Pokemon Platinum

[Jeff]

It has the Battle Tower in DP but not the Battle Factory, Pyramid, etc. Platinum is expected to get these things, which I'm exited about since they put a nice spin on battling. Yes this is the first time trainer sprites have been animated (except for your trainer throwing the pokeball). Also it looks like my theory of the gray stat box only being for Giratina was wrong, oh well. Oh, and the battle recorder sounds interesting (thank God that part was in English!)

[Charles Legend]

This just in your house is being Invated by a ghost that takes the shapes of a plasma tube, a fridge, a fan a Lawnmower a Washing Machine and a Toaster oven, you are advised to remain calm until a Pokemon Master in the making arrives to catch this Rotom fella.



Serebii and Coronis Discoverad some other stuff such as the gyms have new layouts for example the Eterna Gym no longer has a forest init rather it looks like a meadow, as well as other stuff.

this is Charles Legend signing off for now...

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~Charles Legend

[Starry Might]

*COMES BACK INTO THE TOPIC*

Yeah, I saw those on Serebii yesterday. The lawn mower form made me chuckle.

[DaBlackBandit]

Great now there is a Lawnmower Pokemon. What kind of attacks will it have? Cut Grass?, Create Mulch, and Stall out?

I saw the Washing Machine, now we have another Water/Electric or Water/Ghost type, hopefully. Unless it's just Water, then geeze more Water Pokemon, yay!! *sarcasm*, now we can Wash our Pokemon and make them clean?

A Fan Pokemon, okay, so there are so many bad jokes I can do with that. But I'll just do one, now *this* Pokemon will blow us away?

Toaster-Rotom? He cooks our bread now?

Fridge Rotom, keeps our Ice Pokemon cold? and protects against bacteria Pokemon? Now, they are going crazy with the Pokemon, did they run out of Animals in the kingdom. I don't think so, this must be some hidden thing in Pokemon in the up coming games. I hope we don't have to go into every since house and try to find every Rotom, and battle them. That will be annoying.

Let me be the first to say, Rotom is getting out of Control! Maybe he will be the new face Pokemon? No more Pikachu?

[Pokemaster Ash]

Rotom's new forms are a little ridiculous, but probably a little easier to handle than Rotom's regular form (since it can't avoid a major weakness in the other forms).

I like the fact that they actually expanded the Sinnoh Dex to include all the Pokémon with 4th gen ties (ie Electabuzz and Ralts (with Electivire and Gallade)) that were tossed aside to the National Dex in D/P. That was frustrating having to wait so long to try out some of those new evos. Besides, it also helps in team building since some elements got royally screwed over in the Sinnoh Dex in D/P (Fire comes to mind immediately...).

[Poryhedron]

Y'know, guys, Rotom was first encountered possessing a TV set. Is it really so horrible to see the exact same pokémon also capable of possessing other appliances? At least now it's clear why its name is "motor" backwards...Rotom forms are not the end of the world any more than Lickilicky is. Heck, Surfing Pikachu was more of an anomaly than this.

[DarkestLight]

Shh Pory. Lickilicky is fantastic, dun hurt its feelings.

Yes, I'm generally happy about the new forms. It just gives us more basis about its power, and the fact that it can possess all appliances. I wish it could change into all 17 types really, be like a Ghost-Appliance counterpart to Arceus.

[The Blue Avenger]

If Serebii is to be believed, then all the Rotom forms are still Ghost/Electric; they can just learn different attacks.

[mr_pikachu]

I take it, then, that you can't just switch between them like Deoxys (or even Arceus' types). Or perhaps you can... it would add a whole new dynamic to team-building if you could switch between level-up move lists, thinking about it.

Oh, and I probably don't need to remind anyone of this... but for posterity, remember that gen 1 had four machine Pokemon and a blob of pink goo. I wouldn't consider Rotom's new forms a stretch at all.

[DarkestLight]

And that pink goo is the sexiest goo imaginable.

[Heald]

I can't see what the fuss is about. I think they look pretty cool. Hell, there have been far worse Pokemon around. Mr Mime, Mime Jr, Unown, some other shit.

[firepokemon]

You calling Mime Jr. shit? Fuck you Heald. Mime Jr. is the greatest pokemon ever.

[Blademaster]

Mime Jr. sucks until Mime Sr. is released, and it looks like the scariest fucking clown you've ever seen (You think clowns you've seen are bad? Look up Willard Scott's early career with McDonald's and you will know true fear.).

[DarkestLight]

o.O Mime Sr Better look like "It" then >>....complete with knife.

[Starry Might]

Anyhow, I've been reading up on this game, and it sounds really cool! I think I'll get it! (If I do, I'll start with Turtwig to be different from my "Diamond" where I started with Piplup.)

Oh, and last night, after helping my Dad beat the Elite 4 in his "Pearl" game, we would up going to YouTube (among other places) and looked at a couple of "Platinum" videos by Marilland. We only watched the Coal Badge and Forest Badge ones, but they were both informative and entertaining ("Do the Barry Dance!" ). Go check 'em out (if you don't mind spoilers, of course)!

[Charles Legend]

Oh an instesting fact I found was that it was Pluto who was the one who frist decovered and named Rotom, oh and Pluto is like insane and tries to have Heataran mealt Shinoh with the the valcano. XD

Also who besides me thinks that the guy that was investigating Team Rocket on the St. Ann was Detetive Handsome or at the very lest Dectective Handsome was based off of him?

~Charles Legend

[Number1ChanseyFan]

I take it, then, that you can't just switch between them like Deoxys (or even Arceus' types). Or perhaps you can... it would add a whole new dynamic to team-building if you could switch between level-up move lists, thinking about it.

Unfortunately, it looks like Rotom can only know the special move that belongs to it's current form, but it doesn't look like you can mix and match movelists, they all have identical movesets, except for their special forms' move. The five items that Rotom can possess are in the Galactic Hideout in Eterna City, and you can revert Rotom back to his original form by going to the TV that you originally found it in.

[Poryhedron]

Unfortunately, it looks like Rotom can only know the special move that belongs to it's current form, but it doesn't look like you can mix and match movelists, they all have identical movesets, except for their special forms' move.

So how would that work in-game, if Rotom can only know the special move relating to its current form? Does Rotom automatically forget its current form's move and learn its new form's move if you switch forms? I don't think the game's ever done anything like that before...maybe it'd work like Nature Power, a single move that acts like other moves depending on the circumstances?

[Jeff]

According to SPP each form only has one move unique to it (all are strong risky moves like Hydro Pump and Overheat). When you switch forms, the old form-specific move is automatically forgotten, so there's no way to get a Rotom with both Leaf Storm and Blizzard for example.

[mr_pikachu]

According to SPP each form only has one move unique to it (all are strong risky moves like Hydro Pump and Overheat). When you switch forms, the old form-specific move is automatically forgotten, so there's no way to get a Rotom with both Leaf Storm and Blizzard for example.

I see "the old form-specific move is automatically forgotten"... I don't see the new move being learned. So if you switch forms, do you have to jump through a bunch of hoops to get the new form-specific move, or what?

[EngiMatikul]

Heart Scale? <3

EDIT: Random statistical lols.
http://www.moetron.com/2008/09/17/pl...e-of-all-time/

[Jeff]

Oops I guess I left that part out. When you change forms, Rotom forgets the old form's special move and learns the new one in its place. If Rotom doesn't know a form-specific move when you change its form, then you go through the usual "Rotom is trying to learn ____" process. Here's the page with all the Rotom info: http://www.serebii.net/platinum/rotom.shtml

[Blademaster]

OK, so Heat Rotom and Cut Rotom get immensely powerful attacks that drain their users' Special Attack, Frost Rotom and Wash Rotom get slightly less powerful (but still formidable) attacks that don't always hit, and...

...

...and Spin Rotom gets Air Slash. A move barely HALF as powerful as Overheat/Leaf Storm with no added effects save for a possible critical hit.

I must say, I'm a bit irked by that. Partially because of my OCD demanding symmetry and balance (I know 120-140-75-140-120 is just that, shut up.), but also because it's just another example of Flying Pokemon getting shafted. Fly and Bounce wouldn't be appropriate, OK. But what about Aeroblast? It's almost as strong as Blizzard/Hydro Pump, and it sums up what a fan... y'know... DOES: It blasts air at you.

I dunno. It's really nothing... I just kinda wish they'd given Rotom a Flying attack with more power, of which there currently are none. They coulda just made a new one, though, to keep in with Rotom's uniqueness and to give the little fan freak a bit more power... Oh well...

[Pokemaster Ash]

And therein lies the problem. A lot of the really good attacks that can make or break a Pokémon seem to be exclusive to certain ones, even if the moves themselves aren't that greatly impressive. Yes, Aeroblast would suit Spin Rotom more than Air Slash, but it's Lugia only. Likewise Electivire and Luxray would be pretty deadly with Volt Tackle (which is pretty much just an Elec version of Double-Edge, there are lots of elemental variants of that now), but we know who has that move under wraps.

Of course, some Pokémon just plain get the shaft by not getting more common attacks. While Flareon doesn't suffer from the primarily Special nature of Fire, it doesn't get much to use its high Attack with and get STAB at the same time. Would it have hurt anyone to give it Flare Blitz or something? On that note, Eevee's breeding move pool kinda sucks in general. Understandable why, you could make some really messed up movesets if you could just cut loose (Leafeon with Aqua Jet, Jolteon with Ice Beam, some other Frankenstein-ish stuff), but still, there's very little opportunity to customize an Eevee.

[DarkestLight]

....The one move I asked for to be a Move Tutor move in D/P is of course not there. What move you ask?


Softboiled -.-. I want...a fricking...Softboiled Magic Guard Clefable, and I'll never get one because of this -.-..I truly hate you Nintendo.

[Heald]

If that's that important, I might be able to shark you one.

[Pokemaster Ash]

With all of the cheap moves ready for availability from the Tutors in Platinum, I'm surprised Body Slam didn't make the cut. I'm not about to go to such drastic measures for that move, though.

Though I hope I can get my hands on the necessary coding to get my hands on some certain items. My perfectionist side will not allow me to rest without the tools to get certain Legendaries (I like the thrill of the catch as much as the power they wield). I guess the items that Shaymin and Rotom use for those their transfomations might be needed too, not that I use either of them, but as I said, my perfectionist tendencies will bug me. I've been cursed with those for a long time... (I've logged a LOT of hours in my Pokémon games, among some other video game series...)

[Heald]

Nintendo absolutely disgusts me in the respect of needing items and special keys and what not in order to unlock certain Pokemon. It means in 10 years time, if you wanted to collect all the Pokemon in the game, you can't, simply because of Nintendo's ridiculous system. That's why I absolutely refuse to catch Pokemon in this 'legitimate way' and I instead just get them the way I prefer.

[Pokemaster Ash]

Well, I'm with you a bit right there. I just prefer to shark (or AR or whatever) the items rather than the Pokémon themselves. It's a little more fair in my opinion, since they get to annoy the hell out of me like other Legendaries do (unless I decide to use a Masterball on any of 'em).

At least it's still only Manaphy, Arceus, Shaymin, and Darkrai and no one else has been added to the list (though the Regi trio gets unlocked with some promo Regigigas being traded in, but I'm not interested in that). Seemed like every 3rd gen game, another Legendary got added to the unlockable list (In R/S it was only Latios/Latias, FR/LG threw in Lugia & Ho-oh and Deoxys, Emerald added Mew to the whole mess).

At this point I'm hoping Nintendo has a G/S remake in their sights and isn't making any new Pokémon (or weird as hell forms of existing ones).

[firepokemon]

English release announced for March 22nd.

Click here

[DarkestLight]

Oh yes, Birthday gift !!

[Starry Might]

I saw that...but Circuit City apparently doesn't have their page on it anymore.

I hope it's true though!

One thing I'm none-to-pleased about is that Handsome's name has apparently been changed to "Looker"...the former is my favorite word in the English language (seriously).

Oh well.

[Charles Legend]

I agree there is no reason for them to change Handsome, Pluto or even Torn World's names....

but at lest we now know rughly when it well come out which is good seing as it gives a good Idea as to when the moves well become useable in the ASB....

~Charles Legend

[Houndoom_Lover]

They'll be night and day, won't there be. That really throws me off when they didn't have it. This whole new game really isn't impressing me, dispite all the new changes. I mean, I'll most likely get it- but the Pokemon People are really going to have to think of something else to make it interesting

[Starry Might]

[color=wheat]I agree there is no reason for them to change Handsome, Pluto or even Torn World's names....

Yeah. Oh well.

Bulbapedia believes Pluto's named was changed to Charon for copyright reasons, though:

The character of Pluto, Team Galactic's resident scientist, has been renamed Charon, likely to avoid conflict with Disney much in the same way Team Galactic itself was renamed from the more literal Team Galaxy.

Just sayin'. (Though TBPH, I don't know if there's even an issue here.)

[Jeff]

http://www.pokemon.com/#news_/XML/news_341.xml

Shaymin, along with its Sky Forme, has been officially unveiled to North America. I found this quote on the page to be interesting:

...how do you get Shaymin in your Pokémon Diamond Version or Pokémon Pearl Version game?

Stay tuned to Pokemon.com for the latest information!

So it sounds like the WiFi event to get Shaymin will be available in Diamond and Pearl for North America, instead of just in Platinum as it is in Japan.

[palamon]

I want this game when it comes out in march..... I can't wait for it to come out ^_^.

[pokemonfuzz]

the island ur talkin about is called the battle area and it jus supported the battle tower and to get hetran. it was jus a add segment to dp.

[Starry Might]

I want this game when it comes out in march..... I can't wait for it to come out ^_^.

I want it, too!

Anyhow, last night me and my Dad were (among other things) briefly discussing Formes. Well, when I showed him Rotom's different Formes, he pointed out that they reminded him of the movie "The Brave Little Toaster".

[pokemonfuzz]

wow ur dad is right
they really do but now all we need is a blanket
lol.........

anyway i saw the first commical this morning for pokemon platinum it jus showed the destortion world giratina and how the trianers are now animated which is pretty cool
im really havin high hopes for this game