Pokemon X/Y Thread

[Brandi]

With less resources demanded for raising a pokemon, people can focus more on the fun part of pokemon: battling, and figuring out how to battle well (team planning, battle strategy/tactics, etc). I don't think the game should become nothing more than a battle emulator, but I do think making IVs easier to discover is a huge improvement.

Yeah. Before to figure them out you had to use online calculators, which took a bit of time because you had to type in all of the stats of the pokemon and it wasn't always 100% accurate. This just saves time and gives you better results.
Most people just "created" perfect IV's for their hacked mons anyway and rarely anyone put in the effort to breed hundreds of pokemon to get perfect stats.

All of this is encouraging legit play, imo.

Hey Brandi you said you played Gen V on an emulator?
Where'd you get a DS emulator? I tried to play HG on one but it was sooooo slooooowwwww

I just used DeSMuME. It doesnt lag unless I try to record.

[animorpherv1]

Yo, glitch in X/Y that you'll want to avoid.

Avoid saving in Lumiose City for now, apparently it might freeze/corrupt your game.

[Brandi]

Yeah, as far as I've heard this doesn't happen with US versions (Japanese and UK only) ...but you'd probably want to avoid it to be safe anyway. :/

[Brandi]

Also here is the "How to be stylish" guide!

Spoiler:

[sirdanilot]

Wow, the stylish thing...

On one hand, it seems completely ridiculous to me for a pokemon game. where were the good ol' RBY day where you blasted through the whole game with a charizard hardly knowing you could catch pokemon?

On the other hand, this does kind of reflect modern-day Japanese culture in the cities, in an interesting way. Overly westernized, having fresh baguettes every day and anything sounding remotely French is 'chique'.

[animorpherv1]

blasted through the whole game with a charizard

The first two gyms would like to ask you to stop being overly nostalgic.

[SleepyKrew]

I just used DeSMuME. It doesnt lag unless I try to record.

Will try it out, much thanks!

[sirdanilot]

Ahum, yes the charizard thing was perhaps a bit nostalgic. The first game I played was actually Yellow, though I got Red soon after that. I remember being very annoyed that hte other kids just used only one pokemon, I always wanted to use several.

[Brandi]

Wow, the stylish thing...

On one hand, it seems completely ridiculous to me for a pokemon game. where were the good ol' RBY day where you blasted through the whole game with a charizard hardly knowing you could catch pokemon?

On the other hand, this does kind of reflect modern-day Japanese culture in the cities, in an interesting way. Overly westernized, having fresh baguettes every day and anything sounding remotely French is 'chique'.

Well, France happens to be the specific setting of the game. Or at least "based on" France. That's why the center of the main hub is the Eiffel Tower. (Also a gym)

[Matias]

Just to note if any of you care about EV training your pokemon and want to have the best possible stats, then you will probably care about IV's.
Knowing a pokemon's IV's is easy in Pokemon X and Y as there is a post-game NPC that directly tells you a pokemon's invidiual values.

Which guy is this?

[Brandi]

Just to note if any of you care about EV training your pokemon and want to have the best possible stats, then you will probably care about IV's.
Knowing a pokemon's IV's is easy in Pokemon X and Y as there is a post-game NPC that directly tells you a pokemon's invidiual values.

Which guy is this?

In the pokemon center in Kiloude City.

[Matias]

By the way, I played through this over the past week.

I know not a lot of people play pokemon for the story, but the first scene with Team Plasma and N in Pokemon White/Black had more substance than this entire game put together. 5th gen's story was fantastic and intricate; the story for this one has some major flaws which takes me out of the experience.

[Brandi]

UPDATED FIRST POST:

Berry Farming/Mutations
Rollerskating tricks
Pokemon Amie guide
TM locations

[Brandi]

So it looks like I might be able to get this after all - the government seriously gave me $230 for god knows what reason, and I have no expenditures, so guess where its going. Lol.

Also meant to comment on this.
That's awesome! If you do get it you should add me :3 Then I can press "NICE!" on your face when you come online.

Also general note for anyone who has/is getting Y:

If there is anyone who for some reason prefers Mewtwo X over Mewtwo Y, please consider trading your mega stone with me! I really dislike MewtwoX's design but I know some people like it and a lot of people hate Y's design so I have hope! :p

[Matias]

Brandi, I don't mind trading mine. PM me your friend code, I'll get back to you when I wake up tomorrow.

[Brandi]

By the way, I played through this over the past week.

I know not a lot of people play pokemon for the story, but the first scene with Team Plasma and N in Pokemon White/Black had more substance than this entire game put together. 5th gen's story was fantastic and intricate; the story for this one has some major flaws which takes me out of the experience.

From my playthrough on an emulator I didn't love Team Plasma and I prefer the villans in this game.
But... did you play Y or X?

Because the story in X and Y are different. Most people say Y's story is not as good.

NINJA'D: Oh, so you got Y? That explains it. Yeah pretty much everyone I have talked to greatly prefers the characters personalities in X over Y.
The villain has completely different motivation.

And sure thing I shall PM you now.

Also saw this image. Not sure if you get that dialogue while playing female. =P

Spoiler:

[animorpherv1]

Oh man I was going to get Y, but now I don't know - they both have Absol, and that's really what I care about. The rest of what I want on my team isn't exclusives, also.

[Oversoul]

FUCK. I just remembered my berries. What route is that berry batch on?

I've had that Lumiose City glitch... Or at least one like it. Saved staring at a wall and then started the game and everything was in 2d. The trick was to immediately change the camera direction and it went back to being normal. Scared me because I played like 3 hours up to that point.

[Natirasha]

I know not a lot of people play pokemon for the story, but the first scene with Team Plasma and N in Pokemon White/Black had more substance than this entire game put together. 5th gen's story was fantastic and intricate; the story for this one has some major flaws which takes me out of the experience.

I like

Lysandre &

Team Flare. I've really been enjoying the escalation of threats since BW. I mean, the most threatening villain still is probably Cyrus(considering he had the whole Made-In-Heaven thing going on), but the conflicts in those games seemed somewhat distant. I liked that the villains are actually terrorizing shit recently--bombing Opelucid City in BW2 and, well, the whole

Genocide Cannon

this game is pretty badass. They definitely left some doors open for the contractual sequel,

Lysandre is likely still alive, and, well, I have a feeling we haven't seen the last of AZ(although I suspect he'll end up taking a similar role to Cynthia role as "the representative" of Gen VI)

.

I agree that overall, the plot in this game is not as deep/morally ambiguous as N's was, but on the whole I think this was far more fun to play through. I couldn't help but get hyped by the final battle with

Lysandre

, which is something I never felt with N/Ghetsis/Colress.

Plus, Team Flare is like so stylish. I was so hoping I'd be able to wear the Admin outfit at some point.

[Brandi]

A MAP FOR THIS LARGE ASS CITY

[animorpherv1]

Whoever did that had a

lot

of time on their hands.

[Brandi]

YUP.

Also, a public service announcement to PAY YOUR CAB FARES
or else you will ruin the lives of these poor hungry taxi drivers:

(One of them makes a suggestion that he's going to DIE now because he has no money... they pay you when you beat them in battles too making them even more poor ;__; )

Spoiler:

[Brandi]

Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaand ~35 hours in I have my first shiny! (and that's first shiny... ever.)


Unfortunately it has better Sp.ATK than ATK moves overall, but a boost to defense means perhaps I can make it useful.

[Quilford]

woo congrats Brandi!

[animorpherv1]

Its better than a shiny Azurill... haha.