Newbie with Pokemon questions

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Ka-pi96 said:
Yeah X/Y are probably the best place to pick it up on 3DS. Alternatively there is HGSS on DS that you can play with BC which could be pretty cool if you originally played Silver since they are the remakes of Gold/Silver, but then if your friends are on newer versions you wouldn't be able to play together, so X/Y would be the safe bet still.

As for any changes, well there haven't really been many big ones. The Pokemon games have always been pretty formulaic and so are mostly similar. Unless you were really in to competitive battling or something when you played last you may not even notice some of the differences straight away. Of course all the new Pokemon and stuff they've added is pretty obvious, but finding out about those is part of the fun of the games so

Thanks for the quick response, I'll definitely go with X/Y then. How do you interact with your friends online, like can you inhabit the same world or is it strictly battles and trades?

I've never been involved in the competitive pokemon scene but I know about it and I'm a bit intrigued. Does X/Y do something unique with the competitive aspect?