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IDProjectCategoryLast Update
0007488Valley 1SuggestionAug 14, 2012 4:59 pm
Reportertr0picana Assigned To 
Status consideringResolutionopen 
Product Version1.008 
Summary0007488: Monster Pets
DescriptionInspired by the rescue missions, I thought it would be cool to have the ability to collect monsters as pets. Monsters can become your pet after killing a certain monster x times or "feeding" it an item to entice it to join you. You could bring a pet with you when you go exploring and upgrade its stats using upgrade stones or specialized monster upgrade stones. Pets can be stored in a monster farm of sorts in each settlement with a whole other aspect of the game consisting of collecting all the different monsters on the continent(s). Pet spells can be upgraded in a similar fashion to regular spells.
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MaxwellDemonic

May 3, 2012 11:52 pm

reporter   ~0023406

Not to be critical, but I feel like Monster Rancher/Pokemon-like elements don't quite fit in this game. The idea of a monster following you around is cool, but I can only imagine the nightmare of getting them to path correctly to follow you everywhere.

tr0picana

May 4, 2012 12:16 am

reporter   ~0023407

I thought the pathing of the people you have to rescue was done fairly well, and that was in an long corridor with various obstacles.

MaxwellDemonic

May 4, 2012 9:00 am

reporter   ~0023420

Even if you take the pathing thing out, I still think it hasn't got a place in this game. I don't see the point of hunting monster bait items, in the chance you might get a monster as a pet, which will then require feeding and special upgrades and special spells, it just seems like a whole lot of work without any payoff. A pet water esper sounds cool in principle, but it seems to me like it's needlessly adding another level of complexity to character development.

tr0picana

May 4, 2012 7:23 pm

reporter   ~0023483

A companion in an otherwise barren and desolate land doesn't make sense?

Mortusnyte

May 4, 2012 9:09 pm

reporter   ~0023490

I think that its worth considering. Acquiring monster allies is what revolutionized FFXIII-2 and made the gameplay 10 times more fun then its predecessor, along with the moogle companion. Though I admit that it would add a whole other level of complexity to an already fairly complex progression system.

Izumi5

May 6, 2012 3:51 am

reporter   ~0023612

I think monster pet doesn't fit this game, for these reasons:

1. You dash incredibly fast, you jump (up to 4 times in row), you fall (sometimes almost top to bottom in a cavern chunk). Having a pet that can follow the player will require the pet to be no clipping, moving fast, flying, being able to breathe underwater, which makes them very unrealistic.

2. I think most of players don't mind their controllable characters' deaths, as the game says. And indeed characters die very often. If so, having a pet just add one more entity to die with.

3. In Pokemon or something in which we can pet monsters, most of the monsters are quite harmless if we don't attack, don't you think? In this game monsters, even the smallest ones are very aggressive, attacking every human in their sights.

zebramatt

May 6, 2012 5:17 am

reporter   ~0023616

Actually, I like the core of the idea.

If it's implemented, I've no doubt it will be implemented in such a way as fits with the game, so I'm not too concerned about that, personally.

TKilburn

Aug 14, 2012 4:59 pm

reporter   ~0027655

Do this conflict with Jinsiek and John?

Issue History

Date Modified Username Field Change
May 3, 2012 9:26 pm tr0picana New Issue
May 3, 2012 11:52 pm MaxwellDemonic Note Added: 0023406
May 4, 2012 12:16 am tr0picana Note Added: 0023407
May 4, 2012 8:23 am tigersfan Internal Weight => Feature Suggestion
May 4, 2012 8:23 am tigersfan Status new => considering
May 4, 2012 9:00 am MaxwellDemonic Note Added: 0023420
May 4, 2012 7:23 pm tr0picana Note Added: 0023483
May 4, 2012 9:09 pm Mortusnyte Note Added: 0023490
May 6, 2012 3:51 am Izumi5 Note Added: 0023612
May 6, 2012 5:17 am zebramatt Note Added: 0023616
Aug 14, 2012 4:59 pm TKilburn Note Added: 0027655
Apr 14, 2014 9:28 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Suggestion - General Idea => Suggestion - General
Apr 14, 2014 9:30 am Chris_McElligottPark Category Suggestion - General => Suggestion