Dragon Quest Vs Pokemon. The original Dragon Quest games came out roughly ten years before Pokémon Besides DQ being kind of niche and SE not advertising worth crap on a stick, I think I figured out why DQM isn't as popular as Pokemon
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Pokemon came out in 1996 (Japan) and 1998 (US) and it wasn't until 2 years later that Dragon Quest Monsters was released, taking the monster-training aspect of DQV and turning it into the main focus of the game. Come by post every so often about which is better thanks My choice DQM! More to do :p
Game Freak seemingly used several Dragon Quest monster designs as inspiration for. Better creature designs, better recruitment/synthesis system, better story, and and actual postgame content that allows you to max out your monsters, Pokemon never had any kind of metal menagerie and it always irritated me Vote Reply Award Compare & Contrast: Dragon Quest: Pokémon isn't the only monster-training game The Dragon Quest series has been called the grand-daddy of all modern console RPGs (and it itself was inspired by Wizardry and Ultima, so are they the great grand-daddies?), spanning nine games in the main series, and a tenth scheduled for the Wii
. Pokemon came out in 1996 (Japan) and 1998 (US) and it wasn't until 2 years later that Dragon Quest Monsters was released, taking the monster-training aspect of DQV and turning it into the main focus of the game. Besides DQ being kind of niche and SE not advertising worth crap on a stick, I think I figured out why DQM isn't as popular as Pokemon
. Battle, your rival, defeat 8 gym leaders, defeat Team X, defeat the elite 4. Come by post every so often about which is better thanks My choice DQM! More to do :p