It's not "cheaper", both DLCs cost the same as one full game. Oh, and they don't share versions, ie if you buy Sword and it's DLC, you need to buy the DLC again for Shield.
I feel like the main reason people have a soft spot for third versions is solely because of platinum. Emerald to a lesser extent is also a reason for this opinion but even though emerald is significantly better than ruby and sapphire, better gym leader teams, rematches, battle frontier, safari zone extensions, etc, you're still getting a pretty solid experience with RS.
I think it has it's charm, only problem it really had for me was how slow it was and the lack of fire types. You are right that Platinum is 100% better and how the game should have shipped, but same could be said for Emerald and the Ultras as well.
Again, this argument would only work if the DLC worked for both versions. It doesn't, so even what Ultras did, with two third-versions, is better since at least you're getting a brand new savefile for the same amount of money(you're not just going to buy one DLC, you will buy both).
It's too polite to turn down an invitation for dinner, but it knows better than to visit a lonely otaku alone without being armed to the teeth.What if: that Gardevoir plush wore that military gear over there?
Nigger that's been free since the move to the switch, just make another profile. You can even transfer between them all using Home. Calling people consumer cattle while saying you'd rather pay full price for another save slot—something most game series give you like 3 of for free—is fucking retarded.
Look me in the eyes and tell me with a straight face that Diamond/Pearl's postgame is any different from vanilla SwSh's. You get a battle facility and get to catch a few stray legendaries, and anything else is a footnote.
>being bribed with artificially scarce digital goods
Why don't the games still not offer several saves in one game in the current year of our lord?
I just said they did because every game on the switch (besides animal crossing) does. You are illiterate.
Oh, you could do that by BUYing something? Guess what? You don't need to buy SHIT to do it on switch, it's a built in feature of the system. Just go into settings, spend 15 fucking seconds making a new user, and it can play literally ALL of your games, for free, with its own save files for each, no repurchase or extra account needed, both cartridge or digital, you can make like two fucking dozen of them. You are illiterate and did not read my post. If you're saying that we should've had multiple save files to begin with because every other game already does that... Guess what? That's what I just fucking said in my first post, which you did not read, because you are an illiterate retard.
Nigger most of that game is what you already played. Most of that price tag is for the parts of the game you already played, new content is not the majority. You are paying full game price for less than a full game of "new" content, so you are getting ripped off.
I called it bad value and compared it to a turd. You are an illiterate retard and did not read the post you responded to.
I "defended" it by using it as an example of a barren postgame and calling its DLC shit? You are illiterate and a retard.
In a way I get it, and in a way I don't.
Paradox mons encouraging trading would have worked better if almost every single future form wasn't absolute dogshit.
It's one of those things that's understandable in the first installment of a franchise but not so much 30 years later. Do I believe they came up with different versions to encourage trading? Yes. Do I believe that's still the main reason why they do it? lolno.
That's not even all of them.there sure are a lot of touhous
(maybe as many as pocket-mons?)
And Crystal! Adding in those little animations, and a reason to hunt the breasts was fun.
Seriously, I almost stopped playing Pokemon all-together because Diamond and Pearl sucked. I've never played Platinum.
If it weren't for ORAS, Gen 6 would be sorta sucky. I think there were signs of later decline towards the 'mon vidya of Current Year.
that is a lot of touhous
Oh yeah?
Autocorrect is my own personal troll.
I'm also mid 90s, but I just find them too slow, and having one HM per gym is insane.
I like ORAS best as remakes, but ORAS doesn't have Battle Frontier.
I know you didn't mean it, but I'm gonna call you a dirty mongrel for forgetting to mention the 2nd best postgame content that has graced upon us: The Pokemon World Tournament. (1st place being Gen 2's "2 entire regions lol").
Learn to read before you make a fool of yourself
Third versions are a net benefit compared to "DLC". SwSh is still unplayable today even with shitty DLC, Platinum is one of the best entries for the franchise and you couldn't say the same about Diamond/Pearl.
Gen 5 did it right by actually giving us a sequel, something that hasn't been done since GSC and HGSS. BW2 are a textbook example of how a game should look if you're going to make me pay twice for what is essentially the same thing again. That said, if we're not doing sequels(which Gamefreak is strangely allergic to), third versions are still much better way of handling a new release than DLC format. Version differences between the two initial releases don't matter, I will likely buy both simply so that I can have two games to trade between each other(also so that one of these is a fresh save I can use for Nuzlocke or what have you).
Pretty much everything about DP has been fixed in Platinum. I would highly recommend it.
Gen 6 will forever be ruined by Gamefreak's burnout. Never forget the real reason why we never got Z was because Gamefreak was too busy making other, non-Pokemon games that you've never heard of. What resources they had for Pokemon they pretty much dedicated all of them towards ORAS and the upcoming Sun/Moon games.
