Do you like political, social, and/or racial commentary in your jrpgs?
>>4068969>Like fucking Arise preaching racism bad after 300 years of slavery lmaoWhat's wrong with that?
>>4061146Is this a real question or just another episode of "leftist here to gaslight by conflating game verisimilitude with their modern propaganda agenda using games as a soapbox" again?
>>4070705You can't expect people who have been enslaved for their entire lives to just get over it and not hate the slavers. Yet the party pulls a "why can't they just get along like us" near the end. As if it's that easy.
>>4070786Turns out it really was about the content of their character, this whole time.
>>4070786And the game explores it not being easy to let go of old grudges. That doesn't mean racism (in the fictional world of Arise) isn't bad.
What’s your comfort game?
>>4017948I don't have a "comfort game."I play to win.
>>4069959among virgin gamers this guy is the chad
>>4039741Good choice. Happy super belated Birthday anon. I truly appreciate you anti-nihilists to counterbalance the rest of this board: >>4048791 >>4048391 For me then: FF4, D2, most of the bigger ARPGs like Dragon's Dogma, Titan Quest, Grim Dawn. I still haven't actually played 5 since I didn't play 2 and 3 yet either but I know it's where the job system originated which I love in Tactics.Later it was running builds in Kingmaker and Wrath, might still go back to Wrath.For me now: BG3 with a carefully cultivated set of mods to balance out items, classes, and feats and also add a great amount of extra battle and item content that is so well placed and on theme it's almost like expanding the story. Honestly like a whole extra game's worth, the modder called Fade really knocks them out of the park along with a couple of others. I could almost infinitely roll builds and different parties to see all the ways this game can play out like this, and the tactical demand is in a great place with on tactician + honor ruleset on. >>4068889Discomfort game:>World of warcraft retailAlmost 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.
>>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.
>>3988508I like the interpretation that they are people that use magic to turn into snakes
>>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
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.
>>4045851There is another friendly town on the other side of the island that's full of beast people but they all hate you if you're human
>>4045998>town full of beast people but they all hate you if you're humanI come to /vrpg/ to stop thinking about real life, anon.
>>4046132>>4045998>special perk that increases damage to beastfolks and also adds racist dialogue optionsyep it's gaming time
>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?
Why aren't there more space JRPGs?
>>4026538Embarrassing post, lad.
>>4050300Did he? Tomino thought the designs were neat.They DO kinda look like they'd be a bitch to animate though.
>>4050135>>4050300>>4050570All I know is Mead considered the Turn X his best design for the show and he's right.
>>4026538Gonna cry?
>>4029980God i hate shit with hundreds of tiny moving pieces so much
Why does everyone glaze this game so much when its objectively weakest entry in the series?Yes it has the best visuals in the whole series so far but... thats it really.
>>4059934>P5Insists upon itself>P4Doesn't take itself seriously>P3Presents the player its themes and leaves it at that
>>4059934persona 3/4/5 are only glazed by people who were 14 at the time any of them came out
>>4059934Persona only got good when they realized that your social links should provide you with actual gameplay benfits and not just stat boosts when you fuse personas. There's a reason 5 was the one that broke through to the mainstream.
>>4068928>There's a reason 5 was the one that broke through to the mainstream.Massive advertising budgets and reach? Literally EVERY series that had a new game during that time ended up with that game being "the best selling in the series history" it's not THAT much of a feat. Let's see if it carries over to 6
>>4062836Base 3R was akin to spending more money for a game that was a halfbaked middleman of 3P and FES with some P5isms. No, I dont care if you dislike the Answer or FEMC. It was the best chance they had to make a definitive P3 and they blew it and this is why I think its worse than P3P even if that one had to sacrifice a bunch of stuff to fit on the PSP's smaller disk.
this is one of the greatest rpgs of all time yet few will ever play it because of some irrational obsession with only playing "official" goyslop, even if it's the most inexcusable dog shit ever made.Then when people *do* give a fangame a chance, they go straight for some kanto meme garbage and walk away unhappy.
>>4047059>Clearly touched>Unbound out of thin air
new kino just dropped
>>4059475
>>4059573bruh
>>4022520if you're going to make an unnoficial game, dont use the official titles name for it, make it your own.why would you name it pokemon when you could've created a semi-original game instead
>What was your first game? >What's your favorite and why? >What are some things you like about the series? >Was it your first ATLUS series?I got into it because of Persona. I know, I'm a larper, but I am young and I thought it was weird there wasn't a thread here. To me it's basically if Persona had engaging combat and darker tone. Playing IV right now. After about 5 tries, I beat the Minotaur with my whole party wiped except for me and one demon. It was our last turn too, so I was very lucky to have survived I suppose.
>>4067039>FirstPersona 3 Portable, then Nocturne was the first SMT I played, and then Strange Journey is the first one I beat. I dont think badly about Persona on principal but I do think the distinction between it and SMT is needed because of the vastly different concepts they follow>FavoriteRight now I think I'd say Devil Survivor, catch me on a full moon and I might say Strange Journey instead that one's incredibly solid, but I like how DeSu fuses turn based combat with a trpg system to have the best of both worlds, I like the story actually focusing on a normal world shifting into a apocalypse rather than just going "BAM nukes dropped, it's post-apocalypse already lets get this moving", and I actually liked how they handled the routes without going strictly law-neutral-chaos (Even though you can assign an alignment to all of them if you wanted), its funny that even in the end you can still choose to tell everyone to fend for themselves and run away because of course some people would prefer that option.Unofficially my favorite is actually eraMegaten, I think it does a great job of using most every big mechanic in the series in a single TEXT BASED game, the sexy stuff is just a nice bonus>Things you likeFor some reason just the general concept of summoning and controlling demons has yet to lose its flavor to me, I'm always down for shit like that and SMT captures it really well. Fusion autism is really fun too, im the kind of guy who actually likes the preparation parts of an rpg as much as the actual combat, being able to tinker with my party members and perfect them.>First ATLUS series?That would be Persona, unless theres some rpg I buried in my memory that happened to be atlus seeing as they have their hands in a few cookie jars when it comes to that
>firstDemiKids Light Version (had no idea what SMT was at the time)>favoritePersona 1 (which is a real SMT game, unlike the other Personas. I hate P2 and despise P2 fans. P3/4/5 are decent but not for me.)>things you likeDungeon crawlers with good atmosphere and theming but as little story as possible
Thread themehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IguGfZiWfj0
>>4068486ATLUS never misseshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbB8mcM_xS8
>>4067039Emulated SMT1, just because I played most things Aeon Genesis felt like doing a TL hack for in the '00s. Although I may have rented Persona 1 PSX at some point and then never got more than 15 minutes in. The atmosphere of SMT1, particularly the start, was very interesting but I know I almost completely ignored the fusion system and just nuked the game by grinding and directly recruiting and obviously didn't like it much. I hadn't even played pokemon at that point and had no context for monster party games.
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?
>>4061228Death Ward is one of the central key buffs in the game, anon. That along with Resist Energy and Freedom Of Movement are like... generally just considered mandatory to have running at all times. It's not even a secret. It's been like that literally since the dark days of 2nd edition D&D in the fucking nineties... These days, what's shocking about the Vordekai dungeon is that they even bothered to make energy drain stuff in there at all since if I were designing it I would have just assumed it would have been irrelevant, because I'd assume all players would all have death ward running constantly.
>>4054751She's been literally raping and then murdering and then raping men since she was a teenager, anon. Canonically. She's not a virgin. At all. She's explicitly depicted in the act of raping a young man when you catch up with her after she's revealed.... Virgin and pure are the specific two things she is not.
>>4069004Wow. Literally, anon? Are you sure you don't mean figuratively?
>>4052704i never got to play the last sarkorians because i always tell the griffin guy to fuck off because he's so gay
>>4069004I'm pretty sure it was consensual right up to the point where she killed him.Not to say she's never done it, but I don't see why she would have had to.
And the WAITing continues...
>>4074238Skipping the chapter is not the same as turning a secret boss into a mandatory boss
>>4074230Based.
>>4074201Yeah exactlyMost people on hometown are turboretards anyways, yes even noelle
>>4074219No problem rambchad.
thread's about to die so move over when the time comes>>4074251
How do you think they'll handle this remake? No way it'll be as one-to-one as the FC and SC remakes. They're surely not going to make you watch an hour-long cutscene about Tita's family.
Now I'm not saying an RPG where the MC is between 18-49 wouldn't sell, but why do certain people make such a big deal about it.
>>4064730I used to think that until I hit 35. My hair's got white streaks and my face has visible sun damage. Even comparing myself from five years ago is night and day difference.It really hit me when I was flirting with a 20 something girl and she remarked she wasn't in to older guys. As if I was in my mid to late 40s and chasing after college girls still.
>>4064827I am the anon you replied to, and I must needs be honest with you, I do not like shota porn, as they are too small. I want the man to be a colossus in every aspect, thank you.I do like shota protagonists, but only because it is fun and amusing to see a child go on an adventure. (They are good for horror too.)
>>4064711>>4064690What the flying fuck are you all talking about? You all sound like white women in pink diapers >>4065327>Makai Kingdommostly +30,000 year old gods>DQ 11>DQ8>Every Mario RPG He's mid twenties>Arc the LadOur protagonist was 15 or so but we had party members who were in all stages of their lives throughout both games >FF4's cast was all agesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>4067050>DQ8Half your party are plucky teenagers, arguably 3/4. Angelo might be super early 20's.
>>4067050I work nights and don't drink alcohol at all.
Red pill me on this game. I've run out of RPGs and want something to play. I remember playing this as a kid and dropped it in like an hour. All I remember is something about gay color orbs in combat. Is it worth trying again?
>>3974337 sucked and everyone hated him
>look mom I bumped it again
>>4047465Chrono Cross did not suck.Everyone did not hate it."It was a bad chrono trigger sequel but it was still a great game" is not revisionism.The game had more than zero broad appeal.The game was better than FF8.You are mad as fuck.
>ChronoCrossfag>"Chrono Cross is my favorite game. I also liked Trigger.">Triggerfag>*incoherent seething*
>>4034531Yes.
>"warning, this game stinks">the game doesn't sell goodwhat made them think this was a good idea?PD: i know it was like, something popular in the context of the 90s, but still
>>4067100>i know it was like, something popular in the context of the 90s, but stillStatistically significant sample size: everyone I personally knew who played SNES RPGs in the 90s bought and liked Earthbound. I never even heard of that ad campaign until online in the 2020s. Did it even happen or is it some zoomer meme?
god these underdeltarune threads just keep getting worse.>>>/trash/
>>4067388kek
So I'm doing the challenge to beat all 3 games on Insanity in the LE, and I just beat ME1 tonight, 100%ed the content, moved on to 2 and did a little bit before stopping. Ok either ME2 becomes some serious bullshit later but insanity feels no different from Normal so far, this feels so much easier because how ME2 works is that you always get your shields deleted really fucking fast. Maybe it's FASTER in Insanity, I don't know, but I immediately beelined to the Kasumi loyalty mission since you can do it at the start for the stupidly OP Locust SMG, and the gunship fight felt no less bullshit than always.Meanwhile in ME1 I would pingpong from being completely invincible and dying in 1 hit because a Geth Destroyer ran up and smacked me in melee when Push/Lift/Stasis were in cooldown, I had far more instances in ME1 where I would just randomly die because of being so much as grazed by something that ignores barrier
>>4057216>>4057414Oh forgot to say, Adepts are broken in 1 and 3 (less so in 3) but they got fucking kneecapped in 2 because of the fucking stupid mechanic where biotics don't work on enemies that have a form of protection up.
>>4046419>Yeah, she looks like a stripper but what about her abilities?settle down jack
>>4057216>I started Insanity as Adept going to monoclass spesh wizzzarrrd it through all 32 is going to be rough, but not undoable. You'll definitely want team mates that can strip shields on almost every mission (the only ones I can think where you wont are ones where its purely collectors or blood pack mercs)1 will be a breeze though
>>4047133But incendiary is. Mattock assault rifle + incendiary means you don't have to worry about a single enemy in the entire game. Warp ammo trivializes encounters even more because you have a one size fits all solutions to health, armor, shields, you name it. Half the time, I don't even bother taking cover because what's the point? You activate adrenaline, then go "one two three" shots to the head = dead. Rinse and repeat. Soldier is so OP that there's literally just a single mission in the entire trilogy that can pose a problem, and that is saving Jack in ME3. When that mission triggers, you haven't unlocked the core features for soldier class in ME3 yet, so fighting in the atrium is a pain in the ass for soldiers. But the entire game before and after that is just ridiculous. Everything dies so fast it can't even be thought of as a game. But in ME2? What exactly is it that could possibly hurt you?
Man, that community patch and visual mod or whatever it's called sure improves the remaster.It's still not perfect but at least it gets things way closer and actually makes it look like Mass Effect again. It's crazy to me that they screwed up the lighting and everything where it changes the entire mood, and just thought that it was fine to release it that way.
