There's a sale going on, so I picked up a few titles I haven't played yet. I don't really like FuRyu games though.
>>3974518My first one on them is Trinity Trigger, their version of Secret of Mana.Playing Exstetra right now. It sure has the making of a Vita JRPG. I disabled the Kissing minigame (EXS moves) since it disrupts the flow of battle and also not to see guy on guy kissing action. Apparently you can deal stronger damage if you're willing to play the minigame but it will consume more EXS gauge so theres a tradeoff to consider.The Enchant system is pretty fun though as you can synergize various passive skills to work together. Critical Hit is pretty crazy as not just increase you normal attack damage, it also inflict Dazed, a weaker version of sleep. Put Counter in your close range fight and its possible to deny enemies from its attack while dealing massive damage against them. Then put Protect on your close range fighter too so he can jump in to one of your allies, activate Counter + Critical Hit to deny the enemy from its attack. Then the long range fighters will dogpile on the enemy further with Snipe + Critical Hit.Grinding on those passives to attach to your gears can be no fun though as the drops can be area based rather than enemy based so you need to remember where you got those Runes so you can come back later and grind for them later. Enemies also scales on your level but easy enough to auto attack most of the time but there are High Level encounters that can wipe you out easily if just auto attack them especially in Standard difficulty.
>>4067503If this is where you dropped the game then you will definitely hate the later part[Spoiler]The villain manipulated everything from the start and make everyone kill each other in one of the endings/spoiler Tbh, I like it, but I can understand why, the late game where they explain everything is also the weakest part of the game, gameplay wise
Yep, Harem antics. I miss them.
>>4074786>High Level encounters that can wipe you out easily if just auto attack them especially in Standard difficultyYou can max out your level to Lv.50 in early game if you're willing to fight those high level enemies again and again since they give a decent EXP. At max level, you can mostly wipe out everything except for those high level enemy encounters since both your team and the enemy team is in max level.
Finished Exstetra.So Ryouma's fate is not known after sacrificing himself to save the world. Pic is from Kotone's ending, which is definitely better compared to Mizuki's ending.The plot sure got rushed after you got the last party member. It reminds me of Mimana Iyar Chronicles on PSP where you collect 4 items then its the final dungeon.I took my time on it since the enchantment system is fun. Making a defender unit that can counterattack hard against close range enemy while the unit being defended counters too can be pretty fun. The dungeons can be pretty monotonous though since its mostly forest then dilapidated buildings. Overall not bad but that you can see where the plot got rushed though.
Gears/Saga/Blade Genesis trailer imminent
>>4096156No, BLADE in X is a military organization, Blades in Xenoblade 2 are artificial lifeforms.
>>4096099The aegis is special, it tastes like honey
>>4097457Funny for a series made of shit.
>See genesis on /v/>Me, clueless : "Did we have any news?">The thread "Ahaha we Tortaniced Fire Emblem, lets pick another target, amirite veee?"Election tourists were a mistake.
>>4098546desu while I quite like both series they have some of the most consistently awful threads and considering just how bad /v/ is that's saying something
What RPG implements status effects in a way that's fun but balanced? It sure isn't JRPGs.
>>4092577Are you fighting Jamal? Jaquavian? Your strategy would be different fighting one of them rather than the other.What I'm saying is that instead of just blanket being useless past like the first two bosses in JRPGs, status afflictions should reward people who learn about their enemy and then use the appropriate tactic to counter them.
>>4092594Your post is confusing to me.
>>4092594The problem is most games either just don't have, or else have inconsistent and contrary learnable information when it comes to vulnerabilities, even for status. Unless you are going through a dungeon, and a dozen notes in the hands of dead adventurers are screaming "THE BOSS HATES CONFUSION, RETARD", there's almost never a way to turn any clues into actionable information, so it still boils down to a trial and error lottery, of trying to discern if the guy vaguely saying the boss got sick and had to lay down for a nap a month ago means he's weak to poison, weak to sleep, or weak to niether and that was just to explain why this nebulous event happened last month to patch the plot hole of why the boss didn't enact his plan last month, when he had everything he needed. And all of that still means your status is effectively inconsistent, meaning either you are trial and error shotgunnung status at someone to learn, then resetting and doing the fight properly, or just not investing in status that is still useless for the other 70% of the game when the developers haven't decided now is the time for Charm to shine (it has been unusable for the last 20 hours, and thise skill points were non-refundable, baby).It's just an untenable situation for status.
>>4012537>they build neat mechanics that you want to build a character around>but you can't because they have created two tiers of enemy, mooks that can be affected by the mechanics and minibosses/bosses that can't
>>4092933This can still sort of work, if the standard enemy encounters are genuinely threatening. You trade one party members kind of sucking at bosses, for that party member getting the rest to the boss fight in much better shape. If random encounters are just stomped by regular characters, or status is inconsistent on standard enemies, which is often the case, even that becomes pointless. SMT is pretty much the only game that gets that balance right (which itself is offset by the fact that having separate demons specialized for encounters and bosses is pretty common)
At what point did you realize that the best style of RPG is the Ultima perspective?
>>4070176I’m not white. Only white people enjoy strange games like ultima, moonring, caves of qud.
>>4096230>GOG hides the sauce files of the DOS games nowWATWhy would they do that?
>>4096348That's not true, I've never met a white person who liked caves of qud. Not even slavs
>>4096383i dunno? easier file management? they mostly seem to pak it all into an ISO file and rename it "something.game" or whatever, then load it from with some config file in DOSbox.
>>4098379>then load it with some config file in DOSbox.
I always play with Gamefaqs so I can get all the hidden secrets and items on the go.>It's more fun playing it blind and figure it all by yourself.No, it's not. You will not max your build and you will miss some things. No, I don't have the time for a 2nd playthrough.
>>4096228If the game has permanently missable content, I agree.
>>4096238Yes, only homosexuals like you know how to succeed.
>>4096228Why play the game at all and not just watch a playthrough?You do not actually engage with the mechanics and you do not win or succeed based on your decisions.You could even watch at 2x speed to waste even less time
I've read through some 'guides' for games I'm familiar with and every time the author was giving terrible strategy advice. Why are the people who make these things so bad at video games?
>>4096593name and shame them or you're a bot
JRPG Fanart Thread>No NSFW
>>4095232nice cuck bro.>>4094942post more roris
>>4094942Very cute, what game are they from?
>>4096408Tales of Symphonia for both of them
Jophiel is happy hugging on Michael
What rpg are you currently playing anon?
just about to play Disgaea 7
Alternating between Baldurs Gate 3 and Etrian Odyssey V
>>3988574Kingdom Hearts 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition
I'm about 10 hours into a xianxia/wuxia RPG called Wandering Sword. If you like that genre, I totally recommend it. It's honestly one of the best games I've played in years.
>>4097838I've been meaning to play thatI did play Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion which was pretty good, a lot better than expected
Post common mechanics & design choices made specifically to waste your time.>Radiant Quests
>>4097759>Radiant QuestsI refuse.
>>4097759All video games are fundamentally designed to 'waste your time'. Instead of playing them, you could be working on a side hustle, fucking a woman, etc.Instead you look at a bright piece of glass and push buttons like a chimp.
>>4097766>side hustleI knew you were gay, but I didn't think you were a nigger.
>>4097759>levelsJust remove them at this point.
>>4097759>Time Wasting MechanicsInteracting with this thread.
I've been playing Borderlands lately. Just turning my brain off, forgetting about the real life and basking in the atmosphere of the wasteland that is Pandora while blowing up midget's heads and seeing numbers go up. Is there a fantasy RPG equivalent of this? A cozy game I could play for appreciation of the in game world, atmosphere, prioritizing chill over number crunching. So like Witcher 1, Gothic 1, TES, Baldurs Gate 1... And not like Knights of the Chalice, Pathfinder, Kingdom Come deliverance... I have been considering Kingdoms of Amalur, that one just always eluded me for some reason. Is it good?
fore some clarificationI am not in a mood for a game that has a difficult learning curve of it's systems & high barrier of entry before you start having fun, too much life stress around, using games as just chill escapism atmwhich is funny I usually prefer it the other way around, I never liked TES but nowadays I'd rather play TES than something like Kingdom Come or a difficult cRPG
>>4095116I played kingdoms on pc years ago before the remaster and enjoyed it felt like an offline MMO action RPG
You obviously like WRPGs, but you might branch off into JRPGs. Final Fantasy 9 is very cozy.
Neverwinter Nights 1 has been my go to cozy game for most of my life
I recently got back into Elona and decided to try out Elin as well while I was at it, but I quickly slid off both. Still wanting something of that ilk, I also downloaded the latest Cataclysm BN release, but similarly there I slid of rather quickly. In all instances it was because I just went back to the tried and tested after a while. (bow-mage in Elona/Elin and spears and guns in a log cabin in CBN)How do people keep focus with a game where the most interesting part is learning, but where you also need to keep to the tried and tested for a lot of it? I've put many hours in Elona and Cataclysm, but I haven't gotten near to the end-game of either as both require a ridiculous time-investment for something that could be lost in seconds.Also Cataclysm thread, I'd be interested to hear what people end up doing. (Elona feels a bit too guided for a lot of different things to happen)
>>4088570>cataclysmThat’s the zombie survivor game in which you search the ruins of civilization for your estrogen, right?
>>4088570Funny that you saying that, for me Elona and TOMA was basically one of the few games that actually managed to break through my ADHD and manage to get my attention for long without me getting bored and starting to doomscroll. >How do people keep focus with a game where the most interesting part is learningI would say it's mostly just more basic "seeing your numbers go up" at least for Elona. If you not getting enough dopamine from clearing dungeons, killing strong enemies and getting cool loot to keep you hooked up, then maybe it's just isn't for you.
What's a rougelike? Any relation to a blushlike or mascaralike?
>>4093699It's when people act like rogues or something. Or when they go rogue, but not fully, therefore getting called "rogue-like".
A lot of these games are easy once you have understood the mechanic and developed a personal routine for them. The only time where they are fun is when you are still learning and dying.
Would you kiss Alex?
>>4076982Calling YIIK art should get you stoned for blasphemy.>>4078055>no argumentsThe only thing you create is excrement. Biomass like you should be turned into fuel warming the homes of the men that drive society forward.
>>4087630Anything can be art
>>4087630YIIK is better than most shit released today. Also precise what you mean by blasphemous.
>>4061501I liked giving Alex maximally selfish high loot and money drops at the expense of everyone else.I didn't have too much difficulty with the karta system, but it was fun to try out combinations.
I'd like giving Alex a handjob
What are some games that are well written to the point of being literature tier?>planescape torment (haven't played because I do not like dnd settings)>arcanum>disco elysium>pathalogic>xenogears/xenosaga>drakenier gamesI'm trying to find games with actual depth to their stories and themes and which actually say or do things that leave a lasting impression, like after reading a good bookI've tried searching but I mostly only find people saying things like rdr2 or bioshock or the last of us, which feel more like tv show deep instead of well written literature deeptried posting on v but i don't think they think too much about this kind of stuff
not rpg tho
megaman star force 100% seriousa kid fuses with an alien who helps him overcome the chronic depression from losing his father and fights a bunch of other aliens controlling people going through their own complex emotional problems and over the course of the trilogy evolves from a distant loner into a hero who fights ancient gods and travels inside of black holes with the power of RADIO WAVES
>>4079829By "literature", do you just mean "books", or more like "high art books"? Metal Gear Solid is written like a convoluted spy thriller, but although spy thrillers exist in book form, they're often seen as cheap entertainment.
>>4079829lol
>>4096793>Snake… do you think… love… can blossom on the battlefield?
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.
>>4074768We have them a lot on /vr/
>>4085685There's a pretty obscure graphic text adventure / RPG-like hybrid where you play as a robot scouring the post apocalypse, and you need to keep finding energy to sustain yourself since it drains every turn.Called "Earthshock" I believe, for the ZX Spectrum.https://worldofspectrum.net/item/0006239/
Devil Whiskeyhttps://decklinsdomain.e-junkie.com/product/769043/PC-Game---Devil-Whiskey-Downloadhttps://dungeoncrawlers.org/game/devil-whiskey/
>>4091460Wasn't this at one point a Bard's Tale remake that got a C&D letter from EA and had to rename themselves? Weird art style, like someone took pixel art and smeared it with an oil pastel filter.
>>4096738Minstrel’s Regale
The choice for grown men.
>>4068767Because your wife is an ugly cow and your kids are cross-eyed little nitwits who will never amount to anything, anon.
>I dont pursue romances in RPGs because I get laid irlNigga you dont have a romance with a redeemed sucubbus or a psycho half elf irl, you have sex with a boring corny office lady
>>4072930>>4087863> They hated anon for speaking the truth.I still don't know the purpose of having classes such as hunter or warpriest in the game. Or OC Donut Steal races such as the Dhampir or Kitsune.
>>4069709How would you feel if you didn't eat breakfast this morning?
>>4088120>You're arguing for a shittier, boring experience. In Pathfinder if I wanted to roll up a human fighter, I have a multitude of different ways I can do that and result in widely different builds for different ways to approach encounters: >I could do a dex fighter who dual-wieldsFighter with pips in two-weapon fighting>I could do a tower shield specialist who focuses on defensive maneuversFighter with sword & shield style that uses Large Shields>and I could even intentionally use a one handed weapon without a shield to make use of crane style.Single weapon styleWhy are Pathfinder fags so retarded that they get filtered by even the most stripped down form of AD&D? Lmao
First playthroughs over, really liked the new mechanics and the politicking but it seems like the ending skimmed over potentially the most important and cool part of the game. I would be shocked if there was no DLC introducing a new chapter after the millennium council
>>4078593The second game shows you what lunatics the both of them are, the part where they go to Magra to talk to people and are willing to change their minds seems to only happen in the "Come and See" branch off the Renegade path in Jerian. What actually sends you to the Peak and Foot is also extremely vague when you even have the New Faith guy tell you that oh he knows he's really been sending his followers to the Foot as part of a long con to try and make the gods learn to show mercy, spoiler it doesn't even work.
I don't know how well Jerian did, but with Jerian being an Arknian focused game, I now feel like the one thing we're missing is a Sorcerer focused game where we get to play as a mad mage.
>>4080156Yeah that would be nice, all the magic lore in both games was great. Would be complicated with all the many possible endings though.
Did I miss something, Orgrif in one of the endings mentioned teaching some half blood child? Am I supposed to know who that is or is it a sequel hook or what?
Great game, I liked it even more than Brante. All the new lore was cool.
