>>44102884>onlinePSS is the best online component we've ever had, and is another one of the reasons I was able to extract any fun out of XY. Online is a pretty huge part of Pokémon, so ensuring the player doesn't get absolutely shit on by a convoluted mess of a system (Festival Plaza) is probably pretty important. As I mentioned before, the meta was great as well. Everyone I knew was playing against each other online with their favourite megas. Now no one really gives a shit which is why GF had to streamline the fuck out of the process to keep up interest.
And before I get some typical responses,
2 = 5 > 3 = 4 > 1 >>>> 6 >>>>>>>>>>>>> 7 = 8
People can claim that it's just muh "zelda cycle", but the reality is that XY had actual reasons to play and enjoy it besides the shitty maingame. Sun and Moon and Sword and Shield do not. They have nothing, which is why the hate for them will never end. And while that remains true for XY (and ORAS) too, people will still have at least something positive to say about them.
And for the people clamouring for Sinnoh remakes, just know that they WILL be worse than ORAS. Game Freak are not capable of doing anything but fucking up on every front. ORAS at the very least had Soaring, DexNav and the addition of Amie and megas. Temporal Diamond and Spatial Pearl will just be Diamond and Pearl with caves being fades to black to their opposite sides, Old Chateau being just a single room with Sinnohan Gengar in it and dynamax forced in.
Remember, it can ALWAYS get worse.
