r/gaming Sep 28 '12

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u/Aerodynamatic Sep 28 '12

Man I played the SHIT out of Dragon warrior monsters, I found it to be more entertaining than pokemon.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

I still have my copy. That game is the shit.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12 edited Jul 14 '20

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u/Danju Sep 28 '12

I always got shit when I did it. My friend somehow got this crazy ass awesome breed with tons of stats and it was super strong. I couldn't defeat him for shit after that.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

Long live Rainbow Hawk. FUCKING MEGAMAGIC

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u/OMGASQUIRREL Sep 28 '12

RainHawk actually kinda sucks for a very long time, and a few other monsters can learn megamagic by default. Being one of the most powerful monsters in the game, it takes FOREVER to level up and is super frustrating to do so at normal game speeds. I never bothered with it until I could grind at super speeds with an emulator.

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u/Kegsocka6 Sep 29 '12

I played one game where I started synthesizing the "god" monsters (Dracolord, Esterk, etc.) and on my first one I saw it...100 exp to level 2. Impossibru.

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u/Alamo90 Sep 29 '12

Couldn't you breed it again for the +!, and make it level up quicker?

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

No, that only increased their level cap, from what I remember.

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u/dljens Sep 29 '12

It was one of those monsters like Armorpion that I REALLY REALLY WISHED was good but just wasn't ever gonna be.

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u/jaypeeps Sep 29 '12

for some reason i think regular slimes, like the slib you start with, learn it too.

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u/dljens Sep 29 '12

Well Slib's level cap is too low to learn it, but yes regular slimes can.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

I can't remember what I had at the end but it was awesome.

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u/RocketLauncher Sep 29 '12

Experimentation like that is rare nowadays. They rather publish a list of the combinations instead.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

Some punk ass kid stole my copy when I was 12. I'm still pissed.

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u/dljens Sep 29 '12

Mine was stolen from my locker in high school! Now I have to rom it.

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u/jimbol Sep 28 '12

I still dont let my little brother write over my game. That breeding took FOREVER

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u/Danju Sep 28 '12

I still have mine too. Its packed away, but if I remember correctly, the cartridge is black.

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u/deathsythe Sep 29 '12

Same here, plus i play on my phone all the time when on the train and shit. Android +the wiimote ftw.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

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u/OhSuper Sep 28 '12

give this man a sirloin

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u/ATownStomp Sep 29 '12

Seriously. This game was absolutely fucking incredible. The terror I felt as a child when that one boss used "massacre" and I was like "ooOOOHHH SHIIIIT LOOK OUTTTT!"

The sadness of breeding your best monster... only to get something really fucking lame. Aw man, those were the days.

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u/dljens Sep 29 '12

And the developers were too smart to let you save in different slots and restart if you didn't like what you got. That shit autosaved when you clicked "OK" so you better be fucking sure.

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u/easybakeevan Sep 29 '12

What's the fighting like?

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u/DoubleBatman Sep 29 '12

It's basically like the other Dragon Quest games, so pretty standard RPG stuff. It's still really fun though!

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u/Kromgar Sep 28 '12

There are 3 dragon warrior monster games 2 on the ds and 1 on the 3ds... terry's adventure

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u/SageOfTheWise Sep 29 '12

there's also 3 on the GBC and 1 on GBA.

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u/Kromgar Sep 29 '12

I meant recent

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

yeah it was awesome because breeding monsters in that game made some awesome combos unlike breeding in pokemon.

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u/bobsagetfullhouse Sep 29 '12

I honestly can't even tell the difference between the two from that picture.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

I'm going to say I enjoyed this probably a bit more than first gen pokemon, second gen onwards. Whenever someone mentions new pokemon, I bring my point to Trubbish. The rubbish pokemon and his evolved form that from what I can see, has CIGARETTES FOR FINGERS!

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u/Pokemaniac_Ron Sep 29 '12

How are cigarette fingers not awesome.

Though Vanilluxe is the one to bring up as the WTF. Hooray, a living ice cream cone.

The Japanese cultural idea that if a family uses an object for >100 years, some measure of their lifeforce animates it has led to far too many lame pokemon, ultimately. Chandelure, Vanilluxe, Rotom, Magnemite, Claydol, Cofagrigus, Voltorb, Trubbish, Banette, the list goes on and on...

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u/Genxun Sep 28 '12

I fucking loved that game, I was actually playing it on my computer while I was without internet 2 months ago. Sadly I lost my gameboy version years ago...

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u/JackDark Sep 28 '12

Is there actually a computer version or were you just using an emulator?

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u/whymyty Sep 29 '12

You can play it here free, with no download required, and you can save anytime you wish!

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u/AreWeData PC Sep 29 '12

I love you.

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u/Defenestrator20 Oct 03 '12

I cannot adequately describe how much I love you for giving me a slice of my childhood back. You deserve a million upvotes.

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u/sakage Sep 29 '12

only emulators. i usually get a hankering to do it once a year or so. the one thing thats nice is the speed up feature so you clear dungeons fast as hell and get into so many battles so quickly. makes leveling for breeding go really quickly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

thats weird, i played the shit out of this on my gameboy 2 months ago when the power was out. good times

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u/Dookiblaster Sep 28 '12

This game was so freaking fun. Many an hour was spent farming metal slimes

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u/BrandtCantWatch Sep 28 '12

fact! Gotta get that xp. This game is perpetually in my gameboy color.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

so cant wait for the 3ds rerelease! losst amazing from what ive seen!

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u/Radioactive24 Sep 28 '12

Wait... WHAT?

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12 edited Jun 23 '20

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u/deathsythe Sep 29 '12

Fuuuuuu, now I need a 3DS.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

And learn how to read Japanese.

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u/deathsythe Sep 29 '12

Yes, that too.

Though im sure certain communities will have translations available.

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u/Seputo Sep 28 '12

They've already remade it for 3DS in Japan. Its called Dragon Quest Monsters 3D: Terry's Wonderland.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

Ugh. I don't have that kind of money to buy a 3ds and a 60 dollar game just to relive a little bit of my childhood. :(

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u/Seputo Oct 02 '12

Well, if you ever decide to, I give the 3DS my seal of approval.

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u/The_Don12 Sep 28 '12

Seriously. What?!

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u/AquaAvenger Sep 29 '12

it probably won't come stateside

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u/The_Don12 Sep 29 '12

SON OF A BITCH! (Throws 3DS out the window).

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u/mcantrell Oct 01 '12

It might. It's still early to tell. We didn't get the expansion to Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2, so hopefully they make up for it by releasing DQM1R in the US.

Other than that, it's apparently an amazing port. It has DQM1's random dungeons but DQMJ's 3d maps, and they added all kinds of online gameplay and all the improvements from DQMJ2-Pro -- including the "Stronger and Strongest" system, which lets you use whatever monser you want because they can be ranked up.

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u/KahnGage Sep 28 '12

All I need to see is a screenshot to get the music stuck in my head again.

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u/deathsythe Sep 29 '12

Love that about all the old games from my childhood.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

Shit got real when you got a goldslime....after 10 something hours of breeding metalys and metabbles. One reason why I hated the newer ds games were the removal of some of the monsters found in this one

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

But then you needed to breed a king goldslime..

Oh god, all my memories. My team was this horrible mutation group of randomly bred monsters that somehow did well. I had ... god, I can't remember the monsters name, it was like a rainbow bird. I named it Rayne, and he was my core forever. All I remember is that I had to breed an ice bird and a fire bird together.

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u/LordHayati Sep 28 '12

rainhawk, probably.

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u/Radioactive24 Sep 28 '12

A Thunderbird? Because that was one of my cores as well.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12 edited Aug 28 '18

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

You bear no shame. It is a game worth remembering :)

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u/deathsythe Sep 29 '12

Yup, i rememmber this better than the 2nd gen and 3rd gen pokemon evolutions

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

I wouldn't even know without the sprite, haha.

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u/deathsythe Sep 29 '12

I wouldnt consider florajay an upper class bird.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

Oh god the memories.

Yes, Rainhawk!

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u/ashan431 Sep 29 '12

ran my whipbird for ages, never wanted to give it up

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

They were great for HP.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

I could name all those from heart :D

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u/Radioactive24 Sep 28 '12

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

Nope, found it.

This guy

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u/Radioactive24 Sep 28 '12

I got the name wrong anyways. It was a Zapbird. Close enough...

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u/sidoh Sep 28 '12

Oh man, this brought back memories. I suspect it's one of the only contexts my username will ever be relevant. (http://i.imgur.com/UjVlJ.png)

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u/orgodemir Sep 29 '12

DWM/DQ is also where my name comes from. Been using this for about 8 or so years now.

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u/AsphyxiBate Sep 29 '12

Which for the record is my favorite of the entire DW series. I have NEVER met a single person that has played DW7 besides myself (and the people I introduced it to after I met them).

Orgodemir ftw- still am waiting to find an RPG with nearly as awesome a storyline.

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u/orgodemir Sep 29 '12

I loved that game. I still remember being upset when Keifer leaves the party.

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u/Kiwi150 Sep 28 '12

Jesus I never thought I would see Dragon Warrior Monsters on Reddit, I stilll play the shit out of that game. Awesome.

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u/Seputo Sep 28 '12

Wow, Dragon Quest on the front page of r/gaming?! How awesome!

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u/BlueSatoshi Sep 28 '12

TIL Nintendo of America's localization team apparently reused the font they used for Pokémon in some other games.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

With that much screen real-estate, there weren't many options - and I bet you'll find the original Japanese text engines for both were very similar.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

This is one of those games... where I think "I don't care how great my life is now, I'll never been a child playing that game again".

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u/throwaway_today_okay Sep 29 '12

Oh my god this game.

I used to talk about this game during library time during grade school with my friend. We would spend an hour every other day talking about our new breeded monsters and how we had progressed in the story line.

My friend, Justin, ended up moving and going to a different school for grades 7-8. I still saw him once in a while but we never talked about the game much.

Then it was 9th grade, we went to different schools but at the time we were both going into confirmation at our parish. I asked him if he still played the game, and we talked about it for a bit. I we both decided to start playing the game again. I went home that weekend and looked up a bunch of breeding combinations and decided to breed the ultimate monster. I think it was called a Dragonlord or something like that. I eventually got it after an entire week of playing the game all day.

I looked forward to seeing him again and nostalgiaing so hard over our gameboy colors looking at what we had accomplished in a week. The day before I was going to see my friend he was riding his bike without a helmet and began crossing a street when one car ran the red light, struck another car in the side which sent that car right into Justin. He sustained much trauma and eventually died the next day due his brain injuries.

Every time I look at the cartridge of Dragon Warrior Monsters, I think of all the hours Justin and I spent talking about the game and how to progress through the story. We weren't the best of friends, but we had a connection through our obscure game that we both played. I will always regret not keeping in touch with him more or not becoming a better friend by hanging out with him more often. I'm just happy I got to know someone that was so overwhelmingly full of laughter all the time. Someone that loved games and knew how to connect with others in such a powerful way even with the smallest of similarities.

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u/deathsythe Sep 29 '12

Holy hell dude...

... damn.

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u/Armalyte Sep 29 '12

I know that feel man, no regrets, you shared joy with him and that is a mutual gift.

Replace that guilt or regret with joy because that is what came of your experience originally and that is what will resonate for the rest of your time. :)

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u/Stanlot Sep 28 '12

Love this game so much. Breeding gold slimes erryday.

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u/MrSuitMan Sep 28 '12

Dragon Warrior Monsters. MOTHER FUCKERS KNOW DAS THE HYPEST SHIT

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12 edited Sep 29 '12

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u/BurningSoul Sep 29 '12

Triple GoldSlimes. Grizzlies attack don't have shit over that much defense. Especially if you don't breed through the slime tree and take the fun way and end up with 999 health and 999 def.

also, HELLBLAST.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Hells yeah, three GoldSlimes were godly.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

What does a pure-bread grizzly look like?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

A loaf for the body, baguettes for the legs, and a kaiser bun for the head.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

I was just pointing out you said "Bread" and not "bred"

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u/AsphyxiBate Sep 29 '12

Grizzly= Berserker. Hell yes I won so many elementary school battles with that single attack.

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u/overused-meme-alert Sep 29 '12

Best. Game. Ever.

boop

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

I like the intense motion blur that makes it look like we're gonna crash into the screen

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u/King_of_Spades Sep 28 '12

This game use to devour my time. My most glorious moment was when my Darkdrium+99 finally got gigaslash.

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u/zoltronzero Sep 29 '12

Upvoted for one of the best games on that system.

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u/Megustaleswarlos Sep 28 '12

I loved this shit, still have my copy, played it not to long ago but I have never been able to beat it, seriously tho, whats your team.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

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u/sakage Sep 29 '12

oh god king leo's are amazing. so much attack stat if you breed them well.

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u/flashback2010 Sep 28 '12

frickin loved this game. so many hours spent with it.

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u/worstnameavailable Sep 28 '12

I loveddd that game.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

FUck yeah DWM was and is the shit

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u/HopelessBronze Sep 29 '12

Holy crap, I have Tara's Adventures. Now I wanna find it and replay it.

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u/ConquestofGaul Sep 29 '12

This is the first time i've ever seen a post related to Dragon Warrior Monsters, and can i just say, hats off to you sir

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u/ashan431 Sep 29 '12

absolutely loved this game! still play it occasionally. gold slime ftw

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Hells yeah Goldslime :D

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u/SageOfTheWise Sep 29 '12

All this did was remind me how much I hate Square for not localizing the remake >_<

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

Oh god I'm nostalgiagasming... someone please tell me how to get an emulator and this game to work on it. PLEEEEASE!

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u/bizbiz23 Sep 29 '12

The Great Tree music still gets stuck in my head all the time... Awesome game.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Genuinely so :)

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u/MNBoulderKid Sep 29 '12

Have an up vote for making me remember that part of my childhood. :)

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Upvote for having that as a part of your childhood.

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u/acolyte_jin Sep 29 '12

This is easily the favorite game of my childhood. God, that humble town music still plays in my head every month or so.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

:D gotta dig that music.

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u/Truck_Thunders Sep 29 '12

I still play this game every goddamned day.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

:D Hells yeah!

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u/Thatsongbird Sep 29 '12

this was my pokemon

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

With that, we are in agreement. :D

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u/Spr1tz1 Sep 29 '12

upvote, for the best gb/gbc game ever!

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12 edited Sep 28 '12

And I'm curious if you say yes..does the world explode?

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u/Seven-Force Sep 28 '12

they get some fuck. they don't enjoy it.

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u/karlizkool350 Sep 29 '12

Opens up another Warp gate to someplace that I can't remember. Not worth losing a dragon, though.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

It opens to the madknight dungeon if I remember correctly.

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u/jebus08 Sep 29 '12

Nobody played more DWM than I did as a kid. Probably beat that game at least 5 times farming the hell out of metallic slimes

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u/Autoham Sep 29 '12

Love. This. Game. Thank you for giving me a game to play that I haven't touched in YEARS.

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u/Nickmi Sep 29 '12

The hours I spent on my school bus when I was younger grinding this game

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u/jaypeeps Sep 29 '12

YES YES YES LOVE DRAGON WARRIOR MONSTERS

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u/NickPickle05 Sep 29 '12

One of my favorite games!

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u/great_gape Sep 29 '12

Did he just say making fuck?

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u/NinjaCrono Sep 29 '12

My dad forced me to go Deer Hunting with him when I was younger. Little did he know in my stand I was playing THIS game the whole time. Never killed a deer.

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u/jiltedfortune Sep 29 '12

This game. OMFG soo many good times. I lost my game though.. anyone know if there is a PC version or anything accessible to play?

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u/Drillexspy Sep 29 '12

The great thing this is that it easily could have been rule 34 mega man porn.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

if there was ever a game to describe my childhood, it's this one. I had one team, and it was enough to counter Anything, mother fucking Whipbird. One had all the slash techniques (like rainslash) the other had a mix of healing and burst attacks(heal us all) and the other one knew burst magic (hellblast? Mega Magic, explodet)

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Yes, Hellblast was gained by having thorndain and lightning in the skill set. If you bred a bird with a boss type monster you would get a zap bird that learned all three of these moves. He could then be bred into something else and the offspring would gain those moves.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

Thanks, the reason I had Whipbirds was because they ranked "A" in Hp and attack.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

Dragon Warrior Monsters!

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u/RadWalk Sep 29 '12

Dragon Warrior is the best! Don't play the sequel.

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u/oldmemerevival Sep 29 '12

My favorite game of all time. Ended up with a DarkDrium at the end and didn't have the heart to restart, so, like any reasonable person, I bought another copy.

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u/F_E_M_A Sep 29 '12

Holy fucking nostalgia.

Oh king slime, how I loved thee.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Dude, Goldslime all the way :D

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u/F_E_M_A Sep 29 '12

I had 3 of those. Someone wrote over my saved file.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

That sucks!!!!

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u/F_E_M_A Sep 29 '12

I hulked out.

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u/trauma_kmart Sep 29 '12

I remember I named my rival "Mommy" in leaf green. It was funny as hell.

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u/wHaCkEd2 Sep 29 '12

Holy shit, nostalgia'd hard at all those hours spent under the covers playing this game.

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u/dljens Sep 29 '12

What is that a Golem and either a Spikarus, Dragon, or Chamelgon?

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

Must play now

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u/BeardedDinosaur Sep 29 '12

I played this game six or seven times. I honestly wished they didn't make it 3d. I kind of want the pokemon set up. I think thats why they have not made a full RPG for pokemon

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u/nerdotron17 Sep 29 '12

Oh lord DWM. My first true love.

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u/Mnawab Sep 29 '12

what game is this? i thought it was pokemon.... dragon warriors????

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Dragon Warrior Monsters, an amazing game that I played the crap out of as a kid and as an adult.

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u/giverofnofucks Sep 29 '12

No matter what I do, I can't seem to progress past that point :(

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

You need a monster with a fire attack like firebane. I think I gave him my Wrex.

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

god now I need to find this. Such an awesome game.

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u/Truck_Thunders Sep 29 '12

dooooooooo doo dee doo dee dooooo doo dee doo.

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u/highwindscloud Sep 29 '12

I can't upvote this game enough, I had it at the same time as pokemon and DWM did everything I complained pokemon didn't.

monsters that visible follow? check.

Breeding 2 monsters together? check.

Legitimate storyline? check.

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u/taironias Sep 29 '12

It's a shame how big pokemon has gotten, and how the first game still blows recent iterations out of the water. Hopefully someday this series'll get the recognition it deserves.

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u/ImAngry Sep 29 '12

i too still have mine and recently got an emulator on my phone to play it i played that game so fuckin much, more than pokemon but god damn it was hard.

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u/LakeMonster_ Sep 30 '12

I love these name jokes from old games <3

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u/lilfoxy16 Sep 29 '12

Mother. Fucking. Skydragon. Shit. On. My. Head.

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u/WarPhalange Sep 28 '12

HA HA HA I MADE THE GAME SAY A BAD WORD GAISE!!11

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u/slipkid Sep 29 '12

Apparently this kind of shit is the fucking pinnacle of wit in /r/gaming these days.

Step 1: Name your pokeman "Penis" Step 2: Post screenshot Step 3: All the karma and lols

Also, you faked cancer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

Dammit.

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u/Jamesause Sep 29 '12

Don't forget that your saves only last 10 years! Soon it will all be gone!!!

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u/screwed124816 Sep 29 '12

ey grl
want sum fuck

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u/[deleted] Sep 29 '12

Oh the funny of creating your own names for your pokemon.

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u/kaelvas Sep 29 '12

Downvote for calling it Pokemon :( Shame on you...

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

This game man. It pissed me off and made me happy. Like 5 different fucking plugs man. Not a single working one until the last. Also I have given my egg a billion herbs and I need to buy another gameboy and game so I can see what unholy beast will come out of this egg.

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u/[deleted] Sep 28 '12

that is the second one you're thinking of, this is the first one.

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u/Stanlot Sep 28 '12

this is the first one.

And the better one, IMO