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>Heh, this Hero of Gothic doesn't even realize what rich and adventurous back story I ha-ACKHis last thoughts before you killed him for his overpowered one handed sword.Apologize.
alright I calmed down thanks for the tips regardless bros phase 1 prob took me 25-30 attempts
the Colony sure is a pretty place thoughfar as prisons go, u can do way worse
>>4013340Should we tell him?
>>4013346Good on you, and you're welcome for the tip to spam firebolt. I'd never played the game before I played the remake, so I also had a good 20 deaths against her, but once you break P1 she's not that hard.
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Let's talk about Rune Factory!> Rune Factory Archive (comics, official artworks, fanarts)https://forestofbeginnings.tumblr.com/https://mizore.sakura.ne.jp/rff/dat/info.php?p=1> Official X accountsEN: https://x.com/RuneFactoryJP: https://x.com/RuneFactory_PR> Latest releaseRune Factory: Guardians of Azuma (2025)> UpcomingRune Factory 6 (TBD)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
It's okay for me to evict villagers that are both timid and worrywart and big eater, right? I-it was feudal Japan and lives were cheap... r-right?
>>4013302It's fine, they just go back to the capital
>>4013202I'm surprised nobody's taken you up on your offer yet
Do I start with RF 1 and 2, or can I just skip straight to the 3 remaster - onwardsPlaying these on switch seems comfy so I’m inclined to just go with what’s been ported
>>4013424>Do I start with RF 1 and 2, or can I just skip straight to the 3 remaster - onwardsYou can start with the 3 remaster just fine. It or 4 are what most people would recommend and are probably the most popular.
Is this yet another gigaflop game like Rue Valley was? Literally no discussions despite it wasn't even a full month yet since the release.
>build autism kicks in after 10 hours in the gameOh fuck, I wanted to go for a build that is somewhat Inland Empire from DE and went with 4 in the faculty of intellects and 2 in the Faculty of Action.Instincts and Sensors would have been great in that sort of playthrough though.Start over with 3/3?
>>4009007no, if you minmax conditioning you can get high stats in basically all faculties if you want. when you decondition a thought you maintain the bonus if you invested skill points>>4006684cascade is a literally me mc for me>>4006773i've been trying esoteric ebb and i'm finding it a lot harder to get into
>>4001780saw it discussed on one of the porn boards and from the screesnhots, seems to be quite well written.But it's again more like an adventure game, not RPG in theusual DnD sense (adventure and combat). I'll probably give it a pass because I'm a simple fantasy addict, but appears to be well done.It would be unfortunate if it doesn't sell because of armchair commie boycotts and tribalism.
Is it possible to do the beginning of the game without reaching 20 anxiety or am I savesscumming for nothing?
>>4013419Its apparently possible, but its intended tutorial stuff. You dont need to savescum to progress the game normally.
Whats wrong with Torment Tides of Numenera? Screenshots look gorgeous.
>>4012768more like nu men era
>>4012768It was interesting, the setting was cool, and i got to make the first seethe by fusing all the castoffs into matkina
>>4012768A few things:-Writing that was both clearly subpar compared to PST and extremely verbose. At some points, multiple walls of text used to describe a scenery of a flashback that has no ulterior use, just fluff. -Arbitrary deaths from interracting with the scenery, despite being strongly incentivized to do so. It's never fun to save before you click on every button because who knows, it may trigger a laser that kills you instantly.-The gameplay was a great concept of ressource managment, by making you expend points to boost your odds at succeeding skillchecks, and maintained it for half the first act, then the game decides to just throw you free rest points rather than making you pay for it. It removes any sort of tension that made you actually careful with how you spend your efforts.
It's okay. It could have used an editor for the writing, and it got messed up during development because of miscommunication between inXile and Monte Cook Games and the CEO raiding this game's budget to improve Wasteland 2.
>>4013421>It could have used an editor for the writingMany such cases
How is the Dragon Quest III HD-2D remake?
>>4009127I had a lot of fun with it, especially once you get the boat and everything kind of turns open world. The map is so big and the towns are so atmospherically distinct that after a while it really starts to feel like you're just trudging across entire continents. Then you get to some far-flung town and some dude at the pub tells a story that reveals your dad was here in the past, and suddenly the world feels connected again.Modern players shit on this game for its simple structure and sparse story, but those are both assets, imo. Creating your own party and getting immersed in the world (and turning the motherfucking objective markers OFF) really makes this feel like an adventure. Maybe not a story, but definitely an adventure. And that's what a JRPG should be.
>>4009127It's bad if you want to play the NES/SNES version with the pretty graphics.It's good if you liked VIII, IX, XI and want something different.
>>4010351>Shit like dungeon maps and full restore on level up is massively gay and makes the experience worsefucking basedi hate that modern dq titles and remakes just give you a map to stare at. you don't have to explore or even try shit is awful
>>4013290I agree with you, but at this point if you're complaining about it, it only makes you seem like the idiot. Of course games need to be made easier and less cryptic for modern fans. It's not like they made it illegal to play the original. Are you retarded?
>>4009127just another classic dumbed down and turned woke for the "modern audience" (zoomer mulattos)
The pathfinder series is a kino vrpg of the highest order. And I've never pretended otherwise. We all know all good things come in three !So, when will Owlcat deliver a third game?
>>3925314>play this save scum simulatorI'll pass. I hate games where you are expected to run into obstacles you cannot pass, then reload, and optimize for that specific encounter. I can tolerate them when the trial and error mechanic is a part of the narrative, so In Game you do actually die and have to retry things. I also hate games that lock you out of content not because YOU made a mistake. But because the RNG randomly raped you with low rolls. One shitty series of perception or lockpick rolls in Owlcat's games, and you literally lose narrative content. If a tabletop game had a GM like the devs in these games, they would end up with empty tables. Very poorly designed.
>>4010673Replace aasimar with human and Iomedae with Gorum and you're right
>>3925314Love True Aeon, simple as.
>>4012833It's not a particularly compelling ending, though... since most other mythic paths can ascend to godhood...
When are we getting a Cheliax/Nidal game? We need a Glorious Reclamation campaign yesterday.
Finished both the first game and Tie just now and wanted to discuss it. Despite the first game being pretty bare bones gameplay wise and the second one being way too easy with how many ways to get overpowered, I genuinely loved these two games in a way I hadn't felt before in a long time. Great OST, girls are cute, themes of friendship done in a way that doesn't just feel like stale tropes, Tie in particular really was able to capture that feel of summer vacation coming to a close especially I got closer to the end of the game. Wish there was a future for this series but it seems like the mobile game was a gigaflop and Mel Kishida seems like he's moved on. Anyone else have thoughts?
How long does it takes to 100% BR1? Around 30 hours?My birthday draws near and I think it would be neat to start this game on that date. But at same time, I have a huge backlog pending and right now I don't feel in mood to spend a lot of time focused in one lengthy game, I mean, we all know this is what defines RPGs... I'm not looking forward to a 50-100 hours long game right now.When I say 100%, I ask for stuff like one copy of each item in the game, all side-quests and stuff like that, not just cheevos aloneThanks in advance.
>>4013379~30 hours sounds about right based on my own playtime, maybe slightly longer if you want to fully upgrade every fragment. It's not an exceptionally long game. BR2 is a fair bit lengthier, and 100%ing it requires multiple playthroughs.
RPGM game franchise made by a japanese man known as Toro, based on Fairy Tales, Literacy's classic and some Historical figures.can be found on steam and DLsite
>>4013326Wow, what a huge watermelon! Thanks, Node!
Playing Red Hoods Woods for the first time, is there any strategy to this absolute nigger serpent or do I just have to keep trying until I get lucky?
>>4013401Just kill him? Red Hood isn't a hard game.
>>4013407But he confuses AND stuns me turn 1 before I can even move then just keeps doing thatSometimes he waits until turn 2 but then I still just get stunlocked after that
>>4013273I can and i will still remember all the good spots/where to avoid danger etcWhich will ruin run for me>Just ignore themI did it and it isn't fun at allI tried expansion mod but they just put gorillion copypasted(different color) enemies in every empty spot there isI just want a new map, not autistic spergout on the old one
>>4013297I think you need a new game...
>>4013297>I just want a new map, not autistic spergout on the old oneBest I can do is an autistic spergout, sorry buddy
redpilll me on the "None" regions, why do they exist?
>>4013377>DregGood for breaking escaped servants out of cannibal camps for free experienced recruits >None Good for finding ancient science books and farming spiderbots i guess>Watchers RimIt's basically Arach
Thirst translation soon!Hollowwald's getting a demo next month, and the game should be coming in August.
>>4013071Gee Manatank TWO blobs?!
>>4013084They're prims. Prim's prims.
Where do I find a Prim wife?
>>4013375In a barn.
>>4013375Check your local milk factory!
Resumed from >>3938636 which is capped (other thread another anon made failed from to not link back to the previous one).Tierlist is based off of legendary edition, not vanilla hence why Javik is so high. I opted for mods also hence why Miranda is that high. Tierlist link: https://tiermaker.com/create/mass-effect-squadmatesAlso for an actual topic to start off, Expanse and Exodus are going to be let downs, no actual alien companions are to be found and world building seems to be shit. None of them have more than one(or not even one) bangable female companion so Maas Effect 4 is all we can hope for. From last N7 day's teasers, looks like Cerberus surviving and making relays as well as Krogan having a civil war are gonna be the theme this time, that means most companions should be returning in some way. Thank God they're not going with a timeskip with just Liara surviving as initially suggested.
>>4013386Yeah if you went paid attention during the Tuchanka missions in ME2 and especially ME3, you'll see that Krogan had proper civilization before nuking eachother hence why they never got spaceflight until Salarians gave it to them.Also calling Wrex a chimping nignog makes no sense because even by the time of Virmire he'll tell you why he had to put his dad down was because he wanted a better feature for the Krogan instead of the supposed nignog shit you're accusing him of. This is elaborated in ME2 where you find out how much of a big shot Wrex was in reality, but was humble about it in ME1.
>>4013341It is interesting how the Commander never compliments Ash on her makeover, or even given the option for that matter. Why aren't there any dialogue options to talk about her new boobs or haircut? It's almost like Shepard doesn't pay particularly close attention to what his shipmates even look like because he exists in a perpetual state of hyper-focus directed towards saving the Way from the likes of Batarians and Synthetics>>4013339>No no it's a generalized tier listIf that is indeed the case the tierlist maker should have included all voice acted shipmates like Navigator Presly, Joker, Engineer Adams, Yeomen Chambers, Corporal Jenkems, Dr.Chocolates, Mess Sergeant Gardner, Dr.Michel, Jenny Goldstein, Burt, Sarah Patel, Zach Matthews, Ken, Gabby and etc from the get-go. Otherwise Jacob will always land dead last place in 99% of the lists without pushovers like Kelly to out-score. And personally I don't even care whether Jacob is black or white btw, I only care about whether he is biotic or not. This thread should be nuked and OP should make a better one with a better list maker with more Normandy crew>Putting Mordin and Wrex both in top tier is a patrician choiceYes>>4013353You have to switch Zaeed and Garrus. on paper Zaeed's track record is 100 times more impressive and 1,000 times more extensive than Garrus's who was basically laughably cucked Detective before he met Shepard who still can't even work up the quads to try and pick up a female Turian at a bar by ME3 without Shepard's direct intervention so imagine how incel Detective Vakarian was before ME1 even starts. Meanwhile Zaeed was a gigachad since age 13 and does not "need" Shepard to hold his hand like Garrus does. By the time you meet Zaeed he has already banged over 100 lethal Asari Commandos and killed millions of Krogans so everybody on the Normandy knows fighting the Collectors will be a walk in the park for Zaeed>>4013386This. Even the Krogan admit that Krogan Lives Don't Matter
>>4013341She's hot with a helmet on. Thank bioware for giving me a space knightfu
>>4013395That's because hes not fazedHe's got ME3's version of Liara who also apparently got the memo and hit the squat regimen, also got a boobjob, and work on her face/learning to use makeup.Not to mention the obvious which is Mirandas's natural master tier body which Trashley even comments on when you meet her at the hospital in ME3 if you dumped her for Miranda talking jealously saying that she at least has flaws and that Miranda isn't apparently to make Miranda fake or some shit.I mean sorry, Miranda, Tali, and Liara are just far more loyal than Ashley was.Even if you romance Ashley and keep the romance in ME3 she's still has barely any dialogue in between missions. It gives a reason to keep Kaidan alive which while he doesn't have that much more dialogue than Ashley, still has more impact on the games story after bringing either VS back to the team.Human companions in general were skimped on, but especially the VS's.
>>4013395>agrees that Mordin and Wrex are top tier>then says Krogan Lives Don't MatterFuck off, and its not just Wrex that's great. His wife and Grunt were based too.
Let's talk about Deltarune Chapter 5 which releases on June 24th, 2026.>Will the Roaring happen?>Will Asgore die?>Who is the Knight?
>>4013291>may have had something to do with making Spamton NEO’s body (can’t find a specific line of dialogue for this though)The Spamton NEO body references Mettaton (Mettaton NEO specifically), and that body was created by Alphys. Swatch says the body was an MS Paint drawing by a Lightner. People assumed it was Hapstablook/the ghost inside Mettaton that drew the body, but hell it could've been Alphys.
>>4013291(Part 2) It’s likely to say at this point that most evidence points towards Dess being the knight (which again, undoes my earlier CarolKnight theory).Not even a “knight is Kris and Noelle fused from the weird route”. At this point, the most obvious theory seems to be the likely one.From the chapter 3 fight, the knight does similar poses to Kris, it summons an object that looks like a bat before it turns into a sword, and it even turns into something resembling a baseball. Now it’s a bit strange that Kris and the knight make similar poses, but it could just be Kris and Dess having some kind of bond that has yet to be fully explored.But what actually convinced me of DessKnight was realizing that Toby could’ve simply been basing Dess off of Claus from MOTHER 3 and we all know how Toby likes to borrow ideas from JRPGS.
>>4013293>but hell it could've been Alphys.But there's no reason for her to make an idealized robot body? There's also the fact that the data for it was so old, that it might have predated Alphys even moving to Hometown in the first place.
>>4013295You're right, I guess Alphys doesn't make sense then. I forgot some details.
>>4013301I think Sans being some sort of Gaster plant is probably right on the money. If Kris thinks about Sans while Noelle and Susie are on the ferries wheel he seems to indicate that someone he can't remember ran the ferries wheel last year Simailry Susie notes that Sans' house is new even by her standards, but she can't remember what was there before he moved in.So Susie's been in Hometown for over a year and he probably replaced the Forgotten Man. That's very suspicious.There actually is something odd about Alphys as well, if she scares Noelle during the festival Noelle they have this interaction:Boo.* WHY THE HELL ARE YOU HERE!?* S-Sorry Noelle, I... it's my first time working here, and...* G-Gosh, no, I... I'm sorry! I was just... surprised you showed up!* E-even though I... was just so sure I knew everything here.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
Picrel is the CRPG Addict's definition of an RPG. For those who don't know, he is attempting to play every PC RPG chronologically and has a detailed blog of his journey. Thoughts?>Throughout the game, the character must become stronger, more resilient, and more capable of overcoming the game's challenges, including combat.>Such character development must be separate from inventory acquisition.>Such character development must not consist solely of improvements to maximum health.>Players must have some control over the rate or details of development.https://crpgaddict.blogspot.com/
I still hold by a definition I tried posting a few months ago.An RPG is defined by the developer intent that the gameplay be primarily centered around moderately informed, long term, impactful choices made by the player.The main pain point of this definition, like most definitions, would be the JRPG. Which is a genre that owes it's ancestry to VN developers trying to distance themselves from the popularity of Eroges to reach a more family friendly audience, and the gameplay of early Wizardry. Aside from the early iterations of the sub-genre, iterations have mostly focused on pure menu based strategy within an encounter or dungeon, rather than strategy and choices made throughout the whole game.What I mean by "primarily centered" is that every facet of gameplay holds some consequence of your choices. What stats you choose, skills to develop, party members to commit to, and items to use now or save until later.Basically, the choices you make (again, talking about gameplay, not necessarily story) need to make you feel like the world is reacting to how you play your role. A pack of undead monsters are light work for the Paladin, but he then needs some help when dealing with a wizard with a magical shield. Picking the paladin at all needs to feel impactfully different than picking a thief for the entire game, even if the enemies they fight, and the general story beats are the same.What stats or gear you chose to keep needs to be the primary determiner of how each combat encounter will go, and what options you have available. Those choices also need to be relatively difficult to impossible to undo (depending on how severe the choice is, and how well informed the choice was). Buying back a powerful weapon you sold often requires a lengthy backtrack, and paying far more than you received for it. Respeccing a character should come with heavy costs, limitations, or detriments.
>>4013213>Simple. Do numbers go up? If they do then it's an RPG. Can you look at the numbers?Coin clipping is now an RPG.
>>4013392The stock market is the purest RPG you can play but people aren't ready for that discussion.
>>4013304Any turn-based strategy game is also based around>moderately informed, long term, impactful choices made by the player.but nobody would call Panzer General an RPG.
>>4011296Behold! Plato's Man!
Dungeon Siege is practically free on Steam right now. Is it worth picking up for the Ultima V and VI total conversion mods?
>>3989696Game has some kino music, feels like you are on an epic journey, mowing down enemies on your path.I heard community restored the multiplayer too.
>>3989696Are any of the ds games worth a play? I played ds2 as a kid and stopped somewhere. I don't remember. I'd like a new diablo 2 clone
>>4005436I'd say no. DS2 is much better game because it is almost a game compared to DS1 that is just a creation of lmao microsoft marketing.
>>4006056Is ds2 the best of the trilogy?>almost a gameThat rings a bell. Felt empty, even for kid me.
>>3991716You can play DS1's campaign in DS2's engine.
