It's Monday once again. What monster collecting or monster raising games have you been playing? What upcoming ones are you looking forward to?
>>3949912How is mhs3? I want to buy it and play it when I have some time.
>>3949912I just finished a run of Black 2. Got bored of the post-game trying to get a Sunkern. I'm about to start a Platinum.
I love Maya so much.
God, I want to be dead soon.
>>3949964That's what the 6 month long thread was probably thinking
>>3949973Okay, man. I get it.
>>39499642030 is coming soon brother.
The Aethermancer update came out. Both of the new monsters are pretty neat and I'm very fond of Dullahan as I love status teams, I've had amazing success paring him up with Medusa. Still figuring out the Alchemist class, I've had some fun mixing up monster types and elements but I'm not sure when I'd ever change a signature trait.
>>3949994I still need to play it but I probably won't get around to it until after I beat Stories 3.
>>3949912i couldn't get into the original but this is so fun, i can't put it down.
Does the new game have any good shotas to continue the franchise tradition?
>>3950111There's Kol but that's about it in terms of important NPCs. Unless you count the flashbacks showing the male protag as a young kid.
Currently torn between Digimon Time Stranger and MH Stories 3, both seem like pretty big games and they're about as much as I'm willing to pay on a key site so will probably only get one for nowAny opinions on either? I know Digimon has been out for a while
>>3950229Digimon is getting a big update DLC in 2027
>>3950109its kinda hard to get into a gameboy game in 2026 even though the gameboy version is my favourite gaem of all time. glad you gave that version a try. its crazy that they never got this over seas. its such a great game. do you play on emulator? because this one and more often dqm2 3d got notorious problems on never versions of citra.
>>3950229That's a tough choice honestly.I think Digimon would generally last you longer, having multiple difficulty options and longer main story not counting side content.Stories 3 I think has a more satisfying gameplay loop, which more noteworthy challenges throughout. But if you don't do optional content it is shorter. >>3950250This is true. Though from what I've heard, data-mining has confirmed Stories 3 is also getting big content updates in the future too.
Just finished Stories 3.God damn is it good. 9/10, genuinely so close to being perfect and missing just a few things with a couple design hiccups that make it miss that mark.Final team. Finished with everyone at level 70-71. Final few fights managed to be genuinely challenging.
sad that it looks like we're not getting any crit, regen, or summon-types for the next aethermancer area>Bronze Lion: Shield / Age / (Purge/Affliction)>Caduceus: Sidekick / Heal / (Poison/Purge)>Ettin: Tank / Poison / Power (no listed shift)>Living Armor: Shield / Weakness / Affliction (no listed shift)>Philosopher's Stone: Aether / Tank / (Weakness/Burn)>Ranger: Dodge / Weakness / (Force/Sidekick)>Stiltskin: Sidekick / Terror / (Dodge/Shield)
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>>3950595Does having Dual mono element actually increase the STAB by two?
>>3950932From what I've heard, no. But it actually improves a monster's base weaknesses. Espinas for example has 2 arrows of weakness against Ice. But the Dual Fire Espinas only has 1 arrow of weakness against it.From what I know this is consistent across the board.
>>3950595The worst ofender is not being able to remove rathalos from the party. Imagine the backlash if digimon time stranger had agumon forced in the party or pokemon required you to have charizard in the party
>>3950960It's kind of baffling they did it for a third time. But without a post-game (yet) Ratha is genuinely stuck there taking a party slot. If they absolutely HAVE to have the forced Rathalos, they could've at least made him take up essentially a non-essential/guest slot like Aegiomon does in Time Stranger.And having finished the story, the super special Rathalos in his game feels especially tacked on and forced given how insanely unimportant it is for like 90% of the game. At least in Stories 2 the story genuinely centered around that super special Rathalos at basically every major plot beat.
>>3950934Thanks, I probably should get mono duals but I enjoy my funny coloured wyverns more
>>3950968Duals from other elements can still improve weaknesses if it's the right one pretty sure.Plus they do get the natural STAB for that element, and can make fishing for battle passives that have other elements as requirements have more benefits by boosting that element too.
Man my Bishaten has been carrying me so hard>fruit spam with sleep spam>get dodge up buff when feral/wyvern gets darkness>they dont ever get to do anythingjust need to find an inflict (L) and SIW (L)+ since he's still stuck with (M), probably a Quick (L) too so he can outspeed any wyvern, might not be the strongest build but it's so fun to see them just get stunlocked
I'm playing Pokemon Clover. It's as good as I remember it. I'm about to start Ebin Islands.I was going to change Ignut for Flower but will'o wisp is too useful. I'm surely going to change Caroline for Toxiraptor. Probably Vaultevour for Lankong if I can't find something cooler than a monke.
>>3949944I don't get the joke
>finally reached the ice zone in MHS3 so I can replace my Aurora Somnacanth with a cooler ice monstie>but then I'd need a swimmer and I really like my Shogun, so it has to be non-water>oh, Lagiacrus swims and I can replace my Tobi!>but then I'll need a climber...Argh, I wish I could remove Ratha for a 6th slot. Too many cool monsties are dragons with no exploration abilities beyond flying so half my team is redundant.
Narwa and Ibushi in MHS3 are so much harder than everything in the game it's nuts. I repelled them and beat them across two fights at around their level but didn't manage to kill them in one encounter until level 99.
>>3959590https://www.nexusmods.com/monsterhunterstories3twistedreflection/mods/143
>>3959778Oh nice, I've still got some story to do so I'll try this out after I get to the final boss but this is a godsend.
>>3949912Whats the best in the series to play? Should i start with 1 or is 3 new and improved?
>>3959925If you're only going to play one, play 3.If you want to eventually play them all, I'd say go in order, because the improvements made each game makes it increasingly harder to go back to the older ones.
>>39599251 is my favourite, especially in the post-game, but it is rough to go back to after how gene inheritance has been streamlined from game to game. Extremely grindy compared to 2 or 3.2 I'm really not a fan of. It's fine once you roll credits but it's the most on-rails, handholdy JRPG I've ever played until then. Endlessly frustrating to be thrown into big, open areas, walk towards something interesting, and have an NPC go "where are you going? It's this way!" because the game wants you to visit every point of interest in the order it has chosen for you.3 is extremely polished and improves on the core mechanics in pretty much every way, but has no post-game content and a smallish monster roster.
how is evocreo 2 havent played the first one
$60 CAD key for NA, hopefully the deal lasts long enough for those who see this and care.https://gg.deals/game/monster-hunter-stories-3-twisted-reflection/
https://youtu.be/xtdAS6X_qjEI don't even know what the fuck Level-5 is doing anymore. It looks like basically just another Yo-Kai Watch but with different characters and designs.And jesus christ the model downgrade from the reveal trailer to this is insane. These better just be placeholders.
>>3962698Its weird, you think japan still having a softspot for yokai watch (heck its beck years since their last game). LV5 is such a weird company, anytime they get decently well sales they do weird desicions.
>>3962613Update, it already came and went like the wind.
I told you temtem2 would get funded in record time. mon taming fandom is the most forgiving and crumb eating fandom.
>>3962740That's why MHS keeps jewing us whith the rideable monsters.
how is evocreo2...where at the mon designs..can i get a steel dinosaur...any waifumons............
mongen....
>>3962972I've only played evocreo 1. I don't think there's any waifuesque designs.
>>3962698>that npc guy in the leftJesus fuck it looks like one of those shitty mobile game ads
I've been playing Coromon. It gets boring pretty fast so I'm taking long breaks in between. Monster Hunter Stories 2 is really fun and I love it that is makes me think a lot about creating different combinations of teams and equipment. Anything to get me away from Pokemon. Any other recommendations are welcome. Something with a challenge preferably.
Whats the best engine to make one of these in
>>3964040>Anything to get me away from PokemonPokemon is still the best one, but I can agree with this feeling
>>3964079Godot
>>3964040Cassette Beasts is decently challenging but you need to adjust the challenge options. It's also kind of open-worldish. Some don't like the monster designs but even if they are nothing groundbreaking and their concepts are beyond overdone, they are ahead from most indie monggers (yeah it's that bad). The trainer designs are beyond crap, even those that aren't woke shit. If you care about pretty girls, there's one that's just ok and another one that almost never appears.WoFF is kind of mechanically weird but it's got money on it and good monsters.SMT Strange Journey is my favorite SMT. If you want something different from Pokemon that's the way.Dragon Quest Monsters is similar to SMT mechanically but with a Toriyama coat of painting. I like MJ3P(serious recolor problem), Coby and Tara for 3DS and Dark Prince. I don't like the DS ones but that's just me.Medabots is interesting but it's got some serious flaws like small maps with high to very high encounter rate. Medabots 3 for GBC has got the lowest encounter rate and an strange final boss. The PSX one is cancer.I would be lying if I tell you that Digimon games are worse than any game that I already mentioned but I don't like them. Maybe because I really like Digimon so I expect too much from it.
>>3964148Oh wait no. Devil Survivor is my favorite SMT. Strange Journey is second.
>>3964148>Cassette Beasts is decently challengingIt's only really hard if you play fair. The actual gameplay when you try to abuse it has absurd things like turn 0 wins against even the postgame super and challenge bosses. The battle system is very fun if you play it "normally" though.
>>3964530I can't cheese shit without guides so I played it normally too.
This game had a pretty good battle system until I discovered a broken move that beats 95% of enemies without much resistance. Sadly, Im not the type who likes to hold back and limit myself on purpose so the game is mostly ruined now for me. A shame.
>>3964740You don't really need to know how. It's kind of like Elden Ring in that you'll definitely stumble into something ridiculously strong unless you're trying not to. Like once you learn that walls block any instance of damage at all and that if they miss/get blocked skills don't apply status effects then every single Archangel fight becomes easy with one skill and that's just a basic mechanic.
>>3964851>you'll definitely stumble into something ridiculously strong unless you're trying not to.That's common for plenty of games. Even those that try to be balanced. Monster taming games are not known to be the pinnacle of the genre so one knows to expect something like that beforehand.I think I used walls but I didn't feel that they were that broken. Those were like substitutes I think. I'm pretty bad at games anyways.
Elizamon (and evos) in Time Stranger SOON
>>3964832is it that one dragon that forcefeeds enemies energy and then erases it fully and reverses their turn timer? it's been a while since i played but i remember it alone taking me through everything besides the last couple of fights
>>3965091Its the 7 second Confusion.
>>3965096i think that's the same dragon, but i could be forgetting another one that had a long confusion effect
>>3965111It was just from Raven, who you get super early. I noticed it was broken quickly, but it didn't become self-sufficient and infinitely castable until my Agility got high enough. Or just using the trinket that increases the duration to 12 seconds.
>>3965114oh, huhi was thinking of vemonrosa, which uses a whole skill rotation to lock the enemy out and you get at like early-midgame
>>3965119Im sure theres definitely more broken combos than just the Raven confuse then spam the all stat up and down thing, I just noticed Ravens the fastest is all.
>>3965027Sorry only the top 10 will be in. Jellymon for scalies couldn't make the cut
>playing DQMJ3 Professional>browsing through a fusion guide>there's a couple monsters I like that're seemingly unobtainable>look them up>apparently it was from a starter choice at the beginning of the game>didn't get any kind of choice like that>didn't even get any of the four starters that were apparently the potential options>my first monster was jailcatDoes the shitty english patch does some kind of insane Working Designs shit or am I just retarded?
>>3966737You aren't playing professional. Jailcat is a starter in the normal version.
>>3966758>spent 40+ hours on the wrong game because i wasn't paying attention to what i installed from hshop
>>3966774I played both versions of 3 and they're inferior to DQMJ2 and the 3DS remakes of the GBC games
>>3966780The J2 protagonist looks retarded and the J2Pro translation is even less finished.
>>3966782Protagonist looks cool and 2pro is the best dqm title
>>3966792>goten chia pet>cool
>>3966782Who cares about the human? The monsters are well done, and this trailer is cool.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B8WrmmmLxBQ
>>3966798I care about the human because it's who I'm playing as. I don't want to look retarded around the monsters because it's doing the monsters a disservice to drag down their image.Also, again, the J2P translation is menus-only, so it doesn't matter.
>>3966802>I don't want to look retarded around the monsters because it's doing the monsters a disservice to drag down their image.
Post Your Vidya Characters given Partner with Creatures Collector Monsters?
>>3966782They are both Toriyama faced dudes. One is angry Gohan and the other one is some sort of Trunks. They're both serviceable.Tori's style peaked on DQ4 and DBZ anyways.>>3966798Everything is important. Humans are another face of the game and faces need to look good.And I think humans should be designed in a certain way. If they are too cartoony or weird themselves, it undermines the monstrous aspects of the monsters. It needs to be perfectly clear who's the human and who's the monster. I mean, it's up to each one but the more shitty things you put in the game, the less people will be inclined to play it. It's not rocket science.
>>3966780polarity system makes j3 automatically better, thats hit sucked
>>3967529Tweaked models > recolour bloat
>>3967531the joker 3 roster having a few too many recolors does not nullify how AIDS the polarity system is
>>3967533The problem with the polarity system? I thought the polarity thing was a localization change but i could be wrong.
>>3967574It's just a needless and retarded way to restrict fusions and make progression more annoying for no benefit. J3 removes it entirely and it's better for it
for me its dqm2 remake, its the peak of the series
Anyone fucked around with the new update to No Man's Sky? Apparently makes the game into a /mon/ger.
>>3950689Tbf I feel like we have a lot of crit already. It's also one of the stronger traits when you build around it IME. That being said, I feel like poison and affliction are almost over-supported. Not sure how badly we need more monsters with those traits
Culdcept Begins to be released along a rerelease of the first Culdcept this summer, after 10 years since Culdcept Revolt. Felt more appropriate to post here than in the den of /his/ autists that is /vst/.In a better timeline, with a more deserved success, the art standards would be closer to Saga's and Revolt's, but i'll take what i can get.
>temtem 2 got 300% fundedDamn people really don't learn do they
>>3970942people still buy pokemon games, this shouldnt be a surprise, ZA was so ass compared to legends arceus yet it still sold, god consumers are such cucks
>>3970942Temtem was kind of the first indie game in the genre that got like, a LOT of attention back when it was new. And it's been long enough to where people have genuine nostalgia for it and still thinking it's more special than other games in the genre, and yeah.The Pokemon brainrot still applies if something is Pokemon enough to trigger it.
>>3967582j put it on my 2dsxl. never really played a dqm game. if i had more time i'd go through them in some order, but i keep seeing this is the most solid entry.
https://youtu.be/hlzQ931Zc9ESo basically a super customizable, super moddable Pokemon Stadium.Hope there's enough people into it to have a healthy modding scene. Would be pretty fun seeing like... Fossil Fighters vs SMT through this.
>>3972810That actually looks pretty good. Hopefully the modders will add bara furries as soon as possibleI wonder how long until Nintendo still try to sue them.
>temtem carbon copying how riding works in monster hunter 3Oh yeah...still not buying
>>3972810Looks very sloppy.We don't know how the battle system works either yet.Why can't they actually just use a different artstyle, ex. make them lovecraftian/grotesque monsters instead of trying to ape Pokemon's kiddy audience? This was made for the old compfags after all.
>>3974551I mean, Pokemon's audience is in no small part a bunch of manchildren.It's an unfortunate truth that most of the time indie Mon games only get significant traction if they appeal to the Pokemon crowd. Plus given it's focus on customization/modding, it's basically selling itself as a>here's a foundation, make your own experienceType of thing. Would like to see more but I'm tentatively curious to see how it goes.
Had no idea Monster Crown was coming out today. It's not normal for a bundle to be this much cheaper than the game by itself, is it?
>>3976945it's pretty normal, bundle discounts (the crossed out 20%) stack on top of regular discounts (the green 10%)
>>3949912>games get more and more mature looking
>>3962698I think Level-5 is simply spread thinly over too many projects. Decapolice is also still a thing.
>>3966737It kills me Final Remix is only Switch.
someone finally made a chao garden clonehttps://store.steampowered.com/app/1889810/Bobo_Bay/
>>3976945>had no idea monster crown was coming out todayYeah they announced it like a month ago. From some reviews it looks a little bit rushed but decent at least. It seems better than MC1.>bundlesIt's common moreso when it's a pretty big collab.
alright, it's been 1 (one) daywas sin eater actually any good or just a less buggy and nicer looking version of the first game
>>3949912Are there any monster catching games that are less anime-influenced and more influenced by classic Western fantasy?
>>3977952SMT Strange Journey, that one about dragons anons were talking before, Monster Hunter stories if you don't mind anime humans with non anime monsters.
>>3969084>Culdcept is still aliveHoly shit...
>>3977952I'd say Monster Sanctuary, Aethermancer, and Sirilim Ultimate all have a more Western feel to them.
>>3950595does it have way too much dlc like 2i wanted to buy 1 and 2 but games with mtx like that are only worth pirating and i cba lol
>>3978098So far all the DLC for 3 is just cosmetic stuff, just like for 2, but in Autumn there's gonna be actual story content of some kind in the DLC via a Rudy Side Story.
>>3976978Is this a good or bad thing? Or perhaps just a thing?
>>3978120Just a thing, they all look good in their own way.
>>3978120interesting way of maturing a series
>>3977809I'm liking it, but it's no Monster Sanctuary. There's practically no team building, since due to breeding you can get any type, attacks, passives and stats on any monster, and you can also change your type mid battle if the enemy has a attack that you're weak against. As an example here's an early game monster that through breeding has mid-late game stat growth, and attacks for all types. It has been very free of bugs though.
>trying to patch J3P for english to get it to work on my 3DS>too retarded to figure it outfug
>>3949986What's 2030? New game?
>>3978597we understand, you're monster sanctuary's dev
does monhun stories have waifus that I can romance
>>3979200You could head-canon something fairly easily in MHS3, but there's no real in game romance with your character. The other two games don't even hint at romance as far as I remember, but they are very clearly more oriented towards a child audience.
>>3979200yes
how's Farmagia?its $10 on Steam
>>3979297For me its Sarge.
>>3979297It's kind of surprising how little attention Pansy gets over on /v/. Or at least back when they had daily cat threads, they don't seem to be as common anymore.
>>3979583It's okay. I got bored of it after about 15 or so hours.
Anyone played Decktamer? I really like the concept of it.When you think about it you can play Pokemon as a card game with stats as well, just make the numbers smaller to make it more card gamey.
>>3979805The demo was decent
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4635810/Serial_World_Demo/Havent played it but its technically a creature collector I guess.
>>3979916I have "technically a creature collector" exhaustion. Steam should allow monster taming as a tag. Hundreds of people are still tagging to this day and the tag hasnt surfaced yet which points to somebody on steam manually preventing the tag from appearing.>captchaIs this a joke? What the fuck are they doing
>>3980103It has creature collector as a tag.
>>3980110I know but that includes whatever game where creature collecting is present.
>>3980114*even if this isn't a main feature like in a /mon/ game
>>3950229Bro Digimon Time Stranger was like my first exposure to Digimon. That game blew my effing mind it was insanely good creature collector. Im not sure I can ever play Pokeslop again desu...
>>3980116Whether the amount of games or its popularity is causing everyone to hate Pokemon these days, I will never call Pokemon slop compared to Digimon's inconsistent and messy RPGs
>>397780920h in. I think the game is fine, I'm enjoying it but I am also genuinely autistic. It's Build-A-Bear workshop but instead of bears it's eldritch chimeras with DBZ attacks. It's absolutely Monster Crown+ though.Pros>Do whatever the fuck you want.>After beating the first King and getting Surf you can go wherever the fuck you want.>You can breed whatever the fuck you want. Turn your starter and shitmons like Laz and Apo into behemoths.>Writing is a bit better, a few NPCs and Sidequests were really good.>Finding your first Crown Demon (please don't look it up, this was magical to experience blind.)>Music is god-tier Cons>Combat System falls apart quickly, you become OP the second fusion unlocks if you know what you are doing.>First few hours of the game are very slow and grindy.>Actually there is a lot of grind, especially on higher difficulties. >Story is better than Monster Crown, but it's an edgefest trying to imitate SMT. Granted, some story beats are pretty good and some side quests are amazing.Possible cons for some people.>The game is intentionally cryptic.>Big open world, with overworld mobs are worth pitiful amounts of exp. You'll mostly be living in dungeons to grind.>Sandbox aspect may be frustrating to players used to having objectives and directions.>Combat boils down to sending out Satan himself to press the shiny big damage button (crowned).>Much less like Pokemon than Monster Crown was. (This is a pro for me desu)
>>3980118Your standards are way fucked bro
>>3980378Sounds like a great game then. I've seen some complaints about balance and what not but overall at least in this one is a game you can finish. The crown attacks sounds like monster hunter stories gameplay which I dig.
>>3980555Not really, the standard of the worst Pokemon game is still much higher than the best Digimon game.Digimon fans doesn't even have a de-facto standard of what makes a good digimon game.
>>3980619Nah
>>3980644Agree to Disagree since you didn't try to convince me. Believe me if you have a good enough argument I might agree
>>3950229I would go with Time Stranger, really fun
>>3950229I've only tried the demos of this game and I enjoyed MH Stories 3 more. Having said that time stranger is on discount I think
>>3980114sadly that's how most steam tags work unless it's a major tag like first person shooter
How are the DS Digimon games? Dusk/Dawn
>>3981107With all the collect cats and snails and fish games, the tag is getting too out of scope, but I'll try scrapping the store and comparing counts before I say anything else.
>>3981113I don't like any of them. The JRPGs felt mindless, but I hate Dawn and Dusk more because I keep getting lost in their mazes, and Championship feels unfinished.
>>3981113They are fine, Dawn and Dusk are a bit grindy and have huge mazes easy to get lost.These issues were mostly aleviater in Lost Evolution but they introduced a new one because fuck you why not : evolution plated.Now you need to find the "lost evolutions" and play a touchscreen minigame to clean them under a time limit, its a fucking headache.Tip: just cheat, find cheatcodes online to give yourself infinite time and clean the plates at your own pace, if you are ok with that you will have a pretty decent game
>>3981799>aleviateralleviated*
>>3950595i enjoyed it, and got everyone to ~70 too.but the story and writing was extremely bad, easily the weakest link
>>3982113>but the story and writing was extremely bad, easily the weakest linkReally? I guess they can't make a good story for this series then.
>>3981799the best thing about the DS digimon games is the sprite artthere was a fan-project of remaking D/D with a bunch of new digis but i guess it went nowhere
>>3982861The isometric maps are nice too.It's like Megaman Battle Network but as a monster tamer game.
>>3983040But Megaman BN was fun.
Does anybody here like the tournament aspect of Monster Rancher? What would you change about it?
>>3983406I like that its default is the round robin. Honestly, the only thing I would change is adding fights outside the tourneys. So if you're low on money, want to grind an attack, or are testing something out, you don't need to wait.
>>3983053World DS, Dawn/Dusk was fun too, but I do think the dungeons and areas could have had more things to do.MMBN was nice but I prefer Turn based RPGs.
>>3983539I disagree immensely. I think the battles in the DS story games were phoned in, and the BN battle system was one of the best.
>>3983675Like I said, "I prefer turn based RPGs" is a disclaimer, I think those games could've been done better.But even so I still believe the Story games had structure and consistency that other Digimon games fail to replicate.
>>3982113>>3982232I thought it was fine. Nothing spectacular, but better than the first two games. Not that that's exactly a high bar, but still.In general though story is the last thing I look for when it comes to Mon games, it's pretty consistently the genre's weakest aspect, more than likely because it's harder to make specific narratives out of extremely customizable/interchangeable parties.
>>3983790call me crazy but i expect the story to be good in a story game.
>>3983795Fair enough. I just know where to set my expectations when it comes to this genre specifically.I will say that probably the strongest aspect of the story was the ending, delivering on the tragedy of that situation effectively.
>>3983796shame the game wasn't better received. there would have been more lewds of your kouhai
>>3983799>wasn't better receivedHuh? It was widely praised. Monster Hunter in general just isn't really a franchise that gets that kind of art because people like the monsters more than the humans.
>>3983805>the franchise doesn't get that kind of artis this a lie? let me check briefly... >there are two hundred monster hunter doujins on nhentai translated into english>and over 26,000 results for monster hunter on rule34. >this is a similar amount to re:zero (27000), elden ring (26000), and around as much as every zelda game combined (32000), notably more than double botw (10000).you are hallucinating like an ai chatbot
>>3983805Anon have you even stepped in mhg? It's all huntress and fem blacksmith porn
>>3983808And how many of those pics are for the monsters? Y'know, the point that I made that people care more about the monsters than the humans?I never said MH doesn't get ANY porn, just that, compared to other franchises, it doesn't have that same kind of appeal. Hence the 'in general' before the 'doesn't get that kind of art.'>>3983825I used to but stopped going once the World vs Rise cancer completely overtook any discussion. Also all that spawned almost exclusively post-World. You get the occasional piece here and ther from gens 1-4, but stuff like nude mods and whatnot didn't exist until World.
>>3983827>how many [lewds] are for the monsterswhy didn't you check?of course it's basically zero. have you played the games? they are grotesque and bestial.why are you like this. you make stuff up, then you make more stuff up, do you ever connect to reality? anyway, it's a shame the game wasn't better received. you can check how well a game is received by looking at the amount of art made for it. in the case of monster hunter 3, there is basically no art let alone lewds. it's actually a pretty interesting metric, because as measured by this, wilds was not very well received either. it sold a lot of copies, but with that many copies it has a lot fewer lewds than expected.
>>3984769>they are grotesque and bestial.to clarify, i mean the monsters in monster hunter stories 3 are such.it is not like pokemon where they are humanoid or cute, the monsters in mhs3 look like dinosaurs. of course all of the content is about the humans, elves, and the weird cat onahole thing
>>3984769>>3984770I don't bother checking because people can't tag for shit. Trying to filter out humans and first page human characters are still showing up.Also your point about Wilds is especially stupid because out of the 26000 result for MH, 2900 are for Wilds. That's over 10% of the results coming from the newest entry. It's also more than Rise (2700) and almost DOUBLE of World (1800), aka the newfag holy ground for MH.So not only is your entire premise of 'porn = well received' retarded, your example to try and prove it is factually wrong.btw out of the first 10 result for the MH tag, 6 of them are of monsters, and 2 or of felynes. You're double wrong about people not wanting to lewd the monsters.
Playing through Touhou Artificial Dreams in Arcadia. I know SMT is all about killing your darlings but the 'mon churn is pretty insane in this one. Currently chewing through the Animal Hell, not sure if I'll stick with it to the true ending honestly. Exploration is also a pain in the cock because the encounter rate is genuinely insane, like every 4-7 steps.
>>3981799>Dawn and Dusk are a bit grindy and have huge mazes easy to get lost.I really never understood the main complaints about the Digimon Story games. Almost all of the grind in the DS games was back loaded to things that most people probably didn't even do, it was only ever the postgame content and specifically the final boss of the first World DS game that needed anything more than normal progression. The maps too are very simple dungeons like pic related, despite people trying to paint them like they are obscenely large dungeon crawler mazes.Digimon discussion online is always strange like that, I suppose. It always feel like the criticism from people only comes from those who don't play them much or refuse to engage with any of the combat mechanics so they had to rely on grinding. Not just for Story either, World cops so much as well. Like how with Time Stranger you had tons of people complaining about how easy it was only to find out that they've been abusing the farm mechanics by grinding money, grinding scan data intentionally or using bugs like the broken health personality skill.
>>3985580TORIFUNE and the final floors of Dreamer's Monolith are absolutely sadistic. Fucking Christ.
>>3985580>>3986369play more drpgs
>>3980675>>3980619Time stranger is fucking boring. The story is also ass.
Steam added tags for 'Wolf' and 'capybara' but still no Monster Taming tag.
Played the https://store.steampowered.com/app/2261430/LumenTale_Memories_of_Trey/ demo. Not all the way to the end but about an hour.Was interesting although it lacks QoL (specifically, no battle speed option) and has some questionable UI decisions. Also it appears to have IVs, Natures, and Abilities which Im...not a fan of. Abilities can be okay at least but I didnt unlock any kind of Pokedex to check what Abilities they can have, if the games Pokedex would even allow for that at all.
>>3989202Also it sounds like Im hating but I did like the demo, I just need battle speed options and a better UI. I nearly went through the entire demo without realizing you can upgrade moves and allocate stats because the UI is so bad.
Well, along with Dragon Quest XII finally being revealed, they're also doing another DQMonsters. So that's neat.
>>3990910Hopefully they go back to the original style instead of the skill points build bullshit. They won't but a man can dream.
Should I play Digimon Time Stranger or Devil Survivor 2 record breaker?Been in the mood for something monster taming/catching related.
>>3990941Beasieball.
>>3990949https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kiA_wC01KKo
>>3990950
>>3990941Desu2 ofc.Only play Digimon games if you are out of games to play.
>>3990941DS2 definitely, TS is quite good though
Monster Rancher and Medabots are doing a collab in their mobile games.
>>3992846Good now make an actual pc or console game for fucks sake.
>>3992935Medarot has that card game coming out soon
>>3977013I've just discovered this. It's pretty simple and there's really no challenge to it other than trying to get every saga done by a single bobo without a fake ID, but it definitely feels nice to essentially bring back the only thing I liked about the Sonic Adventure games
new cassette beasts game
>>3994988While not my favorite, still nice to see.
>>3994988I hope this promo means they heard the players and revamped the art. Of course it could be a bait to own the chuds later on.
>>3994988>>3994992>>3995027https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPdmrsYjvv0It looks ok, the character designs are pretty modern west as the original but the gameplay was fun.
>>3994988Cal arts tier artstyle never clicked with me, but good for you guys
>>3994988Please add a battle speed option this time.
>>3995031Are they removing the character creator...? I dont want to play as that bitch.
>>3995054No. Her dialogue is clearly talking to someone, which implies the protagonist of the second will be the same as the protagonist from the first game.Plus the first companion from the first game was also the primary character in promotion, so this is just more of that.
>>3995031Only the poster girl is cute, if that's a girl, but at least the artist this time knows what he's doing.
>>3995031>privated videowut?
>>3995166It was supposed to be released on the 7th, but someone posted it early
>>3949912Rathalos a cute
>>3995671Capcom...
https://youtu.be/gKum7LqFi1sPalworld full release dropping on July 10th.In all honesty, despite my initial hangups of it, actually playing it, I have a good time, and have been waiting for 1.0 to play it again.
>>3995809What thread would it be? It's a mon game.
Did anyone here ever make a /mon/ list with all the decent monster collecting games out or upcoming?
>>3996624Look in the archive for the post after Monster Taming Direct 2025
>>3994988Really looking forward to this
im so sleepy
>>3994988Why 2002?
>>3997201I imagine because the first game had a 80/90s aesthetic and this game is gonna be more 2000s.
>>3997776Okay, but why 02? I'm presuming it's not 2001 because of the 9/11 jokes, but why not, say, 2004?
>>3998050Probably a play on being the second game. They could have said "Cassette beasts 2K" and it would have been okay as well.
Voidling Bound is out. Played for a bit, only non-demo Voidling I'd used is Nimiod, the jellyfish one. So far pretty happy with the variety. Even just the default bird, I maxed out one fire path and it unlocked a passive that makes it run faster while shooting, which feels great.Also while there are some invisible walls, you can get in some pretty funky places in the Exploration Missions. I'm honestly surprised they expected someone to climb this, putting a secret bird that just gives some Research points.
>>3998071Got too much on my plate at the moment, but hopefully it sells well and gets some nice updates in the meantime.
>buying the dark prince and DLC may have actually brought on the next game>its multiplatform on releaseI'm glad this spin off is still kicking. There's Watabou in the trailer too. I miss the rivalry between him and Warabou. I'm also very glad they dropped the legendary monster thing from the DS games. I'm excited. Are you guys excited?https://youtu.be/3LpaL4ezuww?si=9JyKZxKDP_I_zBB_
>>3998696Yeah, pretty excited.It took me a bit to notice, but the overworld they shown was super simplistic, with a top-down view rather than the 3rd Person the games have been since they went 3D.It makes me wonder if it's gonna be closer to DQM1 in terms of having randomized locations you visit from a hub.
>>3998696>day 1 paid mole DLC againHonestly, I'm very disappointed.
>>3998696Its alright
>>3998699This is the only franchise I will still make excuses for.>60k views on both trailers combinedIf it keeps the game alive I will buy the DLC. At least the mole DLC is actually worth playing and now some cosmetic shit. Obviously being locked out of endgame without it is fucked but idc. Being able to keep playing the games 30 years later is good enough. If it's overpriced so be it.
>>3998696>DQM with the DQ5 brides but as little girlsThis game was literally engineered to accommodate to my highly refined tastes. Too bad Deborah can be chosen as player character.But it's sad that they get to go to a magical monster adventure as kids while the Hero gets enslaved and forced to work.
>>3998071The exploration missions have a 'beat in a certain amount of time' goal, and already they seem pretty strict. I went Out of Bound and skipped most of the level because I honestly didn't think it'd be possible to beat in that time, at least not without being overleveled. Another one I beat with less than one second to spare.Honestly I can't even tell how intentional it is for how easy it is to get OoB. Given the 'unstuck' button in the pause menu, I guess they just decided to say fuck it let players fuck around wherever they can manage to get.
The devs from pokemon wilds fangame are making an actual mongame but it looks a bit sloppy with a 2.5 roblox artstyle, I'm very mixed about it. Wilds was great but this doesn't look that good.
>>3950689as it turns out this is inaccuratei based it off what types the submissions posted for the contest had them as but the devs are changing them. for example, ettin is now>Echo (new type) / Tank / Weakness
>>3998936Reached the final boss. Even on normal difficulty it took three tries with my best Voidling, even if it was 100% because of this damn laser beam that absolutely shreds your health if you get caught in it.There is more content after it, but level 20 is the max level for the Voidlings and that's been hit. While I enjoyed my time with the game and still have plenty more builds to try out, I do think the game definitely needs more content, and I hope it gets it.Especially since I can tell I've only skimmed the surface of builds. This guy for example has a self-damage-on-melee-attack for more damage effect, but I added a heal-on-melee-hit passive from another Voidling. And it indeed healed off the self-damage. There's definitely potential, and while the post-final boss content might push enough to use it, I do wish there was more game before that.
>>3998696>first DQM that might have my husbando Booga>also the first DQM with only female playable charactersshant be buying
Are the 3ds dqm remakes actualyl good?
>>4001056The remake of DQM2 is a direct upgrade in every way.
>>3994988how was the first game, any good?
Today is the 20th anniversary of Digimon World DS and the Digimon Story series.
Any good demos in next fest?
>>3986691steam tagging system is run by complete fucking retards
>>4003167Exactly
Don't die!
>>4001158It's excellent in every way except balance and writing. Balance wise you won't really struggle until postgame, even casual players will only occasionally struggle and even then mainly because of a bad match up. The postgame train/battle tower thing can be difficult if you're not purposefully trying to break the game however. For people who play games a lot you'll find it's easy to build broken builds that AI can't really deal with. The saving grace is that it has a lot of unique moves and skills to play around with..The writing is salvageable, it's just very disjointed and simple since the game is very open ended. You can technically reach the final area without even doing a bunch of the game and you can imagine how that affects how much the ending hits you emotionally, but overall it's a nice storyline with a satisfying ending. I think it's best aspect is how down to earth the characters are, gives it a very human feeling to it that contrasts well with the alien-like entities you encounter at the risk of sounding pretentious.
>>4001158It's more interesting than "Use fire move on grass type, ohko." that's for sure. There is STAB and a type advantage bonus, but it doesn't matter nearly as much.
The two Nexomon games are on sale on the Eshop. Are they any good?
>>4004856I liked Nexomon Extinction at first until I saw the move tutor, which shows every move a mon can learn, and saw how insanely uninteresting all the moves are.
>>4004856It's bare bones desu and genuinely hate the cat and 4th wall humor in it.
>>4004856Extinction is okay, I guess. It suffers from being an actual Pokemon "clone" so it's as boring as Pokemon is in PVE and the level scaling is fucked up in the unfair way (or was near launch), but overall it's fine for cheap. I liked the world and visuals, but the characters weren't really interesting.
>>4004856Only played the second one, it's alright
>>4005231The cat and 4th wall humor are actually the only things I liked about it.
Is Dokimon any good? It is really cheap.
>Rudy's chapter involves resurrecting Navirou from crystalAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAoh nergigante's there nice
Fuck navirou and fuck rudy
Fuck navirou except the other kind of fuckRudy isnt cute
Anyone tried lumentale yet?
>>4007407still only >>3989202I haven't paid any attention to updates since then to see if they've fixed or are working on the issues I had.
>>4007416Well, theres this I guess.
>>4007407I'm seeing around 30-40% negative reviews which makes me think it's probably good if you ignore most issues, so I'll just wait for them to patch before I buy
>>3949912I was playing Yu-Gi-Oh! Monster Capsules normally until I gave up and cheated my stats. The jump in difficulty after the 4th floor is just insane. Before that the only hard boss was the Great Moth because it also had some Silver Fangs out of nowhere. The Curse of Dragon was also pretty easy but then Panik just straight up murders you and none of the battles on the floor were winnable with my nearly level 20 Great Pa as my main monster.I stopped playing in the lightning graveyard because I have no clue where to go to progress and the constant stream of random battles is tiring. Was a pretty fun game up to this point. Guess the rest of the Early Days set of games are adjacent enough that I can also bitch about Dark Duel Stories with the terrible rock paper scissors 200 attack monsters can just gobble up your 1600 fusions. The second one is even more bullshit since it has the same duelist level and rock paper scissors but now you need to offer summon and you can't attack the same turn as you make a fusion. Duel Monsters was great though after I got a bunch of warriors off Jono. Going to give the rest of the games a fair shake but I will probably just end up replaying World Championship and go back to FM.
>>3980116Lol I had the same experience. The dialogue was jrpg mid, but the plot for that game was insanely well crafted and mind shattering. The gameplay loop was peak creature collector.
I want to try time stranger and mhs3 but I dunno which one. I kinda like mhs3 a bit more but Time Strange is much cheaper, which one should I get?
For the last week and a half or so, I've been playing a fuckton of Dragon Quest Monsters 2 (3DS). It's so fucking good. I get why it's such an underrated monster game, but I wish it wasn't the case. ATM I'm in the post-game just breeding cool monsters. I mean I have the post-game dungeons I gotta beat, but my current wall is the Gillgush in the Sea God Temple. So I'm just grinding to get the couple of guys who I think can kill that fucker to the appropriate level.
I recently got Farmagia, not what I expected but for $8 its not bad
>>4013469for me, it is one of the greatest game ever made. probably my most repalyed game along with DQ9 and monster hunter 3u.
Is it viable in Time Stranger to keep your guys/use mons you like? I’d much rather keep a Goblimon line in my party than continuously swap to optimal mons I’ve seen a lot of comparison between Time Stranger and SMT, my biggest turnoff in SMT was that you’d just swap off your mons fairly often to get whatever specific skill/resistance you needed for a boss.
>>4014705After slight research I should’ve done before posting it seems anything is viable with enough grinding This little fucker’s gonna take over the world
>>4014709and use of the farm that allows you to increase stats
mongame with plappable mons where
>>4015918There's ShotaXMonsters 1 and 2, but the monsters might not exactly be fuckable for you personally since it's a pretty laser focused demographically. Still surprisingly good games.
>>4016017NTA but if they were shortstack male mons instead Id be interested.
>Download demo of MonHun Stories 3>Fall Asleep right before the end of the saleShould I buy MHS3 for the gameplay or MHS2 for the UOU protag?>>4017020>croppedso where can I find the rest?
>>4017070https://exhentai.org/g/3620338/8d9be26ab7/Hope this isn't a dead dove situation.
>>4017070The discount was nothingburger. Wait till it goes to 40%
>>4017154Yeah, Capcom does sales often enough and it'll definitely start getting steeper discounts by the end of the year, next summer at the latest. Oh, has anyone touched that DLC expansion they just released for MHS3?>>4017070So far, the Stories subseries has predominately gotten better gameplay-wise. Going backwards isn't quite as rewarding as starting with an earlier game and watching it evolve. If you want to be in for a penny in for a pound, might as well start with 1.
Welp. Beat my first playthrough of Palworld 1.0.Decided I wanted to do a melee-only build to take a break from using the same guns every playthrough. New Pal skills and weapons made that way more viable. Man. I remember being a day-one hater back when those first trailers dropped. Continuing to do so once it first launched in Early Access. Months go by, still hating. But then finally trying it myself. Took some time to get into the groove of it, but my first time seeing Xenovader was when it felt like I was seeing the potential the designers had.More updates come by, keep playing and getting more and more into it. Until the 1.0 release became my most anticipated game release in quite some time.And man, it actually delivered. Overhauled stuff to make things like more unique team comps more viable, general QoL, the new Pals which are pretty god damn stellar all around, and new boss fights that were genuinely really cool. The Tree really delivered on the wait to visit it too.All in all, I think I could honestly give the game like a 9/10. And I'm already thinking of what I want to do for my next playthrough. Been thinking of doing Ground Pals only.
Anyone play Aethermancer? How is it?
>>4018064I liked it. If you played Monster Sanctuary then it's very similar. Obviously it's a roguelike, and it has a progression system vaguely similar to Hades where you get currency from doing runs and spend it on permanent upgrades to make future runs easier. Combat is fairly similar to Monster Sanctuary with the same level of balance between monsters, and similar to Monster Sanctuary you can pretty effectively build around any specific monster you want. It also has the "pick one of these three upgrades" leveling system similar to Mewgenics, instead of a proper skill tree, but the game weighs what you can roll based on your party composition so you don't really fail runs because of bad RNG.
>>4015918Forest of the Blue Skin
Why does it take so fucking long to get to agent lvl 3 in time stranger.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC0FztK5JHwDQMJ2 Pro translation finally released
>>4021463Guess I have something to look forward to, lost my save after finishing it untranslated
>>4013469fantastic taste.
>>4013469Post montner
>>4023044I've been playing the game on my hacked 3DS, so I hope you can stomach pics taken from my phone.This is the first Montner that I made.
>>4023046Then I got bored and wondered if reformatting him would reset his stats or something so I turned him into a crab man because Digster and Cancer Man are two of my favorite DQ monsters.
>>4023047And because I eventually beat the post-game, I made my 2nd montner this. On that topic, because I killed the final final boss, I think I'm just done with the game. It was all pretty easy because I had this metal scorpion I rebirthed that just would tank everything. But now all that's left is the daily battle at the arena and that once-a-day 100 battle endurance challenge. I assume one of them is how I get the Aztech I need to complete the final quest from Cobi's dad. The guide I've recently been using just says "battle prize". But there's no legend or whatever to explain what battle it's a prize from.The two main monsters I want because they're cool are Dierantula and the Dimensional Dragon. Both require getting lucky with RNG. Scouting the Wormonger needed for the Dierantula won't take more than a day. But filling the StreetPass Dream Egg using NetPass takes like 2 or 3. Then I also need to get lucky that it hatches into one. And it only comes from rainbow eggs, so that's another thing I need luck to acquire. I'm gonna go to bed now. And I doubt I will play more DQM 2 3DS tomorrow. If I am going to play more DQM, it will be Joker 2 Pro because it's finally in English.
>>4023049How do the streetpass/online features work on a hacked 3DS? And how much stuff is inaccessible now that online is dead?
>>4023448I don't know about anything Wi-fi related. Because it's dead and Pretendo and other Pretendo don't work. In order to get StreetPass to work, you need to use the universal updater to download Netpass. That uses the net to simulate StreetPass. But if you want passes for a specific game (especially obscure ones) you need to use the back alley and buy them with play coins. But you only get like 4 a day for some fucking reason. So it works, but it's slow.
Does Culdcept count as a mongrel? Because I'm playing it and it's pretty fun.
DQM J2 PRO feels like one of those ROM hacks that just adds more stuff and revamps everything in a weird, alternate-reality way. Which is cool as fuck until you remember that they charged 30 bucks in yen for it.I'm enjoying it a lot still. It's fun to see everything and go "I remember this, but that is different"
How is the difficulty in Time Stranger?I'm really looking for something similar to Monster Sanctuary where I need to build a synergistic team
>>4026547Oh and I know about Aethermancer and Siralim already
>>4026547It has a few moments but all-in-all if you bring the counter to whatever boss you're fighting, it's pretty easy even on Hard.Best way to get a difficult experience is if you purposefully bring teams that are weak to the bosses. I did a Data-Only run and it was pretty hard given most of the boss fights are Virus. Really required I used buffs/debuffs and brought Digimon for attack/defensive roles.But even then, I was also playing with an extra challenge of not using reflecting skills, or damaging Cross Arts. So you really do gotta self-inflict difficult onto yourself with Time Stranger.
>>4026698Thanks for the answer, guess I'll have to wait for the next Aethermancer update again...
>>4027069I think Time Stranger is still a game worth experiencing because the combat is still satisfying enough when you get it right, and the evolution mechanics can be almost addicting.But if difficulty is a big factor for you, then yeah fair. It's never the most important thing to me so long as playing the game itself is enjoyable.I actually still gotta boot up Aethermancer again, haven't since before this major update.
>>3949912Palworld, been taking a break from Monster hunter world and god eater resurrection
>>4033079>Inb4 not RPGThey are in my heart
>>4026547>>4026698>How is the difficulty in Time Stranger?I think it's more than fine if you just play it straight through without grinding, there's multiple very notable difficulty jumps and it will always require buff/debuff management. The game is actually designed with zero grinding in mind, but that has it's own issues of making the game too easy if you're the type to occasionally grind for hours mid story I suppose.
>play the first Nexomon>find it an extremely barebones Pokemon-like with a shitty rarity system>also find the writing just awful in general>get Nexomon: Extinction when it's all sale for super cheap>get around to playing it>overall looks better, but so far still feels mostly the same>already getting the same 4th wall breaking, 'erm that just happened' type writing>even redo the whole 'wow stop doing the Zelda item get pose you weirdo again from the first gameI am prepared to be completely whelmed by this game.
Restarted Digimon World: Next Order semi blind cause i dont have all the evolutions memorized.Ended up with fucking double Guardromons as my champions with no save file far enough to get anything else. Instant alt f4
>>4033079is it any good?
>>4034581Nexomon extinction was actually fun, BUT the millennial humor really ruins almost all enjoyment you'd get out of it>>4039791Depends of what you play a mon game for, if it is for the battles themselves then being unable to tell your pal when to use a move is a deal breaker (seen a lot of people complaining about the player fighting alongside the pals instead of the pals doing all the fighting), but if it is actually raising and living alongside your pals then it is a pretty good time (however I wish there was more interaction besides petting and sleeping with them)
>>4040000>being unable to tell your pal when to use a move is a deal breakerI mean all the mount Pals you essentially get that experience. And like almost half of the Pals in the game are mounts.>>4039791I think part of Palworld's appeal is that there's generally always something to do and work for. You can work on improving your base, your team, grind for materials, schematics, duplicate Pals for condensing, or just general exploring and going into dungeons. It's a pretty freeform game with enough intended objectives to not be totally aimless. I also honestly think the breeding system is one of the best in the genre.
>>4040000>it is for the battles themselves then being unable to tell your pal when to use a move is a deal breakerI mean, that's a core part of it. In terms of the "aesthetic" they're that way intentionally to make them feel more like real animals just like how the Pawns in Dragon's Dogma don't have perfect AI.In regards to gameplay you're supposed to play an active role with them, not just watch. You can equip them with weaker low cooldown moves so they're always attacking, switch them out constantly to work around cooldowns, move them around the field to dodge attacks with the spheres, mount them for direct control and switch them in specifically to use their active abilities like holding them as a flamethrower. It's got more interaction in the gameplay department than most mon games, if that's what you care about.
It's been years since I played the original DQM J2. Is this a Pro addition? Because I remembered this part of the post-game being recycled Necropolis assets.
>>4042134no
>>4013469Never bothered with the 3DS version after playing Joker and that new one on the switch and being turned off by the design changes. Is it closer to the original or closer to newer ones with variablle sizes and skill trees and that crap?
>>4042760It's like the Joker games, not the GBC games. That's why it's the best. Scouting monsters is possible because it isn't just RNG. Also, what fucking tree. It's just 1 line you fill. I mean, there's bullshit where skills can be combined if you have the right combo maxed out when you breed, but that's some advanced-level shit that the majority of people don't know exists.
>>4043018The Talents system in Dark Prince is specifically what I'm thinking of. Absolutely despised fucking with that.
>>4039791As a survival craft Palworld is like an 8/10, but as a creature battler its like a 4/10 at best.
>>4024586I like Culdcept Revolt. I'd say it basically counts though it's pretty atypical.Also more people should play Magi Nation.
I feel sorry for yokaibros....
>>4051347I like how the protagonist clearly doesn't want to bother and it's noted idiot Jibanyan who's into her.
>>4051347Classic Level 5 competency at work
>>4051347>not bad enough that YKW is basically dead in every sense besides a Japan-only mobile game>not bad enough that it's getting replaced with 'new IP' that basically looks like the same general concept but worse>not bad enough that Level-5 is openly pro-AI>but also the most relevant and talked-about YKW has been in probably years at this point is over a humiliating collab with fucking RENT-A-GIRLFRIEND of all thingsHonestly I think at this point Fossil Fighters has been usurped for 'Most Murdered Mon Game' ever.
Meanwhile Medarot S (the one that plays more like the actual Medarot games, not the weird Vampire Survivor clone) is doing a GaoGaiGar collab (and has even had collabs with other /mon/ franchises like Digimon and Devil Children). Still mobile crap, but small victories are better than no victories, I suppose.
We are very close to MTD 2026, expectations?
>>4053933>expectationsnone really
>>4053933None but Cassette Beasts and the new DQM are sure quality so it's not need to be dramatic about it.
>>4054512I'm a bit worried for Cassette Beasts with the new song being a massive downgrade and that they can't do the Archangel reveal or gimmick the same way desu, but I'll choose to be hopeful since the first game and Lenna's Inception were kino.
>>4017099>https://exhentai.org/g/3620338/8d9be26ab7/hey i know its been a month since you posted this but just wanted to let you know i just nutted to it, thanks anon
>>4054759You're welcome.
>>4054732nta but I agree about the new song, although I'll probably end up singing along to it while playing like last time
>>4054732>>4054778>haven't listen to it yet>listen to it cause of these posts>it's just a Crush 40 Sonic songkek. I don't hate it though. I'm glad they're going for a different musical style and not just repeating the same from the first game.
>>4054778>>4054791>it's just a Crush 40 Sonic songIt's not the musical side of it or the lyrics, but that the vocals sound really off. The singer for the first game was really good and perfectly fitting for the tone of the game. I'm glad she's back and I love Crush 40, but the voice mixing makes it unironically sound like an AI original song (not that I think it is ai) or one of those bad metal covers. It's got that weird inflection to it.Compare him singing normally to the cassette beasts one, maybe you'll see what I mean.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkBtCPsd6UEhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=My-WSM-6QlE
>>4054512If that's all we are getting then I'll be disappointed I was hoping for something that isn't directly aimed at children.
>>4055365I wouldn't say Cassette Beasts is aimed at children. Moreso millennials/young adults.Regardless though you're gonna be hard-pressed to find any games in the genre besides SMT that aren't generally family friendly. Basically in the same vain as how you wouldn't expect a 3D Collectathon Platformer to be anything other than that general family friendly vibe.
>>4053347Genuinely I can atleast see frontier as a sequel who tried to be different (of course fail). Yokai watch series owners are seriously being blood drained for no reason. Level 5 are so desperate that they became retarded as a business.
>>4058129Shit I forgot to remove owners, I meant the series in general.
>>4058129Level 5 has always been this kind of incompetent though, they make something that's at worst moderately successful and then immediately drive it into the ground; they have done this many, many times
>>4058135Yknow what your right, this company has no way hmto actually stay functioning on their own.
>>4058135smarr dev prease understandaru
>Beastieball only finally at 66% done nowUgh hurry up
>>4060247I thought it was completed already? it was on sale these past few days
>>4060281As far as EA games go it's pretty done, but it's not DONE done, no.
why are 99% of 'mon games wokescold trannybabble tumblr origin artstyle shit made for adult children? the only ones that aren't are siralim, SMT, and artificial dreams in arcadia
>>4060734What the fuck are you even talking about? The only game I could consider even remotely fitting that vomit of buzzwords is Cassette Beasts.
>>4060759temtem and beastieball would also count
>>4060764Honestly I forget Temtem is still relevant and haven't even looked at anything for Beastieball. Still seems like a pretty small amount of games to say '99%' for.
>>4060734Those are only the indie ones. Do you not know of the existence of monster racers or the DS? Also Digimon. Either way, it's frankly obvious once you remember that Pokémon is mainstream now the left is the mainstream side of politics so it makes sense that said indies are made by and for that demographic.
>>4061183Do righties even like mon games that aren't pal world (no hate to it, just that it has guns)
>>4061315I consider myself a racist, and I love Yo-kai Watch.
>40 years later>still no Siralim Ultimate class parties compendium
>>4061315Right wingers hate videogames and art as much as the left does, but there are plenty of racists and fascists who like mon games if that's what you mean. I'm partial to Digimon and Megami Tensei myself.
>>4061315/vp/ is full of chuds and SMT has literal chud routes. I suppose they favor CRPG's but some might be monging.
>>4061315I'm not even a rightoid I just hate overly performative woke shit that does nothing other than try to pander to "the modern audience".
>>3949912How´s the story of this? I never got into MH because i don´t really care for grinding and farming but i find the anime look and designs nice and this one is turn based so if the plot is good i may give it a go.
>>4063346It's just fine. Nothing all that crazy, but probably a bit above average from what you'd expect from the Mon genre. Or at least what I expect, given I think story is consistently the weakest part of the genre.Also if you're worried about grinding then this game has very little of it.
>>4060734There's a lot of games without cal arts goyslop artstyle, you just have to give indies that aren't #1 steam sales a chance but you won't because you follow the herd like the sheep you are.
>>4063364Oh you're so right anon, the Siralim series is such mainstream slop. Thank you so much for pointing out that I only consume popular video games like Touhou Artificial Dreams in Arcadia, which I'm pretty sure was in the game awards last year right?
>>4063383It is as mainstream as cassette beasts or beastieball or whatever gay ass game people consume today. Artificial dreams in arcadia has 1k reviews, that's considered great for an indie studio.
>>4063364There are also various Japanese shit from the GBC and DS. I get why they're not being brought up. But it's still odd that they're just completely ignored in this conversation. There's no "modern" or "western" to keep Bugsite from being included in this.
>>4063364rude
>>4063408>1k reviews, that's considered great for an indie studio.Well yeah, but normalfags don't ever hear about indie games unless they're fotm games with a lot of marketing.
This guy pisses me the fuck off. In Yo-kai Watch 2, we got befriendable bosses, and they WASTED a slot on this moron. What kid played YKW and said, "I sure do wish SV Snaggerjag was playable"? Any other boss would've been a better pick. Massiface or Phantasmari would've been cool; Tarantutor had potential, and if we got Mcrkacken, we could've made a bunch of racism jokes. But I'm burying the lead. What I'm really pissed at is the fact that Dr.Maddiman never got to be befriended. The one boss they flesh out and give backstory to just can't be in your party for some reason. Why did they make several more reasons to like him if he isn't ever gonna be summonable? There's his son, but he's a crank-a-kai exclusive recolor. That guy doesn't even have his own model.
>>4060734>>4063317Please get a real personality besides "/pol/ mouthpiece."
>>4063708I think the first three bosses just got special treatment. I don't think there'd be a way to really chibi-fy Massiface into a playable character. Phantasmari would've worked well though.And yeah it is weird that for all the extra work they put into Maddiman, he never became a usable Yo-Kai.Ah well, there's always mods at least.
I know there are indies taking a bit more inspiration on Digimon but do any of them use that thing (some) digi games do of "there's technically a single fuckhuge evo tree and any monster may go anywhere up and down given enough time"?
Best /mon/ game if you want the PC to also be an important part of combat along with the creatures themselves?
>>4064886the monster hunter stories series
>>4064886Honestly Monster Hunter Stories and SMT are the best you're get in that regard. Could technically count Dragon Quest V too even if the monster recruitment is more secondary and optional.
>>4063824>a single huge evo tree going up and downNot that I've seen but I'd like to see a game were you go from single cell to ultimate life form and go through all possible combinations. Perhaps, something like EVO the search for eden or spore but a mongame. Could that work if its a game where you use a single mon throughout the whole game just changing it?
Dokimon Quest is currently free.https://store.steampowered.com/app/2019300/Dokimon_Quest/
>>4065740Oh, neat. Dunno when I'd get around to playing it, but nice to have at least.
>>4065081>game were you go from single cell to ultimate life form and go through all possible combinationsoh you mean like->Perhaps, something like EVO the search for eden or spore but a mongameClose. EVO on the SNES is based on the developer's first game for the PC-98 46 Okunen Monogatari ~The Shinka Ron~ (EVO The Theory of Evolution), which got a fantranslation a couple years back. The SNES game ends on the caveman age, the PC-98 one ends on future Earth and does involve an ultimate life form. Also there are some throwaway bad endings if you take the wrong evolutive choice, mostly comedic. Game is short enough as to be completed on an afternoon.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYWFpaZU0KQ
>>3949912is ni no kuni a monster-collecting game? i just bought the game on sale for $8. what am i in for? the reviews for the game looked decent enough.
>>4066049Ni No Kuni 1 is a Mon game yeah. It's a very solid, very classic JRPG in my opinion.Forever pissed at how NNK2 turned out.
>>4066066>Forever pissed at how NNK2 turned out.Once again, a L5 special
>>4066066>>4066081Genuinely what was the problem with familiar system? Or atleast what reason did they have to replace em with fantasy minions.
>>3976983Sad they killed the phone version.
>>4066257Basically nothing. I haven't seen any reason given for them dropping Familiars. Between the RTS segments and the City Building stuff, it feels like they were just throwing a bunch of shit at the wall for the hell of it.I don't even think it's the worst game, but as a follow-up to NNK1 it just dropped the ball.
>>4066029I see, I haven't tried that one, the story sounds like a fever dream. Although the last lifeform I saw in a longplay was a human, but the concept is very fun. Just needs more feedback on what to do with the stats and what you get. Maybe I'll make a game like this when I have the time.
>>4063146>/vp/ is full of chudsas seen with that Pokemon Clover hack
>>4063824The only one I can think of is an SMT inspired fangame called Makai Agito that has a version of the fusion system. It's kind of a mix of the old dungeon crawler gameplay + the newer turn based combat (it literally has the NDS style status screens), I'd recommend it if you've played all the other Megami Tensei titles.
Anybody here play CoC?
How come there was never another telefang inspired game after telefang 2? They sure jumped the shark with that game.
>>4067494Corruption of Champions?
>>4067494Mobile games are all scams.
>>4067494The designs are good but God damn I wish they did better gameplay than it is now. Pachinko and tower defense gameplay gets so old after a while. It's a incremental game that wants to do more than what it's allowed. If it was a decent auto battler, I would probably play more of it.
>>3949919I went back to playing B2 today. I gave up on those shitkerns and decided to have fun exploring the post game world. For whatever reason, GAI keeps dying right away.
What's the best SMT game in terms of story?
I didn't know the Appmon game had an English patch. It can't be much worse than most Digimon games. Better give it a go.
Anyone else got trouble finishing games?I enjoy the midgame and teambuilding parts the most, once i have access to everything i usually get bored and stop.
>>4075382I don't get why you're asking that here specifically, but I do. Either I get obsessed with a game and don't let it go until it's not fun anymore or is completely depleted, or midway I take a break that ends when I remember I never finished it a couple of years later.
>>4075755Oh kek i was supposed to use Digimon Story games and pokemon games as an example but forgot to write that part.Just restarted Time Stranger without ever beating the end game and having fun again.
>>4065740
Digimon Time Stranger expansionhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOZoV1dtG1A
>>4079207Holy shit Kokatorimon is back. One of the few old school mons missing from the game.
>>4074918I liked Devil Survivor the most, people also like Strange Journey
>>4079207>dubshit
https://x.com/medabots_S/status/2095815201761452408Medabots S, the mobage that plays like the actual Medabot games, has been announced to get an international release. Should have done this first and not the Vampire Survivor clone, but better late than never, I suppose
>>4080148Please be successful enough that the Switch collections get an English release.
>>4080148>GachaMaybe if there's a offline version.
>>4013469Where do you find this and Terrys adventure in english?
>>4082183H shop if you have a hacked 3DS; Citra website if you use that.
Monster Taming Direct is on 9/12 at 1 PM EST
>>4082861The day directly after SAGE seems like a bad idea unless there's some cross-pollination.
>>4082984its youtube videos , how do you loose viewers?
>>4083451I can just see people playing demos so hard that they forget to tune in. But if there isn't much audience overlap between the two events, I'm just full of shit.
https://x.com/wanderjegson/status/2096969313206894897/photo/1
I got Joker 3 professional. I still can't believe it was never brought over officially. Honestly, if Square wants to make some quick money, they could release pro versions of all 3 on modern systems + PC.>>4084212I read it in Agumon's english voice.
man dokimon quest kinda sucks huh
>>4086854Elaborate. I got it for free and want to know if its worth my time.
>>4082984>SAGEWhat even is this, sonic amateur games expo?
>>4086894Yeah, but the S stands for Sega now because there's a lot more non-Sonic stuff, like the Mega Man X8 demake and like 40 indie games. A bunch of people submit their demos and shit so people can find and play them. I can see one or two monster games getting in there somehow. But it's pretty unlikely now that I'm thinking about it.
>>4086947I mean the autism audience overlaps of. But I don't think it matters at all.
>something ACTUALLY happened for Yo-Kai Watch in the Nintendo Direct>have next to no faith in it cause of all the AI shit Level-5 is into now
>>4087189Not like it will ever get a global release anyway. Still waiting on 4 and the Switch version of 1.
>>4087348Why would they show that announcement in the English direct if they weren't planning on localizing it?I won't hope 100% but that's be an absolute asinine decision.
Played the DQM4 demo. I like the way it feels more than DQM3, although the rotating world movement is visually nauseating and something I'm hopeful I can get used to.
>>4087435You can never be too sure with L5
>digimon thriving>medabots mobile game getting a global release>yokai watch coming back>tons of indie gamesHow has everything gone so right?
>>4087849Heck I'd even count Palworld's success and actually delivering on 1.0 among those points.Honestly I think the worst thing for the genre that's happened recently is MHStories 3 flopping pretty hard despite it being generally pretty good.
>>4087859>generally pretty goodI keep hearing the gene system is worse than 2 and that the game is bloated by the ecosystem mechanics. Does this hold any truth? Cause I wanted to buy it in the next sale.
>>4087869>gene systemI dunno. I think the way needing to have a certain types of genes to activate the environment grade passive bonus could lead to customization feeling more limited, or making it so optimization take more work. I think each gene not being upgradable through repeats like they were in 2 was a downgrade thought. But now element swapping is back so there's more customization that way too. I dunno. Both have their strengths and weaknesses.>the game is bloated by the ecosystem mechanicsEh, only if you feel the need to max out every monster in that environment. If you only max out the stuff you're gonna use or for getting subs/deviants, it's really not that bad.I think the game is like a very solid 7/10. I used to have it at an 8/10 but that Navirou DLC was a genuine embarrassment.
>Shui Hu Shen Shou (水滸神獸, lit. "Sacred Beasts of the Water Margin"), is a Pokémon-esque RPG developed by Vast Fame and released for the Game Boy & Game Boy Color systems in 2001. It is loosely based off the story of the classical 14th century novel "Water Margin" (水滸傳, Shuǐhǔ zhuàn).What novel do you think would make a good /mon/ game?
>>4088178Alice in wonderland would have interesting creature design.
How do you guys like the DQM4 demo compared to 3 so far?
Is temtem worth getting into this late?
>>4088439Is it on switch?>>4088445Probably just for the story but I dunno if the rest will intrigue you.
>>4088600>Probably just for the storyYea that was my plan, mostly treat it as a single player game and for the collecting aspect, it's on sale right now so that's why I wondered.
>the new YKW thing is actually coming to steamHuh. Didn't expect that.
>>4088836Not that it matters because they literally just used AI for the same fucking trailer they already had in the Directfuck this gay earth
https://xcancel.com/omechaunit_go/status/2098020449242460659#mHappy 25th Anniversary to Medarot navi.
>>4088970>naviwell fuck me for never beating this game. Was there ever a similar game in the series? I think the grid battle system was interesting.
>>4088979No, navi was the first and only time they experimented with something like that.
>>4088380I think we should let Alice in Wonderland rest.
>>4088178>picsIsn't that just the Star Beasts or whatever the chinese game was called?
>>4089099Same devs.
>>4089108Oh but it seems in this second game they aren't stealing sprites from telefang, pokemon and DQM
>>4088854yokAI bros can't stop losing....
Yokai Watch Wibble Wobble is on Youtube Playables. Do you think the full game might come back?
>>4088854holy soulless
>>4087189the streets are calling it Yok-AI Watch
>Both the original and Model Zero Yokai Watches are missing the glass bubble and glass face on top.How sloppy do you have to be to miss that your AI prompted trailer forgot a major design aspect of the TITULAR DEVICE OF YOUR FRANCHISE?
>>4089993https://www.youtube.com/playables/Ugkx-usVWnWj1ZB8wVmEK9JH0wPFaQcHvkAU
The rent a girlfriend collab should have been seen as the omen for the end of yokai watch. Shit ass company literally can't stop fumbling every success they gain.
>>4091133For me the omen was when they showed Holy Horror Mansion for the first time.The whole thing screamed of being out of touch.
>acknowledge the backlash>basically say a bunch of nonsense to try and soften it>also still insist on continuing to use AI anyway
>>4092104I don't play YKW but I hope they lose their beloved moneyz.
Monster Tamer Direct is happening right nowhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Mn2kfzWS9U
>>4092314When did everything become so homogenous? 75% of these games all look the same.
>>4092408IA is destroying everyone's brains and creativity, even if they don't use it in their games.
>>4092314I think I only care about Casette Beasts, everything else just fails to even leave an impression. Maybe Legacy of Pandora does but I don't care about it.
>>4088178Lovecraft's stuff.
>>4092314Another year, another direct.>Monster AlchemySeems fine, even if the monster designs and sprite work aren't exactly impressing me.>V Monsters: Forgotten LinkI mean. At least it's trying to be Digimon, rather than another Pokemon-like. I'm interested.>Astral ArenaI'd like to be interested, but it seems like it's all just in one arena with some very basic terrain changes. Not really sold.>Pemkie IslandExtremely bland art style, not much else to go on.>Stories of SomniaThe monster taming aspect seems pretty secondary to everything else. Just seems fine.>Tales of TuscanyHeckin quirky Undertale-inspired! I just can't look at it earnestly.>Myth CallerIt's different for the genre, but not my thing.>Anode Heart 2I honestly can't even tell what genre it is. I would've thought Mystery Dungeon, but those encounters aren't moving when the player moves. I didn't play the first so I have no frame of reference.>Goobie GardenSo what, a weirdo mobile game or something? Pass.>Astra BestiaryPlayed the demo, and found myself bouncing off the combat pretty quickly. But, I might try again, and all around I do hope this game does well. I think it deserves it.>Abomination: Monster RiftsI can appreciate how easy it is to make your own monster, but I don't know if the foundation of the gameplay is strong enough to support technically endless content. We'll see.>SpectrakinJust kinda seems like... The most bog-standard Monster Tamer. In design and gameplay. Nothing special.>MonitoballNot my thing whatsoever so no comment.>Wilderlocke"A nuzlocke-inspired roguelike" "No random effects or Critical hits" Funny but nothing else to say about it.>StackmonAnother that's not my thing.>Project CreaturesReal-time combat is becoming more common in the genre. This just looks janky and doesn't offer anything new really.>LetalisLooks fine. Admittedly GB-styled games are just hard for me to get into.
>>4092546>Alchemic BeastsEh. Just looks like a janky Pokemon-like with some... Survival aspects? I think??>Zoefs Story AcademieJust a raising sim with an honestly bad art style.>MinimonThat sure is a basic and janky-looking idle game.>The Sky ProjectEh. Has potential but wasn't too impressed.>Voidling BoundI really like this game. My only complaint was the lack of content, so glad to see more coming. The new huge scorpion Voidling looks awesome.>CritterruptersStill very much not a fan of it's art style. It's like, barely better than Pemkie Island's art style.>MontabiI honestly really enjoyed what I played of the demo. Was planning on buying it soon.>Legacy of PandoraPretty unique art style, and the corruption system is neat. Will probably check it out.>Tiny Monster HavenSo is it raising sim? Wasn't exactly clear. Nothing interesting.>Yami KidsJust seems like a slightly more stylish Pokemon-like.>DecklingsMore like Dicklings. But yeah, not interested in whatever kind of game it is.>Summoner's TaleOh hey, this is the one with the recolored Monodramon. Still looks like horribly janky dogshit. Seriously they gotta stop letting this slop in the directs.>TupiStill looks neat, might check it out.>Evomon WorldDigimon World but with completely generic designs.>Cassette Beasts 2002I'm generally excited for it. I liked the first game well enough.>Elestrals AwakenedI get this game confused with Lumentale, they look so similar. Looks fine, whatever.>Monster Crown: Sin EaterStill haven't played this or the original, but looks fine.>CoromonOwn it, but have barely touched it. But I haven't played since that Remastered update, so might be time to give it a better go.>Coromon: Rogue PlanetWith the changes they're making, might be interesting.All in all this Direct was like.... A 5/10? Mostly old stuff shown before, with some real duds and more interesting stuff. Doesn't really feel like we needed a Direct this year.
>>4092546I'll give my thoughts on what I've played.>Monster AlchemyI played the demo and it was fun, it was just released in EA.>Stories of somniaDemo is fun and looks great but it didn't click for me, I'm sure the nostalgia clicks for the n64 fandom>Astra bestiaryDemo got several QoL updates but will wait till release. At least this one has a release date.>>4092548>coromonI bought it very cheap on release but I never finished it I think if I ever want to play something fully pokemon-like I'll do this.>monster crown: SEI had my doubts initially but it looks great and got good reviews, if it's getting free extra content I'll buy.>Voidling bound Waiting for the next sale for this. The demo was fun. The mon customization and trees look very in depth.Still I think that AA+ budget games shouldn't be a part of this like why is elestrals in here unless they are funding it?
>>4092514Throw in some Thelema shit and make Demonbane in monger form, sounds great
Are there mon games where you do the thing of exploring collecting monsters and items and etc *which then* you use to run a business?Palworld is a survival game and monsters jobs are the QoLs to lessen your work, and jobs in Pokemon SwSh are to give an utility to unused monsters on the side while you continue playing normally.
>>4092546Monster Alchemy currently has good reviews at least.
>>4092314>the ending segmentfuark, that got me..
>>4093523Rip
