20-30 Kaiju You'd put in a Godzilla Video Game

[PopInPicsPresents]

Okay, so I can't be the only one who thinks that all the kaiju in the Tohoverse will never all be in the same game together, so here it is. Choose 30 kaiju in the TOHOVERSE that you would put in a game together.

Here's my list:

Godzilla (1975)
Anguirus (1968)
King Ghidorah (1964)
Baragon (1965)
Hedorah (1971) Final Form/Flying
Megalon
Mechagodzilla 2 (1975)
King Caesar (1974)
Titanosaurus
Godzilla (1994) /Burning Godzilla
Mothra Imago Only(1992)
Battra Larva/Imago
Fire Rodan
Mechagodzilla/ Super Mechagodzilla (1993)
MOGUERA (1994)
Spacegodzilla
Destoryah Aggregate/Flying/Final
Mothra Leo/Rainbow/Armor
Desghidorah
Dagahra
Grand King Ghidorah
Godzilla (2000) Megg.
Godzilla (2004)
Orga
Megaguirus
Kiryu (2002) W/ and W/Out Weapons Pack
Monster X
Gigan (Modified)
Keizer Ghidorah

Who would you choose?

EDIT: ..I completely forgot about Fire Rodan..Godzilla Junior replaced with Fire Rodan

[Bentley]

Ok, I'll divide the list depending on their importance.

Core set (kaijus that will be in every list):

Mothra
Godzilla
King Ghidorah
Anguirus
Mechagodzilla (Showa)
Rodan

These are the core cast of the Godzilla franchise, and leaving them out would lead to fan outrage (eventually MG can be exchanged by another version of the same character). I look at the list in the opening post in disbelief for its lack of Rodan.

Borderline (characters that are very classic and I would be very surprised if they weren't in every list by the sheer variety they bring):

Gigan (Millenium for me, others may choose Showa)
Hedorah
Destroyah
King Caesar (Showa)

So from here on I think lists will change a whole lot, imo most of the lists would be lists of 20 monsters instead of thirty, considering all of the above will be around most of the time. Anyhow, I choose my top 20 favorites:

Battra
Biollante
Titanosaurus
Megalon
Orga

King Kong
M.O.G.U.E.R.A.
Jet Jaguar
Monster X
Mothra Leo

Space Godzilla
Kiryu
Kumonga
Godzilla Jr.
Baragon

And finally, the "why not" 5:

Gamera
Gyaos
Legion
Guiron
Daimajin

Fine, fine, I saw they said the Tohoverse, then...

Gaira
Ebirah
Megaguirus
Sanda
The Giant Condor

[Biogoji89]

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Those are my top 7 kaiju.I'd also like Biollante but all the games she's in messed her up one way or another except Battle Legends but she isn't playable.I don't care what other kaiju are in.

[Godz]

1 - Godzilla 1968
2 - Godzilla 1989
3 - Rodan (Showa)
4 - Mothra (Heisei)
5 - Anguirus (Showa)
6 - Minya (Showa)
7 - King Seesar (Showa)
8 - King Kong 1962
9 - Gorosaurus
10 - Zilla
11 - MechaGodzilla 1974
12 - Gigan
13 - Megalon
14 - Hedorah
15 - Gabara
16 - King Ghidorah (Showa)
17 - Baragon (Showa)
18 - Sanda
19 - Gaira
20 - Space Godzilla
21 - Destoroyah
22 - Jet Jaguar
23 - Kumonga (Showa)
24 - Kiryu
25 - Godzilla 2000
26 - Godzilla Junior
27 - Super Godzilla
28 - Death Ghidorah
29 - Orga
30 - Mecha-King Ghidorah

Kind of Godzilla heavy, but, thats by design...the story mode would be something akin to the recent Spider-Man games with Godzillas from different timelines/universes merged together to face a huge overwhelming evil....

[JVM]

Just take the roster of Godzilla: Unleashed and add in Hedorah, Kumonga, Zilla, and Gorosaurus. Could care less about Gabara, Battra'd be a clone and Manda'd be too much work.

[hammysammy59]

Hey, this kind of reminds me of the "Quality vs Quantity" thread a while back where we came up with our ideal 10-12 monster cast. With that in mind, here's the 12 I threw out then. I'm also assuming that for budget reasons, only one version of each monster would be allowed, so I've included my picks for that as well:

Godzilla (Mosugoji)
Imago Mothra (Showa)
King Ghidorah (Heisei)
(Fire) Rodan
Mechagodzilla (Showa)
Anguirus (Showa)
Gigan (Showa)
Megalon
Hedorah
Zilla (Tristar/Heisei)
Destoroyah
Monster X

So I'd definitely keep those guys. Maybe they would be the monsters available at the start, and the rest would be unlockable? Here's who I would add:

Minya (Showa)
Biollante
SpaceGodzilla
Kumonga (Showa)
Baragon (Showa)
Gabara
Ebirah (Showa)
Kamacuras (Millennium)
Megaguirus
Orga
Manda (Millennium)
Mogeura (Showa)
King Caesar (Showa)
Titanosaurus
Jet Jaguar
Gaira/Sanda
Toho Frankenstein
Oodako

That's my cast of 30. I'm sure having a numbered limit might seem arbitrary to some, but I think that's what makes threads like these interesting. I doubt a lot of people would agree with my inclusion of Minya over say, Gorosaurus or Varan, or the fact that I only have one version of each monster, but hey, that's how I roll.

I take a number of factors into account when I put together a monster list: importance to the franchise/genre, design variety, play mechanics variety, and historical variety. What can I say, I like variety. It's interesting to note that using these guidelines, a few monsters I'm not really crazy about made the cut: namely Megaguirus and Orga. But compared to the rest of my cast they're pretty unique, and Orga especially is kind of a big deal, being Godzilla's sparring partner in G2K, the last Godzilla movie to get a theatrical release here in the States. And while I'm not a fan of Megaguirus' movie, without Battra, she fills a pretty unique niche. I don't know, this list might evolve still.... I'd really like Gezora, Gorosaurus and Larva Mothra to make this list. I could see Kamacuras or Oodako (sadly) getting the ax for one of them.

That's right, Larva Mothra as a separate character. It's part of my philosophy of having ONE version of every character. If I remember correctly, Mothra never has transformed mid-battle, usually it takes a little while. So how can Larva Mothra and Minya go toe-to-toe with heavy hitters like Hedorah and Mechagodzilla? Well, they can't! That's the upside of having a huge roster like this, you can be true to the movies and the monsters' strength and abilities.

It's also pretty clear that I have a bit of a pro-Showa bias. Who can blame me? It's Godzilla's golden age for a reason. I didn't ALWAYS opt for the Showa version of a monster though, if later suits look better or have a more iconic design, or in Rodan's case feature a cool new power or two on top of my favorite design, that's what I chose.

So where's Toho Kong? KKvG is one of my favorite movies in the series, but if Toho couldn't afford the rights to the 8th Wonder of the World for a big anniversary movie, I can't realistically expect some video game company to be able to swing it, either.

EDIT: Re-reading the lists so far (including mine) I'm realizing two things: 1. I like the idea of including Mothra Leo. His movies are borderline unwatchable garbage, but they are a part of Toho's monster history, did decent at the box office (if I remember correctly) and he's a great looking variation on the classic Mothra design, with a surprisingly different set of abilities. 2. Gaira/Sanda and Frankenstein, while I love them all, would play very similarly and are even from the same psuedo-series. I'm not sure who I'm going to drop, but I do know Mothra Larva gets in before Leo.

I also find myself making the painful realization that Oodako, as much as I love him, is really just an aquatic variation of Kumonga. I even took the liberty of assigning him a cool ink-spitting attack in my head to justify his spot in the game. But ultimately Kumonga not only has a slightly greater role in the Godzilla series, but more personality too. It's ridiculous how tough these choices are.

[Kaiju-King42]

The cast of 26 monsters from GU, but remove: G2K, G54, Krystalak, Obsidious, MKG, Moguera, and Jet Jaguar. Replace Jet Jaguar with Zone Fighter.

Now with 20 monsters, I would add the following.

Hedorah
Zilla (Jr)
Death Ghidorah
Grand Ghidorah
Mothra Leo
Gorosaurus
Manda
Kumonga
Battra
Orochi

I would also add these changes to monsters:

Hedorah, Destoroyah, Mothra Leo, etc, can transform into their varying forms.
Bring back rage, but make different rage powers for different buttons, like the different throws in the first two games.

And that's my monster line up.



Add Gamera, Gyaos, Legion, and Irys as secret monsters.

[hammysammy59]

Add Gamera, Gyaos, Legion, and Irys as secret monsters.

As much as I'd love a Godzilla/Gamera crossover game, I might actually prefer a stand-alone Gamera brawler. The series is so much smaller, you could seriously have every Gamera monster ever (and THEN some) in one game and still have a compact monster roster:

Gamera Showa
Gamera Heisei
Gamera Millennium
Barugon
Gyaos
Space Gyaos
Gyaos Heisei
Viras
Guiron
Jiger
Zigra
Legion
Irys
Zedus
Garasharp

Oh yeah, I'd play the hell out of this.

[tymon]

Godzilla Showa (68) - fastest yet weakest of the three Godzillas. Also has the most stamina and quickest ray charge.
Godzilla Heisei (89) - quite a bit slower yet bigger and more powerful than the other two Godzillas
Godzilla Millennium (04) - in between 68 and 89, more well-balanced. Make him look more like the 6" Japanese Bandai figure than the suit.
Angurius 68
Rodan 56 - I like the way they did Rodan's controls in DAMM - they could use some tweaking, but overall I think it looks better than a Rodan suit or prop fighting IMO. I would like most of these monsters on the list (in a hypothetical game) to move, fight and "feel" more like the suits from the film, which would be a first for a G-game...Rodan is an exception to this.
Varan
Mothra 64
King Kong 63
King Ghidorah 68
Baragon 65
Gorosaurus
Gigan 72
Megalon
Mechagodzilla 75
Titanosaurus
Godzilla Junior
Destroyah
Zilla

Showa and Millennium Godzillas would both have skin DLCs: Showa would have 54, 62, 64, 74; Millennium has 99 and 01.

Non-playable:
Mothra Larvae (power-up, sprays webbing on opponent. Doesn't ever attack Mothra Imago, of course..)
Battra Larvae (power-up, fires beam at opponent)
Ebirah (randomly appears and attacks players when at sea)
Kamacuras/Kumonga (50/50 Power-up, one sprays web and one attacks directly)
Hedorah (appears in the sky occasionally and throws down dangerous slabs of sludge)
Orga UFO (attacks both players at random by beam and by speeding into them)
Meganulon (power-up, attacks opponent in a swarm)

Mechs: Super X, Atragon, Masers, etc.

References/Random appearances: Giant Condor, Minilla, Gabara, Jet Jaguar, King Ceaser, Biollante, SpaceGodzilla, Bagan)

[Tidlefire]

Godzilla '91
Burning Godzilla
Godzilla 2000
Gigan '72
Gigan Modified
Hedorah
Megalon
Mechagodzilla
Super Mechagodzilla
Kiryu
Grand King Ghidorah
Destoroyah
Biollante
Mecha-King Ghidorah
Anguirus
Mothra Imago
Battra Imago
Fire Rodan
Kamacuras (Millennium)
SpaceGodzilla
Mechagodzilla 2
Baragon
Gamera
Legion
Orga
Megaguirus

Can't think of others, so i'll finish this later.

[Berzerkgodzilla]

Godzilla (BioGoji)
Anguirus (Showa)
Fire Rodan
Gigan (FW)
Megalon
King Caesar (Showa)
King Ghidorah (Heisei)
Mecha King Ghidorah
Super Mechagodzilla
Destoroyah
Orga
Kiryu
Baragon (GMK)
Megaguirus
Jet Jaguar
Mothra
Moguera
Spacegodzilla
Biollante
Mechagodzilla
Titanosaurus
Varan
Zilla
Gorosaurus
King Kong
Kumonga
Hedorah
Battra
Monster X
Godzilla 2000

[Living Corpse]

Zone Fighter

Hedorah

Monster X

King Kong

73-75 Godzilla

Kaizer Ghidorah

Manda

Gorosarus

Kumonga

Burning Godzilla

Super-Mechagodzilla

Battra

Varan

Gabara

Ebirah

Kamacuras

Minya

Bagan

Super Godzilla

Burning Godzilla

[Tyler]

Godzilla SOS (with the busted chest)
Anguirus 68
Rodan 56
Moguera Heisei
Varan
Mothra SOS (larva and adult)
Showa Ghidorah/Mecha-King Ghidorah
Baragon GMK
Minilla Final Wars
Gorosaurus
Gabara
Hedorah Showa
Gigan Final Wars
Jet Jaguar
Megalon
Mechagodzilla Showa
King Caesar Final Wars
Titanosaurus
Biollante
Battra (larva and adult)
Super Mechagodzilla
SpaceGodzilla
Destoroyah
Godzilla Junior
Orga
Megaguirus
Kiryu
Zilla
Monster X/Keizer Ghidorah

[SpanishBulldog63]

The roster of G:U minus Krystalak and Obsidius(just make Baragon his Showa version),Gorosaurus, Manda,Zilla,Hedorah, and Bagan or Monster X

[Living Corpse]

I'd also like to see some weapons like the Super-X, Super-X2, Karyu, Eclair, Rumbling, Gotengo, and the ASTOL-MB93.

Oh and some stage hazzerds like the Godzilla Tower and the Electrodes from Mothra vs Godzilla and the one from Godzilla vs Hedorah. And the M6000T.C. System lighting mines from Biollante.

[SpanishBulldog63]

^i think that same idea was mentioned in the Game Ideas topic

[Living Corpse]

I know.

I was one of the people to suggest it.

[SpanishBulldog63]

*looks at the topic and the post made by LC* oh, my bad haha.but that'd really be a good idea for a possible next game

[Mauser c/96]

Playable:
Rodan1957
MechaGodzilla II
Moguera 1958
Godzilla 1954
Anguirus 1959
Anguirus 2004
Godzilla 1959
Godzilla 1985
Moguera STE
Godzilla 2000
King Ghidorah 1968
Gigan 2004
Mothra1962
Varan1962
Rodan1993
Fire Rodan
Gezora
Giant Turtle from Yog
Giant Turtle from Tokyo SOS
Gorosaurus 1968
Moguera1994
Manda1968

[Living Corpse]

Shit, I forgot to add Sanda, Gira, and Frankenstein.