The year is 5E 12. It's been 19 years since the events of Skyrim (4E 201). The Fourth Era ended in the 208th year. With the Second Great War ending in an Empire victory. The Thalmor are all but extinct. Alduin was defeated. A Dragonborn Emperor sits upon the Ruby Throne. Miraak is defeated. The Fourth Empire restored Talos worship and rallied all borders under one banner. Now, once more, eyes turn toward the continent of Akavir...
While empire gawks at akavir, I begin thalmoring again
>>3870176The fuck you do.*Goofy point.*You get, you piss mer fuck! Scat!
*assassinates the emperor before he can find a prisoner to fulfill a destined prophecy*
>>3870180...Ey. Ey. Das enough. *Points.*I'm taking away your apple juice, you little bitch.
>Morrowind beats you over the head at every opportunity that the empire is in decline>Massive demonic invasion in Oblivion becomes the catalyst for its collapse>By Skyrim "the empire" is just a few provinces that can't even control its own subjects>and people still don't support the Stormcloaks
It's still a few months away. How many of you played the first game?
>>3868818I played and liked the first game a lotI have complaints, but they're mostly springing from it being low budget and stretching content and I find that not as bad as expensive mistakes
>>3869034he is
>>3868818I played the first game, expected it to be a 5/10 slop, but ended up enjoying it. Yes it had its problems, but at least it had interesting skills, and you can restore MP on hit, both of which Miyazaki is allergic to. Fairly excited for the second game, hope it doesn't run like ass (it will) and improves on the first game.
I enjoyed the first game, it's by no means stellar and has a lot of issues, but it was fun enough for me to do multiple playthroughs, enjoyed the characters. Liking God Eater probably helped . I'm extremely mad that 2 is entirely unrelated and just uses the same name, instead of being a proper sequel, and the art direction looks pretty ass. At least there will be more Go Shiina bangers.
its gonna have DENUVO
I got to chapter 4 in reborn but honestly I really fucking hate the gameplay. Too linear, slow, cheesy in which you just aim to throw as much of your units to fucking kill the boss ASAP, no real sense of progression because class skills are locked to classes and you don't really get any neat classes.Is the gameplay any better in SNES or PSP? I had a long break before finishing off Chapter 3 so I don't mind replaying the game again but I want something a lot faster and snappier and jesus fuck I'm getting annoyed at Reborn level cap and holy shit I have to wait for every unit to move and playing the waiting game to come to me is so fucking boring.
>>3869983Honestly those design choices are so questionable, chaotic evil jankness
>>3870010>no reasonHalf of the TP commands became auto skills because some of them would be broken if they ran on MP.>>3869983Reborn got rid of randoms because PSP added a bunch of grind zones with infinitely repeatable fights that almost everyone farmed anyway. Which then made it rather annoying to access certain races for obvious reasons.
>>3870037>some of them would be broken if they ran on MPAnd is there something wrong? There is a reason MP starts from 0 and why MP-charging skills are highly valuable in the first place. PSP's version was OK, although if I were them I would remove finishing moves and TP system entirelyTrying to overly tune resource system only to make it even more RNG-based where the only way user can influence it is by increasing the odds, which requires to get a buff from even more RNG-based spawning cards are ridiculous. This is not balanced.
>>3870038Removing the finishers is easy, I also hate them. The TP system is ok, I like having to manage enemy TP so that they don't get to unload their most dangerous attacks, it makes crowd control really valuable.
>>3870038>>3870164Finishers already existed in SNES/TKoL.
This is the first time I've loved a SaGa game, in fact I think I might be addicted (Balmaint route)I've played RS 1, 2 and 3, Frontier 1 and 2 and Minstrel Song. Out of those MS was the one I kinda liked but really the only thing I liked was glimmering new techs and RS3's commander modeScarlet Grace is differentThe town are menus and there are no dungeons, but the battle system is just that greatJust thought I'd share, thanks for reading my blog
>>3869766I don't think anyone doesn't start off with a bunch of shitters. Urpina at least has Mondo, Arthur is a pretty meh mage. (everyone is, next to Elysed)Balmaint has more of a story focus but you're on rails until the very end, so that's the choice you're making.
>>3869779I feel like Talia's comparable to Elysed.
So does the tree in megadesse grow more apples or did I fuck myself over by picking the black apples?
wait what, I followed the phoenix to azhuacan and ended up fighting savnok, sigfrei and the firebringer and beat them all without breaking a sweat, what happened? Did I end the game prematurely or something?maybe I overdid it with the battles
>>3869817Her whole party is fine. Compass and Queen are both super usable, Khan is great, you get unmissable access to based Darling early on too.
hey guys i was wondering if anyone has a digital or scanned version of the dragon quest illustrations 30th anniversary book by akira toriyama been looking everywhere but can't find a pdf or ebook of it i did manage to find it on this site https://www.piccolodamayonnaiz.com/akira-toriyama-dragon-quest-illustrationwhich has scanned pngs of the japanese version but some pages are blurry does anyone have a better version or maybe an english version i’d appreciate it even if it’s just the japanese one
>>3869758Get a job. Also OP has been requesting this garbage artbook for the longest time in multiple boards. I got sick seeing it. It's not like it's some rare expensive book. I will go even further, it's not a good dragon quest artbook.
>>3869778Whatever you say budit's not a big deal anyways it's just that i got the book but some pages are blurry which kinda annoying but it's okayI realized looking for books that didn't get published digitally or by unknown authors are kinda hard to find but i will keep looking
>>3869634hmm you are right. couldnt find it on annas either. try on the artbook thread at /ic/
>>3869716>assuming OP isn't a parent or an adult with responsibilities that make $40 better spent elsewhereReplier-to-OP, you want to make me cry. It's a video game's parephenalia, which means no adult should be wasting money on it. You've got to grow up so that like all adults you can understand that $40 is not worth wasting on some Reddit-bragpost merch. You're a little kid, obviously, since you don't know this already, but still you've got to grow up eventually.>>3869758that Anon isn't a hundred, he's a broke teenager larping. see: above reply.
>>3870041i did post in the artbook thread at /ic/ i'm waiting now
Why are RPGs centered around a non-conventioal RPG theme always so kino?
>>3870019>post apoc>non-conventionalsure, kid
>>3870114>basketball rpg>conventional
>>3870120the them isn't "basketball", it's post apoc.it's no different than crystalis.
>>3870136>absolutely everything is centered around basketball>it's not the themeYou're confusing the post apoc setting with the theme. The setting even became post apoc because of basketball. If you think the game isn't a basketball themed RPG you're brain damaged.
>>3870137the theme is post apoc, the basketball is a framing device for the jrpg parody. there's absolutely nothing unconventional about the themes of barkley. what's unconventional is it being a comedy.
>flanderizes every character until they become a caricature of themselvesIs this what people want? Streamer reaction bait?
>>3830233they fuck up everything regardless of budget. The FF Chronicles Remaster probably cost $5 and they still made the multiplayer region locked and made parties disband after every level. Square Enix doesnt know how to fucking make videogames anymore
>>3867589>i betso you didnt play it and youre literally just making shit up to laugh at. this is mental illness.
>>3830120Yeah, have you ever read fanfiction? The most popular stories literally like out of the top 100 stories in any piece of work 95 of them is The characters time travel to the start of the story and set everything that went wrong in the original storyFf7 remake is fanfic slop because everyone likes the idea of a more knowledgeable cool protag that knows more about the world than anyone else and hes so epicSee that's where nomura went wrong, he should have made cloud an even bigger gary stu and is aware of time travel
>>3869100That seems to be a law for video game developers. The bigger they get, the more out of touch they are with their roots. Investors and shareholders obviously play a role in this but I think it's just the fact that once an entity gets that big it requires insane profits just to sustain itself at that level.
>>3869100They didn't fuck up FF14 or FF16 so there's still hope for them.
Why are the old Personas (1 and 2) such niche shit? Not fun enough?
>>3856454>Elly has twin sistersWhat the fuckWhy am I only learning this important informationWhere IS THE PORN
2 and 3 are my favourite>>3854831This plus the fact that all that same mysticism has basically been phased out of the series through 4 and 5 because I guess normalfags don't notice or care is what irks me the most about current PersonaIt's a shame that such a unique identity for the series was boiled away into its most generic, blandest componentsDefinitely not feeling hopeful about 6
>>3854831You could apply this to most stories in a real world setting where fantasy shit happens
>>3869942I've played a few were they at least have a better sense of immediacy. It's the calendar system that fucks things up. It worked in 3 because of the context and framing but otherwise it just makes you look disinterested. Tokyo Xanadu is a pretty dumb game and clearly trying to cash in on Persona but when something there happens the characters see it as an immediate issue. There's even a few side chapters were the rest of the cast don't wait for the MC to show up and you play as them to get things done. One chapter even has you ditching school (Albeit with the student counsels approval) and I couldn't help but just laugh. I think with everything strange going around I'd be willing to chance a make up exam.
>>3869942>most stories are badWell yeah.
What does /vrpg/ think of the classic Bioware companion Mission Vao?
>>3867340That stuff your cells make out of glucose?
>>3867444>wasted tripsThat’s ATP. AGP is what you get from anime and porn addiction.
>>3867340I don't self insert :^)
>>3866389Real SW never came close to this level if peak again. (Imp Agent aside.)
>>3865723for me it's Insanity
>Gets sent to a private tutor because she can't control her magic>Attempts to murder him and then kill all of the elementalsIs she stupid?
Official fish art
Are you hyped for the 2055 release of Infinity, anons?>>3870040They didn't even give us her outfit or her as a bank pet, what a disappointment.
>>3870049Companion pet next Halloween
>>3870049
>>3870054If Hollowborn/Lae and Dage were actually cute girls I'd probably be okay with the fact that they don't know what colours are, I'm just saying. It worked for Beleen.
Post your favorite companion from any RPG and why they're your favorite
Kreia is the deepest, most complex, well written character in not only video game history, but literary history as well. Avellone, through her, basically disproves that things like race, nationalism, or beliefs matter. No matter what you do, you are just a slave to the system, fighting for something else other than yourself. The only way to be truly independent is to become a nietzschean superman who throws out morals and does whatever the fuck he wants no matter what the normie boomers and adults say. When I played Kotor2 as a teenager when it came out it inspired me to start taking my own freedom seriously and join the libertarian party.
>>3869476>triggered pseud ITT count: 2 and rising>but at least this vomit was mildly amusing bait attempt
>>3869313In a nutshell, yes. It's a well written self-contained party-based adventure, not a grand epic like so many rpgs are trying to be. The story is good, it's interesting but nothing mold-breaking and the characters are very well written and easily carry it. If you go through the game reading the lore there's a lot of subtle implications that are made clearer as you progress so you have a chance to figure things out before they're ultimately revealed. I found a few twists made me slap my head in hindsight. It has quite a few branching options but they're mostly reward based mini-quests so they're not critical to the plot but it does offers some replay value. There's quite a neat alignment system where you can steer the conversations of your party which will change their perceptions of each other. Combat wise it's pretty neat, each battle is a self-contained tactical affair, and believe me, tactics do matter. Later in the game, encounters can grow a little stale by the end of each floor but then the next floor provides a nice refreshment. Best tips I would suggest is there's optional challenges you unlock as you progress, the can be attempted any time you like, and while some will require you to progress further in order to not get your ass kicked, complete them sooner than later as they're great for leveling up.
>>3869982Sounds good enough to me. I'll give it a shot, since I'm so sick of "le grand epic adventure". Even if I end up not liking it, thanks for the recommendation Anon, it's been a while since I've seen an honest spoilerandsarcasm-free rec that actually interested me in a game.I don't really have a similar rec to return but I still love M&M 3-7 and I've been enjoying the vaguely-RPG/X-comish Shardpunk Verminfall for years (no the dev isn't paying me shit, it's just a fun simple game). YMMV.
>after all these years?>always
What non-porn games have incest themes, or non-porn mods/romhacks with incest themes?
>>3869512*explicit
>>3869567Blacksouls 2
>>3869567Unicorn Overlord
>>3868305Trails in the SkyTrails of Cold Steel
crusader kings 3CAPTCHA: POOP
>"the future of turn-based combat">"square enix could learn a lot from these guys">combat just adds action elements to make it less turn-based and more action/rhythm>you could just play Sekiro and have 400x as much funWhy are game developers, critics, and fans so fucking stupid?
I tried it on Xbox GayPass and I drop it. I canceled that membership and decided to pay full price for it on PS5. What a great game.
>>3869763No, they think it's FF7 -> Persona 5 -> E33
>>3869720it is filled with ugly women
>>3869507SPBP
>>3869466>doesn't pass the mirror testIt's not just you op nobody thinks you pass
Better than the original or not? I have the original but never played more than five minutes of it.
why do people hate the Daybreak games?
>>3869639plot is very mid so far
>>3869639The series lost a lot of goodwill with CS 4 onwards, so people are less likely to enjoy the fun parts and more likely to hyperfocus over the bad/stupid partsalso fuck time travel
This fucking bitch
>>3870030Don't talk about my wife's rival like that!
Which one?
>>3859798Neither. quit falling for false nostalgia and just play an old game.
>>3870053>calling out people for false nostalgia>old game is better based on your rose-tinted glassesThe irony
>>3870058That's not irony, retard. If you want to play an old game play an old game not a new game cosplaying as one. You're illiterate.
>>3870051>the fat dyke thingI assume you're referring to Garl. The entire story practically revolves around him so much so that the two lead protagonists could be written out and it wouldn't change much. I didn't hate the game and I was able to stomach 100 percenting it but I wouldn't recommended it to anybody. It's just generally bland and completely lacks any of the charm The Messenger had. Definitely not wasting my time on the DLC.
>>3870059"new game cosplaying as one">you're illiteratethis is you calling yourself for having that mindset
