Pokemon Gen 6, X & Y announced; worldwide release in October

[Skyblade]

Geez, you're taking this game too seriously already and it's not even out yet.

I'm currently stuck recovering from a traffic accident. Pokémon is one of the things that's keeping me from being bored out of my mind right now (since Rune Factory 4 was delayed). I reserve the right to take it seriously.

Besides, I'm only taking the trailers seriously. I just really think they could do better. Game Freak has an excellent history with these games, but at the same time, things don't always look promising.

I'm really questioning Mega Evolutions right now. Just how useful is it going to be if it only works for one battle? At least, to single-player people, I'm sure it'll have a huge effect on the multiplayer community. Also, will you be able to fast-forward through or skip the evolution scene? Because otherwise I can see it getting annoying if you do it a lot.

I'm also curious about the degree of customization. If Mewtwo becomes Psychic/Fighting with increased Physical attack, it'll have to have a completely different move setup than a Special Psychic. So how much control will you be able to have on the Mega Evolutions? Can you choose what moves they'll learn and such when they evolve? Or will the game control it or restrict it for you?

Also, I'm hoping we'll get something like Dream Radar for X and Y, because I really liked having a spin-off that was tied so directly to the main game. It was wonderful for picking up new Pokémon and items.

Different forms for male and female Pokémon. Well, yay. But what took so long? Seriously, this is another of those things we've been looking forward to for Generations.

Different appearances for different genders have been around since Generation IV.

Different appearances, yes. Different "Formes", no.

It's like the differences between Giratina's Flying or Ground Forme. Or the Various Rotom Formes. Different stat lineups, different movesets, things like that.

So, again, it's been in game since Nidoran in Gen I. Further games expanded on it. First we got actual different genders for Pokémon in Gen II. Then they started giving us the differing appearances in Gen IV. We also got different evolutions for things like Kirlia only being able to become a Gallade if it's male, otherwise, only being able to become a Gardevoir. And we also got the official differing "Formes" for other Pokémon, which include things like new moves and differing stats.

If they were making Nidoran now, it would only be one Pokémon, with two different Formes based on its gender, and restricted evolutions, again based on gender.

So I'm wondering if they'll finally remove the second Pokédex entry and just give us "Nidoran".

Anyway, I initially decided on Froakie, and Frogadier has made me more confident about my decision. It's fairly obvious that the naming scheme involves Rookie -> Brigadier, so I'm thinking that the final evolution will have a name with general or something similar as part of it.

Maybe we'll only get one evolution per starter this time! That would leave us with The Brigadier as the final evolution, and it's not like they could do better than that.

I'm capturing a Furfrou regardless of its use in battle; my grandfather has a goldendoodle, so I'm grooming it to look like her.

I usually try to capture at least one of everything, so nothing new here.

Two other random notes. First, does anybody else find it funny that Tyrunt gets obliterated by Draco Meteor? Second, I'm thinking the theory that the starters are based off the warrior/mage/rogue archetypes is looking more and more plausible.

So Grass is Warrior, Fire is Mage, and Water is Rogue?

Nah, they'll be too busy (SPOILER)"customizing" female Meowstic and Braixen.

Can you customize any Pokémon, or only the Furfrous?