Wow I just got a Wii and its awesome

Which is why serious competitive trainers like me are enjoying the game to its full extent.
 
Serious, Competitive gamers, probably need a job instead of being so serious about pokemon.
 
I have a job, thank you. No need to get into personal details because you have no other comebacks. :P
 
And Pokemon Diamond and Pearl cannot be enjoyed to it's full extent without POkemon Ruby, Sapphire, Fire Red, Leaf Green, Emerald, Colosseum, and XD. Pokemon games build off each other, thank you very much. That doesn't make them any less of a game.
 
No, those games are pretty good all by themselves. You get your basic storyline, some neat pokemon battles, and that's it.

Also, obsession over anything isn't a good idea, so if it's not a job you need, it's probably a girlfriend.
 
Pogiforce's comment on the GBA games is true. You won't be able to complete your collection without the starters and legendaries from the GBA games, and collection is half the game.
 
PLus the original 150 in DP is actually very narrow. only two evolutionary lines of grass pokemon, only two evolutionary lines of fire pokemon, and in both cases one of them is the starter. To me the game became truly incredible when I got the National dex and was able to visit the Battle Island, Pal Park, Spring path, Turn back cave, and all these other areas that are otherwise offlimits. And even then, all that just isn't as much fun limited to what I can catch in the game.
 
Actually, you could complete the collection just by trading. And you can start getting pokemon from different versions without having the national dex, that way. I know because I got a deoxys before getting a national dex.

Also, I'd like to say that in Diamond and Pearl, collection isn't half the game, not until after you get the national dex. Before then, it's a fun game with a pretty good storyline, in comparison to R/B/Y and G/S/C anyway.
 
The storyline is exactly the same. you start training for some old fart in a labcoat, you go for badges, some bad team tries to use pokemon to take over the world while your at it, you kick them in the butt, get a cool legendary out of it, you go fight the E4 and the champion is someone you've seen before, game ends. Pokemon has never had much of a real story. It's always been about training, battling, collecting, and testing it against other people.What makes DP such an awesome game is the fact that you can bring all of the pokemon together into one game, fairly easily. and by fairly easily, I mean by importing them from other games. if you can actually find someone willing to trade you for pokemon like mewtwo, Rayquaza, and such locally, since oyu can't trade over the trade station for pokemon you haven't seen, then I admire your patience. but the rest of us, we like just bringing our pokemon over from our other games, thank you.
 
Yeah, but you don't have to buy 'em - someone else does.

Pogiforce-14 said:
The storyline is exactly the same. you start training for some old fart in a labcoat, you go for badges, some bad team tries to use pokemon to take over the world while your at it, you kick them in the butt, get a cool legendary out of it, you go fight the E4 and the champion is someone you've seen before, game ends. Pokemon has never had much of a real story. It's always been about training, battling, collecting, and testing it against other people.What makes DP such an awesome game is the fact that you can bring all of the pokemon together into one game, fairly easily. and by fairly easily, I mean by importing them from other games. if you can actually find someone willing to trade you for pokemon like mewtwo, Rayquaza, and such locally, since oyu can't trade over the trade station for pokemon you haven't seen, then I admire your patience. but the rest of us, we like just bringing our pokemon over from our other games, thank you.
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No, it's not the same. If you can't possibly see how it's not the same, then you obviously didn't play those titles. Also, I know someone who is willing to trade me a rayquaza right now, and you know where I met him? On a forum on the internet. I didn't need much patience either. I've also come across people who want to trade me Mews and Mewtwo.
Plus, I don't have to know them locally, because you don't have to use the GTS to trade around the world, you just need their friend code.
 
And again, why would someone else trade you for their hard earned Rayquaza/mewtwo, for one of a hundred and fifty pokemon that they can all too easily get for something within reason? Why should they trade you something from an older game that you can't get yourself for something that they can get themselves?
 
Because they enjoy trading/helping people out. Because maybe they're nice people. Also, hard earned anything doesn't mean bull because in Emerald you can very easily clone pokemon and items.
 
I never tried cloning tricks ever since it backfired on me in Gold and I lost my Celebi. Some of us like to actually earn our pokemon the legit way. And all I know is that if you were to ask me to trade you my Groudon for your dialga, I'd think you're off your rocker.
 
Well, I do have a groudon already so...
 
My point is whatever you could possibly offer me, I more than likely already have, or am in the process of getting. And I like doing good business. Good business is not me sacrificing something good for something of lesser rarity. With that in mind, I have a dex of almost four hundred seen, three hundred owned. If you insist on playing DP without the older games, you will never reach even that.
 
Well, that's you. And you fail. Because I reached that, before I beat the elite 4.
 
I got all 380 Pokemon in the GBA games by myself, Pal Parked the highest evolutions, and bred the lower forms to complete my dex. There's a real sense of accomplishment attached to catching them all yourself, rather than just trading in everything because you don't want to play through another game.
 
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