>>26607969>>wildly popular world building features, periperals and minigames are pointless gimmicks because i didn't care for them>wildly popularYeah no.
There's very little talk about those features outside of here and I wouldn't be surprised if most people who bought HG/SS have lost their pokewalkers due to how useless the thing was.
And yes, the thing was useless because not only did it give one level for each walk instead of working like the day care, but unlocking the pokemon found outside of Johto or within HG/SS' post game took longer than playing the actual game so by the time you unlocked them there was no real point in the course.
Not to mention that you had to walk at least 10,000 or 100,000, one of the two, steps to have the ability to encounter every pokemon on the course and the rarer pokemon had absurdly low encounter rates.
Also the safari zone, at least in that incarnation, was not a world building feature. In fact it did the opposite because there's no reason why fake objects should attract Pokemon from overseas if you place a specific amount of them across a single square.
Oh and the Pokeathlon does literally nothing, the medals aren't even retained in the data of the pokemon if I remember right.
