After playing through Ultima Underworld, Thief, and System Shock 2, I decided to boot up Arx for the first time tonight.>Any builds you recommend?>Things to avoid?>Favorite quests?>etcArx General. Try to remain spoiler free.
>>3978720here's your youtube video praising Arx.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Valmsq_Ku90>Arx Fatalis is an underrated immersive sim game from Arkane Studios buried beneath RPGs like Morrowind and Neverwinter. It deserves the recognition of being Ultima Underworld 3 and more. >Arx really deserved more attention in its day but it’s still a great experience now!also System Shock Remake review.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HBhfMNewip8
>>3978713Despite what others might tell you, archery is actually viable and fun.
>>3984026>fagdalore gamingew
>>3978713It has one of the most original magic systems in gaming. It's a little hectic during combat, but I really liked the concept.Also I loved the interactivity of the world. The cooking for instance. Also few games made me feel like an explorer as this one. Going into a cave and dropping a lit torch into a chasm only to see a bunch of spiders crawling in the pit... pretty impressive for the time.
>>3985358i don't think Rune magic is new by the time Arx Fatalis came out, but having to draw them out with your mouse cursor was new i think?>spideryou can lure them into fireplaces and watch them cook themselves to death.but if you really like cooking in RPGs, Ultima 7: Kuro Jietai probably did it better.
Dominion of Darkness is an interactive fiction strategy/RPG text game (there are some 2D illustrations) in which the player takes on the role of a Sauron-style Lord of Darkness with the goal of conquering the world. He will carry out his plans by making various decisions. He will build his army and send it into battles, weave intrigues and deceptions, create secret spy networks and sectarian cults, recruit agents and commanders, corrupt representatives of Free Peoples and sow discord among them, collect magical artifacts and perform sinister plots.I am looking for people eager to help with playtesting - especially fluent in English. You will play at least once (one gameplay lasts about 1-1,5 h, because game is very non-linear and supposed to be be replayble), send me Your opinion, information about possible bugs, some details about stats achieved during it.New update is not officially published yet, but You can play it here: https://adeptus7.itch.io/playtesting . If You play, please send me a report - what character have You played, how long you played, whether you won or lost, and how. If you see something that looks like a bug, please send a screenshot, including the visible stats at the bottom. If the bug is a blank screen, please let me know what the previous page was.But if You want to play an old, stable version instead, here it is: https://adeptus7.itch.io/dominionPS. If You don't believe that game exists and think that this is some scam, here is one of the reviews of the prototype: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lgNpSKToOSgAnd here is fansong made by one of the players: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mPcsUonuyo
>>3984023You've got to be the dumbest namefag i've ever seen. Did you get banned from the dex and took refuge here?
>>3984016Thanks for an advice, but 1) developing this game is supposed to be a hobby, something which is fun for me. Drawing is very, very unfun for me. Why would I do something which is a chore for me? It would make sense if I planned to make a profit from this game. 2) Most of the public prefers AI graphics to not graphics.
>>3983907No, it's better to have no art than to have some ai shit.
>>3984465Tell that to auraclash fans
>>3983360>. My game was "Dark Reign" firsti would play a "BLACKED Panther Reign" starring AI-gen Will Smith if you don't get sued first.
Which JRPG has the best combat system?
>>3978603I assume all charts are some form of bait to keep threads alive.
>>3984849mostly oversights from all the possible set variaions and matchups. I woudn't denigrate the entire system because of things like funbro
>>3984922yeah i'd denigrate the system for things like regular slowbro instead
>>3984882Content farmer on /v/ made a thread asking about good turn base jrpgs awhile back before this this thread and I suggested something niche like Mana Khemia. Didn't think anyone would have taken it serious enough to make a pic out of it.
How would Gears characters fair in Blade's world? They can bring or have their tech like Gears I guess.
Is it true that support roles in MMORPGs are mostly played by perverts?
>guild raid>fuck up my tanking>everyone blames the healer
>>3982852Nah, that's a very small minority. Most of us are more like "Second-In-Command but would make a good leader but hates doing it".
>>3982852Every male support I've ever played with has been an absolute degenerate pervert freak. I knew this one guy who would go to the beach with one of those beach tents they have and just jerk off in there for hours to passerby.
I used to play healer but the number of fuckers who try to tell you how to do it and complaining that you aren't giving them the buffs they need, even when there has been no wipes and you've kept everyone alive.. now I play tank and everyone thinks I do a great job regardless.I am a pervert though
>>3982852dun care. segs with anime nuns and priestesses.
any of yall ever play cyberdelia micro
this is available in a fanatical bundle for like 8 bucks. is this worth it, bearing in mind that i thought suikoden 2 was ok, but i thought the setting was boring?
>find a new character that looks cool>he kinda sucks>check internet>somehow a lot of character growth rate are good post gameFuck you
>>3984998To be fair Suikoden never even pretended to be balanced. I expected that in Eiyuden.
>>3984999True, but they were easier I think, not that Eiyuden was hard but it felt actually detrimental to keep the bad characters in my team, even if I enjoyed their designs.
>>3985002Eiyuden also likes to hide information from the player for some reason. There's a Description Overhaul mod that fixes that.
>>3985003That's in line with Suikoden.
Did anyone play this sci-fi ARPG other than me? No, I don't mean that literally but I feel like I'm one of 30 or so people who did play it. It wasn't long, but it had a very interesting setting, fun protagonists and side-characters and a solid atmosphere. The actual gameplay was.. serviceable. It was somewhat shallow ARPG but at least it worked alright.Here's a video showcasing all the 'cutscenes' with each of the 3 protagonists.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-6aHjLo6kAnd here's some gameplay of it too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU8p-23GvL0
>>3982506No, but looks interesting.
>>3984947Right? >>3982506How's the story, looks excellent
>>3982506Didn't you post this thread like a few months ago? Also, the game is very flawed and boring. There is a ton of potentian hidden there, but the game designer messed everything up.
>>3984980Sad
>>3984969The story is pretty cool but it's very small in scope - and spread between 3 characters so it's best experienced 3 times over, basically.>>3984980I don't know if that was me, but yes. The gameplay is very shallow. The greatest strengths of the game lie within the artstyle, the plot (even this could use some work) and the atmosphere.
The Last Good RPG
>>3984744Yeah been playing it. I forgot how open the game is. You can really just go do whatever and there's sidequests everywhere. I recall you're not supposed to grind, but I can't just leave sidequests unfinished so I'm probably fucking myself.
>>3984790>so I'm probably fucking myself.Not really. BR in PC/Remaster is basically made so you can do whatever you want without screwing yourself. Even then, sidequests and guild tasks provide some really good and versatile characters so you're only benefiting yourself in the end.
>>3984796That's even more concerning, because I never finished it when I was younger because I thought I'd made it too hard to complete. That just means I was shit.
>>3984768>t. retard who has the reading comprehension of a 4 year old
>>3984799Sometimes, you just need to experiment with formations, party members and building teams. Battles that were way too hard at first became manageable after building the teams better.
Am I still allowed to like this game or did it become too popular and win too many awards and therefore it's bad now?
>>3978745>i don't recall such a fuss being made over a soundtrackMe neither now that you mention it. I think it also helped to have vocals and lyrics. Broader appeal than bleep and bloop background musics for nerds to grind experience to.
I'm playing it right now and at first I was enjoying it like it felt like a simple modernish rpg like lost odyssey. but the further I get the best word I can use to describe it is embarrassing. like there's a lot of elements to the game that feel forced engagement bait like one boss having EDM as bgm. I can already imagine the comments that go like "dood this music bops!!" or the fake nier overworld music. by the time I got to the literal elden ring boss that has le epic phase two and he whips out pontiff sylvan swords I stopped trying to discern value out of the game and treated as a derivative parryslop kusoge it is.
>>3941113It's one of those games that I enjoyed while I was playing it but will never play it again.The story was good, the music was good, the world was cool, the combat kinda sucked and consists of overlevelling the content and spamming the same attacks until you beat the game.
Liking the most megapopular entries into their respective genres does NOT make your normalfag ass an interesting and unique individual.
>>3941113Is this the best that chuds can muster?Is this the game that was going to save white people?Was this suppose to be "our game™"?Hope you liked it, cause the studio is getting cucked harder than Idubbbz. LOL
Name one series that does it better.
>>3980099What does the lifestream even do?
Nothing. Final Fantasy is still the best.
>>3980099SaGa.
>>3980099In what? Gameplay? Plenty of series like Dragon Quest, SMT, and the aforementioned SaGa are better at being RPGs than FF (the last time FF was ever competitive was FFV). In terms of graphics/audio? During its peak, (VI-XIII) nothing was touching it but today FF stopped having the best artists in the industry. Persona, Xenoblade, and even that Frog game Expedition 33 have outshone FF.
>>3981017Keeps the ground fertile.
Does anybody care about this trilogy at all? I just gave the first game a shot and it was painfully mid. The sheer number of overweight and brown NPCs also invoked feelings of repulsion within me.The other two games seem to make improvements so I will probably give them a shot.
>>3984515it was a significantly worse experience compared to returnsthe quests had bad design, the writing was terrible, and many parts were slogs
>>3984559>returnsthat wastepaper basket puzzle was insane, missions are tiny, accuracy with every weapon is dogshit, insect spirits are annoying and your final team is all equipped with shotguns they can't hit shit with. returns still has a great ending (world overrun by demons where the main antagonist shoots himself), reasonably compelling characters and better polish and gear. did you play standalone dragonfall or the dragonfall campaign within returns?
I played all of dragonfall recovering from a wisdom tooth extraction and I remember being 100% LOCKED IN on the story. I went charisma so I got all the dialects
>>3984565I didnt have any trouble with accuracy that I can remembermy final team did alright; I had my gunslinger, coyote (who was good with shotguns iirc), the jester elf, and a tairngire spec ops guy who was also good with them iirc>missions are tinyI thought dragonfalls were slogs, so returns were better in that regardokay but seriously, you guys cant actually like this garbage, right? youre just fucking with me?I have returns and dragonfall separately
>>3984859I liked Returns on release for the novelty of having a new Shadowrun game and also for doing the spooky toxic bug story which I've always found fascinating but Dragonfall had much better written characters and the storyline intrigued me because it's a new addition to the canon. It was also a showcase with what can be pulled off even with the barebones gameplay. Also, I remember it having a better shaman and adept skill tree.
Just think about it. It's a critical factor in combat. A character gets hit- it hurts like hell- can't do anything for a moment.For unknown reason it's completely neglected, while IT SHOULD BE THERE, if not in action games then at least in turn- based and RTWP games.The most of games come with some otherworldly effects accompanying a successful critical hit and that's all.The only game I remember to have something close to it this is Witcher 1 and it was only a side effect of certain attacks, not a constant part of the combat.Might be not an literal pain but some negative factor affecting the combat, accumulating with the received damage.
>>3982251Darkass Dungeon?
>>3983561It's rather psychological trauma, innit
>>3983830Ok then Battle Brothers
>>3982251>what if -2 to attack/attack damageAnyway, in TTRPGs like D&D such thing like "for 3 turns roll save every time you make an action or move - if you lose, you're stunned until the end of your turn, if you win - you have -1 to attack and have your movement speed halved until the end of your turn".Also look toward World of Darkness "TT"RPG series. Just remember, that it has its own 5ed (and also CotD) as opposed to the original.But outside of turn-based games it would just be your common debuff, that often exists through various "weakened"-"shocked"-"poisoned" already, it only makes sense to use that for a bit of sado-maso flavor.
>>3982545Even then, you can bandage up your bullet holes BEFORE you pry the bullet out with a knife, and that always struck me as funny.
Are there any upcoming rpgs you are interested in?https://store.steampowered.com/app/2787850/Runa/
Underrail 2. I hope it won't be shit.
>>3982010No, Western Made Faux Indie JRPGs are required to have at least one middle aged lesbian party member per trade union rules
>>3970000Looks very generic.
>>3982010>Date different characters individually to strengthen your relationships with them. If you're trying to find that special someone in the world of Runa, you'll have more than 15 romance options, including same-gender relationships.Well, this one is pretty explicit. I don't care about the LGBT thing, but I do care about that high number of romancable characters because there's zero chance they're well written and fleshed out if there's that many. Even AAA studios struggle to handle more than a handful, but 15+? That's double, maybe even triple the amount you'd find in a dedicated dating sim. I don't buy it at all.
>>3984820"Generic" isn't quite the right term, but if's more that you can way too easily see all the different games they're lifting from.It's one of the kitchen sink games I usually associate with China. Age and wisdom have taught me that a game copying one game has far better odds of being actually good and not slop than one copying several, so lots of red flags here.
>best jarpig is a literal parody game made in flashjaps could never
>>3976440The dev is so retarded, he managed to make EBF5 worse than 4.
>>3984525Thats because thats around the time he started getting groomed by trannies on discord
>>3984539wtf I though he was a far right chud who put a nazi in his game to piss of tge troons
>>3984564No, but he wasnt afraid to piss off softies before
>>3984525EBF has always been bad ripoff of FF games.Epic Bad Fantasy for good reason.
STR: 9INT: 15DEX: 11CHR: Yes
>>3984644Class: Pedophile
>>3984725Wow, he sure had a positive impact on you.
>>3984729Oh no, it's new.https://www.thedrive.com/news/40636/parked-in-mister-rogers-neighborhood-what-fred-rogers-taught-us-about-cars
>>3984682It would be one thing if it was an "the allegations were never proven, but I still believe it", but there was never even allegations. Pope have less squeaky-clean records than this man.
>>3984817>CHR: YesThe supreme CHA would have no allegations, because no one feels bad enough to complain about anything the supreme CHA does to it.
