Which Digimon game should you play if you're new to the franchise?

the only correct answer

Digimon started out as a virtual pet, if you dont like that, why do you like digimon?

Yeah

That's like asking why we don't find monkeys sexually attractive. We started out as them.

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I told myself some day in the near future I'm going to emulate world 1 and play the game normally up until the point where I finally get a nice beefy ultimate level digimon raised up, then I will activate action replay and use a cheat that just gives it infinite time life span so it can never perma-die besides from combat death.

Yeah it's cheating but I 100% despise world 1's timed death system, I know the idea is to pass on abilities to the egg and keep raising new ones but nigga fuck you I spent god knows how much money and time raising that ultimate just so it croaks a while later from literally nothing but timed death and I have to raise another.

Great

I want renamon's titties on my face

I couldn't get into world 1, felt very slow and tedious
Rubmle arena an RA melee were fun enough for a little while

Invest in a good PS1 emulator and play the first 3 digimon world games.

Speaking as someone who has played a lot of digimon games, those are literally the peak. Use speedup for World 2, guides for World 2 and a mix of the two for World 3.

No good options on newer hardware sadly. Cope.

Cybersleuth is the best entry point for getting to know and understand the concept. It's also not filled with bullshit like the ps1 games after that hackers memory which is a sequel. Then play the ds games. After that you're free to do whatever

but user I dont find black women attractive

Pretty much this

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this but only if you're not a pussy

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Digimon World gets talked up a lot but the mechanics are as unfun as possible, is it just because of the soul factor and due to the Digimon coat of paint on an otherwise forgettable JRPG?

Peak digimon soul slapped on top of a meh JRPG.

Cybersleuth was the same, the game mechanically is pretty good, but it has a boring story with visually unimpressing graphics because it's a vita game.

Imagine the smell...

Emulate Digimon World 2003
It's a lot of fun and the 2D artstyle makes it hold up well

Depends if you want the JRPGs or the Monster raisers

For the former, Cyber Sleuth. For the later, Next Order. Some may say the original Digimon World is the best Monster Raising Sim in the series, and that's arguable, but it's also pretty obtuse and probably not a good starting point.

>but set your expectations low despite them being the best in the series. digimon games tend to range from bad to meh
Eh

I'd say Cyber Sleuth is legitmately good. Not amazing, but good. It's pretty much SMT lite. Considering the limited budget the series and the games were clearly working with, i'd say what it manages to do is outright impressive. It utterly fucking dabs on the Pokemon games for example in most ways despite having a fraction of their budget and clearly still having limitations as a result.

If there's ever a CS3 and Bamco decides to put good money behind it, it could be a legitmately incredible JRPG.

I don't really think there's a reason to go with Dawn/Dusk over Cyber Sleuth. It's basically the same format but D/D has a much more kiddy plot and is much more barebones from a presnetation perspective.

>Boring Story
Can't say I agree.

The first few hours are pretty interesting and then once you get past the halfway/60% point it also picks up, it's really just the space in between those points where it sort of slows down and even then it's not bad, especially compared to Dawn/Dusk as noted before or Pokemon games, it's just sort of average by normal JRPG standards between those points.

>with visually unimpressing graphics because it's a vita game
On a technical level? Sure, but in terms of art design it's pretty damn solid the visually repetitive dungeons being an issue sometimes aside. The Eden areas with the Our War Game/Summer Wars look and the Rez-esque dungeon areas are downright gorgeous, IMO

world 1 -> Digital card battle -> Digimon world 2003 -> rumble arena -> rumble arena 2 -> battle spirits 2 -> get 3 friends and play World 4 -> Cyber sleuth

World Championship is better than than Rumble Arena 2 (horribly balanced and has no soul compared to RA 1) otherwise perfect list.

DIGI MON DIGITAL MONSTER DIGIMON GARLIC CHAMPIONS

Just because you don't like the JRPG format doesn't make it bad you faggots

The design of the eaters was inspired and they had the best character design in the entire game. The characters never really surprised me, they had clear archetypes and they stuck to them rigidly.
>Black haired loner with a messed up past that becomes edgy in the pursuit of power for noble reasons, then either redeemed later or tragically killed off
>comedy relief character who ends up contributing a lot and is important
>third character who is connected to the bad guys and eventually betrayed by them
>silent good boy protagonist that doesn't speak and only emotes
>mentor who stops hiding their powerlevel near the end of the game
>mad scientist who wants to save the world but almost ruins it trying to save the world

And so on and so on. Nothing surprising here whatsoever. I could predict with reasonable accuracy what would happen next most of the time, which sucks all the interest I could put into it away. By the end I only finished it because I was almost done anyway.

Ignore 90% of the people in this thread, the original world games are charming but aren't actually that fun to play, especially these days where their jank has aged even worse

Cyber Sleuth is good, ignore the contrarians

Cyber Slut is a very average JRPG
OP is better off with Re:Digitize

Correct, the world games have charm and soul or whatever, but they're not fun to play because they came out on the ps1 and they're janky as hell

Huh
Interesting fashion choice

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2 and 3 are better JRPGs than the shoestring budget garbage that's 90% about the daily life of Japanese highschoolers and 10% about Digimon. The best modern Digimon game is NO, but it's extremely soulless due to the lack of budget.

I mean, I don't think it's particularly innovative in terms of plot or anything, it's very much a Modern day JRPG aimed at older teens/adults and has similar sort of archtypes and beats to what you'd expect out of that, but it's competently told and has at least some neat ideas.

Again, I don't think Cyber Sleuth is amazing. But it's solid, like an 8/10 or maybe a bit less,. and is worth the time to play it if you like either Digimon, Monster collecting or the sort of Atlus-esque style it has.... it's not AS good as actual Atlus titles, again, it's SMT lite, but in the context of being a Digimon game and the limited budget and scope those usually have and it clearly had, what it manages to do is pretty impressive.

it's a play order not ranking my man
never played any of the DS games. I gave dusk/dawn a shot but it didnt stick