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Sooo I just played a game called Crimson Shroud. I dig the art direction and, Matsuno is just, my favorite human being when it comes to video games, but aside from that I don't really have many good things to say about it. Admittingly Matsuno's writing is a big part of the game (although this entry into his portfolio seemed rather weak, honestly. I think he is better suited to giant political struggles and not....dungeon crawls....) The biggest problem is that there's way too much random chance involved. I know that it's a jrpg, but random chance is such an awful game mechanic and having to actually roll the virtual dice makes it all the more unbearable. And the game doesn't really evolve in any way as your characters get stronger. The optimal strategy is always apply buffs/debuffs and attack. also, a design choice I have not seen in 80000 years, having to get plot-related items necessary to advancing the game forward from random mob drops. and it's not even hinted that you are supposed to do this. On the other hand, the 3d effect on the 3DS actually looks really good and it's only eight dollars!
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board game? like monopoly? my understanding that it was supposed to draw very heavily from d&d and be a tabletop game in that sense, but it really isn't unless you count the aesthetics, since all characters are literally game pieces, because you never make any choices. the gm is a railroading rear end in a top hat!
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Feb 22, 2013 09:29
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Not very far into Front Mission 5, but I gotta say, this is almost everything I've ever wanted in a SRPG. Every time a new gameplay mechanic is introduced, I'm stunned that the game has become better than I thought could have been possible. also it is so cool watching a mech swerve around a building and unload a shotgun into another mech.
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Mar 5, 2013 06:23
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To be honest I would hesitate to even say that disgaea is a strategy rpg because there is little to no strategy involved. it's almost entirely about leveling up your weapons and shields and hats and getting to level 9000 and dealing nine hundred billion points of damage to artificial intelligence monsters. I know this is not what you are asking for, but I feel that it is my god given duty to warn you to stay far away from that series and play Front Mission 5 instead because it's the most fun I have had with a SRPG in a long time.
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Mar 5, 2013 22:39
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Calling any game great before it comes out its pretty odd. Oh yes, I have been told to believe that AAA title will be good, because so many people are talking about it and saying that it is going to be good, which they could not do if that was not true.
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Mar 7, 2013 23:50
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Wow Suikoden III takes 1000000 hours to complete. So, I've never played Suikoden IV. I've heard many things about it being bad. Can someone tell me why it is bad and if it is worth it to play for someone who has never touched it before? I don't care about spoilers or anything.
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Apr 8, 2013 05:22
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Pesmerga is Yuber's dad. Alrighty, will do. It's a shame, though, cause the rune of punishment seemed kind of cool. Reminded me of the Soul Eater, which is the best true rune. Boy am I sick of all these true elemental runes. They're suuuuuper boring!
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Apr 8, 2013 06:10
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Francois Kofko posted:
I hate you more than anyone in the entire world
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Apr 14, 2013 17:12
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Nate RFB posted:I've always preferred IoG over Terranigma. Wonky translation aside, IoG had a much better plot in my opinion. I felt like the sketchy plot added to the whole dreamlike quality the game had. I was eaten by Riverson and became Riverson
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Apr 14, 2013 17:26
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You don't need to grind. Use magic ring. Lightning ring;.
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Apr 14, 2013 20:44
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soul blazer is a video game where you can defeat mudmen that slowly crawl towards you from 50000 pixels away at the rate of 1 pixel per second.
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Apr 14, 2013 22:29
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I'm not sure who told you that Shadowrun was a good RPG. or a good game. It is neither, although it has a cool setting.
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Apr 15, 2013 04:04
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PurplieNurplie posted:One thing that I've noticed playing a lot of different RPGs, whether they be western, eastern, whatever, is that any main character/avatar/whatever is criminally inexperienced, whether it be because of amnesia or just being new to their environment. There is the mostly translated snes RPG, Dark Half, where you play as two characters in alternating chapters: A golden warrior out to destroy evil, and Satan. The warrior is powerful, but Satan blows him and everyone else out of the water with ridiculous magic and summoning. Also as Satan, one of the first things you do is walk into a town and turn all the villagers into skeletons while spouting one-liners. It kind of requires a guide to know what the frack is going on with the game mechanics, though. I don't recall much being explained.
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May 2, 2013 20:48
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What!!! I had no idea FM2 was playable for non-japanese speakers in any capacity. I must play it now. I must play it to see...the fall of Roid. I looked at a screenshot and had my mind blown. spoilers for eight hundred year old games.
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May 20, 2013 08:18
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That would mean you would not be able to read any spoilers at all, you clown.
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May 20, 2013 08:39
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Paperhouse posted:I've played Star Ocean 2 at least three times and I've never even heard of this crazy shield. It sounds cheap as hell anyway, why use that trick when you can TEAR INTO PIECES sounds like you've been playing it wrong all this time.
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May 21, 2013 04:16
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Stop playing after Midgar. do yourself...biggest favor.
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May 23, 2013 06:02
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Why would you want to build custom teams. All of the characters are functionally the same after you get magic.
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May 30, 2013 20:10
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The GBA version has added optional content, but I recall it having some kind of issue. But I don't remember what it was.
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Jun 3, 2013 00:23
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it has a very good soundtrack and is on the whole appalling
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Jun 16, 2013 05:49
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there's only one bad front mission game.
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Jun 17, 2013 06:37
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Overminty posted:As someone who only played the gba remake of BoF2 would it be worth trying the snes version with this translation? I don't remember if the remake added anything new. Yes. The GBA remake added inferior art and lovely color.
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Jun 24, 2013 19:57
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Was Secret of the stars an actual sci-fi rpg, or was it yet another instance of the game either having nothing to do with space or Claude C. Kenni spending five seconds aboard a spaceship before crash landing into a rural rpg town and picking up a sword?
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Jun 25, 2013 15:54
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Paperhouse posted:I just looked it up and it looks like for battles they have just made interactive anime clips rather than create character models or anything like that. It looks terrible and anime as gently caress Why is an interactive anime clip somehow worse than character models?
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Jun 25, 2013 19:22
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dis astranagant posted:Because they did it the expensive early 90s way and didn't have enough money to get a decent framerate and/or very many animations to work with. Sounds like all rpgs I have ever played. quote:In fact, I'll go as far as to say that SMRPG is incredibly generic and not really memorable. It's not about the gags and humor, but the characters and settings themselves. What games have you played are so much like SMRPG that you would call it generic? where are they? where are these fabulous games?
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Jun 25, 2013 19:34
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CommissarMega posted:I'll be leaving on a week-long business trip this weekend, and all I'll be able to bring is a non-gaming laptop. Anyone have some nice, long RPGMaker games they can recommend? I've been playing Tales of the Drunken Paladin (it's great), and I tried Master of the Wind (too preachy), and I've also finished both Exit Fate and Last Scenario. master of the wind is freaking awful. a lot of the games that have awards on rpgmaker sites are awful because of the program's ability to attract fifteen year olds. these are not long but they are great: Rise of the Third Power (not even finished, basically a demo but wow good feelings. kind of hard to explain why it is so good feeling but play it and ye shall know...) Rose Chronicles (download link (also not finished but very beautiful and a triumph of intelligent game design. hard to find a download link of the latest version. i will ask my contacts) Balmung Cycle is very good game with Treasure of the Rudras graphics and norse mythology. Sunset Over Imdahl is not an RPG. there are no battles. There are just some minigames and you talking to people, trying to figure out what happened to the town you are in. All of the backgrounds are hand-drawn and the game looks very pretty. as for longer games~~ unfortunately last scenario and exit fate are top-tier and nothing really comes close...but.. The Way is kind of polarizing. it's an episodic series with a very interesting world which the author never really explained very well because he was going through some severe mental trauma of some kind when he was making the latter games. This video is a good metaphor for how the series ends. Also, a lot of items and scenes you will just not find without a walkthrough, which does exist. That said, I really like collecting stuff and playing as an amoral, psychotic murderer, so this is cool. Also, it has the option to turn regular battles off, which I like. Along with Exit Fate and Last Scenario, this is the only rpgmaker game (games) I have ever replayed. Dhux's Scar has an interesting plot and characters+battle archetypes until about halfway through the game. At 3/4 of the way through I found myself saying "Really....Really..." because of how bad things had gotten. Consider playing until "the twist" (you will know) and then stopping because anything you make up will be better than what comes next. Also, it features customized rpgmaker gore.
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exquisite tea posted:The other day I felt some weird desire to complete the Xenosaga trilogy, having only beaten the first game some 11 years ago (yikes)! From what I've heard, the second's combat is really bad, but the third picks up somewhat and is generally regarded as the best in the series. So two questions: 1) Do all the meandering storylines ever begin to come together at any point, and 2) Do they manage to write Chaos, who in my mind represents all the worst trends in JRPG characterization, out of the plot? The third is, in fact, the worst, and not canon.
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Syrg Sapphire posted:He's being GulagDolls again, nothing de-canons it. they murderized the story without the original author's consent starting at the second half of the second game. 3 has incredibly dumbed down battle systems +character building systems, turning the entire game into press attack command button over and over to win as opposed to more tactical combat of previous two games. Also, it's bad.
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regular enemies that can kill you are a good thing. There is no point to having them otherwise (and they should in fact be stripped out of the game if there is not a high level of difficulty) as the battles conclusion is already guaranteed at the very beginning if you are smart enough to press the attack command enough times or figure out that the ice monster is weak against fire (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!) Waste of time - Dias Flac before being murdered by a planet https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVZ63QEUZv8 this song is cool.
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Jul 2, 2013 19:11
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Tiny Chalupa posted:Can anyone help me out here with The Last Remnant Whatever button or trigger you are looking for makes rush do an anime pose as a giant circle expands around him, engaging any enemies caught in it. Is that happening??
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Jul 24, 2013 23:34
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dukerson posted:and non-terrible plot. Let's not tell lies. Weren't the ingame directions for the desert of death wrong? Like, the npc who told you where to go was basically lying to you.
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Aug 1, 2013 18:11
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there exists a hack for the gba version that restores the original sound. http://www.romhacking.net/hacks/657/ ff6 is really easy so there's not really much you need to be told. I guess, when you start getting espers, optimize so that everyone learns skills as fast as possible. but that's kind of common sense... oh wait. there is one tip. When there comes a time where you have the option of leaving your ninja party member behind or choosing to wait for him, you must wait!!! e: you should actually feed him the slow fish or you'll miss one of the best scenes in the game
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BadAstronaut posted:Thank you very much for the ROM hack advice - are there any other good ones I should know about? ie, some really good translations of older SNES RPGS? Any other good GBA RPG rom hacks you can recommend? someone retranslated breath of fire 2. it's a lot better. http://www.romhacking.net/translations/1384/ bahamut lagoon is a pretty interesting game at first. i've never actually finished it though. it's pretty easy to lose track of what the heck is happening and thus lose interest in the plot entirely. seiken densetsu 3 is a very beautiful game. I've replayed it like nine times. People probably like it a lot because it's so good looking and you get to form a party of different classes and your anime characters change appearances when changing classes and I dunno. it just feels good. The gameplay is pretty boring though. Apply debuffs+buffs and attack to win. The existence of several items that buff your characters and cost next to nothing make the distinctions between many classes meaningless, also.
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I don't know why anyone would like persona 3 or 4. they're some of the most unbearably slow and boring games i've ever encountered with less interesting dungeons than those featured in ascii roguelikes. the combat requires more preparation than most jrpgs but the 'hard' bosses just wind up taking a ridiculously long time to defeat. these segments are separated by discussions with your boring, archetypal anime friends. the snes SMT games had this weird, kind of creepy occult feeling and persona 3 and 4 are missing even that. I just don't get it!!
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Aug 10, 2013 02:26
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Saying you have different tastes is just a defense mechanism employed in order to avoid thinking logically and confronting your own inner demons in order to become a better person (video game metaphor: turning Indalecio into Indalecio Limiter-off)
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Endorph posted:Here's my logical thought: persona 3 and 4 own What do you like about them. This is a serious question. Fergus Mac Roich posted:But the dungeons in ASCII roguelikes ARE interesting, they're the entirety of most of those games Not really. The entirety of most of roguelikes is dealing with artificial intelligence monsters. which is enough because you are almost always collectively outmatched and have to use your brain. But the dungeons themselves (the environments) are basically just skeletons. taking the word 'dungeon' to mean the collective experience of a designated 'bad guys' area, my point is that aesthetically persona 3 and 4's dungeons are really just as barebones as those found in roguelikes, with 50 floors that look exactly the same and music so bad i can't believe that it wasn't also randomly generated by a roguelike dungeon making algorithm. but they lack any and all usage of brain power, unlike roguelikes, so they're consequently boring and take about 30000 hours to get through because for some reason every animation has to take a solar cycle to complete. this would be less of a problem if they were gorgeous, inspiring environments or something. 
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My trusted compatriot recommended Nocturne to me because that apparently has a lot more of the weird occult nature that nobody ingame really seems to think is that strange. I will say that Persona 4 is at least better in that your main character is a goofball instead of a brooding anime teenager
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Spikeguy posted:I'm looking for RPGs with good romances. What have ya'll played that ya'll would recommend? I think the LUNAR games on the playstation are pretty. uh. DATED in that the combat/dungeons are boring but the writing is entertaining.
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like almost all breath of fire games, it suffers from bad pacing and the worst scenario writing known to man. the actual gameplay is good though, and there are a few parts that are really cool. you just have to slog through a lot of stupid poo poo to get to them
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This thread is a safe zone. Don't alert the feds.
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