Something creepy that happened time ago.

[pitwhousedtodopokemon]

When I was around 5 or 6,I played pokemon diamond. And I sucked at it. But, an area that always interested me,was the old chateau. It was pretty scary,and I knew nintendo would put ghosts in it. Except,I didn't know they put ghosts in only pokemon platinum. So,as I explored the creepy place,i saw these white figure,the rich boy and rich girl sprites.I didn't find out until 2 years ago,that they weren't in the game. So I don't know what that was,and I no longer live in that house. So,what the hell was that?

[Vortex]

That's some crazy creepypastas right there

[8]

This is horrible.

[pitwhousedtodopokemon]

It actually happened.*Shivers*

[Vortex]

It happened like every other crappy... Opps creepypasta

[pitwhousedtodopokemon]

I'm not joking.It might of just been my imagination,but it did.

[Dervish]

This was painful to read. I think I have a better grasp on Farsi than whatever the hell that was.

[pitwhousedtodopokemon]

Good point.I don't care if you don't believe me.

[Frizan]

Gee, it's like every other dumb "corrupted game" creepypasta.

The originality is hurting my eyes. Or is that just the sentence structure of the whole thing?

[pitwhousedtodopokemon]

To be completely honest,I still have the game and it works perfectly.

[Quadrophenia]

[HollywoodMole]

Well... you're haunted by a pokemon master. GET THE OUIJA BOARD!

[Raxacoricofallapatorius]

HollywoodMole said
Well... you're haunted by a pokemon master. GET THE OUIJA BOARD!

Every horror movie ever explicitly demonstrates how bad of an idea that is.

[Kaga]

...Who told you they were only in Platinum? I saw those ghost things in Pearl, too, so yeah. Part of the game, dude.

[HollywoodMole]

Raxacoricofallapatorius said
Every horror movie ever explicitly demonstrates how bad of an idea that is.

Well, this isn't a horror movie! Because when I hear screams I smash through my window!

[pitwhousedtodopokemon]

Kaga said
...Who told you they were only in Platinum? I saw those ghost things in Pearl, too, so yeah. Part of the game, dude.

Bulbapedia never mentioned anything about them.But that does makes me feel better.

[Kaga]

pitwhousedtodopokemon said
Bulbapedia never mentioned anything about them.But that does makes me feel better.

According to Bulbapedia, the only thing Platinum-exclusive about the Old Chateau would be some text in readable books on the floor and the like, which are minor details anyway. The ghosts are implied to be in all Sinnoh games.

[HollywoodMole]

Why exclusives? IT'S JUST POKEMON!

[Kaga]

HollywoodMole said
Why exclusives? IT'S JUST POKEMON!

I'm really not sure what you're trying to say with this comment.

Why wouldn't certain features be exclusive to certain games? And in particular, what's so weird about it coming up in a Pokemon game?

Making certain things version-exclusive was something Pokemon's been doing ever since Red and Blue (or Green). Some Pokemon could only be caught in one version, some could only be caught in the other. It kind of forced people to trade in order to catch all of them, thus encouraging the sale of more games as people convinced their friends to buy copies for that purpose (or people just bought more for themselves). Admittedly it's a bit gimmicky, but that doesn't change the fact that it's an established part of the franchise and it's something they've been doing with their dual-released games ever since.

And in this case, we're not even talking about things exclusive between two otherwise almost identical games. Platinum was kind of like an upgraded version of Diamond and Pearl, so of course there'll be things exclusive to Platinum that weren't in the first two games. That's common logic for virtually any video game - if I buy a remake or sequel of a game, it'll have things in it that I can only get in that game, and not the previous version. If there was nothing new added, then there'd be no point in an additional game even existing.

Besides, this is also another established "tradition" of the Pokemon franchise: release two games nearly identical but with small changes exclusive to each version, and then a couple years down the road, release a "sequel" of those first two games in which they not only clean up whatever small problems the first two games might've had, but also add a bunch of stuff and generally make the plot more interesting, too. Sure, in this case, the only "Platinum-exclusive" things mentioned would be minor changes, but that's to be expected from the formula that Pokemon has followed pretty closely for almost every Generation. And, even if we weren't talking about Pokemon - it makes sense that a game advertised as being a better version of an older game would feature some things that the first game didn't. There's nothing at all surprising about it.

So please, tell me why some things can't be exclusive between different Pokemon games. Because I don't understand that logic at all.

Edit: Sorry for snapping. I'm in a weird mood tonight.

I do really wanna know what you meant, though.