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To save a lot of time and effort, the relevant portions of the OP of the long-dead megathread from days gone bye; FredMSloniker posted:In the distant past of 1997, Tecmo, perhaps best-known these days for the Dead or Alive franchise, released a game on the Playstation to take on Nintendo's then-infant Pokemon franchise. Monster Rancher was quite a departure from the 'gotta catch 'em all' formula; you raised a single monster at a time, having it do odd jobs to raise it stats, sending it on training exercises to learn new skills, going on adventures to find ancient treasures, and battling in scheduled tournaments to advance through the ranks. In addition, your monster wouldn't live forever; you were encouraged to freeze it before its death, and if you did so, you could then combine it with another monster, creating a hybrid with (hopefully) some of the strengths of both of its parents. In 2010, Monster Rancher DS came out. It was pretty good, but was victim to a few game crashing bugs and is now exceptionally rare. Then, My Monster Rancher, a free to play mobile game with microtransactions!!!!! launched in 2011, before shutting down completely in 2014. Aside from 2 small Japanese-only mobile apps, My Monster Rancher was the final entry of the Monster Rancher series, with little hope for another entry in the series. That said, Monster Rancher, 2 especially, still hold a very dear place in my heart. Next year the series will be 20 years old, and I'd love to get the discussion started again. Monster Rancher Metropolis is still the best resource for information about each game in the series, though you have to deal with the archaic web design and forum post format to get any of it. Legend Cup also has a few resources like low-res pictures from the games and maps. Monster Rancher may very well be done, but as long as a pile of CDs litters the floor around a console, it shall never truly die. Bible Ian Black fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Jun 18, 2016 |
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LAMB LESSONS posted:This game popped into my mind for the first time in years today and I was trying to find something similar (and hopefully portable). So much for that I guess. Maybe I'll get one of those $5 android controllers and emulate. That might be your best bet. MRDS was actually pretty solid but is nigh impossible to find now.
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Shima Honnou posted:I loved MR2 a whole bunch. Probably my biggest gaming disappointment was playing MR4. Man, no idea how they hosed that up so bad. I never actually got my hands on a copy of 4. 3 was my last in the main series if you don't count DS, and I liked both of those. Was it really that bad?
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Holy poo poo thinking about it now, a friend of mine fresh out of college wants to make a (admittedly mobile-based) pet raising game to continue practicing animation. I could probably draft up a doc for a MR successor and convince him that he should make that, especially if I can show him that there's a market for it. e: looking at this now everything about this seems like a bad idea Bible Ian Black fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Jun 19, 2016 |
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Sorry to double but I'm hosting an MR2 tournament in Let's Play because replaying it by myself is a hollow experience now that I'm so good at the main game. It's here btw
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Monk E posted:You know one bit I always liked about Advance 2 that I haven't really seen people mention was all the extra character bits that opened up after you beat the game. It sort of reminded me of the stuff you'd see in a harvest moon game and was one of the reasons it was my favorite of the series. Advance 2 might actually be my second favorite game in the series. It's certainly the one I put the most time into next to MR2 (mostly because GBA emulation was super easy, but I also bought it when Gamestops in the area started kicking their last gen games into the clearance bins). It was probably the closest thing we got to a direct follow-up to MR2 as far as mechanics go.
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