cb62de No.16361334
Remember all those collect/battle/trade monster games that tried to steal Pokemon's thunder? Stuff like Digimon (debatable), Monster Rancher, Robopon, and Dragon Warrior Monsters?
Do you have any favorite monsters from one of those series? Do you collect merch for them?
Not exactly a "Pokemon Killer", but I really appreciate the variety and style of the monsters in Monster Hunter. My favorite is Barroth, and I'm sad there's not enough merchandise for it. Sure there's a keychain, minifig, and a doll, but nothing like a giant statue the likes of Rathalos gets.
Another favorite worth mentioning is RustTyranomon, who only really lives from the existence of the Digimon World Re:Digitize Decode game. Sure it shows up in later games, but they'd rather make a figurine of BelleStarmon and give her an X-Antibody form, than to give a better Mugendramon one.
ab5d84 No.16361357
Are there any good Digimon Story games other than Cyber Sluts? I'm trying to avoid Digimon World games because care mistakes sound like a pain in the ass.
6d3f3d No.16361413
>>16361357
Quit being a baby and play World 1 faggot. You can also try Dawn or Dusk.
b6a5b5 No.16361662
>>16361357
DW1 care mistakes are:
>not feeding (you have over 1 in-game hour)
>skipping sleep (9 hours!)
>ignoring poop (use porta potty faggot)
you have to be literally retarded to make a care mistake. you can also look up charts with evolution conditions so you have no excuse you big gay sissy.
only pain in the ass is the sweat bubble (80/100 tiredness) which drains happiness/discipline fast (game checks every 4 hours and substracts lifespan if happiness is below +81). trainings give you 6-10 per session (off/def: 9, spd: 8, bra: 6, mp: 7, hp: 10). resting at punimon's reduces 10. clinic reduces 20, sirloin 5. sleep reduces 100 (assuming all 9 hours).
protip: always train, battles are a waste of time. first priority is unlocking store for autopilots and porta potties. PAL non-UK versions have a bug that makes them unwinnable.
8d3655 No.16361674
>>16361662
>protip: always train, battles are a waste of time.
I never had the patience to beat the game the entire way through, but the only way I managed to get anywhere was by realizing that battles give you way, way more experience than training, and that training is a waste of time. I also heard you can overtrain? Idk, you probably know better than me. The only Digimon game I could really get into was Anode/Cathode Tamer on WonderSwan. Simple Pokemon like thing that was just different enough to not feel like a complete ripoff. And I'm gonna complain about the sequels still being Jap only until some autist with more time than me does something about it.
And to actually respond to the OP, the Monster Rancher anime was really good too. Much better than the Pokemon anime. Almost Digimon quality. I was surprised to realize that the game it was based on was what it was though. I get the appeal, but it wasn't what 9 year old me wanted when I rented the game and expected an adventure like the anime showed me.
d5184a No.16361682
885d04 No.16361691
>>16361682
Wasn't whats-his-face from /agdg/ making that?
d5184a No.16361702
>>16361691
You must be thinking of another game entirely.
b6a5b5 No.16361777
>>16361674
>realizing that battles give you way, way more experience
you got the wrong game then. there's no experience in DW1, only stats. normal training with boosting foods yields like 13+6 (primary+secondary stat) points. if you're autistic enough to figure out bonus try (rigged to be winnable 50% of the time, ignore gold poop), you can get up to 2.25x that (assuming 50% winrate), whereas battles give you like 8 points total on average assuming strong opponent.
DW: NO (PS4) is the one where battles give WAY more stats than training.
As for Re:Digitize I haven't played it so I have no idea.
c86d4e No.16361823
i wish monster rancher wasnt dead. i wonder why those funky cape and mask dudes only appeared in the earlier games.
there was this okay gameboy advance game with a bunch of monster girls and such i dont remember the name of it but i remember an imp girl in a robe and a popstar harpy. i think it had 2 versions like pokemon tends to do.
>>16361680
i played it once for about an hour, it didnt grasp me and i dont remember why but at a glance it seemed to have more going on than pokemon games at the time mechanically. i vaguely remember traditional rpg like equipment but i could be retarded.
e7a2e9 No.16361944
>>16361682
>>16361702
uh dead franchise alert
8d3655 No.16363268
>>16361777
>there's no experience in DW1, only stats.
Same thing. You know what I meant. Your stats go up way more from battles than training. But I guess I didn't figure out how to game the system. Regular training is certainly shit. I've only played the first couple Digimon World games, not the newer ones that are in the style of the first.
7fbf1f No.16363331
>>16361357
Not even all the DW games have care mistakes in them. 2 + 3 are completely different from 1, Re:digitize, and NO.
a978b1 No.16363404
>>16361334
Yokai Watch deviated enough in gameplay that made it not so bad on its own, but the first two are pretty simple in combat. I don't know how much 3 changes things but I hear it's better. You seem to get some fancy 3x3 grid to move Yokai around on. The designs are very hit or miss though and most are miss.
>>16363279
First time I'd seen Telefang's real cover. I first heard of it from that old Pokemon fansite from the early 2000s, http://catfish.it.cx/trsrockin/trsrockin.com/fakegames.html#dia but never really looked into the real game. Sounds like a fan translation exists now. Is it any good? Does it have cute critters?
6d4219 No.16363405
>>16363279
I have fond memories of playing this. At least the chinglish bootleg pretending to be pokemon diamond. I remember it being fun with a lot of hidden and rare e-monsters.
0fdb36 No.16372821
How are the Shin Megami Tensei games on GBC?
06bb6f No.16382938
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>>16363404
I had the Jade one when I was a kid but the cartridge had no memory and I didn't know english well enough to get far, as far as I remember the monsters sprites were decent enough.
261c38 No.16383064
>>16361334
I'm not sure if any game has even tried to be a "pokemon killer".
They seem to do their own thing.
775671 No.16383093
Any good monster raising game needs an option for a cute girl as a player character.
>>16361680
It was OK. They actually made HMs worse since you needed speciffic robot species instead of just eating a move slot on one of yours from a variety of species options The GBA sequel is less derivative and gets really weird in plot.
>>16372821
Mirai a cute, but unless you want to work out kana only text you should play the PS1 version instead.
9f3837 No.16383247
>>16363404
>trsrockin
MY
FUCKIN
NIGGA
fb7282 No.16383343
>mfw no sora yamamoto rule34
1bf871 No.16384950
>pokemon game but instead of squishy furries you get customizable robots
You may not like it, but this is what peak performance looks like.
f4a2b7 No.16385501
>>16361334
medarots had real potential
too bad its dead now
0c4adb No.16401653
>>16382903
this, DW1 was fantastic
671331 No.16401685
>>16363404
>>16383247
This is the first bit of nostalgia I've legitimately felt in years.
46aad7 No.16401702
I always thought robopon was cool but no one else played it. Fatlus life is hard.
13bfc2 No.16404730
>>16361702
The sequel was pretty tight. I think dark spectrobes were a bad idea because the dark version was always better. There's also this issue:
>get a spectrobe
>it's fast, has a good 3 hit combo and special move
>"wow this spectrobe kicks ass! I bet it will kick more ass if I evolve it!"
>evolve it
>now it's slow, fires one slow mid-damage projectile with a very low rate of fire, bad special
>it even looks less cool
It's the blue beetle guy, but there are plenty of other examples. Thankfully, the reverse can be true with shit spectrobes. That's another thing: their names were hard to remember.
>>16363404
>trsrockin
Past status: blasted
d05577 No.16404752
>>16401702
I saw it in Nintendo Power and thought it was cool, if that counts
>Atlus
I bought two copies of Dokapon Kingdom for $2 a decade ago. They've spiked up to $30 each. What an investment!
085ab0 No.16404855
Monster Rancher, the 4 game in the series being the best out the whole lot of them, Thank you based op for opening a thread on this,
1bf871 No.16404961
Invidious embed. Click thumbnail to play.
>>16385501
>medarots is dead
<had 7 games released in the past 10 years
<got itself a mobileshit rpg game announced last year
<had a Super Robot Wars X-Ω event this year
<jewtube channel that was created when the mobileshit game got announced have been making at least 1 video a week (the last relatively interesting one was a vid related about making a plastic model)
If anything, it's dead in gaijin countries.
>>16404855
Are the NDS installations and EVO any good? I only played the two existing GBA ones
085ab0 No.16404972
>>16404961
I really wouldn't recomend those, just because the games after 4, just took away features and then made training and unlocking moves way worse, it helps in 4 when you have the monster guides. This website is old as shit, but it tells you everything about the monsters growth, plus 4 has a story that isn't cancer surpisingly, their's actual growth and progresstion, for the most part.
085ab0 No.16404973
1bf871 No.16405003
>>16404972
>4 has a story that isn't cancer surpisingly, their's actual growth and progresstion
Judging by the screenshots I see there is some kind of mostly tournament-oriented shounen plot, and I absolutely love it when jap games have that, I would play it even if it had bad shounen tournament plot like in PSP's Steambot Chronicles, thanks for mentioning the game and the guides, at the very least it's one more game series in my backlog now
>>16404973
>see faqs for the gba games
>realize how much content I have been missing on my blind runs when I didn't even knew that such guides existed
I guess I will have to first replay the GBA ones, though.
085ab0 No.16405019
>>16405003
Yeah, heard the gba ones were good, the guides are a good way to get the most out of your monsters, hell the second game had a lot to it, although I think it's actually the hardest in the series, just because their's a lot of ways you can lose your monster besides age, or too much injury.
caa698 No.16405081
>>16361702
Man, I remember blowing my ultimate in the final battle without knowing there was a phase 2. I ended up punching and blasting it back to bounce him to victory, which took a bit because even with the best equipment you did dick for damage. Origins was pretty fun at the time, and it gives you this slick fucker that becomes a cactus dragon and protects peoples dreams.
e9e3a5 No.16405102
>>16385501
i thought they were still making Medarot games in Japan
93bdc9 No.16406737
>>16383343
>Flint Hammerhead
My negro.
ca8cf2 No.16416261
>ctrl f
>no fossil fighters
Fossil Fighters was pretty great, ayylmao's, dinosaur battles, what's not to like. Combat was also somewhat actually tactical and had some room for strategy. Cleaning new fossils was fun too. Surprising it was made by nintendy themselves.
ca8cf2 No.16416268
>>16404961
Interesting, didn't know medarot/bot went anywhere besides the chinese cartoons.
719196 No.16416292
>>16416261
How many entries did it have? Didn't it die on the third game in the series?
cda4f6 No.16416306
>>16361334
The art style is incredibly uninspired, but Temtem looks decent. They've got some balls to try to sell this game on the Switch when they're going up against Pokemon.
ca8cf2 No.16416315
>>16416292
shit after first one to be honest, think there's 3.
f50069 No.16417962
>>16385501
Medarot girls is great.
539987 No.16418037
>>16385501
I fucking wish the 3D games were playable on emulators. Or had fan translations.
a04cb5 No.16418935
>>16406691
>Why doesn't Monster Hunter get talked about on /v/?
You can probably thank World for that.