How the fuck did they do it??? They just randomly made the best virtual pet game ever, and somehow no other game can come close to it. Just how?

>>714183768 (OP)
The 90s were a time when games were made by smart, creative and talented white and Japanese nerds who were allowed to experiment. Sadly, Digimon games now are bottom of the barrel trash made in a cookie cutter fashion that only the most braindead of people buy because of female human and Digimon designs.

>>714183768 (OP)
it has just the right amount of clunkyness and mystery to it
modern games try to streamline and explain things and they end up worse for it

>play Digimon World
>vpet digivolves into nanimon
>quit
i decided there and then that DM isn't for me.

>>714184290
Because big corps are trying to formulize everything to squeeze the maximum money out of it. But you can't formulize soul, you can't deterministically capture the lightning in a bottle. These guys just got together and casually shat out the best vpet game, such that even they couldn't surpass it.

>>714185465
maybe learn how to raise your vpet, mongoloid.

Something that really helped, is the aesthetic.
Digimon works incredibly well with low-poly models.

>take care of your little baby
>feed it, make sure it's happy, love it
>it turns into numemon
Bros.. It's not fair.
[s]Although I admit that numemon -> teddybear in toytown was the most kino thing I experienced in vidya. I kneeled when I accidentally made it happen when I was a kid, never been so amazed[/s]

>>714186164
love this nigga

>>714186741
Same. A great design.

>>714183768 (OP)
>How the fuck did they do it?
Apparently not even they know, since the franchise went down the shitter immediately after.

>>714183768 (OP)
>janky piece of shit
>best
I rather play the first yugioh game (a virtual pet game)

I remember playing this game and being frustrated at my mon dying like 20mins into the game. I was a retarded kid so I was probably doing something retarded.

>>714185465
>>digivolves into nanimon
that's beyond impossible. it can only be done deliberately so you're lying your ass off

>>714183768 (OP)
Its only become good as people have learned its quirks.

But something it has over all its modern counter parts is the player speed and the size of the world.

Next order has some neat ideas but it takes so long to walk from point a to point b.

Also i want a spiritual sequal to world 3 that uses the exact overworld. Both next order and cyber slueth dropped the ball hard on world design.

>>714189498
I figured out how to play it when I was 10. It's really not that complicated.

>Both next order and cyber slueth dropped the ball hard on world design.
That, and literally everything else.

>>714183768 (OP)
Re:digitize is really close to the original world. Idk what they were thinking with Next Order.

>>714183768 (OP)
It's the only one that tried to do that.

>>714191131
re:digitize is old news. you should be playing decode.

>>714191592
I will after they ported it to PC. I'm not spending a couple hundred bucks for a 3ds.

>>714183768 (OP)
Why the fuck haven't they done it again

>>714192551
just emulate, faggotron. it's got like 50% extra stuff so it's definitely worth playing

>>714192656
TPC is working on the next one anon. Here you go, open wide and say aaaaaa

>>714192662
>30fps
>pixelated sprites
It's so fucking janky and gay playing 3/ds games with split screens. Meanwhile Next Order got a nice 60fps glow up.

>>714194873
>pixelated sprites

>>714194873
Works on my machine. First time emulating?

>>714194873
Too bad Next Order is a load of railroaded nonsense that just brick was all your progress until you beat the next boss.

Digimon World 1 gave you a lot more freedom.

>>714194873
but it has funny slenderman graphics

>>714183768 (OP)
>Yata!
>*Roar* *Roar*
>*Ding*

>>714189498
>Its only become good as people have learned its quirks.
But the mystery of how it all worked was fun. Most people didn't know wtf they were doing with raising Digimon back then and still loved it

>>714201723
>But the mystery of how it all worked was fun
yes and no. the game could have at least told players that a happy digimon is a long-lived digimon, explained that the reels are worth using despite being rigged, included a poster with elemental affinities and another one with what a care mistake is, etc.
and then there are some flagrant mechanics flaws (all fights count as 1 no matter the enemy count and their evolutionary stage so just keep genociding modokibetamon, the evo priority algorithm is kinda fucked thanks to overlapping evos, chances to learn a tech can be as low as 5% or 0% if the element is your mon's secondar-y or tertiary specialty, etc.)