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Posted: Sun Jan 13, 2013 11:56 pm
by Dr Shaneman
Just unlocked Eggman in ASR:T.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 1:23 am
by Quills on Wheels
Gonic wrote:Same can be said about pokemon in all fairness. It normally ends with team rocket blast of at the speed of light :P However i never thought of digimon having a weak story. Seasons 3 was fantastic and very dark (even for a kids show). Buts that's just my opinion
This. I agree with it completely.

Also, I admit Digimon also has it's few odd looking digimon but really, every show has that.
On the other hand, Pokemon has just gone random. Pokemon used to be based on Dragons, turtles and dinosaurs... now they're based on gears, ice cream cones and whatever else that looks like it could move if given 2 eyes...

Rather, I think what Digimon fails at is coming up with half decent names. That's my only complaint about the show. The story is perfectly fine(much more complex then Pokemon, that's for sure) but those names... a lot of them are just short versions of what they actually are(E.g. Seadramon = Sea Dragon digimon. I'll let you guess Birdramon and airdramon...). And some digivolutions and digimon just have the name of a previous digimon but with an extra word (Black Agumon, Toy Agumon, Neo Greymon, Skull greymon.).

But again, as much as Digimon sucks with coming up with interesting names, Pokemon sucks with creating interest new pokemon.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 4:26 am
by RWDebara
mtwinny wrote:The merchandise. The games. Hell even the manga. It's a cash cow franchise on that part. Maybe that's it's still going strong.
Well remember Digimon was actually created to sell a line of Tamagotchi toys that came out in the mid 90's so the show and everything else is technically a giant milk machine to begin with to sell toys.

Everyone loves the first series but if you watch the first few episodes they actually sucked. Why? it was supposed to be a short-live show to sell toys but it became more populaur than they expected so they made more episodes and jumped into other markets with the Digimon brand to exploit it as much as possible to sell...more toys! (games,manga,ect) xD

They reason why Nintendo jumped into other markets with the pokemon brand was not because it became somewhat popular like Digimon, it literally became a global phenomenon that helped define a generation and took the video game industry by storm. Nintendo would be stupid if they didnt jump into other markets to exploit it.

EDIT: A good example of this is the Angry Birds series for this generation.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:28 am
by TCB
...mmmokay so I were to jump into Digimon by watching a series, any recommendations?

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:46 am
by Gonic
Season 3 is the best one. Season 1 and 2 are worth a look also.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 6:56 am
by Reknoc
TheChaosBlue wrote:...mmmokay so I were to jump into Digimon by watching a series, any recommendations?
There's an Hosoda film, that's probably about all that's worth checking out.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 10:57 am
by Quills on Wheels
Yeah Season 3 would probably be the best one to be given a look. Tamers is by far the best they delivered.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:04 pm
by Dr Shaneman
I'm always amazed at how I manage to start such ongoing topics in here.

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 12:43 pm
by Quills on Wheels
Well I've always been meaning to talk about Digimon in this forum. Never really got the chance to :P

Posted: Mon Jan 14, 2013 7:33 pm
by TCB
Thanks for the suggestions, now let's see if I will actually take up on said suggestions. :P