Anime Weekend Atlanta was in town last week: a three day convention concerning pretty much anything having to do with anime, and more importantly gaming. And on day one I certainly learned my lesson about getting to panels early when I show up on Friday just in time to miss ?Video Game Wasteland?. However, I did show up in time for:
Walking into the room, such a battle seemed to be no contest; seeing as the?Pokemon franchise added another title o its list just yesterday, for?Digimon?s sake let?s hope it wasn?t a popularity contest. And it turned out to be anything but that.?Digimon fans didn?t seem to have any trouble ripping?Pokemon a new one, and by the end of it all, I was?thoroughly?convinced of?Digimon?s unique quality.
In all honesty, I used to be rather fixated on the?Digimon anime before it became crap. In fact, everyone in the room agreed that there was just one season of the anime that killed the entire franchise and ultimately put?Pokemon in the spotlight. In a generalization, the two rivals were rather similar: they both had their respective anime, manga, video games, card games, etc. But each was rather?different?too.?Pokemon?s anime and manga, for those familiar with it, seems to be more focused on the actual human characters. Pokemon themselves tend to function as little more than weapons, despite whatever kind of characterization they try to layer on. Well, outside of the films anyway.?Digimon on the other hand, was able to create a wider range of characters, and even give the digital monsters a great deal of character by making them more like people than animals. And as fun as it is to bring up all the plot holes in?Pokemon, that?d be unfair considering how many more years that anime has been running than?Digimon, but when your fans can fact-check your storyboards better than the writers, that does say something.
As for the card games, well honestly how many of you even knew there was a?Digimon card game? But we all know the?Pokemon card game pretty well; heck, I even use those cards as coasters when I play?Magic: The Gathering. According to?fans, though, the?Digimon card game never took off because of how complicated the rules are, and I really do believe that. On the one hand, you have Pokemon that evolve on a set, linear path, if at all, and any actions you can do are practically explained in the text of the card. On the other hand, Digimon evolve on evolution?trees, meaning there is an intimidatingly large amount of uncertainty in a game. If it is any indicator, Wikipedia.org has a whole two lines of text pertaining to the?Digimon card game, but has an entire page for just the?Pokemon TCG. This part of the debate hardly even took off because not even?Digimon fans knew how to play this game to begin with!
But of course the cornerstone of the?Pokemon franchise is the games, but believe it or not, even I myself owned a?Digimon game before I ever bought a?Pokemon game. The two share a similar focus on combat between monsters, but the fact of the matter is this: combat in?Digimon games is superior to that in?Pokemon games in every way. In the former, combat is done in real time in a more traditional RPG style, though, of weapon and armor usage providing a blend of attentive and skilled fighting with a comfortable level of character control, while in the latter, I have seen people put their Pokemon in a daycare center and walk in circles to level it up because the combat is just so?monotonous, boring, and repetitive. The?Digimon games closely resemble fast-paced hoard combat masterpieces like Diablo 2; I?d say Pokemon combat is more like flipping through television channels with a remote.
By the end of the debate, it seemed as though?Pokemon had only really won as a card game. Yes, it?s anime and manga are?longer but even its fans were starting to agree it was all a little cut-and-dry?beginning to bear a closer semblance to its video game grind-fests. Even two days after the debate, I attended a?Pokemon panel just to see if what I heard that day held true, and at one point all of the fans were shouting about how much they wanted a new version of?Pokemon: Yellow, Green, Coliseum,?you name it! It was at this point that it became apparent that the?Pokemon games?and even the anime?are just fan-service for whoever likes the actually-half-way-decent manga, and then a few million bystanders got swept into the whole mess. So yes,?Digimon?fans rejoice, you have one the debate, but we?re still not playing your card games.
Article from Gamersyndrome.com
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Source: http://gamersyndrome.com/2012/video-games/awa-pokemon-vs-digimon/
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