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It starts a bit flat. There are tough battles later on but nothing impossibly hard. Manly because you can use inspection, or whatever it's called to level up and get some juicy decor items. You will need to exploit decor a lot to survive. The true point of Soul Nomad is to use attack and steal items on innocent filthy rich NPCs in towns, then get Gideons in NG+ and go for the evil path.
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Tae posted:What is the "difficulty level" of Soul Nomad, like is there a point when the game forces me to go beyond "Buff a lot, cannot die because of healers, repeat." There's not a lot of info on this game. It's a bit all over the place. It starts out feeling balanced-ish but later on, map spells dominate everything. Keep some notes on the RPS-ish system -- mage teams casting map spells on melee teams will absolutely smash them and so on. VVV: Shadowrun: Hong Kong just came out Heavy neutrino fucked around with this message at 16:00 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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Are there any good newish rpgs out right now, been craving one since I finished the Witcher 3
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Darth Windu posted:Are there any good newish rpgs out right now, been craving one since I finished the Witcher 3
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I would not play DA3 if you just came off of Witcher, and I loved playing DA3. Unless you're a really big DA fan.
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Endorph posted:Dragon Age: Inquisition was surprisingly decent if you haven't played it, though it is a bit bloated in terms of content. And one of the party members is insufferable, but that's Bioware standard. Yeah, I already played that though I haven't bought the DLC. I liked it!
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Darth Windu posted:Are there any good newish rpgs out right now, been craving one since I finished the Witcher 3 Shadowrun: Hong Kong
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Levantine posted:Yeah, I beat that motherfucker solo back on the SNES and I had no idea what his babble meant. I don't think I ever got the accessory. What does it do? It makes you immune to instant death (which is pretty handy for the final boss) and causes you to regenerate 1 HP per step outside of battle. You need Katt and Sten in your party to get to it. Thuryl fucked around with this message at 16:56 on Aug 22, 2015 |
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hubris.height posted:its also in 3 isn't it yeah. sakura's there too
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Tae posted:I would not play DA3
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I stoppe caring about the Dragon Age series after beating DA:O. I think I've made the right choice.
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Anything I should know going into Type-0? Characters to Avoid? Skills to use? Bullshit I can miss?
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Kild posted:Anything I should know going into Type-0? Characters to Avoid? Skills to use? Bullshit I can miss? The game is fairly linear in not having a secret ending. You can't get it on a 1st playthrough anyway. Best tip is to always have a character with a ranged ability. Do not bring all melee ever.
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I'm scouring cheapo JRPGs, here's my list so far, based on amazon seller used prices: Romancing Saga - $11.80+sh Blue Dragon - $5.79+sh Magic Pengel - $9.97+sh Enchanted Arms ("yyyOOOOOOOO") - $6.18+sh FF13-2 (probably will skip this one) - $2.99+sh Rune Factory PS3 - $12+sh Dawn of Mana - $8.10+sh FF CC:Crystal Bearers - $7.25+sh Dragon Quest Swords - $5.47+sh Magna Carta Tears of Blood - $9.66+sh Arc the Lad Twilight of the Spirits - $2.75+sh 4 Heroes of Light - $11.77+sh Okage Shadow King - $10+sh Opoona - $10.75+sh Suikoden IV (i heard this one SUUUCKS) - $8.69+sh Not an amazing list obv but at this point I've played or already gotten all the big ones so now I'm dipping into these.
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Kild posted:Anything I should know going into Type-0? Characters to Avoid? Skills to use? Bullshit I can miss? King is 
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm scouring cheapo JRPGs, here's my list so far, based on amazon seller used prices: Romancing SaGa is really great if you like open-ended games and can tolerate the SaGa series's particular brand of bullshit. Okage: Shadow King is a good story and aesthetic and writing wrapped up in gameplay that's just kinda there. I'd read an LP instead.
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Blue Dragon is apparently the closest to FFV's job system.
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arc the lad is half a fun plot and half a really, really boring plot, with a decent but very slow combat system
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Panic! at Nabisco posted:Okage: Shadow King is a good story and aesthetic and writing wrapped up in gameplay that's just kinda there. I'd read an LP instead. Okage has that great feature where if the main character dies, it's game over even if you had revive items or characters who can cast life magic. Oh, and that other great feature, spending HP to cast spells. Charming, but you need to have a high tolerance for bad design decisions, which we did in the early 2000s. Suikoden 4 is just a bad Suikoden game. As a JRPG, it has its flaws, but it's no worse than the average title. The problem is that it tries to milk the Suikoden brand while not only being tangential to it, but also while throwing away a lot of the hallmarks of the series--gone was the campy writing and weird NPCs, and all we had was a generic experience where your recruits barely make sense within the context of the game. I guess the speedy, streamlined, and anti-grind combat was already gone by 3, though. Tae posted:Blue Dragon is apparently the closest to FFV's job system. I got it for a buck and I've always been curious. How close to FF5's job system, can I master jobs and then switch back to bare to inherit their bonuses? Fur20 fucked around with this message at 01:07 on Aug 23, 2015 |
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Tae posted:Blue Dragon is apparently the closest to FFV's job system. Until Bravely Default, at least. (And Final Fantasy Dimensions, but that one was pretty bad.)
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Suikoden 4 has a nice soundtrack and some nice atmosphere in places but other than that it's just a slow, plodding mess.
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Just about the only thing I liked about Suikoden 4 is the mobile HQ, and even that is crap the moment you have to actually sail anywhere in it. I guess the few characters with any personality are okay. Mitsuba owns. Suikoden 4 clear data is nice to have for Tactics. That's about it.
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Endorph posted:arc the lad is half a fun plot and half a really, really boring plot, with a decent but very slow combat system Culminating in a carbon copy of Arc 2's endboss but even longer.
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Which Magna Carta is Tears of Blood? If its the PS2 one avoid like the plague. Enchanted Arms probably isn't worth whatever they want for it either, even if it free.
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dis astranagant posted:Culminating in a carbon copy of Arc 2's endboss but even longer. And the one in Twilight of the Spirits is worse? 
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Get the Okage soundtrack and listen to it while reading an LP of the game instead of playing it. And unless you have a high tolerance for slow progress, you might want to skip Magic Pengel.
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Zereth posted:The one which had something like an order of magnitude more HP than any other enemy in the game? And two forms? It's the exact same boss but everyone has longer animations and the boss now summons trash.
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The White Dragon posted:Okage has that great feature where if the main character dies, it's game over even if you had revive items or characters who can cast life magic. Oh, and that other great feature, spending HP to cast spells. Charming, but you need to have a high tolerance for bad design decisions, which we did in the early 2000s. Suikoden 4 has the worst world map of all time, how the gently caress can you defend it
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Bongo Bill posted:Until Bravely Default, at least. (And Final Fantasy Dimensions, but that one was pretty bad.) Final Fantasy Dimensions has the problem of the abilities not giving you the stats to actually use them. Really, that's part of what made FFV's Job system brilliant. It ensured that, no matter what, the player was competent in whatever you gave them. In most Job system games I've seen, if you give a fighter type character a magic command, they're going to be bad with it because they're not going to have the stats for it. FFV will give you the magic you need to use the command properly.
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The White Dragon posted:Suikoden 4 is just a bad Suikoden game. As a JRPG, it has its flaws, but it's no worse than the average title. The problem is that it tries to milk the Suikoden brand while not only being tangential to it, but also while throwing away a lot of the hallmarks of the series--gone was the campy writing and weird NPCs, and all we had was a generic experience where your recruits barely make sense within the context of the game. I guess the speedy, streamlined, and anti-grind combat was already gone by 3, though. I'd say the opposite actually. Suikoden IV tried really hard to be a good Suikoden game after Suikoden III threw a lot of the staples out. It was really trying hard to 'feel' Suikoden again. It throws in tons of references and callbacks and such. It just happens to be really poorly designed as an RPG so that even if you like those references you can't get past it. I'd actually say Suikoden III is a better "okay JRPG, bad Suikoden game" example.
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corn in the bible posted:Suikoden 4 has the worst world map of all time, how the gently caress can you defend it besides the cat video
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ImpAtom posted:I'd say the opposite actually. Suikoden IV tried really hard to be a good Suikoden game after Suikoden III threw a lot of the staples out. It was really trying hard to 'feel' Suikoden again. It throws in tons of references and callbacks and such. It just happens to be really poorly designed as an RPG so that even if you like those references you can't get past it. I'd actually say Suikoden III is a better "okay JRPG, bad Suikoden game" example. How was Suikoden 5? I think I remember seeing people say that it was another good one like the first two. Is that true?
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Suikoden V is very expensive to buy now though Couple more titles added to my list cause I didn't think GBA titles would still be cheap: Sigma Star Saga - $7+sh, and Sword of Mana - $9+sh
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Quest For Glory II posted:crow you played crystal bearers right, what did you think of it It's got a lot of minigames and the weird physics throwing stuff combat. It comes across as being a lot more for kids than previous crystal chronicles games, but it does have a lot of very obvious effort put into the areas and the art design and so on.
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Super Ninja Fish posted:How was Suikoden 5? I think I remember seeing people say that it was another good one like the first two. Is that true? It is generally considered to be one of the better Suikoden games, arguably the best after 2. Some people really dislike it (The White Dragon is one and can probably fill you in on why) but by and large it is pretty well liked. The largest complaints are that it has an absurdly slow opening and the loading times are long enough that it bothers people. I'd be willing to say that if you liked Suikoden 1 and 2, you'll like Suikoden V. I could be wrong but it's at least one of those situations where I'd say it is a safe bet.
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corn in the bible posted:It's got a lot of minigames and the weird physics throwing stuff combat. It comes across as being a lot more for kids than previous crystal chronicles games, but it does have a lot of very obvious effort put into the areas and the art design and so on. Bear in mind I bought and have played Spectrobes Origins so the game being for kids isn't a huge problem (all video games are for kids!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
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Super Ninja Fish posted:How was Suikoden 5? I think I remember seeing people say that it was another good one like the first two. Is that true? It's pretty good, there were a lot of small things that added up to me not really enjoying it though. Like objectively I recognize it's a fairly great game, and Arshtat and Ferid are some of my favorite characters in a game ever, but there are some things like the encounter rate paired with the long random encounter animation that gets under my skin, personally. I like the undub more overall, but English Ferid is better 
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Quest For Glory II posted:I'm scouring cheapo JRPGs, here's my list so far, based on amazon seller used prices: Quest For Glory II posted:Opoona - $10.75+sh Opoona is a pretty charming, kiddy, sci-fi story but it's a sorta repetitive game. I feel like it could be a bit cheaper, but I still think it's worth it for that price. The soundtrack is pretty great too. https://youtu.be/lh4PWuxAuP4 I believe you need a Wii nunchuck (and remote) to play it, in case you don't have one for some reason.
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pichupal posted:https://youtu.be/1dTp28W1BtQ You can play Opoona with a classic controller. I think the first couple hours of the game is kinda repetitive, but it gets better as it goes. The game world is surprisingly detailed for a Wii game. There's a decent amount of optional content as well. I enjoyed wondering around talking to all the NPCs I could find.
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