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tehsage on 27 February 2009

I've heard multiple arguments between these two franchises and I was wondering what VGC's opinion was. Would you consider these two similiar? Or are they completely different? Can you even compare the two? Which had better games, television series, toys, etc in your opinion?

I remember when Pokémon came out and I fell in love. Pokémon Red was my first handheld video game and probably one of my favorite ones. I played the TGC (I still do on occasion! :]), I collected the figurines, toys, etc. I even imported some of the japanese toys. xD

 

I remeber when Digimon came out and I watched a few episodes. I didn't like it that much. It honestly felt like a Pokémon clone. And the fact that the monsters or whatever they were could speak English sorta bothered me. Idk. I heard the games and TCG were awful. But yeah. I didn't explore it too much because it didn't pull me in at all.

 

What's your opinion?



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toastboy44562 on 27 February 2009

pokemon is better, a lot better...



c03n3nj0 on 27 February 2009

Pokemon is WAY better.



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griffinA on 27 February 2009

I actually liked the digimon anime a bit better than pokemon. The digimon just looked way more badass.

The pokemon games are better though.



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yungmagic09 on 27 February 2009
toastboy44562 said:
pokemon is better, a lot better...

 

I agree...



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MANUELF on 27 February 2009

Anime:
Digimon > Pokemon

Everything else:
Pokemon > Digimon



Mr Khan on 27 February 2009

The digimon anime definitely had more personality, but i agree with the consensus, in all other respects, Pokemon was vastly superior.



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SmokedHostage on 27 February 2009

Pokemon Games > Digimon Games

Pokemon anime
They're about on par with manga.

I like Pokemon more though. :P



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Carl on 27 February 2009

The later episodes of Digimon (Series 1) were really good. Better then any Pokemon episode imo... but the Pokemon games RULE



                            

insomniac17 on 27 February 2009

I loved the first season of the Digimon series, then hated the rest.
I loved the first season of the Pokemon series, as well as the first few series of games for the GBC, then I kinda grew out of it.



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