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Video Games => Video Game Chat => Topic started by: Negative_Zero on July 08, 2008, 09:08:01 AM
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Well first you had yellow, then Crystal, then Emerald well this completes Gen. IV
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Pokémon Platinum (Japanese: ポケットモンスター プラチナ Pocket Monsters Platina) is a sister game to Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, and is the third Generation IV main series game. The mascot is Giratina. It will take place in the Sinnoh region and the player's starting location will be Twinleaf Town, just like Pokémon Diamond and Pearl. The game was first seen on May 11, 2008 when a low-resolution cell-phone picture of an upcoming issue of CoroCoro magazine was leaked around the Internet. On May 15, the magazine was officially released and the game was also officially confirmed by Nintendo.
Known changes from Pokémon Diamond and Pearl
Aesthetic changes
Lucas, Dawn and Pearl will have different outfits designed for colder weather, apparently due to Sinnoh's climate suddenly dropping in temperature.
The template for the level, HP, and name of Pokémon in battle is a dark gray instead of white.
The Pokétch has been redesigned.
When Pokémon are sent out from their Poké Balls, the back view animation will have been improved. Much like the animations introduced in Pokémon Emerald and carried over to Diamond, Pearl and Platinum, these entry animations will consist of two frames with various distortions to the sprite. However, the front view animations do not seem to have been improved.
Storyline changes
Dialga and Palkia will both appear on Spear Pillar. Giratina then phases into the dimension in front of Cyrus.
A new area known as the Torn World (Japanese: やぶれたせかい Torn World) will be playable. A small screenshot depicts it with floor-like sections floating at ninety-degree angles from each other, creating an effect similar to the art of M. C. Escher.
At least two new characters will be added.
Gameplay changes
When captured in Pokémon Platinum, Giratina will be in its Origin Forme. If a Giratina captured in Pokémon Platinum is traded to Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, it will change into the "Another Forme," much like Deoxys did when transferred among the Generation III games. Likewise, the reverse is true.
Shaymin will be able to change between its two forms via the use of the Glacidea Flower (Japanese: グラシデアのはな).
Regirock, Regice and Registeel will be catchable at level 30 with the help of an event Regigigas that is being distributed in Japan starting June 20.
Map changes
An arch now represents the entrance to Floaroma Town. It is unknown if this will be also applied to other towns and cities.
There are now more areas in Sinnoh to explore, such as a castle, a room with a computer, and the aforementioned Torn World.
Areas such as Eterna City seem to have been refurbished with new foliage and building designs.
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Lucas
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Dawn
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Pearl
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Giratina Another Forme
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Giratina Orgin Forme
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Shaymin
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Shaymin's Sky Forme
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New Battle Screen
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Giratina at the Spear Pillar
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Spiderman World Torn World!!!
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Floaroma Town
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2 New guys who ate some Mega Mushrooms. (Notice the snow)
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2 Places that have not been seen before
Special Thanks to http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page (http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page), as theres nowhere else I could have found images, well probably on some Japanese Websites too
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I'm probably gonna get this game since I never got Diamond or Pearl.
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www.serebii.net is also good.
The Torn World will probably be where you capture Arceus in PPlatnium.
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Yeah your probably right
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I dont think they should ever made Arceus legally obtainable. I mean come on, they really kind of ruined the game by creating a catchable 'god of all pokemon'. I mean what, so my 11 year old dude caught Arceus. Does that mean he controls the universe? I don't see how a being capable of creating time and space can be contained as computer data inside of a tiny ball.
The least they could've done was hint at Arceus in the game somwhere by maybe listing information on it, and maybe a picture, but to include it as a fully "obtainable" (for the time being illegally) pokemon is stupid.
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well this completes Gen. IV
For the series's sake you had better be wrong. FireRed and LeafGreen did come before Emerald, but I still have faith...
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I would buy a Silver/Gold/Crystal remake, too. I need more Johto Pokémon.
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I might sit this one out. I just didn't find most of the Generation IV species as enjoyable as those of past generations.
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Although I'm fine with Diamond, I'm tempted to pick up Platinum just for all the changes they've made.
Plus catchable Arceus and Shaymin? I am sold.
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Catchable? I don't remember reading that.
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That Torn World is awesome looking, but it'll probably be ten times as frustrating as Sky Pillar, which is really saying something.
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I didn't say it was catchable, Wiggles. I was just saying that Game Freak should never have made Arceus even theoretically catchable. Right now, as far as they want, we don't even know Arceus exists. I was just pointing out that having a catchable god is proposterous.
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i think gold and silver remakes would be great to have after platinum...i mean, soon enough the GBA will be "out of service" and so will the GC since (i think) nintendo is over with them (no new games, etc., like what happened with the N64 and the GBC a long time ago)
and GBC games can not be played on the DS...
so gold and silver would become "rare" and few people (i mean younger children who have just been recently been introduced to pokemon, not older people from the times of red and blue) would be able to play the games and explore the great gameplay of gold and silver.
since FR/LG/R/S/E/D/P are accessible, and they are (or at least are compatible with) gen. IV, and red, blue, and yellow are in a way able to be played by playing FR/LG...gold and silver would be out of reach for future PKMN trainers...and those faithful older people who still play PKMN would also enjoy a G/S remake since due to "polls" most people liked gold and silver...
i would really like to get platinum once its out. but i'm looking forward to a gold and silver remake even more. those games are great in my opinion.
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I was just pointing out that having a catchable god is proposterous.
You're right.. I thought it was kind of stupid that we could catch Mesprit, Azelf, Uxie, Dialga, and Palkia. I mean, they created the Sinnoh region, didn't they?
I thought it was funny/weird when I was leveling up my Palkia.. "Hey Bidoof! I created the universe! *faint*"
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That's about all the beating Bidoof needs to faint anyway...
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I'm glad somebody caught that.. that's about as long as my battles would last when I had Palkia (or any of the aforementioned Poke Gods) in front, and was using the Poke Radar.
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Ah, the Poke Radar... so essential for completing the Pokedex, yet so tedious to use...
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Eh? How does the Poké Rader help complete the Pokédex?
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There are quite a few Pokémon that appear only when using the Radar.
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Unless you want to obtain them all through trade.
Heeey Suffix, that reminds me...
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Ah, yeah... I'm going to sit myself down in #TMK if you want to pay a visit.
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We'll have to find a time that's reasonable for both of us... I'm 4 hours ahead of you.
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My last Pokemon game was Silver, which I bought a few years ago for just a few dollars. So I'm pretty behind with all this. However, I still think they should make a new game/remake the original Pokemon Red/Blue for the Wii so that it's three-dimensional. That is to say, you can move around like in StarFox Adventures. All the towns would be the same, but updated; perhaps areas like the Power Plant or Pokemon Mansion would require more complex moves to navigate through. Like jumping.
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perhaps areas like the Power Plant or Pokemon Mansion would require more complex moves to navigate through. Like jumping.
The Mansion did require jumping.. from a ledge that was one story up.
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Diamond and Pearl have 3-D environments, allowing for beautiful effects such as...
...Sprite distortion.
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It's because of Team Galactic's tampering with the space/time continuum.
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Well, you'd have to have a brain defect to not see this coming... At least they're adding more stuff than just a wormy Giratina (as that was previously all I knew about).
How many more generations will it be until I get smart and just don't buy until "the third one" comes out? (Diamond/Pearl was by no means a bad game, though)
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Really? I thought they were... but only because Lizard Dude was absolutely right:
<Lizard_Dude> They made a comic about Bird Person -- http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=263
That being said I'm kicking myself for the same reason, but it's too late for me. There was no third game for FireRed and LeafGreen so I'm not expecting a Crystal remake, and I can only guess it's even further downhill from here. Though maybe not; for example, in Ruby and Sapphire there are no restrictions on trades, so you can get things not in the Hoenn Pokédex as early as you want, and the National Dex automatically comes with it. In Emerald, trades like that get rejected until you get the National Dex.
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See, I would know that kind of stuff if I had anyone to trade with in Generation III and/or the DS could use GBA link cables.