Pokemon Platinum

[neo2046]

Pokemon Platinum is announced
it is revealed in the latest issue of Coro Coro Magazine
the game is scheduled to be released in Fall 2008

[Cosmonaut X]

posted?

Ooh... Pearl/Diamond/Platinum?

[Pureauthor]

Yes. Yes.

YES.

Edit: Wait a tick - doesn't this count as a scan? YOU SAW NOTHING

[angelfly]

Isn't this one some sort of expansion?

[nubbe]

FUCK YEAH!!!!

I hope they offer better online trading this time

[DeathbyVolcano]

Par for the course I guess. A third game after the pair of games that is basically the same game.

I might bite.

[gdt5016]

Bye.

[Costanza]

no scans dude

[Guybrush Threepwood]

I hope they make a radical change like they did with Yellow.

By the way, this isn't a scan. He clearly took a picture of the magazine with a camera.

[Leezard]

Quick! Remove it!

In other news, great news.

I hope they make a radical change like they did with Yellow. By the way, this isn't a scan. He clearly took a picture of the magazine with a camera.

I would assume that everything similar to scans was banned. I mean, what kind of rule is it if you can bypass it by not using a scanner?

[neo2046]

no scans dude

removed, thanks

[hirokazu]

no scans dude

Quick, edit!

Thanks for the confirm of this game anyways.

[Mr. Pointy]

This was to be expected. And Platinum makes sense in many ways.

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Monster Hunter Portable 2G Vs. Pokemon Platinum

Round 1

Decide The Destiny

[neo2046]

del

[Cosmonaut X]

del

Done just before you posted ;-)

[Chris Michael]

um...

if you don't mind me asking, do they say anything about Paper Mario for the DS?

[DrForester]

Did they show who's on the cover?

[DeathbyVolcano]

um... if you don't mind me asking, do they say anything about Paper Mario for the DS?

Let it go man. I feel your pain, but let it go.

[Chris Michael]

Did they show who's on the cover?

It's probably Arceus.

Giratina.

Oh.

[Pureauthor]

Did they show who's on the cover?

Giratina.

It's probably Arceus.

Cold day in Mount Gulgur before that happens.

[Vic]

Pokemon Platinum is announced it is revealed in the latest issue of Coro Coro Magazine the game is scheduled to be released in Fall 2008

Any info about the new features that this game will offer?

[Soneet]

If it's still 2D... no thanks.

[hirokazu]

Any info about the new features that this game will offer?

The pic was a blurry small res camera (phone?) image, so we can't see shit except that it said Pocket Monsters Platinum :/

If it's still 2D... no thanks.

Err, have you played or seen videos of Diamond/Pearl? This is the rehash edition, so it's exactly the same - 2D sprites in 3D overworld, 2D in battles.

3D battles may be cool and all, but the console Pokeman games have shown them to be slow and stupid once you get over them. That wouldn't be much of a problem if they let you skip the text/animations, of course, but they never figured that out for, what, 6 iterations now?

[batbeg]

Yay! Been waiting for a while for this one, as I knew it was inevitable

[Chemo]

um... if you don't mind me asking, do they say anything about Paper Mario for the DS?

Oh my fucking god.

It was fake.

[Mithos Yggdrasill]

Pokemon Platinum is announced it is revealed in the latest issue of Coro Coro Magazine the game is scheduled to be released in Fall 2008

Nice announce, but the title of the thread is tricky. It would have been better "Pokémon Platinum announced for DS"

[Soneet]

Err, have you played or seen videos of Diamond/Pearl? This is the rehash edition, so it's exactly the same - 2D sprites in 3D overworld, 2D in battles. 3D battles may be cool and all, but the console Pokeman games have shown them to be slow and stupid once you get over them. That wouldn't be much of a problem if they let you skip the text/animations, of course, but they never figured that out for, what, 6 iterations now?

Oh, it's one of those.

Well, I still haven't figured out why Nintendo never used the Golden Sun engine for Pokemon. It basically works the same but the camera angles add a lot to the game and that game is still fast. With the DS the same method can easily be achieved with 3D models of course.

[hirokazu]

Oh, it's one of those. Well, I still haven't figured out why Nintendo never used the Golden Sun engine for Pokemon. It basically works the same but the camera angles add a lot to the game and that game is still fast. With the DS the same method can easily be achieved with 3D models of course.

Yeah, and one of the awesome things aside from that crazy battle engine running on GBA was the fact that if you held down A, the battle text just flies by completely. It certainly took out some of the hassle of level grinding, and completely cheating the random number generator to get rare items :P

I'd be all for a 3D battle engine if they did that, but even the 2D Pokemon battles on the handhelds are slow as fuck, after the animations and all that have been turned off.

[JonathanEx]

MEGATOh wait even a blind person could see this coming

[cvxfreak]

Awesome.

[DXB-KNIGHT]

Will it have major changes and new things like the fake OPAL news suggested or will it be on par of yellow/crystal/emerald.

[Wii]

They should make 'Pokemon Plutonium' and 'Pokemon Uranium' next

[Stumpokapow]

I'd only even consider this if they massively increased the game speed. Pokemon DP was, for me, the worst installment of the series because everything just felt so slow. The overworld was the worst part--the 3d engine didn't really make the game particularly better looking, but it sure made the game clunkier.

[hirokazu]

Will it have major changes and new things like the fake OPAL news suggested or will it be on par of yellow/crystal/emerald.

Green/Red -> Blue (-> Yellow)
Gold/Silver -> Crystal
Ruby/Sapphire -> Emerald
Diamond/Pearl -> Platinum

It should be pretty obvious that there'll be a rehash with minimal changes to the game's system before they make the next generation with new things here and there...

Afterall, it has to be kept compatible with the other games in it's generation.

[dawnXjustice]

This and Dragon Quest IX both in the second half of 2008? PSP had a good run.

[Crushed]

They totally messed that up.

Platinum is what everyone thought Crystal would have been named (and rightly so).
And Crystal should have been this gen's "third version."

Red/Green/Blue/Yellow
Gold/Silver/Platinum
Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald
Diamond/Pearl/Crystal

See? That's so much better than "Gold/Silver/Crystal" or "Diamond/Pearl/Platinum."

[AniHawk]

This and Dragon Quest IX both in the second half of 2008? PSP had a good run.

The DS and the PSP stopped competing over 2 years ago.

[Pureauthor]

I played my cousin's Diamond version for like 5 minutes and I was 'Is everything supposed to be so slow'?

[Crushed]

I played my cousin's Diamond version for like 5 minutes and I was 'Is everything supposed to be so slow'?

I played it on a demo station and immediately WTF'd at the walking speed and strange button lag. Totally killed all the reanimated hype I had for the series.

[XxenobladerxX]

Will there be new pokemanz?

[painey]

its a shame that cheating on DS carts are so easy due to piracy, because it made an incredible feature like online trading redundant with everyone using cloned monsters.

[dawnXjustice]

The DS and the PSP stopped competing over 2 years ago.

I meant this year. :P

Are the other leaked details legit?

[Mithos Yggdrasill]

The DS and the PSP stopped competing over 2 years ago.

.

[GhaleonQ]

Oh, man. The Pokefever is gripping me again. ...Maybe just malaria.

[hirokazu]

They totally messed that up. Platinum is what everyone thought Crystal would have been named (and rightly so). And Crystal should have been this gen's "third version." Red/Green/Blue/Yellow Gold/Silver/Platinum Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald Diamond/Pearl/Crystal See? That's so much better than "Gold/Silver/Crystal" or "Diamond/Pearl/Platinum."

:0 They're probably calling this one Platinum to correct the previous imbalance... yeah.

[Mithos Yggdrasill]

They should make 'Pokemon Plutonium' and 'Pokemon Uranium' next

Pokémon Diphenyl Phosphoryl azide. The game where you collect molecules.

Pokémon Grignard: in this version every battle is a reaction.

[temjin]

i guess some info breakdown (not confirmed) from serebii:

* Pokémon Platinum, set for September release. Giratina on the box
* Volkner no longer gym leader of Sunyshore City
* The Underground is now Wi-Fi enabled
* An island called Battle Island, works in the same manner as the Battle Frontier
* Several new Pokémon 'forms' exist in the game; Giratina's Origin Form, Regigigas' Sky Form, Shaymin's Another Form
Edit @ 13:56 BST: Thanks to slowkingsley on the forums, we have some further info regarding these translated. Giratina & Regigigas' new forms are said to be able to get the Levitate ability and Shaymin's Another form may be at least part Ice Type

Well, on a Japanese wiki, the first image from what appears to be the next CoroCoro has arrived. This single page scan shows Pokémon Platinum (confirmed as the name, although technically the Katakana says Platina, but that is generally the term the Japanese use for Platinum), Giratina in its Origin Form as well as what seems to be a new battle interface and potentially a new costume for the main character in Platinum as we see by the Blue character in front of Origin Giratina's Shadow in the overworld. We're awaiting other scans as well, hopefully to confirm this data as well as the other data we revealed yesterday, when the scans come in bigger size and quality. Here's the current scan for you to look at, however it is not be 100% confirmed yet:



awesome. awesome.

[Pureauthor]

* An island called Battle Island, works in the same manner as the Battle Frontier

Can I get a 'Whoop, whoop!'?

[Echoes]

I'm waiting for Gold\Silver remake, thanks Game Freak.

[LouieGeetoo]

I'm waiting for Gold\Silver remake, thanks Game Freak.

This is what I came in here to post. This news does not excite me at all.