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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:28:22 No.49621274 View View Reply Original Report

These days almost 10 years ago the Pokémon XY announcement trailer was shown, what was your reaction after watching the trailer? And what do you remember of that day?

https://youtu.be/3NMWdUBA8e4

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:31:23 No.49621292 Report

Quoted By: >>49621980

>>49621274
>Holy shit, Pokemon finally in 3D, this is gonna be so cool!
And then it blew. I remember counting down the days with a friend in my class.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:32:33 No.49621298 Report

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>>49621274
saw it on TV first I'm pretty sure, I was like "wait you mean it isn't a new generation on the DS? piss offfff need to buy a new console"
there was like no emulating of this game, too

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:33:43 No.49621311 Report

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>>49621274
I thought the graphics were mid, since I played a-lot of the Stadium, Colosseum type games before. But the starters were cute.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:34:40 No.49621317 Report

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My friend had been saying the next game would be 3D, I said there would be one more gen of sprites before they made the move. The trailer proved him right.
That's all I remember.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:35:34 No.49621324 Report

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XY's leak season was fucking great. Too bad the games themselves are mediocre

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:38:20 No.49621338 Report

Quoted By: >>49622266 >>49622267 >>49622622 >>49625446

The mystery of Nymphia...Nobody knew what the fuck it was.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:41:56 No.49621365 Report

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>>49621274
Still one of the best trailers ever

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:41:58 No.49621368 Report

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>>49621274
i remember posting about which starter team i was on and being pretty hyped about Yvelta's design
i am still salty about fennikin's final evo.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:50:21 No.49621415 Report

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>>49621274
Now it's the most universally hated generation of the franchise. How sad.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:52:34 No.49621425 Report

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>>49621415
As it should be since it started the downfall. The only tragedy is that people have deluded themselves into thinking that SM/USUM/SWSH were better.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:53:41 No.49621429 Report

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>>49621274
I came here to discuss it with anons.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:59:44 No.49621475 Report

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>>49621274
i made fun of it on facebook and some weeb girl i was crushing on unfriended me after that

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 17:59:48 No.49621476 Report

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>>49621415
Not hated than PLA.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 18:02:48 No.49621497 Report

Quoted By: >>49625458

>>49621415
>universally hated
I thought people were ambivalent about it.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 18:04:56 No.49621513 Report

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>49621476
Already revising history are we?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 18:05:49 No.49621516 Report

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it's funny how a lot of people didn't like froakie and even greninja when it was leaked but then it became one of the most popular pokemon ever

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 18:21:18 No.49621592 Report

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>>49621274
The exact moment this franchise died

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 18:37:25 No.49621738 Report

Quoted By: >>49621902

>>49621415
That's Gen 5 and you know it

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 18:56:07 No.49621902 Report

Quoted By: >>49621971

>>49621738
The sequel saved it. Gen 6 on the other hand still has people crying about how they were robbed of Pokemon Z, the game that would totally fix everything.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:05:34 No.49621964 Report

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>>49621274
The beginning of the downfall of the Franchise.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:07:32 No.49621971 Report

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>>49621902
>the game that would totally fix everything.
I'm in the boat that it wouldn't have fixed everything since Sun and Moon would probably still have been as shit as it was, but the worst case scenario would be that we get another game with the PSS, Super Training, and Eternal Floette, and Sun and Moon doesn't randomly shove Zygarde into it for no reason.
The best case scenario is that there was a positive reception and that convinced Game Freak to not gimp Sun and Moon by removing the gyms at the last minute and rebranding the series to be a Yokai Watch ripoff.
It would have been a net positive, either way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:08:56 No.49621980 Report

Quoted By: >>49622184

>>49621292
>And then it blew
Then why was it so well received among both fans and critics?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:12:21 No.49622024 Report

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Yeah

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:17:53 No.49622073 Report

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Woke up early to watch the Direct, everyone knew the next games were going to use overworld character models instead of sprites. I enjoyed Pokémon's sprite-based style, and I thought that the chibi look for the characters, along with the outlines and colors made the style a really nice compromise between the older games and Ken Sugimori's artwork. The fact that it was an international announcement already gave away that this was going to be the first simultaneous worldwide release. Since the 3DS was extremely hard to crack at the time, I was also extremely hopeful that this meant that events could remain secret, or that they could do them as software updates so that it wasn't all leaked in advance.

This was the cringiest trailer I had ever seen, the announcer sounded like he was talking down to babies.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fbVT3aBJdqU

While this trailer, while a little comically intense, felt exciting in a much more sincere way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BftrqE2CQiQ

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:19:38 No.49622082 Report

Quoted By: >>49622184

Friendly reminder that XY is the most well received non-pokemania game in the franchise behind HGSS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:20:23 No.49622089 Report

Quoted By: >>49622107

>>49621274
>where Hoenn remakes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:22:36 No.49622107 Report

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>>49622089
>maX
>maY
Hoenn confirmed

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:29:55 No.49622174 Report

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Remember when we were guessing Sylveon's type?

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:31:06 No.49622184 Report

Quoted By: >>49622204

>>49621980
>>49622082
It was a comprehensive improvement over previous games, with improved UI navigation, minimal grinding, seamless multiplayer, more detailed towns, and an assload of Pokemon to choose from. It was also an unapologetic love letter to RBY as the series moved away from its pixelart origins.

The biggest mistakes of XY the Lumiose City glitch that ruined people's save files at launch, and removing the Difficulty Modes from Gen 5.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:33:36 No.49622204 Report

Quoted By: >>49622238

>>49622184
the difficulty modes in gen 5 were useless.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:38:18 No.49622238 Report

Quoted By: >>49622274

>>49622204
Literally all they had to do was add them to the start menu, like any decent game. Kalos bosses are the worst part of XY, compared to pic related.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:39:36 No.49622246 Report

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>>49621274
The wait for a 3ds pokemon mainline game was long so I was happy for the announcement

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:40:41 No.49622257 Report

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>>49621274
Yes, I remember, I watched it live on my phone during science class, and it was the last time a Pokemon trailer hyped me

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:41:53 No.49622266 Report

Quoted By: >>49622963

>>49621338
Didn't they also show Mega Mewtwo Y in the same show ?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:41:58 No.49622267 Report

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>>49621338
>it's definitely a Bug type
>it's definitely a Flying type
>it's definitely a Normal type

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 19:42:59 No.49622274 Report

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>>49622238
>Literally all they had to do was add them to the start menu
They would still be useless.

>compared to pic related.
The thing that's just as easy as the XY bosses because of how overleveled BW2 makes you? Wow.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 20:26:06 No.49622622 Report

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>>49621338
I remember that

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 20:27:33 No.49622628 Report

Quoted By: >>49622655 >>49624047 >>49625474 >>49625887

Here's your 666th 'mon bro

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 20:30:47 No.49622655 Report

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>>49622628
It makes sense, collecting all the different forms requires selling your soul in exchange.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 20:36:31 No.49622698 Report

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>>49621274
The mystery around "Mewthree" dude...

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 20:54:32 No.49622836 Report

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Oh yes.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 21:03:24 No.49622891 Report

Quoted By: >>49622895

>>49621415
Yeah being shit will do that to you

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 21:03:43 No.49622895 Report

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>>49622891
but enough about gen 5

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 21:04:54 No.49622903 Report

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>>49621274
I remember seeing Fennekin and going, "People are going to want to fuck this fox."

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 21:06:12 No.49622915 Report

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>>49621274
early XY was probably the most fun I've had with a Pokemon game. this was before PKHex or Pokemon Bank, so online trading and battling was robust and all the breeding/comp changes made the game more accessible than before. I remember placing a dime on my 3DS's control pad so I could grind the daycare to level 100.

I broke 2 3DS's this way.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 21:07:06 No.49622925 Report

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>>49621274
I remember seeing Fennekin and going, "I really want to fuck this fox."

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 21:07:49 No.49622932 Report

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>>49621274
I honestly couldn't believe they were legitimately moving over to 3D. Was impressed by how it looked at the time, well, the battles at least. Was hyped for the new typing and that it was breathing life into some older pokemon. Thought Chespin looked like an early route shitmon, liked Froakie and Fennekin.

I was honestly really fucking excited, and up until maybe gym 2 I was having a decent time when the game out, and I still like most of the new pokemon introduced.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 21:11:19 No.49622963 Report

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>>49622266
Yeah
Before Megas were announced someone called it Mewtwo’s “eclaire” form or something. There was a short lives meme about it having an ass on it’s head

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 22:53:02 No.49623821 Report

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>>49621274
Nice

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 23:02:53 No.49623907 Report

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I remember thinking the graphics weren't breathtaking at all and that the overworld movement looked stiff

Anonymous

Anonymous Sat 12 Feb 2022 23:17:18 No.49624047 Report

Quoted By: >>49625405

>>49622628
that fucking butterfly was the most fun part of XY

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:14:25 No.49625405 Report

Quoted By: >>49625413 >>49625474 >>49625492

>>49624047
>Every geographical location has a different pattern.

Soul. Shame that Vivillon got dexcut.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:16:00 No.49625413 Report

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>>49625405
Anon, its normalization of a mon per gen with a fuckton if different forms is partially what LED to dexit.

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:18:22 No.49625437 Report

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>>49621274
Even when I was 15 I got ultra pissed. I really rejected the games being 3D until it grew on me much, much later during the pre-release season.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:19:38 No.49625446 Report

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>>49621338
NO ES FAKE
ES HADA

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:20:44 No.49625458 Report

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>>49621497
It was really great but it was the tipping point of the series.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:23:07 No.49625474 Report

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>>49625405
>>49622628
I need to catch a bunch of these so I can start trading all the forms in HOME's GTS.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:24:10 No.49625482 Report

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>>49621274
Looked cool but everyone hated it when it came out so didn't matter

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:25:17 No.49625490 Report

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>>49621274
This was my bit of happiness. My opinion of pokemon would plummet once the news of megas came out. From there it was a 6 year seethe

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:25:37 No.49625492 Report

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>>49625405
I still have a complete collection of vivillon patterns including the 2 event ones.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:26:16 No.49625496 Report

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>>49621274
I had just gotten back into Pokemon after 10 years, and I remember "Mewthree" (Mega-Mewtwo Y) causing a lot of conversation.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:26:51 No.49625500 Report

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I like how the discord kids don't even get responses anymore. Fucking hilarious kek

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:34:57 No.49625554 Report

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HAWLUCHA IS FAKE

COUNT THE FEATHERS ON ITS BACK!!

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 02:44:03 No.49625615 Report

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I remember when pic related dropped and I was mad hyped. I don't know why they replaced Aggron with fucking Duraludon as TTar's "rival". These are two perfectly good Kaiju 'mon.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 03:17:31 No.49625887 Report

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>>49622628
I loved collecting these lil niggas. My region had Archipelago so mine were always in high demand.

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 03:18:19 No.49625894 Report

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>>49621274
HOLY SHIT PIKACHU IS TALKING

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 03:19:19 No.49625903 Report

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>>49621415
no no anon it's good now because it's almost ten years old and PLA is the newest game

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 03:24:36 No.49625957 Report

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I remember because at that point everyone on this board either in middle school or high school

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 05:55:28 No.49626925 Report

Quoted By: >>49627445

>>49621274
I miss those times of blessed ignorance.
I recall my brother showing me images of artwork from Kalos on his computer because I didn't use didn't really keep up to date in this stuff at the time. It looked sick and was happy to share my hype with my classmates at the time. Little did I know that it wouldn't be long before the franchise would start to go against everything it once stood for

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 07:57:12 No.49627440 Report

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>>49621274
Yes

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 07:57:42 No.49627445 Report

Quoted By: >>49627462

>>49626925
>Little did I know that it wouldn't be long before the franchise would start to go against everything it once stood for
which is...what exactly?

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 08:01:57 No.49627462 Report

Quoted By: >>49627464

>>49627445
Making sure people like you are not welcome

Anonymous

Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 08:02:35 No.49627464 Report

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>>49627462
? I've been playing since gen 1 and XY is my 3rd favorite game in the franchise, but ok

Anonymous

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Anonymous Sun 13 Feb 2022 09:59:49 No.49627992 Report

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I thought it was gonna be the greatest thing, and yet even back then I felt some kind of unease, couldn't explain why.
I was hype for worldwide release though

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