What is /vrpg/ opinion on the Octopath Traveler series
>>3957705first game is the most broken but also feels the best to play. the second game confuses being "bigger" with being "better" and a lot of the rebalances and additions actually end up feeling worse. don't know anything about 0, CotC is gachaslop.
>>3957705I tried the first game. One of the ugliest games I've ever played. I can't stand all the post processing bullshit effects they slapped on. "Look at these beautiful pixels ... but not over there or there, because we put a darkening vignette to obscure the screen AND an extreme depth of field blur everywhere."Combat-wise, I loved it. The stories I thought were really solid too. But more than the graphics I absolutely despised the structure. Reading the first chapter of 8 different books, then sequentially reading the next chapter of each of them is atrocious. And the game doesn't appear to be beatable without it, because they gatelock so much behind high level encounters. It's like an mmo. I put the game down after getting four people and realizing I'd need to get them all to continue. I don't think I've ever played a more frustrating and disappointing game. Will never touch the sequels.
>>3957705When I realized that there are only actually 4 path actions with 2 different flavors each it killed a lot of my interest in the game. It made the characters feel less special when their gimmick isn't actually unique to them.
I didn't expect partitio to talk like a yakuza guyI'm not really experienced with japanese accents, is it supposed to be recognizable as a regional way of speaking or something?
>>3957705They're pretty good. My favorite of the main jobs is the Scholar, with Apothecary coming in second.
OSVALD SEXO>>3957943Kansai-ben dialect (kind of) like Agnea's."Uneducated" country bumpkin equivalent in anime.
I thought the first one was bad. The combat is grindy and the characters' stories are all generic. I'd rather have one interesting campaign than eight boring campaigns.
>>3957705My opinion is sex with Ochette
>>3958393Uggo.I'd rather Kyastti.
>>3957865I don't know enough about graphic design or art so the first point you mentioned wasn't something I would have experienced. The mechanics of the game, coupled with the interwoven stories, was enough for me to really enjoy my time playing it. The second game as well. They have superbosses, something else I really like.I knew going in that it would be juggling the stories since it mirrored SaGa Frontier in that regard, so it was a non-issue. I can see why it would be frustrating for somebody wanting to experience a whole, fluid narrative though.I haven't tried 0, dunno if I will. It looks like it took mobile then slapped on a bunch of shine to call it a game. I might play it if I get it cheap, otherwise meh. The first two games are good though.
>>3958438>I haven't tried 0, dunno if I will.It has a really slow start but it's another case of "it gets good after 10 hours".They brought the build autism to the next level. Not only you have 8 active members, most of the skills of each member can be taught to the others, you can do a lot of cool shit with this system.The town builder part is also fun.If you enjoyed the other two games for the mechanics there's no way you won't also enjoy 0.
>>3957943This nigga missing out on the PEAK that is southern Partitio KEK
>>3958821not really
>>3958418Nigga you’re ugly
>>3959124Explain. His southern accent adds a lot of charm to his character.
>>3958821>>3959861Dubs are cancerous.
I'd like to bench Phenn but his ultimate is so fucking op.
>>3959881OT2 dub is kino
>>3959910I've seen people use him for the superboss to survive damage from that fight. Otherwise, he's been benched for most of my playthrough.
>>3959881
>>3958393I’m not a furry but she can get it
>>3959881You will never be Japanese
>>39577051 is a good start for a series though i want to strangle whoever came up with the true last boss (the fight itself is amazing but the path to said fight..)2 is better but also worse than 1 in a way, maybe i rate 2 higher than it should because some of jap seiyuu i like are there+ochette has kinda fun monster catching mechanicCotC is okay if you are fine with passive protag. Gameplay is watered down from other games but with 8 niggas instead of 4. Suffers from being a gacha where powercreep is absurd, dupes being important for some characters and its an old game so fuckton of timegated shit you must grind to do mid-endgame stuffDidn't bother to play 0 because i heard its basicly single player CotC with more story. Probably better to play this instead of CotC if you never played that beforeMy problem with octopath 1 and 2 is the lack of level scaling but routes keeps track of character levels from other routes you cleared which ruins the difficulty. Early on you can simply avoid using high leveled chars but later on impossible to do so unless you self handicap like doing 2-3 niggas party
>>3959881It's cool if you prefer the original audio but dubs have come a long way. Voice actors do a great job and not everybody wants to read text when there is other stuff on the screen to look at. I know you're being hyperbolic but it comes off as idiotic.
>>3960027I mean they could very well be Japanese, saying what they did simply because they desperately want people to listen to their native tongue instead of some imposter voice actors.
>>3960044Sex with Tressa
>>3960061Don't sex Tressa
>>3960079Only ot0 Tressa because she’s 15
It's incredible how these games become 10x better once you start skipping all scenes.Truly mysterious.
>>3959910I've made good use out of him through Thundering Cleave/Rain of Arrows and the Merchant skills since access to Axes and Bows is pretty good.
>>3959937Not really, but the written dialogue already sucked to begin with
>>3957865Dislike the graphicsHate the battle system. Worse weakness systems than the persona/SMT gamesTolerate the music, but could've been more diverseSees the potential of the concept, but the execution is worse than Live a Live
>>3961058>Worse weakness systems than the persona/SMT gamesAre they not basically the same thing except you need more weakness hits here? I've never understood all the praise SMT gets for its battle system. Is there something I'm missing beyond "Hitting a weakness gets you an extra turn"? I've only played P3 and SMT V
>>3961064>Is there something I'm missingNo, that's literally it. Weakness system is nothing like Persona/SMT because you already know the bigger focus is on hitcounts + breaking + concentrated burst damage for Octopath compared to just getting more actions upon hitting a weakness instead.
>>3961064My complain is that the playable characters didn't have weaknesses themselves, and persona/smt have a more nuanced resistance system (repel/resist/drain/null). This is a big problem for me, I want consistent themes and rules since they marketed it like a system from the beginningAlso I'm not arguing in favor of Press Turn btw, I find that system bad too, as you said, "Hit weakness gain extra turn"
>>3960054It's not a matter of quality.If you use dubs you're actively spitting in the face of the devs and shitting on the game.
>>3961376Brainlet take
Reime FUCKS
>>3961661Using dubs is like playing retro games like this.
>>3961789Reime + Cyrus and you're generally good on the physical and elemental damage fronts.
>>3957705Lifeless sandbox. May as well play Crystal Project.
Oh, they put this back. It was absolute bonkers in the first game.
>>3957705The battle system is "fine" but feels pretty shallow. The real deathblow to the game for me is how the campaign is structured. I originally expected something like SaGa Frontier with 8 characters whose different stories sometimes overlap. Instead it's>recruit this guy>skip his intro>play his chapter 1 or whateverover and over and over and it sucked ass. Basically fuck that game. Also I found most of the characters uninteresting.
Holding paws with Isla
>>3962112>Crystal ProjectAnother lifeless sandbox, but at least more engaging combat and mechanics.
Tell me about Olberic. Why is his blade unbending
