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doesn't the The Neptunia Timeline have a weird thing where even with the remake Nep 1 is standalone and mk2 is the beginning of what all the other games follow up on?
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Is Idea Factory even still alive? I know NIS managed to hang on and is seemingly on the upswing but it seems like IF hasn't come out with anything after 2017.
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Mar 30, 2024 21:34
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oh right, in recent memory. most boring jrpg i played was Soul Hackers, such a shame
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Mar 30, 2024 21:35
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mycot posted:Is Idea Factory even still alive? I know NIS managed to hang on and is seemingly on the upswing but it seems like IF hasn't come out with anything after 2017.
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Mar 30, 2024 21:45
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was colony ship good? My understanding was age of decadence was okay but the developer was very hostile to any and all feedback
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Mar 30, 2024 21:45
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begging someone, anyone to change the thread title, i was just making an off hand joke
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Mar 30, 2024 21:51
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RPG Thread: Colony Ship is still out!
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:like a solid half of this thread loves to talk about how every rpg is bad and ruining the genre except for a small handful of final fantasies (not any of the bad ones that have things like writing or women in them mind you) and dont ever wanna talk about games that are good or interesting or new. kinda weird of them! I know this is not necessarily towards me, but I don't have time for a lot of RPGs anymore, tbh so it gets pared down to a few big ones every year like Rebirth, or replays of something quick. I don't play as many weird things these days. Suppose I still have Knuckle Sandwich to go back to now that I'm not stuck in the infinite release year and not replaying a bunch of FFVII games. I gave money to Eiyuden so I guess I have that to look forward to next. But I still need to play Rising first since it seemed really charming.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:00
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Phantasium posted:I know this is not necessarily towards me, but I don't have time for a lot of RPGs anymore, tbh so it gets pared down to a few big ones every year like Rebirth, or replays of something quick. I don't play as many weird things these days. Suppose I still have Knuckle Sandwich to go back to now that I'm not stuck in the infinite release year and not replaying a bunch of FFVII games. Rising is fun! It is a game that should be played.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:05
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GateOfD posted:oh right, in recent memory. The OG or 2
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Mar 30, 2024 22:06
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i did install a bunch of itch io games and some rpgs were among them, i just am not sure when i'll play them. i installed Long Gone Days, Pillars of Dust, Kaiju Big Battel, and Knight Bewitched   
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Mar 30, 2024 22:11
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Gaius Marius posted:The OG or 2 2
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Mar 30, 2024 22:13
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Radia posted:was colony ship good? My understanding was age of decadence was okay but the developer was very hostile to any and all feedback To be fair to the devs there, Age of Decadence was an extremely specific kind of rpg and a lot of feedback they got was asking to make it not that extremely specific kind of rpg, even though they were so upfront about what it is to the point where they had a demo for it with a caveat that you should absolutely try the demo before buying.
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Mar 30, 2024 22:20
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the remake of nep 1 is worse than the og game because the og game is a bad game with writing thats occasionally weird and gonzo enough to be interesting. the remake is a bad game that also has really boring writing
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Mar 30, 2024 22:21
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which one doesn't let you heal at will
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Mar 30, 2024 22:23
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Prism posted:I've got a lot of things to say about Paladin's Quest but 'standard' or 'normal' is not one of them. Yeah that game takes some wild-rear end swings with its style and battle system.
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Meowywitch posted:which one doesn't let you heal at will That was the first one, where healing is a percentage chance
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Mar 30, 2024 22:31
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The 7th Guest posted:i did install a bunch of itch io games and some rpgs were among them, i just am not sure when i'll play them. i installed Long Gone Days, Pillars of Dust, Kaiju Big Battel, and Knight Bewitched TIL there's a Kaiju Big Battel game, neat!
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Mar 30, 2024 22:38
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:like a solid half of this thread loves to talk about how every rpg is bad and ruining the genre except for a small handful of final fantasies (not any of the bad ones that have things like writing or women in them mind you) and dont ever wanna talk about games that are good or interesting or new. kinda weird of them! Sorry, I know I sorta started it up by asking for bad RPGs. It's weird/dumb, but I actually wanted to play something particularly bad recently, so I asked here. I've been lately super critical about a lot of games that are really good generally but have some glaring flaw that I focus too much on. I wanted to play a bit of something that just falls apart completely. I guess as a palette cleanser or something like that.
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Both Super Nep RPG and Astria Ascending are insanely bad and I have no idea how that studio keeps going, the third game will likely be somehow worse
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Mar 30, 2024 23:15
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Endorph posted:god for destroying the tower of babel lol
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D.Fuzzbot posted:Sorry, I know I sorta started it up by asking for bad RPGs. i mean its less about this/the thing the other person who quoted me said and more about the next guy who pops in with their version of the Trails Incest Joke because games can only be defined by their worst qualities and then i go back and look and wow everyone making this joke is just not pleasant to be around lol. and even if one guy gets told off for this it wont stop the next. i would like to read about stuff thats nice and not your tight 5 about which games are fail because theyre not final fantasy 6 or 10.
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Mar 30, 2024 23:36
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Radia posted:was colony ship good? My understanding was age of decadence was okay but the developer was very hostile to any and all feedback Age of Decadence is one of the greatest crpgs of all time. Colony Ship is really good until the last 10% when it just sort of ends. They're still patching Colony Ship and adding content to it but so far the devs have been cagey about whether it was successful enough for the company to stay alive.
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Hogama posted:They have a recent notification on their home page from just a few days ago (it's just announcing operations will be closed for Golden Week), and I think they're maintaining some mobile stuff, but all the real games activity seems to be from their Idea Factory International branch. Wouldn't call them dead as such, though. They might have been co-devs but IF proper is still listed as developer on three games last year, they're decidedly not "dead" on paper. God I hope that next Nep title is good.
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also idea factory's subsidiaries are still making games. there was a nep game less than two years ago.
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Mar 31, 2024 00:15
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Their otome division keeps things afloat I think
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unfortunately the rpg thread doesnt know women play video games yet
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Mar 31, 2024 00:47
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I play games.  Wikipedia just doesn't list Idea Factory International (or Otomate titles after 2010) at all. Maybe there isn't a Wikipedian for updating articles for B-list RPG studios.
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thats absolutely just bad wikipedia editing, otomates already released like two games this year
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Kagaya Homoraisan posted:i mean its less about this/the thing the other person who quoted me said and more about the next guy who pops in with their version of the Trails Incest Joke because games can only be defined by their worst qualities and then i go back and look and wow everyone making this joke is just not pleasant to be around lol. and even if one guy gets told off for this it wont stop the next. i would like to read about stuff thats nice and not your tight 5 about which games are fail because theyre not final fantasy 6 or 10. Every video game is only its lowest point. Which is why NIER Automata sucks, because 2B has to struggle through being infected with the Logic Virus and you can't fight at full power anymore. I should probably look around for more RPG Maker games with cool ideas but I just don't search around in that space to my detriment. So I don't really have much to complain about, Tokyo Xanadu didn't click with me, Scarlet Nexus eventually felt too repetitive to finish one character's side but I don't think they're bad games because of it, just not my cup of tea. RareAcumen fucked around with this message at 01:19 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Finished KH1 earlier today and am finishing up Riku mode in CoM (I used a trainer to speed thru it cuz Re:CoM loving sucks rear end lol). and I forgot how important CoM is for Riku's growth specifically.
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I absolutely love the quality of everyone's dialogue heads in GBA Chain of Memories. So much personality for them.
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It's still incredibly funny they made what seemed to be a noncanon handheld spinoff only for it turn out, no it's actually really important for KH2.
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Endorph posted:unfortunately the rpg thread doesnt know women play video games yet i do!
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Electric Phantasm posted:It's still incredibly funny they made what seemed to be a noncanon handheld spinoff only for it turn out, no it's actually really important for KH2. They absolutely framed it as canon, I remember because I was originally going to skip it thinking it was a remake of KH1 until I saw the mention of that. It is, however, hilarious that the game was exclusively on the GBA until KH2:FM Anyway, 2024 is still a loving insane year for RPGs Eiyuuden, Emerald Beyond, Visions of Mana, Dawntrail, Paper Mario, Shin Megami Tensei V, Elden Ring DLC, Trails: Daybreak, Fantasy Life, Ys X, and we still don't even have announcements past like August so Metaphor and other stuff are probably on the list. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Mar 31, 2024 |
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Mar 31, 2024 01:59
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And KH2 FM was Japan only for about a decade.
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CullenDaGaDee posted:And KH2 FM was Japan only for about a decade. It was but they actually ported Re:CoM as a stand alone thing in the US at least.
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Electric Phantasm posted:It's still incredibly funny they made what seemed to be a noncanon handheld spinoff only for it turn out, no it's actually really important for KH2.
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Assuming a handheld release is a less-important spinoff is just sort of an ingrained conditioning caused by the industry at large.
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Also like with regards to RPGs: I genuinely think the period we're in now is by a huge degree the best shape JRPGs (and maybe even RPGs in general) have been since the PS2 days. Between indie titles and an increasing investment in smaller scale stuff there's just an absolute shitload of different games to play, and most of them are at least pretty fun or interesting. There are still duds but there are a whole lot of hits and even a number of the disappointments are more like "This is fun but could be better."
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