Do you like political, social, and/or racial commentary in your jrpgs?
>>4084210I liked it. I enjoy Symphonia, Vesperia, Phantasia, and Abyss. I didn't like Zestiria or Berseria much.I thought Arise had a likeable protagonist that has the same traditionally-masculine and go-getter attitude as the guys from the games I said I liked. In terms of "social commentary", Arise is also fairly straight-forward. There's a slave class trying to rise up and you help them. There's a twist revealed later about the main dude's backstory (which is in some ways fairly obvious), that complicates it somewhat, but it overall just sticks to the theme. Didn't ever play the DLC.
>>4061146>If it's an old jrpg:No, because it's most likely a case of trannyslation.>If it's new jrpg:No, because it's obviously funded by BlackRock.
>>4084210It was my first Tales game and I'd say it's alright.Music and visuals are great. Very good looking environment and special effects, in a braindead, flashy pictures sort of way.Combat is above average. The control scheme is awkward, but you get used to it. Bunch of fun moves and the playable characters have distinct styles. But lack of enemy variety really drags it down. Story and characters are functional but have nothing really standing out. The most noteworthy thing is that one of the slave lords tries to be a good ruler to his people and lets go of power to join your party. But it's all very surface level, even with the timeskip expansion story. You will see every twist coming miles ahead.A lot of systems are just not really there, but only fakes of those systems? You can collect outfits for characters, but those are just palette swaps of story outfits. There's different weapons and armor, but they're just numerical upgrades with different elements. But you're so restricted in how you acquire them that there's just one linear upgrade after fixed story checkpoints. Consequently exploration sucks because the game has nothing for you to find.Endgame content exists but it was too boring for me to try. It's the usual fair where the game ends around lvl 40 and then there is one single new boss every 15 levels or so and you're expected to get there somehow.The have what looks like simple cosmetic DLCs for swimsuits and whatnot that actually contain new skills, that was bullshit.
>>4087704>Bunch of fun moves and the playable characters have distinct styles.That impressed me. I bought the game thinking I would just do a quick playthrough, but I ended up really getting into it and learning how to play all the characters, did the side content. Switching between characters on the fly helped keep the combat fresh. Exceptionally good game.
>>4065951This, sometimes it's okay to be a racist prick if the person who fucked your people over so hard they can't stand up anymore and the legitimate answer is to smash their shit before they go and no, it's not secretly being subverted
Twitcher 3 sucks.1. The story is simply uninteresting. It's just too high-fantasy for me to care. Some wild hunt raiders appearing out of nowhere, great sorceress battle killing bagzillion of enemies etc. Some old ancient Ciri's ancestry. It's just too unreal to make me care. Picking up turnips in Gothic 2 felt more engaging.2. Level scaled loot. People keep expensive swords and armours in potato sacks in basements. So much immersion.3. OK, this point might be unfair because a lot RPGs have this issue, but you jump into the river in full gear to pick up dropped plants. Quest designers should stop such silliness.4. Huge world full of nothing, lots of villages with untalkable NPCs and with nothing interesting to visit or do. What's the point of such huge areas and so many places if there's no reason to go there or just do the most generic quests you can imagine?5. Side quests are mostly boring filler. There's a lot of side quests but they are all so bland I already forgot most I did.6. Youtubers lie. You can do quests in any order but inconsistencies appear.7. Geralt is Mary Sue, and annoying one at that. Sure, players like characters that are cool, but Geralt and his opinions are going too moralizing (I know it's in the books too), too elaborate and often I don't relate to them at all. The first twitcher at least was more reasonable with such.8. Level restricted gear. Apparently you can't hold a sword that is almost the same as you currently have but sharper, because you didn't do enough fetch-quest jogging.9. Only some choices possible, many times I'd like to do something else than I could choose. Why does it always have to be two choices and often either almost the same or in some cases too far apart and one being edgy? That's not good writing if I have to choose between two options but if I was in Geralt's place I'd do or say completely different things.
>>4076044the level of intellect required to play & enjoy the witcher series drastically dropped with the third game and the dumbing down was intentional in order to appeal to the amerimutt population the second game has such great medieval art direction, character choices, realistic swordplay and political / philosophical topics that it makes tw3 look like a bootleg spin-off
>>4076044>Witcher is one of the most fake jobs you could have, like a lady in shoe store in China I've been to with sole purpose on giving stamps for warranty card.>I've been toYou say it’s fake, then equate it with something that you yourself have confirmed is real. That’s the very antithesis of being fake.X = falseX = YY = real
>>4091600Based Indian philosopher & English language expert destroys hateful Polish bigots.
Im just not a fan of the bamham combat
>>4091600>X = YThat's rather linear thinking of you, no?
>Prominently displayed on the cover of XIII-2>Barely appears in XIII-2
>>40902091st game>Hallway simulator2nd game>Freeroam - but you're on timer so you'll have no opportunity to explore3rd game>Ruined all the characters
>>4090377>xiii-2>timerwhat the fuck are you talking about
>>4090448Sorry, I meant :LR, I find the xiii's are a shit-smoothie and blur together into a mediocrity of time-travelling dysentery.
>>4090888Understandable
Good, serah mogs
I tried this in early access and never kept going past the first dungeon. I picked it up recently and it has quickly become my current favorite game. I've been playing skyrim for a decade maybe and thought if I had to hear jarl balgruuf talk about a dragon one more time I'll go insane. Let me just say this is the perfect replacement (though not a perfect game). But it is not some mere "indie skyrim clone" but its own unique thing with a lot to appreciate.I'll start with the bad>expected amount of jank from an indie title, nothing totally gamebreaking though>hitboxes can be iffy, or enemies get caught on terrain>others have reported minor questlines being broken and require reloading a saveThe average>the writing is generally fine, the Arthur lore is interesting, but has some poorer dialogue in places>graphics aren't exactly next gen>a few minor details are blatant ES copies like starting in a dungeon and the lockpicking minigame>quests are not strictly linear, there's usually a couple options on how to complete them, but don't expect total freeform>combat is not incredibly difficult, but you encounter several major difficulty spikes, but it's relatively simple to overcome those with upgrading gearThe GoodComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4039633Act 3 really bogs down the whole thing, should've just made it a side area and excluded the main plot from it all together it's very bare bones
>>4039633It's a good bordering on great game.The people in this thread knocking it are either: boring, coomersonlyfans, or potato havers.
>do the menhir thing>before i can move on i have to backtrack to do chores for some fuckerswhat in the filler is this shit?
>>4070903Agreed. There's a lot of jank and the story is all over the place, but it not only hits a specific niche but improves upon previous games in that niche.
the Magic in this is utterly useless on higher difficultly levels, you cant kill anything. and the whole weapons balance is just bizarre. I was causing more damage with a bow and arrow than with a two handed sword, it seemed like a bug.
Richard Garriott is trying to get the Ultima trademark back from EA. He just did a presentation on it at Dragoncon. It's possible they might license it back to him, since he already owns the trademark for Lord British and parts of the pre-1992 Ultima properties, apart from the "Ultima" name itself. Since EA has been bought by the Saudis. Would you play a new single-player Ultima game if Lord British published one?
>>4085860>a rube goldberg machine building game is... le OFFICIAL SUCCESSOR to Ultimabot post?
>>4086284>I am a retardThe level of reading comprehension on /vrpg/ is truly grim.
>>4086289The topic is a new Ultima game, it's great that some Origin people went on to create a completely different non-RPG non-Ultima game, but you positioned that as an OFFICIAL SUCCESSOR.Just admit it, you're a bot.
>>4085855Probably not, Saudis are more favorable of the West than modern day western liberals are.
>>4086025he hasnt got any money. really talented people dont work for peanuts.the next Ultima will be a kickstarter, you can guarantee it
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
Team Avellone here, Josh Sawyer is a faggot who inserts his gay shit into everything he touches to the point where he ruined an otherwise great title in Pentiment
>>4088774He's not the only or the best writer on Earth, anon. The actual math was that Obsidian didn't want to pay for talent, and a dysfunctional alcoholic loser was willing to take whatever paycheck he could get. That same loser was too dysfunctional to read the room and understand that he was expected to be professional while working at a job in exchange for the paycheck. The insane conceit is hard to frame in any other way. Obsidian was garbage in its own way: hiring only the rotten refuse of the bargain bin is a recipe for exactly the disasters which befell them. Everyone sucked there.The things you / we / anyone values about what they've made are in spite of their flaws, not because of them.And in particular, due to the extremely robust modding ecosystem surrounding those titles.
>>4076973Both are retarded faggots and deeper in their own asses than humanity has stopped into earth
being THIS parasocial about a fucking rpg developer is tragic. At least a streamer or vtuber will pretend to laugh at your chat messages; wtf are these guys gonna do for you?
>>4091817This is just debating authors or filmmakers, but you're just one of the brainrotten worthless people who does retarded things like watch streamers in the first place, and are projecting your broken reasoning onto others.
>>4087275It's not like what's above-ground in the Hub is good anyways. Junktown-Hub is so tonally inconsistent it may as well be a different game (not that the rest is much better).
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
I wanted to try this series out for the cool mech designs and the more unique take it has on turn based strategy compared to FE or FFT. What should i play first?
>>4089251See for yourself, it's quite indefensible:https://www.rpgsite.net/feature/17799-you-need-to-see-front-mission-3-remakes-redone-network-graphics-photograph
>>4090057what happened their faces?>ethical problems with le AIi don't think it's ethics to have shit taste and bad editors .or lack of editors doing some quality control here.
>>4024920I've played 1, 2, and 3. 1 and 2 are decent, but flawed, each in their own ways, and I could see a prefered one of those just based on what flavor of bullshit you find least unappealing. For me, personally, 2 feels way more like an RNG fiesta where the same strategy and same exact moves either clears a map easily, just based on rolls, which I feel pushes me to a very boring, passive playstyle that minimizes risk, but, that's just my flavor of weird autism. 3 is loads better than either of them, though, and is genuinely a great game. I have some gripes here and there and some improvements I'd make to it, but, it's noticably better than 1 and 2. I only played the original PS1 of 3, but played the recent remakes of 1, 2, and 3. Can't speak for 1 and 2, but 3 feels basically the same. I think the new artstyle for the mechs and shit looks a little worse, very toy-ish, but, not unbearable or anything. If there are any major differences, they were minor enough that I forgot about them in the decade and some change between my last replay of 3, and playing the remake.
>>4090057Thankfully they got so much flak on this shit that they reversed course, but man we were so close to it being legit ruined.
>>4088017>it takes place over the course of all the other games in the background3 is chronologically the last game in the mainline series. Emma is still making her bomb in 5.
>when niggas complain about a JRPG being "too anime"What genre do you think you're playing lil bro?
>>4091056When the only caste lower than you is indians, you blame the indians
>>4091056whats wrong with aussies now?
>>4091206>too new to remember the australian shitpost data
Why would you care about the opinions of niggers other than your being a frognigger?
>>4090852:3
Resumed from >>3938636 which is capped (other thread another anon made failed from to not link back to the previous one).Tierlist is based off of legendary edition, not vanilla hence why Javik is so high. I opted for mods also hence why Miranda is that high. Tierlist link: https://tiermaker.com/create/mass-effect-squadmatesAlso for an actual topic to start off, Expanse and Exodus are going to be let downs, no actual alien companions are to be found and world building seems to be shit. None of them have more than one(or not even one) bangable female companion so Maas Effect 4 is all we can hope for. From last N7 day's teasers, looks like Cerberus surviving and making relays as well as Krogan having a civil war are gonna be the theme this time, that means most companions should be returning in some way. Thank God they're not going with a timeskip with just Liara surviving as initially suggested.
>>4013090>>4015463>>4025103>>4038068>>4055553Your Thanes might be ranked too low. Drell may very well be the master race but sadly their Homeworld Rakhana's environment was too hostile to develop space travel on I.E. unfortunately the Drell were fated to be "slaves" of the Hanar's Compact instead of being major player OP Council overload bigshot racial members. Also I know 92% of players never play Femshep but remember Krios makes the most sense for a canon Femshep romance. There is the simple fact that Drell are waay smarter, faster and stronger than Turians, Human and Asari combined plus simple fact is Thane could easily BTFO Garrus, Gayden, Black Gayden, Kelly, Samantha, Samara or Liara in a 1v1 fight. I almost always bring Thane with me to kill the Shadow Nigger personally because from a Lore standpoint it seems fair. The Shadow Nigger is the reason Thane's wife got (raped?) and killed by Batarian terrorists! Shepard would want to allow Thane a fair shot at revenge and Thane is an ideal squamate for the mission. Gotta love how if you bring any of the other 11 squadmates with you the Shadow Nigger will just point laughing at them talking shit, pic related. Unless you bring Thane or Samara! In which case the Shadow Nigger gets a little nervous and straight up says:>"You travel with fascinating companions, Doctor!">"The Justicar is impressive, T'soni! Her daughter was predictably not a proper challenge....">Bringing an assassin was a shrewd choice! I'll be sure to give my regards to his son . . ">>4073558>ZaeedThe grumpy mentor who actually cares>LegionComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4068557Only one worse than him is Morinth
>>4013087I liked Liara, Garrus, Mordin, Legion. Vega was surprisingly ok, most of the time, at least. Ashley, Samara, EDI were ok, if forgettable. Kaidan too, before they made him "rape him and gape him" instead of "bag em and tag em" in game 3.Tali was good in the first game, I cared less about her later. Wrex and Grunt cool and all but Krogans are not really likeable to me. Thane, Zaeed, Kasumi have their cool moments but mostly not people I cared that much about for one reason or another. Miranda and Jack have personalities I dislike, even if I enjoy lezdom porn of them.Jacob would have been ok in game 2, if not for the fact that he betrays Shep. That makes him shit in game 3.Javik was annoying.
>>4090150>I liked LiaraMe too but what are the facts actually? Liara was a good friend, obviously that's a fact. Yet somehow I wonder what Liara did with the former Shadow Broker's unrivaled collection of 7,000 Trillion Zettabytes of pornographic material technically illegal in Council Space shortly after overthrowing him. Did she sell the information the Batarian Terrorist rapists, and the Vorcha mafia, and maybe to horny Asari Matriarch sexual predator types even? Idk. Maybe Liara was a good girl who deleted it immediately without any review whatsoever? Because we all know the previous Shadow Nigger craved perverse information files like that above all manner of data (and not just for goony reasons, I'm talking blackmail purposes). It begs the question, was Liara T'soni Renegade or Paragon in the end?
I just did Jacob's loyalty mission and man I forgot how Jacob responded. He wasn't mad daddy ran out on him because ultimately Jacob has had a good life, he's just mad that his dad is a TITANIC piece of shit that stains the family name.
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.
>>4091743>AI images>AI description
>>4091986Yeah the workshop's getting flooded with those, but man I've wanted an arrow blocking mod since forever. You're right though, shit's awful.
>>4091995You could vibe code your own and get an equivalent product.
>>4090185always import when changing mods mid run
>>4092111Right, the mod never worked anyway since I needed to import, and I have second thougts about using it. So I ended up with some empty buildings in a random area. I'll do an import soon.
Who is your favorite tank/defensive rpg character?
>>4089588Robo is really the least interesting character aside from Chrono
Grungust going from absolute unit to dead weight depending on the game.
>>4090105>hmm who is the paladin-like character in Chrono Trigger>is it the honorable and upright knight from the middle ages, squire to the great hero, sworn on a holy quest to defeat the evil wizard, and who fights with a sword and casts healing spells?>nah it’s the robot who shoots evil lasers out of his eyes and punches thingsDid you even play the game?
>>4071555This is such a fucking insane trailer.https://youtu.be/7s2Qkx3lN5s
Tanks are almost always trash and are pretty much never worth using unless it's a game where they have auras and such that boost DPS/DPR.
