Who are your favorite JRPG protagonists?I always liked the relationship between Sabin and Edgar in FF6.
Do you have to be trans to like Atelier? Is this even considered an RPG or something else? No one on /v/ was willing to talk about the series, and the threads on it on /vrpg/ are unwelcoming to new comers.
>>4142709Arland was course correction if anything, go play Salburg/Gramnad.Well nowadays the series is fucked again, and I'm not expecting it to recover.
>>4142682Oh god this is so funny.When you open up with a strong insult like that, NO ONE will want to talk to you. This is social skills 101. Are you extremely autistic?
I miss when Atelier was meant for girls. Unironically that's when it was at its best.
>>4142682Jesus fucking christ. I'm sick of trannies trying to take things away from chuds. I'm an unc and adore Atelier Ayesha. Fantastic soundtrack and very enjoyable gameplay mechanics. The games were firmly weeb-core until trannies were invented in 2020. They were made for lilicons and now enjoyers. Stop the cope. Stop trying to landgrab intellectual properties that existed before it became fashionable to cut off your dick. Fuck trannies.
>>4143268Holy crashing out
just got an enhanced remaster all of a sudden.
Is it a remaster or a "remaster"?
>>4143372Playstation 2 era quality is literally lost technology.
>>4143372I'm at such a loss with this image
>>4143372Before, it was a 4K/HD remaster. Now it's saying it's got native 4K, HDR, 120 fps and 2x speed.
Let's talk about party-based dungeon crawlers! >What are you playing right now?>Any release you are looking forward to?>Do you prefer a fully custom party, or pre-made adventurers?In my case I have been playing Bard's Tale Trilogy, which is pretty simply but also quite fun. Been looking forward to Mystic Land which seems cool and perhaps a slightly less austic version of Grimoire.
>>4138293guilty as charged
>>4137414another reason characters have individuality is the random fights two characters get into and than you can't have them sleep in the inn in the same room. or sometimes they just decide they want a certain room and wont budge from there.
>>3995392Did you ever find it anon?
>>3993456Just finished the Saturn version of BAROQUE, what should i play next?
>>4143402Return to classic turn based.
How would you rank Final Fantasy 3, 4, 5 and 6? Which is your favorite and which is your least favorite? I'm in the process of replaying all 4.(I know there's no real connection between them, I just group them together because they're the 1990s series entries before FF7/the 3D era)
>>4141103>Death to all e-celebrity youtube pedophiles and faggots blindly repeating their opinions.If you played these games in the 90s, it’s utterly bizarre to read posts like this.
>>4141163I don't think it matters when you played them, it is just bizarre in general (2000s by the way).
>>4133435>Final Fantasy games have funadmental issue that healing doesn't have any meaningful costs, so by using white magic battles devolve into "attack, attack, heal", turing you essaentailly immortal and making combat into a repetative slog. Even ressurecting your party members costs next to nothing.This is one of the reasons I like SaGa games and what the creator of them understands.If virtually unlimited free healing is available, there are no stakes or challenge.
III was done extremely dirty by Square.The remake was bad and we didn't get an official release until the PR.Had the game come out of Japan on NES or even get a GBA remake and gave players nostalgia, people would EASILY love this game on the same level as IV.I know Japanese players love III a lot more than the west.
>>4143378Japan has proven awful taste in brainless dumb shit like 4 kids cave explored and found dah crystals so after a grind on rails they get some smack by big titty darkness monster
What do you think about this?
>>4143326poser
I really did not like Elden Ring. I don't like what the Souls series morphed into. Granted, 3 was halfway through the transformation, but Elden Ring is entirely there. Dark Souls is fundamentally about tight dungeon design with sadistic traps and enemy placement and resource management. Not just life and mana, but the way Souls work. Elden Ring shouldn't even have the Souls system. It is entirely vestigial. You will never lose your souls, because there's a checkpoint every 2 feet. Pretty much everything is sacrificed in favor of ridiculous bosses that fly around the arena with 2 second windows where you attempt to hit them. Open world games suck ass, and this is no exception. How are you supposed to have level design and enemy placement for anything other than a handful of real dungeons, when you just ride past everything on your horse-goat-thing?And yes, I know Elden Ring isn't technically a Souls game, as it doesn't have Souls in the title. But it was presented as a follow up and the same type of game.I fucking loathe how Dark Souls morphed from a slow paced, punishing dungeon crawler where each enemy matters into a game where you wildly roll around multi-phase bosses as faux-epic orchestral music plays. That happens literally once in Dark Souls, which is why it was memorable there.
>>4143329A rose tinted view of DS, but I don't want to break it
>>4143334Elden Ring is to Dark Souls as Jaden Smith is to Will Smith.
>>4142999I enjoyed it, but I also felt a bit burned out on it by the end.>>4143229Wouldn't tryhards be championing a difficult game instead of a casual action-RPG?
I’ve finished Act 1 in Pathfinder, mostly played to test builds and learn the game systems. I’ve done a lot of research on the Pathfinder 1E rules and decided to go with a Battle Oracle Angel build. I plan to restart the campaign from scratch, applying everything I’ve learned.I’m aiming to play on the Core difficulty, but I’ve seen many people say it’s not recommended for beginners—so, I’ve made a few adjustments (pic) to create a "custom-Core" setup. Do you think this will be manageable? Also, should I set enemy critical hit damage to weak or keep it at normal? Any advice would be greatly appreciated—thanks in advance!
>>4132913Battle angel oracle is THE most overpowered thing in the game, it will crush hard and below.A crusader cleric is honestly just as, if not more powerful, and may be easier to understand for new players. Archer build or shield bash build on it is pretty kino on Angel...A paladin will be strong on Angel path but not overpowered.Honestly Kingmaker is a smoother ride for your first game, more grounded characters, story etc. I highly recommend chaotic good archaelogist bard. Which is up there in power in the first game, not so much the second because many things are overpowered.The length of Wrath is HUGE too, you might feel it is a slog in many places if you don't know how to build things to mow stuff down.Get bubble buffs though and don't torture yourself with manual buffing.I'd suggest the respec mod as well, it's so easy to make a tiny wrong decision that has you hoofing back to town to pay for a respec and tedious, and you can clean up any companion build you don't really like. There's no point to playing Wrath like a purist whatsoever.Toybox automatically puts achievements back too, you don't have to get deep on it.If you want a great content mod for Kingmaker to boost it up nearly to Wrath levels of options its: Call of the Wild.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4143259Greataxes have good easier to get threat ranges, and decent special effects on them, greatswords are kinda similar and better threat range iircMostly it's falchion, polearms (for reach and cleave builds) bastard swords (magus builds benefit from 1h and 2h sometimes depending on what they're doing at the moment) I think there are a couple of fun big clubs/maces yeah, it wouldn't be too terrible to build for them.I have a scythe build I'm meaning to do based on vital strike abuse from rowdy rogue and Lich path to make it a literal 1 hit reaper of death, or perhaps Demon for the teleports too.It may have to go legend or some crit threat abuse out of a fighter build mixed in, I'm running a Vampire Hunter D build on gendarme/bloodseeker at the moment because I finally modded in the black horse properly after a few retired tries way back of bugs and build weaknesses that annoyed me too much (including ECB in fact, which I just transmog a falchion to ECB appearance now for the D look)
>>4132913Also str on falchion and most weapons is inherently better than dex for strictly damage arguments due to things like legendary proportions that add str damage for size, barbarian rages etc.If you get into things like defense or even mounted combat style riding with mobility and skills like trickery dex has many other arguments in its favor though.
>>4137724>There's an actual devil path. That is NOT what anon meant by "Devilman path"
I kind of thought this about the Pathfinder games, but in the 40k games I feel it is insane that it isn't an option:You should be able to upload your planned build in csv format.
We won
>>4142049How is this any different from some fag pointing at Susie and saying she must be a pooner just because she has a deep voice and shouldersIn fact, Aqua is a hint that Kris was born as a girl. Why else would Noelle and Kris argue who should be king and queen in their childhoods?
>>4143315Because Kris doesn't want to be either.
>>4143315Samefag, I meant broad shoulders my bad
>>4143316Either a boy or girl? I understand, but I’m moreso going against the belief that Kris is a heckin manly hmofa god. It’s projection, and in real life, they would be called a faggot if they looked like that
>>4143318He's just being dramatic about not "feeling right" with being the king or the queen, even if there are two queens. He also loves messing with Noelle, and saying that she should be King would really get on her nerves.I'd be fine with Kris being a girl, but I still think he's a boy.At the age the Dreemurr kids are at, you just don't put a brother and sister in the same bedroom. Girls need their privacy from boys. (This is also why I think Chara is male)
So I just finished the Mass Effect trilogy for the first time since the ME3 debacle, I can conclusively say that, now the dust has settled, I am still mad. According to steam I spent 103.8 hours getting to this point. Time I will never EVER get back. I actually feel guilty, like I have fucked something up by wasting so much of my free time on this shit.Mass Effect thread, I guess.
>>4136524>>4136604with a guide or previous playthrough knowledge maybeor you're both shitters playing on easier difficulties
>>4126677Sounds like a (You) issue if you liked 2 over 3.
>>41404033 has the best DLCs in the franchise, so yeah. Leviathan and Citadel specifically are certified kino.
>>4143302>webmGot a laugh out of me lol
>>4127878But anon, I was told my choices in 3 didn't matter even though several things you mentioned are a direct result of choices from the past culminating in drastically different conclusion to several narrative arcs. Did you know that Grunt's fakeout isn't even one? If you get him through ME2 alive, but not Loyal, he appears in 3 as Aralakh's commander but legit dies to the rachni?>>4128398>The game is so obsessed with one-liners and thematic flourishes that it forgets to actually tell a decent storyReplace "thematic flourishes" with "action spectacle" and you have Mass Effect 2. What decent story was told by Shepard dying and the Normandy blowing up only for neither of them to matter and be undone five minutes later? What decent story was done with the forcing of Cerberus as the writer's new donutsteel faction, or the giant human baby Reaper existing?>it completely disregards or rewrites anything that's established in the previous gameAlso apt for a certain sequel that came out in 2010...>If you care more about a cool one-liner than an overaching story, you shouldn't be making (or playing) RPGs1 and 3 remembered to have the Reapers be the immediate threat you're worried about1 and 3 remembered to have Shepard working for the Alliance and Council1 and 3 remembered to make being a Spectre actually relevant1 and 3 remembered to touch on the actual Protheans, and that the cipher was a thing1 and 3 remembered that squadmates should have a quality > approachComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
sorry i couldn't find a thread up, but can we discuss the ending??which did you choose anons? and why did you choose it?obviously this is all spoilers, so if you didn't beat the game and want to play it then don't enter this thread, you've been warned
Rant that is me sympathizing with the story warning, ignore it if you don't care you won't get any more info about E33's ending from mebut I just realized that I am Aline and it made me cry, in 2020 I suffered a severe medical situation that has left me mentally scarred with PTSD, too scared to leave the housemy wife spent all those years trying to force me out of my self imposed PTSD prison, i hated her for atleast 2 years of her doing that and this game made me realize she was the Renoire to my Aline and I hated her for loving meRenoire telling Alicia to reach for the stars reasonated with me so much, I am so scared to reach for the stars because much like Alicia I was burnt onceof course I can't beat PTSD from just playing a video game, it's not that easybut this has given me such insane motivation to get out, seeing my own problems be expressed in such an artistic form has helped me connect the dots finallythe "safety" my house offers is the same comfort the painting offers Aline and Alicia, but it's killing me slowly to be stuck in my own prison forever to feel "safe"I won't let PTSD win, I am going to get better for her
>>4118534based
>>4118713the ending is choosing between a single family and a whole universe
>>4118265Verso, but honestly I dont really mind if Maelle got her way, as long as she gives Verso the death he wanted.
Maelle did nothing wrong. I imagine that if I was forced to live forever I would be sad too but painted Verso needs to take a chill pill. If he dies then everyone dies. The family are basically all gods and the painting is like earth.
So far the following balance tweaks and polishes will be in the next patch:>Morton has his ultimate item, the Puzzle Box>Papineau gets several defensive/healing and offensive skills that use cleaning items in your inventory>Calm Dan buffed, and the start of a stream gets more viewers based on how well the previous one did, however Beg For Money will reduce the maximum amount of viewers you can get>Dan's quest will permanently increase viewership>Sophie has increased ballistics and critical hit chance when hiding, and the damage of special marbles scales with level>Ambush will do more damage depending on how many status effects the target has>Coral Slingshot added to the flooded apartment: +45 ballistics and additional luck>All marble locations in the overworld will give special marbles in addition to normal ones, including the new slingshot in the flooded apartment>Hellen's Soul Feast will only target enemies, and both it and Soul Drain will be stronger>Massacre no longer removes the stalk status from enemies>Fallow Will will make weapon skills cost more STM>Unmask has been buffed to only hurt, confuse (40%), and stalk (80%) enemies, but costs 4 STM>Hellen is immune to the Soulless status>Grim Harvest does more damage, correctly applying the HP-reliant damage with the max health instead of the halved max health when the skill is usedComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4142739>anybody else i can't think of?Papineau as well
>>4142739Henri is human beneath all the ticks, I thinkDo Vincent and the Wounded Neighbor count?
>>4142744good catch on henri>Vincent and the Wounded Neighbornah they're already warped both body and mind, even if less so than some other cursed
>>4142746Hmm, okay. Not a character per se, but the guys that Jeanne is eating when you find her are human
>>4143251nah I think they should have at least a line or two to count as characters. the toilet guy starts as human too now that I think about it, but he gets wormed before we really get to see him.
If you could marry one cRPG girl, why would it be Shadowcute?
>>4116727Rather the demon goats from Kingmaker.
>>4143127Yes>>4142976play the game
>>4143273Dayum.The game can't drop in price soon enough.
>>4143278It’s worth, at absolute maximum, 20 dollars.
>>4116727that bitch got mommy issues
Second Empire refugee editionPrevious Thread >>4008861>Current version: 1.0.68>Latest important announcement (May 25, 2025)https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/233860/view/653728746655713085>Kenshi 2 Announcement:Soon (tm) - kenshi2when.com>What is Kenshi?"A free-roaming squad based RPG. Focusing on open-ended sandbox gameplay features rather than a linear story.""Be a trader, a thief, a rebel, a warlord, an adventurer, a farmer, a slave, or just food for the cannibals. Research new equipment and craft new gear."https://store.steampowered.com/app/233860/Kenshi/https://www.gog.com/game/kenshiComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4142579Not enough water.
>>4138928I'm pretty sure it has many such mods. I remember anons posting them when /keng/ was alive.
>>4142834then we install that mod that raises the watertable
>>4142846>>4138928Sorta, I guess? I can capture people, force them onto a specific bed, and make the ONE animation designed specifically for that individual bed happen.Maybe loverslab has some new re-Kenshi rape mod.
>Had an extra building in the back of my base so I made it a throne room/bedroom for my faction leader>It's the building furthest into my base>When characters rescue wounded units, they ALWAYS head for whichever bed is furthest into the base>My king sized bed is constantly being used for wounded plebsGod damn commies, why can't I designate this bed for exclusive use?
Life is way too short to play jrpgsfuck those padded to shit, linear story movie games with one button gameplay
I played a porn game a while ago with some very good turn based gameplay revolving around various stuns, buffs, and elemental resistances/weaknesses on almost every encounter. No A-spam in sight.It ignited a need to find this type of gameplay, but from an actually competent game dev, rather than some furry troon trying to draw Anime girls for the first time in years.So, I loaded up my high tech pocket emulation machine with Chrono Trigger.This shit is easy as fuck. It's from over 30 years ago now; I thought old games were supposed to be tough as nails to keep kids glued to the screen for months while they load up a piggy bank for their next trip to the local game store.
>>4134333>stuns, buffs, and elemental resistances/weaknesses on almost every encounterTry Treasure of the Rudras
>>4130727Go play Romancing SaGa and Etrian Odyssey then.>>4134333>I thought old games were supposed to be tough as nailsEverything is harder when you're a kid because you're inexperienced and lacking in knowledge.
H-games have ruined jrpgs for me, because they have the same gameplay + porn.
>>4134333>I played a porn game a while ago with some very good turn based gameplayStopped reading here.
Who or what could make a proper Arcanum remake or spiritual sequel?What needs to be fixed from the original and what needs to be kept if it’s as to be inspired by the older game?
gnomes using technology from dwarves and humans to turn all the half-ogres into a massive army to take everything over
>>4140517Well, were the fans able to provide useful answers?
>>4137420Well its setting is that it takes place after a Tolkien era; that is the appeal.
>>4140548>abloohoo muh aiShut the fuck up
>>4137395>but make it something more like Persona 5 or Clair Obscur.kys
