Thread 58209450

Allright /vp/
Serious question: what do you think about other monster collecting series:
>Digimon
>Shin Megami Tensei
>Yokai Watch
>Jiggle War! Big titted bombshells vs Big titted bombshells!!
>Monster Rancher
>Yu Gi Oh
>Temtem
>Palworld

>>58209450 (OP)
>Jiggle War! Big titted bombshells vs Big titted bombshells!!
This is what /vp/ thinks pokemon is

>>58209450 (OP)
What is there to say? They're pretty much all irrelevant and mogged. Pokemon has the best games, the best anime, best manga, etc.. maybe YGO might be better as a TCG but I never played PTCG so I won't speak on that.

>>58209477
>best anime

>>58209450 (OP)
>Jiggle War! Big titted bombshells vs Big titted bombshells!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uq0TemEugWY

I liked Digimon's anime and designs, but Cyber Sleuth's gameplay didn't click for me and I bounced off the game after a short while.
I've never played an SMT. I've only played Purse Owner Five.
YGO is a scam and an overcomplicated OTK mess.
The rest mean nothing to me.

>Digimon
Scum fanbase, as bad as the deviantart pokémon autists.
>SMT
Cool games, persona and its faggotry ruined it.
>Yokai Watch
I was already too old when it was released, it's not for me and I'm not a pedophile
>Jiggle War
Kill yourself, don't know what it is but I think you should just based on that name alone
>Monster Rancher
Definitely the most interesting 'catching' mechanic and it was super fun when I was a kid
>YuGiOh
it's not really comparable to the others, it has great designs but just like pokémon the latest gens are garbage
>Temtem
dilate
>Palworld
death to furfags

>>58209450 (OP)
As a genuine huge Pokemon and RPG fan who checked some of these other franchises out because they seemed cool, I'll give my honest opinions
>Digimon
I played Digimon Cybersleuth, and honestly, it was... enjoyable. Maybe some of the other Digimon games were better but Cybersleuth was way too easy on the normal difficulty for a beginner I think. It was my first game and I never even had to swap out the three Digimon that would be sent into battle. I'd Digivolve them, but I never actually had to swap them out during or outside of battle because they were weak or low HP or something. The story was interesting at first but then you get your body back and a lot of the missions are repetitive. Also what's with there being no soundtrack at all for most areas? Lastly, the DigiFarm makes leveling up Digimon too easy. It was generally enjoyable but I didn't see what made it so much better than any Pokemon game.
>Yo-Kai Watch
First off, I have to mention how mismanaged Yo-Kai Watch was in the west. I bought 1, 2 and Blasters, but couldn't buy 3 because they only released like 5 copies in the west. I had to pirate the game. Aside from that though they're all pretty solid RPGs. Their stories are fun even if they're not too complex and there's good humor. There's a lot of side content too, which is always a plus, but a good amount of Yo-Kai designs I just don't care for like I do with Pokemon, especially the 'Merican Yo-Kai. Stinkers like Love-Torn and Putasockinit just pale in comparison to Pokemon designs unfortunately, even if there are cool ones I like like Toungus and Legsit.

>>58209450 (OP)
Pokemon has the best games in terms of adventure, Digimon has the better anime (I think) and a more appealing concept, a Digimon partner sounds more fun than a Pokemon, SMT has the best games overall outside of adventure, Vengeance was sick. I don't give a shit about the other series. I guess YGO has aura

>>58209450 (OP)
Besides collecting YuGiOh cards 20 years ago and playing some of its video games on GBA and PS2, I know almost nothing these franchises

>>58209450 (OP)
>SMT and YGO
not even the same kind of thing
>Digimon
Better than Pokémon as a franchise, but the games don’t interest me
>Monster Rancher
Remember its anime as a kid. No intention of checking again
> The rest
the rest

>>58209535
>a Digimon partner sounds more fun than a Pokemon
Until you realize that a lot of Digimon are fucking huge once they leave the Rookie/Child level. Obstagoon is 5 foot 3 while the normal non-X-antibody version of Ogremon here is like twenty feet tall in the anime.

>>58209477
Top shelf bait

>>58209570
What's wrong with that

>>58209589
How tall are the ceilings in your house, bro?

>>58209570
That's why I give them the edge, actually. I could have a huge fucking MegaGargomon shooting missles and junk then he can jump back down to Terriermon and hop on my shoulder

>>58209570
In the anime series the partners only evolve to fight and then go back to rookie stage after.

>>58209604
>>58209621
Well if you're a chosen protagonist with a Digivice who is just inducing temporary artificial evolution, that's different.
I was more thinking about natural permanent evolution.

>>58209450 (OP)
I only buy Sanrio games

>>58209634
For her

>>58209628
Then you are not thinking of a "Digimon partner".
The partner comes with a digivice and the temporary evolutions. And you don't need to be a "chosen protagonist", that depends on the series. In Adventure, tamers are chosen few, but in other series they are just any person who bonds with Digimon they meet (even in Adventure the concept of chosen children is done by the end of the series when pretty much everyone gets a partner)

>>58209450 (OP)
The more the merrier, monopolies don't benefit any fandom

>>58209595
Well you wouldn't keep them in that form

>>58209450 (OP)
I love them. I love collecting and raising monsters. I try to 100% games before I move on though so I haven't played as many as I would like.

Digimon is great and has a lot of variety. This can make it kind of unfocused at times as a series, but it does the things that everybody wishing Pokemon would do. It experiments and changes up the formula with all the pros and cons that comes with that. Also really cool settings.

SMT is really cool for how it uses real world influence without compromise. Many things will reference mythology, SMT bold face has Thor nuke Japan. It makes the games downright educational about world religions and myths. And the topics and philosophies that the stories tackle aren't something many series dare to tread, combined with a focus on unique style, make really memorable games.

>>58209703
What about the battleship and ton hat piece fandoms?

>>58209760
For the record, haven't played Palworld, Temtem, and Yokai Watch.

Monster Rancher is really cool because it is a series that focuses heavily on the raising part of monster taming games. You focus entirely on raising one monster at a time and there is actual stakes because your monsters have limited life span. It can be heartbreaking when a monster you've raised finally passes on. The designs of the monsters are a cool in that (almost) every species has a subspecies for breeding with each other species. So if you like one species you'll have a whole bunch of different forms that you can raise.

Yugioh is a card game so it doesn't really fit with the others as a monster taming game. I like these concepts and world building, but a cardgame is a card game.

Cassette Beasts was really fun with its fusion system and has some really cool monsters. It lacked a sort of monster buddy feel due to transforming into the monster instead of taming them. But the freedom of customization in moves is really cool. And every mon having a shiny for every different type really makes customization freeform.

>>58209791
Trying to remember some more obscure ones I've played.

FateGo and other waifu gacha games are honorary monster taming games in my book, and they can be fun, but the crippling of the actual gameplay to encourage monetization really hurts them at times.

Monster Crown was really fun to play because it REALLY feels like an old retro game. Specifically the amateur quality and copious amount of bugs made the game feel like a forgotten older game instead of a retro style modern game. Its lack of popularity also made it so that you can't easily just search up any information you want about the game so you're forced to play it blind in pre internet style. A lot of the really bad bugs have been ironed out so you can play it safer these days, but it honestly really feeds into the 'dark edgy pokemon like world' the game is set in. Lapras eat the first gym leader after you beat him. And the fact that every monster has a completely different form depending on what type you breed it as AND that any monster can be bred with the color pallet of another monster means you can truly customize your creature.

>>58209477
spbp

>>58209791
Just finished Cassette Beasts recently. Great game, nice twist to the elemental interactions, and great music. For moments exploration feels a bit empty but that did not make it less enjoyable for me.

Would recommend to anyone to give it a try.

>>58209450 (OP)
Fossil Fighters should have become a mainstay nintendo franchise. Nintendo had to mess it up with frontiers by giving it to a different studio.... we could have had dino autist kino on the 3ds, wii u, switch, and now switch 2 but no... fossil fighters and fossil fighters champions are way better than anything from gamefreak in the last 3 gens.... it should have been fossil fighters...

>>58209450 (OP)
I've played a lot of Digimon games both new and old and its seemingly not for everyone. Its very fun for me though. SMT is a classic and I recommend it to most. Yu Gi Oh is seemingly hard to get into. Palworld is fine if you can get into sandbox open world like games that is reminiscent of ark. I heard Monster Rancher is good. I didn't play anything else on the list.

>>58209450 (OP)
Real talk, is Jiggle War a thing? I was considering making a pregnant monster girl taming parody game once so I could use it for 'research'

>>58209531
>>Palworld
>death to furfags
Pokeslop has more furfags in it's fandom than Chadworld.

>>58209450 (OP)
all trash and Yugioh doesn't count, but if it did it has the best designs of all of those

>>58210423
That's just a dude.

>>58209450 (OP)
I only like Dragon Quest Monster

>>58209450 (OP)
Is Palworld even a thing still?

>>58209450 (OP)
I'm getting Time Stranger and probably won't even touch ZA

>>58210682
Yes, very much so

digimon still the best, pokemon stopped being good years ago now is cringe garbage pandering lgbt dei shit, just look mega malamar teaser lmao sometimes im happy digimon is not big like pogaymon

>>58210702
>Buzzwordsbuzzwordsbuzzwords

All already surpased pokemon, pokemon is in the of barrel of horseshit for trannies

>>58209534
Cybersleuth is absolutely the watered down version, even on hard the game wasn't difficult until the final optional demon lords. If you want a "harder" (more like tedious) experience, check out the DS games, their digifarm mechanics are more mandatory and really forces you to grind for your digimons.

>poketurd
not only dogshit ugly games if not lgbt and dei pandering fucking kek, that's i call dead franchise its not japanese anymore

>makes two insanely fun games
>shits the bed with the third
>goes extinct
Just like real dinos! man i miss this franchise. FFC was raw kino.

>>58210682
They are about to start trading cards, and rumors of an anime by Aniplex

>>58210702
You have no original thoughts at all.

>>58209471
Nah just you

>>58209891
>>58210747
>mfw (I have no face) we will never have another game with fossil kino
>also never ever any more duna
duna >>>>> rosie btw

>>58210702
>>58210720
TRVTH NVKE

>>58210563
see clause #2

>Digimon
So many different adaptations of varying quality, definitely harder to keep track of. Pokémon has a sense of consistency, even if it's kind of a gradual decline in a number of ways, but Digimon is harder to digest. That being said, Pokémon doesn't really excite me anymore while Digimon being a wild west is more inherently interesting.
>Shin Megami Tensei
Really solid, love the atmosphere and challenge. Coming into it from Pokémon, you want to treat it like monster collection, but you can't win like that. You have to be willing to sacrifice your monsters. There is no PC, only a compendium you can save instances of them to, with resummoning costing money.
>Yokai Watch
After my time, I didn't touch it, and I frankly don't like what Pokémon took from its influence. I'm more interested in the Japanese mythology than the localized stuff anyway.
>Jiggle War! Big titted bombshells vs Big titted bombshells!!
Xenoblade 2?
>Monster Rancher
I like the concept of the original PS1 game with the discs and I used to watch the English dub of the anime as a kid, but I don't know enough about it to make any definitive statements.
>Yu-Gi-Oh!
Varying quality, you have to be into the TCG to a degree. The original manga is mostly good, falters later on, there's some real JoJo inspiration with the drama and entertainment. Each anime/manga is basically its own continuity.
>Temtem/Palworld
Straight up knock-off Pokémon that people humored because actual Pokémon was so disappointing.

>>58211459
>Aniplex
I am not much into anime, but from what I just looked up, the animation is in good hands

now the question is what route they are going with the story, episodic adventure like Pokemon, more story driven like Digimon, or whatever Yo-kai Watch was (never watched)

Why does no one ever talk about Monster Racers?
>varied areas
>lots of cool monsters
>story doesn't get in the way
>monsters are very customizable with different abilities
>some challenging races
>shiny hunting
>graphics are decent
You guys should check it out.

>>58211540
My husband thought it would be funny if it was like a mix of Pokémon Legends and D Grey Man

>>58209450 (OP)
>Digimon
One of the trifecta, good being megaten-lite, great world building, great merch
>Shin Megami Tensei
the OG, great doing its own stuff, it is on the sweet spot of being popular enough to justify its existence but niche enough to not get overflooded by tourists thanks Persona for that
>Yokai Watch
>Jiggle War! Big titted bombshells vs Big titted bombshells!!
Xeno2? if they got rid of the gacha that game would be perfect
>Monster Rancher
meme franchise without a new original game in more than 20 years, irrelevant
>Yu Gi Oh
not a monster collecting
>Temtem
lol
>Palworld
let's see what happens after the legal issues, I'm neutral about it,

you missed
>DQM
alongside Digimon and megaten is the 3rd monster collecting franchise that has constant games, DQM3 was cool, not as great as the Joker games but great nonetheless

Also SE really need to give Nomura the reins of WoFF, imagine a full Schizo Nomura WoFF.

>>58209450 (OP)
>Digimon
Really like the anime side (Adventure, 02 and Frontier). Played World 1 a few years ago and enjoyed it. Designs are creative and often better than Pokemon ones. Strongly dislike current style for human characters which seems to be the most basic weeb crap. I was never a fan of a temporary evolution as well and this is why I stuck with Pokemon. Well, games being inconsistent played a part in it too. World series is a huge mess.
>Yu Gi Oh
You can call me a genwunner of Yu-Gi-Oh! I know *some* stuff about the current decks (pendulum, XYZ and whatnot) but most of my memories about the series come from the first wave of media. I really liked playing Falsebound Kingdom a couple of years ago but it's a weird strategic 3v3 monster fighting RPG. Overall, I like the variety of different monsters but the card game itself seems needlessly complex and, therefore, not fun.
>Yokai Watch
Tell me, anons, is it worth checking out the anime or playing the games? Yo-Kai designs are horrible but I might be interested in other aspects of the franchise. I don't mind media for kids unless it's unbearably childish. Stuff like Digimon, Beyblade and Layton is okay. Ironically, Pokemon anime bores me.

>>58209534
I assume the RPG elements in Yo-Kai games are rather light, aren't they?

>>58210563
>it's just a flamingo

>>58211968
I don't even like flamigo but its still a creature. That is literally a dude just chilling. He looks like he's waiting for me to pass him a beer.

>>58211975
you say this as if yugioh is mainly an animal monster game there's literal planets as cards so it so subjective to complain that it's a man

>>58209450 (OP)
> Digimon
Ultra kino but disappointing output after Savers
>Yokai Watch
raped by localization

>>58211980
>but if it did it has the best designs of all of those
Its posted in a monster taming thread, its gonna get held to monster taming standards. I don't know why you would expect anything else.

>>58212010
what standards theres literally nothing stopping a monster taming game from not just using pokemon and if you really want to play that Standards games explain these two and how these fit in the pokemon world despite them just looking like two humans who know kirate/judo/etc and painted themselves blue and red

>>58209450 (OP)
>Digimon's mascot is a fire breathing dinosaur
>Pokemon's mascot is a cutesy mouse for girly girls

>>58212033
meant to say animals instead of pokemon mb

>>58212033
>them just looking like two humans
I have never seen a blue bald headed hum- Wait. Bad example.

I have never seen a three fingered blue skinned bald human before. They are humanoid but they are clearly not human.

>>58212052
you're not really doing yourself any favors with this argument cause when have you ever seen a human that genuinely looks like this

>>58212034
And Palworlds Mascot is big Blue doof officially but is an Ice Weasel Dragon.
Monster Rancher is a walking eyeball.
Yugioh is a kid that's possessed by a Pharoah.
Shimi, is a Black Cat.
And Yokai watch is a dumb looking Ghost.

It's all about what you want to portray, digimon is all about cool and teenage angst.
Pokemon is about Freinds and Adventure.
Palworld is about Exploitation and Power.
Monster Rancher is literally about growth and breeding.
YuGiOh is just pure monsters in cards ment to kill each other.
Yokai is about Capturing and Solving Mysteries.
Ya get me?

>>58209450 (OP)
>Digimon
I liked the first season, didn't like the 2nd season, but I was also a kid who didn't like change. More serious than pokemon and looks like it had some good things later that I didn't give a chance.
>Shin Megami Tensei
>Yokai Watch
Never got into them.
>Jiggle War!
Never heard of it, sounds like I need to watch it.
>Monster Rancher
Looks cool, didn't get into it.
>Yu-Gi-Oh
I switched from Pokemon to Yu-Gi-Oh when Yu-Gi-Oh came out, part of becoming a teen and that was the demographic. Yu-Gi-Oh actually has a good story and tournaments make sense. Watch the original Japanese to get around 4Kids censorship. I do not consider it monster collecting, even though TCGs are collecting of sorts and Yu-Gi-Oh gets into the monsters having real spirits, but I never thought of it like that. I also liked GX for being lighter, until it wasn't. Stopped caring by 5Ds, the game was changing too much, but card games on motorcycles actually has promise and the few 5Ds episodes I saw were okay.
>Temtem
Never heard of it.
>Palworld
Looks good, and I'm glad it became a competitor to Pokemon, was darker than I expected, but I haven't played it. I barely play Pokemon these days (or any game, but I tend to like modding games more than playing these days.)

>>58209502
>>58212140
Never mind, I didn't realize Jiggle War was Keijo. I actually got memed into thinking it was about collecting big boobed waifus like some gacha games are. Saw it, didn't watch it all the way through because there are better eechi anime out there. Might be worth a finish [Spoiler](or a few, giggity)[/Spoiler] though.

>>58212034
are you 9?

>>58209502
>>58212140 (You)
Never mind, I didn't realize Jiggle War was Keijo. I actually got memed into thinking it was about collecting big boobed waifus like some gacha games are. Saw it, didn't watch it all the way through because there are better eechi anime out there. Might be worth a finish (or a few, giggity) though.

I liked Monster Rancher as a kid, but it seems like it didn’t really go anywhere. I think Digimon is cool as fuck, but there isn’t really any fun way to interact with the franchise these days like there is with Pokemon. If they dropped an actually fun game I’d be all about it. Never gave a fuck about the rest of that noise.

>>58212156
>are you 9?
9 inches inside you

I dont understand why you keep pushing other monster franchises on a pokemon board. Like i said go to /digi/

>>58209450 (OP)
>Digimon
I liked the PS1 fighting game, but I never played World. I played World DS, but in the GBA there was a racing and a fighting game. I think the franchise's main is that they never mixed monster raising and RPG game properly.
>Shin Megami Tensei
I fucking love it. Played 1, 2, and Kyuuyaku. I'll eventually play Majin 1 and 2, the New Bible ones, and I'll see if I go for others. Not Demikids tho. I tried it once, and it sucked. It was like it tried to combine SMT's exp system with Pokémons, and failed in both.
>Yokai Watch
Haven't played it. I should, people say it's good.
>Jiggle War! Big titted bombshells vs Big titted bombshells!!
Alright, there's no fucking there's a MT game with the name of a hentai. I need fucking evidence this exists. And even then, why would I? I already play hentai RPGMaker games.
>Monster Rancher
I fumble around with it, but I never properly finish it. I don't know, it gives me weird vibes I can train monsters for 1000 years, and yet never age ONE day.
>Yu Gi Oh
I played the one for PS1 for a bit, but mostly those in the GBA. They are fun. Cyberstein + Triple White Dragon FTW. Easy victory.
>Temtem
Never played it
>Palworld
Never played it, and I should. I follow Pocketpair in YT Craftopia finally updated, and I see fan animations. I NEED to get into the game already.

>>58210747
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHH!!!! I want dino kino back!

>>58211543
Some videos to see?

Final note: Honorable Mention to Spectrobes. Great game.

>>58212421
/vp/ someday will be /mon/, trust the plan.

>>58209450 (OP)
Azure Tower solos all of them

>>58209450 (OP)
I dont seethe as much about digimon but at the same time i like pokemon more. Its strange.

>>58209450 (OP)
>digimon
nice tamagotchi sci-fi idea, somewhat stunted as a mon series by tamagotchi evolution trees being weird af and the story focusing more on the humans. feels like it should have minmaxed its focus more on one or the other (mon or human) but ended up landing somewhere in the middle where neither feels satisfying
>shin megami tensei
liked the games but the mons felt pretty forgettable desu
>yokai watch
I tried to watch it but it wasnt my thing. felt like a bizarre mix of ben 10 and pokemon where nothing was cute or cool enough to catch my attention
>yugioh
loved the early manga but I can understand focusing on the cards. cool designs too
>palworld
not into open world survival games so not my thing. some designs are fine but most of them are too blantantly lifted from other mon series without adding their own spin to the formula or style

>>58212421
>Wahhhhh

>>58209450 (OP)
Love Digimon
Love SMT
Love Yokai Watch
Jiggle War sounds hot
Never played Monster Rancher
Love Yugioh
Never played Temtem
Never played Palworld, but have jerked off to it

>>58212966
>Yfw you realise Digimon was always a spin off from Tamagotchi

>Digimon
Like my v-pet, love the anime, have only played cs/hm it was pretty good.
>Shin Megami Tensei
Nobody has ever played a SMT game.
>Yokai Watch
Never played this.
>Booba anime or whatever
Never heard of it.
>Monster Rancher
Better games than Pokemon, anime was weird but ok.
>Yu Gi Oh
Is literally not a monster collecting series.
>Temtem
Never played.
>Palworld
Never interested me but it makes Nintendo and Nintendo fans
seethe so i guess it's pretty cool.

>>58212987
yeah, I never realised until I was an adult either. was an attempt at selling more tamagotchis to boys apparently. pretty fun stuff