Board 8 > Why is it Gold/Silver/Crystal and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum?

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Lightning Strikes
01/07/18 1:24:29 PM
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Surely it should be Gold/Silver/Platinum (metals) and Diamond/Pearl/Crystal (jewels)?
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Peace___Frog
01/07/18 2:07:05 PM
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Who the fuck are we to question Nintendo
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Emeraldegg
01/07/18 2:07:34 PM
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They didn't plan that far ahead
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MrGreenonion
01/07/18 2:10:08 PM
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Crystal always seemed like a half-baked concept in the first place. Blame it all on that game.
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DoomTheGyarados
01/07/18 2:10:18 PM
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Crystal for the motif for Suicune.
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GTM
01/07/18 2:17:22 PM
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Platinum was supposed to be Girasol right?
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Lightning Strikes
01/07/18 2:21:52 PM
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MrGreenonion posted...
Crystal always seemed like a half-baked concept in the first place. Blame it all on that game.


Yep, agreed. I always thought it was weird how it was focusing on Suicune too, not some unique legendary. Why is that the only one of those three they give a whole game?

Of course Crystal is I believe the lowest selling Pokmon game, so that's what you get for breaking the trend...
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GoldAether
01/07/18 2:33:57 PM
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Because the "third legend" concept didn't exist till Gen 3. For Gen 1, they used Blastoise in Japan as the third version mascot because the other two starters already had their games. Pikachu worked somewhat because it had become the franchise mascot, and often acted as a "4th" to the starters (and still does today).

Gen 3 is when TPC knew that "third versions" would become a standard, so they starting making legendaries designed to act as the third box legend.
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