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Is Pokémon your favorite creature-collecting series?

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    This series primarily focuses on collecting various creatures and battling with them, and that emphasis is seen throughout all forms of media for it. Would you say Pokémon is your favorite creature-collecting/battling series? Is it the only one you've engaged with? Are there others you like better?
     
    Sadly yes, but that's mainly because they pretty much dominate the space with at the very least decently well made games that all exist in the same world. Trying to 'jump ship' to something else will either result in a massive loss in quality, or a pretty big loss in different games to play. My second favorite creature catching series only has 2 games so far, and it's been out for a while. And even those suffer from quality loss compared to Pokemon.

    As for how many I've tried, from memory, 2 other games (would be unfair to call them 'series' since one is only one game and the other only has 2) 'like Pokemon', and while I liked both of them well enough for different reasons, neither were able to fully topple my favorite Pokemon games from either a gameplay or quality standpoint.
     
    Yes. Never played a lot, though. Did not care for Yo-kai Watch. Found Dragon Warrior Monsters (the Game Boy Color one) to be too grindy and too passive.
     
    Yes, I haven't engaged with any other creature-collecting franchises (except for enjoying the Beyblade Metal TV shows when I was younger); but that's mainly because none of them interest me. Even the more distinct ones like Yokai Watch just kinda come off as Pokemon but worse and less expansive.
     
    Does Yu-Gi-Oh! count? I'm still a far bigger fan of Pokémon but Yu-Gi-Oh! is the only franchise that has ever gotten close, followed by Digimon (if only for the anime). (I played my first Digimon video game a year or so ago and wasn't a fan of the grind.)

    I only briefly played one of the Dragon Quests but it felt too generic. Played the iOS port of Monster Rancher a little but idk if I really knew what I was doing, and I didn't like having to sacrifice my monsters to create new ones. I did kind of enjoy Telefang but never finished on account of the English-patched ROM crashing so far in, not that it would ever compare to my love for Pokémon regardless.
     
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    Alex_Among_Foxes said:
    Sadly yes, but that's mainly because they pretty much dominate the space with at the very least decently well made games that all exist in the same world. Trying to 'jump ship' to something else will either result in a massive loss in quality, or a pretty big loss in different games to play. My second favorite creature catching series only has 2 games so far, and it's been out for a while. And even those suffer from quality loss compared to Pokemon.
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    You pretty much summarized many of my thoughts on the matter. The problem I have with many of the other monster-collecting games available in the West is that they feel as if the developers were more into playing it safe than anything. Coromon to me was a decent but ultimately a bit stale experience, while Palworld is essentially just a survival game with monster-catching mechanics.

    In order for a game with the quality of Pokemon's prime in that genre to happen in modern day West, you'd need someone who isn't clouded by nostalgia, art community culture or the demands of the stagnating mainstream western game industry to do it. And that work needs to start from the very beginning... the world building, the battle system, the game loop. Honestly, the risk-reward for that is very lopsided, huge amount of effort for an uncertain amount of reward in a genre with an industry titan people will flock to out of brand power alone.

    That being said, I am considering at least making a GDD for one. Will I actually go forward with developing it into the real deal? Doubt it, but if the only way I can escape the western art community culture is by graduating to a real deal, then that's just what I may have to do.
     
    Digimon was a close second for me growing up, but for the most part I latched onto Pokemon. As a stupid kid I struggled to be open minded enough to give anything else similar a go lol. I don't have that mindset these days though, and am looking keen to experience palworld and maybe re-watch the digimon anime for nostalgia's sake
     
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