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Aw man, Pearl back in the day was AMAZING! 8D
So many legends in the post game to hunt down.... trainers to rebattle... the Poketch... CONTESTS. And breeding things to trade online and over the GTS... and of course, the Casino! sad that we'll probably never see it again... >^< |
I love things about Platinum that there isnt in other games.. I restarted the game years ago but have not gotten the chance to replay it! Pearl was my firsrt ds game i had ever gotten so it felt so cool to play through gen 4 on pearl with Shinx and my Piplup, and exploring a new world for the first time since emerald. i miss that adventurous feeling and i dont get that anymore when i play the newer games!
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I missed only one thing in D\P\Pt. If it was a third person game. A little more graphiced and more well featured.
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I miss the feel to these games overall. Platinum still holds the position of my all-time fave Pokemon game. '09 was such a fun year largely because of all the fun I had Wifi battling and getting into EVing and competitive play for the first time. I fondly recall the late nights sitting in the Wifi room, chillin' to the relaxing tune of the Night variant of the PC theme waiting for friends to join, seeing that room get bigger and bigger as I met and added more friends.
The community was so big back then; they were everywhere. Back when YouTube didn't totally suck, there were people all over there that you could meet and trade/battle with. The online battle frontier is something that 6th gen needs badly. 5th gen just didn't have near the same charm to it, the online felt like such a night-and-day difference. |
The thing I miss from D/P/PL is the contests
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I miss going underground and digging for shards, stones, fossils and that sort of thing. I could waste hours at a time down there.
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miss the underground, saved me numerous times for evo stones, as well as the music track (Sendoff spring track gave me chills). also daimond was my first pokemon game, so im kind of attached to this generation
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While Diamond and Pearl had some issues, they're still memorable because they introduced Wi-Fi and online trading/battling, so I definitely can't say they're nothing.
Platinum, with the Battle Frontier, its awesome variety and plenty of fun battles throughout the main story, and Dawn's snowy outfit, are definitely things i'll remember it for. :) |
I, for one, miss the time period of Gen 4 (2006-2010). Only a few years ago, but still some good times. It was a very good part of my life: Red Sox winning the World Series, Celtics winning a Championship, Patriots going >18-1. However off-topic this is, I just wanted to share it.
Wifi Battling became my favorite thing to do. I'd assemble my team and fight randoms from an internet chatroom. There was no better feeling than defeating someone online!!! I also loved the Battle Tower, though I prefer the Gen 3 Battle Frontier (Thank you Platinum for bringing the Frontier back!). I almost forgot, the GTS was awesome! It also gave me my competitive team. I was so excited for Platinum that I bought it in Japanese off EBay (Well worth it). I loved the revived Day/Night System, the different soundtracks to accomodate for Day and Night, and the upgraded overworld graphics. Gen 4 had some of my favorite Pokemon overall (Weavile, Azelf, Porygon-Z)and gave some much-needed evolutions (Mismagius, Probopass, PoryZ again, Gliscor) which gave some usage to otherwise forgettable Pokemon. There are some aspects to Gen 4 that I don't miss, but overall I liked it very much. There's no bad generation for Pokemon. |
I miss the soundtrack and the overall feel of the game. I still remember guessing what the Gen 4 English names were going to be.
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The VS. Seeker. I loved rematching people and rebattling their leveled-up team!
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I miss HGSS a lot more than the Sinnoh games. Although a lot of the interface changes it brought are now present in X & Y. (Pokedex layout for example)
I don't really have the strongest "bond" with the Sinnoh region. |
Oh, how do I miss the fossil and treasure digging, build your "secret base" in the Sinnoh Undergroud to fill it with awesome stuff, and how could I forget about the nice challenges to get the legendaries such as the Distortion World (platinum)?
I really missed the Pokeradar too, until it returned in Gen.6 to piss you off most of the time, but still, yay! The shiny hunt continues once more! |
I still play them sometimes, for getting pokemons to generation V. So I can get them on my pokebank :)
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The OST, mostly, especially earlygame. I lived tracks like Route 1, Sandgem, and Jubilife. They just perfectly described the tone of the game. Back animations were cool, too.
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2 things I miss about this gen: The Underground and Game Corner. I could spend a long time in the Underground looking for shards, stones and plates. The Game Corner in gen 4 was the best by far. There was never a time where my coins were reduced to zero.
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Diamond and Pearl were my first Pokémon games (if you only count the main additions - I also had Pokémon Ranger). So, Sinnoh will always have a place in my heart that only it can fill.
The story was actually the thing I miss because it was pretty in-depth if you thought about it and talked to all the NPC's. Cyrus actually had a family and everything that he abandoned on a search for power. Then, the whole thing with Charon and Rotom was memorable. Team Galactic also seemed threatening (unlike other antagonists). I dunno. More recent games seem to throw out dull storylines with evil groups that are barely worthy of the title "thugs". |
Pokeradar & Poketech I want that stuff back I wonder why they took that stuff out.
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^ They brought the Pokeradar back, actually.
I am actually hard pressed to think of something I want to return from DPPt...so I looked at other posts and some of you mentioned the Vs. Seeker and I would definitely agree with that. One of my favorite items in Pokemon, honestly. It makes grinding and such much easier and I don't understand why it hasn't been brought back. Of course, it started in gen III but...it's all I could think of. And some Poketch apps were cool. I liked being able to check friendship and keep tabs on my team in the bottom screen. |
The Distortion World.
It was an extremely unique place to me, how it was a puzzling and mysterious area, that had an odd effect on the Legendary Pokemon known as Giratina. I loved the feel of the area. Ominous, unknown, leaving you wanting to delve into it more, to both find the Pokemon that awaits, and to just find out more about this odd area. |
I miss the party screen of the Poketch. I know that's a really specific thing, but I do a lot of item farming, and it was very convenient to just touch the screen to see if any of my Linoone had activated Pickup after the last battle.
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I miss the "VS Seeker" and the Stark Mountain theme - it was so funky. The music was awesome in 4th Gen !
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I don't miss playing them or anything about them. Gen 4 is without a doubt my least favorite. So slow, so bland. If anything, I miss contests, I actually really enjoy them.
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The casino I liked that place the games now (voltorb flip was the one I played) are waaaaay harder
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I lost pearl and traded in diamond without quite completing them, and recently have really wanted to play them again, therefore I went on to Amazon yesterday and Diamond should be with me tomorrow to thursday. I miss so much of those two games and can't wait to start playing again :)
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