>>27159704>Why do these games get so much hate?Because /vp/ is full of contrarians. That's literally the only real reason. XY were extremely well received everywhere outside of /vp/, being the best selling 3DS games of 2013 worldwide and the best selling games altogether in Japan that year. The reviews that these games got were pretty much exclusively positive and overall better than /vp/'s waifu games BW2 (pic related).
The truth is that the people who actually play Pokemon games and don't just whine enjoy XY. For example, I've been watching PokeaimMD and Shofu's XY Nuzlocke videos and in many episodes they just talk about how great games XY are and how awesome it was to play these games for the first time. Even on /vp/, if you go to the threads where people actively trade and battle (/wfg/ being the most important recurring general of this kind), you'll see that the people who frequent those threads enjoy XY very much due to the major improvements on online battling and trading as well as breeding and EV training.
The truth is that XY are well liked games everywhere among the Pokemon community outside of /vp/. If you look closely, you'll see that a very large part of /vp/ doesn't seem to enjoy any Pokemon games other than BW2, so I wouldn't put much value on their opinions. XY and ORAS are my favorite Pokemon games and there are many people out there who agree with me. They just never visit this contrarian shithole.
