According to the official calendar of shady holidays, today is Appreciate a Dragon Day, the one day a year when we can all stop, picture a dragon in our heads and nod appreciatively. Which video game dragon do you appreciate the most?
I’ll never forget my first video game dragon. Sure, he looked a bit like a duck, but I looked like a block with an arrow over it, so I wasn’t about to judge.
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Still can’t figure out if I ever beat Adventure.
My second most appreciated dragon is also kind of retro, but in the geekiest way possible.
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I am convinced that Legend of the Red Dragon is the only reason anyone logged in to the BBSes I ran in the early ’90s. They’d endlessly redial for hours, desperately trying to handshake with my PC, never knowing I was probably had the system down so I could download the slowest porn ever.
I appreciate these dragons all of the time but today, this magical made-up holiday, I appreciate them just a tiny bit more.
How about you folks? Who’s your dragon?
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37 responses to “Who’s Your Favourite Video Game Dragon?”
Spyro!
Seath the Scaleless
Gamewise – The last Guardian.
Hopefully.
Otherwise, Falcor.
Bub and Bob. I love those guys.
I think you’ve misspelled TROGDORRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR!!
Peasant Quest totally counts.
This most definitely
“buy b-ob a cold one”
The White Dragon from The Longest Journey
Witcher 2
SaskiaWow, L.O.R.D got a mention. When I was in Uni, someone set up a BBS running L.O.R.D on the college intranet and good times were had by all.
My favourite dragon would have to either be Breath of Fire III’s Ryu or Mikhail from Drakengard 3.
Druddigon
Kushala Daora from the Monster Hunter series. A steel plated Elder Dragon with that irritating wind barrier.
Irritating is an understatement.
Charizard!
OR everything from Monster Hunter
The ruby dragons and bahamut from FF VIII were always pretty iconic to me.
Alduin, bane of kings, ancient shadow unbound with a hunger to swallow the world!
Dragonite! The campest of the dragons.
Does double dragon count? My brother and i played hours of that on PC.
Frikraag, Baldurs Gate 2, followed closely by Bahamut (Final Fantasy series)
Probably the one in bg2
Bahamut, in his many forms.
Grigori, from Dragons Dogma.
Or Flygon.
Dragon from Reign of Fire (don’t know if he had a name.
http://fireemblem.wikia.com/wiki/Nowi
http://bit.ly/1P2m0F0
Was going to say Nowi as well.
As much as I dislike her design her attitude is great in the game and she decimates every enemy she comes across whilst barely ever taking any damage.
Paired her with Kellam and now I have an even more overpowered Manakete in Nah. 🙂
I think I paired her with Donnel (who is also OP). Nah was right up there with my avatar as being almost untouchable and wrecking stuff easily.
Nowi just has that charming naivete and bubbly nature (but I just had to pair my avatar with Tharja).
“The rantings of an upjumped zealot make for tedious listening.”
And that was when Grigori won my heart for best dragon.
How about the four dragons from Granny’s Garden?
First one that’s memorable to me was Kaiser from Breath of Fire 4. Otherwise, Charizard.
Macho Man Randy Savage
Smokey. He was the coolest.
Spyro, duh. Any incarnation. Although I don’t typically like Skylanders Spyro, at least he still has the two important things: charging, and torching butt.
I also love the design of Yiazmat and the Ring Wyrms in Final Fantasy 12, and I loved Paarthurnax in Skyrim. Oh, and my favourite Pokemon is Goodra, a Dragon type snail/slug thing who is super cute. I wanna hug her. Good thing I have a plushie.
The greatest dragon was the first one – D. They had a lot of meat on them, though, so you’d want to bring a tinning kit to make the fire resistance last as long as possible.
Even though Bahamut is a total badass, Flammie from Secret of Mana will always be my favourite.
Bruce Lee, Enter the Dragon
Rathalos!
Bahamut, with my favourite being the FFX Version
Drake in the Nintendo Shadowrun game