/vr/ - Retro Games

[Games with a large bestiary No.1547361]

Sup guise! Here's an odd request.

Did someone know a game with a large amount of monster, and when you kill them, they drop loot?

The best example here is the castlevania series. I always enjoyed recolecting all the items for every single monster, like collectibles.

Sadly, I never play a game with this particular feature.

Please, let me know if you play a game like this one. Platformers preferably, but not necessarily.

[Anonymous No.1547373]

>>1547361
The GBA ports of FFIV-VI have bestiaries, IIRC.

If that's the type of thing you're looking for.

[Anonymous No.1547391]

>>1547373

Not exactly. I'm looking for a game with a large amount of monster who drop an specific loot. You know, just like Castlevania, where ONLY parathropus drop the Ring of Varda.

I'm looking for stuff like this. Never played the FF series, but I think it's like the many other RPGs where any creep would drop you a potion or mana potion. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[Anonymous No.1547412]

>>1547391
Most of the times it's potions and things of that nature, but their are a lot of monsters will have rare drops that are much more specific.

[Anonymous No.1547431]

Not completely retro, don't kill me.

Castlevania normally has this more than anyone else, especially Aria of Sorrow.

The Golden Sun series has a ton of special equipment, and a few of what OP is talking about which were rather hard to get a hold of. The endgame dungeon of Part 1 had nearly every monster carrying something, and Part 2 had more throughout.

[Anonymous No.1547434]

Hi mah name is schmoo 'an ah drop da most gaem breaking item ever. I demand moar fanart. Eeeeech.

[Anonymous No.1547447]

>>1547434
I can't find a single piece of Schmoo fan art.

[Anonymous No.1547461]

>>1547447
This doesn't really count, but it's all I could find.

[Anonymous No.1547465]

>>1547461
Jesus Christ I'm losing my shit at this very moment.

[Anonymous No.1547475]

>>1547461
>>1547465
There should be like 200 ramens and 1 Chrisaegrim.

[Anonymous No.1547482]

>>1547461

[Anonymous No.1547489]

>>1547461
THIS

[Anonymous No.1547496]

>>1547431
I can use this, thanks! If some game else come to your mind, let me know.

>>1547461
Holy shit

[Anonymous No.1547549]

>>1547475
>200 ramens

[Anonymous No.1547598]

>>1547549

I killed these fuckers for about an hour and they when I saw I'd picked up an item I was fucking ecstatic.

It was at that point I learned that Schmoo's can also drop ramen. I do not get even close to lucky with this fucking game.

[Anonymous No.1547639]

>>1547361
>tfw you complete your collection

I was proud as fuck for picking all items on SotN.

[Anonymous No.1547640]

>>1547361
I know that I know a couple non-Castlevania games that do this but I'm drawing a blank, I hate that feeling.

Well this is a bit of a long shot but Diablo II Lord of Destruction does that in part with some of the unique equipment, for example the monster Pindleskin has a relatively very high chance of dropping Gull, a unique dagger whose stats are only useful thanks to the particular +100% better chance to finding magic items bonus, which in term helps you getting better shit when gambling.

[Anonymous No.1547647]

King's quest and Shadow Tower series.

[Anonymous No.1547664]

>>1547647
>King's quest

You mean King's Field.

[Anonymous No.1547667]

not /vr/ but FFXII would be right up your alley OP

[Anonymous No.1547669]

>>1547640
Ah motherfucker, I'll just throw in the following two games, maybe OP will like them: Power Stone 2 and Evolution 2, both for the Dreamcast. These two games have a very large library of items that you are pretty much expected to fulfill as its very own side quest, especially in Evolution 2, as Power Stone 2 is more of a party/arcade game but it does have its own single player campaign (Adventure mode). The items in question require you to go through Adventure mode, pick up everything that you can, and then go into the Item Shop mode so you can combine them and create and unlock new items that you can then pick up and use in Adventure mode, combine more to make more, so yeah, it should be right up your alley I think.

As for Evolution 2, it's a very simplistic, barebones JRPG, but with the optional sidequest of finding all 200 Appraisal items. Some items are "super rare" which are only obtainable by combining 2-3 Appraisals, and while some of these items can be found in the main dungeons of the game, many of them can only be found in the Tower of Sorrow, which is a randomly generated dungeon that you can access basically right away from the start. As you progress through the game, the tower gets increasingly larger, having up to 50 floors, and upon beating the game once, it opens up 50 more floors on your New Game+. Rather than being dropped by enemies, these items are found in treasure chests, sometimes only found inside hidden rooms within the levels. In the Tower of Sorrow, there is always, always, 1 secret room in each level, but since they're all randomly generated you'll never know where it is, unless you have a Dowsing Stone, which makes an arrow appear in the VMU/vibrates the controller when you're near the breakable wall.

[Anonymous No.1547673]

>>1547640
>That feel when after hours, days, and months of pindle runs you feel absolutely dead inside.

[Anonymous No.1547693]

>>1547673
I didn't feel empty when I got two of them for my Barbarian.

[Anonymous No.1547713]

>>1547664
You're right. :/

[Anonymous No.1547925]

>>1547669
>recommending Power Stone 2

Jesus fuck, Anon, why not just go and rob the guy's house if you want him to be poor so badly?

i'm not bitter about how much a copy of ps2 costs... i'm not bitter at all

[Anonymous No.1548027]

>>1547925
Jesus, this. It'd be cheaper to get a PSP and download the Power Stone collection.

[Anonymous No.1548042]

[Anonymous No.1548270]

>>1547925
>>1548027
or just burn the game or simply emulate it....

[Anonymous No.1548470]

Bumping because this colection-oriented games thing is interesting.

Deliver moar anons.

[Anonymous No.1548483]

Mother 3 isn't /vr/... but it might aswell be.
It has a pretty good bestiary of all the enemies you encounter in the game. What's more, you get a different sprite if you approach them from behind, so if you want to get a full catalogue, you'll need to try to sneak behind every enemy which can be challenging.

[Anonymous No.1548501]

>>1548483
>Mother 3 isn't /vr/... but it might aswell be.

No. Stop shitposting.

[Anonymous No.1548527]

>>1548501

Ok. :(

[Anonymous No.1548528]

>>1548501

Why don't you contribute to the thread instead of being a shitposter?

[Anonymous No.1548535]

>>1548528
Because it's cool to be a pointless dick!

[Anonymous No.1548569]

>>1547925
>>1548027
I'm sorry for my ignorance, but since when has Power Stone 2 become so incredibly expensive?

[Anonymous No.1548802]

The Phantasy Star Online series has a large focus on getting rare items from monster drops.

[Anonymous No.1548821]

>>1547598
I only bothered collecting stuff in SOTN on my second play through with the luck code, got two swords in under 30 minutes

>>1547361
was I the only one pissed that in the PSP version you still had to go the librarian to see the bestiary instead of just accessing it anytime you want like in the rest of metroidvanias

[Anonymous No.1548826]

>>1547475
I found they're fairly generous compared to some of the other enemy drops but that could just be because they're so easy to kill and common compared to say Final Guards. But then Heaven Swords proved a lot harder for me to get.

>>1547361
I assume you mean specific items per monster, because this is the basis of most dungeon crawlers. There is Final Fantasy VII where you can acquire items through Morph or Steal or sometimes as natural drops.

[Anonymous No.1549315]

>>1548569
Bump because I'm still curious about this.

[Anonymous No.1551481]

>>1547434
That's not the shield rod+ Alucard shield combo