Your thoughts on Falcom's Dinosaur?
>>3845552>I disagree, I found the slow pace very refreshing.Well you're wrong. And no, I don't expect an earth shattering conflict every hour. Many games, many beloved games in fact, start out comparatively mundane, solving personal or local problems. The problem isn't that BIG things don't happen. The problem is that NOTHING happens. Nothing pays out. Nothing builds into anything. And you get characters basically repeating each other in various flavors of animease in place of actual personality. Chrono trigger starts with you milling about at a fair and inside an hour you're rescuing a missing princess and befriend a knightly frog. In Breath of Fire 2 you begin searching for a thief and coming across a series of seemingly unrelated demonic events that pay off into the bigger picture. A game can be a slow burn, but it has to actually ignite. There's a world of difference between not saving and world and stopping for every cat stuck in a tree.
>>3838256>The game itself is pretty badare you talking about the pc-98 original or the remake? the remake is amazing
>>3845561>The problem is that NOTHING happens. Nothing pays out. Nothing builds into anything.Almost every mission in FC is foreshadowing the existence of Ouroboros, who are the main villains in the second game. Joshua's backstory, Professor Alba, Blueblanc, Lowe, etc. The second game has you battling a dragon, several giant robots, and a godlike supercomputer that blasts your entire country with an EMP. I fail to see how that isn't an exciting payoff.
>>3845704>Almost every mission in FC is foreshadowing the existence of Ouroboros, who are the main villains in the second game.Who do NOTHING. Even well into Cold Still they're just sitting around going "LOL JUST AS PLANNED"
>>3845761>Who do NOTHINGI agree that the later games aren't good, but Ouroboros did plenty in the first two games.I wouldn't call this cutscene "nothing", for example.https://youtu.be/p0PErBxOVB4?si=98AKIra9eAZZyz7r
First of all, Motomu Toriyama is too busy with FF7 Remake Part 3 at the moment. Secondly, the XIII trilogy is pretty controversial among finalfantasyfags, even XII is more popular than the XIII trilogy (hence the Zodiac Age re-release).
>>3840256>For whatever reason this is a franchise where talking about any like/dislike has people frothing at the mouth in hatredTbf that applies to most franchises, at least on this site
>>3840805For final fantasy it applies to every site. I genuinely haven’t seen this from any other franchise. I guess it’s a combination of every major entry being very different causing a split between people who say it ruined/saved the franchise and it being chuuni shit that teenagers and manchildren take too seriously
>>3840794the time management is so unstrict that you're often just left killing time. The pressure is all in your head just from seeing a clock, the game itself is very loose in terms of the amount of content you have to complete
>>384025613's got a history.
>>3840118Whatever, I unironically want an FFXIII-0 that actually makes use of the setting before it goes to shit. While at it might as well literally call it that and recycle the entire main cast of Type-0 for a shitload of variety in party comp. Type-Next isn't happening anyway.
The prettiest JRPG tomboy of 1994.
>>3845334I love her, she's adorable.
>>3845342who dis?
>>3845334Lucia is hottest in Lunar games though.
>>3845462Lei Kugo from Live A Live.
>>3845479Ah, good game but way too short. All the adventures left me itching for more, ending way too soon.This boss theme is great:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gmh4Qs20DZA
Considering how many people seem to hate overleveling in games, grinding, and getting too strong to the point of using limitations on play, why didn't any other game do what CC did where you only really gain levels after beating bosses so you're pretty much exactly as strong as you're supposed to be at that point in the game?
>>3845505Yeah seconding this, CC is fun as fuck. People sometime complain about having loads of pointless characters, but that was a plus for me too. Collecting them is cool.
>>3845505>This is one of if not the only JRPG where you can run away from every single battle in the gameHow is that a good thing?> but you can change your party and setup on a whimExcept the mc unless you are playing ng+. That means you can only change two characters.>Since levelling up makes 'random' encounters give bonus levelup stats for a fixed # of battles after every boss fight, completionist autists may get worried by this but it's the opposite of tedious.HOW DA FUCK!!!!Listen here, typical jrpg grind for weaker characters: Put a strong one in the party and let him defeat higher level monsters so the weaker ones can easily lvl up multiple times. It is grindy but simple and quick.CHRONO CROSS GENIUS:AFTER EVERY SINGLE STAR YOU HAVE TO FIGHT WITH EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER UNTIL HE GETS ALL THE SMALL SAT UPS. EVERY SINGLE CHARACTER!!!>The battle system itself is fast and engagingThe battle system is slow as fuck.The stupid stamina building dance adds nothing expect extra steps to a normal jrpg system, and that makes it slow and tedious.>you're not spending extra time watching animationsMost magic and summons animations are slow as fuck.
>>3844535It's called milestone leveling and it's actually pretty common in the west mainly with ttrpgs and gamebooks
>>3844535>why didn't any other game do what CC did where you only really gain levels after beating bossesエルファリア did this
>>3845603>How is that a good thing?I was responding directly to anon saying the game is tedious, so I'm not going to answer more questions if you are too retarded to follow along or read the rest of that post. I still don't know why anon says Cross is tedious, when again it was designed with many QoL features to make playing and replaying it convenient, to make it the opposite if tedious.
Do you have the """correct""" media literacy, anon?
>>3845623No state bailouts in anarch-capitalism, so any corporation that stumbles should fall and be destroyed by competition with no chance of recovery.They're supposed to be ruthless for a reason.
>>3845670Claire is where out of place character, a bad quest, and bad mechanics all form an unholy union. >>3845672I wouldn't call NC irrelevant, but I doubt corpo relevance there perfectly reflects the state of the world
>>3845674>No state bailouts in anarch-capitalismAkshually, seeing as CP2077 governments are literally vestigial fronts for the megacorps, literally all budget they have goes wholly exclusively towards bailing out their dommymommy corp.
>>3845634>it is only stealing when you don't say you will bite the bullet and didn't choose the secret ending dialogue. The mikoshi scene is weird that way. The last time I went through those endings was almost five years ago when the game first came out fuck, 5 years, really? so they may have changed in patches since then, but at the time, I'm certain I had the "secret ending" unlocked, since I did it. Aside from the nomad or devil endings, I did the last run with Rogue, as V, and then at the final choice could choose to keep the body or let Johnny take it, or the "secret ending" where you solo it, as Johnny, and then at the final choice, Johnny can choose to either keep the body or give it back to you. From what I've read, the "secret ending" is strictly unlocked by dialogue choices in "Chippin' In" and Johnny's relationship meter is completely irrelevant, but I've also heard that if you have a sufficient Johnny score, then he will automatically give your body back without a choice. Perhaps that's what you mean.>Much like how Alt has a secret relationship value with Johnny but you only have like 3-4 choices in never Fade Away (and two blue options instantly tanks the relationship).Wow, really? Any more details about this?
>>3845638>Racing in a game that isn't a racing game always sucksThe worst part is the rubber banding enemy cars do, accelerating in a way that's impossible for that vehicle. You can see this in the street driving around too, you can be flooring it in a Caliburn and if some twat in a 90 hp shitbox gets spooked from combat they'll start out-accelerating you and speeding away.
Fate - Fire EmblemUmineko - Final FantasyKey/Visual Arts - Tales of SeriesShinza Bansho - Star OceanTo Heart - TrailsGrisaia - LunarTsukihime - XenobladeDanganronpa - PersonaHigurashi - Dragon QuestTokimeki Memorial - SuikodenAce Attorney - Breath of FireFamicom Detective Club - Golden SunTwisted Wonderland - Kingdom HeartsDemonbane - GrandiaScience Adventure - Valkyria ChroniclesComment too long. Click here to view the full text.
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>>3845643Bots or indians.Or indian bots
Bump>>3845651I am not a Bots
>>3845642Are you that autist who posts that "Choose your favorite JRPG/Visual novel character" chart endlessly?Also most of your "comparisons" make no coherent sense. For example Umineko and Final fantasy have less than zero shit in common.
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How do you encourage players to vary their party in an RPG while rewarding and personalizing their experience with the ones they stick with
>>3843871Make the game hard enough for character choice to matter and lenient with exp so you don't have to grind reserves to use them
>>3843871Replayability. >>3843887Lol fucking destroyedOP you're a faggot loser
>>3843871>How do you encourage players to vary their party in an RPG while rewarding and personalizing their experience with the ones they stick withLet them create a custom party.
>>3843871I think RPGs need to giving the player more characters than they can field and actually base the party on the needs of the story.
>>3844034after years was not on gbaPSP and wii only
Instead of going back in time, why not just have sex? They already have everything that they need to repopulate the planet.
>>3844339A culture absolutely obsessed with peripubescence and sexuality, and yet so poisoned by the fear / stigma of being imperfect that they're literally incapable of even the most fundamental human behaviors.It's ironic.And contagious, since we now have evidence that the hikikomori phenomenon is rapidly spreading through the rest of the world for basically the same reasons:Hypersensitivity to / hyper-prevalence of body shaming and lifestyle shaming. Life protip, kids: you don't have to be perfect to be worth loving and respecting, and it that acceptance has to start within yourself. When you stop judging others, you feel their judgement of you be released. This is a virtually impossible problem to resolve at the scale of a population within the span of a single human lifetime.Money. Fucking money. When you're exhausted and stressed all the time, you can't have a constructive, healthy relationship. Fucking PERIOD. This includes healthcare, housing and diet. This is the easiest thing for government to address.Sexism. Two things can be true simultaneously: women needed improvements in their social standing and human rights to achieve parity with men... and men still a radical restructuring of the unfair burdens, limitations and pressures placed upon them. This is also never going to happen. Ever. What would it look like? Well. Women are doing fine now. But how come they aren't included in the military draft? How come only men are stigmatized as all being sex predators and pedophiles even though it's absolutely proven fact that women are, as well? How come men are overrepresented in dangerous and dirty jobs like lumberjacks, sewage managers, underwater welders, etc.?So what have we learned from Japan? That it's actually a good thing for populations to shrink. Literally EVERY SINGLE ONE of the problems facing our species at the moment is because of overpopulation.
>>3844370Yes i belive life would continue, a retarded (assume they were both 110 iq to be nice....down to low 80s before it keeps droping) Plus side this is vastly still smarter than aboriginals.
Op hereI really loved the first hundred days of this game. I thought it was a nice mix of rpg and visual novel with a fun cast of characters and settings. But boy does the game kinda fall off after the first route. Especially because the rpg portion of the game (you hit max lvl) way before the visual novel part runs outta content. I also think multiverse plots are just fundamentally flawed. In the first route I was sad when characters I grew to like died. Now it's more like curiosity "who's gonna die in this route". Multiverse stuff kills all the stakes and tension because you can just jump to another time line.I don't think I'm gonna bother seeing all the time lines it just feels like busy work
>>3843492Ask those who actually did it.
>>3844364>Less than 200 people total? You will get inbreeding issues within 10 generationsnatural selection would do 90% of the work
I'm playing this game and I really enjoy it. Let's discuss it. What is your favourite act and who is your favourite party member?
>>3844569Excellent RPG, top 10 material.>Favorite actObjectively speaking Act 1 has the best level design, so it would be the choice but I loved Act 2 more hence its my favorite because it has better encounter design and the combat opens up to more skills to use making it more fun.>Favorite party memberFane. I played as The Red Prince and it was cool, Fane is probably the best character in the game, the game doesn't have that many good companions, this is one of the way Larian improved upon in their next game.Should've asked more about like favorite encounter or favorite quest instead of companion though.>>3844932Its all personal tastes, but for me BG3 is better in all its acts. While Act 3 of BG3 is the weakest out of the 3, its still one of the best acts in RPG history and most especially long RPGs since we know now most of them fall off hard into the late game.Comment too long. Click here to view the full text.
>>3845458I couldn't get into BG3 but love DOS2. I'm not sure why, I think Fort Joy was a better first act with a more pressing situation for your character. I also like the combat better.
>>3845410>Also i think it bugs a lot of people that baldurs gate was actually split into several parts with lots of extra content, but they ended up cutting like half of it for some reason...This is a big part of it, for me. They clearly decided they needed to rush an unfinished game to market (supposedly to beat Starfield, which seems insane to me, since tons of people were hyped for bg3 and no one gave a shit about Starfield. And it wasn’t publisher pressure since Larian was self publishing and sat on a giant pile of EA money) and so they cut a significant amount of act 3 (the upper city) and then took what finished content they had and crammed into various spots in the lower city, like the house of forgetfulness or whatever it was called, and taking Cazadors formerly freestanding mansion (pictured in prerelease screenshots) and shoving it up on top of a wall up a ladder from a guardhouse, like fucking what?Anyway, shit happens, tons of classic RPGs had cut content, devs run out of money and time and work with what they got, it’s just how it goes. But Larian couldn’t just tell the truth about, they had to lie and say ummm akshually sweetie there was no cut content, and if there was cut content it was out of respect for you, our players. Like motherfucker just tell the truth, don’t blatantly lie to everyone’s faces like that, it’s insulting. Belgian twatwaffles.Also it was hilariously unoptimized, you could go from a smooth 144 fps in act 1, and at launch, act 3 would run at 60 and chug down to 30 just like bg1 lol
>>3845527Like i said, I don't think it really matters much in the greater scheme of things. If the level cap was higher, then cool, but d&d has always been weird about power scaling and there's only so much you can do before you get another ToB and have to fight a bunch of sponges, and the extra content would be cool at that point... it's just not needed. So as much as I would like to explore more shit, even if there was story behind it all, it would still be a waste of time that most people would probably skip anyway, like they already do with half of act 3's content. All you get out of it is some comfy RP and things to look at.
>>3845574It's a matter of principle. The fact that the level cap is arbitrarily set too low for the type of shit you end up fighting and for how long the game is, is a separate matter, though also true.
This is something i have thought for a while. I personally love how the genre itself is composed of games that have battle systems that enriches the world building and overall immersion, i want to hear your oppinions and your love for the genre itself
>>3845223Nox. The Conjurer playthrough to be exact. Controlling enemies was a blast on its own, but the you get to summon them yourself! Not only that, if you don't feel like wasting time you can order your summon to autoexplore while you rake out a crossbow and get to do some shooting on your own. Awesome!
>>3845223Not the fake JRPG slop in the OP, that's for goddamn sure.I think it was Fallout 2 that really sold me on the idea of vidya RPGs, but I didn't even play that for the first time until like 2004 which was around the time when western RPGs were getting diluted hard with garbage like KOTOR.
Final Fantasy VI (III back then) and Phantasy Star IV. Baldur's Gate for WRPGs.
>>3845223playing tales of symphonia around 13 years old had unforeseen consequences
>>3845223FF4 was my first rpg, which i played it back in 1992 or whenever it released in the US. I was hooked on the genre in about 20 minutes.
A trailer was included in the FC Remakehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P_pZ0f1aTyo
The script of 1st Chapter is self-censored. It's over for this trash franchise.
jRPGs are really gonna just be endless remakecuck bait for the foreseeable future, huh?
I have remake fatigue. These games did not need remakes.
>>3845330jrpgs? Video games retardo
>>3845159Found him
How in the hell do you choose a class in an rpg?I've started over in the same game dozens of times, and I can't figure out which class to play. I don't like any of them.Do you guys have a specific type of class you play in every game?
>>3845294They could be ruled by a human male. It's important to state that they would remain in charge
>>3844866I just pick something that sounds fun and roll with it. I don't really get agonizing over the choice that much; it's just not that important.>>3845096RPGs are poorly balanced more often than not, but I disagree with the premise that a poorly-optimized character will ruin the experience. If anything, a lot of the time I find figuring out ways to get things accomplished with a terrible character or how to turn a poor build into something useful more interesting and fun than steamrolling the game with a powerful character.
>>3844866Play a classless RPG. Classes are just an outdated relic of the 1970s, along with levelling, dungeon crawling and octohedral dice.
>>3845380Without classes you just wind up with a boring jack-of-all-trades with no personality.
>>3845381>you just wind up with a boring jack-of-all-tradesMaybe you do, powergamer
Remaster when? Even a simple one (inshallah free if you already own the original) that fixes bugs and added some quality of life combat (non retarded targeting and removing non blockable glitch strikes from 10 meters away) from KCD2 would be perfect. Also what are your favorite autistic role plays you’ve had with Henry in KCD1? I always choke out Kunesh in skalitz since he has the shortest knock out timer until my stealth is lvl 4 and I never got over the fact he rekt me in my first 10 mins of the game. t. 189hrs Kunesh choking Cuman Killing woman’s lot DLC ignoring Theresa Fucker
Remasters for games from 1995 that are barely playable without going through an arduous modding and tweaking process? Ok.Remasters for games that were released less than a decade ago that still run perfectly fine? What the fuck is wrong with you consoomer retards? Are you going to buy The Last of Us 2 Remastered Remastered Remastered as well?
>>3833943>remaster>game came out only 7 years ago>game is already visually impressiveLet me guess you miss this game so much don't you? Even though you could just be playing it right now.
>>3844639>Remasters for games from 1995 that are barely playable without going through an arduous modding and tweaking process? Ok.The only acceptable scenario yeah. I've been dreaming for a Rogue Squadron Remaster because as a depressed wagie I don't have time to figure this shit out and I never got to play that back in the day but it looks like sovl.
>>3841496Sounds like the standard experience. What's the problem?
Cant you just install a few mods?
The Untitled SpongeBob RPG Game by THQNordic and Bamtang will release on Nintendo Switch, Nintendo Switch 2, Playstation 5, and Xbox Series X|S for 2026.The game will be just like Nicktoons & The Dice of Destiny
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Why does this game have such good stories?Played this as a single player RPG and it BTFO every other (rpg) game I've played.Anybody else agree? Am I retarded? (Don't answer that)Maybe rec some non-fantasy RPGs with similar featuresPosting here since I don't really care about the MMO side of the game, I just like doing the quests and dressing up my character for my headcanons
>>3831440>it was rather interesting playing character that genuinely cared about state of the empire while also trying to shape less dogmatic view of the force around himWarrior is better if that's what you want
>>3841503No, he's blocking force lightning with his long glowing dick.
>>3844724>Licking a lightsaberAs a Lord of the Sith she is used to far worse indignities being forced upon her. Horrific indignities beyond your comprehension
>>3841538>micro-transaction baitthe game launched with exactly 0 MTX cancer.Cartel Market debuted like 2 years in, at most you had the pre-order crystals, the Collectors edition bonuses with the biggest one being the VIP lounge bracelet. Short of buying vendor mounts and financing your crafting missions there was no reason to hoard money.
>>3844724It just burned the saliva on her tongue.
