>>732249881
Hell yeah I love 2 and Ultra Kaiju.

>>732249881
Best way to play this on PC?

>>732250780
DX port

>>732249881
It is. The second one was my favorite game as a kid. My parents had a huge collection of dvds and cds so i could just make monster after monster until i got one i wanted.

>>732249881
the card game was better

>>732249881
Why they stopped being made?

>>732254191
As the more mentaly weak started to game, the percentage of people who could handle a lifespan mechanic shrank.

>>732255251
no it's more because every game after 2 sucked shit so fucking hard it's unreal

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>>732249881
I kinda liked the show, but that's about it.
It's not as great as digimon

>>732254191
people don't own CDs or DVDs no more

>>732255483
Dang I was gonna try the DS one since I can’t emulate the other ones atm

>>732255483
Ultra Kaiju was good

>>732249881
DX lets you load discs by typing their name so that's probably the best

>>732249881
I WAS TRANSPORTED

I want to fuck Pixie and every single one of her main-breed versions
Especially Diana and Allure

>>732256093
i fucking beg to differ, the *concept* was good

>>732254191
>decline in quality in later games
>less people own physical games, and its not nearly as fun when you just enter a name like the gab games and the steam remaster
>cant bank on nostalgia nearly as hard as digimon or pokemon; you barely even have 3 iconic monsters and the anime sucked balls
>formula is pretty repetitive, and theres not enough variety

>>732256793
>like the gab games
gba***

>>732249881
tried the umamusume clone mobile game a couple of years back
why the fuck would they tie the max stat with monster rarity, probably to cash on the gacha whales but that was dumb as fuck

>>732255621
It had deeper lore than digimon.
>The entire world of monster Ranchers had a human civilization that was basically ours but with better tech.
>They created genetically modified creatures as pets.
>They created Moo and he basically sent humanity back to the stone age.

https://files.catbox.moe/8ndvvv.webm
I remember this show strongly, but never really played the games

I boughted 1 and 2 on steam. 3&4 fucking when?

>>732260261
nobody cares about 3 and 4

>>732260508
I do

Umamusume is literally just Monster Rancher with more story, more indepth mechanics and cute girls.

>>732260691
>no cool monsters
>no comfy setting
No thanks

>>732249881
>region-locked on PC like dragon quest XI
why are japs this retarded?

>>732257867
this reminds me that the EN dub of the opening is pure dogshit

>>732260691
>Umamusume
>more indepth mechanics
haha...

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>>732262410
Yes.

>>732249881
It was a large part of my childhood. I'm probably the only one here who put 1000+ hours into monster rancher 1.

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>>732254191
>Was already a super niche series in the west to begin with as Digimon and Medabots vastly overshadowed it. At best it was more popular than Fighting Foodons (Bistro Recipe).
>In Japan it's pretty much only surviving due to mobile games.
>Monster designs are all over the place and filled with reskins out the ass to pad the list out.
>Many of the monster designs are just straight up offputting to people like Suezo even if he is unique.
>The mainline games have the same issue Digimon World games do where the creature you are training dies/"retires" when the whole point of monster collectors is people want to collect monsters which further pushes people away.
>The few side games it does have are awesome like Hop-a-Bout, Card Battle GB, and Explorer, but they're relics at this point, only people who grew up with them ever heard of them.
>Series' entire gimmick relies on using CDs and DVDs to create new monsters when nowadays physical is going the way of the dodo (Slowly thankfully, but it's still happening) so the gimmick is now lost.
>Creating monsters from mp3 files or random strings of text does not hit the same at all.
It's a massive series of uphill battles.

I was literally the only person in my entire class that liked Monster Rancher, and this is a class of kids who loved Pokemon, had a few people who liked Digimon, and no one liked Medabots or Fighting Foodons whatsoever. Monster Rancher was even more niche than Fighting Foodons by me.
I also have to imagine 1&2 HD and Ultra Kaiju were them testing the waters, and while 1&2 HD did well we have no idea how well Ultra Kaiju did despite releasing it in all regions.

>>732262504
All that to calculate running in a circle. Aposed to freaks slapping each other.

>>732262712
That's just for a single skill on a specific Uma. I didn't say that it's necessarily more exciting, but it is more complex.

>>732262678
>Card Battle GB
Had a lot of fun with this one even if I was probably building shitty decks. I ought to try it again now that I have a much better grasp of card games.

I played it somewhat recently and trashed everything with a gaboo(?) i got from the market or something. I couldn't get the cd mechanic to work, it would just generate pixie which i assume is monster 1. Once you understand the fatigue mechanic the game is kind of solved. The combat is pretty unique but in the end 90% of the game is watching the same cut scenes of a monster dragging a rock up a mountain

>>732262884
>I ought to try it again now that I have a much better grasp of card games.
As an adult you basically end up spamming Wolf's Left Claw/Right Claw on repeat. Anything else is mostly unnecessary but Naga and Dino are obscenely overpowered. Anything that requires setup like Gali for example I always found really weak personally.

>>732262504
MR2 has ton of arcane shit. I could post random autistic looking chart/table from legendscup all day.
but we rarely ever get Monster Rancher threads, so I’d rather not argue about off-topic stuff

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>>732262504
monster rancher made a mobile game with umamusume's gameplay loop, but changed racing into monster duel
they play exactly the same

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>>732249881
if your country isn’t showing live Monster Rancher activity 24/7, you’re getting kicked from the guild

>>732262678
While all of this true the real reason I enjoyed these games was not the monster ranching but the esoteric conditions you would have to meet to unlock rare monsters. It really felt like you had found something when you unlocked a new breed by going on an expedition to a specific temple when the humidity was so-so and Jupiter was aligned with mars.

After 2, which was a king of this, they toned this down into the fucking ground.

>>732255251
the main issue with lifespans is they punish you for sucking. video games these days have the opposite mentality: if you suck, it gets easier, if you dominate, the bar is raised

>>732256793
>and the anime sucked balls
but I liked monster rancher's anime. it had absolutely nothing to do with the games at all though. digimon at least had the "trapped in the digital world, raise them, fight and evolve them" thing in common

>>732263673
unless you’re blowing money on items every single week on your first run, when your monsters die you usually come back stronger
more cash, better item choices in the shop, bigger barns, more monster breeds unlocked, more places to explore, etc.

it's basically a roguelite

Did anyone else used to constantly save to plan around that dreaded day your monster dies?

>>732263948
absolutely

I remember sleeping over at a friends house one night and all night we went through literally every single CD in his house to find the best monsters.

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>>732256967
Yaaaaawn
Deep as a puddle of piss. Better do the needful if you unironically enjoyed that steaming pile of.shit

>>732249881
I've enjoyed it, but I haven't got around to playing Ultra Kaiju. I've been having a bit of fun just casually playing MR1 on occasion, but checking out the breeding mechanics shows that there's stuff I just never understood anything about.

>>732263948
>Did anyone else used to constantly save to plan around that dreaded day your monster dies?
Yes, I used to do that. Much less now, since it's really boring and I'm not is such a hurry to clear S-rank anymore. I did that back in 2001, I'm fine with waiting on the current version.

>>732256967
I don't get how Monster Rancher's World being post apocalyptic makes it deeper than Digimon's, especially when it's a series that has multiple continuities with varying levels of writing. I like both though, Digimon's vpet style games and Monster Rancher do a thing most monster games don't which is actually make you feel like you're taking care of a monster.

>>732263838
Let's be honest the anime was pretty trash

>>732255483
The massive backpedal from 3 was kind of funny to see though. Because HOLY FUCK

>>732255621
sex with genki

>>732264173
Do you remember some good ones you found

>>732249881
>Menu based grind game
Why would I do that to myself? even worse than turn based JRPGs

>>732269448
Not that guy but in my house everyone (even my parents) enjoyed the game, to the point that every CD had got labeled with a sharpie with what monster was on it.

>>732250282
Loved kaiju game on switch. Piece of shit Koietecmo refuses to make physical release for monster farm collection even 1+2 is digital only. Crapcom treats it's classics releases better.

I loved the dead monster rancher thread

>>732249881
can you even emulate this properly?

>>732275859
Yeah, with Duckstation.