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I am kinda confused as to what the point to playing Diamond/Pearl is now...

I see the point to playing the older GBA games (FR/LG/R/S) because you are able to transfer Pokemon via Pal park. But what is the point to playing Diamond/Pearl as you can't transfer all your hard trained Pokemon to Platinum. So all those hours put into Diamond/Pearl is now useless? Having two DS's to trade with is not something most people have.

So leading to the next question...what will be the point of playing Platnium when the next Pokemon game for the DS comes out? It's all the "Pokemon" series...shoulden't there be a way to transfer items/pokemon (without two DS's) so you don't feel as if you wasted time in the previous game...which is how I feel about my countless hours on Diamond...
 
im talking about YOUR game

playing Diamond and having a great team and then buying platinum and not being able to use your pokemon.......you cant trade unless you have two ds's

im not talking about trading with others
 
bkck018 said:
I am kinda confused as to what the point to playing Diamond/Pearl is now...

I see the point to playing the older GBA games (FR/LG/R/S) because you are able to transfer Pokemon via Pal park. But what is the point to playing Diamond/Pearl as you can't transfer all your hard trained Pokemon to Platinum. So all those hours put into Diamond/Pearl is now useless? Having two DS's to trade with is not something most people have.

So leading to the next question...what will be the point of playing Platnium when the next Pokemon game for the DS comes out? It's all the "Pokemon" series...shoulden't there be a way to transfer items/pokemon (without two DS's) so you don't feel as if you wasted time in the previous game...which is how I feel about my countless hours on Diamond...
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The only problem with your question, is that All three DS versions are classified as "individual games". Meaning, just because you own both versions doesn't mean they'll act like they're yours; they'll still act as seperate games.

The whole idea behind "transferring" is that you're immigrating Pokemon from "another land". Technically, you're "trading" not only because they act as seperate games, but because they're in the same region and thus the point of immigrating is moot.

It may be tedious to trade between the two versions, or be unable to because of lack of two DSs, but these games can go online now. If you have Pokemon you want to send from one game to another, you could just ask someone here if they'd want to help you do so. Who knows, you could even get something in return for it.

As for what the next DS Pokemon games provide us, either they'll be like FR/LG, or be the 5th gen. I'm not sure, but I'd imagine people would still play the older games to do some inter-trading.

Put it this way: if they cared about those hard hours spent training key pokes, then I don't see why they wouldn't mind spending some time figuring out how to get those pokes from one game to another.

There you have it.

*C_L*
 
Trading via the GTS is a very risky move. The search funtion doesn't display ALL the results, even when you get less than the maximum number of slots. Just the results you get in a 20 second search.

If you feel like it's too much to do a union room trade (borrow someone else's DS if you don't own a second one yourself), then keep them on seperate carts. You don't need to have EVERY Pokemon on Plat. And just because Plat is out doesn't mean you'll never touch D/P again.
 
Its no different from buying multiple games from other generations, in fact its even easier to transfer pokemon since theres wifi now... :\ I really dont see what the issue is. Half the idea behind Pokemon was to trade with people hence game specific Pokemon.
 
So it is now pointless to play R/B/Y or G/S/C? It is pointless to play Mario World, just because it doesn't affect your progress in Mario Galexy? We aren't allowed to play Ocarina of Time, because it can't connect with Twilight Princess?

You shouldn't play games to directly influence the most modern games, you should play games because they are fun.
 
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So it is now pointless to play R/B/Y or G/S/C? It is pointless to play Mario World, just because it doesn't affect your progress in Mario Galexy? We aren't allowed to play Ocarina of Time, because it can't connect with Twilight Princess?

You shouldn't play games to directly influence the most modern games, you should play games because they are fun.
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thays my thoughs on the matter
 
It may be tedious to trade between the two versions, or be unable to because of lack of two DSs, but these games can go online now. If you have Pokemon you want to send from one game to another, you could just ask someone here if they'd want to help you do so. Who knows, you could even get something in return for it.
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Exactly.

That's what the whole point of pokemon is.
It's been like this in previous generations as well.
Especially between 2nd and 3rd gen, since the pokemon in 1st and 2nd generations could not go to 3rd generation games.
So, the point is for Nintendo to make more money, clearly.
 
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