Mega Evolutions Equal Mega Failure in Pokemon X and Y

Jeff: "Pokemon—now the second best-selling gaming franchise of all time—has maintained its popularity for more than a decade, and it has made new fans throughout the creating of each generation. The primary reason for this is simply due to new groups of kids becoming exposed to the franchise for the first time....."

[MeatheadMilitia]

Is Pokemon on it's last leg?

[EcoSos3]

Hell no, this gen is just starting and it's going to be the best.

[MeatheadMilitia]

I was always a Magic the Gathering kid so Pokemon was never really something I looked into, I kind of back burnered it and never checked it out 100%

[user5575708]

mega evolution just adds more depth to the game with new abilities and team strategies for the hardcore and for the casual crowd it adds cool new images of these super powered pokemon

[MuhammadJA]

Every new gen is the best! We already know that.

[EcoSos3]

I have played Magic the gathering and found it too easy, still I don't see how a card game keep you away from a video game. But it's Pokemon it gets bash for not making enough changes but when it does it also gets bash because they're desperate....?

[MeatheadMilitia]

I was in a transitional phase where I went from playing MTG to not playing MTG and stopped caring about that scene. Not because I hated it, but I grew out of it, so I wasn't going to pick up Pokemon at the time because I didn't really care too :) No hate here kind person :)

[EcoSos3]

So what was your last Pokemon game?

[MeatheadMilitia]

I think people are looking too far into my question haha. Let is be known I want the Pokemon franchise to continue and with great success, it is a game that has a niche and brings new people into the gaming community and makes our industry better.

[Nerdmaster]

I'm still trying to figure out what Magic and Pokémon have to do with each other. It's like saying "I loved board games, because of that I didn't like soccer".

Unless you're talking about Pokémon Trading Card Game. But, still, it has nothing to do with the video games.

[EcoSos3]

He's just trolling for hits he doesn't have any idea what's he's talking about, Pokemon "copying" digimon lol.

[MeatheadMilitia]

In general I never understood Pokemon, video game or card game, just pokemon in general. And my never understanding of Pokemon and the love for it that people have is because when I was growing up MTG was big. With that being said, from what I have been hearing and reading, people have been saying that Pokemon has been getting stale and I remember when MTG got stale, which is why I stopped playing, even when they came out with another computer video game much later in their life cycle. I apologize to anyone that doesn't understand what i'm trying to say haha but it seems certain people are mis interpreting me, so I'll gracefully bow out now. Glad to see the Pokemon community is so passionate.

[SoulSercher620]

Wow so you're not into Pokemon but you're calling it a failure? Yeah definitely fishing for hits. Downvote this garbage people.

[3-4-5]

say what you want, but that black & light blue Charzard is possibly the coolest looking Pokemon I've ever seen.

[DDDGirlGamer85]

When your turning House hold appliances in "Pokemon" you've just gotten lazy

[TrendyGamers]

I'd buy a Rotom toaster.

[NintySonySoft]

Hell yeah!

[KonsoruMasuta]

I'm not trying saying that there are not lazy Pokémon concepts these new generations, because there are. But there were lazy one in older gens too.

A rock with arms and a face.

A purple rat.

The unown were modeled after letters in the alphabet.

I can go on.

[DDDGirlGamer85]

I rcok face monster is more creative than a Living Pine cone, And rats and Seals are animals which are what Pokemon are suppose to be not fucking Intimate objects.

[AWBrawler]

what rulebook said they should be animals? explain ditto. he looks like gum, or what about tangela, it's litterally tangled vines, electrode and voltorb are pokeballs, and magnemite is a dang magnet.

[-Foxtrot]

I feel like the game felt so different and refreshing when I saw the first few trailers for Pokemon X and Y that it didn't need stuff like Mega Evolutions.

If it's just a feature for the region where in this game then fair enough but it's not something I want to see in future games.

Still though I can't believe they don't want to make a console version. Imagine a huge map, hell half the size of GTAV would do where you can go out and explore, catching Pokemon and finding secret stuff/easer eggs :)

[vitullo31]

Man if they made a pokemon game for wii u with a map even half that size.. I dont think i would ever leave my house

[4logpc]

The pre orders that are now over 1.3 million would disagree.

[SeraphimBlade]

The author's point seems to be "CHANGE IS BAD." He doesn't give a good reason why mega evolutions are bad, he just that they're there and that this is a bad thing.

[xander70769]

I agree, I honestly couldn't tell if this article was even supposed to be serious. I'm super excited for this generation, this feels like something that should have happened many generations ago; fully detailed anime-style 3-D graphics, and entirely new game mechanics. Pokemon has been a stagnant franchise, though it stayed popular enough that it didn't *need* to change, but boy am I glad to see the changes that are finally coming after all this time. This is akin to a reboot for the series, and older pokemon are going to be back to the focus again. Adding the original kanto starters is just plain awesome.

I had mixed feelings about the mega evolutions, but after following it for a while it seems like it will work fine. For those who don't know how it works, what I've gathered from leaks and teasers is that you will only be able to mega evolve one pokemon in your party; you can't have 6 mega evolved pokemon in one battle. I think you can choose when it mega evolves during battle, or it may mega evolve right at the start, but in either case the mega evolution does not take up the turn - it can attack immediately after mega evolving.

It's essentially a way to make certain regular pokemon stand up to legendary pokes. And some of the revealed mega evolutions just look so cool, like both mega charizards, mega blastoise, mega garchomp etc. can't wait.

[mamotte]

"Pokemon doesnt change!" - BAD
"Pokemon change!" - BAD.
"How many pokemon games have you played?" -NONE

[admiralvic]

A) Mega Evolution marks a turning point in the Pokemon series, which we currently can't comment on. Mega evolutions are suppose (at least in my understanding) to change up the current formula and offer different / more diverse ways to play. Now the difficulty / actual use / overall need for these forms is what we need to see, since it could be a game changing feature or something that no one really uses. However, I won't fault Game Freak for changing things up and not simply adding evolutions for things in the past because they can't think of anything better.
B) While the concept is vaguely similar to digimon, I don't see how that is really a bad thing either. I like these temp forms more than randomly adding a completely new tier, since that really messes up the lore thus far.
C) People assumed that Mega MewTwo Y was fake or MewThree, simply because it didn't look that original and it's not like fans can simply guess that a whole new concept was going to be added to the game out of nowhere, though I don't see why it's ludicrous in the first place. MewTwo was a Pokemon made by science, so it's not like it was naturally the best period... it was created to be the best.
D) I don't think Pokemon has fallen... just that the formula is very "precise". For this game to work as a series, they really need to constantly add new Pokemon to keep it interesting. If we were still dealing with the original 151 in this day and age, then I think more people would be sick of the series. Also adding new legendary pokemon is just part of adding the same thrills to each game. Like every culture / area seems to have different gods / myth / folklore, which is all you're seeing here. It's not like we all agree that Zeus was king of the gods and every religion in the world believes what the greeks did. We got greek myth, norse myth, Japanese folklore, and is in no way different than each region having their own myths / special stuff.

While I can respect disliking Mega forms (I personally am not a fan), I don't think it means that Pokemon is on the ropes. I just think they're finally at the point where they accepted that Pokemon needs to evolve and thats all that we're seeing.

[Sunnyknight]

I really never truly understood the hype surrounding pokemon games. All of them followed the same path/formula, while changing the scenery, and adding a few new features. The last real innovative feature I can personally thought was cool, was the wireless adapter for the GBA with Pokemon Leaf Green and Fire Red but that was pretty short lived considering they were the only games you could use the wireless adapter for.

[Trackboss]

I'm not really into Pokemon like I used to be. They start to look more and more like digimon and now they have ultimate forms? Haha

[MxL_Akilleez]

Haven't played a Pokemon game since the old gameboy color days.. Each iteration seemed to be a carbon copy of the previous, with slight tweaks and new Pokemon added. I never saw the allure of it, just didn't have enough innovation to reel me in.

Besides....Pokemon Snap was a much better game! lol

[Malik4Play]

It's different strokes for different folks. I think mega evolutions may help a little, Pokemon needs SOMETHING fresh.

But the home appliance thing is a bit wishy washy

[SirBradders]

They need to make a proper pokemon game in the crytek or frostbite engine with real textures not this cartoon look. Imagine the audience they could draw in young and old.

[Steelmanner]

I don't agree, and for one reason. Pokemon has always had a certain style to it, its part of its DNA. By taking away that style it just wouldn't be the same. It would be like saying the next game in the elder scrolls series should be 8-bit so it would draw in older gamers.

[SirBradders]

They can keep the old style, i don't mean replace it. They should take pokemon in different directions its too child like for and no its not like saying take ES to 8 bit its like saying lets evolve our franchise abit to draw in a more mature crowd.

[kB0]

Pokemon died after platinum (maybe black) for me. I'm still getting X/Y now only because Charizard was my fav pokemon.

[BOVICE47]

Digimon wanna be XD

[SilentNegotiator]

Hey, shut up, man. BlackMegaCharizardMon is awesome. lol

[Steelmanner]

Pokemon isn't what it was 15 years ago. The game has changed with what the fans crave and expect from the series. As a long time fan, I expect Pokemon to become more in-depth each generation, and I think the Mega evolution truly adds that. Also, its ridiculous that Pokemon would be compared to Digimon because of a small similarity between the two. In closing, Pokemon has to change, expecting a series to stay the same for 15 year is unrealistic.