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Pokemon Diamond & Pearl 10 years anniversary (US)

Still my least favorite games. Boring map design, pathetically small regional dex, especially dumb villain team, forgettable gym leaders, etc etc. Platinum was a big step up though.

Hoping they don't pull an ORAS with the gen 4 remakes and leave out the Platinum improvements.
 
Delaney said:
Congrats on being the worst games in the series, Diamond and Pearl, but at the same time you are one of the games that I spent the most time on.
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Nah, X/Y is still way worse than some lag and people pissing themselves because a popular type was underrepresented.
 
The first game in the series to disappoint me. Didn't even bother replaying it like I usually do with Pokemon.

But the Third version was great, fixed a ton of my problems with the originals. Although my dislike of the region makes unable to go back to Platinum.

Still, loved the split of Special and physical because it never made sense to me how Alakazam could cause more damage Fire Punching then Hitmonchan
 
Imported and beat in Japanese and then replayed again in English. Japanese version was still worth it for the event pokemon exploits.
 
Platinum was the ultimate third version.

The 4th generation is my favourite after RBY/GSC and has a certain 'magic' for me that Pokemon has been unable to make me feel since.
 
GoldStarz said:
Nah, X/Y is still way worse than some lag and people pissing themselves because a popular type was underrepresented.
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X and Y are the first true 3D games in the series though, they win a lot of points with people for that. Plus the online features were good, they introduced the much-needed fairy type, and some people really love megas.
 
Kindekuma said:
God, are you serious? 10 years? Where did the time go?

I've got like 400 hours in Diamond, I love that game to death.
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Out of all the Pokemon games that I have played thus far, Diamond is the one where I have literally logged on hundreds of hours. It was back during a time when the only other system we had was a Wii. Hours were spent breeding Pokemon as well as trading through the franchise's first GTS. Back then you could still clone and I still have a few shiny Regice with me after all this time.

Even more playtime was had when I registered my teams into Pokemon Battle Revolution. A lot of fun times were had using the cute pink haired girl to beat up entire teams of legendaries online.
 
I gave Diamond three seperate tries and for the life of me, I could never finish it. Maybe it was coming off Hoenn's amazing region (so much adventure!), but hardly anything about it clicked with me. I always forget most of the Pokemon from those games, too.

Thankfully, B/W and even X/Y were big step-ups, but now I'm struggling with Sun. :(
 
Best gen. Chimchar is the GOAT starter. Diamond & Pearl were great by themselves but Platinum is on a league of its own. Also coolest Champion.
 
Damn, cant believe its been 10 years.


This was like a new chapter of my life when this game came out.


I remember buying the Nintendo DS Lite and this game together at my local frys....good times.


Sadly, its my least favorite gen in the series lol. Despite that, loved the new features especially the online trading/GTS, etc.


I plan to play Platinum, hopefully its better than my experience with Diamond version.
 
I skipped Gold/Silver and had just finished playing Sapphire when Diamond was coming out, so the graphic change took a bit to get used to but eventually came to love the aesthetics of the game, becoming one of my favorites.

However, I rocked a badass Torterra my first playthrough but the fire types in the game were garbage (had to settle for Rhapidash) I replayed it again starting with Chimchar and had an absolute blast my second go-around.

Great game and feel is under appreciated.
 
10 years?

God, time flies. I remember my sister getting a DS and this game, and me mostly playing the game, ultimately getting Dialga, Regigas, Heatran, the three Spirits as my team. I remember capturing a level 3 Starly and evolving that thing into a level 70-something Staraptor. I mourn the day I lost my DS in New Zealand along with that game. So, yeah, if you found a Nintendo DS in New Zealand about 8 years ago, that thing's mine.
 
platinum was great, dawn is best PC

HG/SS are the absolute best pokemon games ever so thank this gen for that

gen 4 is the last time i genuinely enjoyed and played thoroughly through pokemon games. maybe its just me.

also cynthia is goat

oh yeah also gen 4 had the physical/special split iirc, which basically means it finally fixed the dumbass mechanics of pokemon games and made a ton more things viable. all the major gameplay changes after that like hidden abilities, megas, z moves etc all kinda dont make me want to play. i feel like gen 4 was just where everything came together, and maybe heartgold and soulsilver are simply the last word in pokemon for me
 
I didn't like this entry. I don't even remember why but I stopped playing it midway through and figured that maybe I was just done with Pokémon. Came back with X/Y though.
 
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defend this atheists
 
MaximumSpider said:
Well shit. I remember asking for it on my birthday back when I just turned 12. Time flys fast.
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I was also 12 back then. Time flies...
It was the first Pokemon game I got at launch and I even bought the official guide. And was the first Pokemon game I didn't finish because I lost my copy on a trip...
 
The game's opening theme was the most epic the series has ever gotten.

I also miss the piano and jazz. Mt Coronet's music, my lord.
 
Excellent Pokemon designs, excellent gameplay changes (Special/Physical split!), excellent music, but kind of a forgettable and slow game.

Also the hype building up to this game was legendary.
 
They gave me Piplup, Togekiss and so many more. Cold region and Cynthia... Can't ask for more! Can only imagine how glorious the remakes will be on Switch :Q
Easily the gen I've played the most. The pre-release period was magic.
 
Diamond and Pearl were shit tier gameplay wise but Platinum redeemed them to become one of the best titles period. Loved everything about them minus the unplayability
 
DP were the first Pokemon games I played on release date, I even went to Nintendo World to get it early. I love Sinnoh and I'm glad they did the RSE remakes before the DP remakes so the DP remakes can be in full 3D and not trash. The music is so good too, the route themes are fantastic. Probably the best in the series.
 
Platinum is still my most favorite Pokemon game, loved all of the characters and while the setting wasn't my favorite, it was still pretty good. Had some rather cool Pokemon designs too. I would welcome a remake
 
I had played quite a bit of this on a ROM before the release, but I'll never forget me and my idiot friends going to pick this up at Walmart at Midnight on release because it was the only store that was open for it (that I knew of at the time).

Gen 4 was phenomenal because I loved the (perma)evolutions of older Pokemon, finally giving some of them use for once. One of my favorite generations (mostly due to HG/SS), but Sinnoh as a whole was aight.
 
I have a weird kind of special attachment to gen 4 and I really dig the jazzy soundtrack. Diamond was the first game I played in Japanese. I'm really looking forward to the probably inevitably disappointing remakes.

Hot Coldman said:
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Lickilicky bothers me because it looks more like a pre-evo than an evo.
 
It's interesting; Diamond & Pearl are simultaneously the main entries that are most in need of a remake, yet the entries whose inevitable remake could not instill any less interest. Part of that stems from the vanilla versions being outright awful, a tedious slog with lacklustre animation and music (save for the Champion's theme being, arguably, the best in the entire series) whose best moments came from paying homage to better entries in the series that had the worst native Dex that somehow managed to make its odd decision to limit a significant amount to the post-game portion of the game all the worse by locking off certain Pokémon to those who owned a copy of various Gen III cartridges. Part of it may be due to how much time I spent playing the 4th generation as a whole, the Sinnoh entries in particular: Pokémon Diamond remains the game i've poured the most hours into both collectively and for a single playthrough while Gen IV remains the only time I bought every entry in the usual trio of generational releases, with thousands of hours spread out between experimenting with different teams and playing with friends in tournaments we would host across the summer, keeping tracking of scores across seasons and seeing who would be the best by the end. Given how long i've played each of them, how many fond memories my experience with these games forged, not to mention how much the metagame has changed since then-top tier Pokémon like Electivire and Staraptor were introduced, I don't imagine a remake will ever be able to wash out the bad taste the original games themselves left without a serious overall nor will the multiplayer be able to capture that sense of community and belonging Diamond & Pearl gave.

P.S. Platinum is still garbage. Adding in a few more Pokémon and a new setting with some interesting visuals but continuing the tedious exploration does not a good purchase make...although it does help make it slightly more palatable. Also Heartgold/SoulSilver are weighed down by Gen IV, not enhanced by it.
 
Shit, I replayed it last year. Damn it, i'm going to count it as an anniversary playthrough. Generation 4 had a rocky start with DP, but Pt really smoothed the ugly bits. Gen 4 definitely marks a big improvement towards story, music, and atmosphere in Pokemon. Also, multiplayer connectivity and such. But, really, some of the best moments in Pokemon occur in Generation 4 and after playing a romhack of Platinum (and one of each in the whole series) last year, the generation also has some of the best conflicts in the series. Such an awesome region that you can tell was designed with a lot of care and attention. Generation 4 was a sign that the games would just keep getting better and better, as it was a huge step up from Hoenn and Unova was an even greater improvement.
 
Sapphire may have been my first Pokemon game I ever played, but Diamond was my first new Pokemon game as a fan of the series, and I absolutely adore it. I still can't believe I was eleven when this came out; time flies.

The best starter trio overall for any game in the series in my book; the Turtwig, Piplup, and Chimchar lines are all awesome. DP also introduced a number of my all time favorites: Lucario, Luxray, Gallade, Toxicroak, Staraptor, Drifblim, Garchomp, Dusknoir, Dialga, Giratina, Darkrai, the aformentioned starters, the list goes on and on.

Sinnoh is my favorite region geographically. The jazzy soundtrack. The Champion. The Graphics. Getting legendaries at events.
The day/night cycle blew my young mind too along with the different themes for locations depending on the time of day, but I didn't know Pokemon had already done that at the time, haha. One downside of coming in at Sapphire.

I am eagerly awaiting the remakes so I can go back to where my love of Pokemon truly began.
 
While I love D/P/Pt, the true winner and GOAT of Pokemon games (though Sun and Moon are super closely tied in my opinion) are Pokemon HeartGold and SoulSilver.

The best of the best.
 
Every playthrough of a gen iv pokemon game i've ever done ends with a bloodbath in the elite four. I have on idea why. I think when I played Platinum last year it was better but I definitely remember Pearl after release was bad and Diamond last year before Platinum came down to a certain pokemon not using an attack blocking me from using items.
 
ar4757 said:
Sinnoh is
tied for
best region
with Hoenn
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These two regions felt like they had a theme to them without resorting to the foreign country thing like Gen V and onwards would

I love how swampy/secluded Hoenn is and how rustic/snowy Sinnoh is
 
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