Wait...I was The Only to post in this?

no mudkipz no deal

Always kind of thought this was a dirty way to distribute content, but at least its getting around to all TRU stores now instead of select retailers in a particular region on one day. And I guess it makes sense that its done that way, Nintendo still sees Pokemon as a social game instead of one for the internet hermit, I suppose.

So nobody has mentioned Pokemon slashfic yet? I'm very disappointed in you, Internet.

I really hate the route Nintendo/gamefreak/pokemon company/whoever is taking with these legendaries. Whenever pokemon has "free downloadable content," it usually means that an element of the game was strpped away specifically so that it could be given to players at an unspecified later date; if ever. Arceus already has his own Hall of Origin in the original code, and Shaymin and Darkrai have their own special, deliberately mysterious places as well; but I can't just go to the places because gamefreak decided to make the items that unlock those places be downloadable only via a chain of stores that is no where near where I live, often skipping the location that ought to come with the pokemon by instead giving away the pokemon directly. Of course, this may all just be preaching to the choir.

Yeah, US only. F**** you Nintendo. Make it wifi for god sake. I don't understand why they made the shaymin event only for platinum.

@Calleh: I'm not terribly worried about being the oldest there. Also, given games like Shin Megami Tensei and Final Fantasy let you subdue and summon gods, what Pokemon does shouldn't be that strange.

@Hcapt: "Stripping a game of content" is common practice for a lot of "download content," unless people seriously think those mere kilobytes of data they download on Live are anything other than unlocking what was already on a disc.

They keep making up all these legendaries who are tantamount to "god of something". I wonder how Ash feels about his creator looking like a mutated pony.

The problem with Arceus is that there is nowhere to go from here. Dialga and Palkia are the rulers of time and space, Darkrai is the ruler of dimension, and now Arceus is the god who created those three and everything else. There is nothing else they could introduce, theoretically, that's stronger than that. They wrote themselves into a corner here.

@ Magnalon

The pokemon Ash sees in the first episode is Ho-oh, which was eventually found in Pokemon Gold/Silver.

Holmes feels like a pedo at Toys R Us, eh?

@Bigmoose85 So is that an argument for science over religion?

Although I've been obsessing over Pokemon Platinum for the last two weeks, I'm not going to sink to these depths in the name of Pokemon.

What Kingtobo said. also, if you have an R4, you can implant the wondercard file into a leaked transmitter program that was meant for gamestop stores to distribute deoxys, which makes it so that you don't have to have a hacked game, you can just receive the wondercard from another ds running the distribution program off of the R4.

if you manage to get "the deoxys distribution 2008" program, there's a way to modify that so it'll work at any date, and ten there's a "Pokemon Wonder Card Distribution Patcher" program somewhere... google can show the way...

if you're crazy, you can make your own wondercards using pokesav, and distribute them. Some jerk went to the pokemon store in new york and distributed a caterpie named after male genitalia at one of the special events they hold on occasion...

HHHHHNGH.

Don't have Platinum, and I prolly couldn't [bring myself to] beat it fast enough to get Arcy anyway.

Wait, you don't need the National Dex? HHHHHNGH. Need monies, and I already sunk some on We Love Katamari and The Dracula X Chronicles. DAMMIT, DESTRUCTOID, TELL ME SOONER!

@Jonathan Holmes

I missed a Day because my Brothers had Surgery (Deviated Septum for both of them) (im The only Dude in the Family who can Breathe Fine)

But I commented without reading any of the Comments and then Saw that there were no Others.....

Anybody else get it?