Is Octopath Traveler any good? I'm a fan of turn-base games. I hear the sequel is an improvement but I'd like to play them in order.
>>721200862The sequel is a mechanical improvement but a flavor step-down.The upcoming 0 game looks to be the best of both - the OG time period, a shitton of characters including the originals, and the best mechanics plus new stuff like town building slop.I'd play 1 and then 2 with the expectation that 0 will be better than both.
I dropped 1 out of boredom but 2 is fucking amazing and one of the best jrpgs of the past few years. you don't need to play 1 to play 2
>>721200862they're both excellent jrpgs mechanically, the world is fun to travel around and the individual stories are good. the main issue people have is how disparate the stories are in 1, which i had no issue with but its fixed in 2
>>721201081Honestly because 0 is a prequel to 1, you could play 2 first and reverse-order them just fine.
it's the most generic JRPG ever. it's the biggest example of the "nintendo boost"
>>721201154>how disparate the stories are in 1I never understood this complaint at all.The stories are great without explicit tie-togethers.Gamers just invented a problem that didn't need solving - 2 is a better game, but that has nothing to with the character stories crossing over more.
Poor man's FF5 tries to turn his life around by trying to be the poor man's Romancing SaGa
>>721200862I thought it was a wonderful game. Great music, and also does something I miss from old games, which is if you're not actively in a story you can just wander around unmolested by and large. You can wander around and play.I dislike the specific 2.5d it pioneered though.
>>721201154>how disparate the stories areEveryone loves talking about how Dark Souls has such an overlapping world - they never talk about how the game gives up on the concept at Anor Londo and has to say 'fuck it just warp everywhere' guys.This specific praise/complaint logic is peak modern game journalism - it comes from people who like thinking about games and talking about games but not from people who actually play games for more than a few hours....Silksong is getting a lot of this right now - people who are three hours into an 80-hour game talking about which mechanics are good and bad like their opinion matters.
>>721200862So just fucking play it instead of asking 4chan. Or better yet, just kill yourself and save us from your faggotry.
>>721201310are you mentally retarded?
>>721201414it depends whether you go in expecting FF6 or Sagavery unfortunately, at least one dev made a comparison to FF6 pre-release
>>721200862It's okay. There are some good moments. Unfortunately all the dungeons are boring as fuck and the combat mechanics make the random battles (which occur too frequently) very tedious. But those same mechanics make for some very fun boss fights.The stories are pretty cool. But it sucks that the characters don't really interact with each other in the plot, just in side scenes.The class system is cool.It has a very nice soundtrack.The visuals are pretty stupid, but some people like them.The translation sucks, especially for H'aanit.90% of the game feels like filler. A lot of the areas, even some towns, feel like they were formulaically added to meet a quota. Even the cool ideas like the path actions really just feel tacked on.I think it's worth trying out. I'm glad I played it. I'm fond of it. Just don't expect something unequivocally good.
>>721201912>how dare you ask for opinions about a game on a video game boardLike why the fuck do you even post here
Only played 2 but it was bad. The only noteworthy thing is the music. Everything else is just barely okay or bad with most things being bad.
>>721201414If you don't have a problem with it fine, but it's certainly not a problem that was "invented". The stories are good on their own but it's offputting to have the game act like the characters ARE on their own when they have companions with them the whole time. It doesn't give them a single line of dialogue or even show them standing in the background or something. It's incongruous and it undermines the plot.
>>721200862Its not good, the game is extremely formulaic and boring. You go see a chapter of story that you won't get to see the next part of for several hours because the map is ridiculously level gated and then you go see another chapter of a different persons story that is functionally identical in structure. Thats a short intro to character and their class, a villain is revealed who goes into a dungeon you must enter and fight a boss where once you find the weakness becomes a forgone conclusion that you'll win- that applies to every fight I had in the game btw. In between those story chapters you get absolutely hammered by painfully long random battles with nothing going on, no character interactions whatsoever between party members, boring towns with generic side quests, no overarching story just lots of random battles as you walk to the next area.I made it 10 hours before I dropped and never made it to a chapter 2 in anybodys story. I'm sure I reached a level where I could've survived going off the path of getting all eight characters but I was so bored by that point I didn't want to play anymore.
>>721204601>never made it to a chapter 2 in anybodys storywell thats your fucking problem then
>>721203542how long did you play it for? 2 hours? you may not like it but you are completely and utterly full of shit calling it bad. contrarian faggot
>>721204678>all those other problems would've vanished if you made it to chapter 2 in someones story Of course.
>>721204691I beat it bro. That's why I'm so confident in calling it bad. I'd honestly have a higher opinion of the game if I quit before the finale. Good God was it awful.
>>721200862Great combat with numerous boss fights. Good game as long as you aren't autistic about stories in video games.If you end up playing it, take your time to explore and interact with NPCs and such. Don't fall for the "rush to chapter 2 unprepared" trap that filtered billions.
