Multiplayer features in video games have been around a long time, but these features were limited to competitive or cooperative gamepl🐈ay for many years. Throughout the 90s and early 00s, more multiplayer features were introduced, one of which was trading mechanics.
While not always exclusively multiplayer, trading mechanics became more popular when two consoles with the same game or related games coulꦐd connect using the correct peripheral, like the Game Boy using the Game Lin♑k Cable. These days, multiplayer trading is done wirelessly, and some single-player games still include trading mechanics too, but only some can be considered the best.
9 No Man's Sky
168澳洲幸运5开奖网:No Man's Sky may have had an infamously roughꦅ launch, but several years later, it became one of the most well-known and noteworthy comeback stories in video game history due to all the added content.
One of the pieces of added content was the ability to interact with other players in addition to NPCs, a valuable resource when collecting rare materials from different planets needed to create various technological equipment. Due to each player's different experiences at the start of the game, you could have materials that another player needs to complete a quest, but is having a hard time finding.
8 Warframe
Although even critically acclaimed MMOs like Final Fantasy XIV don't have multiplayer trading, a handful still do. Warframe is one of these games, as it features trading between NPCs and other players in specific areas such as Maroo's Bazaar or Clan Dojos.
Like in other games with similar mechanics, certain items are not tradable, but there are still many that are, including prime Warframe parts and certain kinds of weapons. A trading tax also changes depending on an item's rarity and can range from 2000 to 100000 credits, so you should make sure you have enough credits to pay the tax if you really want that rare item.
7 The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening
While 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Link's Awakening is a single-player game, one of the things it's most well known for is its trading sequence quest that has Link gaining and trading items with a variety of NPCs throughout the game.
The quest starts when Link obtains a Yoshi doll from a house in Mabe Village, then it has 🎉him interacting with over ten different NPCs throughout the game, due to having obtained an item they either want or need. Completing this trading sequence is also how Link acquires the Boomerang and the Magnifying Glass — two very helpful items 🌟to help players finish the rest of the game.
6 Final Fantasy Tactics Advance 🎀
Beloved strategy JRPG 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Final Fantasy Tactics Advance allows you to link up, trade items and party members, battle against and alongside other players, and gain access to exclusive missions and items. This trading mechanic is useful when you're having difficulty in a particular battle, as another player could trade you strong party members and useful items to give you the upper hand.
Most modern strategy JRPGs don't use mechanics like this these days, but it would be great to see it return one day.
5 Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: St𝄹airway To The Destined Due💙l
The 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Yu-Gi-Oh! Trading Card Game has the word trading in its name, so you'd expect most games based on it to feature some kind of trading mechanic. Interestingly enough, many video games based on Yu-Gi-Oh! lack a proper trading mechanic, possibly due to most older titles having a password system allowing you to use the cards you own in real life.
However, 2003's Yu-Gi-Oh! Worldwide Edition: Stairway To The Destined Duel for the Game Boy Advance, known as Yu-Gi-Oh! Duel Monsters 6 Expert 2 in Japan, did include a trading mechanic and followed the real-life rules more closely than its predecessors, despite being based on the Battle City arc of the original Duel Monsters series.
4 🅰 Dragon Quest III (GBC)
While 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Dragon Quest III didn't originally have a trading mechanic in its Nintendo Entertainment System debut, the Game Boy Color version, 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:considered the be🔴st version by many fan✤s, added one in. Monster Medals could be collected by defeating monsters; however, defeating a monster didn't always guarantee it would drop a medal — fortunately, you could trade with others to get the medals you need.
Monster Medals are split into three categories — bronze, silver, and gold — with bronze being the most common and gold being the rarest. While these medals are primarily for collecting, they're also necessary for the second bonus dungeon. Monster Medal trading is also the only multiplayer feature in the game.
3 Dragon Quest 𓃲Monsters 2
A Pokemon-like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:spin-off series of Dragon Quest, partially based on monster recruiting mechanics introduced in Dragon Quest V, the first Dragon Quest Monsters launched for Game Boy Color in Japan in 1998 and in 2000 in North America and Europe, where it was known as Dragon Wa✤🌺rrior Monsters.
The two-version sequel, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2: Cobi's Journey and Tara's Adventure, respectively, launched for Game Boy Color worldwide a year later and introduced trading mechanics to the spin-off series. Unlike Pokemon, no monsters were version exclusive and only had different rarities in each game, so trading was still useful for collecting all the monsters.
2 Pokemon Trading Card G🍎ame ꧙
Of course, a video game based on the 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Trading Card Game would have trading in it; otherwise, they'd have to call it the Pokemon battle card game. Known as Pokemon Card GB in Japan, only the original Game Boy Color version of the game had multiplayer trading, as the Nintendo 3DS virtual console version blocked all multiplayer features.
The first Pokemon Trading Card Game also can't connect with the Japan-exclusive sequel Pokemon Card GB2: Here Comes Team GR!, but all cards in the first game are still available in the second, as long as you have obtained them.
1 Pokemon
The mainline Pokemon games are the most obvious games with trading mechanics — trades are a feature in every one. There are always a few in-game trades you can participate in, you can trade with other players locally and over the internet, and you can send ꧋Pokemon between generations. For example, in the second generation games, the Time Capsule utilized time travel to send Pokemon back to the first generation games (as long as they existed in the original generation).
A handful of Pokemon also require trading to evolve; you just need to make sure they're traded back if you want that evolved form. If you don't want to deal with the hassle of trading, though, games like 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Pokemon Legends: Arceus feature the Linking Cord, an item allowing you to evolve Pokemon such as Machoke and Hau🎀nter without trading.