>>26997054>Gen 5 introduced fucking triple battles and rotation battles. Those are literally the epitome of adding gimmicky, uninspired content just for the sake of being able to say you added content.How exactly?
Both game modes change the way you battle and gives certain moves relevance, if you had said the wonder launcher you would have had a point.
In any case take a look at things like the Pokeathlon, following pokemon, decorating the safari zone and so on. They're as gimmicky as you can get and they were added for the exact reason you're saying triples and rotations were.
>C-Gear, Entralink/Funfest missionsThe C-Gear, the thing that allowed multiplayer anywhere on the map, the Entralink which allowed you to capture the Hidden ability Pokemon you found within the dream world and Funfest missions which allowed you to gain pass orbs to use with O-Powers that many used during breeding and grinding.
I wasn't aware that these fall under gimmicks. Certainly they're more useless than the Poketch and Phone that did fuck all.
>Not to mention these gens introduced the 2 most positive changes to mechanics in the form of splitting the special stat [gen 2] and the physical/special split for moves.The special split is big I'll give you that but it doesn't excuse the fact that the game as a whole is an abhorrent, gimmicky mess.
As for the move split, it's importance is vastly over stated.
