Picking up Yellow and Crystal versions was a great deal; those two had a lot of new stuff compared to the first two in their generation. I didn't pick up Emerald because at that time, I really didn't want to go through the adventure again. But I may pick up this new one, once again, depending on how much actual new stuff is in there that will make it worth my time.

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I MUST get Platinum. :)

I have Diamond, Pearl, Emerald, Sapphire, & FireRed.

I didn't get Ruby, because they don't sell it anymore, and I couldn't find LeafGreen, so I got FireRed. I'll get LeafGreen eventually.

Ironically, I have bought all the Pokemon games. I have given Diamond, Pearl, LeafGreen, Firered, Ruby, & Sapphire as gifts.

I regret not getting Ruby, since they don't sell it anymore. :(

Peace.

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I never felt the need to catch it the first time...or any time after that.

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I have Pearl, and want to play it again to try to beat the final four bosses. But now that I see that Platinum is coming I will get that one to at least have a bit of a different experience. Pearl was really my first pokemon game, afterwards I got Emerald and Leafgreen to play too.

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I would NEVER buy another version of the Diamond/Pearl pokemon games. Diamond SUCKED. Still haven't bothered to beat the elite 4. WAY too short of a storyline, and very unoriginal. Where is my Silver/Gold remake w/nice graphics plz??!

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Diamond is the only "standard" Poke-game in which I completed the story.

I put "standard" in quotes because just this past weekend I completed the pre-credits story in Explorers of Darkness.

Anyway, I bought Yellow and Crystal and played them and I think I even got further in them than I had their predecessors but I really don't recall - it's been a while!

But I'll probably get it.

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I bought Yellow and got Crystal... somehow... (it was totally legal but didn't cost me anything, I know that much). I actually only have Emerald and don't have Ruby or Sapphire. I might pick up Platinum because I have a lot of stuff I want to keep but I want to restart the game.

Also, do you think this is why Pokemon Farm doesn't let you transfer Pokemon from one save file to another? Because they want people who want to start over to buy a new game for it? :P

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I've bought em all I even imported green from japan .... never regretted it (prolly never will) .... in terms of entertainment hours it is a great bargin (30 dollars for 60+ hours per game) ..honestly my diamond game is damn near 200 hours...

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I feel bad for the non-gamer parent who will unknowingly buy 3 versions of the same game. Nintendo seems to be guilty of this out side of the pokemon franchise also, the parent of one of my daughter's cousins bought their child three Nintendogs games, not understanding that you can get all of the dogs in one game. Even as an avid gamer, I've had trouble figuring out the whole pokemon repeated games for my child. If I've got it right, they've releases five versions of the orignal pokemon gameboy title(s)!

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I owe my years-long Pokemon fanaticism (now cooled for the most part) to a third variation, that being Pokemon Yellow. I was in to the television show before I was ever in to the games, and I picked Yellow up as a young child because of the draw of having a Pikachu tag along with you, the availability of all three starters, et cetera. It turned out to be a fun game independent of its similarities to the anime, so I branched out to other games from there. The third game in each series has a legitimate place, but only so long as it's different enough from the other two to warrant purchase.

I probably won't be getting Platinum, though. I barely beat the Elite Four on Pearl before getting bored, and the draw of a marginally-more interesting legendary is not nearly enough to get me playing again. This isn't to say that I wish any ill will toward the Pokemon franchise, though--I hope it lasts for all eternity both for the benefit of the fans who are resistant to fatigue and, in all honesty, to spite those who, year in and year out, feel so compelled for whatever infantile reason to take a piss on Pokemon and those who enjoy it.

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I don't think I'm into it enough to pick up Platinum, but if I hadn't picked up Pearl at launch and were wanting to get into Pokemon 'later', then I probably would consider Platinum instead of Diamond or Pearl.

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