Are there any Pokemon game knockoffs?
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Except with near unlimited party customisability, based on Pokemon type, initial stats, how they were raised, move set, etc. and with a heavy multiplayer focus (both cooperative through trading, and competitive through battling). These two concepts were pretty unique to Pokemon, as previous JRPGs tended to have set parties with minimal customisability (if at all) and were single player adventures.lechat said:ninjaedTanis said:But...Pokemon IS the knockoff...
pokemon is/was a copy of about 50 billion turn based jrpgs that predated it just with less story and more OCD gameplay
There's a Pokemon game 4chan is making, a mates only showed me a little of it, but it's sad to see that the Pokemon in this fan made game are better looking than a lot of the ones from the recent gens.
I've given up on the series ever since I saw Garbador. Gamefreak has to be trolling with a design that... Garbage *YEEAAAAHHHH, DUH-DUH, DUUUUUHHHHHH*.
I've given up on the series ever since I saw Garbador. Gamefreak has to be trolling with a design that... Garbage *YEEAAAAHHHH, DUH-DUH, DUUUUUHHHHHH*.
The Mass Effect series is a blatant Pokemon knockoff. Think about it. You are Commander (Trainer) Shepard. In the games you travel to different planets (Regions) to find teammates (Pokemon) that help you fight. Your mentor is Captain Anderson (Prof. Oak) who gives you your first mission (Tells you to catch em all) and gives you your first squad member (Pokemon). Even one of the people on your ship is called Traynor, an obvious wordplay on (Pokemon) Trainer. Once you have enough squad-mates you can fight the Geth/Collectors/Reapers. (Metal/Rock/Psychic type Pokemon) There is also Cerberus, an evil cooperation who try's to win you to their side and foil your plans. (Team Rocket) They also try's to control the Reapers (Psychic Pokemon, in this case Mewtwo), to use for their own plans. (Blatant ripoff of the first Pokemon move) Its all pretty obvious when you put your mind to it.
By that logic every game is a knock off. It's been a long time sense we called FPSs "Doom Clones" or open world sandbox games "GTA 3 Clones".lechat said:ninjaedTanis said:But...Pokemon IS the knockoff...
pokemon is/was a copy of about 50 billion turn based jrpgs that predated it just with less story and more OCD gameplay
I'm not talking about sharing basic mechanics I'm talking about a game that takes from pokemons unique selling points. 6 monster party but only one fights at a time. All monsters and attacks get elemental types that have different effectiveness's on other types. You catch your monsters from the ones you fight in the wild. ect.
There is one at least that hasn't been mentioned so far!
Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal. In this one, you control a girl in her early teens who enters a parallel world that's filled with fairies and whatnot. They collect fairies and use them in fights pretty much as Pokémon, but to top it all it even rips off the pokéball for whatever reason. The game is really heavy on grinding if you want all of the fairies by the end, but if you don't have OCD you might enjoy it. The battle system is no RPG though, and it's unlike anything I've seen in any game ever. Totally worth a shot.
Zanzarah: The Hidden Portal. In this one, you control a girl in her early teens who enters a parallel world that's filled with fairies and whatnot. They collect fairies and use them in fights pretty much as Pokémon, but to top it all it even rips off the pokéball for whatever reason. The game is really heavy on grinding if you want all of the fairies by the end, but if you don't have OCD you might enjoy it. The battle system is no RPG though, and it's unlike anything I've seen in any game ever. Totally worth a shot.
So I guess up until Jenkins died it was a nuzlocke run, and Shepard gave up after that and just revived his teammates whenever they got downed.Mojo said:
Azure Dreams on either the Playstation or the Game Boy Color - You scale a 30 floor, randomly-generated monster tower collecting weapons. You don't capture the monsters the way you do in Pokemon, though - you have to find an egg in the tower, escape the tower with it, and hatch it in your house. However, the combat isn't random battles, but rather a cross between turn based and real time. The PSX version also has a town building mechanic, while the GBC version has a lot more monsters to obtain and a 99 floor basement that unlocks after scaling the tower twice (you have to have your starting monster when you do it the second time, or it won't unlock).
Magi Nation on the Game Boy Color - This was actually based on a card game, but it's pretty similar to Pokemon what with you battling monsters, forging rings to summon them, and battling other people with monsters. I thought it was okay, but it's kind of slow and unfinished, what with some monsters being unobtainable without a hacking device and it's actually possible to run out of keys and get stuck in two dungeons. Also, the steps to obtaining the strongest monster are so bonkers you have to wonder how the guy who wrote the FAQ at GameFAQs figured it out (for one of the steps, you're given the clue after your window of opportunity to actually do it).
Dragon Warrior Monsters has been mentioned, too.
Magi Nation on the Game Boy Color - This was actually based on a card game, but it's pretty similar to Pokemon what with you battling monsters, forging rings to summon them, and battling other people with monsters. I thought it was okay, but it's kind of slow and unfinished, what with some monsters being unobtainable without a hacking device and it's actually possible to run out of keys and get stuck in two dungeons. Also, the steps to obtaining the strongest monster are so bonkers you have to wonder how the guy who wrote the FAQ at GameFAQs figured it out (for one of the steps, you're given the clue after your window of opportunity to actually do it).
Dragon Warrior Monsters has been mentioned, too.
Doubtful. I did give it a go a while back and I definitely remember it taking itself completely seriously at the time. Given that, it seems more probable to me that - much like Pokémon is a portmanteau of "Pocket Monsters" - Miscrits is a portmanteau of "Mischievous Critters" or something similar.Bob_F_It said:
World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria!
Haha, I jest, I jest.
I don't think there's really been a solid rip off of Pokemon because it doesn't really have a market for it.
Anyone who wants to play Pokemon is already playing Pokemon and with such a large amount Pokemon there's always going to be a new Pokemon you might want to train up and add to your party.
Haha, I jest, I jest.
I don't think there's really been a solid rip off of Pokemon because it doesn't really have a market for it.
Anyone who wants to play Pokemon is already playing Pokemon and with such a large amount Pokemon there's always going to be a new Pokemon you might want to train up and add to your party.
I don't think so, that has never stopped them in the past. For example MMOs are built on the fact that they take so much time that, but that didn't stop a ton of people from trying to copy World of Warcrafts success.Shinsei-J said: