Recently acquired my grandma's PS1 games (she's alright don't worry), so my collection has tripled in sizeSome of these I'm familiar with but most I'm not.Any recommendations on where to start? Or do I just boot up Alundra and work my way down?
>>4116087No no this is mineSans games of hers I've had for several years already, the .hacks, Jade Cocoon, and the Dark Clouds
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>>4119950It's quick, it's easy, and it's freeAnyway, I booted up Suikoden 2 for the first time in many years last nightAs a kid I did not appreciate all the sprite work that goes onI'm pretty genuinely blown away by the amount of animation, as well as QoL features, and I'm only 90 minutes in
>>4106274wtf grandma has a great collectionlunar and star ocean.
>>4117100PS2 Spider-Man 2 is the shit bro
Found at GameStop, worth?
I really enjoyed the choice & consequence aspect, the faction reputation system and the overall grim vibe. Pretty much everyone is a cunt, pretty much every choice you make is bad in some way, yet you gotta do your best to make things work - not everyone's cup of tea, but I loved that. My main issue was with how short and barebones the game felt, even with the tiny ass world there's entire areas with basically nothing to do.
Sure, great game. I don't know that I'd want to play it on console though.
>>4121571why not? it's top down and the combat is turn based
>>4107328Let me guess, Anon... was it the noserings that upset you?
>>4107313I thought wasteland 2 sucked because it kept forcing me into shitty combat encounters not allowing me to avoid any and explore the world and gain some xp that way so dropped it in a few hours. Does this game actually allow exploration or railroad you into a combat grind from moment one?
What is the most overrated RPG? And why is it Fallout 3?
>>4105863>overrated RPGthe meme RPGmaker crap of the month....and chrono TRIGGER.>>4106309i had segs btw. 16 cis-wahmen. het. i do not kiss n tell because i am gentry RPGman.
Baldur's gate 2
>>4105863Trvke. It's just Oblivion with none of the charm.
>>4121547Shit-tier bait. BG2 is a higher form of art than the Sistine Chapel.
time to mig, no haters wanted here >>4121530
Working on Sonucido: Dreams of the Gray God. Here are some screenshots of the game.Grid-based, turn-based, party-based, based-based game.A lot of choice and consequence.Not as extreme as Fear & Hunger though.
>>4105509there will be more creatures like the hand which will sell the atmosphere better. Right now we are working on the UI but likely after that.It's first and foremost meant as a thematic classification - dark themes, body horror elements, morally dubious decisions, oppressive atmosphere/gameplay
>>4100423thanks!
>>4104416I'll do it pretty abstract but you will have quite a bit of player freedom. If you don't like a dialogue partner, you can try to kill them.Try with an example: Archivist needs A and B, can advance studies with A and B. If you kill him, he gives you C which can you use later, but if you kill him, X will find out, and try to do something about that - and also his studies won't be finished - also if you come back his home after a while will be inhabitated by someone else. If you bring him A and B, he gives you information about Z which might be useful later. To give a rough example.
>>4100438There will be more decoration/details in the future! My wife already made a few decorations, and reworked some textures but I still need to implement it
>>4110795I hope that when you have more stuff to show, you make a thread again, good luck on your progress anon.
anyone play this?
>>4120300That hippo bothers me immensely.
What is a good starting party? Mainly race ideas and stat points.>>4120300I have been slowly replaying their first game -- Shadows of Adam -- sometimes when I am drunk, while using their strategy guide PDF.
>>4120102One of my favorite indie RPGs but it gets extremely repetitive by the end. All the simple simulation elements on top of the FFT foundation make it more than the sum of its parts for me
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>>4120102luv me some rad codex gameskingsvein was a bit of a disappointment, boat tactics remains the bestit seems the dev's output fluctuates between solid gold (voidspire tactics, boat tactics) and meh (alvora tactics, kingsvein) games like a sine wave
Zoomer here, I've gotten like 3 hours into final fantasy vii and it's boring as shit, the turn based combat is press 1 button to win and the story is one dimensional nonsense for kids. I have to make Cloud crossdress for some fucking reason. At least the music is good.Does the game get any better or is it just overrated slop?
>>4119800>I think it legitimately has worse samples in places than 5 and 6It's not as bad as that over-compressed nonsense that is 9.
It's a lot worse than Deltarune. There's no denying it.
Dont bother with final FAGtasy 7. This is the FF for trve zoomerGODS
>>4113839>respect the players timeYou dont even play games, you skim wikipedia summaries
>>4118889>Cloud is the most relatable FF MCWe all had that one time where we had to dress up as a woman to seduce another man
Lavos is coming to destroy your world. Choose four RPG companions or friendly monsters to help you defeat him.
>>4110902F lizardman lordF felpurr samuraiF elf monkM dracon rangerarranged like this------empty---------S----M----L------------R---------replace the ranger with an actual alchemist if you want free potions and to get rich five levels earlier. yw gl hf
>>4110902>MonstersSlime Knight (DQ5)Ferrothorn (Pokemon)HerculesKabuterimon (Digimon)Beelzebub (SMT)Honorable Mention: Pet Dog from Wrath of the Righteous >Non-monstersBao-Dur (KOTOR2)Galuf (FF5)Durance (Pillars of Eternity)Safiya (Mask of the Betrayer)Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4110902Trask Ulgo from KOTORRichard Jenkins from Mass EffectDaveth and Jory from Dragon Age Origins
when Dalton came to Earthbound village and Crono and whichever two party members drew their weapons on him, they would have prevented guardia being destroyed 1005 AD. i was playing the DS version and my god I am four hours already now in the Ocean Palace thanks to new game plus and I can beat it within a day according to two files at 12 hours. Unless those were my tab exploits at the end of time. it's funny how i maxxed out every stat besides evasion and accuracy.
>>4110902I want Lavos to destroy the world though
We have ERAM and Aqua, will we get any new brats that need correction in the next chapters?
>>4125135>inb4 deleted again
>>4125137I think last thread got deleted because it was political bait.
>>4125127It's different when it's about my HMOFA slop okay??
>>4124469if you believe in human dess theory that all makes senseor it was just a cockupor the specifics of dess changed and she became noelle's sister while her overall role in the story remained the same
>>4124599my opinion
>Richard is poor now.>nobody is stupid enough to loan him any money to make the next Ultima game.so he got the rights back. is his masterplan now to fund it with Kickstarter like Star Citizen, make a few hundred million and then disappear into the Underworld?
>>4107053Make Ultima a Zelda competitor again
Never got into this series (not my fault they released an atrocious SNES port that I came across in a romset. Shouldn't release something that bad if you want me to play your series), but I find it fascinating that it was a very early example of ditching the true RPG genre and the genre's fans in an effort to sell action games to the normalfag cohort. For most crpgs, this happened in the 2000s, but Ultima was doing it back in the 90s.
>>4107504>the castle already got demolished soon after the place was sold off.why do white people always destroy they own buildings to put a strip mall in place lol
>>4107053he already did that with shroud of the avatar. huge scam
>>4119084Tip top b8 m8
How do you feel about questing in modern JRPG's? When you talk to an NPC in need or accept a request from a Notice Board to perform a variety of tasks for them in exchange for a reward. I'm very mixed on them.From a developer's point of view, they're great because you give the player a direct reason to scour the world that they've designed as you search for an item, battle, or some other objective. It also greatly pads out the game so the player will really get the impression that they got their money's worth. But that's just that, it's padding. These quests turn 30hour JRPG's into 50+ hour JRPG's. From a player's point of view, I feel the padding really hurts the replayability of a JRPG because you're less likely to want to do these chores once again.
If those side quests are shit like kill x amount of monster y like in Xenoblade then the game would be much better without them.
>>4107448If the game's bad, then I might end up thinking like you do. DQXI was good enough for me that I didn't have time to think like that at all.
>>4107448It's only padding or filler if it's empty and shitty. If you're on a world-spanning quest to collect earth shattering artifacts, is the whole game a fetch quest? No, everyone will overlook that and judge the actual content.Quests should affect the actual game world, like how running materials to town in Etrian Odyssey secures a supply line and makes the result permanently available for anybody to buy. They should absolutely not be a pointless detour like>must visit quest board/guild>to unlock the quest giver>so the actual objective spawns>so you can return to the NPC>and finally the board/guild itself for the rewardThe point of an actual bulletin board is just to inform people something exists
>>4107448I dislike them, especially when they are available at staggered rates and force you to go back to zones you just did quests in. The only ones I like is something like hunts from FF12 and 16. The only thing is they need to make them available before you go to the zone. I don't want to have to back track over and over again.
>>4107448Mostly negativeThey're a lazy way to add content without adding content. You could achieve EXACTLY the same thing by, instead of a quest, including a haunted tower or cave or something off the beaten path, with exactly the rewards for your questing, with the benefit of independence and not creating odd holes like nobody doing this before you, random townspeople having gear that would allow them to complete the quest, ect. However, then you have to design the aforementioned haunted tower or cave optional area instead of bear asses and backtracking through the last dungeon for the dildo you can't pick up on a first visit
The Steam achievements for Persona 6 have been leaked. Apparently the game has a cop/detective theme to contrast the phantom thief theme of Persona 5.https://www.exophase.com/game/persona-6-steam/achievements/
>>4114177One day
>>4087409I'm pretty sure they design and make most of the game first and only decide when in the near finished game to place achievement triggers
>>4111348But Sumire is best girl tho?
>>4120390No. Shoehorned blank slate.
>>4087596I hate to say it but the tripfag is right. Persona 3-5 were cringefest garbage. 1 and 2 were decent as far as jarpigs go.
I've been playing a lot of games generally considered all time greats, and this is the one that confounded me the most.The music and art is amazing I'll give them that but the gameplay is genuinely so stale. Every enemy dies if you look at them funny and the game has so many of them filling the screen at once that it starts to feel like a slot machine with all the flashing lights and numbers. Playing the game makes me feel like a rat trapped in a skinner box. The closest thing the game has to a challenge are the really weird and obtuse puzzles required to beat the game.If I wanted easy dopamine with little to no resistance I would do something more productive like jerk off or smoke crack.
>>4099116It's a fighting game
>>4107368Part of the "Metroidvania" equation is the "Metroid" part. What makes Super Metroid so beloved, aside from the amazing visuals, music, and vibes, is the movement. You have all these tools to quickly move through the game world and a more skilled player can use them better.SOTN has this aspect, Simon's Quest doesn't.I will say though, SOTN pales compared to Super Metroid. The linear Castlevania games prior are some of the best platformers ever made, whereas SOTN is a worse Metroid game.
>>4107388>chad liu bei with his sworn brothers vs virgin jap self-insert protag with his imaginary hindu friends
>>4107368SOTN is full of cool shit and top-tier art and music.
>>4119252>Shu>Chadlmao
>Chad Ludger enters >Literally mogs Jude in every possible way>Takes the MC spot from Jude and demotes him to side-character in his own game>Jude's friends from the 1st game start liking Ludger more BRUTAL
Der Jude cannot compete with the Aryan Ludger
What are some games that are well written to the point of being literature tier?>planescape torment (haven't played because I do not like dnd settings)>arcanum>disco elysium>pathalogic>xenogears/xenosaga>drakenier gamesI'm trying to find games with actual depth to their stories and themes and which actually say or do things that leave a lasting impression, like after reading a good bookI've tried searching but I mostly only find people saying things like rdr2 or bioshock or the last of us, which feel more like tv show deep instead of well written literature deeptried posting on v but i don't think they think too much about this kind of stuff
>>4096793>Snake… do you think… love… can blossom on the battlefield?
>>4086835same
What's a Kira?
>>4079829no such thing imo, read real books
With all the fascination about literature in so many different boards you would expect /lit/ to be a lively place but no.
We need more action RPGs (not Diablo clones) with an emphasis on world building. Pic related.
>>4116061Real-time with pause is the single definition of an 'action RPG'.Products like Diablo are action-adventure goyslop games, not RPGs.>>4116612The smelliest piece of turd cast by the darkest Liberian warlord has a googolplex times more intrinsic value than your entire existence.
>>4116057wanna tell me about or is the point to make a useless vague thread?
>>4118216It's a hack and slash with a decently big open world and plenty of content for a late psx title. The characters are simple but charming but you won't stay for the cast or plot since it's all very generic. The main draw for me is how deep and crunchy the combat gets.
>>4116705It's defined as RPG with RTWP combat, not an action RPG you fucking cockgobbler retard.Having to pause your game every 2 seconds is an incredible action packed experience.This board is really a mating ground for beta males.
>>4116705>Real-time with pause is the single definition of an 'action RPG
