ITT Gimmicks or "new" mechanics you totally forgot

>>27993001
I don't even think I used that weird room a single time. I know where it's from, but I can't even remember what it was about.

>>27993001
What was the purpose of this shit?
It just took up dev time that could have been used to make the game better.

I literally, unironically have no clue what this is. I assume it's from Platinum, though.

I loved that place so much!
That and the dream world, I'll miss them so much </3

>>27993068
It's the wifi plaza, a really well designed place that sadly only had minigames. If I recall correctly, pic related was for the closing ceremony.

It was honestly one of the most beautiful things of platinum, I don't get why they locked it behind wi-fi.

http://www.serebii.net/platinum/wifisquare.shtml

>>27993068
It is.
If I remember right it was an online area that you could only access once per day for a limited time to play minigames.

I don't think there's any real benefit to it though.

the combo attack stuff with grass pledge water pledge and fire pledge

>>27993170
It's a shame they didn't continue that.
Also the Xtranceiver minigames.

>>27993001
The premise of meeting other trainers in real time is really cool but that would have also implied GameFreak doing a good job at building a solid netcode nor make everything look artificial

Just imagine playing an HD pokemon game on NX or whatever, connecting to the internet and hang around the Wi-Fi plaza with your friends doing battles, minigames and stuff in real time, that would be a dream game

The Wonder Launcher is objectively the most forgettable feature.

I never used the Dream World. Thank God for Action Replay.

>>27993233
It wasn't in real time.
It was just you and NPCs until you played a game.

>>27993286
i know but they were based on real players, hence my rant about it being artificial

>>27993001
I totally forgot DS games had that crappy 2d+3d graphic. Man that was awful.
Sprites were good at least, but battle animations and maps were terrible.

>>27993208
>didn't continue that
What do you mean? They're still in the game. They even got buffed in Gen VI.

>>27993127
How did I never use this?

>>27993425
What I mean is that they didn't make any more combo moves.

>>27993425
I think he means that they didn't continue making more combo moves.

>>27993429
Unlike gen 5 (dsi only) DS games weren't compatible with all sexurity types. Maybe that was the case.

Mega Evolutions

t. GameFreak

>>27993575
>still pushing them
>forgotten

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>>27993001
>Visit this before it closed
>Completely deserted
>No one to steal the balloon emote from, no one to help you honk the pokemon floats, no one to BTFO in the swalot minigame

>>27993814
>went on it one last time a week before wifi went down
>rooms packed with people every time
>relive the glory days
It was so fun and so good. I miss it so much.

>>27993001
I used to go there and play along with my cousin all day

Platinum had some much good shit, like going underground digging shards

>>27993814
>be poorfag
>get this shit stolen twice
>never use wifi plaza ever
>stare at the pictures of it longingly
The Gamespy servers going down was some bullshit.

>>27993170
>>27993208
They at least buffed them from a pathetic attack stat in Gen VI

>>27993937
>was some bullshit
Blame glumobile.

>>27993270
I unironically enjoyed fucking around in the Dream World for a bit.

Eventually I just used a script that automatically got the Pokemon I wanted though.

>>27993001
The Bug-Catching Contest.

>>27993921
>going underground digging shards

This is the only thing I'm waiting for the sinnoh remakes.

I like to think in some alternate universe, Gamespy servers never went down and Wifi Plaza is still around

>>27995043
bliss

>>27993385
>Caring about graphics

>>27993208
Xtranseiver mini games???

>>27993385
Pokemon overworld maps peaked on the DS with HGSS

>>27993001
literally spent afternoon there while watching LotR when I was like 14

>>27995749
Nah, gen 3 and 4 had better overworlds. The only one that matches is probably the short stretch before the bell tower.

>>27996634
5*

>>27994276
But muh HGSSmistardrace

>>27993001
I got in there once, but the place was empty so I couldn't do anything fun.

>>27996634
I agree that Gen 5's over world is top tier (it personally is really close between Johto and Unova) but I'd say no on Gen 3. Though its not bad. And better than Sinnoh definitely.

>>27995840
>being 14 when platinum came out

why aren't the mods banning underage users anymore

>>27997103
Platnuim came out in 2008

>>27996808

Bug catching contest was in Gen 2 as well you Unovabortion

>>27997103
platinum was 8 years ago, anon, they are 22 now.

>>27997151
it came out like 3 or 4 years ago in the best case scenario

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Badge polishing
It mysteriously disappeared in gen 6

>>27997180
4 years ago, BW2 were already out in Japan for a year.

The terrain moves. Cool concept however you never see a whole lot of use with them. Hoping they add more terrain types in sun and moon.

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>>27993127
>Kept getting stopped when trying to move around just because some twat wanted my tier-3 balloons

The ball customisation, with all the stickers and shit

>>27997757
This

>>27997757
not gonna be allowed

people would spell NIGGER with letters and shit with it, and make lewd patterns

>>27997757
Man, I really enjoyed customizing how my pokemon were released from their balls during battle.

>>27997181
It wasn't in gen 5 either. Presumably because it was a pointless feature.

>>27993127
>Wifi plaza
This explains why I never saw it before, I didn't care about the online during gen IV and V.

>>27993208
There were minigames?

>>27998013
Yep. Only ever played them once