Board: /vrpg/
"/vrpg/ - Video Games/RPG" is 4chan's imageboard dedicated to the discussion of role-playing video games.
/vrpg/ is a place to discuss all types of role-playing video games, including single-player, multi-player, and massively multi-player, turn-based and real-time action, western-style and JRPG.
Does this mean RPGs are banned on other video game boards? No! /vrpg/ is just a separate board specifically focused on RPGs where discussions about your favorite games can thrive.
Please familiarize yourself with the rules and remember to use the spoiler function where appropriate! It doesn't make sense. Did the writer just forget? Multiple writers? Anyways, I'm not really enjoying Trails of Daybreak. Although I prefer the English voice acting compared to Cold Steel, except perhaps Aaron's va.
After reading that Trails of Daybreak 2 and 3 are not that good, I see no point in finishing this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyv8tOYlum0 Ok, sell me on this shit.
Got it +Expedition DLC on a sales whim,
now I can't bring myself to play because tons of other shit to play.
Am I retarded for ignoring and if yes, why? Oh no! The Khans have kidnapped Tandi! How do you plan on rescuing her? >start playthrough of SMT4
>every single person hypes up Minotaur as the one of the hardest early level-boss
>i easily beat him with Bufu and Rakukaja
>get down to elevator
>Medusa rapes my shit every single time no matter how much I setup w/ Zan and fusions
do I just grind Anyone else think Final Fantasy 17 isn't happening? What RPG did you play while 4chan was dead?
For me, I finally checked out the Skyrim portion of Tamriel Rebuilt for Morrowind. Super exceptional, the quests are top notch and the environments feel more real and lived in than anything in the base game, and I'm saying that as someone who loves the vanilla game. I'm very impressed.
I also started Monster Hunter 2 which is the only Monster Hunter I've played that's actually an RPG first and action game second. It took me 4 hours to even get my first armour set outside of the starting set, and I was carting on the mushroom delivery quests. Awesome game.
inb4 everyone was just playing the Oblivion remaster. I myself really liked evoland 1-2. It never got boring, because the ways of playing always changed. Why are there so many final fantasy likes from western devs but zero, not even one attempt at a fallout like from japanese devs? Chapters 3 & 4 got announced, and before that Deltarune Yellow (one of them at least) got a demo release. What do you think of the recent happenings? What did you think of Deltarune Yellow (1)?
Are you making a fangame too? Post progress! Fuck the Switch 2, what are some games you want to see ported to the Switch 1 >nu-fallout fags think this is some top notch writing
jesus good thing i never picked this utter shit up
these game started to be made for console players with 90iq, beggining of downfall 
Heart’s Choice recommended books:
All-World Pro Wrestling
Freshman Magic: Spellbooks and Tangled Sheets
Haunted Hearts Hotel
Vampire's Kiss
Hosted Games recommended books:
The Aegis Saga
An Unexpectedly Green Journey
Blood moon
Breach: Archangel Job
Demon: Recollect
Community College Hero
Temple of the Endless Night
Evertree Inn
Fallen Hero: Rebirth
Fallen Hero: Retribution
I, The Forgotten One
The Fernweh Saga: Book One
The Gray Painter
The Great Tournament
The Great Torunament 2
The Soul Stone War
The Soul Stone War 2
The Vampire Regent
The Passenger
Guns of Infinity
Ghost Simulator
Highlands, Deep Waters
Keeper of the Night and Day
The Last Wizard
Life of a Mobster
A Long Weekend
Lords of Infinity
The lost Heir: The Fall of Daria
The lost Heir 2: Forging a kingdom
The lost Heir 3: Demon war
The People’s House
Lux, City of Secrets
Magikiras
The Midnight Saga: The Monster
The Parenting Simulator
Sabres of Infinity
Sordwin
Life of a Space Force Captain
A Study In Steampunk: Choice by Gaslight
Unnatural
Unnatural: Season 2
The War for the West
Whiskey-Four
Zombie Exodus
Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven
Choice of Games recommended books:
A Kiss from Death
Battlemage: Magic by Mail
Hunter: The Reckoning — The Beast of Glenkildove
Champion of the Gods
Creatures such as we
Crème de la Crème
Empyrean
Exile of the Gods
Fox Spirit: A Two-Tailed Adventure
Heart of the House
Lies Under Ice
Neighbourhood Necromancer
Vampire: The Masquerade — Night Road
Vampire: The Masquerade — Parliament of Knives
Psy High
Psy High 2: High Summer
Choice of Rebels: Uprising
Rent-a-Vice
The Road to Canterbury
Royal Affairs
Siege of Treboulain
The Ghost and the Golem
The Grim and I
Unsupervised
Werewolves: Haven Rising
Werewolves 2: Pack mentality
Werewolves 3: Evolution’s End
Werewolf: The Apocalypse — Book of Hungry Names
Steam/Twine/Itch:
Amnesia Memories
A Date With Death
Bewitching Sinners
Life and Suffering of Sir Brante
I Was a Teenage Exocolonist
Royal Order
Superstition Even though RF5 was a letdown, does anyone have the next Rune Factory on their radar? The idea of getting hyped for an end of life Switch game seems pretty stupid, but the waifus/husbandos dropped today and the game is coming out in May
https://youtu.be/DDcFzgjVYII?si=HsQrJLVAMO2kleSR Releases on PS5, Xbox Series X, Steam, (and hopefully Switch 2) in 2025.
WE ARE FUCKING BACK, DIGIBROS!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npVx8cNyDe4 What is the best Star Ocean game and why is it no seriously, I want to know what people's favorite Star Ocean is So what's the vibe here? I like the idea of managing a travelling trade caravan but I just don't trust that indie RPGs won't be unfinished schloppa Why there no more games that use a fighting game combat? Early tales and spin-off summon night do kinda, but even soft beat'em up/ side scrolling action elements are rare. Do you know more? which one of these absolute KINO jrpgs should I play next? Abelard, why is there no Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader thread on the catalogue? Admit it, you came back for more I was wondering which of the newer games would run on a shitty laptop
I'm looking at Labyrinth of Zangetsu and Path of the Abyss and they either don't have system requirements or ones that seem way too high for a 2D game
I was also wondering which, if any, of the JP Wizardry games were translated and worth playing. I played Tale of the Forsaken Land recently and enjoyed it a lot
Also general DRPG general I suppose the PC port is out, any one try it? >love Bravely Default, even the loop part
>skip Second because everyone tells me it's shit
>II comes out, everyone telling me I have to play it
>it's boring and ugly as fuck
>finally decide to try Second knowing I'll probably hate it
>it's fun
>throws a bunch of cool jobs at you at once (but only after withholding the healing class so you actually have to use items thoughtfully)
>music is kinda ass but whatever
Goddamn it's been forever since I enjoyed a game where I'm just having fun playing the game
Bravely Thread >Join Barotrauma """RP""" Server
>only RP is an opiate addicted captain taking the whole morphine supply while the mechanic snorts fentanyl. Best RPG of all time.
>Free
>Endless replayability
>Stimulates imagination like no other
>Rewards careful strategizing and decision making
>Extremely unique bestiary as a result of combined worlds of fantasy and mythology
>Every playthrough is different
>You grow fond of your character the longer you keep him/her alive for days, weeks, months, and even years
>Unmatched depth (literally) >Ahh yes, we've been expecting you. well done Vault Dweller, well done..
HOWEVER When is Oblivion coming out already? Goddamn!!!
Watching Wilburgur's stream isn't enough!!! I need my sustinence! It's Monday once again. Time to talk about monster collecting and raising games. What mon games have you been playing? What upcoming mon games are you looking forward to? Have you beaten a 200+ hour long campaign before? No open-world slop like TES/Fallout it does not count. >Had the chance to stop his mother plan and save his sister.
>Let everything happen again so he could kill Lavos.
>Fails and has to ask his enemies for help. Is there any similar jrpgs to this?
>simplistic
>class system
>pixel/2D Can we talk about Dark and Darker? I got Legendary edition and this game is actually fucking stupidly addicting. I don't know what or why it's addicting let alone why it's so fun. I feel like I'm in constant danger despite the levels being slightly small. Who plays here? Just started playing this few days ago.
Does it get better? so far it has been boring
The combat is simple and easy to get a grasp on but its not as fun as Wasteland 3 and you can't do a lot of things
You can't interact with the environment in fun ways, all im doing is inspecting what the game allows me to inspect, doing some simple combat and then reading a lot of text.
Speaking of text, i hate it when games dont put time and care to introduce me to the setting and the characters, they just start talking about whats happening like i care, there is also a lot of text my eyes start to hurt from all this reading, why so much text? this is a videogame
U.I is also very unintuitive and feels so clunky to navigate.
The game is not that bad but this was recommended to me as the best cyberpunk rpg of all time, but so far i'm not seeing that, does it get better or its not worth the time? Which JRPG had the most difficult final boss? what happened to their faces
i started xenosaga when 4chin died, am on xenosaga 2's second disc now Summon Night is a good series.
Can we get a thread going? who is your favorite traveler? BROTHERINOS BROTHERINOS
why havent you told me theres Fear and Hunger killer out there? Anyone played it yet, is it as good as people say? I have to admit im sucker for good art in this day and age of AI sloppa - that and spoopy atmosphere!
>Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters. Why do people act like this isn't Bethesda's game with most roleplaying?
In the Crimson Fleet questline alone you can be
>An undercover agent with high persuasion who never kills anybody innocent
>An undercover agent who gets fired and becomes a criminal because he accidentally killed too many people
>A sneaky criminal who uses stealth and goes through vents and hacks terminals
All with their own unique dialogue, universe consequences and post game content (radiant quests to be fair)
Now the setting and writing and characters are all shit, but the roleplaying is there Are you going to put lewd in your game to try to get more players? Gonna be replaying Morrowind for the first time since it came out. I haven't played any Elder Scrolls game since then. I remember hearing some tip that you don't actually want to make your most commonly used skills into major/minor skills, because they end up raising too fast and you get poor stat increases on level up. Where should I put the skills I actually want to use? I'm planning on playing a magic user by the way.
Also, Morrowind thread So what are you thinking will it flop or will it turn out good?
In my opinion the no quest thing makes it so that it will need to be feature heavy to make up for it and to allow the player to make the story himself. It's once again AE's birthday month. Do you have fond memories of their games? Refia is cute!
Also FF3 thread, I guess Why the fuck is there no sandbox single player rpgs
>choose starting town
>choose class
>do quests at your own pace
>minimal story
>professions Should I get the pixel remasters of Final Fantasy IV and V, or only VI? I know VI is the one that's considered the all time classic, but I don't know if the other SNES FF games are anywhere near that level?
I'm only asking about those because I don't think I'd be interested in the first three since those are for the NES and seem like they'd be interesting primarily as a historical curiosity, and that's not really enough for me to spend money on personally. which rpg has the all time best towns? >developer inserts dozens of mutant abomination races like goblins or elves for the player to play and multiple classes with their own gimmicks
>me: I think I'll play a human male fighter This isn't about makes a good RPG just what is one. Why is this game not discussed more frequently among the CRPG community? It's the most faithful adaptation of 3.5E D&D. It's focused on dungeon crawling. It's turn based, like all D&D adaptations should be. Plus the visuals are very nice. Yes, it was buggy on launch but it now runs perfectly fine with Co* and Temple+. Maybe because it is set in Greyhawk?
Anyway, ToEE thread. Favourite monster?
Easy, its beholder Man i just got this game a few days ago, it's actually is really fun despite most of the gameplay being running around talking to people or doing puzzles. Especially love the comic-booky artstyle. Currently starting Hollywood. Killed that Gangrel guy.
What was up with that lady who recognizes you? Is she actually a hunter?
Rosa is pretty hot ngl. People seem to complain about combat systems in RPGs but never give a proper alternative . Mostly it always boils down to dodge button , block button , attack button. For example Skyrim gets shit on for its combat system , but in comparison to it the Witcher 3 gets praise , when both of them fundamentally are the same . What more do people expect? Is Skyrim only hated here because it's popular?
Would it be considered a cult masterpiece like VTMB if it were unpopular? >skrrrt!
RPG of the year kek The idea of NEETing out and getting really immersed in a game is so unbelievably appealing to me.
Switching the lights off, shutting all the blinds, cranking up the volume and just getting sucked into the atmosphere of a game for hours straight while forgetting reality is better than working hard and accomplishing things in the real world to me.
What game is that for you guys? Is there a word for this feeling? What games let you do it best? what's a good rpg with in-depth mechanics that i can play for a long time Ignoring nostalgia and Pokemania, what made Pokemon so special/did Pokemon add to the (J)RPG genre? Be objective and take the competive/PvP element into account.
I can only come up with one thing right now but I am sure that there is more:
-Forced socializing/trading to complete the game. (When it first came out the phenomenon of a player having both games/playing alone was the exception, not the rule) this game is absolutely one of the most comfy games I've ever played Was he suggesting werewolves are the oldest species on Nirn? Can we talk about how good the writing is in this? It presents a grounded believable system for FTL travel that informs the rest of the game. It explores themes of racial superiority, eternal apocalyptic return, and synthetic life / artificial intelligence through a dark lovecraftian lens.
The codex is incredibly detailed and the level of world building around stuff like element zero just puts modern blue haired vidya writers to shame.
It’s also very based and suggests at times that genocide is a necessary evil. Wrex even describes the krogan as savage niggas that are not worth saving and who are more to blame for their own problems than the genophage.
Mass Effect 1 is truly a game for white men >toby fox plays this game in his childhood
>this game ends up being involuntary responsible for prompting a crazed lunatic to lace cookies with needles and feeds it to an artist they don't like
>the reason was because thry made fucking ship art of sans and the retarded yellow child
moral of the story: dont piss off chronically online internet users whom are able to reach out to you in any shape or form So many years ago today... >rewrites the game to make every character less interesting and every choice less consequential months before the game comes out
literally why? How come JRPGs have never evolved? WRPGs have changed drastically over the course of the last 30 years, and many new sub genres and gameplay styles emerged from D&D and other pen and paper gameplay, but the same cant be said for JRPGs. they all still play like rock paper scissors bullshit from 40 years ago. There are no jrpg subgenres, and worst of all, iconic jrpg franchises like final fantasy have abandoned the jrpg gameplay in favor of generic action adventure gameplay.
so what went wrong with JRPGs? I want blacksmith games that don't suck and have cool RPGs behind them.
I already know of Summon Night: Swordcraft Story, and some Steam slop games, but I wish they were as fun and charming as Rune Factory 3 and 4.
Fucking Harry Potter fans are getting Witchbrook later during the holidays. What are your favorite NWN modules? Anyone know any good mods to put a flower in Shart's hair? I like this one but I don't want to make her wear the selunite circlet in act 3 I wish Underrail wouldnt look like shit, whats the appeal? about to get into this, what im in for?
i dropped DoS2 at the end it was a slog to finish and story was uninteresting. I probably gonna do play with my mate (no homo) so its my first coop run. any advice to not yeet myself out of existence? he says game is based DRH in 2 more weeks. For real this time. I love Vagrant Story with all my heart and soul but FUCK ME I will never play it ever again unless I have a walkthrough AND guide open beside me because it's the most autistic game I've ever played and if I didn't have emulator cheats to save me I'd have hit a brick wall dozens of times during my casual playthrough of it. RealTime with Pause is an objective improvement over Turn-Based combat. The former is equal to or strictly better in every aspect compared to the latter.
>gameplay is faster & more immersive since everyone acts simultaneously instead of just standing still for minutes at a time
>hordes of enemies are made possible without extreme downtime
>introduces the gamplay option of cancelling an action at any time
>streamlines tedious micromanagement if you toggle (often very customizable) AI for characters
Just like D&D or other tabletop systems TB combat in RPGs is simply a legacy system that people refuse to let go off due to either contrarianism, nostalgia or bad taste. Those things were designed to be played by humans throwing dice and using nothing but basic arithmatics. Computers can handle physics, AI, graphics and so much more so why not make full use of it? Rejecting RTwP is like a boomer cavemen rejecting nuclear fusion reactors. This game is unplayable unless you change the button settings. By default, the circle button jumps, X attacks, and square changes characters. I'm not sure who thought of such a retarded control scheme, but I was taking so many hits because none of the buttons do what I'd expect them to. Thankfully you can go into the settings and put them how they're supposed to be, X jumps, square attacks, and circle changes characters. dunno if this is the correct board, but I want to make something like a JRPG but instead of an epic story to save the world, is more like the MC is a farm guy in random village in bumfuck nowhere and the only beings is him and 10 girls and a girl with a small surprise.
What I wonder if is possible to deliver a story set in a single town, between the 12 characters about their normal lifes and drama, and make it feel similarly to a traditional SNES JRPG at least mechanically?
Like imagine FF4 or FF5 but the entire story happens on a single town instead of like having to travel around the world.
So instead of having dozens of random mediocre towns, you get a fully complex single town, and instead of hundred mediocre npcs, you get 12 characters for the town. >praised by plebs who don't read
>Marketed as an rpg but mc has a set personality and backstory
>"Main antagonists* are just sociopaths or unironic trolls who did it for shits and giggles
>Pretentious "woah is me relationships are hard :(" story in dystopian setting
>"Play as hobocop"
>Games ends instantly if you can't pay for a bed
>Be disco Elysium, pic unrelated Is Rogue Trader any good yet?
Pathfinder is feminazi propaganda and DOS1 seem obsolete when it comes to mechanics. Mutants Rising not coming out anytime soon neither it seems This shit is so ass. I am playing it now, and it's such a subpar game both as an action shooter and as an RPG. Painfully uninteresting as well, comes off as very generic sci-fi. Maybe because I am coming from a new perspective, but honestly, I don't understand how it's considered one of the better RPGs of it's era and of BioWare's catalog. *This* supposed to be famous "Morrowind"?? > armed mercenaries threatening to shoot people in the town square
> you get a +1 on shooting him in the head if you tell him his brother got put in a leaf compactor as a baby
this may actually be the funniest thing i've ever seen in an otherwise serious rpg >combat is shit
>long ass walking segments to expand play time
>Sephiroth just shows up for no fucking reason
>the timeline change shit is retarded
>I fucking hate this game So whats the story behind these fat fucks? I never played that mod this game is woke as fuck Imagine being the Dragonborn killing an orc tribe and as you look for the last one you get knocked out then wake up naked and chained to a bed and the last female orc survivor sees you as excellent warrior blood to mate with to repopulate her tribe. After all orcs only breed with the strongest.
For me this fulfills my two highest fantasies as a man since it involves me being powerful (in terms of violence) and a woman being so desperate to my babies that she rapes me which I think is what all men want. 
>Hey, I'm Josh Sawyer and I've made an RPG set among black renaissance Polyn-
NO! ALL RPG'S SHOULD BE SET IN MEDIEVAL WESTERN EUROPE OR AN EQUIVALENT!
>The color scheme will be purple and pink to celebrate gend-
NO! GOLD IS YELLOW, CAPES ARE RED, DRAGONS AND TREES ARE GREEN! THAT SHOULD BE ALL THE COLOR SCHEME ANY RPG NEEDS!
>our next Larian RPG takes place on a sunny beach in a tourist reso-
NO! FEUDAL VILLAGE, FEUDAL CASTLE, DARK FOREST, CHURL, MILORD, BANDIT! THAT IS IT! AND MAYBE A SORCERER!
>Here at Bioware we're greatly inspired by renaissance Italian archit-
NO! THATCHED ROOFS, HIGH MEDIEVAL CASTLES, MEDIEVAL SLUMS FOR THE TOWNS! NO FAGGY BRICKED ROOFS!
>The world will be in peril from shadow demons from an alternate dim-
NO! DRAGON, OGRE, GOBLIN! MEAT, POTATOES, ULTIMA, BALDUR'S GATE 1, LOTR. THAT IS ALL THAT SHOULD BE ALLOWED! NO SCI FI SHIT! NO BLACK CAULDRON RIPOFFS!
>our spellsinging cyphermanc-
NO! WIZARD, FIGHTER, BARD, RANGER, THIEF! THOSE ARE YOUR CLASSES! EVEN BARBARIAN IS SUSPECT!
>To add tactical depth, we will add deep, immersive turn ba-
ZOOOOOOOOMER! YOU ARE A ZOOMER OR IN LEAGUE WITH ZOOMERS! RTWP OR YOU SHOULD BE BANNED FROM MAKING RPG'S!
>the Goolrothi are a race of man-fish warr-
NO! STORYBOOK RACES ONLY! NONE OF YOUR FAGGY NEOBIOWARE JOSH SAWYER HOMEBREW SHIT!
THERE! NOW GO AND MAKE RPG'S GOOD AGAIN! Whats the appeal of playing RPG on console? Apparently people play Skyrim this way, i have hard time imagining that Does anyone have a retard-proof strategy for getting through FFT with minimal to no grinding? I always hear this game is a classic, but I've never made it very far because I suck at these types of games. Like what OP jobs/skill/spell combos should I be looking at? What are the earliest RPGs to have "types" of physical damage? Both FromSoft and Falcolm have used Slash/Strike/Thrust in their games, but I'm wondering how far back this goes.
I think it's really cool when physical damage is calculated with this sort of stuff in mind and I want to learn more about which games do it and which ones were first to do it. How do I improve my jrpg party designs? What is the Morrowind of JRPGs? Or are they just a novelty because of the overarching worldbuilding? What is the actual quality of these games? Is it just more weeb slop that's being sold as good because JRPG standards are so dogshit? Who did you pick for your final party in the Suikoden remasters? How did we went from this... So... why was I supposed to hate the emperor? Why was I supposed to hate any of the people I killed? I like fights
Story u medicore but whatever its always this way
But woke characters... Holy shit this is PoE2 all over again. Every character that matters in any wya is trong womam of colout. Thinking about installing anti wokeness mod, i just made it to first tavern ao i can start from beggining if i must
https://rpgcodex.net/forums/threads/pathfinder-wrath-of-the-righteous-anti-woke-mod.150331/
Lets have Pathfinder thread, it was super cheap like a week ago Your mother and I think you should leave. What RPGs gave you the most satisfaction from an evil playthrough?
P.S I have played BG3, but haven't done the Dark Urge origin, is it good? Are there any classic CRPGs that aren't barely a step above VNs with terrible slow placed gameplay that takes no skill or reflexes and was tailor made for fat losers or should I just stick to fun games like the GOTY Fallout 3? Who thought it was a good idea to have BOTH absolute thresholds instead of rolls, and also checks that are 100% visible to the player?
I prefer RNG checks like in Fallout 1/2 (even the 3 system where the chance is visible), but an absolute value is fine if the player has limited information like in Age of Decadence. The way checks are implemented in New Vegas there is no chance to ever fail one. how come nobody told me nis games are pure kino? What rpgs require the most intelligence to play? >15 years old
>Lieutenant
What is the Joule Foundation smoking to have a literal teenaged child as a commanding officer? Any other actually interesting protagonists to follow and learn about like pic related? Most RPG protags are bland but Cloud was the best character in his group and by far the best final fantasy protagonist and even square enix protagonist. Why does every fucking game feel the need to copy Souls now? I'm so sick of this shit.
https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bethesdas-long-expected-elder-scrolls-iv-oblivion-remake-could-be-released-at-any-moment/ Journalist? On fucking post nuclear wasteland?! Fucking seriously? She even looks jewish
What in next fallout, post apo Starbucks and neo-internet?
Hate this plastic fallout shit. It started with third one >removes levitation and everything fun from Morrowind and replaces it with garbage level scaling and slop action gameplay Whenever I beat a RPG I cant decide on another one to play for months. I fucked my hands up so I can only play RPGs but I love them. What the fuck do I do? Does anyone else have this retarded autism?
I've been thinking of Suikoden II, Saga Frontier 2, Final Fantasy X and Super Robot Wars Alpha Gaiden the most lately but there's probably 50 I want to play. first time playin
will this top ys SEVEN ? 
Am I retarded or is the writing in this just not that compelling and it makes playing the game just not that fun?
Full disclosure, this is my first "real" CRPG assuming stuff like Shadowrun and Dragon Age are too simple to count.
I'm fine with the RwTP, no real problems there at least to my casual eyes, on Hard difficulty it's engaging enough for me to need to reposition and use spells well.
But the writing feels so dry and overwhelmingly so to the point where I can barely muster the will to continue playing because everything seems like it's speaking at me, instead of to me.
Take the Raedric's hold quest for example, the game really hasn't given me any reason to care for or even consider thinking about any of these people beyond the superficial. Lord Raedric is said to be a dick by everyone. You go and meet him and he goes WELL I KILLED MY WIFE AND CHILD AND ALSO I'M ABOUT TO SLAUGHTER PEOPLE IN MY ALREADY STRUGGLING TOWN and it's like ok.
The priest goes "we have to turn to this god" and I don't really give a shit on account of "this god" requiring me to sit down and read a few paragraphs in like a dozen out of order books that are penned in the driest least interesting way imaginable and even after reading some of the books it's not like I can use any of the information I've just had dumped on me to influence the dialog in any way.
There's the animancer who again has no real depth to her, she claims she has a cure but her entire deep dark dungeon has been nothing but random skeletons and there didn't seem to be any hidden clues that she is in fact conducting real experiments to the cure. You slaughter her entire pet collection and you can't even bring it up in dialog when meeting her, ditto with the Lord and him claiming to fix Gilded Vale with his animancer if you've already killed her.
Maybe I'm just dumb and word hurty brain not read good but this doesn't really feel compelling in any way. this is not a creepypasta or whatever but does anyone remember a really gruesome and weird rm2k game from the early 2000s were u could tear heads off grandmas and burn kids alive? think i played it before 2002 cuz 9/11 didnt happen yet and i remember playing it and thinking the story was the coolest thing ever but it heavily relied on rtp and it kinda reminds me of the empire of arkantos (picrel) but with a more serious tone, idk what it was called but i checked lists of old games and nothing seems familiar to me which is the best version? first time im gonna play Unpopular opinion: we shouldnt separate RPGs on wrpgs and japshit but on either
>isometric
or
>FPShit
its just a game changer, i just have my own preferences in design >Fucking Jeuffre follows me now either i like it or not
No were not going There yet you nigger, jesus Are these the type of games you can just jump into blind, or should I be following a strategy guide?
I'm fairly new with JRPGs but I've played FF7 and FF Tactics. Disco bros .... This does NOT look good for us The hero of Mira has arrived were so fucking back roleplaying bros 
I've gradually begun to realize that the kind of RPG experiences I enjoy are not the story-driven save-the-world long contiguous narratives, but the ones that let you roam around free and go on your own adventures. Now I don't necessarily mean purely "open world" games like the Elder Scrolls, but I suppose that's not too far off.
I think what really makes the difference is, in the classic older RPGs, there tends to be a hard limit of just how long you can stay out and about. Whether it's food, potions, reagents, spellcasts, games like the older Ultimas and Final Fantasies let you go out on an "adventure" but you eventually have to return to town, stock up, sleep at an inn, and maybe (as the player) power down for the night and have another adventure tomorrow. I'm replaying FF1 for the Nth time and it amazes me that it's actually a perfectly expected strategy to poke into a dungeon, grab a few chests, and run like hell because you aren't yet equipped enough to tackle the whole thing in one go.
It moderates grinding; some people hate grinding in all forms, I don't. But grinding gets boring in easier games, like later JRPGs, when you're just doing the same thing infinitely without risk and never have to really worry about running out of resources. It's that sense of packing everything into an "expedition" and having a home base around some town or village, and eventually moving on to find a new one, that I really enjoy. Later JRPGs tend to be more linear so as not to provide this experience, and TES games tend to be easy enough to just carry on without ever really needing to base/camp up somewhere unless you install some hardcore survivalist mods.
There's a fair amount of classic games to get into that provide this experience, but does this sub-genre even really exist in the modern era at all? While there are a lot of older game design ideas that don't really work anymore, I think this type of freeform, compartmentalized adventuring could still have appeal today. 
If you disagree, it's probably because you're either an unloved faggot who's stupid enough to suspend disbelief in the 'authenticity' of some sappy tale which at least 50% of the time is going to have a female love interest written by a man or a male love interest written by a woman and would never work in reality, or you're just too pussy-whipped from the excessive worship of your current/ex girlfriend.
Us gooners on the other hand know what we are, what we want and why we're doing it. We see your digital waifus for the playthings they are ( It's called a video GAME for a reason ) and as a simple outlet for sexual release which is merely another tool to relieve our boredom - another joystick to rub, if you will. We are true GAMERS and thus we will be *playing the field*.
RPG's will be significantly improved as a format if all 'romantic paths' were completely terminated from any future production and instead replaced with raunchy sexual innuendo, thirsting, and fully graphic sex scenes. This is undeniably true. We need more low iq protagonists. Sick and tired with marry sues Time to add another skull to the pile of wannabe Gothic-influenced ARPGs? Items, anon. Do you use them? What franchise have the more weird consumables? Welcome to Ordowald the world that has nearly everything I love Falcom games but I wish they had Atlus budgets. I feel like there should be more (j)RPGs I like, but there just aren't.
I just want to play Final Fantasy 1 again forever, but different.
I just want to make my all own party with different build options. No preset characters/drama queen storyline.
I just want simplified "go do the thing" storytelling, no vainglorious writer living out his failed anime director dreams cranking out a novel with miles of dialogue boxes.
I just want resource and equipment management and finding a small but meaningful amount of interesting treasure, no diablo style crap where every piece of gear is 30+ random dice rolls of marginal sidegrade.
There's like almost no games that really fit these requirements in my mind besides Final Fantasy 1, Final Fantasy 3(j), Dragon Quest 3, and the Etrian Odyssey series. Then there's Wizardry and Bard's Tale I guess, and I like the Ultima series though most of them lack much character creation. What JRPG has the all-time best gameplay? Oblivion has no problems that don't exist in skyrim and morrowind, The real reason it's considered the worst of the trio is the lack of mods Sup /vrpg/, I completed my playthrough of Pokémon HeartGold about a month ago and I got to say, this is probably the best mainline Pokémon game so far.
As always, here's the full list of games I'll be replaying this year
>Pokémon Yellow (completed)
>Pokémon Crystal (completed)
>Pokémon Emerald (completed)
>Pokémon Leaf Green (completed)
>Pokémon Platinum (completed)
>Pokémon HeartGold (completed)
>Pokémon White
>Pokémon White 2 I'm playing The Witcher 1 and in the second and third chapter I decided to romance Shani, instead of Triss, for Shani seems more caring with Geralt than Triss, that seems to be very libertine and fucking around just for personal gain. To not mention that she is just taking sexually advantage from him, due to his amnesia. Now she is mad at Geralt. What did you chose to romance during your first run and why? Why are JRPGs so diverse but WRPGs are just the same 3 settings (space, post apocalyptic, medieval fantasy) in the same 2 formats (isometric and FPS) with the same overall gameplay design >first area of avowed
>"Can you help me kill some lizards that took over my house?"
>Choose no cause who gaf
>"Um anyway, here are my house keys so you can kill them"
Bitch what part of No did they not understand? Grow up. In terms of game engines made for RPGs and modding: it doesn't get better than this, baby. Why are MMORPG games so shit nowadays? 
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