Two games I play that I don't see anyone else mentioning are Jade Cocoon(the original one) and Monster Rancher EVO.
Jade Cocoon was the first game I really liked. I loved the story line, the writing, the simplicity of the battle system, the characters and just about everything else about it. The only thing I could criticize is that it had a story line that was too brief.
Monster Rancher EVO was(and still is) my favorite Monster Rancher game. One thing I loved about this game that it had(and the others don't) is this:
In games like Monster Rancher 4, you could combine two monsters into a next generation monster, but that was about as far as they could go. In other words, if your monsters were too weak to explore certain places or win certain battles(Say... Grade S or Kalaragi Jungle+ ?) Then you couldn't expect comining already combined monsters to have any real effect. But in Monster Rancher EVO, you can combine them repeatedly and consistently get better results(If you understand the science of combining), and raising your monsters was easier in that game too. Attacking was also easier due to lower guts costs.
Also...
AScomposer13413 wrote:
Here are a few that come to mind for me:
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Spyro the Dragon (PS1 games) - I could go on a rant about how the newer games made the series fall, but that's for another post. I know they did re-release these games on PSN, but even more hype around the originals (along with Stewart Copeland actually releasing the full soundtracks to the fans

) could revive the old fanbase!!
I actually LIKED one of those games... Dawn of the Dragon(Designed by Sierra, I believe) was actually quite well done in my opinion, but I will agree with you about the games Vivendi Universal and Vicarious Visions designed...