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Old November 8th, 2008 (2:20 PM).
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is it just me or does night, day, and time not as great as in gold sliver and crystal...?

cuz i was playing pearl and i was able to find pokemon that you would think would only come out durring the day, come out quite often at night.

i remember in gold you would wait all day looking for that pokemon that was only late night or get up earily on monday to see what was in the underground goldenrod that day.
and getting angry when you forgot all about the bugcatching contest on tuesday because you REALLY want a syther and to evo it to siczor

there was more of a sence of time in the G/S/C series

but what say you on this topic. agree? disagree?
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Old November 8th, 2008 (2:46 PM).
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I find it stupid that you can find zubat and hoothoot during the day, and starly and bidoof at night. That's really dumb. I liked in g/s you could only get them in one part of the day...
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Old November 8th, 2008 (3:26 PM).
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Yeah, there isn't much specific-time-of-day stuff in DP. Mainly just fighting Joggers and Policemen. A Pokemon that does appear differently at different times is Kricketot. It's common at night, occasional in the morning, and unavailable during the day.

What really bugs me is how they changed the timings for morning, day, and night from GSC. Night used to start at 6PM, now it's at 7 or 8. So that's aggravating.
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Old November 8th, 2008 (6:28 PM).
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and the days of the week i loved that too it was great and events at certain times like capturing lapras if i remember correctly
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Old November 8th, 2008 (7:46 PM).
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The night/day feature was really only added for Diamond & Pearl to justify the Umbreon/Espeon evolutions, and many other things.

I'm sure in later games it will be fixed up.
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Old November 9th, 2008 (2:00 AM).
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Agreed- it was afr better in gold/silver I reckon.
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Old November 9th, 2008 (7:36 AM).
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I find it stupid that you can find zubat and hoothoot during the day, and starly and bidoof at night. That's really dumb. I liked in g/s you could only get them in one part of the day...
what are you talking about? Starlies and Bidoofd are found almost everywhere during the day...for me I only see hoothoot and zubat out and about in the grass during the night......
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Old November 9th, 2008 (8:46 AM).
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I think the night/day feature was severely underused. They should have at least brought back the catching contests! D=
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Old November 9th, 2008 (9:08 AM).
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I agree, the day and night thing is kind of weird in D/P. Plus not many different pokemon come out at the different times. like in crystal version in the morning u would catch a pidgey, then day time u catch a spearow, then at night there are hoothoots, and I think they did better job in those versions than in D/P...
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Yeah, there isn't much specific-time-of-day stuff in DP. Mainly just fighting Joggers and Policemen. A Pokemon that does appear differently at different times is Kricketot. It's common at night, occasional in the morning, and unavailable during the day.

What really bugs me is how they changed the timings for morning, day, and night from GSC. Night used to start at 6PM, now it's at 7 or 8. So that's aggravating.
I believe that is because there are four timestages in D/P/P. G/S/C only had Morning, Day and Night, while Gen IV has evening in there as well.

And I agree, for reasons I can't quite fathom, I preferred the day/night system in Gen II.
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I agree, for whatever reason I like the older generation's night and day system more too. The one for D/P/P is okay but for every step up from the old one there also seems to be a step down.

If that makes sense. >.>;
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I like the fact that D/P/P has 4 times of day, but other then that the GSC version is better


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Old November 11th, 2008 (2:41 PM).
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I agree, for whatever reason I like the older generation's night and day system more too. The one for D/P/P is okay but for every step up from the old one there also seems to be a step down.

If that makes sense. >.>;
lol yeah i understand what you mean

in my opinon G/S/C was the peak of pokemon

now they just made it preety and added wifi and double battles, woo...! >_>

gen II really made you think "if they did this what if they added this too"

you hoped that they would just build and build and build

but for example like from gen II to III they took out the night and day and time exclusive pokemon. That just tore it down!

i know all of you thought when R/S was coming out it would still have night and day but make it even BETTER than before.

I know I did
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Old November 11th, 2008 (3:06 PM).
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Yeah like most bug pokemon should come out at night only and zigzagoon.
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I'd have to agree... I mean, there's the Drifloon thing on Friday... umm... not much else I can think of as for days of week. As for the time thing, starting so much later annoyed me enough to change the actual time on my DS to an hour later... even then, though, there's a whole lot of things that could've been added to it. Oh, and the one restaurant being closed at night... meh.
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Yeah I agree with you. Time is less important now.
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Old November 12th, 2008 (5:05 PM).
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I'd have to agree... I mean, there's the Drifloon thing on Friday... umm... not much else I can think of as for days of week. As for the time thing, starting so much later annoyed me enough to change the actual time on my DS to an hour later... even then, though, there's a whole lot of things that could've been added to it. Oh, and the one restaurant being closed at night... meh.
i totally forgot about the whole driffloom thing on fridays

the funny thing was i NEVER saw one untill the end of the game after i beat the E4.

that was the only one i never saw LOL!
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Old November 12th, 2008 (5:59 PM).
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It seems like they tried to use the days a little more in Platinum, with certain trainers in certain PokéCenters on certain days, but that's far from what it could be. The Pokémon Catching Contest in Gold/Silver definitely brought an interesting and entertaining tradition that always kept you interested in what day of the week it was. I also remember waiting until night time to catch Hoot Hoot and Spinarak, while like foullump said, in Diamond/Pearl there seems to be less use of this. Of the 493 Pokémon there are maybe 5(?) that are only caught at night.

Something about Gold/Silver made the entire generation seem godlike. I'm not sure if it's just the plethora of new features brought to Pokémon or what, but GameFreak knew what they were doing back then.
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I don't really care about day/night (I know in GSC it's simpler)... what I really love though are the days of the week.
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I disagree...the DP one is so much better!! The only problem is that the Redness time comes like 1:00 2:00 in the morning or so...:(
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i totally forgot about the whole driffloom thing on fridays

the funny thing was i NEVER saw one untill the end of the game after i beat the E4.

that was the only one i never saw LOL!
Hey, me too! I didn't see Drifloom until after the Elite 4 as well! I thought I was missing Rotom, so I tried to get that, but to no avail. Eventually, I figured out Drifblim had a pre-evolved form, but it took several days before I got Drifloom (Because of the Friday thing).

Back on subject, those wanting the catching contests back are forgetting something: Pal Park. That's a catching contest (of sorts) and DOES involve time (because of having to wait 24 hours to transfer again).
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Old November 13th, 2008 (12:34 PM).
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Hey, me too! I didn't see Drifloom until after the Elite 4 as well! I thought I was missing Rotom, so I tried to get that, but to no avail. Eventually, I figured out Drifblim had a pre-evolved form, but it took several days before I got Drifloom (Because of the Friday thing).

Back on subject, those wanting the catching contests back are forgetting something: Pal Park. That's a catching contest (of sorts) and DOES involve time (because of having to wait 24 hours to transfer again).

haha you may have a point on the 24 hour thing

but thats just one thing and plus if feels so mechanical...

but if they made it so that on sat and sun you could transfer it's be different

in gold there was so meny things that had to do with the days of the week,

like the underground in goldenrod, to get the better haircut brother on monday(i forget what day) so you could evolve your eevee you got from bill into umbreon ,and then you would be able to send your charizard from red version using the time machine you waited a day for just so you could beat the 4th gym. only thing you had no idea how the floors worked

good times....

gold and silver was the PEAK of pokemon.
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What about your birthday setting? That kinda uses time when Dawn/Lucas 'congratulates' you. Yeah, just another small thing that won't matter in the whole picture ('cuz GSC was just that great XD).
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I think the Day/Night factor was really noticeable in the earlier games because of how new and innovative it was back then. Oh the nostalgia... Anyway, in DP it isn't too noticeable I think because of the excellent graphics not letting you notice as much.
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is it just me or does night, day, and time not as great as in gold sliver and crystal...?

cuz i was playing pearl and i was able to find pokemon that you would think would only come out durring the day, come out quite often at night.

i remember in gold you would wait all day looking for that pokemon that was only late night or get up earily on monday to see what was in the underground goldenrod that day.
and getting angry when you forgot all about the bugcatching contest on tuesday because you REALLY want a syther and to evo it to siczor

there was more of a sence of time in the G/S/C series

but what say you on this topic. agree? disagree?
Ahh the good times, Im glad someone brought that up ive been thinking the same thing for a while now the G/S/C Series had it down preaty tight I guess the game creators probably didnt want to hastle the gamer into having to wait god knows how long for a certain pokemon wicth I think is dumb because people love a game thats realistic but finding a hoot-hoot in the morning so easily dosent seem so realistic to me. =/
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