Hey /v/, just picked this up and it's pretty cool, are the remakes worth it?
No, they're fucking terrible. Play the originals.
>>741462320Not really, the remake of 1 looks worse than the DS port and the remake of 3 is not fun at all (supposedly a lot of the balance was fucked up compared to the original but even ignoring that it's a huge step down from 1 in many regards)
>>741462489>>741462504How easy is 2 to play without being fluent in jap
offtopic but whatever happened to zoe
>>741462707For FM2 your only choice is the bad remake, unfortunately. 2 as a whole is pretty forgettable though, I'd just skip to 3 after 1, really.
>>741462707Just learn japanese so you can play 2089 too
>>741463534It was always just a side project Kojima didn't care too much about and the story effectively ended with 2 anyway
>>741462707Just download a fan translated version
>>741463756I mean my jap is pretty good which is why I'm asking. I'm just not fluent
>>741462320The first one is one of the best. I tried playing through the series but stopped somewhere in the middle of FM3 because an SRPG that revolves entirely around randomly activated skills is the opposite of strategy.
>>7414666233 is easily the worst game mechanically by far
>>741462320Gun Hazard is cool.
>>7414627072 PSX is weird because technically speaking the whole game is translated. It's just that it was never inserted into the game. The map dialogues and stuff is in english. Good thing is that the patch usually comes with the script so you can just read along in your phone or in a second screen. It's not the worst.But 2 is so slow it's almost masochistic to play.
>>741466623Risk management is a huge part of strategy.
>>741469504Yeah, nothing embodies that more than them offering mid-mission saves to compensate for the random activation and periodic moments where you need to shoot the limbs off without destroying the mech for secret items.Actually play the games.
>>741469504When "risk management" manifests as "always act as if you have no skills because effectively you don't" it's fucking boring.
>2 sucks>yeah 3 sucks too>the remakes also suck yeahI thought people liked these games but apparently they're all shit?
>>741470518Just play left alive
The demo that came with vagrant story almost gave me hope they accidentally gave me the full version of front mission 3, it was awesome. It ended up finishing when they go into the underground facility.
>>741470518I had the same reaction as you when I was playing through them a couple months ago. 1 is still pretty good as a game, especially for the era when it was made, the remake just has a bad art style. 2 I skipped over. 3 I thought everyone liked but I had to tap out after like 14 hours (a lot of that being grinding) because it just isn't fun and the story is dumb as hell too.
>>741469625>oh no I didn't get all four of the Qibings in the tunnelSkill issue, you don't need them to win I got three of them on my last playthrough, just stack Eject Punch
>>741463534It was too awesome to exist! I bought a a Zoe 1 for the ps2 but dont even own one, just saw the opportunity. The intro and the anubis and jahuty make that game iconic despite only having seen a playthrough of 2 best friends.
