Got a copy of this recently. What am I in for?

Roommate is getting rid of some stuff and gave me this. Haven’t played Pokemon since the GameBoy. Any team suggestions? Any recommendations/tips would be appreciated. I want to 100% complete this but I don’t know what that requires.

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  1. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Peak pokemon.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      FPBP

  2. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    an extremely boring game where you spend 90% of it scrolling through the bag to use repels to turn the game into a walking sim

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      hi yawngay!

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      reminds me of the time some moron posted webms of scrolling through the bag on Ganker and /vp/ without using the fricking wheel lmao

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >some moron posted webms of scrolling through the bag on Ganker and /vp/ without using the fricking wheel
        it’s the same guy

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >dude just awkwardly pull out your stylus to scroll through the dogshit UI lmao
        or I could just play a better game that isn't programmed like shit

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >Hoenntard thinking her game isn't shit too
          Kek!

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >game freak
          >game that isn't programmed like shit
          alright who's gonna tell her

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          I might be misremembering this, but I think if you press Select as if you're about to move the position of an item in the bag, it scrolls way fricking faster than even the wheel, then just press B when you get where you wanted to go so you don't actually move the item. Not an excuse since players shouldn't have to use workarounds like that, but not really a huge criticism if there's an easy way around it.

          Just play the game bro, look stuff up when you're done exploring and shit yourself.

          Taking this approach is always the best, idk why people wanna spoil an easy game for themselves when half of the fun is in the discovery.

          >trade evolution by level and also get all version exclusives in one game
          soulless

          Trade evos should be encouraged but not required. Someone shouldn't be restricted from even having a Machamp because they're playing a near 15 year old game on a now unsupported system. I know at least at some point you could do some DNS frickery or something to connect with other players, but even then, that's an extra hoop that the player has to go through that requires them messing with things that they almost certainly don't actually understand. Version exclusives as they exist are also just an obvious cheap marketing plot; lock the other version's exclusives in the post-game if you really want the story to "feel" different, there's no good reason to lock them out completely unless you're trying to encourage the consumer to buy multiple systems and multiple games to efficiently complete the dex.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            I prefer to know what to look for rather than potentially skipping it so I get it.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              It's not like any of it's gonna "go away," and if you get through the game wishing you had picked up a certain mon, you can start over.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Starting over is quite the overreaction.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            if you want to 100% platinum you should have another DS anyway

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            I don't think select is faster than the ball
            Also trading on emulator is easy, but i agree that trade evos didn't age well, especially those without an item since you pretty much have to restrict yourself to not get for example level 16 Alakazam which is a cheat code in every region

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          bro your balls

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          You can use the D-Pad still you dumb ass

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        I didn't know yawBlack person also browsed Ganker but i guess it makes sense since he's a palhomosexual

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yeah, I've seen him there a couple times even before Palworld became a thing. Kinda shocked me; thought he'd just be a local, but no.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >using the touchscreen

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        The wheel is shit because it's still laggy. You need to hit Select to move an item and then use the wheel to actually make it move faster, which is a moronic thing to have to do every single time. Maybe if the game didn't introduce a billion worthless items like the Lagging Tail and Sticky Barb it'd be quicker to navigate.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >You need to hit Select to move an item and then use the wheel to actually make it move faster
          no, just spin the fricking wheel dude

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      But enough about XY.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      SPBP

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      You do know that you can press select button and arrange the items as you like, don't you, anon?

  3. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Any team suggestions?
    Spritomb, Heracross, Snorlax, Milotic, Honchkrow, Manaphy
    >I want to 100% complete this but I don’t know what that requires.
    All fashion case accessories
    1 of each berry
    All underground base goods
    Master rank at the contests
    All 5 gold prints from the battle frontier
    Living dex
    1 of each in-game ribbon one 1 pokemon
    All poketch apps
    Black trainer card

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      > Spritomb, Heracross, Snorlax, Milotic, Honchkrow, Manaphy
      Lol excellent bait

  4. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >What am I in for?
    the best way to play Sinnoh

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Shining Pearl is better

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        no it isn’t

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Platinum > DP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BDSP

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        We know that you're one person buddy

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Unlike basically all the other remakes the diamond and pearl remakes did literally nothing expect make the aesthetic trash sadly, so, no. Honestly those remakes completely destroyed any hope i had for the pokemon company. Biggest waste of opportunity ever.

  5. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Just play the game bro, look stuff up when you're done exploring and shit yourself.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      "and shit yourself" came out wrong but actually yeah, shit yourself

  6. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Plug it in while playing dream radar for a free giratina

  7. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >100% a legitimate copy of a game that requires both local trading and which has a dead online
    lol
    just emulate/play on a flashcart so you can enable trade evolution by level and also get all version exclusives in one game

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      and so you can use speed up to get past the shitty as frick battle UI.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >trade evolution by level and also get all version exclusives in one game
      soulless

  8. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    All 3 starters are really fricking good, there’s no “wrong” or bad choice out of them. Catch a Bidoof, its evolution Bibarel can learn every HM except for Fly and Defog (because it doesn’t have wings). Moves are now either physical or special based on the attack itself rather than the type (Punch, Claw, Kick moves are physical, Beam, Pulse, Wave moves are special). Lots of older Pokémon got new evolutions making them either even stronger or actually usable (Magneton, Togetic, Sneasel, Piloswine, Gligar, Yanma, and others). If you want to complete the Pokédex in full or at least get some trade evolutions, unless you know someone irl also with a DS and a Gen 4 game, look into Wiimmfi, Kaeru WFC, and Poké Classic Network to basically restore online functionality in the game, Wi-Fi events included.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      > All 3 starters are really fricking good
      lolno
      > there’s no “wrong” or bad choice out of them.
      wrong choice: not releasing them as soon as you get another pokemon

  9. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    A pretty dang good game

  10. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    For 100%, look into the pokeclassic DNS stuff. It lets you access events, gts and other online features, including wifi trades between your copy and an emulated ROM. This is probably the fastest way to get trade evolutions.
    If you don't want to trade with yourself, the Gen 4 GTS is surprisingly active for an unofficial server on an old game. I did several trades in my HG run a few weeks ago, they took a few hours at most.
    If it's not against your rules, you can use this to see the Feebas and Munchlax spots for your save through Pkhex, since they are a b***h to find otherwise.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the Gen 4 GTS is surprisingly active for an unofficial server on an old game
      Is it full of hacked mons like it was back then?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Honestly I don't know because I don't really care about hacks, I only used it to get version exclusives like Vulpix and Meowth and the ones I got are probably legit

  11. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm starting a new Platinum playthrough since people keep recommending this game. I haven't played DPPt before. I hope it's good!

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      this smells like yawnchad
      what are you gonna do, solo the game with empoleon and make a .gif of it?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        If it's him he's just gonna flood this thread with progress pics saying stuff like "Wait, this was supposed to be hard?" because god forbid we have a regular, sane gen 4 thread without him derailing it
        If it's just an innocent anon, then disregard what I said

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        If it's him he's just gonna flood this thread with progress pics saying stuff like "Wait, this was supposed to be hard?" because god forbid we have a regular, sane gen 4 thread without him derailing it
        If it's just an innocent anon, then disregard what I said

        Who's yawnchad? I'm having fun, so far I caught a Starly and Shinx!

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          get a bidoof and load your HMs onto it

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >he's already catching the npc team
          oh no no no sinnohsisters I thought our game had good pokemon distribution and the detractors were wrong?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            god forbids anon catches early game mons in the early game

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              It's yawngay playing with other trolls replying, anon. Don't overthink it

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Yeah i thought it was a normal person at first, i figured when i saw the rest.
                Anyway personally i'm playing emerald, just beat Winona.
                One thing i've noticed is that Emerald seems to level you higher than RS, probably due to all the double battles they added. This makes some literalwho fights in the midgame pretty underleveled, kind of like in GSC

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                posts are all more than a minute apart, dude is talking to himself

  12. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I beat the first gym leader!

  13. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oh boy.

  14. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    rip this thread

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the thread is going to die because someone decided to actually start playing the game people are claiming is the peak
      really makes you think....

  15. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Frick this board and frick you all Black folk, you know who you are. Ban everything about gen 4 and 5 or just nuke it off the site, it's unusable either way

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      lmfao shut the frick up

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's one guy

  16. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    horrible false-flag, itoddler.

    you will never be yawngay

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >y-yawngay!!!
      Go on, try to disprove his arguments. You have been trying for years, maybe this will be the time!

  17. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I beat the first Team Galactic admin!

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Lmaooooooo you also just killed at least one DSgay
      Please go on this is so fricking funny, continue exposing their shit games for what they are!

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      gj

  18. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Throw it in the garbage where it belongs. Do you really want to play it after seeing what it really is?

  19. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    [...]

    >y-yawngay!!!
    Go on, try to disprove his arguments. You have been trying for years, maybe this will be the time!

    Lmaooooooo you also just killed at least one DSgay
    Please go on this is so fricking funny, continue exposing their shit games for what they are!

    Throw it in the garbage where it belongs. Do you really want to play it after seeing what it really is?

    This is what unmedicated personality disorders look like

  20. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I beat the second gym leader!

  21. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >oh no no no sinnohsisters I thought our game had good pokemon distribution and the detractors were wrong?
    Yes.
    No (You) for you btw.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >honey tree pokes
      >trade evo pokes
      >glaceon, mean u held the eevee until the 7th gym
      >rotom formes meaning u hacked the event item in
      >KANTOOO
      Hmmmmmmm

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >NOOOOOOO YOU CAN'T USE HONEY TREES AND TRADES BECAUSE...YOU JUST CAN'T OK?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        tree pokes
        Noooo you can't engage with the game mechanics
        evo pokes
        Noooo you can't have friends
        , mean u held the eevee until the 7th gym
        Noooo you can't use pokemon you like
        formes meaning u hacked the event item in
        sure

        Noooo don't use pokemon from the kanto™ region
        Hmmmmmmm

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        tree pokes
        Combee isn't that uncommon and you can soft reset its gender when you encounter it.
        evo pokes
        I do own a second DS, also it's easy to use the pokemon randomizer to create a rom where trade evos can evolve without trading.
        , mean u held the eevee until the 7th gym
        I had a few mons in rotation, the VS Seeker makes grinding very easy and I stole Lucky Eggs off Chanseys with a Thief Yanma. Platinum's teambuilding is very underrated.
        formes meaning u hacked the event item in
        The mystery gift stuff are all still available with the DNS Exploit.
        https://www.reddit.com/r/wiimmfi/comments/fugd8l/dns_gen_iv_v_events_list_inside/

        Well yes, Golem was easy to slap on in Pearl and I started finding Golduck really cool around this time.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >the second team
      Hello, based department?
      I love how you had both magmortar and electivire

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      kino teams

      >honey tree pokes
      >trade evo pokes
      >glaceon, mean u held the eevee until the 7th gym
      >rotom formes meaning u hacked the event item in
      >KANTOOO
      Hmmmmmmm

      None of these things are bad, the event could be obtained legitimately at the time

  22. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Arbitrary restrictions

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >game arbitrarily restricts me from catching vespuquen because it forces me to wait hours for no reason

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >game rewards people for using its mechanics
        >this is le bad because you can't have the rewards without using the mechanics
        you sound like a vgcheater kek

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Skill issue

  23. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I beat another Galactic Admin!

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Damn playing like a complete moron sure shows us, how EVER shall we recover from this?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        What am I doing wrong? I seem to be doing well so far.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          dont you already have le epic level 90 infernape screenshot you spam?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            Huh? I have no clue what you're talking about. This is the first time I'm playing this game.

            Anyway, I reached Fantina!

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              *yawn*

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              cute ghost. platinum's biggest flaw is removing her from the mon pool

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      good job! proud of you yawnie

  24. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    FPBP

    >seething so hard he rushed and posted the wrong image
    kek

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >seething at a post he agrees with

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        no but you are seething at the replies in this thread which is why you used that image.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          >no but you are [FANFIC]
          oh no yawnbros... not like this

  25. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I love sinnoh

  26. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >Platinum is supposedly slow
    >Anon is already at Fantina
    Hmm anti-DPPT troons I think you have some explaining to do here.

  27. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    I’ll give you some actual answers here
    >base game -> Champion
    Team doesn’t really matter, just use what you find to be cool and start working on your pokedex by catching everything you see
    >100%
    Look into the trainer card stars, they’ll be what you need for 100% completion.
    Hall of Fame
    Easiest one, completed just by playing the game
    rank in contests
    Should be doable, just have to learn how contests work
    >>100 streak in battle tower
    Again, should be doable, just try to find good team compositions on something like smogon forums
    flag in underground
    Not 100% sure about this one, but I think you need another ds and another copy of one of the sinnoh games. You might be able to do this with a used DS Phat and a Japanese copy of diamond or pearl for really cheap
    dex
    Again, you’ll need another ds for trades, but I think you need hgss and even gen 3 games (?) for the regis and dual cartridge exclusives which are expensive. Probably the most expensive/time consuming
    Good luck

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      I’d also recommend trying out the rest of the battle frontier and looking for any shinies that interest you with the pokeradar. Mythical events are also still possible to obtain through certain methods, although they require a decent understanding of the ds hardware

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      this is b***h tier. if you don’t collect all berries, decorations, gold prints, and contest accessories u didn’t beat the game

  28. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >someone starts playing the game
    >thread begins to have a meltdown because they know they can't just vaguely claim the game is good anymore
    kek

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      What do you mean, the game is still good

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >claim that Platinum has bad teambuilding has been debunked
      >claim that Platinum is slow has been debunked
      Thread's been pretty good for Platinum actually.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        someone debunked having to pointlessly wait 6 hours for pokemon?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Yes actually. One guy is showing it's optional, the other showed getting rarer mons isn't too bad. Besides is it really so hard to check something every 6 hours? People are up for about 12 and more.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >y-you don't have to use the shitty tedious mechanic!
            That isn't really a debunking, you're basically just admitting it's shit

            >Besides is it really so hard to check something every 6 hours?
            If it's not hard then why add a 6 hour wait time?

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >That isn't really a debunking, you're basically just admitting it's shit
              When? If you don't like don't use it. I like and I'll use it. Everybody wins.
              >If it's not hard then why add a 6 hour wait time?
              Immersion, the honey must waft for a while to attract something from far away.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >If you don't like don't use it.
                The issue isn't that I don't like it. The issue is that the mechanic is bad. Not using the mechanic doesn't make the bad mechanic stop existing.

                >Immersion
                Getting reminded that it's a poorly designed shitty game and I need to literally stop playing if I want to get this Pokemon before I continue isn't immersive.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Not using the mechanic doesn't make the bad mechanic stop existing.
                Yeah, it does, it's no longer bothering you.
                >I need to literally stop playing
                Your game doesn't stop working when you use a honey tree.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Yeah, it does,
                No it doesn't. The mechanic is still there.
                >Your game doesn't stop working when you use a honey tree
                But I do need to wait for the honey tree to generate the Pokemon because that's how the game works. And if I want to add the Pokemon to my team before I continue to progressing I do need to stop playing.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you hate gen 3?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                We're talking about Gen 4. I don't give a frick about what Gen 3 is doing.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Answer the question homosexual

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >take my shitty bait so I can deflect and change the subject because I can't actually defend gen 4
                nah

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                So I guess you also hate gen 3, why are you here then?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >So I guess you [FANFIC]
                I guess you've conceded the mechanic in gen 4 is shit then. So much for debunking it.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I never said it's shit, but you hate time based mechanics, so it's pretty obvious you hate gen 3

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I never said it's shit
                And yet you can't prove it's not shit since you need to keep trying to change the subject. Pretty sad tbh.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't have to prove anything, just because you don't like them don't make them shit

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >just because you don't like them don't make them shit
                You're right. Me liking them has no relevance to anything. The mechanics are shit because they're shit on their own.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Because it makes the player wait hours for no reason.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You don't have to wait hours, you can just play and come back later

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >You don't have to wait hours, you can just wait hours

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                So whats wrong with that?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >So whats wrong with the game pointlessly wasting your time?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                put down the honey b4 you go to bed =)

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >And if I want to add the Pokemon to my team before I continue to progressing I do need to stop playing.
                Platinum has fantastic VS Seeker grinding though.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                > The issue isn't that I don't like it. The issue is that the mechanic is bad
                But it isn’t? It’s a great mechanic

  29. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    this homie's in this thread and the bw2 thread

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      he always is

  30. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    >tfw yawnkek didn't finish her playthrough

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >he got so bored of the game he stopped playing
      platinumsisters...not like this...

  31. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    how is he a moronic 6 year old?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      It's not that he is a moronic 6 year old (though it wouldn't surprise me if he was), it's that he plays the game like a moronic 6 year old.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        >it's that he plays the game like a moronic 6 year old
        how?

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          he didn't autistically wait 6 hours for a honey tree to generate a shitmon

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          I'll put it in a way you can understand.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            But this falls apart when you realize that the second guy beats the game much faster
            >Who cares if it won't work
            That will never happen, since his level is so much higher
            >Sure people keep telling me to use something else
            Why should he? He can beat the game with only one Pokemon, so why use more? Work smarter, not harder.
            >but raising more pokemon is fun!
            How? You are literally gimping yourself for no reason than to see a different sprite perform a move, it sure sounds moronic.
            If your game is only good when you purposefully play in a suboptimal way, then maybe it isn't good at all. I know it's hard to accept, but it's a fact.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Funny how none of you tried to counter this. It's almost as if you can't, because your opinions are only based on nostalgia rather than objective facts

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              Funny how none of you tried to counter this. It's almost as if you can't, because your opinions are only based on nostalgia rather than objective facts

              Still waiting

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >But this falls apart when you realize that the second guy beats the game much faster
              He most likely won't easily beat the league

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >He most likely won't easily beat the league
                How? He's gonna probably have an Infernape in the 70s. At most he'll need some revives

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >He's gonna probably have an Infernape in the 70s
                That's hardly overleveled for the league
                >At most he'll need some revives
                That's implying he can actually win a battle once his Infernape faints, which he can't.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >That's implying he can actually win a battle once his Infernape faints, which he can't.
                Send in HM slave, use max revive, switch Infernape back in when they kill your slave. Sounds simple enough.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Unironically using items in battle
                LMAO yeah whatever homosexual. For what it's worth i do agree that the games giving you this possibility without restricting it is very stupid, sadly just like switch mode it's never going away.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why wouldn't you do something the game allows you to and is featured in every JRPG?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >I need to prepare for the league, so I don't want to dump any excess exp into my starter
            That's probably the dumbest thing I've ever read. If you "dumped excess exp" into your starter you would actually beat the league much faster than by autistically mashing a on victory road for hours on end

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >the person who's objectively worse at the game and has a worse team is somehow the smart one
            strange cope but ok

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              This anon gets it. This "yawngay" boogeyman (see: reasonable people) has actually figured how the game works, unlike everyone else
              It's crazy how delusional fans of gen 4/5 are, like the pokemon equivalent of Dunning-Kruger effect

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                So you should think the complaints that Platinum is slow and has poor team diversity don't make any sense then.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                It is still slow. HP bars and attack animations take forever, just like using HMs and repels Low encounter diversity is still a problem, since encountering the same things over and over feels half-assed

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >It is still slow
                But anon got to the third gym in one sitting, that doesn't sound slow at all.
                >just like using HMs
                But since the objectively correct way is to just use the starter then you should have plenty of space for HM users.
                >Low encounter diversity is still a problem
                But you aren't catching much of anything else so how could encounter diversity be an issue?
                >since encountering the same things over and over feels half-assed
                But as described here

                But this falls apart when you realize that the second guy beats the game much faster
                >Who cares if it won't work
                That will never happen, since his level is so much higher
                >Sure people keep telling me to use something else
                Why should he? He can beat the game with only one Pokemon, so why use more? Work smarter, not harder.
                >but raising more pokemon is fun!
                How? You are literally gimping yourself for no reason than to see a different sprite perform a move, it sure sounds moronic.
                If your game is only good when you purposefully play in a suboptimal way, then maybe it isn't good at all. I know it's hard to accept, but it's a fact.

                all diversity is good for is seeing a different sprite on the screen, sounds like a personal problem to me.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Anon played with 2x speed or more to prove how easy this game is
                Yes, I have multiple HM users, but selecting it from the menu takes forever
                Why wouldn't i be catching much of anything? Am I forced to use everything I catch
                Would you play a Mario game where there are only goombas as enemies? That would get boring real fast, wouldn't it?

                It's ridiculous how you actually thought those were good arguments

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Anon [HEADCANON]
                >Yes, I have multiple HM users, but selecting it from the menu takes forever
                Most HMs trigger from interacting with the environment and it takes a few seconds to go into your menu.
                >Why wouldn't i be catching much of anything?
                Because they're just box filler with this play style.
                >Would you play a Mario game where there are only goombas as enemies? That would get boring real fast, wouldn't it?
                According to Anon the only purpose pokemon serve in games is to have different sprites on screen so it's all the same either way.
                >

                >all diversity is good for is seeing a different sprite on the screen


                It is when you use them in battle. The only thing you need to win in Pokemon is press A, it doesn't matter what sprite the attack is coming from, yes.
                This changes when you actually catch Pokemon for a reason, like using a particular HM or catching legendaries
                Sad that full team users will never know how it feels when all of your pokemon actually have a purpose
                >This changes when you actually catch Pokemon for a reason, like using a particular HM or catching legendaries
                I think you vastly overestimate how much Pokemon need to catch with a playstyle like this.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >>Anon [HEADCANON]
                Unlike you, I know what that anon is doing. He's been doing it for years to prove both how shitty and easy Gen 4 and 5 are (since their fans pretend them to actually be hard. Shocker: if you don't play like a moron they are very easy!) and how easily triggered their fans are, just like you right now
                If only you were able to concede that he is right and stopped posting about how "great" and "engaging" gen 4 and 5 are, maybe he would stop doing this.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                But his playthroughs debunk the biggest complaints about Platinum, seems like he's doing Platinum a favor to me.
                Also he does the same thing to Emerald completely unprovoked despite claiming his favorites are RB, Emerald, and XY (see I know who he is too) so it seems to me fandoms aren't the issue here.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >his playthroughs debunk the biggest complaints about Platinum
                How? He is playing on sped up

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                So? It still would not have taken him long to get there.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >all diversity is good for is seeing a different sprite on the screen
                It is when you use them in battle. The only thing you need to win in Pokemon is press A, it doesn't matter what sprite the attack is coming from, yes.
                This changes when you actually catch Pokemon for a reason, like using a particular HM or catching legendaries
                Sad that full team users will never know how it feels when all of your pokemon actually have a purpose

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >This "yawngay" boogeyman (see: reasonable people)
                If you're not yawngay you should lurk more

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I don't care if he is one or 100 people. What matters is that "he" is right, and no use of childish nicknames like "yawngay" will change that.
                The only reason he still posts on here is because he knows how easy it is to throw you people in a mad rage just by showing some simple facts
                Stop praising games based on faulty premises and maybe he'll go away, have you considered that?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                No, the reason why "he" (you) is here is due to being a mentally ill schizo convinced of making people mad by shitposting, when in reality he's the laughing stock of the whole board. The amount of time you spend here, on a board dedicated to a franchise you don't even like, just fishing for replies is hilarious bro, you should get help

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                He is making people mad, yes. You sound really mad, as do all the other apologists. Also I'm not him, you just can't fathom the idea of multiple people disagreeing with you. Sounds pretty mentally ill to me.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                The only one being mad here is you, spamming about how there was a "melltdown" when you posted your pictures when nobody gave a shit.
                I mean, the fact that you couldn't get past Fantina (and couldn't get past the last few Emerald gym leaders either) is telling enough.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                I didn't post any pictures. Stop accusing me of being that anon, I just agree with him because he presents solid evidence.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Stop praising games based on faulty premises and maybe he'll go away,
                Why did he bomb the Emerald thread then when it's one of his favorite games?

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            >Hmmm...I could put on a jacket to walk home through this snowstorm, but where's the fun in that? I'm gonna walk there naked, it's so challenging and rewarding!

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            It's funny how you try to portray yourselves as the smart one, but only highlight your moronation in the process. Just accept it, you are wrong, you suck at this game. You lost this argument years ago, why is it so hard to accept it?
            You could free yourself and play a decent game like SV, instead you choose to cling to your rose tinted childhood

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              >You could free yourself and play a decent game like SV
              I don't know Palworldgays really tore that game a new butthole. None of you ever try to refute them either and only care about gen 4/5 fans so I guess they're right.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Why compare Palworld to Pokemon SV?
                In the realm of Pokemon, SV is objectively the best, unparalleled in freedom and actual difficulty, especially with the DLC
                The forced exp share you like to complain so much about also encourages you to use multiple pokemon, since they all gain exp equally and you're not intentionally gimping yourself by wasting exp on a lower level mon

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >you should grow up and stop playing gens 4 and 5 you heckin chud! Play a good game!
                >ok, I will play Palworld.
                >NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NOT LIKE THAT!
                Grim.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Where did I say that you shouldn't play Palworld? Are you just making shit up because you have no argument?

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Where did I say that you shouldn't play Palworld?
                When you tried to say I was wrong for comparing two monster catching games since Palworld is vastly superior.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Then go play Palworld, I agree it's superior, but since we were talking about Pokemon...

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I agree it's superior
                Why did you try to shill me a dead game like SV then?
                >but since we were talking about Pokemon...
                Didn't stop me, get some standards.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Why did you try to shill me a dead game like SV then?
                Because I know how reluctant Pokemon fans are to try a game outside their childhood series

  32. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    unfortunately, as long as someone will keep praising these games based on their own self-imposed autistic playstyle, someone else will have to fight back with facts

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      >praising these games based on their own self-imposed autistic playstyle bad
      >criticizing these games based on their own self-imposed autistic playstyle good
      Sounds inconsistent.

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Playing with only your starter is not self-imposed, it's natural since it's encouraged by game mechanics.
        Don't even begin quoting NPCs saying "you should raise multiple pokemon" lol, game mechanics > dialogue
        Your starter is level 5 and fsr stronger than all the pokemon you meet early on, after the first rival battle it will grow to level 6, then battle a few trainers and it gets to 7,8 etc. The others are still stuck at level 2-4, so why bother with them? Your starter is stronger and will keep getting stronger.
        The game itself rewards this and if it didn't intend to do it, then it's a broken game. A bad game.

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          Meaning of self-imposed in English:
          Decided by yourself, without being influenced or ordered by other people.
          The game doesn't demand you to do it, the game doesn't tell you to do it, the game gives you a catching tutorial implying that you can have other party members if you wish. It's not even the starter you have to powerlevel as you can catch something else like a Starly or Shinx and maybe even be better off since you get Intimidate. The overleveled starter run by definition is not self-imposed.

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            is self imposed*

  33. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    he didn't even say anything bad about platinum, he simply posted his playthrough of it and people just started having meltdowns by themselves because they know the game is badly designed, kek

  34. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Look at me I'm a homosexual I don't reply directly.

  35. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Platinum is very good, but BDSP is unironically the best Sinnoh experience.

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      BDSP is trash.

      Platinum > DP >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BDSP

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        BDSP is peak Sinnoh

        • 4 months ago
          Anonymous

          No because Sinnoh is actually good and BDSP is a poorly implemented mess

          • 4 months ago
            Anonymous

            BDSP is literally Sinnoh minus the annoying shit about Sinnoh (HMs, single use TMs, etc). So yeah, BDSP is perfect.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              BDSP has single use TMs moron

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                HMs aren't that annoying in Sinnoh compared to, say, Hoenn, and the game having restrictions is good since pokemon is supposed to be a hostile environment you travel through.Removing HMs is sterilizing garbage that makes the game feel more "safe". Why are random wild pokemon helping you? Wild pokemon are supposed to attack you.
                BDSP literally has single use TMs and even made HM moves single use as well so i'm not sure what you're on about.

                Are you guys moronic? When I said DPPt have Single use TMs I meant there's no way to obtain multiples of each TM. In BDSP you can get as many TMs as you want so problem solved.

                Also, people who actually like using HMs are masochists imo. I'm not too bothered by HMs myself, but their absence is a good thing.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Most important TMs can be recovered in DPPt as well
                >Also, people who actually like using HMs are masochists
                No, we're pokemon players

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                Sinnoh without HMs and with ALL TMs being reobtainable, is a clear improvement over DPPt. Not to mention modern QoL improvements like the "Use another repel?" question, Mints, Bottle Caps, etc. BDSP is up-to-date Sinnoh and I love that.

              • 4 months ago
                Anonymous

                You call it QoL, i call it sterilizing casualization. All the QoL that was actually needed was already there in DP.

            • 4 months ago
              Anonymous

              HMs aren't that annoying in Sinnoh compared to, say, Hoenn, and the game having restrictions is good since pokemon is supposed to be a hostile environment you travel through.Removing HMs is sterilizing garbage that makes the game feel more "safe". Why are random wild pokemon helping you? Wild pokemon are supposed to attack you.
              BDSP literally has single use TMs and even made HM moves single use as well so i'm not sure what you're on about.

  36. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    [...]

    Only 4 posts out of those are mine. The second and the last 3.
    It's hard to believe that multiple people disagree with you, huh?

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      Playing with only your starter is not self-imposed, it's natural since it's encouraged by game mechanics.
      Don't even begin quoting NPCs saying "you should raise multiple pokemon" lol, game mechanics > dialogue
      Your starter is level 5 and fsr stronger than all the pokemon you meet early on, after the first rival battle it will grow to level 6, then battle a few trainers and it gets to 7,8 etc. The others are still stuck at level 2-4, so why bother with them? Your starter is stronger and will keep getting stronger.
      The game itself rewards this and if it didn't intend to do it, then it's a broken game. A bad game.

      He is making people mad, yes. You sound really mad, as do all the other apologists. Also I'm not him, you just can't fathom the idea of multiple people disagreeing with you. Sounds pretty mentally ill to me.

      I didn't post any pictures. Stop accusing me of being that anon, I just agree with him because he presents solid evidence.

      you are very clearly quite obvious yawnie

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Honestly pretty hilarious that he's now pretending to be a "fan", is he trying to convince himself that he has any?

      • 4 months ago
        Anonymous

        Honestly pretty hilarious that he's now pretending to be a "fan", is he trying to convince himself that he has any?

        Alright, I don't know what else to tell you. Believe whatever you want, it won't change the fact that we're right.

  37. 4 months ago
    Anonymous

    Palworld is better

    • 4 months ago
      Anonymous

      that stands true for all pokemon games thoughever

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