Any boomers out there remember this game/series? I remember as a kid having the original (think it was the original) on the sony gaystation. Basically one of the main features was that you could put any disc in your playstation and generate a random monster. I forget the exact mechanics of it or the rest of the game, but I remember going through a lot of my dad's extensive music collection just getting monsters. Do any modern games have similar mechanics (e.g. scanning barcodes with your phone maybe or something?) outside of the Monster Rancher franchise, which apparently is still on life support?
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Justin Nelson
I had Monster Rancher 2. I remember I used to actually get excited when we got those AOL CDs in the mail because it meant I might get a new monster off of them. Most of them turned out to be shit but I kept one around because it was actually the only CD I had that would give me a Mew.
Adam Wilson
The only one I really played was Monster Rancher DS. I had a taste of 2 but the disc I got was scratched so I couldn't load my save.
Jace Stewart
>in the english dub they removed those scenes of the wolf dude and rabbit farting
based, nobody wants to see that
Carson Nguyen
M-m-m-m-monsters rule
That shit came out when you'd just believe playground rumours instead of looking up a FAQ of some dataminer. I remember my buddy heard that a Backstreet Boys CD had a really strong mon inside
James Hill
>he wanted it that way
tell me why
Jordan Cook
Not a boomer, but I did play the game as a kid.
Andrew Stewart
As a kid I had a recurring dream where I was snuggled up in a toasty igloo with all of the different types of pixies and we were playing sexy truth or dare which ultimately ended up in me fucking one, some, or all of the pixies. Each one had a special sexy ability and talent. I nutted in my sleep so bad one time that my mom could smell it when she woke me up for school.
Also games are kino. 2 was my favorite. The card battle game is pretty good too.
Matthew James
How did the CD shit work? I know some specific CDs actually gave exclusive monsters. Was that all randomized, or did someone manually input information based on particular CDs. Did it vary from region to region?
Dylan Baker
Not a boomer, but i've played the second one, and i remembered is this HD port MR game coming to switch and android.
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Andrew Richardson
I don't know how it worked specifically but you could cheat to create the desired disc monster by looking up the tracks online. What you wouod do is look at what the number of tracks on the disc is, and what the length of each track is. Then you burn a disc with the required tracks and get your monster. I know that certain albums and films had monsters made specifically for them, so it wasn't random what monsties went where.
Of course I remember it you bitch
Daniel Powell
I know there was a special list of CDs that gave you very rare monster variants. It should be out there somewhere on the net
Like most I played the second one (it was the only one they ever released in Europe iirc). I remember having fond memories of finding a Phoenix feather on an expedition, bringing it back to life and sweeping the tourneys with it. I never fully beat the game due to not knowing all of the ridiculously obscure lifespan mechanics but I had fun nonetheless.
Owen Rivera
It hurts that this will never be localized...
Charles Stewart
it reads a string of data on the CD. This data is usually different for anything but sometimes certain manufacturers can actually have the sequence the MR disk reads be identical to each other even though they are different CD's that you will get the same monster. This also means that slight differences in CD manufacture dates or even if the CD is made in a different country can change what you get.
Kevin Russell
I played 2 and 3, I didn't get into 3 as much as I did 2. I think a lot of the monster races I liked the most in 2 were cut and I lost interest. I was fucking obsessed with 2 for a while because of how many cds i had access to.
Joseph Murphy
>UHHHH SORRY YOU CANNOT BRING THIS MONSTER BACK TO LIFE YET :)
>repeat for 90% of my disc collection
The only thing I really hated about this game t.b.h.
Jaxon Jackson
3 was not as good as 2. DS is a worthy successor though
Matthew Anderson
Duh nigger
Alexander Morgan
God I loved that feature I would always try to remember the ones I couldn't tame and then try later on in the story some of them never worked don't know I don't know if I was just bad. Really wanted that praying mantis
Christian Sanchez
praying mantis?
Charles Johnson
I dont know how it was in the original but a shitton of cool monsters were hidden as unlockables in 2. I know that to get Ghost you had to let one of your monsters die and then hope RNG will make it appear in your stable. Phoenix you had to find a feather on an expedition. Others I dont know/remember, but there were tons.
Levi Williams
Ok, never mind, it’s not totally RNG actually
>To obtain a Ghost in Monster Rancher 2, let a monster die. Colt will ask if you want to build a memorial shrine for it, so say yes. Every 140 weeks or so you will be asked to clean the shrine, so clean it twice. After that, you will get in trouble for not taking care of it. Colt will clean the shrine and find a Stick. Use this in combining with any two monsters.
Nicholas James
Never played the game but I used to watch the anime on leaf TV. It was on the normal cartoon channel.
Easton Hill
>remake 1 but not 2
Why
Kevin Edwards
monster rancher and princess maker make me assblasted life sim games aren't popular. i just want to watch bars go up, do dungeons, some battles and random events
Christian Ramirez
>what is Animal Crossing, Stardew Valley, Rune Factory, Story of Seasons/Harvest Moon
Carson Moore
none of these are anything like the life sim elements of rancher or princess maker or hell, digimon world. do you not know what a life sim game is?
Josiah Anderson
Cooper Fisher
Coltia a hoe
Christian Morris
How did they adapt the mechanics for the DS?
Charles Jenkins
What does everyone think about 4? I liked the adventuring where you'd ride your beasties, as well as the massively increased number of raisable monsters. But the actual training and fighting didn't feel as good.
Xavier Garcia
i beat this game with my mom. she made all the training decisions and I would do the fights. we would never go on the expeditions because she hated it when the monsters got lost. I think we beat it once with a golem and once with a plant
Connor Hall
you had to play with a more basic monster until you ranked up a bit i thibk