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Furanty May 24th, 2009 7:57 AM

Game Corners are not available in European Platinum
 
In the European versions of Platinum, the Veilstone Game Corner's slot machines cannot be used. This happens at least in the German and Spanish versions. I don't know how it is in the English, Italian and French ones.
The reason could be the legal age.
If you try to use the machines nothing happens. Sometimes there are some coins you can take.

Britney's Circus May 24th, 2009 8:41 AM

I haven't noticed this yet so it is kinda strange for age delays.

Gymnotide May 24th, 2009 8:43 AM

I don't think it really matters since the Game Corner was just a big waste of time anyway.
You could get a US cart, but I think having Kecleon's ability spelled Colour is totally worth it.

Worth it by a tonne.

Percy Thrillington May 24th, 2009 8:52 AM

Wakachamo informed me about this through Twitter, and I responded that getting rid of the slot machines is ridiculous. An hour later, the opinion still stands.

rebelrexx May 24th, 2009 9:08 AM

i hate the game corner anyways i just bought the coins lol

MetalMario May 24th, 2009 11:41 AM

This is ridiculous. Can you at least still buy the coins or are you forever stiffed out of being able to buy those TMs?

They could've at least replaced it with a non-gambling-based minigame. Heck, they should offer something like that in ALL countries! The slots are annoying but necessary.

processr May 24th, 2009 11:46 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalMario (Post 4671406)
This is ridiculous. Can you at least still buy the coins or are you forever stiffed out of being able to buy those TMs?

They could've at least replaced it with a non-gambling-based minigame. Heck, they should offer something like that in ALL countries! The slots are annoying but necessary.

It would appear that you receive a random amount of coins when you engage a machine. Stopping you from obtaining the TMs would be going too far. o.o

Zelda May 24th, 2009 11:47 AM

Wow, that's kind of dissapointing for the people who like to be in the Game Corner. Of course I don't really go to the Game Corner but it is kind of sad for the people who actually love to go there.

templekeeper May 24th, 2009 11:50 AM

This is the closest to hilarious pokemon has been to in a while. You can buy and overdose your pokemon on non-OTC drugs but not play slot machines?

Furanty May 24th, 2009 12:40 PM

You can still buy coins and get the Corner's items. But wasn't there a move obtainable by playing on a slot machine?

Pingouin_7 May 24th, 2009 1:47 PM

That is stupid, removing it because of "legal age."
There's many people that are over the legal age that play Pokémon... I am not at the legal age of going to the Casino and I don't wanna go spend all my money at the casino when I'll be able to go to it...

Also, it was available in the GBA, GBC and Diamond/Pearl versions of the game in Europe, so why should they suddently change it to unavailable in Platinum?

demonmike May 24th, 2009 1:49 PM

What the... Christ I'm swearing but I know I cant write it.

This is absolutely terrible. This is just telling me I should no longer wait for release in the UK and just import from the US. I did it for Diamond, I should of done the same but no I gave in and thought I should support Nintendo's european division.

What a mistake this is sounding..hopefully this isnt true.

Edit: Complaint email sent to Nintendo of Europe. Although it'l definitely do nothing, this needs to be vented. I'm now importing all first party games from this day on.

giradialkia May 24th, 2009 3:11 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonmike (Post 4672111)
What the... Christ I'm swearing but I know I cant write it.

This is absolutely terrible. This is just telling me I should no longer wait for release in the UK and just import from the US. I did it for Diamond, I should of done the same but no I gave in and thought I should support Nintendo's european division.

What a mistake this is sounding..hopefully this isnt true.

Edit: Complaint email sent to Nintendo of Europe. Although it'l definitely do nothing, this needs to be vented. I'm now importing all first party games from this day on.

Bang on, good for you. That's ridiculous. I can't believe it.. Crap, they may do this for HG/SS. For christ's sake this is stupid.. I can't afford to blow all my money on coins i could win in the first place..
Tbh i never used the game corner much, but this is too far, many of us have been playing since the start, and are now approaching the legal age- what the heck, they're going backwards... *furious*

TigerSwift May 24th, 2009 3:19 PM

I hope this isn't true for the UK version because I am quite a fan of the games corner; remember it from Red and Yellow where i would spend ages saving up for the rare pokemon on offer!

Even though it has kind of fallen out of favour in my pearl game i still go there now and again to play for a few thousand coins now and again until i built up my total to buy something. I am too busy spending all my money on pokeballs anyway!

Bah - ranty emails and letters will be send if they have changed it.

Niprop May 24th, 2009 4:45 PM

...:shocked:

How... could they? They better not do this to HG/SS!

*Hides in box in Rocket Game Corner*

bobandbill May 24th, 2009 10:28 PM

Oh dear. Either it's censorship gone wrong, someone's 'bright' idea, or maybe somehow problems came up with it just before so they had to do a quick 'fix' - but I doubt that, considering it's pretty much the same as DP. =/

In Australia, even for DP the game's rating got bumped up a touch (to G8+ or something) due to the game corner, but I don't believe it was taken out. Which makes WAY more sense than taking out the minigame itself. Sure, it's a minor part of the game, but nonetheless a minigame which can offer some entertainment to people. And I do recall the move Explosion being obtainable from getting 10 straight 'wins' with it... how does that work out now? =/

My condolances to you if it's the case.

kittenpuncher May 24th, 2009 11:10 PM

This is why I like America: I can pretty much make a statement about anything I hate!
...But Obama seems to want to get rid of that.

Ineffable~ May 24th, 2009 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by demonmike (Post 4672111)
This is absolutely terrible. This is just telling me I should no longer wait for release in the UK and just import from the US. I did it for Diamond, I should of done the same but no I gave in and thought I should support Nintendo's european division..

Irony. Not only did it blow up in your face, but the U.S. division is merging with the European division anyway... harsh.

.:Kanto:. May 25th, 2009 12:09 AM

Just checked my AUS version and I can still use the slot machines..phew...

Andrew McKenzie May 25th, 2009 1:59 AM

Well, I'm in Ireland, so i got the UK version obviousely and all is well with the slots here.
Strange.

fenyx4 May 25th, 2009 4:06 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by MetalMario (Post 4671406)
This is ridiculous. Can you at least still buy the coins or are you forever stiffed out of being able to buy those TMs?

They could've at least replaced it with a non-gambling-based minigame. Heck, they should offer something like that in ALL countries! The slots are annoying but necessary.

Man, that sucks! This is ridiculous! Condolences to the Europeans...

I hope Nintendo of America doesn't get any ideas of this for "censoring"...granted, I don't play the Slot Machines that much, but they're still a nice diversion from the main game at times. And some fans might prefer them more, as well. Eliminating their usage simply forces players to earn more money to buy Coins they easily could've won.

I'm surprised U.S. Pokemon games can even have fully operational Game Corners in the first place; you'd think they'd be edited due to the gambling similarity. And then some random person tries to sue NoA years down the road since gambling was "supposedly" caused by Pokemon's Game Corners, similar to those people who sued NoA because the Pokemon TCG was responsible for gambling addiction or something similar a few years back. Yeah, right.
The Game Corners should just be left intact. Or replace them with mini-games, at the very least. If you censor something as trivial as this, you might as well censor the whole game since "apparently" it encourages little kids to go on trips alone, as well as throwing balls at animals.

Lastly, you don't "censor" something like this if it has remained intact for a long time without trouble. It's a few years too late, Nintendo of Europe. Just let kids fully enjoy the freaking game!

demonmike May 25th, 2009 5:51 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lilbittygøat (Post 4673953)
Irony. Not only did it blow up in your face, but the U.S. division is merging with the European division anyway... harsh.

Your kidding me. Oh for christs sake, its a good thing I'm learning Japanese (but at a very slow pace mind), this is all going totally wrong, hopefully Platinum will be my last english Pokemon adventure..

~*!*~Tatsujin Gosuto~*!*~ May 25th, 2009 6:44 AM

sucks for you guys,
I've always bough coins because to me its cheaper to buy coins rather then wasting money to win coins to get prizes


:t354:TG

Zelda May 25th, 2009 6:47 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ~*!*~Queen Boo~*!*~ (Post 4674868)
sucks for you guys,
I've always bough coins because to me its cheaper to buy coins rather then wasting money to win coins to get prizes


:t354:TG

Yeah it sort of does, but they could buy the US version of the game. Although I would only hope many people don't care about it much because if they did and they really liked the place, they'd be upset and it would be a waste of money to some people.

Glaceon_ May 25th, 2009 8:25 AM

Its quite a stupid removal from the games, if you ask me, when there are more pressing things to be concerned about when it comes to gaming. Not to mention that the suggestive texts are still in the game. "You could win it big or lose everything!" or something along those lines.

By the way, does anyone else find it a little ironic that they're 'suggesting' that gambling is a bad thing, but promoting scrounging around and stealing winnings that people have earned, but forgotten about? Hey kids, gambling is bad, but 'stealing' is good for you! Come back tomorrow, and maybe you can 'steal' some more!"

I expect a lot of backlash from this removal to the point where Nintendo don't remove the slots from the European version of HG/SS. If they do remove it from the European versions of the games, I'll be purchasing nothing but the American releases, since it seems they don't plan on removing it from those. (I don't care too much about the Game Corner, but I do like to occasionally play around in there; glad I bought a US Platinum...)


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