I recently finished Wild ARMs 2 and 3. 2 was pretty shitty but 3 was alright. Should I stop here or are the other games worth checking out? Excluding Alter Code F, I already know it's a shitty remake.
>>3930108You can play 1, it's pretty solid. I liked 2 more than you did but whatever - 3's still my favorite out of them. 4 and 5 are kinda fucked. 4 at least is fucked in an interesting way (and it's pretty short) so I'd say give it a try if you're interested. 5 imo is too long and really boring. Aside from the music - which is great for every wild arms game - there isn't much of anything that's worthwhile in 5. I haven't played XF. Can't really comment on it aside from it's a tactics strategy game instead of your more traditional jrpg.
>>3930108>mfw searching for locations on overworld
why you played anything other than 1?
>>39302005 has great girls too
>>3930246The game often literally tells you which direction to go, and your next destination is basically a straight line from where you are directed.>"Those ruins are southeast of here.">Walk southeast for 6 seconds, scan, find ruins.The game has real bullshit, like the alien side quest or the myriad optional bosses. Arioch in particular.
>>3930404>Invisible sky fortress that moves around the world map.
>>3930200>>3930270I did play 1, just not recently.
>>3930108>Excluding Alter Code F, I already know it's a shitty remakeGameplay wise, its a refined version of WA3. There are interesting things they did there like Emma's monster skills and the Abyss dungeon being less straightforward marathon but at the same time, they did something wrong like putting the steal skill from Jack to Jane, so item hunting will be around late game.Weird thing also is that NG+ will fuck up Jack's Fast Draw leveling since you'll retain his level from previous playthrough but resets his Fast Draw skill level and you have to grind it again but his high level will make it extremely hard because the skill exp you'll get from using it from high levels is just 1.Simply put, consider Alter Code F as a new game.
>>3930108I like WA3
>>3931445Yeah, I thought everyone liked 3. >>39301084 and 5 are also okay. I never played the PSP game. Alter Code F is fine, and includes a bunch of new stuff that's fun.
>>3930385This is objectively falseCarol is annoying as fuck, Rebecca is annoying and whiney, and what's-her-face is so incredibly boring that I'm not even going to bother looking up her name to remind myself
>>3931523>Yeah, I thought everyone liked 3I think it shows me why I liked WA1/2 but especially 1, although I forget now, their dungeons with a simple variety of puzzles and steady treasure rooms is satisfying. It makes it more fun to push forward through random encounters, cause I can even predict which room will be the treasure. And the constant boss battles make the story exciting, I see a cutscene where the Masked Man says he's sending the Huskarls after you, that's not some slow buildup that you see a couple hours later. You start the next area and they're blocking your way, they're the story of that dungeon.
>>3930108>2 was pretty shitty but 3 was alright.so you don't actually like the wild arms series, you just like generic jrpgs.
>>39318151 and 2 are a lot closer to generic jrpgs than 3 is. 3 does a lot of wacky stuff
