Just beat the first game on the Sega Master System . Great RPG that still holds up well and is easily as good as Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest on the NES. I've already played through the 2nd game should I just skip 3 and go straight to playing the 4th though? I've heard 3 was made by a different team and isn't a good as the others It was
>>122364623 sucks but you should play it anyway if you are interested in the series.
You could skip it then come back later, since the PS3 plot is almost detached from the PS1 - PS2 - PS4 continuity.It really feels more like a spin-off than a main line title.
There's still PSIII references in PSIV.
>>12236462>I've heard 3 was made by a different team and isn't a good as the othersIt's some retarded fucking lie. 3 is peak soul and is better in almost every way than 2 for sure. The aesthetics, the music; exploration actually feels like expoloration, the endgame twist is kino. Combat and boring dungeons are the only downsides but are STILL better and less tedious than 2's. 3 loses only to 4 in terms of visuals, combat and music(matter of taste actually), this is true, yet 4's story is all generic anime tropes meet together while 3's story is more polished and unique and tied into the Phantasy Star universe.>>12236505>You could skip it then come backAnd this is the worst advice possible because if you skip 3 and go straight to 4 you won't be able to enjoy 3 afterwards. 4's gameplay is so smooth one probably won't be able to re-adjust to clunkiness of 3.
>>12236821And I forgot: the main reason you can't rush 4 and skip 3 is because 4 spoils 3's main story twist almost in the beginning of the game.
>>12236824Ah okay, that's actually a good enough reason for me to at least try 3 first. I mean it can't be worse than say Sword of Vermillion can it? The Genesis wasn't exactly loaded with quality JRPGs to choose from
>>12236845>I mean it can't be worse than say Sword of Vermillion can it?I played both, I would rather play Sword of Vermilion again.
>>12236475I find 3 to be extremely interesting. Just learning about what it COULD have been had sega not sega'd all over it.
>>12236462If you somehow tolerated PS1 and 2 you might as well play 3. I'm sure you'll like it since you have no standards.
>>12238659I hate remakes but its a perfect target for one: terrible game that has a potentially interesting plot progression system that would benefit from getting gutted and rebuilt from scratch.
One of the PS4 characters is a homage to a PS3 character. They also aren't the same despite sharing the same name.That's about it, all the relevance PS3 has to the series.
OP here. I gave 3 a fair chance. I played it for about 2 hours,long enough to unlock >>12238719 this character.I just don't like this game. The combat is terrible and the menus all feel clunky. Getting poisoned almost every encounter and having the antidote spell often fail is bad design. The town's all feel copypasted, I visited 6 or so and they all seemed completely the same. The dungeons just feel very uninspired as well. For all the issues 2 had with going overboard in that regard, those at least felt like they were made by someone who was trying. 3 just feels so lazy and uninspired. There doesn't even seem to be a particularly good story here.i don't think I wanna play this game anymore
>>12238669The problem with remakes is that they take an old game that was already good and make it worse. And I get why. Money. But it's still just a shame to see stuff that had the potential just continue to be overlooked.
>>12238947I hope you learned that asking for advice on if you should play X game is completely stupid and a waste of time. You got people saying the game was terrible and people saying it was "peak soul" and just total nonsense. Especially on this website every opinion exists simultaneously by every poster so you are just going to get every answer asking that question. If everyone said the game sucked you still would have been intrigued right? That doesnt go away.If you are at all interested in something just play it yourself, god knows you got the game for free anyway. And if you dislike the game you proved that you can just quit and now you've gained the experience yourself which is infinitely more valuable than asking this eldritch abomination board for anything that could help you. Noone knows what youre going to like besides yourself.
>>12239194This never fails to infuriate me. People are so petrified by choice that they'd rather waste all this time asking others opinions as if they needed permission to try something they have a clear interest in to start with. Just try it. Worst case shit sucks and you dislike it but that's how we develop taste and experience and it would have been time better spent listening to us call them a retarded faggot.
I love the bass in the PSIV introhttps://youtu.be/_kwXB_S5oYc
>>12239104It honestly couldn't be worsened
>>12236462I got this for Switch but haven't actually sit down to give it a serious go, too many games on the backlog
PS3 has the most annoying and insane battle intro song of any jrpg I've played.
>>12241758I've heard the Switch version has an automap feature,that's definitely a nice addition. I had to break out some graph paper and draw maps when I played. The dungeons were still way more manageable than the ones in the Phantasy Star 2
>>122364753 is the best one for true gamers.
