You know the drill.
>>3987299SSI made a lot of games, but they existed in a time before most people who discuss games here were active players of RPGs, so the later the game was released the more well known. It's the kinda developer that influenced the developers you know rather than part of your experience.
>>3986922>big beefy guy inviting you for gay sexNo wonder this shit bombed and no one cares about it these days.
>>3987305It's funny how differently you guys see it because you live in a post Gachi world. I remember when I was a kid watching Mad Max I never even got the leatherclub undertones.
>>3987307Nah, you were just a faggy kid that should have gotten his shit beat in more
>>3987370Non sequitur.
Is it really as good as people say, or is it all nostalgia?
>>3975356Last time I played this I was a kid and it was still a relatively new game. I remember my party getting constantly raped by status effects and doing a lot of grinding. The world itself was vaguely fun and charming.
>>3975356It's definitely overrated, but I also think it's extremely misinterpreted or whatever the right word for it would be.99% of people, when they talk about Earthbound, talk about it like it's some sort of story focused game. They always talk about the "Amazing story" or "Atmospheric elements" or "Soul' like it's some sort of story driven narrative game. Then you actually play the game and then 99% of the game is either walking around or fighting enemies. Considering that Final Fantasy 6 was already out, which had a lot more focus on "Cinematics", it actually has way less story than other popular RPG games at the time.I think the thing with Earthbound is that the vast majority of the game is forgettable or uninteresting (Basically everything related to gameplay) so people hyper focus on specific story related moments. Things like Youtube videos are mostly focused on the story/atmospheric elements (Because that's what's actually interesting to share). Combine that with story focused games like Undertale/Omori claiming they have a heavy Earthbound inspiration, and now we have an entire generation of people who are convinced Earthbound must be some sort of super story focused masterpiece of a game, when in reality it was an outdated RPG game even for the time where most of your time would be bashing your head against enemies and crawling through repetitive dungeons.
It was a friggin kids game. This is like reading critical analyses of Chex Quest.
>>3987317>Combine that with story focused games like Undertale/Omori claiming they have a heavy Earthbound inspiration, and now we have an entire generation of people who are convinced Earthbound must be some sort of super story focused masterpiece of a gamethis. it also pisses me off how many "earthbound-inspired" games have very few similarities with earthbound, not just in terms of gameplay or being story-focused when earthbound wasn't, but in the fact that they also completely miss the tone and humor that earthbound had, and the fact that earthbound is ultimately a lighthearted and optimistic game even if it has some dark undertones in some moments.
>>3975356It's a solid 8/10 RPG for the time. Good and one of the more notable SNES rpgs for sure. It's also extremely obvious why so many people found it charming and enduring and why it's legacy is as big as it is but realizing that would require actually playing it and engaging with it in good faith which a lot of people refuse to do because they're brainwashed by politics and they see the things that spun off of this game 'tools of the enemy'. See >>3975387
Go play strident. It'll change your life.https://cross-bearer.itch.io/strident
nah
One of the biggest issues with JRPGs (especially in the retro PS2/PSX era) are the fuckhuge load times combined with random encounters, but now thanks to emulating a lot of games that suffered from long load times have that fixed and turn out to actually be pretty good games. Suikoden 5 is one of them.Any other rpgs you guys emulated that were more enjoyable thanks to mods/emulation?
>>3986242I haven't beat this yet (I'm sure I'm close to the end though)But I'm sure without fast fwd it is literally unplayable. Those random encounters are so boring and the menuing sucks as well.
Cont. >>3986247For some reason the pic didn't get attached
>>3986242Ps2 is great system to emulate. At 3x resolution the games look amazing you get good load times and a huge library of games
>>3986242Saga Frontier at 1x is unbearably slow but it plays well at 2x or 3x
name the rpg with the best evil playthrough
Shadow the Hedgehog
>>3938651Soul nomad
>>3964221Fable is legit dark as fuck past the whimsical English presentation
>>3978889this
>>3975330We'd love to stop, but your media and politicians won't accept that
Arguably the best PS2 JRPG.
>>3986941>ArguablyThen do so.
>1 game split into 4 apropos of nothingIt's really not great BlackRose a cute tho
>>3986941Minstrel Song is the best PS2 JRPG.
>>3987034This
for my money, it’s vp2
Is there any hope for this company?
>>3945807
>>3983849Nice. Although you should expect zero re-investing from their part towards the betterment of any of their series or experimenting with new IPs. Falcom is the most risk averse company ever.
>>39838491227% of almost zero is still close to zero
>>3984595It was down 87% last year. Do the math and it's really just an increase from 2024 by like 35 - 40%, which isn't great considering they released a new game worldwide day 1 on every platform, and a localization on every platform as well.
>>3983849Thank you, Bestelle, for saving Falcom and Kiseki!
Admit it, you suck at dungeon crawling
>>3983029Impressive effort for a shitpost, anon. I commend your dedication.
>>3983462I love those hallucinogenic classic dungeon layouts. I think switching on Simplified Dungeons in Unity is doing the game a disservice. They were designed by some paranoid fucktards, they're supposed to be tedious to navigate.
>>3983027If the dungeons don't represent the confusing clusterfuck of an interior seen in dreams, I don't want it. >>3983462Salivating, precumming, lactating.
Bump
>>3984438Do not search the archives for the number of times that image has been posted, I implore you
The pathfinder series is a kino vrpg of the highest order. And I've never pretended otherwise. We all know all good things come in three !So, when will Owlcat deliver a third game?
>>3986800See>>3986591Your head doesn't have enough capacity to remember our conversations.
>>3986805lawl. le maow even. Looks like you definitely don't. Damn, dude. That's embarrassing for you. You thought you really had something going there. Shit. I feel physical pain on your behalf, that's ... that's pretty extreme.
>>3986812>Fighter clown actually thinks we collect caster levels just for fun
>>3986824>priestfag thinks his caster levels matter at allTell us. Tell us how your caster levels work. Tell us how your caster levels help you buff the fighter more. Because that extra round of prayer is just really super duper fucking useful. You do realize that the NPC priests sell all your buffs for mere gold, right? You know that literally anyone with UMD can use those scrolls and wands, right? And we can afford literally hundreds of them. Good luck with all those .... caster levels...
>>3986780>WHAT???>A third game? haven't you people had enough?If Larian/EA/Ubisoft acted like this their player base would go apeshit.Luckily it's only Owlcat who is dumb like this.
why are the randbats in this one so slow?
>>3986648Mostly because something so innocuous pisses off people this badly. Second reason would be because it sounds like a funny word. Randbat
>>3986680>pisses off people this badlyYou tend to believe things you read online, huh?
>>3985609>randbatsvidcon tier cringe
>>3986713you mean vdcringe
>>3985609Overambitious expectations of the devs coupled with technical limitations of the engine.
Tim Gayn's ludokino masterpiece
Disappointing desu.Expected more interactivity with the final boss after going out my way to slot all 4 elemental gems back into the Orb. There was pretty much no in-game effect or mention.Not sure if the submission ending is only available with a gemmed out orb, but the dialogue made no mention of it.
>>3875127Arcanum and ToEE are both garbage
>>3986726grats on completing it anon
>>3986726They were pretty obviously out of time and money in true Tr*ika. Look at how super bare bones and sparse that final level is, tons of empty rooms.
>>3986726The point of slotting the gems into the orb is to get more powerful summons. It has no story purpose other than to destroy it, which you can do without putting any gems in it.
What RPG is the best for playing a womanizer?
>>3986310Who said he banged them all at once?
>>3986310Maybe don't make imagination your dump stat next playthrough.
>>3965624It's interesting how a game can ending with the hero with an actual harem he knocked up and somehow he still comes off like a giga faggot
>>3986645Every harem anime ever
>>3986310There are endless ways to get around this in a fantasy universe>MC can make copies of himself>MC can sync girl's sensitivities so they orgasm all at once>MC can use magic to make woman cum with s single touchetc etc
Thoughts on the game?
Looks gay and retarded like the Bitcher 3. > ZOMG the world is a depressing shithole and nobody has any reason to live just like in real life. That’s so cool!> MOOOM where’s my tendies?!
>>3985699based!I hate brightfaggots so much it's unreal
>>3976531Some of the things they talked about sounded interesting but it looks kinda mid
>>3976531Really hope Dawnwalker turns out well desu.Witcher 4 looks uninteresting so far, especially after the Cyberpunk debacle and subsequent CDPR split.The Expanse: Osiris Reborn had an awful beta demo, which was surprising to me since it's the first owlcat game I genuinely disliked.
>>3976531It's unfortunate they are releasing before Witcher 4. If they could release after, they would profit greatly from inevitable drama due W4 being shit and people looking for an alternative. Exactly what happened with The Outer Worlds and Fallout, which succeeded and it's bad quality was a completely irrelevant factor in this.Dawnwalker will still be favorably compared to Witcher 4 with people posting everywhere and making hours long youtube videos point out why it's so much better. But they will miss out
Just finished my first complete playthrough of this with ending D and Dark Priest and it was a lot better than I expected. If the community surrounding this game wasn't so retarded, I would've played this earlier. Thinking of replaying it to see what changes if Le'Garde doesn't die.
Save for Cahara, Termina had a better castCahara is truly one of the best in the series. I really hope his biological son knew how much of a hero his daddy was :3
>>3986487Nope
>>3986391>observe environment carefully to avoid trapsyou will never got thru anything if you never experienced the trap to begin with. you need TRIAL. AND. ERROR.>take time fighting new enemies to learn movesettrial and error.>if you die, fight through the area againso.. trial. and .error.>One of these is trial and errorBoth of these are trial and error. Just which trial and error that you prefer.Don't use trial and error as your talking point, just say "I don't like RNG"
>>3986459Was that before or after the dev transitioned
>>3986682Austin never didHe’s still a straight guy years laterNow if only he’d actually work on ninja tears like he said he would
Thinking about getting into RuneScape since I'm a massive shut-in and need something to sink my life into.Is it still worth starting as a complete noob in 2026? Give me some advice on what to do first and which version is better for someone who has never played before.
>>3986412I think in fairness to the developers, they've pumped out a ton of content since it was closer to the traditional $5 membership fee. Still the price should be closer to $10, but they got a lot of people addicted with no good alternatives.
I went back to my 17 year old account recently and finished Dragon Slayer. My feelings are the game has none of the magic it used to have, but the new areas like Khourend are amazing. I dunno exactly why it sucks now, the vibes are just kinda off. Feels more like you're playing cookie clicker with 500,000 autists instead of experiencing a real world
>>3986592I get that feeling too. Everything has already been done a million times over as well now so it feels a little stale. I was the 5th person to get a specific 99 on my UIM, but now you wouldn't even end up in the top 100 for any 99.
95% of the game is very relaxing, perfect to keep your body busy while your mind is occupied.The last 5% is absurdly over-complicated boss encounters designed for multi-decade veterans who interact with the game based on reserse-engineered server exploits.
>>3965179i started an ironman a few years ago with the goal of beating dragonslayer 2. It was a great experience, would recommend to anyone wanting to get back into it. Though you gotta enjoy it for what it is. Most of the time, runescape is a side task while you do something like watch tv. sweat activites come late
