What is /vrpg/ opinion on the Octopath Traveler series
Man, what the fuck. I have 80 hours on this and this piss ass ending that required me to fight a very annoying, very cheesy boss, is all I got?I feel robbed. I was expecting kino like Live a Live Odeo bossrush, but not only were the bosses poorly connected with each other, the whole gauntlet was more of an annoyance than anything, feel there were only there to salt the wound after Galdera wiped your squad in a single turn due to rng bullshit. Thank god I didn't pay for this game.Is 2/0 any better? I like the concepts, the soundtrack and the sprite work is superb, but man, this game felt lacking in a bunch of areas, and that comes from a trails fag who slurp stuff just because it looks cool
>trailfagWell, that may explain the lack of brancells.
>>40833742 is better since the true final boss is actually implemented into the story as an actual final boss and not some shit sidequest and there's closure with an epilogue and whatnot.0 is a bog standard RPG with multiple party members you wind benching for the majority of the game in comparison to 1 and 2.
>bumping this trash threadKill yourself.
>>3957705characters might as well have been a blank sheet of paper. Combat wise im sure you slopeaters got wowed but bravely default did that combat system first and did it better. All in all a very forgettable game but it did pave the way for a jrpg ressurection since people really starved for jrpgs at that time. I think its the only reason it did so well
What's the verdicked?
>>4080737It's a game for NEETs and autists and trannies. I'm not even being disparaging, you have to be some combination of these three things in order to get any enjoyment out of it.
>>4090128But enough about WoW.
>>4080746/thread
>>4080737I don't get it. It's a pure progression treadmill with absolutely minimal gameplay.
>>4080737It was only fun when I was 14 and could do mindless grinding in a chatroom-esque environment.
LonaRPG is a cute and wholesome Indie semi survival RPG made by a Taiwanese man
>>4089849Could never get the greatsword to feel good when I used it.
You could have made /d/ a better board, but chose to make /vrpg/ a shittier one.
>>4060682NahIt's a rape simulator where you play the rapist raping people trying to rape her first
>>4091858A defensive rape if you will.
>>4087565ThisIt's a surprising blind spot in games like this, where there's often a missing space between "complete puritanical purity" and "debauched endless gang rape until you die"I'd say multiple missing spaces, but I don't want to he greedy
Is there a good list of *essential* RPGs that a fan must play to be considered well-read? Plausible list:- Chrono Trigger- Xenogears- FF3 - FF12- DQ 3, 5, 8- KH 1 and 2- Persona 3-5- Trails: Sky -> Ao?/Cold Steel IV?- Suikoden 2- Super Mario RPG- Star Ocean 2- Xenoblade 1- a Pokemon game, Emerald perhaps- Lunar (no idea which version, PSX?)- Lufia 2Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4076475>no fallout 2my nigga.
>>4076369Konichiwa dude!
Terranigma System shock 2 (imsim with heavy rpg mechanics) Golden SunArcanum King of dragon passAvadon the black fortress (play any spiderweb software games, really)
>>4076475Id add Ultima UG2 and NWN2:MotB
>>4076369>>4076475Never-ever going to play like half of those.
There are rumors that Square Enix is going private.https://www.investing.com/news/stock-market-news/square-enix-shares-jump-11-on-privatization-report-93CH-4883463
>>4078576Imagine letting gay retards control a majority of your business. Insanity
>>4075777this is so fucking retardedwhy even bother making this announcement
>>4075663Last two RPGs to win GOTY were devlopped by a privately owned studios. So this is a win by every margin.
>>4075764>have been transitioning to real-time and then to action since turn of the century>sacrificed at least one numbered entry to getting into RT>made a spin-off series to throw oldfags a boneThe odds are less than zero, meaning there's a chance other series, maybe even even DQ, will turn into an action as well.
>>4092017The entire philosophy of SE is to chase the latest trends and big successes like a duckling chases its mother, and then slap some Chocobos on top of it in order to justify the name.Expedition 33 was highly successful, so the odds are higher than you think.
According to a Japanese blogger, the "great 3 RPG's" are Wizardry, Ultima and..........Phantasie?!https://note.com/tukimaru_game/n/n7f8298469d9a
>>4079951everyone knows japan loves ultima and wizardry
>>4081987>loves wizardrySure>and ultimaNews to me.
Apart from Ultima Online the Ultima series has been dead since 1995. I doubt any gamers in Japan even remember it, let alone consider it a Top 3 Greater CRPG.
>>4079951The 80s holy trinity of genre founding is Wizardry 1, Ultima 1 and Rogue. All other RPGs past that point draw something from those 3.Also you should play all 3 of them at some point.
>>4085757>I doubt any gamers in Japan even remember it>he says, as OP posts a blog by a Japanese gamer, full of Japanese gamers in the commentsBig brain take.
I FUCKING hate this gameProbably the worst game I can’t stop playing unironically. Bloodmoon is fucking asinine
>>4085781>>4085641>waaah waaaah grindonly 100% completion autists whine about this and they deserve it. If you just pick a fucked up party and fight to the dungeon there's no grind at all. You'll have to use your brain though, so I guess that's not an option for you
>>4086510Any mod suggestions?
>>4085298Try Darkest Dungeon 2 and you will change your mind real fast
>>4086909>You'll have to use your brain though, so I guess that's not an option for you
>>4085298This is one of the few games where I've highly disliked adding more content DLCs to it. I recently tried Crimson Court and the debuffs and vampire shit was so ass its making me think of refunding it.
ITT: Recommend and discuss weird shit
>>4029981I like this genre of alien world aesthetic. I wonder what other games have that other than Morrowind.
>>4025372A Desolate Hope Pilgrim's ProgressSpace Funeral
>>4079712oddworld
>>4029981This is the only game I've ever downloaded that just somehow completely broke. I was going for the collectibles and the game started acting weird and crashed on me, then when I reloaded my saves models wouldn't load in and prompts wouldn't work. Deleting the entire game and reinstalling it didn't fix it either. I think my menus wouldn't even appear. A shame too because it was pretty neat.
>>4025372Out of stuff the Midden-guy made, I liked Middens the most because it didn't string you through forced social commentary sections. You mavigated a strange maze of broken worlds, but it seemed the game threw you a bone and gave a new area just before I'd get bored.Gingiva had a lot of unfinished mechanics. I don't remember much of it aside from a homeless man being white-girl zen and setting himself on fire.Where They Cremate the Roadkill was 10$ schizocore and made by a team, but bungles basic sequencing and rpgmaker eventing to the point where images stay on the screen forever, or you could accidentally redo game sections and get stuck.The latter does have illuminati worms in pills, so it's something, but trying to pull Kingdom Hearts 1 combat in rpgmaker with obtusely named elements was doodoo.
It's a new year. How is your AQW/DF/whatever grinding going?
>>4096356How/when? The map the wiki says you get it from isn’t accessible.
>>4096157Dividing between all and phys/mag might work, but lifesteal still bypasses the debuff>>4096214>>4096607I used hvamp VHL, but seen Lich, YnR, SoS, CSH, GT beat it without dauntlessHowever they all had forge helms & avarice, and most used pots like I did>>4098179What do you think Friday the 13th means anon? Grimskull rep is still cancer tho
Fighting Absolution is a pain in the ass. Anyone know a more braindead way to do it?
WHAT'S THE NEW OP
Pirate Gravelyn.
Are you looking forward to getting your vessel back?
>>4094699(You) are the most important character and relevant to all characters, mister.
Can Rudy and Dess knight both be true? Did he become an amalgam to save her life and that's why he's so fucked up? Is that what the seahorse symbolism on the walls is about? He compares himself to a kiwi fruit but kiwi birds are the ones that get messed up 'cause their eggs are too big
>>4095207i dont feel important anymore
>>4089199After the shit eram’s been doing with it?I dunnoIt Seems pretty used up.
>>4095021I personally am in the boat that the game itself is fun between the bosses and dialogue being funny, and I find most characters likableCh5 might have killed my interest if I got to that point with no WR, I am not a fan of Yuri, MC cuckoldry or even the concept of Suselle and it's not ignorable like it was in Undertale
The best ARPG on the market, Grim Dawn. No more /v/ threads are allowed.
>>4102443That's only -5% compared to the -10% of the thermite mines though.
>>41024746% acshually, but so what? the more you stack the bigger the diminishing returns On a commando you have soldier’s break morale + assassin’s mark, that’s already almost 70%, the difference between 6 and 10% is minimal I’d say, when the rare alternative gives you more freedom in terms of what you can equip in the other slots with the right affixes
can GOGgers even participate in the testing?
elemental cadence will be BIG next patch
why the fuck isn't there a lvl 94 version of the badge of mastery yet?
Wanna share a little known RPG you loved with others? Post about obscure RPGs here so others can discover them!My submission is CHRONICLES OF RADIA WAR on Famicom.Tecmo dropped this fucking banger in '91 and it got left behind in Japan because the West was transitioning to 16-bit. A English localization was actually almost finished before it was scrapped. It abandons turn-based battle for real-time action combat with zero random encounters. You actually see enemies on the field, walk up, and beat their ass. You get a full 4-man party with on-the-fly tactical AI commands—tell your party to back off, focus fire, or heal while you tear shit up.The late-era Tecmo anime cutscenes done ala Ninja Gaiden look incredible for 8-bit hardware and the story actually has momentum. Check out this cool anime TV commercial from Japan:https://youtu.be/HQGQpf54IX0?is=oOzYoenNDT6QmM-5 [Embed]Is it perfect? No. The difficulty drops off a cliff in the second half, the gear customization is pretty basic, and the fan translation is a little rough around the edges. But the pacing is fast as hell and it puts many western-released NES RPGs to shame.Get the fully patched English ROM here:https://archive.org/details/radia_202504
>>4077910Kill yourself, fag.
>>4078163no you
I own a boxed copy of Corum III, the only boxed commercial RPG ever made for BeOS. It's Korean and no, they never did Corum or Corum II into English. It's not that much fun. But I was running BeOS back in the day so I bought it.
>>4078003Seconding these games. They're older than a lot of current posters, even.
>>4078108... Quartet...?Then again, that was awhile back
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>>4080041This, just look at the way the west treats Israel, who has done more for world peace than any other country in over 100 years.
>>4087229>Maybe it's because deep down, we all actually want to be extinct.>I mean, we're putting a lot of time and effort into making the thing(A.I.) that will replace us.Who is "we" and who is "us"?And if (you) want to go extinct just don't wake up tomorrow. I wish you do though and do something cool. Like an epic shitpost on /vrpg/
>>4088353Maybe don't lobby to allow seething browns into your allied nations next time and we'll be able to keep up a united front, faggot.
>>4089337>Maybe don't lobby to allow seething browns into your allied nationsDays without anti-Semitism on /vrpg/: 0
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>hot blonde woman>an octopus with eyelasheswhich way, son of mass effect?
>>4088467>i read both exodus books, they are quite goodThey had some fantastic moments and the worldbuilding was inspired, but there were certainly some convenient asspulls throughout the books and the last quarter or so of the second book is so obviously rushed it's not even funny. Or maybe that's just how Hamilton writes his books, I dunno. Likewise, I really didn't much care for most of the cast, aside from Thyra and maybe the detective.>someone said the books are set after the game?Yes, you can read more about it here >>4071583>>4088469>that would also mean the writer knew the outcome of the game story like 5 years agoUnlikely. He certainly had all of the necessary info for worldbuilding (i.e. the general history of the cluster, locations, technology ect) but was likely told only to vaguely mention Lidon since that moon and whatever other random locations outside of Celestial domains were reserved for the game. Another interesting thing to note is the discrepancy between Hamilton's descriptions of spaceships and how they appeared in Exodus trailers or in the Secret Level episode. I'd say that indicates that Hamilton didn't have a complete insight into how the ships would look and function, so he actually made them more realistic that they were presented in the media.
>>4088493>maybe that's just how Hamilton writes his booksit is, i love hamilton, but all his books have rushed endings. they aren't even deus ex machina endings, most of the time he foreshadows the main driver for the plots' ending over a thousand pages before the actual end, does it multiple times after that, but when it happens, it happens in no time at all.imagine if the catalyst was mentioned on eden prime in me1, then vigil mentioned it, then the collectors mentioned it, then liara mentioned it at the start of me3 and then you spend all of me3 gathering war assets anyway and you got the star child at the end. that's what peter f hamilton books are like. so yeah, not nearly as terrible as me 3 but they don't quite stick the ending either. and he's really good at worldbuilding
>>4072098It's being sexy
>>4088511>but all his books have rushed endingsHuh, good to know. I was thinking of checking his other stuff out, but if that's something he has problems with, I may stick to Wiki or Youtube summaries.>they aren't even deus ex machina endings ... but when it happens, it happens in no time at all.Fair enough, but I would like to emphasize that it's not just the ending itself that felt rushed, but that certain major moments leading up to the ending literally happened off-screen. Like, if you're gonna spend pages describing the geography and architecture of Kelowan, or talk about the dynamics of gangs in Santa Rosa and what robots Terrence used to eavesdrop on their members, at least spend a page or two describing how the three Eternal queens (and all of their companions) got slimed by the Crystal Gun and how that mentally affected Terrence and his family. Hell, the rushed ending also can't explain the character assassination Thyra experienced. In the epilogue, she was transformed into some sort of a harsh-but-just ruler of the Celestial Dominion when barely a hundred pages prior, she was considering how often does she need to brain-fuck her own daughters and Court members to make sure they stay loyal. She was interesting precisely because she was so unscrupulous yet pragmatic and clear-minded when push came to shove. Both Dagon and Liliana similarly got hit by a retard stick but I suppose not having their downfall and death serve as some sort of a self-congratulatory wank for the heroes (and especially Finn) is a nice touch.>and he's really good at worldbuildingThat we do agree upon.
>>4070471Exodus looks like an infinitely better game.
Did you know one of the original Shin Megami Tensei designers has a stealth-based RPG coming out soon? Apparently it's been in development since 2022 but I just found out about it today.https://store.steampowered.com/app/1801140/Guns_Undarkness/
>>4085127>"it's like (game) plus (game)!"no thx
>>4085277It is nothing like SMT, I just said he was one of the original SMT designers.
>>4085127what game?
>>4085127>that artstyle NOPEnot that Instagram russian hack again
>>4085139Not even the gayest looking game from an ex-Atlus guyreally fun fucking gorgeous game, they don't make weird shit like this anymore
