Remember how crazy it was when Pokemon Diamond/Pearl released?

That was one of the best times I've ever had playing Pokemon. X/Y was also crazy due to Friend Safari but nothing beats the craziness of when Diamond/Pearl was released. If you made a topic on the trading board it was instantly on page 4 or 5. Everyone was trading like crazy trying to get the best Pokemon on their teams. I remember focusing on selling Gible eggs and getting all the starters and then selling their eggs. Selling Dittos was also very popular.

I miss that era of video games.

You sold eggs to people?

I played it In 2011 and it was perfection and heavenly i couldnt believe I avoided it cos of my self perceived view of the game which taught me a quick early lesson to be less judgemental

I remember me and my brother had a Feebas transferred from RSE. We basically got whatever the hell we wanted on GTS for them >_>

Great memories of playing Pokemon Diamond, Animal Crossing: Wild World and Mario Party DS

The only shiny I've ever caught (aside from that default Gyarados in whatever game that was) was a Machoke in Diamond.

You must be young.

Nothing in Pokemon was crazier than Red and Blue.

super_felicia posted...

I played it In 2011 and it was perfection and heavenly i couldnt believe I avoided it cos of my self perceived view of the game which taught me a quick early lesson to be less judgemental

Do you still play?

Kim_Seong-a posted...

I remember me and my brother had a Feebas transferred from RSE. We basically got whatever the hell we wanted on GTS for them >_>

Oh yeah that is one Pokmon that could get you anything and iirc it was easier to get Feebas to evolve in D/P. In R/S it was annoying.

Joelypoely posted...

Great memories of playing Pokemon Diamond, Animal Crossing: Wild World and Mario Party DS

The only shiny I've ever caught (aside from that default Gyarados in whatever game that was) was a Machoke in Diamond.

Thats a great shiny. Do you still have it? Wild World was also great but I still prefer the original.

I played every mainline gen region by remakes and its fun for a low stress take in the visuals game. I find it boring to play the story of these now cos of how I can Optimise my Pokmons power but idk I kinda like to continue playing just for everything thats not the core gameplay like travelling seeing the dialogue of random trainers the story and music

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Thats a great shiny. Do you still have it? Wild World was also great but I still prefer the original.

I think I ended up giving my DS to my sister, possibly it's still there somewhere.

Oh nice, never played the original AC.

There was a big thing about filling the Pokedex early on.
If I remember right it was Burmy that was giving people the most trouble. Most of the honey tree Pokemon really.

I remember the global trading thing was cool.
I still have a Japanese Porygon from 10 years ago that I finally evolved last month for the Pokedex. The name changed from Japanese letters to English when it evolved.

ViewtifulJoe posted...

There was a big thing about filling the Pokedex early on.
If I remember right it was Burmy that was giving people the most trouble. Most of the honey tree Pokemon really.

I remember the global trading thing was cool.
I still have a Japanese Porygon from 10 years ago that I finally evolved last month for the Pokedex. The name changed from Japanese letters to English when it evolved.

I still have a Chimecho from Platinum. Probably 2009 or 2010.

i was going to save my pokemon from the cartridge (including a shaymin) that i used the walk through walls glitch through action replay. but by the time i was about to transfer. the cartridge died.

it was a pokemon pearl cartridge.

I distinctly remember the conensus in my school being "It look exactly like Ruby and Sapphire"

I remember DP is what got me back into pokemon. My friend in college was like "Yo play Pokemon Diamond, it's pretty good" and the rest is history

_____Cait posted...

You must be young.

Nothing in Pokemon was crazier than Red and Blue.

R/B didn't have the Internet to its advantage. I traded with almost literally everyone at school but it was still orders of magnitudes less than the number of people that I did in D/P. D/P had nowhere near the cultural impact, but from the game perspective it definitely was far more involved.

The Sinnoh games were my favorites for a long time, which is one reason I was so disappointed with the remakes being as terrible as they were.

ellis123 posted...

R/B didn't have the Internet to its advantage.

Gen 1 and Gen 2 mania felt like it took up 75% of the internet back in 1998-2001. I have no idea where this take is even coming from. Pokemon was all over the place. There were shitloads of websites devoted to just gameplay tips and even bullshit urban legends and secrets.

CRON posted...

Gen 1 and Gen 2 mania felt like it took up 75% of the internet back in 1998-2001. I have no idea where this take is even coming from. Pokemon was all over the place. There were shitloads of websites devoted to just gameplay tips and even bullshit urban legends and secrets.

You couldn't trade over the Internet and you couldn't battle over the Internet.

Read the last sentence of my post until it sinks in what I said.

ellis123 posted...

You couldn't trade over the Internet and you couldn't battle over the Internet.

Read the last sentence of my post until it sinks in what I said.

....Yes. The Pokemon games on a handheld designed with wireless internet functionality in mind were able to take advantage of wireless internet features better than games from almost a decade prior on a handheld released in the late 80s.

Gen 4 trade boards was definitely something you don't see nowadays, and it's not just because this site is dead these years. Summer 2007 when all the kids were let out of school, you would see so many trade threads on multiple sites, even like the IRC that Serebii hosted, with instant trade offers similar to DMs nowadays. I was one of those summer 2007 kids, created my first GF account because of DP trading, and it was super active.

People talking about gen 1 and 2 don't know what it's like living in America and being able to schedule a trade with someone in Europe or Japan.

CRON posted...

....Yes. The Pokemon games on a handheld designed with wireless internet functionality in mind were able to take advantage of wireless internet features better than games from almost a decade prior on a handheld released in the late 80s.

Correct. Now you you can, hopefully, see why someone could have battled thousands of people in D/P versus a hundred in R/B.

Gens 4 and 5 are the peak of pokmon. Diamond/pearl, platinum AND heartgold/soulsilver for gen 4. And then gen 5 with black/white 1&2.

These were just really solid games with a lot of good extra/optional content. No pokmon game since gen 5 has felt as complete.

Gen 3-5 was definitely the peak of the series

I liked playing during the time of Gen 4. It truly felt next gen for the first time. However, I distinctly remember that I didn't enjoy the entire experience.

Most of the main sections kinda felt like a big nothingburger, HP took forever to drain, effects took a long time to play out, slight delays happened every other action. There were also just sections of the map that did fucking nothing. The mountains were mostly bland caves and linear top paths, the middle section cities nobody fucking remembers what goes on over there.

Even as a kid with a surprising amount of patience, I felt a grating feeling in the back of my head, like man, I don't think I ever felt this with Sapphire. I know ppl talk about the long water sections, but at least those water sections had immense amounts of secrets and hidden paths. However, somehow nobody talks about how boring the entire 2/3 end of the game is in Diamond/Pearl. I played Plat so I know how much they speed it up. In fact, the Distortion World is probably the best thing Gamefreak has ever done to improve a game, cuz it had great dialogue, more Cynthia scenes, and probably the most memorable area design in any Pokemon games, despite the fact that most of what you do there is walk. Plat would still be worth playing, but if you look at the footages now, you can still see how fucking slow Plat is. Now imagine the game being 1.5x slower with worse content, and that's DP

DKBananaSlamma posted...

I remember DP is what got me back into pokemon. My friend in college was like "Yo play Pokemon Diamond, it's pretty good" and the rest is history

Welcome back. Did you skip a gen or something?

GeminiDeus posted...

The Sinnoh games were my favorites for a long time, which is one reason I was so disappointed with the remakes being as terrible as they were.

I bought them day 1 and I only ever got 1-2 gym badges.

Puglia77 posted...

People talking about gen 1 and 2 don't know what it's like living in America and being able to schedule a trade with someone in Europe or Japan.

For gen 1 there was a bunch of people I could trade with at school but for gens 2 - 3 I had no one except my sister, which was fine because she had the opposite color as me. But being able to trade with hundreds of people per week was so different it was difficult to keep up with them all.

legendarylemur posted...

Now imagine the game being 1.5x slower with worse content, and that's DP

At least D/P/Pt were the only slow games. At the time it didn't bother me but it would be noticeable if I ever replayed them.

Do you guys actually play the Gen 4 Battle Frontier much?
I've was trying the Battle Tower recently and I'd like to hear what other people who've played it actually think of this place.

SomeLikeItHoth posted...

Welcome back. Did you skip a gen or something?

I played Gen 1, a little bit of gen 2 (I borrowed my friend's copy and played around with it sometimes), completely skipped gen 3. I was gonna keep skipping gens until he said that comment lol. I know DP has some weird problems that Platinum fixed but I had a lot of fun with coming back to it after 8 years

ViewtifulJoe posted...

Do you guys actually play the Gen 4 Battle Frontier much?
I've was trying the Battle Tower recently and I'd like to hear what other people who've played it actually think of this place.

I played it in HGSS. I like the chance one with the sexy latina chick >_> But all the other ones were whatever. I would always rage at the one where you pick 1 type of pokemon and try to win with it.