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/vrpg/ give me advice. My little brother is autistic and he’s been obsessed with making his own RPG game for about 4 years now. Literally 4 years of him tinkering in RPG Maker MZ or whatever version it is.The problem is, he’s genuinely getting aggressive and defensive over it whenever I try to give him basic criticism, and on top of that, I’m basically forced by my parents to draw the concepts for him because "you're good at art”. I can’t even get good pictures of it. And he unironically believes this game is going to be the next Undertale or Omori.The writing is agonizing. How the fuck do I tell someone who has spent 4 years on a project that a protagonist who speaks in the third person like a toddler completely ruins any chance of taking the game's "serious emotional moments" seriously?/vrpg/ Is this what all solo dev RPG Maker projects look like? Just mashed together tropes from popular games? Tell me I'm not crazy for thinking this is gonna be a massive flop if he ever actually finishes it? How do I deal with this without causing a war in the house?
i think that you shouldnt crush your little brothers ideacould you give us some information about the game? maybe some lore or something like that?
>>3964515how do you expect us to give any advice if we cant see the project for ourselves to provide an unbiased opinion on what the flaws are?
>>3964515Genuinely I wish I had this kind of drive. I've never been this motivated about anything. I admire your bro, even if it sucks, tell him to keep at it.
When your little brother is kicking a football, he thinks he's going to be a pro one day tooJust let him have fun
>>3964515>Just mashed together tropes from popular games?Don't even pretend that the successes aren't exactly this.It's just luck of the draw. There's 100,000 timelines where something like Undertale goes completely under the radar since you could make the exact same argument about it as you're making now.The difference is luck. If people just magically decide they like your crappy art and your cringe writing, that's all that matters.
Continuing the comfy thread from >>3939690
>>3964940Weird, it seems like all the most flamboyant and well-liked characters are godlike, according to all these gold names I talked to
>>3964940Doesn't it also depend on the type of Godlike they are (Nature vs. being a Death Nigga for instance) as well as status iirc. Pallegina was a noble or something.>>3964941>Talking to backer NPCsBiggest mistake anon. Terrible taste all around for Obsidian to let backer NPCs through without revisions and the backers themselves to giga-fluff their character
>>3964882The chiming in is maybe a symptom of Pillars 1 having pretty low budget and not being very refined as an RPG. I think what is there of the characters has plenty of personality, most of all Durance and Zahua are very big and upfront. I liked the Devil too, as insane as she is all the dialogue really nails the whole BPD psychokiller bit to a hilarious degree. Yeah a lot of them are tied to their exposition and their quest because of the nature of the game but you get a fair amount of information as to their state, wants, their hobbies. There's real soul behind 1's writing, even if it has eons of exposition and is low budget. 2's writing, eh... not so much. Characters chime in a lot more but what we get is so milquetoast and even more one-note. Eder is offensively basic in 2, he just loves animals. Meanwhile Aloth, a completely fine character to transition and expand on from his quest, just got turned into Thaos 2.0 and a shifty jew at that
>>3965052>Terrible taste all around for Obsidian to let backer NPCs through without revisions One issue is that, while backer removal mods exist, they just delete them, without adding other characters in their stead. So some areas (taverns) now look weirdly empty.
>>3958945>>3959524>>3962763>have not one but 3 powerful Gish Classes with Cipher, Chanter and Cleric>instead of playing them decide that for some inane reason you really need to turn the only pure Caster into another gishAre you people actually retarded?
>in order to hunt down the BBEG you have to go to a planet where evil megarcorporation researches almost extinct ancient mind controlling aliens, a planet where evil megarcorporation researches mind controlling alien, find a mind controlling alien expert on extinct ancient mind controlling aliens and then a planet where you learn that the true BBEG is in fact an ancient mind controlling alien who killed said extinct ancient mind controlling aliensHow the FUCK did they get away with this?
>>3964305you go from each biotic ability having its own cooldown to each ability putting ALL your shit on cdim not even using barrier because it only gets you like 2 bullets worth of survivabilityalso thermal clips + no fucking spare ammo = ???? what the fuckthis shit gay
>>3955769I thought the volus were spacejews
>>3964372They are naggers and the strongest biotics or among the strongest.
>>3955714>ME2 completeAnd now starting ME3. It's off to a kino start. I can't believe how good it looks. Only problem is I can't decide if I should restart with the adept class instead of continuing with the soldier.
>>3964927You can change class in me3?Ye, looks decent enough. Soldier in me3 is the best soldier iteration. Me3 is very combat heavy. There are one hit kill enemies, too.
Thinking about getting into RuneScape since I'm a massive shut-in and need something to sink my life into.Is it still worth starting as a complete noob in 2026? Give me some advice on what to do first and which version is better for someone who has never played before.
anyone else only enjoy jrpgs when youre sick and stuck in bed?like when i cant handle anything mechanical that takes thinking and focus i just default to chill genres like jrpgsfor me its things like chrono trigger, pokemon, older final fantasy games just slow comfy grinding and mindless story stuff--pic relatewhat are your go to sick day rpgs??
>>3965144what exactly that needs explaining? offended because of the last part?
>>3965159why would someone make rpgs their go-to genre
>>3965167>Why would someone make RPGs their go-to genreWhy not?
>>3965169like OP said it's a sleepy chill genre, best when you're sick or bedridden
>>3965176But OP just listed his sick-day JRPGs, not RPGs in generalThey haven't tried other RPGsAre you OP or his mom
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?
>>3964737You can teleport to almost every place you need to visit more than once.
>>3928147You must have not been around during 4e. Pathfinder 1e became the defacto "actual D&D" when it release because of how hard WotC dropped the ball.
>>3937634Man I searched her name to see all the articles she has made... jesus christ...
>>3965049>I realized I no longer wanted to be married to my husband while having sex with him.>He was on top of me and his body just felt so heavy. For years, I’d shouldered his weight. Now I was literally being crushed by it. With each thrust, he seemed to push me deeper into the mattress. As it was, our bed had a permanent indentation in the middle of it, thanks to him.>Those days, my husband spent almost every waking hour on our bed. He was unemployed. He got up around noon, took an hour-long shower, then climbed right back in between the sheets. He spent the rest of the afternoon and evening reading about conspiracy theories from the vantage point of our conjugal mattress. lmao, which one of you guys was she writing about?
>>3928147Oh my fucking god, when were you fucking born??? Do you even remember before Covid? Are you trying to do the whole gaslighting thing because you just found out that it's possible to lie on the internet so you're seeing how it works or something?
I don't think I've ever seen someone shit on this game who wasn't a complete actual sub human. I don't even like the game, but nobody ever addresses it's real issues, people just poison the well of the discussion with shit that's either blatantly false or stems from the roots of having a skill disorder. (Skill issue, as it's more commonly known) Why is DS2 like that, why does it filter retards so god damn hard? (they probably didn't even play the game, but played SOFTS LMAO)
>>3964269who the fuck even talk about these places lol
>>3964190>>3964269Iron Keep is goated. Cool layout with all the looping shortcuts being compactly tucked away around the main open areas, enemies dropping endgame fashion souls bling, comfy pvp bridge.
>>3964356The first two are generally mentioned by people trying to claim the game is nothing but badly designed ganks by posting two extremely well designed and tight maps based entirely around the opposite of that as examples. The rest are mainly mentioned by people just talking about their first encounters with those areas because they left an impact IE were memorable.
>>3964356Probably people that played the game
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Companions no one likes. Be it because they're awful or just uninteresting.
>>3963347I liked Boone a lot
Unless you go out of your way to invest in Bunyan, Momo is goddamn useless.
>>3960473horrible footwearartist drew flipflops but didn't even take into account that they're making an adventurerliterally slips off your feet easily the moment you're going backwardno effort, not even a thought on itfuck you owlcat
>>3965088She was not Owlcat's choice. They exists because of the poll results during a fundraiser. Owlcat did their best to say fuck you to the trash who wrote in that they wanted kitsune.That's why she's such an outrageously blunt caricature of the hyper autistic idiot. It was Owlcat's way of keeping their part of the legal contract of the fundraiser while also mocking the subhuman garbage who trashed the poll that ended up requiring her to be created.She is NOT a friendly depiction. She's about as much of a serious insult as you can get without Owlcat actually literally mailing feces to the doorsteps of the polled users.
>>3964684He's the most optimal melee character in the entire game who isn't a paladin, anon. He literally starts out being able to use the best weapon in the game. He's better than Korgan. Literally by a factor of two in terms of raw damage output. His personal weapon and armor that he starts with lets him solo the game with his kit right from when you get him. He's the most powerful companion that isn't Haer'Dalis (who is held back by his THAC0 and proficiencies / weapon options, because otherwise he'd be game breaking).You don't know what you're fucking talking about, dude.
Aside from SMT/Persona how many RPG games take place in a modern setting?
>>3965062I'm not trying to get anywhere, I was just laughing at your unhinged spergout
>>3965066you don't seem like the type to get anywhere in life, honestlyI mean, can you even make an RPG list?
>>3965074I know, right? Who would ever give a job interview or home loan to someone who can't put an RPG list you like together?
>>3965164this anon can't even get fired up when an rpg OST kicks in, cause that would require having a LIST of favorite songs
>>3965164It must've been fun trolling in a rather dead board
how many examples of this can you think of? what causes this? it's a shame seeing potential new series with so much promise and gaining momentum then just be abandoned because people only want to play final fantasy slop that even they admit isn't good
>>3965043>there's nothing at all worth discussing about Illua, Luso, Adelle, or any of the other 1-note characters in FFTA2.I mean I kinda liked the Frimelda sidequest, the Gria quartet, the clan trials, Bonga Bugle. Fleshes out the world well. Could've done better and maybe let those characters intersect with the main plot, though.Also unlocking jobs through quests is IMO better than the way FFT/FFTA/Tactics Ogre does it through stat/mastery checks. Thematically more fitting. Chocobo Knight is such a letdown, however
>>3964533I was a Gamecube owner and also was most interested in JRPGs of all genres. This was a really bad position to be in. I was constantly looking for information about any new JRPGs that might be coming out because there were so few. I had played Baten Kaitos and I remember being there for Origins day one. Still remember the exact day, got my friend to drive me to the store after school, I think we went to fucking Media Play. Back then I used to post on NeoGAF and they had weekly chart threads and I was horrified at the Origins sales numbers. I think it sold less than 50k copies in the US. Just brutal. Sad end to a great game and really interesting series.
They recently did a remaster for Baten Kaitos and based on the steam charts numbers the sales were abysmal. 87 players all-time peak. When it comes to JRPGs if you aren't a big name with billion dollar cut-scene slop like Final Fantasy it seems people just don't care.
>>3965129JRPGs have an uphill battle on PC anyway and they probably put exactly zero marketing into the collection.
>>3965129>if you aren't a big name with billion dollar cut-scene slop like Final Fantasy it seems people just don't care.Not really, just need a narrative to sell it to the public
are any of the sequels worth playing?
>>3944501Why do we have niggas shopping lists in museums in this very fucking day in real life right now?
>>3963441Anon is right. The NES FF games were ok, but the series took right the fuck off when FF6 released in the US and Europe. 7 was mindblowing next-gen. The series started to taper off a bit with 8, but 9 and 10 were pretty big, 9 because it was a "return to form" attempt with a more accessible story/cast, and 10 because, again, next-gen mind blown. Also, I was a big fan of FFT, Xenogears and Parasite Eve. BFM was kinda dumb, though. The PS1 days were the golden age, imo, which isn't saying much really, because PS1 was arguably the golden age of console gaming, especially for RPG's. PC has some very solid competitors, though. PS1 was just off the hook with its variety, most of the greats start there.
>>3963717What the fuck is this revisionist bullshit? 9 was absolutely the black sheep of the PS era because it was such a departure from the science fantasy that players had grown accustomed to from the magicpunk of 6, straight cyberpunk dystopia of 7, and the high tech fantastic world of 8 with space travel and giant robotic enemies.
>>3964176Maybe casual gamers were being faggy about it, I dunno.
>>3964176I've never heard of anyone disliking 9 because it was a return to a focus on fantasy.
Thirst’s translation is 95% done.Hollowwald’s still on the way. We also got a new April Fool’s game.
>>3964961He's mine already
I wanna be Ino
>>3964978Well, he is cute. It’s nice to be cute.
>no globos in hollowwald except maybe sort of the MCAt least there is a fat cow for plapping?
DEAD RED HOOD is scheduled for release in 2026https://x.com/toro_yori_ebi/status/2011999924398014529
>>3964888pov you are poro's dog cock
>>3958669>Not a single Bill post in this entire threadSerpent God why have you forsaken me?
>>3964648Well I'm fucking blind and retarded
>>3965113Here https://x.com/i/status/2043768626700759102
It's Monday once again. What monster collecting or monster raising games have you been playing? What upcoming ones are you looking forward to?
>>3965091Its the 7 second Confusion.
>>3965096i think that's the same dragon, but i could be forgetting another one that had a long confusion effect
>>3965111It was just from Raven, who you get super early. I noticed it was broken quickly, but it didn't become self-sufficient and infinitely castable until my Agility got high enough. Or just using the trinket that increases the duration to 12 seconds.
>>3965114oh, huhi was thinking of vemonrosa, which uses a whole skill rotation to lock the enemy out and you get at like early-midgame
>>3965119Im sure theres definitely more broken combos than just the Raven confuse then spam the all stat up and down thing, I just noticed Ravens the fastest is all.
