From the look of Heracross he turns from Rhinoceros beetle to a Hercules beetle.
i think

Well, another one for Y then...

Do you reckon it's worth adding an extra fiver to my preorder of Pokémon X so I can get it tomorrow, the day it's released?

...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BE_jw4e9uA

The new anime opening kicks so much butt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5zH6Z...r_embedded#t=0
My ears have never felt so much pleasure.

SPOILERS

http://i.imgur.com/Z6zSDdG.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/NY0H3Yc.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/C7vMY6T.jpg

My god Mega Heracross looks AWFUL. Its like the shark combo from Samurai/Shinkenger all over again.

Just got the first badge. It doesn't take long to get to the town but I've been levelling up pokes. Apparently you can find pikachu in the Forrest but I'll be damned if I can find one =p

So many awesome little touches to the game and it all looks so pretty, all of y'all's will love it =D

Come to me my precious Raichu :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MHuBqerfyec
(This is just a joke by the way.)

Oh I know that =p

so my scatterbug evolved into a garden forme Vivillion. Guess it really is based on where you live =\

Since when did Vivillion have different formes? o_O

Edit: Wow. Just looked it up. That's both cool and bullshit. As a living dex collector, it's gonna take a lot of effort tracking down legitimate versions of all of these...

Hm...I remember when my local Kmart broke street date for GTA V. I guess I'll check today and see if they did the same for Pokemon.

Hmv released it a day early, so I grabbed my Chespin and began my beautiful 3D journey.

...I need this game.

Why exactly is each pokemon game split in two? (Black and White, Heart Gold and Soul Silver, Diamond and Pearl, X and Y) Never quite understood that.

There's 3 reasons i can think of.

They needed more games to make use of the Game boy link cable.
Game Freak wanted you to go out and meet people in order to get all the mons.
Money.

Makes sense to me. :D

The point was to interact. The split is so that certain Pokemon are completely unavailable unless you get a friend.
Miyamoto wanted to emphasize the trading aspect to get players to come together.

Wow... Lot more Mega Evolutions coming out.

Another for the Y column: Heck yeah Houndoom! Now that looks awesome.

Boo Manectric in X! (Although I hate how it looks so not really that mad haha.)

So many I'll need to trade for now...

Edit: ...Oh. Well this is ridiculous. Houndoom itself is only in X, but Houndoominite (the Mega Stone) is in Y... Yay...

Meganetrike looks so freaking hilarious! :lol

Man I am enjoying Y so much! It may be the same old game at the heart of it, but the graphics are gorgeous and really do make the game feel fresh. Plus, in the first like wild area I went into, I got me a Pikachu and a Pansear! I'm right near the end of White 2 and yet to find Pokémon that awesome.

Question for those with the game: Can you save just before you pick your starter? As I kinda want to soft reset for a female Fennekin but don't want to do the name preamble over and over.

I personally haven't tried, haha.

So how's the difficulty? I was worried things might be too easy considering that you get like, three Pokemon right off the bat.

It's still early days for me, so it's hard to judge. I mean like White 2 started much easier than Y did, but it always ends in grinding by the end, I'm hoping Y breaks the trend.

Mega Scizor confirmed!
http://www.serebii.net/megasci.jpg

That looks so... underwhelming.

Just a few hours left till X and Y officially begin!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59fPX4CAQwk

Kinda pissed off, I had no idea this Torchic event was going on as I'm a pure casual fan and only occasionally popped my head in this thread before I got the game yesterday. And by the time I did I'd already saved my party with a Charmander in it. I know Charmander is nothing to complain about, but if I had known I would have picked Squirtle instead so I could have had three starters, one of each type. Mega Blastoise is so cool as well. :( Oh well! Still enjoying the game.

I wonder how you missed that.

Because any news around this game was gleamed from this thread, and until today, I popped into this thread like once a week and looked on whatever spoilers were in the last ten posts.

Is it possible to put Pokemon Y into Walmart layaway on the day of release?

Well I've beaten the first Gym. I still don't know what my team will end up being but I think the Torchic I downloaded will be staying with me for a while.

You know how X and Y has a very small regional dex? I hope they don't repeat that again...

i guess no one has an answer for me?

Well as we discussed, Game Freak needed to render new 3D models for the 649 existing Pokemon along with making more new critters. And now that they don't have to do as much drastic rendering, we'll probably get more.

Maybe Z will have several new Pokemon.

Nope.
It needs to remain compatible with X and Y, and having several new Pokemon means it'll have several new models that don't exist in the prior 2 games.

Alright, so I got a 3DS XL, and a screen protector, but I am already hating seeing the protector on the pretty screen. As usual it's not applied 100% right and there are one or two spots.

Do you guys use screen protectors?