Shiren the Wanderer celebrated its 30th anniversary a few days ago, so lets have a Mystery Dungeon thread. Which Shiren game is your favorite, and what would you want to see in Shiren 7?And when the fuck is Shiren Asuka's translation patch getting finished?
>>4064437What a funny bug. I assume it's caused by the patch.
Kidnapped by the same creepy, blood-stealing snake man five times (and counting!), given false hope four times (and counting...), and riddled with arrow holes, this kid's never recovering. A slow trap right into a mini tank double-tapping the girl from offscreen is just mean.This game's definitely easier than Shiren 1 as a whole, even on "hard" mode, but the final return escort trip has plenty of chances to make up for it with trolling. At least it just turns you around and lets you save her again with your current gear, rather than booting you back to the village like a usual loss.
Surely Shiren 7 will be announced at the next direct
Surely we'll get Asuka at some point
>>4063811>Dunno if the Japanese is meant to be the English word "Gather"Sorta yeah, it's complicated. Either way Gyaza is the "official" name atm considering DS1 was translated by Sega while 5 was in house iirc
Since a Romancing thread went awhile, how about a general discussion of the assorted SaGa games?The original gameboy series, known as Final Fantasy Legend in the west, the Romancing series on the SNES which the west didn't get until the mobile remasters and Minstrel Song remake, the Frontier series for the PlayStation... and the other stuff that has it's fans probably maybe.A hodgepodge of divergent and experimental jrpgs, from the usual Squaresoft fare and even from it's own series or within each series, made by the annoying contrarians and heretics within Square who got given shoestring budgets and left to make what they want.
>>4080012Fairly sure they're going to use the same flashback pod gimmick here and there when it comes to that, they might even recycle the same postgame idea and make you fight her, Hilda, Paulus, Wasserl etc., Dora is also a possibility
>>4079603ROTS was announced in a nintendo direct there's still hope
i wonder if there'll lbe any references to Re;Universe and have that vampire loli as a playable character. maybe golden baum too.
>>4080010have you played the 2D fighter?https://mega.nz/file/FAByjSTb#bg4lQ3rmxvRkSIu27e8RoZYSN0o5JU1UOGIXTXtAVtQ
>>4080461Well the remaster already used the battle theme from Re;Universe when fighting Yama, so I'd say the chances are more likely than not. RS2 Revenge also pulled material and music from SaGa the Stage, so they're already more than willing to reference outside material.
Black Crypt, Mazes of Fate, Ishar, Amberstar... do you guys remember any of these obscure dungeon crawlers from Europe and indie developers? Some of them were very good.
>>4074768The Amiga had a ton of classic RPG's that died in niche obscurity due to the company's poor handling of the platform.>Amberstar>Abandoned Places>Crystals of Arborea>Dragonflight>Dungeons of Avalon>Heimdall>Knightmare>Paladin>The Four Crystals of Trazere
>>4076401At least now we have emulators. Back 20 years ago nobody except people who browsed Mobygames knew about them. Did Home Of The Underdogs have an Amiga section? I can't remember.
>>4076401Oh, these are fantastic, thanks for the recommendations!
>>4074768Ambermoon, the sequel to Amberstar, is considered one of the best RPGs on the Amiga, but unfortunately it was never officially released outside Germany. An English version was developed but never published. Thankfully, the Ambermoon.net project makes it possible to play the game in English on modern systems: https://pyrdacor.itch.io/ambermoon
>>4078021That's a cool project. Thanks for the link.
Would you kiss Alex?
>>4074514>The talentless, blasphemous developer ought to learn that before attempting to create anything again. In a different age, self-important hacks like him would have been laughed out of their local communities after a humiliating beating.Dunno man, sounds like you're the one who hates art here. Artists have been engaging in humilating rituals and enduring the beating by actual talentless bullies like you since the beginning of history.
>>4076760>Is it just a bunch of nonsense for the most partMost of it seems to be gnostic or freemason stuff and the final boss at the end where man and ideal robot woman are connected and one and the same I saw it as representing how Yahweh is thought to be both man and woman.
>>4076760You have to experience it for yourself anon
>>4074514>t. never created anything
>>4076760It's not about being self obsessed one of the main themes is obsession related.
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
>>4078052>Shilling your games on such a dead-ass board is a really pathetic activityreal niggas shill on YTMND>>4078056which one? there have been a few over the years
>>4078098If i would remember i wouldn't need an answer for it, come on anon. But whatever, what was the most recent one?
>>4078108some various retroslop I have seen shilled on here, either overtly or covertly by devs:the secret of varonisdream warriorscarmondeI want to say false skies was too but I am less sureshilled frequently enough that I suspect the dev is doing it:skaldevery zeboyd game
>>4077910Kill yourself, fag.
>>4078163no you
>>3902760Posted from their apartment in Cheydinhal
>>4070243Imperials hate Dark Elves; Dark Elves hate Imperials. Imperials hate that a no-name Hlaalu trader got made into a count. Andel Indarys doesn't help his case by having a prat for a son, and a wife that dies in very suspicious circumstances. Our Dark Elves left Morrowind to get away from the Church and State, and they don't like it when Imperials get all holy and patriotic with them. Of course, local Dark Elves tend to be money-grubbing, alcoholic low-brows with little education or culture. Since I read a lot, and speak well, and don't drink brandy from milk pails, I guess I qualify as an Imperial. But on the whole, I like Cheydinhal's Dark Elves better than I like the Imperials, so go figure...
I just saw a mixed Man-Mer couple in Anvil. I didn’t even know that was legal in Cyrodiil.
>>3885800Thalmor hands typed this
>>4070253Anvil is still a nice place, even after the war. At least it's not Riften where you see several man-boy couples. I still can't believe Skyrim oddly legalized that perversion last decade. Almost as if Sanguine were tormenting the whole Province subjecting Skyrim to some foul Daedric humiliation ritual scheme. It begs the question what manner of insane practices will the Nordic barbarians legalize next? Marrying black soul gems?
I've been getting back into this game recently, I used to play PWs like Ravenloft and others but I want to play a singleplayer campaign, I heard the Wailing Death it's not so good, any module I should consider for a longterm campaign? Hitting high levels and all that.
doom of icewind dale is so bad loldon't know what so premium about it, there's probably like a hundred better free modulesand the writing is literally just "but thou most" + "remember this piece of forgotten realms lore????"
>>4075968>there's probably like a hundred better free modulesName them.
I played through The Wailing Death (I just now learned the OG campaign is named this). It is the most boring campaign I've ever played. That being said, I played through it as a Monk class, which is extra boring.>>4074398Was it The Halls of Advanced Training (2002)?https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwn1/module/halls-advanced-training-deluxe-hotusou-edition
>>4065474Buy the enhanced edition and it comes with a bunch of free fanmade ones preinstalled. That’s the list.Beyond that, all the DLCs are good too except sadly the planescape one
>https://neverwintervault.org/project/nwnee/hakpak/gearmod-visible-stowed-weapons-and-sheaths
in phantasy star 3 you can't regenerate your health when you are poisoned. i thought the game was broken lmaoi would go the inn to replenish my health and my health would remain low
>>4074063I heard two of the endings were really similar, but I didn't think they were THAT similar.
>>4073893I like to think che Aron's ending is the canonical one. They travel in space and time to Earth leading to first contact. Eventually acquiring space travel technology and knowledge of the Algo star system and in the end leading earthling on Algo and starting the events that leads to Phantasy Star II
>>4073893Yes. My favorite was the green hair guy, I think. It was a while back. The back and forth shit in generation 2 was stupid though.
>>4073699Based. Don't come across many people who say that. It's the worst of the four games but one of my top ten RPGs and seriously underrated
>>4074271I'm sure there is a way, if you fanwank hard enough, for Ragol from phantasy star online, to be the Algo system before it was colonised, and the starship is from Earth
What RPG implements status effects in a way that's fun but balanced? It sure isn't JRPGs.
>>4066107They're not identical.
>>4021924This is just true for Nintendo and Nintendo adjacent stuff in general. They usually have the most absolutely top tier system mechanics and game design of anything comparable, but will let you trivially bypass most of that depth 90% of the time if you perform the basic shit the game expects you to, leaving most of the subtlety and genuinely clever design lost on all the players who don't get super into the game.
>>4013874yeah no one should ever discuss anything more than once. go back to r9k, faggot.>>4013987>>4012446Morrowind truly has some creative spell effects, even if they're not all gameplay optimal. Silence vs. Sound to handle mages, Damage Strength, Blind, Burden, even Levitate to dissuade melee opponents.
>>4077892>Morrowind truly has some creative spell effectsDnD and BG provided some good inspiration...
>>4012446There's nothing wrong with this image. You wouldn't complain about concussion/freeze/stun/sleep/confuse all being effectively the same thing.
Does anyone know what happened to this game? Like a year ago everyone was acting like it was RPG jesus only there for there to be no news about it afterwards. The steam page says it'll be released in 2026 but literally nothing indicates this to the case lol even their trailer still says early access will open in 2025.Their demo was kinda gay but it was better than nothing I guess. Is there nothing to play if I want a TES style game? Already played tainted grail which was kinda fun and dread delusion was wasnt that fun.
>news all of a suddenThey're worried about Lantern eating their lunch with a third of the dev time lolhttps://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1154960/view/716788020075823262?l=english
>>4029017What do you want me to say?
After about 24 hours playtime I can confirm that Lantern of the Laughless Saint is certified kino
>>4075338
>>4059553that looks like playdough wrapped in metaphorical shit
The game will be called Sentinel.Set across both Hammerfell and High Rock, you'll restore the Empire to its golden age by defeating the Thalmor at the Battle of Adamantine Tower.Expect massive naval battles, castle and stronghold building, and the return of Morrowind's spells and magic system.Absolute kino
>>4057735Bethesda videogames, famous for their movie game 100 hours of cutscenes where control's taken away from the player.
>>4077796they have made moviegames since daggerfall.
>>4077826I'm not sure you know what words mean.
>>4077829i know HALT! HALT! HALT! and VEEENGEEAAAAAAANCE and that's enough for me, friend
>>4077266yeah i know Ubisoft has their gay patent that they're not using for anything elsei'm a loser with a measly 400 hours in For Honor, last time i played was for the Destiny 2 crossover event but other than that i haven't played it seriously in about 5-6 years
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septerra_Corei remember owning this game as a kid but i never played it because i was a dumb kid and i had no interest in rpgs at the time
i pirated it but only played for maybe five minutes it looked cool but failed to engage also i think the crack was buggy and made it crash or maybe it just crashed cuz it was ass not sure
>>4077436https://youtu.be/LhK4iMV3k6kthere's also this one
>>4077438old windows games tend to work better on linux
>>4077436i think my computer was also crappy when i got it. i think i stopped playing it because it was stuttering with my computer i never got to play it despite owning it
>>4077436I recall playing it, but I dropped off at some point and never returned to it. I think the last 1/4th was a rush job of constant fighting, as was the style at the time.
The demo is out. Discuss.
>>4048345one of the followers in cult sim was christian
>>4046703I haven't even won a major victory in Cultist Simulator yet. Nor have I gotten an ending in Book of Hours.Is it okay to proceed with this one? At this point I probably should not care about spoilers anymore. >that face when not in the know
How are we feeling about most Hours missing ang Thunderskin being dead?
>>4048075i like, but im still wondering what's meant to happen with the corrivalry since the colonel is now uncounted
>>4073283Haven't played much of the demo. How did the thunderskin die? I thought it came back. Aside from the horned axewhich ones still exist?
What’s your comfort game?
>>4070005>Discomfort game:>>World of warcraft retail>Almost feels enough like the real rpg it used to be to suck you in sometimes but then hits you with modern slop and grinding soul away and dealing with cliques and toxic personalities for a raid/mythic schedule just to have your progression become garbage again on the next live service update. And crafting still sucks since post WOLTK.I was actually gonna post this whole ass thing myself but cba then I refresh the thread and you've done it
>>4070005>FF4One of mine too. And I generally try to crank it out in day. Usually takes about 10-12 hours for me. I like a quick comfort game.Others I like...>FF1Only the original black background NES version. All the remakes monkey with the math, and everytime they figure out how to make the game worse. either do some form of 2 to 4 fighters, with maybe a redmage and/or blackbelt, or 2 black belts. Sometimes I'll try a completely oddball party.>Chrono TriggerI generally go with the big hitters, Ayla, Chrono, Frog, the Robot (I always rename him). I love Ayla because she can steal.>Final Fantasy Adventure/Secret of Mana/Legend of Mana/Visions of ManaI love getting lost in the mana worlds. Pretty much any of the Mana games, except trials. Nothing against trials, it's just not one of my comfort games.
>>4017948Kinda looks like the blitzball arena.
>>4017948FF7Tales of SymphoniaGolden SunPaper MarioSkyrim
>>4074408FFVIII was FFX before FFX.
Never played this game on PS2. Found it for switch, and decided to give it a shot. What were your thoughts when you played it? Is there a way you recommend to best enjoy this game?
>>4073516The live orchestra makes such a big difference to the OST, for real. I remember writing it off as mid with no memorable melodies when I originally played XII back on PS2, but replaying it via TZA had me like "past me what the fuck were you thinking, this soundtrack is GOATed"I fucking love the strings which open The Archadian Empire, they have such gravitas, which leads into the menacing imperial brass section trading sections with it. God what I wouldn't give to hear this played at Distant Worlds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJOKMjPGML0I also love the way Ashe's Theme progresses in each passage, I think this piece really exemplifies the filmic quality of the scoring and how much of a Star Wars homage this entire game is. Like, try to tell me this first part doesn't have vibes of Leia and Han's theme https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsgJsAL0pbY
>>4071354>before GoT *made it popular*Very obviously referring to the tv show
It's the best Final Fantasy and the game that made me fall in love with RPGs more than any other. The whole game has so much scope and captures the feeling of adventure perfectly, it really feels like you're traversing a large world through all these different beautiful environments, the cities are big and unique, the enemies are varied, the sidequests like the hunt system are so much fun. The soundtrack is S tier and this song brings on such a beautiful feeling https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VWiHFunDwKUThe characters are memorable and the story is engaging. Final Fantasy honestly needs to do political stories more often. Also the gambit system is very original and honestly more party RPGs could use it. It's a fun puzzle and it served as a good source of meaningful unlocks.
>>4072583>12 is more like "what would a story be like if the main character dies in the intro" subversionYou mean like what the Patriot AI tries to gaslight you into thinking in MGS2 when you switch over to that whiny Twink Raiden
I honestly enjoyed the unfinished manga more than I enjoyed the game. Mechanically it is dull and you can easily finish the entire thing just auto attacking every single thing. Hunts require more finesse and I did finish them all but it's just not satisfying. Story is mediocre and of the playable cast, two of them are actual characters, one is half a character, one is an ass shot and the main dude and one other chick are basically place holders. All in all I would never recommend it.
