/v/ - Video Games

>>16928919

>the monsters looked too weird

YOU LOOOK TOO WEIRD

How much did you play and which one?

Imagine how dry megaten would be without recruitment and fusion and all that.

>>16928908

>What are some other monster taming vidya?

I vaguely recall Dragon Warrior Monsters on the GBC being fun. It was a pretty shameless imitation of Pokemon, but some of the monsters were ridiculously OP. Kind of absurd.

Beyond that, I'm merely curious. Apparently "World of Final Fantasy" fits the genre. Never heard of this shit, but it strikes me as squeenix nostalgia-bait garbage. There are some "monster games that aren't pokemon" lists out there, so I'm going to do some high-speed dumpster diving to find out more. https://youtu.be/8Qc01J7CgwI

Fossil Fighter Champions: shameless donut steel of that one digimon dinosaur right on the goddamn cover. The concept of doing Jurassic Park for the express purpose of cockfighting is pretty ace though.

Youkai Watch: I guess it's pokemon by a different company and with a different aesthetic. I hear this one mentioned here and there as being good, but I have no actual details.

Ark Survival Evolved: You tame dinosaurs. Looks to be a western developer, so I guess it's less JRPG and more… minecraft? Or the "survival" element that minecraft maybe-sorta popularized or co-evolved with.

Slime Rancher seems to run with the "ranching" part of Monster Rancher. But does it have the cockfighting part?

Sonic Adventure 2: has some sort of minigame. I've heard of this shit, too, usually "for the love of god, don't mention the chaos."

DQM had one or more sequels, on the DS. Apparently the "breed different species together to create loathsome affronts to the almighty" thing returns.

SMT IV looks nice. Aesthetically, I mean. You get your slut-fairy and surely a number of other tittydemons with vagina dentata and extra arms. Maybe it's a shitty VN in practice? I've only played the 8/16 bit ones, where the fusion graphs are just complex enough to be interesting assuming you don't spoil yourself and go directly to the best fusions. Most combinations are garbage, or result in a very weak "default" demon, or one way over your level. But sometimes you can roll that "default" demon with a demon that has become obsolete, and sometimes get an unexpected high-end demon you couldn't have got just by fusing your regular, obviously-useful dudes with each other.

>>16928950

>I vaguely recall Dragon Warrior Monsters on the GBC being fun. It was a pretty shameless imitation of Pokemon, but some of the monsters were ridiculously OP. Kind of absurd.

Now hold on just a cotton picking minute. It was an imitation in just the sense that you had monsters to collect and those monsters are categorized into types but that's where the similarities quickly end.

Quick run down of the features of the first game

>You can only have three monsters in a party, meaning you have to be more careful with your selections and skills

>Combat was up to 3 vs 3 and you could manually select the moves your monsters know or program them to go on the offensive, debuffs\status effects, healing\buffs, or no skills at all which takes control out of your hand but allows you to use an item to either attack the enemies, bait them so they join after you beat them, or heal allies

>Monster breeding was a lot more in depth,you lose the parents and gain a child that starts at level 1 and is the monster family of the father but learns moves from both parents.

The breeding system was actually really in depth, they were exceptions and special results all over the place but the most important part is that you can make ANY monster end game acceptable by repeatedly breeding it so they gain additive stat bonuses and higher level caps.

I really could go on about this series all fucking day, DQM 1 was my favorite game as a child and still holds up. Shame the series has never left Japan and seems to be dead now but the sequels added all kind of neat shit to spice it up.

>>16928939

None

But just see how weird these niggers look?

>>16928950

I remember hearing World of Final Fantasy was a good game. In Slime Rancher you don't actually fight, unless you count spraying water at tar slimes fighting. Though that game is real addicting. I've never played a Youkai Watch game or even watched the anime but I always was curious about it.

>>16928950

The only problem with ARK is that the monsters have 0 personality, so they are all just disposable tools unfortunately, no friendship to speak of unlike the other series

You can add Spectrobes to the list since it's on the subject, the designs were pretty cool, a shame the series is dead

Monster Crown looks promising but it's not out yet.

>>16928988

Monster rancher's great because it has a couple dozen or so base monsters, but each one fuses into different variations. Kind of like that Pokemon Fusion idea, but Monster Rancher did it first. Plus in MR your monsters don't have stat caps, so you can train one to be infinitely strong with enough autism.

This means that you can unlock, say, the final boss, and fuse him with your own monsters multiple times. The only issue with the series is that there's not much of it these days. It was pretty fun. It always did experimental shit, like using the PS2's CD drive to generate monsters based off of the CD you used, and it worked with anything, even music CDs. There were also special monsters you could only get through this way in the game they did this in, namely these little power ranger sentai antlans. It was kind of random, but it also had bonus monsters you could get early if you put in certain games, and there was even a locked monster that you could only get by inserting an Xbox game disk. This means if you had some CD's lying around, you could get certain monsters from these CDs, kind of like Amiibo shit, but you didn't have to buy anything extra, you could literally use anything.