What rpg are you currently playing anon?
>>3988574Skyrim. This shit is so immersive I'm slow walking through the streets of Solitude.
>>3988576can I be honest here that I never really liked it that much.
>>3988577Suck my dick, faggot
>>3988579there is a reason everyone plays stealth archer
>>3988574Ascend from Nine Mountains
>>3988576I recall OP saying RPG, not action adventure.
>>3988574I have a few otg. Right now I'm playing Lufia 1, Mother 1 and chaos world. Finished Destiny of An Emperor 2 for the first time a few days ago. Gonna do magical world of wozz or Arabian Nights when some time frees up.
>>3988574Persona 5 Royal, for the first time, getting very very bored, I thought the Titanic palace was the last one and apparently there's like 40h more of gameplay and its 80% combat, and I'm tired of the shitty combat.
>>3989486JRPG's are all like that
>>3988580Skyrim is to ES what FO3 was to Fallout
>>3989750where is the great tes game made by another company?
>>3988574I'm waiting for the Dark Heresy beta to come out on pirate sites so I can try itPlaying some crusader kings 3 until then
>>3989486let me save you the trouble and post the only good part of the rest of the gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAhZrsMaafU
>>3989810Those are warhammer races?
>>3989834It's art of demons/deformed cultists of the 4 chaos gods
>>3989836Didn't know it's a thing.
>>3988574returned to ffxiv after taking a break on it right before shadowbringers. im enjoying the expansion a lot rn. they may have gutted most of BLM but im still having fun with it. not that i prefer it over what it was before. i started playing on the tail end of endwalker. i'd like to get caught up in time for evercold but im not holding my breath
I'm playing Fantasian, really like the mass random encounter cuckbox >>3989836The more I look at the slaaneshi the more I like it, great fucking design>generic coomerbait>machine underneath
>>3988574Daybreak
>>3988574I just finished, if we count rogue MD stuff, Shiren the Wanderer on SFC, the main 30 floor dungeon. The side stuff looks interesting to me but I can do that another time. Great game. I was playing Siralim Ultimate today for like 9 hours and it's cool, but I've been having a braindead spam murder of crows strat with like one attacking monster for single target for about half of that. Hand's a bit sore from lazily mashing the E key. I'm trying to figure out what I want to play next. I could jump into another Wizardry game, I could jump into some old PC stuff like Zeliard or maybe just something more traditional, idk. Almost too many choices, ya know? I really wanna play Dragon Quest IX but I'm a little worried I'm missing out without at least one friend to go through it with.
>>3988574i'm playing persona 5 royal for like the 10th time, but i've modded the current playthrough. some of the unused skills and traits seemed interesting, so i'm trying them out to see if they would fit in well or feel out of place. i've added back in social link/confidant skill acquisitions for (most) party members, as in persona 4 golden as well, although akechi's seems impossible unfortunately. i've spent weeks planning this out, theorycrafting it, testing the unused skills and traits to see if they work properly (they do), and balancing it. i got so tired of it and replaying the same dungeons over and over again, i needed a break to try to approach it not as if i was testing it, but as if i was trying to have fun with it as a new run.it's working so far and it's different enough, yet familiar enough. i'm quite happy with it so far. i still need to see if sumire joining the party early fucks with everything or not.
>>3988574Rogue Trader, as a heretical pyromancer. When I play RPGs, I usually am nice to everyone and so being an evil bastard is a very different experience for me. I'm slowly corrupting my companions by encouraging their worst tendencies.
>>3990106I don't get why they censored Feri saying Oorah. It's her catchphrase, she says it like every third text box. But nope, troonslaters didn't want to let the child soldier (who loves it!) be military themed.
>>3988574>LLM (Deedchink) + Sillytavern + loli harem cardSuperior than any game made in these last 30 years.It's the future, gentlemen.
>>3991133Is this your first playthrough?
>>3991357Yup. I already know a handful of them are going to leave me at some point. For now it's just funny to wear my chaos cape and gloves in front of an inquisitor. Kinda pissed he killed the robot hellhound I got on Kiava Gamma, though.
>>3991366based
>>3988580i play paladin because there are far better stealth sniping games out there
Just finished up a DQ8 playthrough, struggling to figure out what next. DQ8 remains fucking stellar, even if it's easy. This is actually the first time I've ever gotten all the minimedals in a DQ game, wasn't really worth it. Maybe I'll stick with the Retro gimmick and give Mana Khemia another shot.
>>3991378>are far better stealth sniping games out thereWhich ones are better than Skyrim?
>>3991385sniper ghost warriorsniper eliteghost recon breakpoint
>>3991398Thanks. I remember considering Breakpoint for the co-op. Maybe it's time to reconsider before it becomes a retro game.
>>3991378I play paladin in every game because it’s the right thing to do Bonus points if there’s no paladin class and I have to create my own
>>3991432breakpoint is far cry with realistic engagement ranges. so you're sniping guys from a kilometer away and watching the bullets arc into them>>3991436i play paladin because healing is the most efficient use of mana and a mace is the most efficient form of one-handed damage for someone who isn't constantly attacking
Shin Megami Tensei on the super nintendo and I gotta say even in 2026 im having a great time with this game sure, its not the hardest game with how broken it can be but the atmosphere, and music really do a lot of the heavy lifting and find and recruiting new demons is really addictive honestly I kind of wish they kept some of the mechanics from this game like the fact that demons don't level up so the only way to get stronger allies is to fuse them which means you have to be constantly recruiting demons to make sure you have stock to fuse and stronger members of your party it would fix a lot of the issues 5 introduces with allowing you to really power up your demons allowing you to take some pretty low tier demons all the way to the endgame which im not nesscarily the biggest fan of you can still technically do that but you are going to be at a real disadvantage
>>3991379>Mana KhemiaYou could also try Atelier Iris 1/2/3In AI3, you can switch to a "job class" and do combos like this:https://youtu.be/M8QhK5FFpco?t=94
>>3991436All kinds of divine priest classes, for me.
nothing. RPGs were my favourite genre but lately nothing does it for me. i keep bouncing off of everything i try. feels bad man
Tales of maj eyal!
>>3997372What genre are you playing at the moment?
>>3997503>level 40>open a chest even though they contain only pain and never anything useful>die instantly
>>3997689shmups mostly. i think ive been frustrated with how slowly most RPGs take to get to the fun part. my favourites are things like etrian odyssey or kaga fire emblem but theyre never getting new entries.
>>3998623>shmupsName a couple. I don't think I've ever touched the genre.>how slowly most RPGs take to get to the fun partTrue. Morrowind only starts being fun once you hit the like 40 hour mark.>etrian odyssey or kaga fire emblemWhat's the gameplay style of them?
>>3998643i got into the genre through zeroranger which i think is a great starting point. other ones i like are blue revolver, ikaruga, devil blade reboot, graze counter gm, and layer section. i also started getting through metal slug recently which i feel run and guns are basically just shmups anyway.morrowind is great its probably the last rpg i got really into (only played for the first time last year). but yes i think the first 40 hours before i became a crazy kill god was from the roleplay/imagination part not because the games are actually fun.etrian is just a very snappy very thoughtful turn based jrpg. i like all the party building and planning and then learning the enemy patterns and executing, it kind of feels like monster hunter but as a jrpg. fire emblem are strategy rpgs which play a lot faster than fft/tactics ogre/disgaea which ive found kind of too boring and slow. they have a lot of interesting depth in how you use unit types/the importance of position/etc which i find fun and challenging.
>>3997751#yeah
>>3988574MOTHER 2
>>3988574Hello stupid stinky person.I am currently playing Yes 2.
>>3988574DQ8 and Lightning returns, Ive been playing both series in release order on and off for 3 years or so. Like the 8 cast so far but kind of regretting the 3ds version, no random encounters keeps leaving me way underlevelled. Too early in LR to tell, I liked the combat in XIII-2 but the story was laughable so if its more of the same it should be enjoyable
>>3988577This isn't reddit, everyone already agreed on it being shit 15 years ago.
>>3988574nothing at the moment, the most recent one I finished was Greedfall. I have a KotOR playthrough I've been putting off for a while so I should probably get around to that, I've also been thinking of playing Witcher 3 since I haven't touched it since it first released and never did the DLC
Secret of Mana, I'm at the tree palace. It's ok. The story puts me to sleep, the MC is bland and hasn't said anything intelligent so far, and the second half of the game feels rushed.With that said, the graphics and music are amazing.
None.
I've decided I'm going to play every RPG in existence, at least that's how it feels. Trying to get through the trails series and I'm in zero right now. I'm triple welding some games so I don't get burnt out. So to go along with that I'm also playing Dragon Quest Builders 1 and Monster Hunter stories 1. So after I burn through those at least the non Trails one, I intend to play through DQ 1 and 2 remake followed by Tales of Graces f remaster. Then after those get into the octopath and live a live games
>>3988580It's fun and better than anything you could do in the previous games.
>>3988574Pic related.Currently stuck as a Mage, there is a room with two poison druids and I can't find a way to kill them without dying to that fucking poison afterward.Normally I would just pepper them from afar with Acid Cloud, but here they start directly in melee range and keep meleing unlike most casters - and acid cloud has an AoE so if I use magic I kill myself first. If I go full buff (Shield, Shield+, Strength+) and blow through a few health potion I can stab them to death, but then the poison take forever to dissipate and I die even if burn through the entire staff of potion accumulated since the beginning of the game.They are the last enemies alive on that map and while I *could* just be a coward and run through the room without killing them, it would feel really bad to leave with unclaimed kill XP.Checked the wiki and as a Mage is seems like there are no secret spell I could cast that heal or remove poison. The "Berserk" spell does jackshit, they don't attack each other.Burned through all my non-identified consumables in case one was a scroll/potion of cure poison or a 5sec god mode, but no luck.The one forum for this game is so dead it's only on the wayback archive. The wiki is barebone. No idea how I can win that encounter.
>>3989810tzzey here looks kinda cool with all the eyes. really cool design.
>>4003806Would you say the game is generally unbalanced or is it just this one encounter that's screwing you?I just downloaded both the Windows and DOS versions on a whim since those screenshots looked cool. Windows version didn't fill up the screen and crashed after a bit and while the DOS version looks a bit better the mouselook is brutally janky. What version and settings are you using?
>>3988574Dragon Conqueror
>>3988574FFXV. How did they spend a decade on this piece of shit game and not realize how fucking bad the combat feels
>>4004075Gladiolus and Ignis play much better but the base game is inexcusable
>>4004072>What version and settings are you using?Dos with DosBox-X, because the game really need savestates.Not because it's hard, because the maps take a long-ass time to explore and the game only let you save in town. The demo let you exit&save whenever, which was much better.If you want to do it without that, the Exodos version work out of the box perfectly, mouselook included.>Would you say the game is generally unbalanced It's my first play-through, and I didn't pick the class everyone praise on that old forum (warlock), so my opinion on it is probably not that valuable.>magic has a HUGE failure percentage. Even has a mage. Even with rerolling stat growth on level up to get max-ish Magic stats.>magic has a TERRIBLE regen rate. Even has a mage (+200% mana regen). This would be fine if killing an average enemy didn't take roughly a full mana bar.Playing the game is 1 minute exploring, 10sec fighting, 5 minutes alt-tabbing, 10sec fighting to kill the other mob, back to 5 minutes alt-tabbing.In the demo I picked knight (full melee class) and had a much better time, if a bit boring. Wanting to use the magic system and do something that swing a sword all the time might have been the secret masochist option.Warlock is a gimped mage that can still fight in melee decently, guess that's why it's "meta".From what I tried the entire third of all classes that are rogue-based are pointless, as rogue stuff doesn't do shit in practice so they trade away power for nothing.>is it just this one encounter that's screwing you?Just that one. Most other "hard" encounters where just a matter of patience and peak-a-boo. Ended winning it by giving the Berserk spell a second try on a hunch, I *think* it's not a classic "attack any target even ally" debuff, but a "activate KHORNE mode and only use melee" one. Blasted the two druids with it and then stabbed them to death, which ended with half the amount of poison stack and was survivable. Or maybe it was just luck.
>>4004075because Tabata wanted it to be casual:novacrystallis.com/2014/09/with-final-fantasy-xv-i-do-want-to-make-it-more-casual-says-tabata/>>4004077>Gladiolus and Ignis play much better but the base game is inexcusableGladios is spamming parries and counters.ignis is picking an element and Holding O
>>4004077Noctis is shaping up to be up there with Squall with my favorite protags so it feels like a cop out to play as the others but I'll try them out. I like the rest of the game, but whenever a battle starts it just feels like I'm flailing around and warp strikes feel like non-impactful glitz XVI had issues but the combat was at least fun
>>3988574Pathfinder: wrath of the buffing simulator
>>4004130>>Gladiolus and Ignis play much better but the base game is inexcusable>Gladios is spamming parries and counters.>ignis is picking an element and Holding Oand both of those are better that whatever the fuck noctis was supposed to be
>>4004332I used to dream about a game where I could go crazy with buffing.Then I made a gish in WotR.Now I can't fucking stand any build that require more than 2 buffs.
>>4004336>and both of those are better that whatever the fuck noctis was supposed to beI feel that Noctis was supposed to be like DMC4 Dante where you can swap between multiple weapons on the fly to take advantage of weapon type weakness and use various moves against various foes.but due to the complete and utter lack of difficulty, he's just a guy who smacks everything with one weapon type and can use items at 0 HP
>>4004341It just bores the living fuck out of me. I don't know why. I should love this game like my own child. But I just don't. Every fight is the same. Buff buff buff, here come the enemy, control spell, target touch AC, aaaaaaand we're done.
>>4004135>Noctis is shaping up to be up there with Squall with my favorite protagshow so? It felt like he did nothing, has no personality outside of "i like to fish", and every single aspect of his life and actions was dictated by someone else
>>4000959Beat Lightning Returns, actually really fun. Almost have the 4th party member in 8, this games real nice to play right before bed.
>>4010236>Beat Lightning Returns, actually really fun.if it wasn't tied to FF13 people would really like it: very unfairly tainted by public perception of XIII
I'm feeling like playing a 3D open world slop full of shit to do and grind, what are my options?
Hyperdimension Neptunia Re.birth1really fun JRPG with cool systems
>>4010241which is completely fair, the story barely makes sense having played the first two games, playing it alone would feel awful, but the first two have so many issues themselves you cant recommend them. I get that Final Fantasy has a series that has to constantly change, but it would really benefit from at least having two or three games with each system before moving on to the next one.
>>4010251I havent played Kingdom Come Deliverance but that might fit the bill
>>4010276Not slop enough.
Just started playing Dragon Age Origins a couple of days ago, and hooked. loving every second of it old Bioware games are such gems
>>4010350mb, tried typing this while watching a movie
>>3989810>>3989836Ugly, extremely jewish west-oid artstyle.
>>4010350Origins is fantastic. I wish it got a remaster on new consoles.
>>3988574>>3989266>Right now I'm playing Lufia 1, Mother 1 and chaos worldReporting back in, finished Lufia 1 and Mother 1 and realized I had one the "bad" translations of chaos world (non-chronix) so shelved that one a bit.I've started and finished Xenogears, and started Lagrange Point, Trials Mana, Exacaliburian and Emerald Dragon since then. I'm also picking away at my Crystal Project endgame save from a few years ago.Probably going shelve trials of Mana for a bit till I knock the other games out. Then maybe do all of dragon quest mainlines, I've only finished XI S but close to finished 7 and 8 years back. I'm having trouble deciding what DQ versions to use. I find emulating DS is garbage. Also just playing DS RPGs on hardware felt like a chore. I don't know why people recommend DS, desu.I'm guessing super Nintendo and Famicom will be the way to go.
>>3988721Saying ts like an action adventure can't be a fucking RPG
>>4010350Still me playing DAONo idea who to romance Morrigan or Leliana for my first playthrough Playing a generic good guy paladinAlso loving the fact I can headcanon myself as being a blood angel with the reaver and champion specializationsTook the first opportunity to drink that shady blood at the Soldier's PeakLiterally am proto Sanguinius nowLoving this game more than Kotor man
>>4011790I look like a pale blond handsome squidward tooThis peak is only getting better and better
Last Remnant continues to be coolI got to the obvious death flag so I'm trying to get all the side quests done before triggering that
>>4010429Surprised it never did desu
Been playing DQ4 for the first time recently. Just got to chapter 5 where you finally play as the hero. I thought it was cool playing as each party member in the chapters leading up to finally playing as the protag, my favorite being Torneko’s chapter. Slaving away working in someone else’s store for a couple of gold to eventually swimming in money and opening your own shop was satisfying.
I bought Astlibra while it's on sale, been at it for 3 days and already have 15 hours inI maxxed out Luck because I'm fucking retarded like that, but I got to the beach area and the fucking regular slimes are oneshotting meGame's fucking fun tho
I'm playing Arcanum and Chrono Trigger. Switching between the two of them randomly to have a bit of variety.I might just keep this scheme going. Playing a CRPG and a JRPG in parallel.Maybe I'll even add a third leg to this strategy. What's another sub-genre of RPG to add to this scheme to fill a different gameplay niche?
>>3988574Final Fantasy XIII-2, my main motivation for continuing playing it is seeing the stories of the old party members through. I like the Paradigm shift system but random encounters in areas which are unavoidable can make it fatiguing at times, as you go from fight to fight blasting through enemies switching paradigms two or three times only per battle. The inclusion of a monster tamer system to make up for only having Noelle and Serah is interesting but the wide breath of options and limited upgrade resources make me weary of investing in newly acquired monsters. Other than that the maps are pretty, the overall plot is interesting, the music is phenomenal and exploration rewarding.
>>3988574bg3, multiplayerff5, singleplayerkingdom come, singleplayer
I just finished Metaphor Refantazio. It's okay, I had a lot of fun playing it but nothing about it really stuck with me after I beat it.Is "Look Outside" any good? It looks like it would scratch that same itch Lisa did, but the kind of discussions I see about the game makes me worried it's more like Undertale which I really didn't care for
I keep trying to find an RPG to stick and none of them will. JRPGs, CRPGs, even that french fuck RPG. None of them are catching my interest.
I'm playing and desperately trying to enjoy Realms of Antiquity but man, I don't think I have this in me anymore. The nostalgia wore off an hour in, now it's just nothing.
beat Daybreak 1.Shocked that the game didn't end on a bigass cliffhanger like Sky 1, Zero, CS1, and CS3
>>3988574recently finished persona 3 fes. will be playing shin megami tensei 4 soon.
>>3988574
>>4017510Zero didn't end on a cliffhanger. There were a ton of things resolved but the actual story ended with everyone holding hands and shit. Ao ended on "and then Erebonia conquered them offscreen LMAO" which was fucking insane at the time. Kuro 2 doesn't end on a cliffhanger either (and most of the important shit is in the vacation beach arc for some reason) but Kai ends on the biggest cliffhanger in the entire series, ever worse then >and Valimar promptly fucked off because the cat who just started talking told him toCS3's cliffhanger was fucking kino and Sky 1's is the defining moment of the series
>>4017624>things resolved but*things UNresolved
>>4003806you know... maybe the game just sucks? but like DOOM, the best strat for such not-FPS games is to run fast to avoid getting hit by stuff.
>>4017426>>4017501maybe you should get a new hobby , anontry >>>/a/
>>3988574Xronicles 2. Currently grinding out affinity charts on the named blades during postgame; might try getting around to actually properly equipping all of Tora's blades sometime soon since I just threw some bullshit onto all of Poppi's forms.>>4017399Depends. What did you primarily dislike about Undertale? Gameplay wise they're not really comparable at all; Look Outside's more of a standard turn based jarpig with a comparitively larger emphasis on resource management, and it's not like the game expects you (or even allows you) to spare every hostile force you meet outside of running past them. It's difficult to make comments on the tone of the story/world since there's more than a few contentious part of it in Undertale that detractors bring up. At a bare minimum, I'd say that LO isn't anywhere near as bleak of a setting as Lisa is nor is it as reliant on dark humour, but I also wouldn't call it as lighthearted as UT's pacifist/neutral route in totality (a few sections of the game definitely feel like they could be slotted in there though). If you're still somewhat curious, you can give the itch.io demo a try before you think about purchasing the main game.
>>4017426>>4017501I lowkey have that issue, not just with rpg's doe, but with games in general. The year almost ended(or "almost", but i'm sure i don't really do anything productive for these remaining 5 months either) and i essentially completed maybe 7 games total, while wasting most of the time doomscrolling or doing something equally miserable.
I played some of a roguelike etrian clone this weekend and it was pretty coolbuggy as fuck though and only 3 floors plus a bonus boss so not actually worth spending on
digimon time strangersometimes I wonder how did pokemon got the bigger straw between the two
>>4019472this game is such bullshit but I love itas far as I can tell thunder mage is the GOAT
>>4022058idk how the fuck that happened
>>3988574Geneforge.
>>4019972>sometimes I wonder howDigimon World 1 was not as highly received as Red/Green/Blue was. They changed the formula every iteration after until they found a niche (in Cyber Sluts) unlike Pokemon that repeated the formula and then branched out.Speaking only for the games, how Pokemon became a top 3 money maker was mainly cute, memorable designs, since the other non-game media was shit after the second movie.
>>3988574just finished rance 01 while taking a break from persona 5 royal, now I'm resuming
>>4019472>>4022058>>4022059name?
>>4022137basedI still have to play the rest of the series
>>4022333Labyrinth Trailblazers
End RollYes, it's an anime-esque quirky RPG Maker game, but it just hooked me for some reason.
Final Fantasy 8 for the first and yep... it's... something alright.
>>3988574Fallout LondonDespite being a buggy mess its still miles better than F4
>>3988574stickmen meme game.>playing the stickman RPG after forgetting about it for 4 yrs. account was still alive. and i find a giantic pie. size 100 but my stickie can only eat up to size 15.post RPG foods. inb5 banned for /ck/
>>3988721Zelda are ARPGs
>>4023061>a buggy mess its still miles better than F4FF4? norway!
>>4023101>Investigate spittoon
>>4023119>spittooni never played that challenge game in KOL because i like my permed skills.
Started Lost Odyssey and despite some minor graphical issues and got up to the first short story segmentpretty cool thus far
>>4017935It's good to know there's a demo, thanks anon
Lost Odyssey is really fucking goodhad it been released on the PS3 I don't think the latter day dark age of jrpgs (FF13-FF16) would have happened
what a reasonable man
H-hot...
>>3988574Does fallout 3 count? Been replaying as much of it as I can in prep for the remaster lol absolutely nostalgia goggles, I probably wouldn't tolerate its shit without them
>>4031508God, I really do fucking despise Japanese, Korean and Chinese fashion design. It's so fucking stupid and ugly looking.
>>4039001>>4039001this is a totally practical thing for a person to wear
>>4010257that series is fucking stupidbut I played and liked it for funny dumb dialogue, cute neps and coziness
I'm playing FFV in Japanese for practice.
I'm playing Arcanum. level 28. Just got taunted by the main villain who just showed up suddenly (that story line is a bit underdone at the moment)Then I saw the Dwarf Prince, got lectured on culture being like rocks or whatever. Then I started going through the dungeon to try and find the King. I had to look up where the dungeon was because he said it was to the south-east, and I thought that meant outside travel.
>>3988574Pillars of Eternity. It's dreadfully dull, but I don't hate it.
>>4025684Name of this fine looking rpg?
>>3988574final fantasy 2 gba remake, i finished the main game and now i'm going through the postgame addition called soul of rebirth where you play as the dudes who died along the way, it's pretty cool
some call it an RPG but it's actually a point and click game with some RPG elements, Zero ParadesI'm having a lot of fun, feels and Hershel is my broken wife
Fantasian is really fucking goodThe first arc is pretty linear but the second half is just the World of Ruin with quest markersyou start w/ a party of 3 and can immediately rush the final boss or you can go recruit the other 5 and do their quest chains and a pretty huge amount of side dungeonsgame is 100% a Lost Odyssey sequel but I understand why they didn't keep the nameshame the short stories aren't as good
>>3988574Atelier Firis. I'm still not sure how I feel about it. I like some of the things they changed but fucking hate others, and it's very clear a lot of things suffered as a result of changing to the open world format. The pacing has been completely obliterated and so far 2 of my party members haven't even been in a voice acted cutscene. One literally just shows up at your doorstep and tells you to do something and then joins after with not a single line of spoken dialogue or even really a cutscene. Overall I'm just really hoping Lydie and Suelle is as good as I've heard it is. Going to be going through the Dusk trilogy after I finish that one and Sophie 2.
continuing playing mistwalker's gamesbeat Fantasian and it was fucking fantasticthe ability to defer random encounters and fight them all at once makes grinding super easyonly complaint is that by the end the only stat that matters is speed but otherwise Fantasian is a better implementation of CTB than FFX or any of the latterday Kisekis anyway, Last Story looks good with the trooncore filter on
>>4017426>>4017943Try playing something genuinely unique or off kilter like Dragonfable then, or even genres and styles you normally wouldn't ever touch.
NWN2. first time, and enjoying it!
>>4011811I can vouch for Astlibra.It's important to get high luck so you get the rare and legendary equip recipes, but you don't have to be such a stickler that you need to get the recipes on your first time through the story area. You can always revisit the chapter later and pick up what you missed, though the gear will be severely outclassed quickly by later chapter basic gear, each gear gives you a special skill so they're worth picking up even still.You can also always respec at a magic mirror. There's one in the Arena and in the floating house shop that's in the dungeons. Think there's one in the Main Character's house too.(You probably already figured all of that out by now, anon. Just in case though for anyone else reading along)
God Americans are such cocksuckers "Muh JRPG's! Muh Japanese Media!"You all suck, your games suck, try some fucking real man media like bg1, gothic 1, fallout 1, games with a story, with depth. Not fucking "ohhh I'm running around and now the UI is "attack" "defend" "spray cum"" ughJRPG UI gives me fucking aids, I HATE the canned looking "4 characters vs monsters" with the SAME shitass UI and animations. Literally nothing is fucking new. It's disgusting, you're disgusting, enjoy your lack of healthcare cucks
uh oh yuropoor meltie
>>3988574shining the holy arki just got done beating this guy. he wasn't as hard as some guy on youtube said he was
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>>4056729>>he wasn't as hard as some guy on youtube said he wasGot the same situation with an old RPG. >one of the rare detailed review about it warn about needing a specific spell effect (Waterwalking) otherwise you can't complete the level, with the game giving you no warning you should get that before entering the map>dread getting locked, hoard every potion with Waterwalking effect>turn out if you aren't a retard and explore a bit the game give you a ring with permanent Waterwalking anyway, before any of the actually watery levelsThat fucking noob gave me anxiety for the first half of the game over nothing.
>>4056747It's sad when you realise just how much impact these videos can have on the reputation of games with how wildly inaccurate they often are. I wonder just how many games would have been successful if they didn't get trashed by people who don't know the first thing about them sometimes, nowadays I don't trust any reviews or opinions online at all.
>>4056375Yep, I ended up 100%'ing it within maybe a couple of weeksWhat a glorious glorious glorious game, and unfortunately nothing else really comes close. I normally dislike grinding and having to farm dropped materials for weapons and stuff, but this game actually made it enjoyable enough, and the Weapon Mastery system meant I had something to actually look forward to instead of "farm for 10 minutes so you get a +4 sword which is marginally better than your current +3 one". Spells were fun, the story was fucking amazing and you could really see that it was one based autist's pet project of a game. I kneel.
>>3989980i have in the last month finished dawntrail and am now in evercold waiting room. hope to do some raiding once that weekly currency cap gets removed later in the year. but for now i am pleased to be relatively done in time for a excuse to replay Darkest Dungeon tomorrow.
>>4023101well i got quite sick of it after completing a saucerer and seal clubber run. quite a few times the server hung on me just before a server reset and i haven't equipped my "Rollover" config. might also be just bad old PHP code and firefox incompatibilities. apparently the KOL game site always tried to load a MIDI DLL, but it never plays any music, so WTF?playing an itch.io indie game by a polandguy if that counts as /vrpg/ or VN of sorts.
>>4056561thanks. as a non-USAian. i will replay.... *checks AOL list* the underrated Chrono TRIGGER.
>>3991378Agreed! I think this guy gets it.I remember a game like Operation: Flashpoint had enemy snipers who are better than you at stealth sniping.
>>4059571>2 months agothanks for the (You) or not
not one good game in the entire thread
>>4022059>>4022058I see these etrian/smt dungeon crawlers pop up frequently, tons of them floating around but none of them ever really get big. What gives?
>>3988574Replaying Dragon Quest VI DS. Ashlynn keeps on being the life of the party chat despite dying in every other battle.>Let's go, let's go!Also, I almost forgot how stupid the vocation system is with the level caps. Especially since Carver ended up being at least one level above the hero (and thus the current area's level cap) somehow.
>>4062206People overall do not really like jrpgs and turn based games, and they especially do not like dungeon crawlers.>B-but Final Fantasy, Baldur's Gate and Expedition 33 are popular!Exceptions to the rule, they are popular despite the prejudice. Although you could argue there's a slight uptick lately that still doesn't extend to things like dungeon crawling games. There's also the fact that the market is split up between different types of consumers of the genre. Someone who enjoyed FF7 is not necessarily going to be the same consumer of EO or vice versa, and so on. There isn't really a large general market for turn based games that are not already established IPs, but there is just enough of one that you can do well if you get lucky, have a fuck load of marketing like E33 or you manage to scrape by while making a small profit by targetting a niche with lower quality but consistent releases like Experience Inc or Kemco.
>>4062206I feel like blobber style dungeon crawlers are just super niche and considered dated in generalstill, even in more recent years we still get new ones so we're lucky in that respect
i like to mastubate to tandi
>>4017501Decide to look this game up and got really shocked by it's disc size, i thought making games this small is some kind of lost technology these days. >>4054019Not sure if playing some lame looking browser mmo is the way to cure gaming impotence, anon.
>>4064816Dude, she’s made of clay. That’s really gross.
Was in the mood for something unc so I'm playing the PS1 remake of Wizardry 1; it's my third tile-based dungeon crawler aside from EOU1 and The Dark Spire. Everything can be switched to English except for spell descriptions but GameFAGs has me covered on that. Currently mapped out a good chunk of Floor 3 after farming Murphy's Ghost for XP so my priest could get Latumofis and stop my party from getting raped by poison every other encounter. So far, I like it; it's not blowing me away, but it's cool to experience what DRPGs and almost every JRPG come from.
im playing tru undertale agien this time with a bnp mod
>>3988574Starting Marie soon. Newer Atelier titles are too lenient. Borderline unrecognizable.
>>3997311Building up combos in a turn-based game is tight!
>>4017617Pawapuro is more of an RPG than the MLB The Show franchise.Picrel was my boss in Pawapuro 13 (for the PS2) btw
>>3988574Played Serpent in the staglands, heard it was similar to Darklands but I can't just get into it. it's just so fucking boring.Anyone here played this game too?
>>4078164kekOl' Adolf just keeps popping up in the strangest of places.
i am currently playing persona 3 reload after finishing the original one and the portable one too as well ─‿‿─
>>3988574Just started playing Baldurs Gate enhanced edition about a week ago. I have about 25 hours in and I'm having a great time. I am so happy that i finally decided to try it after having it in my steam library for so long.
>>3988574im playing cyberpunkmy last playthrough i did was b4 phantom liberty cameoutim a 3440x1440 faggot that loves to enter photomode and take retard screeniespic related(rn im at the part in dlc where ur at the party)
>>4080360I didn't, but it looks like total ass. Kinda baffling how all these devs that trying to copy old games graphic style manage to make it look infinitely worse than these 20 year old games.
>>4082747Yeah, the visual clarity is dogshit but I think the art have some potential
>>3988574>>4024920FM3 again. and i must say i hate remember the scoring system for getting Platinium medals. you lose points for doing too much damage, you lose points if your weapon skill is too high. in some missions , there's a time limit of sorts, but you lose pts for beating it w/o beating all the enemies, even though beating all the enemies would make you lose points for taking more turns. i think i got my 40 platiniums by save-scumming a lot in earlier missions, just to get the kool beam weapon later on.
Legend of grimrock 2, got it last week when it was on sale and it rocks cock. Think I cleared everything in the sewers and now I'm making my way through the lexiconary. Going to play the eye of the beholder port someone made on the workshop after I beat the base game. Does anyone here know what other custom dungeons in the workshop are worth playing?
Grandia reply at the moment, just got to New Parm.
I just finished FF8 and am undecided what to play next. I'm considering Blue Reflection or Blue Dragon (since there is a PC port/recomp or whatever out there now). I'm on the fence about reflection because I have a family and I dunno if I want to have a moment where they walk in and it looks like I'm basically watching porn when there's some unexpected fanservice scene. But Blue Dragon kinda looks meh after watching some old reviews and footage.Also, I had played FF8 like three times before over the years but never finished it until this time. I can safely say, after basically 100% it, that I don't really like it overall. It has some awesome set pieces and the vibe during the missions is super fun. The invasion of Dollet, the train mission, the sniper assassination mission: all super fun. But the overarching plot is fucking stupid 2DEEP4U time travel bullshit. The game basically ends indicating Squall set off the story with a paradoxical causal time loop when he and Ultimecia visit the orphanage, but then it just moves on to the credits scenes where they have a party and it's all good. So you know at some point, Ultimecia will be born (or Rinoa becomes her if you ascribe to that theory) and the whole thing is basically all for naught. Just felt like the story was a waste of effort. And while the junction system is neat, I think it's poorly explained and executed. The summon-boosting abilities shouldn't be what the game tries to unlock automatically, it should be the refining ones. The game is night and day different levels of difficulty if you know that refining magic from items is WAY better than using Draw. Like I went and refined Water, Curaga, and Quake early on, and the game was just trivially easy from an hour into disc 1 all the way to the end. Whereas on previous playthroughs I had been doing the more common "draw magic from everything" playstyle, and found the game incredibly tedious.
>>4087624>I just finished FF8 and am undecided what to play next.Play 10. Make sure you skip 9, it’s mediocre.
I've been trying out Phantasy Star Online through Ephinea, Phantasy Star Universe through Clementine, and the English patch of Phantasy Star Portable 2 Infinity. What these games lack in build autism compared to other action rpgs, they more than make up for it in regards to enemies. I love the Diablo branch of action rpgs, but the handling of enemies in those games tend to devolve into blowing up clumps of different colored meat. In PSO, U, and P2I, you actually have to think about how you will deal with different groups of enemies. It's such a shame that Universe and P2I cut down how many skills/abilities you could perform at once. Yeah, the weapon palette kind of works around it, but it's still a shame.
>>4087708I've already beaten both of those a couple times. 8 was actually the only game in the series I hadn't beaten. I'm really just not a fan of the games after 7. For me it's:7 > 4=5=6 > 1 > 2 > 3 >>> everything elseFrom 8 onward, I just find the stories too convoluted and focused on psychological-twists to be actually engaging. I enjoy the simplicity of the earlier games, and I find the materia system of 7 to be one of the best systems ever devised as it's so customizable and quick to modify. With 8 onward, it just felt like they were trying to reinvent the wheel and turn each game into a movie with these 2deep4u themes.By comparison, I greatly enjoyed stuff like Bravely Default as a return to form while also being innovative.
>>4087624>FF8 like three timesi dunno. play FF5. i still haven't beaten it after playing it on and off for 6 years+++. i don't even know if i still have the savegame.>Blue Reflection>watching pronyuri not-atelier high skool grills are pure, anon. tell your senpaitachi to purify themselves.i have AI-gen hen thai of them though.
Got FF15 Comrades on a whim.Pros:Having to actually learn the combat system instead of just Holding O and having access to your item bag 24/7Weapon upgrading feels niceCons:The AI Allies are too good. They carry entire fights at times and I can't turn them off or reduce their numbers
>>4087855So then I have to ask:Cloud's mimicking of Zack and his psychological damage... was that a strike against FF7's narrative? Do you think the game would've been better if Cloud was just basically Zack the entire way through in terms of personality?Also, when you compare FF7 to the other FFs, what makes it stand out so much more from, say, an FF4, 5, or 6?I'd also be interested to know how you felt about FF10, and which bits you felt were "2deep4u," because I think a lot of FF7 DNA went into the making of FF10 and I'd be curious to know where it went astray for you.
>>4087855>it just felt like they were trying to reinvent the wheelHow can you not respect the attempts at innovation? For fuck's sake, that's how they came up with the materia system you liked.I guess this comes down to how peasants think creators do these great things with perfect vision and execution, and when something doesn't land, the peasant (with hindsight 20/20) doesn't understand how a creator could do such a thing.
>>4091067>Also, when you compare FF7 to the other FFs, what makes it stand out so much more from, say, an FF4, 5, or 6?Millions of people played FF7 first before any of the others.
>>4091067>Cloud's mimicking of Zack and his psychological damage... was that a strike against FF7's narrative? Do you think the game would've been better if Cloud was just basically Zack the entire way through in terms of personality?No, I really liked it. Blew my mind back in the day, but also made a lot of the game's plot during the first couple acts (basically up until the reveal) very difficult to follow. I can vividly remember reading the flashback dialogues in the reactor bombing missions and when Cloud wakes up in the church and being extremely confused who was talking. I think the Remake actually does a better job there because you have voice acting and other clues that Cloud is hallucinating/remembering things. It was a risky storytelling move that paid off well in the twist and Cloud's character development.>what makes it stand out so much more from, say, an FF4, 5, or 6?For me it's the materia system and a focus on magic versus innate character skills. I like those games, but FF4 and 6 kind of railroad characters into specific functions. 5 much less so, but I prefer materia to jobs because it's very mix-and-match. You can plop all your materia on another character. You can't plop your job levels on someone else and have to grind them up individually if you want to move things around.>FF10, and which bits you felt were "2deep4u,"Mainly two things. FFX is an outlier in the series for there being a TON of past-tense inner monologue from Tidus. It's a major shift in storytelling to make the game feel more like a movie (a story being told that has already happened) and less like a game where I'm having the adventure as it happens and defining it. The other one is the twist about Dream Zanarkand, compounded on top of the twist about the Unsent. I don't think FFX is nearly as bad as FF8 though in the department of having too many twists. It's just a trend I see in the games post-7.I don't hate any FF games. Just didn't like FF8 all that much.
>>4095431>FF4 and 6 kind of railroad characters into specific functions4 has fixed character classes for every character and you can’t modify that class or even their abilitiesYou can’t even modify your party composition, it’s fixed by the story for the entire game“Kind of railroaded” is a mild understatement
Final Fantasy (and JRPGs in general) are games that you play for the story, not gameplay.If you want real, gameplay challenge then don't play JRPGs.
>>3989800Are you trying to imply FNV was good? Because holy shit, my sides.
I just finished Arcanum (8/10) and just started Neverwinter Nights.It's pretty good so far. I like how the areas are small and compact so I don't feel like I'm getting lost constantly. Being back in a RTWP system is nice, though I wish there was more in the way of differed timings, like how in the Infinity Engine games where you can auto-attack as much as you want, but the moment you quaff (love that word) a potion, or start casting a spell, that's when your "internal turn timer" starts, and you aren't going to be able to do another proper action for six seconds, but you can still go back to auto-attacking.Maybe it's just a 3e thing. I haven't played 2e.Can anyone else reassure me on this?I'm playing a wizard, currently level 5. Just finished the prison dungeon. I'm mostly just spamming the ice wand that guy in the tutorial gave me. Should I start using an actual weapon, or just stick with that. (I tried using a crossbow, but I kept on missing.)
>>4096364>Infinity Engine games>auto-attacking>Can anyone else reassure me on this?Someone might need to correct me on this, but iirc the infinity engine games make your character do a ton of "fake" attacks just so something happen on screen.If you turn on dice roll display in the chat box, you can see which one are actual attacks and which ones are just "for show".Neverwinter Nights doesn't cheat like this, so combat look really uneventful for low level characters without multiple attacks per round.>>4096364>level 5 WizardUse a summon (the long duration ones are fine), a familiar (imps for combat, fairy if you want a bootleg rogue), and a mercenary.Putting buffs on those will generally give better results than spamming offensive spells, although it's a lot less fun.
>>4096394I got about 25% of the way to having a gaming crisis about the cosmetic attacks, but then I remembered that the spell and action instant feedback part was still true, so it's fine anyway. I'll need to remember to turn that off for my next playthrough.I picked the Pseudodragon as my pet, and I'm still using Tomi as a follower.Also, I just now found out that I accidentally locked myself out of ever learning a Conjuration spell. I thought that the "Configure Packages" button on that section of character creation was a separate thing to make your own package rather than just modifying an existing one. Oops. I hope there's a way to cheat that into a different type of specialist. I may not be far in the game, but I still don't want to start over. I actually made almost the same issue in Baldur's Gate. I made a Transmuter mage which locks you out of Abjuration, not knowing that breaking shields was the most important thing you do in BG2. Imoen really hard carried the party until I got Ruby Ray.
just about to play Disgaea 7
Alternating between Baldurs Gate 3 and Etrian Odyssey V
>>3988574Kingdom Hearts 3 and Dragon Age Inquisition
I'm about 10 hours into a xianxia/wuxia RPG called Wandering Sword. If you like that genre, I totally recommend it. It's honestly one of the best games I've played in years.
>>4097838I've been meaning to play thatI did play Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion which was pretty good, a lot better than expected
>>4084030>Damageok i think the Damage stat is actually the damage you take from enemies per mech, on average. so the shields do help with that. but NPC damage also counts???and most of the missions seem to want me to destroy 1 enemy mech per turn to get platinium. one of the boss fights with Ivan or whatshisname, seem to expect me to take him out in 2 or 3 turns with minimum "actions" whatever that means. what a pain.i used Body Smash with High-Activation Computer on Alisha with Missiles, and savescummed to OHKO them for the rest of the platiniums. as soon as the High-Activation COM was in shop anyways.some missions later, i got the Beam Weapon, fired it a few times, and now i remember why i stopped trying to get it. cost 15 Action Pts to fire it, and my spookyman Liu only had 20 APs per turn. it's only slightly more powerful than Alisha's missiles at that point. Missiles cost 10 AP to fire but have limited ammo, and some mech modifiers can reduce "Fire" damage by as much as 40 percent. Beams count as "Neutral" so no mech bodyarmor reduces the damage. I just need to train up Liu again. the Honshu ultimate mech is pretty nice though. Lightweight and tanky, enough power to equip the best Shotgun, Grenade Launcher and a Shield on it. i don't need that much firepower at all. i'll just download the mech next time. that don't require any platiniums IIRC.
>>4104004and i only needed 35 platiniums to unlock the chance to hijack that beamgun with the ultimate mech. i got 38 platiniums.
>>4104004learned "Aim-Arm" burst-weapon skill twice in a training sim,n equipped them. immediately after that, it's a mission with no Wanzers, NO ARMS! what the hell, game. previously failed to learn "Aim", which randomly aims a body-part, not just arms.maybe i should just go back to comboing 1-slot skills.
