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The Top Five Pokémon Impostors

HG - "If you’ve read any of my recent articles you’ll notice a trend — I cover a lot of the Pokémon news. Growing up in the ’90s, I was a huge Pokémon fan, as surely many of you were. I’m still a Pokémaniac to this day, but since I’m an older, wiser, mature adult, I’ve come to realize how many different games rode the coattails of Pokémon’s success."

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FamilyGuy3879d ago (Edited 3879d ago )

This is bs from the article pic alone. Monster Rancher was awesome and in no way a "pokemon imposter"!

The gameplay style was completely different. The cartoon was cool too. Pokemon gets too much credit just for being the most popular. Monster Rancher did real 3D battles and training on the PS1 and PS2, you could put in disc to get a monster and the training, stats, tournaments, co-op where you could bring your memory card to a friends house were all awesome.

It would've been cool to see it this gen with online support. The characters(monsters) and how they all could be combined to make different sub-species of each other was the big highlight, the rare breeds and combining with a rare breed to make something spectacular was above what pokemon did.

How dare it be lumped in as an "imposter".

"Less than a month after Digimon made its debut"
It's literally impossible to have been an imposter when they both launched so close to eachother. Monster Rancher obviously wasn't thought up and created in less than a month!

Lol, I seem mad but really I just have too many fond memories of Monster Rancher games to see them getting discredited like this.

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3-4-53879d ago

Technically Pokemon is the imposters, as it got it's idea from Dragon Quest 5.

Still though in terms of what it gives you in a game, I'm still surprised nobody has come up with anything as good.

The problem is nobody went the Human warrior route like Suikoden, but make it more like Pokemon.

It would work.

MisfitsInc3879d ago

Digimon was dope, i dont know anything about the other shit

Dasteru3879d ago (Edited 3879d ago )

The digimon game could have been good but the death mechanic really killed it (pun intended) imo.

I remember struggling to even get to the second form before it would almost immediately die, even when i thought i was taking perfect care of it.

TongkatAli3879d ago

I really want Digimon World 1 on my Vita.

e-p-ayeaH3879d ago

digimon 1 was badass maybe ill rewatch those series once more.

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The Best Games Similar to Pokemon for PlayStation

There are many worlds out there brimming with wondrous creatures ready to help you on your adventure beyond Pokemon.

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LG_Fox_Brazil24d ago

Temtem is actually really good as a single player experience or as a co-op game. Played the shit out of it when it released

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Pokémon Gen 10 Release Date Predictions: Are New Pokémon Games In 2024?

Even if Pokémon Scarlet and Violet have not yet completed their first anniversary, it is possible to predict exactly when Gen 10 is arriving.

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Pokemon Doesn't Need to Sue Palworld, It Needs to Get With the Times

The Nerd Stash: "There's been a lot of talk about Pokemon and Palworld recently, but if anything, Pokemon's new competition should be a sign to change."

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ChasterMies76d ago

Fortunately for Nintendo, the legal team is separate from Game Freak’s development team.

NotoriousWhiz75d ago

Unfortunately for us, as their legal team seems to be more competent than Game Freak's development team.

gold_drake76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

they do tho .. IF there is something to sue for. IP infringement is such a delicate thing.

but absolutely agree on the change

GoodGuy0976d ago

That, have longer dev time, and absolutely get rid of Nintendo as the exclusive platform. Imagine a AAA pkmn game on current consoles or next generation.

But money, they'll make billions with little effort.

badz14976d ago

you know that's never gonna happen

FinalFantasyFanatic76d ago

Gamer Freak, Creatures and Nintendo all have a stake in the Pokemon franchise, Nintendo especially will never let them go, I don't know how Creatures or Game Freak feels about it. Plus, the other two don't have a financial incentive to ditch Nintendo, they make mega bucks regardless. Although I think Nintendo should help Game Freak out more since they're clearly struggling, other they'll all just have to accept longer dev times and bigger gaps between games, or maybe just make some cheaper low-tier games in-between.

shinoff218376d ago

Idk yall. I'd take a Pokémon jrpg over a Pokémon with guns, online play etc. Plus wasn't Pokémon mobile pretty fking big like 4 years ago then covid hit.

--Onilink--76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

Even Scarlet/Violet had sold 24million as of early November (and undoubtedly sold even more during the Holidays), its not like they are currently suffering.

Yes, there are plenty of things I would like Gamefreak to do better, and yes I happened to like Palworld, but not because its a Pokemon clone, because its not, but because its a good survival game, something that I have zero interest for the mainline Pokemon games to become.

Most publications keep bringing up these topic ls just for clicks, because clearly the game is your typical survival game (most who do well on PC) with some Pokemon sprinkled in and not a Pokemon competitor, the core gameplay loop is clearly just Ark with dinosaurs swapped for Pokemon like creatures

And again, while I’m enjoying the game itself, I hope it doesnt set a new precedent for what we expect from game devs these days because, based on their other games, this developer really seems to basically just try to go as close as possible to ripping off other games without getting into trouble and then not really following up on those projects as promised (Craftopia players seem particularly angry).

I doubt they ever expected the discourse around this game to reach this level of popularity to push those insane sales numbers, and they actually take the opportunity to increase the quality of their work

FinalFantasyFanatic76d ago (Edited 76d ago )

I'm going to say something somewhat controversial, the last set of Pokemon games weren't that bad, it wasn't a great game, but a good game if we ignore the performance issues (and I personally didn't have many bugs).

They just need more interesting towns and NPCs (give them interesting dialogue, there's literally no reasons to talk to NPCs), interesting areas/locations (like the sunken ship and Bellsprout Tower), and some decent side quest, there isn't really any interesting side quests in those games, and fix the barely there lore for the game (Idk even know what was going on with those 4 "legendary Pokemon"). And maybe add less new Pokemon into the next game so they can transition more of the older Pokemon into 3D.

I think Scarlet/Violet had the potential to go from a good game to a great game if they implemented most of those ideas, but they also needed more development time to optimise the game as well.

Profchaos75d ago

Yeah agree id take a remake of red in the style of the links awakening remake any day of the week

Profchaos75d ago

No they don't I don't want any of the gameplay anywhere near Pokemon the only link between them is the idea of Pokemon except there's guns you enslave humans and Pokemon and there's a survival aspect.

Pokemon is fairly family friendly can't see Nintendo going ok let's give them m16s and slaughter each other

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