Topic: What's your favorite Collectible Monster franchise? (Read 2479 times)

Büge · « **on:** July 07, 2010, 11:53:08 AM »

I'd like to know which one's the most popular, INCLUDING the cartoons. This is so people who've never played the games but liked the show can vote. Also, if I've forgotten your favorite off-brand monster show, well, meh.

I think, for me, Medabots struck the right balance. They knew that the concept of kids fighting with killer robots was goofy and rolled with it.

Niku · « **Reply #1 on:** July 07, 2010, 01:15:58 PM »

Pokemon for Games, Digimon for Cartoons.

Envy · « **Reply #2 on:** July 07, 2010, 01:28:51 PM »

It was a tossup between digimon and monster rancher.

François · « **Reply #3 on:** July 07, 2010, 01:31:08 PM »

I was pretty sure I wouldn't have anything to say in this thread, then I remembered I am completely gay for Shin Megami Tensei.

(No I am not putting it in "obscure knockoff", the first game predates Pokémon by like four years.)

Brentai · « **Reply #4 on:** July 07, 2010, 01:37:48 PM »

Pokemon, for staying classy despite its fans and not stooping to sexualizing its monsters over its 10-year-old protagonists.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #5 on:** July 07, 2010, 01:56:56 PM »

I quite like the Shin Megami Tensei games. Instead of adorable electric mice and koala fuzzies, you summon ancient deities like Thor.

Also: the Jade Cocoon games.

Crouton · « **Reply #6 on:** July 07, 2010, 02:19:53 PM »

Tales of Symphonia 2

François · « **Reply #7 on:** July 07, 2010, 02:29:49 PM »

Quote from: Disposable Sith on July 07, 2010, 01:56:56 PM

Instead of adorable electric mice and koala fuzzies, you summon ancient deities like Thor.

As much as I can see the creativity value in making colorful shit up, there's just a fascinating, unique weight in how SMT digs in actual mythology, involves beings people once believed in (and in some cases still believe in), and walks a fine line between reinterpreting it all as a modern melting pot and simultaneously playing almost everything with a straight face. Yes, the fertility goddess is covered in tits. In a way, it's comical and incongruous, but if you look at it another way, well, she was covered in tits.

R^2 · « **Reply #8 on:** July 07, 2010, 03:29:12 PM »

I'm pretty sure they took some license with Maru, though.

Bongo Bill · « **Reply #9 on:** July 07, 2010, 09:43:31 PM »

Dragon Quest Monsters and Shin Megami Tensei are good, but Pokemon is the best there is at what it does.

R^2 · « **Reply #10 on:** July 08, 2010, 05:17:51 AM »

...Taking money from children.

R^2 · « **Reply #11 on:** July 08, 2010, 05:25:56 AM »

...Giving lonely otherkin an imaginary creature to relate/masturbate to.

R^2 · « **Reply #12 on:** July 08, 2010, 05:28:25 AM »

...And funny Rule of Three thing!

Beat Bandit · « **Reply #13 on:** July 08, 2010, 05:30:23 AM »

Monster Rancher games
Medabots show
Digimon show
Pokemon games
Monster Rancher show
Medabots games
Digimon games
Pokemon show

sei · « **Reply #14 on:** July 31, 2010, 01:52:53 PM »

jesus christ where the fuck are SMT and persona

Büge · « **Reply #15 on:** August 07, 2010, 06:08:13 PM »

Okay okay, I added Shin Megami Tenshi and Persona.

Disposable Ninja · « **Reply #16 on:** August 07, 2010, 06:16:12 PM »

It's Shin Megami Tensei.

And Persona is part of the Shin Megami Tensei franchise.

Büge · « **Reply #17 on:** August 07, 2010, 06:18:36 PM »

teg · « **Reply #18 on:** August 07, 2010, 06:35:27 PM »

Büge · « **Reply #19 on:** August 07, 2010, 07:16:15 PM »

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