I just want to talk about JRPGs, man. What are you playing this week?
Probably play more smtv but I downloaded a vn I might read it over the week instead
>discordtranny general>>>/vg/
>>730813680Elden ring in ng+. These games are way more fun when you're overleveled.
>>730814143What VN? I haven't really touched any VNs since I haven't explored that genre of gameplay. Frankly VNs look boring to me. I am willing to try the utawarerumono trilogy, aegis 13, and noctuary since they integrate some other rpg gameplay.
throw me some recs on steam, here's my account using steam's jRPG tag sorted by playtime
>>730814465Grandia. Grandia is good.
>>730814465This >>730814557 but emulate the Saturn original
>>730814450Famicom Detective Club: The Missing Heir Remake
>>730814465FFVI
>VN>bot spam derailment>Elden Ring>>730814465> 6/44 are actually jrpgYou fucking retards are pure cancer.
>>730814694OP here, yeah I agree. I just realized I'm in a minority in the western hemisphere when it comes to actually playing JRPGs. I have better interactions during asia hours.
>>730814557>>730814603it's a contender, never played the original or 2 and feena looks like a top tier wife>>730814694i didnt tag the games personally, blame steam and the steam community, im simply an honest gamer.
>>730813680Playing p3r, almost at the end, also getting kingdom hearts all versions on ps4 disc tomoz cuz jewny’s store is fucking overpriced
>>730815032What's the appeal of KH games?
I might get minstrel song for $12 since im liking scarlet grace and emerald beyond since I heard the combat system is kinda similar
Growlanser 1, fixed up Bernstein's political issues, but more importantly I can't seem to get Karen's affection points higher. Her fucking brother is more into me at this point...
>>730815180>minstrel songgame might be kino but im not bout to play a jrpg where i have to keep track of my battle encounters lmao
>>730815183Sex with Julian
>>730814197>pretend janny>not even good enough to do it for FREEHAHA
>>730815335https://growlanser.net/jurian/Wait a second so he is a she? Or is this a psyop?
Philippe is a bitch
>>730815183I hear great things about Growlanser 4, I have the PSP game downloaded in multiple devices for like 15 years at this point (first my hacked PSP, then on a PC emulator, then a different PC that I built from scratch, then a hacked PSVita). It's just that I never found the timing to play it, it's always "maybe like after these 5 to 10 games from now" but it keeps sliding down my priority list.Granted I'm an impulsive tard that can't keep my plans 100% intact and always wants to jump at the fresh new idea, but I really should rip the bandaid and play it.
I've been getting into fan translations lately. Some are: emerald dragon, tengai makyou, oriental blue, endless frontier exceed, FE the binding blade, mother 3, star ocean blue sphere, bahamut lagoon, energy breaker, princess minerva, Treasure Hunter G, Treasure of the Rudras, Grandia (Saturn), princess crown, Sakura wars 1&2, shining force 3 trilogy, growlanser, popolocrois monogatari, DQV (PS2), Ys V (PS2), valkyria chronicles 3, ciel nosurge, tales of innocence R, etc.
>>730815335I would go for him but I think his route is pretty hard to get and my second playthrough whenever will probably already be the racist featherian>>730815401reverse trap
>>730815502They didn't put my boy Remus in this pic? Or the pink girl
I think Spirit Curse SUCKS!
>>730815587So the game is not gay, I was kinda let down when I thought she was actually a guy, given she is also in the male opening only
I'm playing Enchat Farm and It's utterly kino
>>730813680I missed the initial wave of ff growing up, started with 10, then 7, then 1+2 on the gba, and the most recent FF I played at least 20 hours before getting bored with it was 15So I thought I'd go through and play the mainline series from start to finish Playing the pixel remasters, finished 5 the other day, about 8 hours into 6 now, and thoroughly enjoying every bit of it
>>730815784Post an actual scrot of you playing it instead of reposting that shill pic.
>>730813680Playing legend of dragoon since my buddy told me to try it out
>>730815797Same. I'm actually emulating FFIV for the PSP modded with the PR music. I plan to go in order from 4-12 skipping 11.
>>730815142Idk, I like jrpgs and everyone says they’re good so i’m gonna try them
>>730815865Are you using the severed chains mod?>>730815943The Disney shit deters me from ever wanting to play it.
>>730815142Very fun action RPG combat, neat Disney/Final Fantasy crossover, good music and voice acting, plot is a mess but can be enjoyed or ignored. KH1 in particular has a lot of soul, KH2 has amazing gameplay.
>>730815925NiceI'm not gonna bother with 7 or 10 since I replay those at least once every couple years, but I really enjoyed the PRs, 4 and 5 especially Looking forward to trying 9, and eventually 13 if they ever port it
started ff6i think i overestimated how esoteric or up it's own ass the combat would be, it's clearly not at a point where combat is that hard 10 hours inthe story is about as good as a cartoon could be, they clearly had limited space and text so things are punchy/cliche, it's definitely not a novel literary experiencemusic is kino
>>730815850Okay
>>730816265rewrite this in a less pretentious way
Baten Kaitos
>>730816269why are the lolis called like spells
>>730816490They're elementals
>>730816490Imagine if in Final Fantasy, the spells Fira, Holy, Ultima, Blizzaga, etc, were transformed into human beings who could join your crew.That's the general concept.
>>730816269Darkness was a good choice. You should try to find the water one and things will be a lot easier.
>>7308159251 is worth as playthrough because of how much they reference it in the franchise.
>>730813680>dat feel when only recently discovered there was a fucking Shadowrun game on Sega CD
>>730814197>/vg/>not /vrpg/this is why people call you a tourist, anon. you come here to click on rapedape's jeet containment zone and don't even bother to look at the rest of the website.
>>730816686Thanks anon, she's doing really good so far. I kind of regret picking up Stone because she's a bit of a brick, pun not intended
>>730816265The older games had plenty of humor, the 7 spin-offs started all the "super serious" vibes.
>>730815180Eh, you do have BPs but the idea is completely different, SSG and EB are very much their own thing.Not to say Minstrel Song is bad or anything but outside of having a vaguely similar concept for resource economy it plays pretty differently, SSG and EB are forks of the BP system Kawazu and Koizumi initially designed for Minstrel Song but tuned for a more extreme and abstract format, Minstrel Song has more complexity in other sides of the game like the in-depth crafting, spell fusion and so on but the tug of war aspect that the latest mainlines have just isn't there if that's what you're interested in.
>>730816695Honestly FF1 is more interesting as a historical relic than anything else.
>>730816710The Genesis Shadowrun game is beyond kino as well
>>730815797>finished 5 the other day, about 8 hours into 6 nowIt's interesting how contrasting these two games are. Sadly, FF5 never really got the chance to build up a fanbase in the west but it's apparently quite popular in Japan.
>>730815716yeah, though there are a bunch of characters and scenes that feel like BL bait and no idea how far the guys' routes actually go>>730815502My backlog just grows endlessly too.You might want to try 1 first, there's now a translation patch in the proof-reading stage ready to use. We had two threads or so at bump limit about it a few months ago.
Finishing DQ3 remake, just need to do the 1000 battles achivement and it's over.Overall was ok. The story being so light plus your party being generics without dialogue made it pretty hard to get invested at first, but eventually it clicked.
>>730816803Kinda yeah, same as DQ1, it has this strong aura of being THE most influential JRPG, but I think that aura alone is enough to carry it.
I'm currently playing DQ5 on my iPhone. I chose Bianca
>>730816945is it actual BL bait or the artstyle confuses your sexuality
Someone post me a review of Fantasian. It looks really cool but like fuck am I going to drop 50 bucks on it
>>730817098Don't. It's not a bad game and diorama aesthetic is interesting, but it's also a mobile port. Don't pay more than $20 for it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/4005090/Dungeon_Antiqua_2/is this any good
>>730813680Nigga at least change the fucking pic
>>730816987Is the DQ1 remake worth it?
>>730816962DQ3 hits a similar sweet-spot to games like Etrian Odyssey, your team might be full of generics but you start to get attached to them somehow.I really love when the map starts to open, that sense of exploration feels good.Also, the fact that the world map resembles our real world map kinda makes navigation easier in a meta sense, you don't even need a mini-map in the NES version because of that.
>>730813680Demon's Souls demake.
I kinda hate how most DQ games have magic spells with fixed damage.Anywhow, any hard JRPGs?
>>730817098it went on sale 50% off a couple weeks ago, just wait until it's on sale and you can get it for like 30-35, I played it on my iphone back in the day and remember liking it but hated/hate mobile games so I stopped after like 2 hours so can't say whether it's worth it or not idk it looks pretty cool and I like the idea of saving monsters to fight all at once but the character design kind of sucked and the story didn't immediately grip me
>>730816771You get every character.The only thing can kind of screw you over a bit is one that turns into another, and can eventually turn back. There is no real indication this is about to happen. It happened to me and I dealt with it.
>>730817317Any JRPG can be hard if you are willing to do a low level challenge run
>>730816771By the way, shields act as if the character has the additional element of the shield. This is eventually really important but would have been useful to understand from the beginning.
>>730817458I don't want to go out of my way to play a game in a weird way, I just want a plug and play game that is hardAnti-grinding or diminishing retunrs in grinding would help there
>>730817317>Anywhow, any hard JRPGs?As a rule they don't exist unless the game is poorly balanced or overtuned. Like NA version of The 7th Saga, for example.
>>730817527I think Romancing SaGa is like that
>>730817076I'm neither a women nor a BL enthusiast so who knows but if for example those two guys aren't BL bait then I don't know what is
>>730817528Closer to impossible in some scenarios.
>>730816750>/vrpg/>a cordtranny boardHoly mother of newniggery
>>730816265FF6 is known to be easy even by Final Fantasy standards. It's less babymode than Chrono Trigger, and FF7 and onward made some amount of those babymode features standard. Eg in FF7 you can't voluntarily make a party with fewer than 3 people, in FF6 you can make a party of whoever you want.But it's still very easy. The game gives you easy overpowered abilities early-game like Tools and Blitz. The magic system gives everyone good options for offense and healing. And later in the game there's lots of absurdly powerful equipment that's very easy to get. The final boss is a pushover whose only real threat comes a bullshit counter-attack that's only enabled when the boss is low health. Most players won't ever see it.(And this is all without any serious exploitation of broken mechanics or esper growth autism)
>>730817317>Anywhow, any hard JRPGs?ARE YOU A BAD ENOUGH DUDE?
>>730817528>Like NA version of The 7th Saga, for example.To this day I have no idea what they were thinking. It's such an arbitrary decision.
>>730817317Tear Ring Saga and Fantasian bust your balls
>>730816710>Search gameplay to see what this looks like>"Oh neat--">Scroll a bit into the comment section>See the schizo armchair psychologist in the pinned replyWhat the fuck is this kek
>>730818529Holy shit ahahahahahaha
>>730818529Fucking incredible.
>>730817527>I don't want to go out of my way to play a game in a weird wayIn reality this isn't a binary question. The other anon posited as "challenge run" but what about a moderate degree of restraint?What if "playing the game in the weird way" is what makes it easy?Final Fantasy Tactics is a good example here. Because enemies scale with your level in random encounters, but not in story encounters, you can easily grind levels and jobs. Also, because you get XP with each action taken in battle, you can arrange hyper-optimized grinding sessions where you turn everyone into frogs and just have them hit each other over and over to gain xp and jp very quickly. So it's very easy to vastly out-level the story content. But it's also a weird way to play, and if you just play normally and maybe just do a random encounter or two here or there if you really want to unlock an ability or raise money for a weapon, the difficulty is perfectly reasonable.
Lost Odyssey. The intro and transition to the combat was so good.
>>730816771Stoney is utterly based. I used her most of the game to tank any and anything. Outside of tanking she is bad though would agree. Also shes cute.
>>730819224>PS1 style cinematic transition, but with graphics that are almost 1:1
>>730816803I just played FF1 and enjoyed it. But it's very combat-heavy and can become a slog at times. But it's also worth noting how enjoyable the game can be anyway. But I do think saying that it's "interesting as a historical relic" is more meaningful than its given credit for.Sometimes, it takes going back to the original games to really understand the purpose of some tropes and mechanics. If you want to understand ATB, for example, you could do worse than playing FF4. Of course you think you know ATB but when FF4 was new, so was ATB. The devs were really inspired by the new combat system so the game was built around it.For FF1, the overworld itself is one of the most notable features. It was a place you were meant to explore, not just an aesthetic portion of a hallway simulator leading from cutscene to cutscene, with combat in-between. It was an obstacle itself-- there are points in the game where you have to land your airship quite far from the destination you want to explore, and have to trek overland to reach it, fighting lots of monsters along the way. This use of the overworld as a way to simulate travel and journeying is something I think has been lost over time, at least somewhat.
>>730813680Dark Souls 2
>>730813680REAN GAME COMES OUT TOMORROW you bet I'm gonna marathon that shit for days
>>730817196just started playing it, hour in pretty much exactly what the store page makes it seem like. I am thus far happy with it, control/UX is very much designed for not wasting your time.
>>730817196>fake retro slop>sprites ripped straight out of various FF titles and recolored in an insipid UFO-50 ass looking palette>gameplay is just FF5 but worseMiss me with it.
>>730815032>also getting kingdom hearts all versions on ps4 disc tomoz cuz jewny’s store is fucking overpricedThe price difference is surreal.
>>730813680I finished Octopath 0 last night. My endgame squad was HunterMC/Laurana/Viator/Cyrus with Carinda/Richard/Saorise/Isla in the back. The true final boss is probably my favorite final boss in vidya. I'm not sure who would even come close. Extremely kino.I'm not sure what I'll move on to next. I still haven't even attempted the superboss but I'm getting a bit tired of 0. Part of me wants to go back to Raidou now, but what will most likely happen is that I'll start playing my MMO again.
I’ve never played a kemco game before. I enjoy it.
>>730813680Im currently playing Dragon Quest VII 3DS , It's fine , although I feel its a little bit backtracky, I guess thats the reason people hate it
>>730816451playing it right now, the pre-sequel. Is Mizuchi-sama a boy or a girl?
>>730820942Paid 35 quid for the disc with everything including the extras. Versus 1.5 remix and 2.8 ON SALE netting me about the same and 3 is still full price at like 55. Fuck snoy
>>7308220607 is a game that had no compromises, Horii wanted to include all that content and he did it.The result is a rollercoaster with both some of the most kino and slow moments in the franchise.
Just finished pic related, 100% all achievementsThe remake of I was cool but II hit me right in the feels. It's nice to see a game like II that had such a... troubled design get a glow-up like this.Just started III HD-2D. I lost my job last month so I've reverted to my larval form of being ten again and playing Dragon Quest while I figure out what to do with my life.
>>730822652 I really like the island system so far, I would understand if some of them were really slow or had shit story.
>>730822652It's such a shame the remake won't be a definitive version to play because they're cutting out so much.
>>730823265reddit is saying the content is now optional instead of required
>>730823613>That spacingGo back
On the final boss of Romancing SaGa 2 remake. I’ve been doing decent damage to it, but I usually get wiped when it’s HP is less than half so I think I have to take the time to make my party as optimal as possible which is gonna take a shit ton of grinding. It doesn’t help I didn’t get any of the formations people say are good cause’ I didn’t realize how broken they can be until I got to the final emperor. Overall it’s been fun though.
Me waiting for Xenoblade 4
>>730815502Kino game
Just got to Zanarkand ruins in FF10. It hit me pretty hard, despite not having any nostalgia for it. Great, great game.For my second jrpg I want something with hebes or hags. Pantyshots would be nice too. Any recs? Been thinking about trying that new Trails remake.
>>730813680Been getting back into Emerald Beyond
>>730817196It's good, especially for the price. It was 15% off on release. It's more like FF when the first was a bit more like Wizardry.
>>730819863FF1 is also one of the few games in the series with meaningful resource management. Later entries often give the player massive reserves of healing magic, mountains of consumables, and save points all over the place (which might heal everyone for free.) That makes it pretty much impossible for the player's party to suffer any real attrition, which in turn makes random encounters largely pointless. Meanwhile, if you want to get through FF1 without grinding, it becomes important to recognize that some enemy groups just aren't worth fighting because engaging them will wear the party down too much.
>>730827819Damn, second JRPG ever? Really depends on what you're looking for outside of the hebes and hags. The Trails remake is definitely the best way to get into the series, but it's notoriously a slow burn, and I'm not sure I would recommend it if you're just getting into the genre. Persona 3 Reloaded or Persona 5 Royal are great intros to the Persona and Shin Megami Tensei universe. Tales of Vesperia or Berseria are two great games with action combat instead of turn-based. If you want to stick to older PS2 era games, Shadow Hearts and Shadow Hearts: Covenant are two of the GOATs. All above mentioned games have hot babes ranging from loli to hag and are what I'd consider good entry points to JRPGs in general. Also glad you're enjoying X, it's a fantastic game
i want to re-play Kai no Kiseki but i'll wait for a sale
Im playing the original and its pretty cool
Playing DQ7 on PS1. Just got vocations a bit ago and my team's all at 6/8 on their first vocation of choice. Been really enjoying the PS1 version more than the 3DS version. I was also thinking about going back and playing Ultima 4 since I finished the first three before I started DQ7, but I might wait on that.
>huge backlog of JRPGs>just wanna play Shining Force 2 or SMT1 againI need to try to pick up Artificial Dream in Arcadia again, I remember I was at like the poison forest or something.
>>730829909Based, but you might want to consider the Zodiac version that's objectively better with no compromises
>>730814694eat my dick you pretend janny faggot
>>730829602Well, technically Astlibra was my first, but I don't think that it fits typical JRPG mold.>Tales of Vesperia The girl looks cute, gonna try this one.
>>730825964They're a motherfucker if you're unprepared but you should be able to scrape by if you got Restoration and Light Wall. Ideally you should also have all the Mr S bonus, because you're going to need those extra overdrives.
>>730817317Seraphic Blue
