V games was a clear step down on the franchise being rejected by tho most Pokémon players and it has the “legacy” in being the most hated games of Pokémon and the WORST sellers games in the core series! About the image in your link: Do you really play a game because the post game? Because it is the only arguments that Gen V fanboys have! Pokémon increased so much thanks to Gen VI new concepts and became the most profitable entertainment franchise in the lest years!
@@pedromonteiro2248 LMAO Mega evolutions is the only good thing about gen 6 everything else on that gen is hot garbage There were a lot of weatherless teams that reached success in the meta you being a shit low ladder player doesn't mean bringing a Weatherless was unviable you are the one who knows jackshit.And gen 6 barely bring anything to the meta compared to gen 4,2 and 5 You can only mention mega evolutions to praise these shitty gen 6 games i can mention a lot reasons why the gen 5 games are great without mention the post-game.Gen 6 is step down to the series -Short -Easy AF -Hand-holding -No Post-game -Forgetable characters Now mention me how these turds brought pokemon to the top?Kalosabortions are really retarted
@@Birdofman For the record I did play X but got bored around the coastal town, lended it to a cousin who lost it. And I was just inverting your comment to confuse the original post (for the funsies). Trolling gen 6 shills is so easy.
I think it's funny how you talked about Kalos being memorable when I find it easily one of the most forgettable pokemon regions. The region just kind of feels lifeless and empty to me. It just completely lacks character. Alola and Unova just have so much more personality and more interesting things to do. And to me the new pokemon are just pretty forgettable. I don't hate them, but many of them are just kind of..... fine. Alola and Unova have much much better rosters imo.
Imagine having the Exp.Share permanently on..
Oh wait
SWSH expérience all is much better imo so it's not really a problem
That hit me hard.
@@slickl9608 well x and y ain't a high bar to clear.
@@slickl9608 it is for me. Lol. I struggle finding motivation to go back into it knowing that my pokemon can take out gym leader pokemon with even ineffective moves and without getting to that power by actually winning. They just leeched off one another. Currently playing B2W2 instead. Lol
@@slickl9608 It's boring. You can only ever use one mon and still have 5 high levels in the back, despite never having used them. It takes away their individual developement. One of the most fun things in past games for me was leveling a freshly caught pokemon, getting comfortable with it and experiencing it's growth. Not anymore, use another one for a while and the rest have grown 4 lvls outta nowhere. It's convenient if you don't care but whyy is it forced?
Looking forward to disagreeing with the Black and White video
Same...I love seeing hate towards my favorite games
Hey it's that dude from Twitter who wants to get with Cinnipie
Oh My GaWd WhY dId ThEy MaKe A gArBaGe PoKeMoN?!
@@adamthechao9519 also the garbage plot.
@@mattflub I can't tell if you're being sarcastic because gen 5 had the best plot imo
Let's be honest here. The roller blades were the best thing about these games, but that's NOT an insult.
I loved those Roller Blades. Completely forgot they existed like 80% of the game (mind you that is largely due to being hilariously over-leveled the whole time because I would always grind expecting a difficulty spike that never came.)
Saw them while watching the gameplay, suddenly remembered how much fun they were and felt a big wave of nostalgia
I never really got to use the roller blades because I can't use the Dowsing Machine with them, and I liked combing every map dry for all the items.
Also the clothes are superior
@@WWEWomen-g2d I've been missing the clothes from xy ever since
They really could’ve made mega evolutions worth it. When I first got it, I thought you had to had max friendship to mega evolve. I thought if that because the anime put so much emphasis on the friendship part.
That’s only for ash greninja
This friendship shit was just for ash Greninja
@@pedromonteiro2248 No because on the anime they always said about how you need a connection with your Pokémon
I 100% agree. It gives you a point to use Pokémon amie and it just makes sense. You have to be connected and involved with your Pokémon to evolve it. Ash Greninja was a special case and isn’t actually mega evolution. It’s called the bond phenomenon. And even when ash Greninja was put in sun and moon, you didn’t actually need friendship with it to use the ability. I think beyond Pokémon amie that other ways of boosting friendship or a bond would have been good too. How many battles you’ve won with the Pokémon should matter before they can mega evolve. How long have they been in the party etc. It would have made it so much better.
I guess multiple people missed the thing where in the anime, korrina's lucario would go berserk when it megas until she improved her bond with it.
I think this game's biggest crime is it's wasted potential, It had the ingredients to be one of the greats but ultimately came out just ''Eh''.
Pokemon "Eh" and "Why"
One thing I liked about the story was the fact that team flare members felt like they trully belonged to a fascist organization. They were losers who were told by someone they were special (and probably hated mankind) and worship the guy who gave them purpose. When team flare disappears, you can find a guy trying to still make it alive. Ngl, this(and some of their funny dialogues) are why team flare is the best pokemon team. Plus, Lysandre.
@@MK_ULTRA420 Taking place in a Canada based region called Acadia.
idk, I felt like gen 6 as a whole is one of the best we've seen. especially compared to sun/moon and onwards. S&M looked garbage compared to the art style of gen 6
Exactly! As someone who has always been interested in other paths that aren't just becoming Champion, I think the friend characters had a lot of potential. Making Tierno a Contest Champion and Trevor a Pokémon researcher would have been amazing-if you have to introduce a battle, maybe have Tierno say that he wants to show you how beautiful his Pokémon moves or have Trevor say that he wants to study how certain Pokémon moves work. It'd feel out of character if their Pokémon were at the same level as yours; maybe crafting teams for them with Pokémon that don't show up often and have moves that aren't common would make things less boring?
I think your main problems with X and Y are that they're unfinished. Something about them feel like Game Freak had to scramble to make everything work, most likely due to the P.S.S. system and all that stat balancing. That along with OR/AS gave Kalos no proper time to shine, which is probably why Game Freak took an extra year to make Sun and Moon.
And yet Sun and Moon were just as unfinished, lol
@@oyeh8908 What parts of them make you think so?
ChaosController316 Left and right you can find areas that were just left unfinished and Game Freak themselves said they were so rushed for time that island trials were added at the last moment during the debug phase.
@@oyeh8908 Wait really? They made the island trials out of time constraints?
ChaosController316 I’m not sure if they were originally planning to add gyms, but I do know that the trials were created at the last minute.
Honestly I want to see more subjective reviews. Art is an entirely by-the-individual type of thing, and I want to hear what a game/book/ etc did for a PERSON rather than what it did for a medium.
What in the fuck are you talking about lmao every single review you ever see is subjective. There is no objective truth to entertainment. This is just a salty Pokemon fan speaking to the choir of other older Reddit Pokemon fans that love to complain about everything.
@@merlotpapi4930 You say
>There is no objective truth to entertainment
I ask:
Is that objectively true?
@@merlotpapi4930 Buy product, consume product, then get excited for next product. Don't ask questions. Complaint is Crime, Complacency is Virtue.
You're pathetic...
@@ummelofilo9642 You got so mad at my response you doubleposted. And then you called me "pathetic" like I give a fuck about your character assessment, especially after you posted all that cringe lmao jump off a bridge
I really liked x and y, but the game lasted less than 10 hours wich is terrible for jrpg standards. But It's definitly still better than 40 hours of cutscenes
Almost every single Pokémon game is terrible by JRPG standards so... (only time they tried was BW1 lol). It's just not their goal I feel like
I liked them too (unpopular opinion: They are my favorite editions, closely followed by ORAS, lol). It's just sad that they somehow lacked post-story and even some things in the main story. I hope that they'll remake them and that they will be better.
Dadax mine has lasted so long... I’m like 15 hrs in and I haven’t even battled the 3rd gym
Dadax for some reason it took me 2 years to complete
@@brodyhetzel8565 You must be having a lot of fun with game and wish you more
I love x and y. I’m a casual player to the max and I find these games to be really fun and comforting, and honestly because it’s so easy I can experiment with interesting teams and play with Pokémon I want to play with instead of ones that are “best” for the gyms/your rival/the champion. Although I wouldn’t call x/y perfect I find them to be nice stress relief.
I feel like we can't blame X&Y for the introduction of gimmicks being dropped, as it only introduced a new mechanic. The blame should fall on later games like Sun and Moon, as they were the ones that actually started the trend of ditching cool mechanics.
at least in sun&mon the new mechanics were explorative (super powerboosted moves? heck yeah, alien pokemon from other dimensions? heck yeah) in gen 8 we got what... big pokemon? big mega-pokemon, big z-moves?
I'm really glad more people are coming to like X and Y. They were the first steps into 3D and I think it's a really cutesy game in general. Wish we got a third edition but the two we got are still fun
Because that's how low people's standards are now. This game is considered good now lol
@@brya9681 nope, the "real" hardcore pokemon fans are just a bunch of whiney babies who can't comprehend that their circlejerk isn't the only objective truth
@@brya9681 Only OG red and blue, gen 2 and 3 and HG SS are good games. Everything else is garbage. I don't even consider it Pokemon
I don't know why but X and Y was like the only game where I felt like I was going on a journey around the region. I don't know why but I don't really have connections to previous region's towns and stuff. I can't remember most towns in older generations. It's one of the reason why I want a remake of X and Y. Just image running through Kalos with a free camera and HD graphics. Honestly though, If they do remake X and Y or make a pokemon Z then they don't really have to fix much. Fix the difficulty, pacing, characters, and the story a bit. The team building is great in this game. Honestly, every other game makes you wait like 3 gyms before you get interesting pokemon and that's just annoying.
chang yang I agree.
I agree but there are memorable places in older games
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I can’t really remember them all that much honestly. The only reasons I remember some is because I had to grind in those area or they’re the some of the first areas. To this day I still forget that hoen has a tall grass section because I just breezes through that area. I also can’t for the life of me remember the later half of shinnoh.
That's insane. Its so linear filled with go here or go there with nothing that evokes that this is a world that people live in
@@brya9681 Neither do the other pokemon games. Actually black and white did it pretty well honestly. Especially the city.
"Sun and Moon retroactively made X and Y better"
That's like saying being kicked in the chest feels better comparatively after you just got kicked in the nads
Still true though
Mello_ No it’s not. X and Y are still garbage.
@@randombloke165 yeah idk I had more fun with x and y. Idk and idc if that's a wrong opinion. The second time making the same mistakes will always be worse than the first. Doesn't make the first good, for example, imagine if x and y were like gen 1 with free form routing, and kept all the scenery, and then after elite 4 you could go to the sinnoh region or something. It would be so much better. There was a lot of missed opportunity, but I still think it was better than sun and moon, being the first game with exp after catching the Pokemon if memory serves me right, lmk if it doesn't.
Mello_ I disagree. The first time and second time making a mistake are the same. It’s annoying that they didn’t fix the mistakes, but it doesn’t somehow make the first time any better. For me though, Kalos was just really boring. Sun and moon were at least interesting enough for me to continue until the end. I haven’t beaten X and Y to this day because I always lose all interest half way through. I think one time I almost got to the elite four, but still, I couldn’t pull through until the end.
@@randombloke165 good point maybe I should replay them. When I played it a bit ago I enjoyed it and the scenery, while underdeveloped, kept me interested. It's all about what you prefer. I couldn't get through sun and moon, I had the same issues you had with x and y. I do like the alola pokemon though, pretty sick.
X and Y were the last famed with a national pokedex. That alone makes them great games in comparison. And that might be kinda sad.
I love XY, but they could definitively have been quite better. I'd have loved to have some things, but I think the best way to pull it is with a list:
-Exp. Share could have been "broken" at first by only giving experience to the last member of the party and then the professor or someone "fixes" it in the postgame or before the E4.
-Serena/Calem becomes your serious rival and don't "ask" you for battles, they simply challenge you unwarned like Silver and Blue did. The other three are still your "friends" and challenge you to some battles here and there, but they also have other functioons: Tierno checks your Super Training skills and gives you new rewards or levels, and in postgame he becomes a move tutor; Shauna checks your Amie care and gives you more accesories and higher level minigames, and in postgame she increases your Pokemon's happiness and affection; and Trevor gives you Pokedex reviews. He offers you rare TMs or items by completing a certain amount of pages, and in postgame he talks you about swarms or increases chances of finding hidden ability Pokemon in the wild.
-The Kanto starter is a postgame exclusive after fighting the professor; this way, they do an actual nostalgic easter egg and your new starter feels like a reward and not a free boost. Mega Charizard X gets replaced with Mega Flygon.
-You get to use Mega Lucario, but only once; it then can be rematched in the postgame in order to obtain its Mega Stone.
-More trainers get access to Mega Evolution like Ace Trainers, Veterans, every Elite 4 member, and Gym Leaders on their rematches; Lysandre on his final battle uses a machine that forces his entire team to Mega Evolve.
-Southern Kalos features an actual Safari Zone.
-Unova Musketeers become Kalos' trio (it makes more sense; besides, they already have the genies)
OPTIONAL, but very appreciated:
-The Z update gives you access to a new mini region in Southern Kalos where you can catch more Pokemon (those which are exclusive to Mirage Islands in ORAS), contests, some secret bases, and compatibility with ORAS Mega Stones. Tierno becomes your Secret Base rival, Shauna your contest rival, and Trevor helps you find new Mega Stones.
-There's a new episode like Looker's where you have to stop Team Flare from obtaining the second Zygarde and fusing it with the other one.
-There's a new Battle Factory clone, Amie minigame, and Super Training set of levels if you want.
I feel those changes would make XY pretty amazing games. There would still be some flaws like the pacing after the 3rd gym and how AZ was used, but the games overall would feel way more complete and interesting.
I really love of the idea of having more southward expansion in Kalos! Also, I really like your idea of making the friends feel more a part of the adventure instead of just being there.
maybe the postgame could also add more cities in southern kalos (no marseille? monaco? toulouse? get out of here)
The main thing I liked about Lysandre was the fact that he purposefully ingratiated himself with the Prof - it makes so much sense for an antagonist to try to get close to the region's source of pokemon knowledge/rare pokemon that I don't know why more villains haven't done it?
Ingratiated... I learned a new word today :)
Fudj: I really like the pokemon designs
Also Fudj: *pulls up Quilladin on screen*
Quilladin and Chesnaught look hideous to me
Gotta say, it's nice to see some Gen 6 love around here. Gen 6 is my 2nd favourite generation (after Gen 3, which was my first gen), and I know it's definitely not a lot of people's favourites. And while I agree with what was said in this video, you neglected to mention the most important aspect of Gen 6:
There's a T-Rex Pokemon
Objective best region 10/10
But Gen 4 had one as well...
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 rampardos has doo doo defenses
@@slickl9608 Doesn't change that he resembled a T-rex, even though I am pretty sure he is based on a different species in general. Everyone just calls it a T-rex.
If I ever see anyone call rampardos a t-rex Pokemon I will slap them.
@@haruhirogrimgar6047 Rampardos was actually based on an herbivore dinosaur, Pachycephalosaurus. The dome on their heads is theorized to have been used in mating. Sure, the arms were small, but the head shape was all wrong, in both that the jaw was too small and the dome that T-Rex simply didn't have
But team flares goal is litteraly to destroy the world and rebuild it into there own and game treats it's like a big deal over the course of the game, so I don't realy get why you think they are refreashing. Team skull in that sense is a little bit more original since they are more gofy for the most part and aren't supposed to be taken to seriously.
you need Grammarly or something
team skull was also a bait and switch for the aether foundation which was the true evil team of the game, an idea they tried to reuse in Sword/Shield but since that game was only 40% done we got one short tower sequence that made no sense and then got dropped entirely when the game remembered there were 0 stakes
Most team flare members are just there for the fashion. Almost none of them really cared about lysander's plans
@@PrismTheKid I feel like team Skull was just meant to be obnoxious
Tbh, I felt they were ripoffs from both Team Cipher and Team Rocket.
Claiming the Kanto starters function as a Mega Evolution tutorial is a bit silly considering the Lucario you get given serves that purpose as well.
I just recently played through Y with the experience share off and the mode on Set. Although still not hard, it at least forced me to strategize and sometimes do multiple battles against gym leaders. I think they should have had 2 different exp. shares, the classic one for the adventure, and the new one that you unlock after beating the game in order to make EV training way easier.
X/Y Pokemon's designs are simply the best ones, there's a Lot of taste on their creation, they feel so clean so poluted. Kalos is also the pretiest region (with Galar i gess)
I feel one of the best games that made consistency possible where hoen and sinnoh. Especially sinnoh, every single route and place in sinnoh feels they are from the same region, meanwhile being really memorable. Even to the music they all sound very diferent while having the same feel and instruments in all. The places all seem you know kidna cold, european region. Even Sunyshore which is like on the ocean and its the warmest city in the game feels like it wouldnt be something as tropical as alola. Sinnoh is a mountainous, cold, and very old region, and every place feels like that even when having unique things that make them stand out. Snowpoint and hearthome give off the same vibe while still being unique, one being a solitary, snowy place in the edge of the world, while the other a heartwarming city that is the center and heart of sinnoh, but they both still feel sinnoh. Plus the music, omg the music, you can tell which song is which and from what place it is from, but you can still hear a piano medley of sinnoh songs and they blend so well together that they feel like just one long song
X and Y are not easy BECAUSE of the Exp Share, that's such a surface level analysis it's unbelievable. The game is easy because the levels of enemy trainers are too low and the elite 4 don't even have full teams of 6. Having the exp share makes it so much more satisfying to plan out a team and get access to some cool moves because your levels will be higher, instead of not being able to access the full potential of some of your pokemon before the champion battle because it doesn't have 4 half decent moves.
When I got back into pokemon in my late teens (I hadn't played since red about 15 years before) I played Soul Silver first, arguably the best game in the franchise and loved it, then I played Y and I really enjoyed it until I got to the E4 when I was disapointed by the lack of full teams. My next game was black and I absolutley hated it.
How can you hate Pokemon Black bro?
I think you’re right in some ways. Looking back on the game, I had a hard time because it was my first Pokémon game. But almost every gym leader and important fight was missing moves on their Pokémon or a full team. So I don’t think the exp share was completely balanced but it did fit the game mostly. It’s just that the gym battles and such were far too easy.
black is *LITERALLY* the best pokemon game to ever exist. white 2 is a close second. gen 5 overall was immaculate
I agree, first game was diamond and I could never beat it because I basically only used my starter. If there was an exp. share I probably would have been able to beat it.
Man, I couldn’t agree more with you! I hated Black/White as well!
best part of XY was when I was allowed to leave lucario standing on that tower and never see it again
“At the end of the game you fight a lamp” I’m dead
hahaha when you mentioned the gap between the first and second gyms, there was definitely a lot of confusion and panic in the tumblr pokemon community. everyone was like "where's the second gym wtf??"
likewise on tumblr i remember lots of people saying "how do I take off these roller skates?" and "where the HELL am i in this giant city??"
Fudj: "Change the experience share, just change it!"
Gamefreak: Sure thing, buddy!
*Forces EXP Share onto everybody with no option to turn it off.*
i have a soft spot for x and y because it really helped and motivated me to learn to read. i miss u flare the delphox
Gen 6 vs Gen 7 in my head: I would've bought Pokemon Z if it came out, but I did not bother with USUM
I loved these games because I felt like it was the first game where they made training for online battles actually doable. I grew up playing these games and all my friends in HS got it. We all go into battling, breeding, trading, shiny hunting and stuff. The online features were amazing and I never felt more connected to other players in a Pokémon game.
I played this a couple of years ago and I literally cannot recall a damn thing about it, other than that there were a lot of annoying friends.
X and Y had fun elements tho, I felt like Sun and Moon was empty somehow. I think the gym leaders is probably what I liked more about X and Y, plus mega evolutions were new and people liked them. Z moves were kind of dumb and didn’t make sense
Regardless of what the majority says, X&Y were still pretty decent games.
Unfinished games? Maybe
But any pokemon game that gives you Two starters is a good idea in my eyes.
The designs were the best I've seen since Hoenn.
I've always said we don't need another 100 pokemon.. 30-60 will do just fine.
And then.... There's the PPS.. A Gawd Send. Hello Wonder Trade.
I enjoyed the models and the idea that i could get the starters. It was fun to me using the older gens.
I remember XY as the game whose trailer hyped me the most.
Mega evolution was actually really nice, it should've followed with every generation. The way they made them just 1 gen throwaways is such a dumb decision.
X and Y are my favorite Pokémon games. I’m happy to find someone who agrees that there’s a lot to like about them.
as much as i’d love to see remakes of the old games for the switch, i also think that if GF revamped kalos without any rush, it could turn out absolutely gorgeous.
I believe kalos was the most beautiful region of the Pokemon world. Its the largest and most diverse, even larger them the games that followed. Its all 3d, and for me thats great. There is the character customization, the music is great and there is lots of colour. The Pokemon although few are also great designwise. Also the region is including later games the most populous region of all, there is a sense of life to it. The plot or mechanics may not be the best, but it is has beauty all around. I played it as a little kid so i never got the difficulty problem. However the immersion and adventure in this beautiful world is something i'll always remember.
In terms of the Kanto starters. Lots of people have been complaining that you dont have access to these rare pokemon til post game, and it gives you the opportunity to play with them if you want
After getting all nostalgic i started replaying every Pokemon Game from Gen 1 to Gen 6 and what I found is that all of them are rather easy. What people tend to negelect is that we are adults now and we therefore don't play like children anymore. When i frist started playing pokemon I palyed like a complete noob, which was a given since I was like 7 or 8 years old. For example, I used hydro pump and hyper beam on Garados and pretty much used hyper beam on every single pokemon since I had no idea about the special and attack split (I generally had no idead what the Stats ment xD).
I didn't start bothering to learn the game mechanics before Gen 4, that's when I started playing Pokemon efficently, like caring about stats as well as the special and physical split of moves and I started using satus moves like sword dance, which suddenly made everything become very easy. As and adult you understand very well which Pokemon teams are best for which specific game and know very well which pokemon should be used with which ability and with which move and which hold item. Even as a young teenager i still didn't understand the correlation between abilities, moves and items. I for example used leftovers on Swellow instead of giving him a toxic or flame orb to activate his guts ability since i thought it didn't matter (and overestimating his defensive stats at the same time).
You think i ever thought of using facade on it? No, Double Edge was cooler. Even when replaying Gen 2 a couple of month ago I found it way too easy since I knew how to handle it. Whitney with Miltank a Problem? No, just trade for the in-game machomp and catch yourself a Geodude and you are in for a rather easy win. Even without and exp share i found myself currently overleveld (without grinding) in Gen 1 since I never switched party memebers and only caught Pokemon I was going to use throughout the game (only certain Pokemon like mankey were used for certain gyms but dropped after I didn't need them anymore). This led to my Pokemon being overleveld at a certain point due to not having a full party before the 6th Gym.
To conlude: If you want a Game for children to be difficult you will have to play like a child. That's exactly why people started doing Nuzlocke Challenges, to make a easy game more difficult. As I long ago stopped caring about the main story (let's be honest, it's very repetitiv) I only really cared about the gameplay and game mechanics as well as the quests. If we consider filling the Pokedex for the shiny charm, beating gyms and The Elite 4 as well as the post game contend I think X and Y did fairly well. What sets it apart from the preceeding generations were it's 3D graphics, which I found astounding at that time. My dream of being able to play a 3D Pokemon game with great animations finally came true which is the main reason i love X and Y. I also liked the exp. share which helped me fill the Dex. I overall liked X and Y as much as the previous generations but it's true that it got overshadowed by Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby (my up to date most favourite Pokemon games). But it overall was very great, I still love playing them over and over again. Sorry for the long post.
Man, your comment is so true! Very accurate!
Add to you perfect scanning of the question the fact that what helps to make Pokémon games easy is the system battle in shift mode!
When you are allowed change Pokémon every time you defeat the one of opponent, the game turns a piece of cake!
Well, the only thing I disagree with you is that I still believe that XY is a better game than ORAS!
@@pedromonteiro2248 I have to admit that I prefer ORAS over XY out of nostalgia because Ruby was the first ever Pokemon game I played on a console. You are certainly spot on with the shifting system, it makes the game way too easy. That's presicely why I mostly play Pokemon hacks or do challenges, they are to some degree challenging. Try a monotype challenge or a nuzlocke challenge. Escpacially nuzlockes can fuck you up mentally, I stopped mine halfway after all of my favorite Pokes died :(
Another classic way of making it harder is to not switch Pokemon, always battle with your current one until it faints. Still to easy? Well how about not using any medicine items in battle? I even stopped using full Pokemon teams, I usally have 3 main fighers and the rest are just HM Slaves. Still to easy? How about a randomizer nuzlocke? There are many ways to make Pokemon more challenging but if you play it the regular way than it won't matter which Gen you play, as an adult they will all be too easy
They definitely should've kept mega evolution, it's so much better than gigantamaxes cause it's more practical. Like a lot of gigantamaxes make the Pokemon 30 metre taller like really isn't the stadium gonna break or something like that.
This is the most fair video about x and y I have seen. also if u ask me I think the game was supposed to be longer but instead they ended up spending a long time remodeling a 2D game into 3D so a lot of the content got cut probably. Such as the powerplant facilities
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I was honestly angry when this happened
I caught a Riolu, leveled it up, and it was awesome. At the time had never used a Lucario on my team before.
When they straight up gave me the Lucario I was pissed.
It’s like if you trained up the Charmander into a Charizard by that point and the game decided to give you a fucking Charmeleon.
Makes no sense!
I played Pokémon moon for the longest time and then I started playing X (by the way, people worldwide still play those games as evident from the PSS) and when I went back to moon this year, I noticed how the loading times for literally EVERYTHING is so long.
X takes little time to save, maybe a second or so. Moon takes a full 5 seconds just to save progress!
One advice I can give you: never play Diamond and Pearl if you don't like long loading and saving times.
I am a Gen 5 fan through and through but I have to say X and Y were amazing nuzlocke games just because every route had like 10 pokemon to find even from route 1. great variety compared to straight up rattata/pidgey parties most nuzlockes start with.
Also, not to mention, I really enjoyed watching the X&Y anime because of the characters, story, and Pokemon that Ash used and interacted with.
These old Pokemon videos suck go watch some of my newer stuff ua-cam.com/channels/yAuKT-djIfpvsFxEGkIhDg.html
Pokemon Y is my favorite, 5 minutes in you have your starter and Dex, 1 hour in you have your first badge, meanwhile in alola 1hr in I beat Hau 2 times and I got my pokedex and the tutorial never ends until the 4th Island
X and Y were absolutely the last ones I enjoyed. It felt like a low-key send off to gen one-ers. It's like the MGSV of Pokemon.
Am I going crazy here or was a game called Pokémon Z supposed to come out? I remember them introducing this green Pokémon that was going to be the legendary but then they did nothing with it.
They did. In Sun and Moon.
c0mpu73rguy yeah I just learned about how zygarde is in sun and moon. But wasn’t he supposed to have his own game along x and y?
Jack Glaser My guess is that since people highly criticised B2W2 because they were tired of 3rd versions back then, GF listened to them and released the betas of gen 7 instead. Also, celebrating the 20th anniversary of pokemon with a 3rd version would have been stupid. And a new game, even incomplete was still better than another gen 1 remake (looking at you Let’s Go).
OK...just try to train more than 6 pokemon in heart gold and soul silver. It takes forever. The point of exp share isn't to just get your team to level 100. You can level cap yourself which allows you to train about 10-18 pokemon throughout the game without having to stop and kill a bunch of pokemon in a field for 2 hours.
I loved the 3D rendering. Maybe it's because of the generation I come from but I know a lot of older people like it too so eh. Also I love that the Kanto starters were added. I never got to play the beginning games and in my opinion if I could I wouldn't... I've played the newer games for so long and I only have a 3DS, it was refreshing that 3D became a thing but 1 other thing... Completing the Pokedex in ORAS (Alpha Sapphire and Omega Ruby) because you cannot transfer Pokemon from Black & White 2 and previous games into ORAS, basically, Pokemon X and Y made completing the Pokedex in ORAS so much easier. All I care about is collecting every single Pokemon I possibly can and for me, both X&Y and ORAS allowed me to do just that... To catch all 600 Pokemon in just 2 game sets
Actually, Pokémon XY is the best Pokémon game to fulfill you Pokédex!
It is not quite easy but they don’t made this impossible as past generations (XY is even better than SM/USUM)!
I remember being offerd that Lucario in this game and I said no
Complains about experience share
Complains about grinding when you don't use it
They should have just kept mega evolutions and not made it a gimmick! I really loved the concept and thought they’d continue with it :-(
I actually think gen 6 is my favorite the newer generations. Maybe that’s because I actually played it when it was new, unlike gen 5 which I didn’t play until later on. I really didn’t enjoy b&w or s&m they just felt bland to me but maybe it’s just because I played gen 6 a lot more
I think gen 5 bland too! And what bothers me is the awful unova Dex!
I played X and Y a few months ago and it was the most boring game I ever played. The definition of bland. It's the only pokemon game I actually didn't finish in one or two weeks, and took months, since I thought it was awfully dumb and boring. The story is so shit and the game is so damn easy. Different experiences I guess
And I found it awful and boring when I played it at the times, especially compared to Black and White. I couldn't even imagine how bad these games would feel if I discovered them now.
@@giogiosepicchannel5195 you never played it hahahahha cause eveything you said made no sense and sounds made up
@@CHICKENmcNUGGIESMydude everything he said is true. X and Y's story was crap and the game was piss easy. And those are only 2 of the problems with it.
Idc what anyone says. Gen 6 is my favorite and always will be!
the reason why I like Pokemon X&Y so much is not because of the gameplay, which was, like you said, pretty weak in comparison to previous generations, but because it's a really memorable and beautiful(?) game. The Kalos region might be my favourite Pokemon region to date, as it has a lot of beautiful and vast places to explore. Even after beating the Champ I enjoyed skating through the streets and alleys of Lumiose City, where I kept finding a lot of stuff I had previously missed. While, yes, Kalos doesn't make much sense geografically, it had really cool looking places in it and great soundtrack to make them really come to live. And like you said, the newly introduced Pokemon where few in number, but we're great design-wise and made sense for the region in a way. I don't know how to explain that, other than the Pokemon available in X&Y made sense for a region that's based on France and for the story that it introduced. I also really enjoyed the character costumization and the fact that the boutiques actually switched up their sortiment based on the day of the week, which made me revisit them often, so I could buy all their clothes. Mega-Evolutions and the fairy typing we're 2 of the best things X&Y introduced in my opinion. The fairy type became my favourite type, because of it's type advantages and weaknesses in battle and because there are a lot of really cool fairy type Pokemon, like Xerneas, which is my favourite legendary or Mimikyu, which is from Sun&Moon but still cool. The mega evolutions worked well for the gameplay, even though they gave you 2 great megas for free and early in the game. But they made battling more interesting for me and gave a new boost to Pokemon that needed one (and some that didn't). I think the reason why the mega evolution is barely ever talked about, is because it was a one-time event for the franchise. Sun&Moon was quick to abandon them and instead introduced something that was in no way adequate to the mega evolution. (On another note I really disliked Z-Moves bc they we're pretty useless and I never used them. Except for Mimikyus special move, just because it's called never-ending nightmare).
In short X&Y did some things pretty well. It had a memorable region that felt whole in a way without making much sense. And the new mechanics it introduced added to the enjoyment of the game. But yes, X&Y suffer some losses, simply because they we're the easiest games so far.
I have a strong opinion on the EXP Share but I’ve honestly not seen this view around the web much even though to me it feels so obvious. I DO strongly agree that XY were too easy, and the lack of challenge is a real problem. But I don’t think that’s the fault of the EXP Share. When I played through XY, I came to appreciate dragging around random Pokémon in my empty slots to even them up and evolve them without even using them directly, to the point where I ended up finishing the game with only four team members because I wanted to keep levelling up everything unevolved in my PC box. Levelling up all of my actual team members helped too, so the EXP Share was something I really appreciated. The problem was that it was optional, and the game’s level balance was built around not using the EXP Share, which was true for Sun/Moon too. This is why I’ve thought for a while that the EXP Share should NOT be optional, and instead, the game’s balance should be built around having it enabled. When Sword/Shield were revealed to be making the EXP Share mandatory, everyone kicked off, but I was chuffed. Apparently that game is still ridiculously easy, surprise surprise, but I hope we can get to a point where people don’t criticise the EXP Share itself, but instead criticise the games for not fully committing to their great concept.
But anyway, cheers for giving XY a bit of praise, I really appreciate them for having easily the most varied Regional Dex for great team building options. XY hasn’t held up to the test of time that well, but it felt great at the time and I’d rather appreciate that.
PPS I don’t really like Team Flare but your reasoning is precisely why I love The Deadly Six from Sonic Lost World, don’t @ me
ever since iv'e started noticing this large spike in easyness (if that is a word) I've limited myself to a max of 1-3 pokemon in my party from beginning to end in each new game, to up the challenge I crave.
@@Darkfoot21 Wouldn't limiting the number of pokemon in your party make the game easier? It's less pokemon to split the exp with so your team is higher level than normal.
@@tvboxmimic7887 I think you are overestimating the overall exp that is granted throughout a playthrough. With just my Hawlucha and Linoone, we had countless wipe outs during gym battles especially mid-late game and trainer battles were no longer mash "A" to win.
We had to be more tactical and take advantage of moves I would normally discard like harden, sand attack, etc. It lead to more memorable and clutch moments, creating a stronger bond with my pokemon
@@Darkfoot21 It's possible, I just know when you have one pokemon, it gets grossly over leveled.
"When I played through XY, I came to appreciate dragging around random Pokémon in my empty slots to even them up and evolve them without even using them directly."
Yeah no. I don't see why a player should be rewarded by just dragging random Pokémon around without even using them. Why shouldn't you be challenged for evolving new mons. Being forced to actually use new mons in a battle makes it more enjoyable because you actually notice the mons strength , weaknesses, type advantage, move poll, etc. Dragging it around, evolving it without using it, and saying it was fun is the same to me as saying that getting shinies in Pokémon Lets Go is fun, its fun because its easy.
You say the problem isn't the exp share, but it is, it absolutely is. You haven't explained why the new exp share should be used instead of the old system except that its convenient. There is no incentive of using other mons than your starter anymore, there is no point in learning to use new, weaker mons if your stronger mons can carry it to high level. If anything you demonstrated why the new EXP share made the games easier, despite the fact that you "enjoyed it". Ok, lets say a game is built around having it, you still haven't solved the problem of using weaker mons in an actual battle. If your stronger mons are defeated, your team will be able to beat the threat, even when you barely use them. The old system forced you to switch around because otherwise your other mons would be too weak. If one mon has the exp share, you would have had to use it in battle anyway to get double exp, and you start from an unreliable weak mon to a dependable strong mon, an experience you can't really have now because the game give an incentive for that. You CAN do it, but forcing yourself to do it vs having a system around it is not the same, just like forcing yourself to less than 6 mons because the game is too easy isn't the same as having an actual difficult game where you can use all 6 mons.
You lack the new EXP share because of its "quality of life improvement" despite the fact that you don't even bond with new mons anymore, because there is no incentive to do it. I don't really care if you say that's not true. Because I don't see why a player should be able to evolve other mons "conveniently" aka easily. You can say its enjoyable, but that doesn't mean anything. Having evolved Pokémon in advance in the Battle Factory means I get to use strong mons without the hassle of growing them and catching them, but then you'd say "but they aren't yours" or "Pokémon is about catching and growing your own Pokémon" and then I'd say the new exp share doesn't give you any incentive to bond with your mon, because you don't even use them directly as you said. There would be no difference if they were in your PC.
This generation of pokemon is my favourite of all.
I just bought a 3ds to get these pokemons. I player sun and it was the most favourite gamę of the entire series, because it was simplified. Everything was easy and comfortable to reach unlike previous generations.
Mega evolutions were undoubtedly the greatest part of generation six. I truly wish that Game Freak would have continued to build on the concept rather than trash it not but two games after their initial introduction.
Following grades for the vanilla release, original games of the corresponding generations:
Gen 1: A
Gen 2: A+
Gen 3: B+
Gen 4: C+
Gen 5: B+
Gen 6: C-
Gen 7: D+
Gen 8: D+
These are for the sequel/third game releases:
Yellow: A
Crystal: A+
Emerald: A
Platinum: A+
Black/White 2: A+
...
Ultra Sun/Moon: C
I might be alone in saying this but I like EXP all. I don't want to go into a battle, realise that my lead pokemon isn't a good type matchup for the random encounter, and waste a turn switching in a different pokemon. I also don't enjoy grinding. I'm playing pokemon, not Undertale genocide.
Maybe it's just me but not having EXP all feels like I'm wasting more time in battles.
X and Y were my first games back in the series after gen 2 and I still find them more fun than the other games out afterwards. I would wish game freak would make the worlds larger though, and not via wild areas.
Hi. I’d like to look at this from a different perspective. I found Pokémon x while browsing for my bday present and decided I wanted to try it out. I feel it was a great introduction to the series and I feel they thought about this while creating it. It seemed to me like x and y brought a lot of new players into Pokémon and i honestly think they knew this would happen so they knew they would have to help these new players out. I think the kanto starters can be explained because most people know them three. Even if they don’t play Pokémon. So, having familiar faces would make it obvious what game it was. Anyways just my opinion lmao
Mega Evolution always felt like it had the potential to be the next big mechanic in Pokemon battles like weather, abilities, the physical/special split, and hidden abilities in generations prior. But instead of sticking with it and improving this concept that had a ton of potential, they threw it away and replaced it with two far less interesting "nuke button" mechanics in Z-Moves and Dynamax. Out of all of them, Mega Evos were the only ones I ever felt interested in or excited about, and removing them entirely in sword and shield feels like the biggest waste of potential in the series so far.
X and Y for me was the first Pokémon game I ever dove into the VGC side of the games and I loved it. The entire community at that point was my favorite it has ever been. I could be looking at it through rose colored glasses because I was younger, but I absolutely love 6th gen.
While the execution was hot shite, I think this is still my favorite Pokemon League. You come out of Victory Road, eager to arrive already, when you come across this big fuck-off fortress-cathedral looking-thing. The outside architecture is fuckin' magnificent- especially at night. I still have a photo saved to my 3DS of the place framed against the beautiful starry sky. You enter the main chamber and, while rather boring as a hub room, imposes an amazing ambiance. You stand in an elegant chamber- a regal dark blue carpet, a theme I find hard to describe (not quite imposing or oppressive), and wondrous subdued lighting peering in through stained glass windows. Upon entering an Elite Four's chamber, you rise up onto a fuckin' _gorgeous_ stained glass floor, in a thematically designed chamber... Only to suddenly be greeted by a (then) magnificently animated effect- whether it be giant plumes of flame erupting out of braziers, to spouts of water flooding the room to create a constant waterfall, to _giant swords dropping in from the sky_ . As you clear each of these rooms, you are now allowed access to the Radiant Chamber which, to this day, is still one of my single most favorite spaces in the series (comparable to Cynthia's Platinum room). An elaborate golden throne sits empty in a chamber so awesome and splendorous that it'd look more at home in the Vatican or some high-fantasy heaven. You may even take your place on the throne and bask in the majesty, but no, you have not yet earned it. You step onto the lift, and rise into a room that seems more like an artpiece than an area to walk in. The entire floor is a giant work of stained glass, arranged in rings and dotted with splotches of rainbow color. The walls of the room are a white and gold that belies the beauty of the room. And while she was underwhelming as a Champion, the intro to Diantha's theme perfectly punctuates the aesthetic of the entire League. I still get goosebumps when listening to the opening notes. Say what you want about the region, but the Pokemon League itself is nothing short of a masterpiece of thematic design. Or maybe I'm just biased because Gothic architecture and cathedralic aesthetics _are my jam_ .
Good to know someone is talking about my nosaltalgically favorite Pokemon game.
Sir, your intro is immaculate.
This guy is the lazerzz of Pokémon
Deadass hope when they remake X&Y they don't include any of the exclusive region forms like in sun and moon or sword and shield
I think they can be used to bring new life to old Pokemon, like Megas did for ones like Beedrill and Absol. They also help spice up the competitive scene to different degrees.
@@JB-bc2ry honestly think we should fight Ash Greninja as be able to catch him after the elite 4 so it can be like a post game idea to help him with his mission or something
"I love Xerneas"
The Garbodors: "Fucking Deer"
If we could have a Pokemon game that encompasses all the good points/things of all the Pokemon games combined and there's an actual plot that feels like it fits well with a well designed/thought out region and great characters and awesome Pokemon, and the choices of which difficulty we want then that would be the ultimate Pokemon game.
I really liked XY, it had great pokemon allotment, where the beginner areas were not 100% trash. It was monotype viable in ways the first 5 generations were not. You could get up and running with your monotype from the get-go without massive amounts of compromising. My normal monotype had a litleo super early, pyroar isnt a super powerful pokemon, just good. Dark had absol and panchan early, good but not game breaking, and so on and so forth.
Plus, XY had the best overall batch of new pokemon, with Tyrantrum and Heliolisk being my favorite pokemon in general.
3D sprites are a bummer, especially with the animations. Nothing was more disappointing for me than finding Mankey in Ultra Moon and having it and Primeape's animations turned from angry monkey to generic bobble animation. Look what they did to my boy.
I liked the region and Pokémon. Fairy type is a great addition. It just felt underdeveloped.
Debate me on this, but Pokémon XY is one of the best Pokémon games, and the last one with a complete National Dex
How about...no
11:49 this man spitting absolute facts (even tho XY were already great)
I actually prefer X and Y over gen 3, the original one at least. The fact you can fly over the whole region in the remakes is so amazing that alone made them better than X and Y to me. Other than that, I agree that the musics are extremely good, probably the best ones after those that got added into BW2 compared to BW. But god did I hate those "rivals", they got me annoyed to no point.
Coming from BW2 where there's a SHITTON of things to do during the game and post-game, XY felt surprisingly empty in comparison and yet I still played over 400 hours because I'm nuts. Still sucks that most of the content was way too repetitive.
BW2:
- PokeStudios
- PWT
- Battle Train
- Join Avenue
- Black City/White Forest
- Dreamworld
- Entralink
- MEDALS!!! (That alone added a lot more replayability that the entirety of XY "post game" )
XY:
- Battle Maison
- Battle restaurants
- Friend "Safari"
- Super Training
- Medals** (online only with GTS, and that was a stupid decision)
They did add some interesting features in XY like the "nature objects" whereas we could obtain items after the battle even if used certain moves to "interact" with the background, but as usual that was scrapped in the next games.
If only they had give us "Z" or "XY2" so we can finally access the power plant and see where that train leads....
Unpopular opinion, they should have kept the "chibi" 3D aesthetic of XY and stop trying to be "realistic".
I feel like the XY games are the best of the series for me personally even though the lack of postgame and no attention to Zygarde at all. If they ever remake the games I have a bucket filled with ideas.
A stone that makes a Pokemon breaks its limits and posibly be a match for Legendaries.... "Here's another starter and your stone cuz you defeated me. No build up, no explanation of why would i give this to you, just get the fuck out of my Lab already"
Having attempted Nuzlockes in Y version (got to Alakazam on Victory Road last time), I have really started to appreciate these games. Team Flare could have been stronger but Lysandre more than makes up for that with his Gyarados who is an absolute unit. Even with Yveltal and Mega Blastoise, I still had a lot of trouble with it. I kept the Exp. Share off and banned Lucarionite for balance. (Yes, Mega Blastoise is strong too and Yveltal is a legendary but I caught Yveltal by battling it and if I had caught it with a Master Ball I would have made it Avatar State [its death being an autolose]) I also balance patched Eviolite to Pokemon that could evolve anyway (in Eevee's case, Lv 30). I did notice the difficulty spike in Victory Road though. Next time, I'll try to get a Pokemon that can use Sweet Scent so I can train on R21.
The roster is very good, while not having many new pokemon it showcases many good pokemon as well as many that were underused in other games, for example in one of my games I ran Granbull and Lapras as my main two. Steelix also gets an honourable mention along with late game mons like Drapion and Tyranitar which I had never been able to use in a Nuzlocke due to the lack of availability of Pupitar. The main feature I didn't like was the Battle Chateau because I tried very hard but could not get decent Exp there. A lot of money for MooMooMilk though. I definitely would play again.
Something I've never understand is in the main pokemon games I've always had 400+ hours of playtime, with shiny breeding, breeding competitive pokemon, making teams, completing the pokedex, so I dont understand people complaining about end game.
today I think that every Pokémon main series game leaves a lot to be desired in a number of ways, but each of them also has something special, unique and genuinely good
Megaevolutions are NOT new pokèmons.
In the PokèDex they are indicated as "alternative forms" instead of actual pokèmons with a specific Number in the Dex
I guess no one played Pokemon X and Y as a girl because APPARENTLY Caleb can't and doesn't exist as a Rival.
By the way, Caleb should have gotten a spot in the anime, how come Serena got in?!
X and y are some of my faves of the franchise but i have to agree with the no post game being a bummer
I like that you can make criticisms in a respectful manner without hate baiting, which is unfortunately all too common on UA-cam.
I played my first Pokémon game way back in the 90s (Blue) and Gen 2 (Gold) is still my favourite game. But I stopped after Gold because of the Gen 3 lack of backwards compatibility. Pokémon Y is the game that got me back into Pokémon, I bought a 3DS just to play it, as it looked like Pokémon was finally reaching its potential. I was a bit late to it, only got it in 2016 after a more than 15 year gap between Pokémon games. Unfortunately Sun and Moon didn't quite live up to X and Y, and although I am enjoying SwSh for the most part it too has gone backward in some respects. I don't understand the hate for Gen 6, it is fun and the map is diverse. The balance is refined and megas were OK, at least they weren't mandatory. I am trying to play SwSh without using Dynamax but it is difficult to do so. All in all I would say Y is my second favourite Pokémon game.
I would've like Fairy Type much more if they didn't change so many old Pokémon to Fairy Type. Even if it made some of them better or some lore says that they're Fairies I still dislike a hefty portion of the changes.
Also, I can push my sanity off the deep end by arguing why Mega Gyarados should be Water/Dragon.
I understand but at the same time water and dragon would be so broken for Mega Gyrados.
@@slickl9608 And Fire Dragon for Charizard isn't?
Gen 6 is better than 7 tbh
They should include Exp Share All on every new generation, it makes the game normal to me rather than killing all Pokemons in grass and grinding, I easily forgot about the story because of the time I spend on grinding in past generations
Florancer why not, but the problem is that the Exp gains are too big and you always get friggin overlevelled since Gen 6. Exp share is actually not the problem, too big Exp gains/too easy levels of opponents are.
The games were so easy I beat them with only a farfetch'd
19:59 guess who encountered a shiny mienfoo there and was not prepared at all.
I love Gen 6 with all my heart!
It was Gen 6 who brought me back to Pokemon after Gen 5 terrible games!
Really, after playing BW I consider to quit with Pokémon! The unova Dex is a shame for GF! It is full of dumb rip offs of Kanto Pokémon (Like Audino that is a garbage copy of Chansey) and it’s Pokémon are suffer with an overdesing! The game itself is BORING! Too slow and take a lot of time to you caught something who is not worthless. The starter trio are the worst starter Pokémon ever (man, I hate Emboar and Samurott) and the competitive metagame is a shame: every strategy was reduced to weather war.
Otherwise, XY brought to us a Great Dex giving priority to quality over quantify and great new competitive metagame!
XY gave us the best Gimmick of all franchise: MEGA EVOLUTION! The concept of Pokémon evolve even beyond to get max of its battle potential was amazing. And the Megas designs are just badass!
Love the transition graphical to 3D. Pokémon models were great for its time! And all game looks so gorgeous!
Great new online features like wonder trade and GTS (properly done). And a big improvement on the shiny hunter mechanics!
And, although some people say it, I don’t think Gen 6 pandering Kanto as anyway! They just put Starter Kanto Pokémon cause they created Megas for them! And it is really nice you could get two started in the same quest!
Kalos dex was very well balanced and has a lot of great evolutions line!
And, Finally, Gen 6 has the best and most creative competitive scenario of all generations! Megas pushed the battle system so forward and the metagame was never so balanced and enjoyable to play!
All of it said, I can easily see that Gen 6 brought Pokémon Back to the top of World!
Man you really have a shit taste in games lmao
FrozenVoltz I would have, IF BW/BW2 were my favorite games!
Tell me one thing that Gen V brought which is better than Mega Evolutions?
@@pedromonteiro2248Speed boost Blaziken LUL,Everything else that XY has is garbage unlike BW2
imgur.com/a/Mx4oSBh
Thats a great game not that incomplete shit of XY
PS: The Gen 5 meta was years ahead of the gen 6 meta
FrozenVoltz Lol! Pathetic argument!
Mega Evolutions is a so beloved feature that Genfivers urges to ask Game Freak to give them to the lame Gen V starters.
After this comment I already know you know nothing about competitive battling because Gen V meta game was the worst ever! Everything was reduced to weather war and was impossible to find a team that wasn’t based in weather condition. Boring af!
Gen VI metagame was revolutionary with the Megas and the introduction of fairy type. It was much more balanced and we saw a boom in competitive scenario with many new players!
Otherwise , Gen V games was a clear step down on the franchise being rejected by tho most Pokémon players and it has the “legacy” in being the most hated games of Pokémon and the WORST sellers games in the core series!
About the image in your link: Do you really play a game because the post game? Because it is the only arguments that Gen V fanboys have!
Pokémon increased so much thanks to Gen VI new concepts and became the most profitable entertainment franchise in the lest years!
@@pedromonteiro2248 LMAO Mega evolutions is the only good thing about gen 6 everything else on that gen is hot garbage
There were a lot of weatherless teams that reached success in the meta you being a shit low ladder player doesn't mean bringing a Weatherless was unviable you are the one who knows jackshit.And gen 6 barely bring anything to the meta compared to gen 4,2 and 5
You can only mention mega evolutions to praise these shitty gen 6 games i can mention a lot reasons why the gen 5 games are great without mention the post-game.Gen 6 is step down to the series
-Short
-Easy AF
-Hand-holding
-No Post-game
-Forgetable characters
Now mention me how these turds brought pokemon to the top?Kalosabortions are really retarted
I think my favorite part in this video is how he describes the rivals and Diantha. Lol!
I don't like the hate on this game because it was one of the first pokemon games I played and really got me into pokemon.
Pokemon x and y where fucking amazing, dont let anyone tell you otherwise
Pokemon x and y where fucking atrocious, dont let anyone tell you otherwise
@@c0mpu73rguy I bet you didnt play them but watched a few reviews online and proceeded to come to that opinion.
@@Birdofman For the record I did play X but got bored around the coastal town, lended it to a cousin who lost it. And I was just inverting your comment to confuse the original post (for the funsies). Trolling gen 6 shills is so easy.
@@c0mpu73rguy Wow you must be very bored
I think it's funny how you talked about Kalos being memorable when I find it easily one of the most forgettable pokemon regions. The region just kind of feels lifeless and empty to me. It just completely lacks character. Alola and Unova just have so much more personality and more interesting things to do. And to me the new pokemon are just pretty forgettable. I don't hate them, but many of them are just kind of..... fine. Alola and Unova have much much better rosters imo.