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4th Gen Pokemon Diamond is.. slow?

After only playing the ADV. Games (which are quicker compared to DP) and Pt. and HG, I found it a huge pain to help my brother with Diamond. ANd the surfing speed... oh my gosh ! T_T
 
I knew that eventually they would release a sister game in the Sinnoh series so I decided to wait. So essentially I went straight from FireRed to Platinum and LORD was there a speed change.

Wild Pokémon encounters take such a long time (though still quicker than the GB and GBC versions), but what really got me was the walking speed. No wonder they turned on running in buildings because it would take you on average about three weeks to traverse the Pokémon Centre. Surfing speed was the same issue. I've heard of pleasure cruising but COME ON!

Another thing which they've addressed in HG/SS (sort of) is the HP bar - if you have a level 100 battle in the Advance games and use a KO move, the bar would go down in about 4 - 5 seconds. If you tried that in D/P/Pt you would need a calendar to chart it's progress:

Blastoise used Fissure!

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*A Geological Age passes*

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... It's a One-Hit KO! -- "NO KIDDING!!"

[/rant] I should have my own column. :)

Oh by the way - saving in Platinum takes an entire Moon Cycle to complete.
 
Hated it. =P And when you Surf it's slow also. UCK. Glad they made it fast again in Platinum+. I think R/S/E had the fastest gameplay.
 
Being that diamond and pearl were the first pokemon games for the nintendo ds.Platinum,SS & HG are all way better due to they were able to perfect the issues that came up in diamond and pearl.
 
shella said:
Hi, you can make battles faster by turning off Battle Animations in options and making the text speed "fast".
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Doesn't really help. I did all that, and Pearl is still too slow for my tastes. I'm tapping the A button to get to the next screen, or just sitting back waiting for something to happen.

But they were the first games to have what they have in terms of graphics and whatever else went on in the background. Of course they're going to be kind of slow.
 
Had a little look on Bulbapedia at the Ruby and Sapphire article and I found an interesting note which may partly explain why the Gen IV games seem slower than Gen III:

Bulbapedia said:
These were the first Pokémon games to have a framerate of 60. This change carried over to FireRed, LeafGreen, and Emerald. However, the framerate was downgraded to 30 in the Generation IV games.
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https://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Pokémon_Ruby_and_Sapphire_Versions

For those of you who don't know, "framerate" or "frames per second" (fps) is the amount of times the picture you see is updated within a second. For example, if a movie was show at 15 fps, then you will get a new frame 15 times each second. Crucially, the higher the framerate, the smoother the video appears to be.

Since Gen III is running at 60 fps, it is going to look smoother and faster in comparison to Gen IV, which only runs at 30 fps. The reason for the switch could be the inclusion of 3D graphics in Gen IV - the DS is not a very powerful console, and it might not be able to cope with rendering that many 3D objects at once at 60 fps.

Just a thought. ;)
 
Thats why I play other games while i play diamond! or watch a movie etc....
 
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