>Etrian Odyssey V turned 10 todayDo you still have memories of your old dungeon party?I certainly hope so..
>>744682042>try to play EO1>one party member dies >they're forever a lower level than the rest of the party
No one played 5They should tho, it was more interesting with it's extra summon line
>>744682042Five is my favorite, I loved my Dragoon.
Never played EO. Is it worth picking up? Is it best to just play 3
>>744682042V was my first EO, pirated it on the 3ds, pretty good gameare there any other series like it? specifically the teambuilding and mapmaking
>>7446832653 is a good entry point.
How does persona q2 hold up to the eo games? Going to play if after I finish fate extra ccc
>>744682412>letting them die in the first placeYou should be happy for the fact that they're still there..
Every couple months I pick up EO2HD again to try and force myself to finish it and every time I'm just amazed at how consistently shitty it is and that the franchise actually lived on past it.>get to stratum 5>mandragoras in every other fight who just randomly instant kill some or all of your party>bugs that outspeed everyone to apply full party binds>floor 23 is just a big maze full of basically unkillable 1HKO FOEs who sometimes ignore FOE stun skills so you have to just thread out if you take a wrong turn while they chase you>finally get to a room of forced FOE fights that always get to ambush and always full party bind, auto-aggro all adjacent FOEs in combat and respawn on death, probably also auto-kill you if they land full binds because that's just the kind of game EO2 is
>>744683318Wizardy. 90s dungeon crawlers. Persona q series. Think there was a pokemon dungeon crawler series
>>744683767Q2 will make you want to bash your head in with how much they repeat the shitass JUST B URSELF theme.Most everyone in P3 and P4 (and P5) are outclassed by all 4 MCs and that rival antagonist guy from 5.
>>744684904Hmm I remember not liking q1 a lot and dropping it but had hopes they fixed a lot of the problems in the sequel
The third stratum skelly boss gave me so much goddamn trouble I had to level up 2 new classes just for that. Then I stopped playing because I couldn't decide on which team to continue with, mostly because I really liked my new necromancer but didn't want to replace the rover and they fight for summon slots
>>744685046They made the labyrinths even more braindead in PQ2. Naoto was obviously (thankfully) nerfed, but there are other tools to cheese PQ2 instead.I only powered through because they referenced EO with the EO-class pins (accessories). Landsknecht Pin giving the character War Cry if equipped for example.
>>744682042It was fine, in terms of EO games go. Never finished the 5th strata because it was teleport hell and ran out of space to add nodes/accessories for the map so just gave up because I didn't want to redo it. Was pretty easy. First time I died was on the third strata against the boss, but beat him on my second try. Didn't like that the game doesn't give you enough points to utilize both your main class and your sub class. Had to pick and choose, not necessarily what you wanted, but only what you could only afford, so I never felt like I was taking full advantage will my set up.>>744683767It's worse than pq1 because it still follows p5's narrative of anti-"keep your head down and don't stick out" throughout the entire game was nauseating. PQ2 also made the boss cutscenes sometimes over an hour long preaching that aspect also made the game more of a slog to sit through compared to pq1.
I want to play the Mystery Dungeon spin off. Is it good? Seems like a great fit for Etrian.
>>744682042>>Etrian Odyssey V turned 10 todayNo... wait? How... What the fuck...
>>744685793Too short and easy.
>>744685793When you get some really sick armor, only to lose it from a part wipe, you are going to not reload your save because you don't have enough money to get something else to replace it.That was my experience with the MD game after about 5 hours.
>>744685793Absolutely not.You have to craft your own Ariadne Threads; you have to collect the materials for them.DOEs (FOE-equivalent) are gigantic and destroy/damage a building in town if they manage to escape to the first floor exit; you need to funnel them with Forts where you station your guild members to take them on; you need to rebuild new Forts after each DOE fight.DOEs only take 1 damage from everything until you successfully land X amount of afflictions (oddly, Landy Links count).Exploring is an exercise in tedium since teleporter panels can warp EACH MEMBER of your ENTIRE 4-man party anywhere on the floor, so you have to run around trying to find them.Panic affliction is aids since the character divests equipment and hurls them far in various directions; there are dungeons with no walls, which means you can lose extremely rare/difficult/one-of-a-kind equipment like that.Music remixes are mostly meh.3D models for the characters are just not pleasant to look at.Teach (Protector) is broken beyond belief when doing solo dives.Elemental Arms bug (which is good) since you can spam that to immediately reach PERMANENT 999 atk with your affected unit(s).
>>744682042The only things that were memorable in 5 to me were the things I hated about it. I like every other numbered entry in the series more.
>>744685751>5th strata because it was teleport hell5th stratum was the antigravity sliding puzzles.6th stratum, I didn't even place nodes; I just colored in the panels with the corresponding colors while the "main" panel color for the stratum was that grey/beige choice.
>>744686274>Music remixes are mostly mehAnd music is heavily favored toward boss themes, which get really, really tiresome during exploration.
>>744686274Idk sounds neat.I'm gonna buy it.
>>744686681>that one dungeon that played the EO2 FOE themeI was just about to drop the shit game until I reached the boss floor.
So what was the last good party based drpg released? I remember playing one where you were like modern day people forced to work at a dungeon delving company but iirc wasn't that fun
>>744687237That was Undernauts and yeah, it's mediocre.
Do we still have faith?
>>744688236I did until P6 stole the reveal visual
>>744688236Despite being an AA developer, Atlus have adopted the AAA strategy of only releasing one game a decade in their main franchises, SMT and Persona. I really can't see them turn Metaphor into a franchise so it will just be those two and maybe something new 7+ years from now
>>744682042I only ever played one EO title, don't even know which one it was but I remember it had shadow people as an early boss that I died tons to until I realized you had to actually use status effects unlike most jrpgs where bosses are immune to status effects.I remember that I imagined a certain personality for each party member and would also imagine character interactions. The way the portraits are done really helps because they're full of personality from the get go.
>>744685751>sub classThere's no subclassing in V though.
>>744688350>I did until P6 stole the reveal visualFor a moment I really did think it was Etrian Odyssey. I really did.
>>744687237I'm making one in the hopes of it being good, my favorite blobbydurpgs are smt1, eo2u/v/x, dungeon travelers 2/2-2, wiz4 and doom 64
>>744684734Ngl that all sounds like exactly what I enjoy about EO. Especially when after all you described you get to the point where you 2 turn those same foes. The series might just not be for (you)
>midway through eo3>asked to keep hush hush by halloween girl>go back to armoroad>immediately forced to reveal the secretwhat was the point of this sequence
>>744689727Brother it's floor 23, you're not going to 2 turn those FOEs until you're deep into end game grinding, AND it's EO2 so you don't get shit for killing FOEs anyway unless they have conditional drops.
>>744689727nah, eo2's scaling is fucked. its combat is so aggro all the time that there's never really a point of gradual overcoming FOEs, it's just a switch that flips, and basically you just have to dodge them or die until you get there
Ill never forget my fight with the final boss on my first timeThings went bad and only my Hound survived and she had like 13 hp, her bird was still alive though. I had scoped the boss so I knew it had a sleep weakness so with no other option I threw a sleep gas at it that worked. I panicked cause i knew the bird was gonna wake it up with its auto attack so I used the move that sends it away for 3 turns for a big diving attack and then with the remaining turns managed to get my Weed Elf Herbalist up and stabilize enough to recover before he woke up.Fantastic game, I hope we get a 3d collection eventually
>>744687237>last good party based drpglabyrinth of refrain
>>744690181>I hope we get a 3d collection eventuallyThe games are 3D tho.Or am I being a retard and 3D means something else?
>>744690453I assume he means an HD collection of the 3D games like we got for the 2D ones
>>744690503Aren't all the games in the series 3D?
>>744690627i feel like ive seen the 3ds games called the "3d games" before since they replace 2d enemy artwork with 3d models
>>744690627if they are it's a waste of programming resources, it's literally the same as doom, you could just make it all sprites the same way
>>744690735I've never seen that before.>>744690737>If they areThey are.
I hate myself that I've never finished any of these games. The closest I ever got to was 4 and reaching what I assume was the final dungeon. I always get really invested and into it and then just stop.
>>744684904Akechi is mid as fuck but PQ2 is fairly easy so whatever
Uh... Next stage?
>>744682042I haven’t played anything other than 3 because it’s not on steam yet
>>744692127all of the HD remakes are on steam
>>744692127>>744692178and play great on the deck i might add, that's how i got into this
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>>744688236If they don't even show a title for/by the 20th anniversary next year it's truly over
Therian girls are the best thing to ever happen to this series besides the FOE music video.
>>744682042etriam is reclining...Also, etrian odyssey 5 was one of the first games I ever played in Japanese back then. Low quantity of text (compared to some other stuff I've played since) but high quantity of rare(r) words.
Sex with bunnies
>>744693523Sweaty love making with bunny girls.
>>744682412Don't worry anon, he'll easily catch up when the rest also die
>>744682042Started the game and never finished it. Still on the 4th stratum. Something about the game just didn't resonate with me
