>>3988574
Skyrim. This shit is so immersive I'm slow walking through the streets of Solitude.

>>3988576
can I be honest here that I never really liked it that much.

>>3988577
Suck my dick, faggot

>>3988579
there is a reason everyone plays stealth archer

>>3988574
Ascend from Nine Mountains

>>3988576
I recall OP saying RPG, not action adventure.

>>3988574

I 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.

>>3988574
Persona 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.

>>3989486
JRPG's are all like that

>>3988580
Skyrim is to ES what FO3 was to Fallout

>>3989750
where is the great tes game made by another company?

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>>3988574
I'm waiting for the Dark Heresy beta to come out on pirate sites so I can try it
Playing some crusader kings 3 until then

>>3989486
let me save you the trouble and post the only good part of the rest of the game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAhZrsMaafU

>>3989810
Those are warhammer races?

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>>3989834
It's art of demons/deformed cultists of the 4 chaos gods

>>3989836
Didn't know it's a thing.

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>>3988574
returned 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
>>3989836
The more I look at the slaaneshi the more I like it, great fucking design
>generic coomerbait
>machine underneath

>>3988574
Daybreak

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>>3988574
I 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.

>>3988574
i'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.

>>3988574
Rogue 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.

>>3990106
I 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 card

Superior than any game made in these last 30 years.

It's the future, gentlemen.

>>3991133
Is this your first playthrough?

>>3991357
Yup. 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.

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>>3991366
based

>>3988580
i 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 there
Which ones are better than Skyrim?

>>3991385
sniper ghost warrior
sniper elite
ghost recon breakpoint

>>3991398
Thanks. I remember considering Breakpoint for the co-op. Maybe it's time to reconsider before it becomes a retro game.

>>3991378
I 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

>>3991432
breakpoint is far cry with realistic engagement ranges. so you're sniping guys from a kilometer away and watching the bullets arc into them
>>3991436
i 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 Khemia
You could also try Atelier Iris 1/2/3
In AI3, you can switch to a "job class" and do combos like this:
https://youtu.be/M8QhK5FFpco?t=94

>>3991436
All 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!

>>3997372
What 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

>>3997689
shmups 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
>shmups
Name a couple. I don't think I've ever touched the genre.
>how slowly most RPGs take to get to the fun part
True. Morrowind only starts being fun once you hit the like 40 hour mark.
>etrian odyssey or kaga fire emblem
What's the gameplay style of them?

>>3998643
i 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

>>3988574
MOTHER 2

>>3988574
Hello stupid stinky person.
I am currently playing Yes 2.

>>3988574
DQ8 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

>>3988577
This isn't reddit, everyone already agreed on it being shit 15 years ago.

>>3988574
nothing 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

>>3988580
It's fun and better than anything you could do in the previous games.

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>>3988574
Pic 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.

>>3989810
tzzey here looks kinda cool with all the eyes. really cool design.

>>4003806
Would 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?

>>3988574
Dragon Conqueror

>>3988574
FFXV. How did they spend a decade on this piece of shit game and not realize how fucking bad the combat feels

>>4004075
Gladiolus and Ignis play much better but the base game is inexcusable

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>>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.

>>4004075
because 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 inexcusable
Gladios is spamming parries and counters.
ignis is picking an element and Holding O

>>4004077
Noctis 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

>>3988574
Pathfinder: 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 O
and both of those are better that whatever the fuck noctis was supposed to be

>>4004332
I 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 be

I 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

>>4004341
It 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 protags

how 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

>>4000959
Beat 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?

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Hyperdimension Neptunia Re.birth1

really fun JRPG with cool systems

>>4010241
which 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.

>>4010251
I havent played Kingdom Come Deliverance but that might fit the bill

>>4010276
Not 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

>>4010350
mb, tried typing this while watching a movie

>>3989810
>>3989836
Ugly, extremely jewish west-oid artstyle.

>>4010350
Origins is fantastic. I wish it got a remaster on new consoles.

>>3988574
>>3989266

>Right now I'm playing Lufia 1, Mother 1 and chaos world

Reporting 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.

>>3988721
Saying ts like an action adventure can't be a fucking RPG

>>4010350
Still me playing DAO
No idea who to romance Morrigan or Leliana for my first playthrough
Playing a generic good guy paladin

Also loving the fact I can headcanon myself as being a blood angel with the reaver and champion specializations
Took the first opportunity to drink that shady blood at the Soldier's Peak
Literally am proto Sanguinius now
Loving this game more than Kotor man

>>4011790
I look like a pale blond handsome squidward too
This peak is only getting better and better

Last Remnant continues to be cool
I got to the obvious death flag so I'm trying to get all the side quests done before triggering that

>>4010429
Surprised 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.

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I bought Astlibra while it's on sale, been at it for 3 days and already have 15 hours in
I maxxed out Luck because I'm fucking retarded like that, but I got to the beach area and the fucking regular slimes are oneshotting me
Game'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?

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>>3988574
Final 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.

>>3988574
bg3, multiplayer
ff5, singleplayer
kingdom 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

>>3988574
recently finished persona 3 fes. will be playing shin megami tensei 4 soon.

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>>4017510
Zero 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 to
CS3's cliffhanger was fucking kino and Sky 1's is the defining moment of the series

>>4017624
>things resolved but
*things UNresolved

>>4003806
you 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
>>4017501
maybe you should get a new hobby , anon
try >>>/a/

>>3988574
Xronicles 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.
>>4017399
Depends. 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
>>4017501
I 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.