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! Is this game good? Anyone played it? It's just getting disgusting at this point. Bros! Let's all get Fucking hyped! Secrets of the MotherFucking Eastern Sea MotherFuckers! Less than 2 weeks until we get our new Wandering Sword expansion that everyone has been demanding! How excited are all you Cats that this is coming out?
I'm getting ready to start another MotherFucking NewGame+ and have a new build I' ready to try. This was one of the greatest HD-2D RPGs of all time! I Fucking LOVED the original game and have played through multiple paths and gotten most of the endings. 
I know, overdiscussed ever presently, but I actually have something to say.
The problem with actuality in RPGs is ineffable.
You might play some vidy and think, wow this is immersive, but the game itself might not be an RPG.
A game might have mechanics, if validity is of course it should be reaching high or at least somewhat complex levels in mechanics.
Not to trying to shit on anyone, just an example of how some games are met halfway, like Witcher 3 for instance.
It is in practical reasoning an RPG, but sadly just actually an action game with *some* elements, not complex enough. Of course not making the argument complexity makes any real difference, no, but an RPG with highly focused, carved out mechanics will shine through the complexity of it, both aesthetically and very incidentally mechanically.
The main problem comes to choice. Say, in VTMB, the choices do matter. Arcanum, Planescape, Alpha Protocol, Morrowind, New Vegas, etc
A bad-good example is wolf among us. The telltale shtick is actions have consequences, but all you do is directly hand-held, taking you wherever the game wants instead of you deciding.
Again, with Witcher 3, you "explore" places, do quests, and improve character, but it really is just that, it's like DND but without freedom, just a map filled with random things and seperated main & side.
I think the gold standard is VTMB. It's an extremely good example for choices, communication----- BUT
Take fallout 4. The problem is you have to understand, take the output past with efficacy.
It's complete shit, sloppy as it comes, but because of some mechanics, it's an RPG.
Don't be afraid to define or decide on something non-verbally. I would understand if someone reacted to someone saying "comfy", that is kinda retarded, but again the problem goes back to ineffability of this crazy genre.
danke Come post about the best crpg ever made! When the player is told to do something straight away and then thrown out into the open world to explore, why should he want to waste time looking around in other areas if he HAS to get a certain task done?
On the contrary, when he focuses on the task he misses out on the exploration which defeats the purpose of having an interactive world. 
We all know that after the unequivocal success of the FFVII remake trilogy, Square will begin work on remaking the greatest FF game of all time (V), so what are some things you'd like to see in it?
Personally, I don't want them to add too much because I feel one of the game's biggests strengths is its balance between gameplay and story, so I really don't think it needs constant cutscenes and voice acting the way they treated FFVII, but I think there are some good ways to flesh out the story and the world without just making a hallway simulator with movies.
One good idea, I think, is to put a bunch of guilds all around the world—one for each job. Sometimes the guilds can be located right in the middle of a town, other times you might have to stray off the beaten path, and some might be deviously hidden in the depths or the sea or up in the sky, but once you find them you can unlock job-specific sidequests that get your dedicated special equipment and/or limit breaks for each job. Maybe the final quest for each guild involves "awakening" the warrior spirit in each job crystal so you can spar against the 1000-year-old avatar of each class from before the worlds were split. Also they would have awesome costumes. That you can win from them.
I also think a lot of things from FFXV could make a return, like cooking, camping, fishing, and maybe even photographs? V has a lot in common with XV in that both games are really about the bond between the main characters, so I think a lot of XV's gimmicks could be comfortably reimagined to fit into V's world. It would really benefit from an extra dose of "comfy", so to speak.
What would you tasteful lads like to see added to a remake of the greatest JRPG of all time? Who's the richest person in Fallout? who is your favorite traveler? it's a carnal desire. I need to fuck him so bad This is the best non asian made game of the 2020s by far and its based on a 40 year old Movie trilogy The 2.00 update came out. Now we need to wait for the translation to be finished. While also eagerly awaiting hakika’s next project. Is Final Fantasy 13 worth six dollars? I know the story is bad but is the gameplay any good? Chapters 3&4 are a little over a week old by now. What did you think of the new chapters? How has this affected fangames?
Are you making a fangame? Post progress! It's on a pretty big sale, did you enjoy your time with it, anon? 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 During my runs, I usually equip the character with a long range rifle, that shots one bullet, than a shotgun for more near fights. I don't understand the point on having guns. Probably machine-guns works good if someone try to assault the character, for it can dispose of a pack of enemies very easily, but a gun, like a 9 mm? That's not like a long range rifle, neither if it is a revolver. What did you buy during the Steam Summer Sale this year? The superior form of FUN.
Why so few? What your favorite? Any obscure game with this mechanics to recommend? Expedition 33 is this? worth the 50G disk space? Is this a joke? These are all items you can get almost immediately. >love series
>there will never be a new entry
For me, it's Dragon Age. There will never be another RPG that has 6 origins with 5 UNIQUE 20 minute gameplay sequences that loop back around with unique quests and scenes and massive consequences later in the story. No RPG will ever mix real time combat with pauses so perfectly, no cast of characters will be so human, no worldbuilding so well thought out without being pretentious or just stealing from D&D, no Morrigan sex or selling knife ears into slavery.
Bros... how do you even begin to cope? Previous thread is gone.
Is there any news about the update? Which PS1 BoF game should I play first? 3 or 4? > Classic Fallout fans: "Fallout 1 is full of morally ambiguous choices"
The "morally ambiguous choices" in question:
"Hm... Should I fix Necropolis' water purification system after taking their control chip, or should I not?" In other words: "Should I doom this entire city to die of thirst when I have no actual reason to, or not?"
> Classic Fallout fans: "Fallout 4's moral choices are just between clearly-defined good guys and bad guys"
Fallout 4's main moral choice:
"Should I assist this technologically advanced faction that wants to secure the future of humanity through technological innovation but at the cost of the abduction and terrorizing of innocent people? Do the long term ends of progress and the revitalization of human civilization justify the short term means?"
Remind me why people consider the old Fallout games to be the superior RPGs again? Is it just nostalgia? >dude you definitely don't need to grind just use the right strategy Where should I start in the franchise?
I don't mind old games but I prefer if it's not too long
Also, what do you think about Builders 1 and 2? wtf is a magic missile made of and how does it hurt you? Does it burn you? Push you? Tickle you? Fondle you? 
>Suggest g.f play Deus Ex
>Looks at skills, first skill she puts points into is swimming because it's cheap.
>Go to make some salad, come back, she is already in the liberty statue.
>Ask her how she got there
>uhh dunno?
>mention that there is some side missions like meeting the informat at the north docks
>sneaks to the edge of the liberty statue and tries to get down the way she got up
>instead misses the jump and lads all the way down nearly shattering her legs entirely
>proceeds to the docks
>ends up on the box shooting tranq darts on enemies that have by this point ran out of ammo doing potshots at her on top of the crates
>continues playing with no skills leveled up, sneaking past all the enemies back up the liberty tower
>enters through the top of the liberty statue, triggering a gas mine while trying to disarm it
>her sneazing and caughing pulls the guards towards that area, she then slips by the area they left to check out
>drinks all the water in the water fountain until it's empty afterwards to deal with the tear gas nade
>tries to free gunter
>didnt explore shit so has no lockpicks or multi tools
>makes pic related contraption of a TNT box and a trash can to climb over crates
>I'm sweating the entire time watching her finagle a fucking TNT crate and trying to drop it just right
>knocks everybody out with the prod
>frees gunter and climbs back over using the same crate of TNT
>gets to the top of liberty statue and is blocked by 2 people
>shitunatconevertrainedmeforthis.jpg
>tries throwing flares to distract them and knock them out but doesn't work
>instead uses fire extinguisher to stun them and then knocks them out with the baton
>not very interested in what the terrorist leader has to safe, as soon as the conversation is over is willing to just leave with "missions done I guess mindset"
>goes to explore the rest of the island
>timetoputthoseswimingskillstouse.jpg
>but inventory is full
>game crashes when trying to drop cigs
What a ride Just making a thread to say how grateful I am for games (especially remakes) that add battle speed selection. Lunar Remaster lets you choose up to 3x speed and it makes the entire experience enjoyable. I never finished either of the two Lunar titles (got about halfway in each and quit) and a big reason was how burnt I got from slow battles, especially given the fact you can't avoid enemies or use any item to mitigate encounters entirely. You are stuck fighting a lot of random battles at really slow speeds. 3x speed is perfect.
All turn-based RPGs should have up to 3x speed, it makes them comparable to playing emulated and makes grinding way more palatable if you feel the need to super-level your characters to stomp everything. Why don't more modern RPGs have actual alignment systems in them? My favorite RPG is Skyrim. What games should I try to cure this.
I want to be a wizard exploring big dungeons, traversing large lands, and casting tons of creative spells.
>inb4 Skyrim isn't an RPG.
I don't care. Tell me your favorites. I didn't think it was possible for an RPG to have a worse ending than Mass Effect but Obsidian found a way 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 Now that some time has passed, was Runescape a good rpg? I want to find some more underground JRPGs like OFF, Black Souls, and Hylics series . Basically, JRPGs that are virtually unknown to anyone. Maybe you know some? Claim your Final Fantasy girl. For me it's Selphie. She's cute and bubbly. >Hundred Line
>Digimon story Time Stranger
>They still hasn't announced their other 3 project
Is going to be Valkyria Chronicles or a new Shining? M is removed when you choose "C" "U"
fuck toby fox on god man 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. Have you ever fallen in love with a minor NPC in a videogame? Just found out this exist & as soon as I saw the sheer size of the maps/world I was hooked,this is how you make your game ooze Lord of the Rings & Gothic on roids!!
https://youtu.be/h6JN3wWeqHQ?si=4L1uO70E3vOrOLXd do you like da grindan game? 
The remaster takes what is a flawed but innovative game and turns it into a masterpiece. FF12 zodiac job is the best in the series.
Using theater actors instead of voice actors worked out so well in this game. I think it's one of the few Jrpgs where the dub is undeniable better than the original jap voice work. Everyone is so good especially the guy who plays balthier. It helps that this is easily the best localized and best written Final Fantasy game so they got some good lines to say too. Why did square, and other companies, not use theater actors more? They act circles around traditional VAs.
Vayne starts out as an incredibly compelling villain he's easy to root for. To bad the plot and pacing go downhill after raithwalls tomb. The biggest flaw of the game is how Vayne devolves into a retarded meathead final boss at the end. And not in the good way like in MGS rising. His first speech at the beginning in rabanastre kicks ass.
People complained about Vaan and Penolo alot on /v/ back in the day but they're not really annoying. In fact they're downright likeable. They're just not quite as good as the other 4 characters.
To bad matsuno had to have a melty halfway through development. What's the best Persona game for the following
>best story
>best cast
>best MC
>best visuals
>best music
>best gameplay
Or is it just P5 for all? A game similar to Elder Scrolls comes out tomorrow. Has anyone tried it? How is it? Will you be picking it up?
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1466060/Tainted_Grail_The_Fall_of_Avalon/ It's been awhile since >we had a thread up.
>Post progress
>Ask Questions >Monday
>no /mon/day thread
Fine I'll do it myself
Monster collecting and raising games. What have you been playing and what are you looking forward to.
Did you snatch something from Steam's Creature Collector Fest ? Been playing Rorona and loving it, will play the other Arlands too
After that where should I go in Atelier? >put tons of enemies that give diseases, ability damage, etc. in the early game
>early game is timed, with no good indication that it is timed and how much time you have
>early game companions start with bad builds
>constant pre-buffing
>turn the early game into a slog
Did Owlcat set out to make Act 1 intentionally annoying? So in a month we will receive another top tier CRPG like bg3.
Post your build. Daily reminder that action RPGs are not actual RPGs. All Diabshit, Yshit and Breath Of Fire/Secret of Manashit belong with the Legend of Zelda, Dark Souls and Monster Hunter, all of which no one in their right mind would consider an RPG. What do you think of Final Fantasy 9? After playing p5r I want to catch up on the older titles in the series
Can someone tell me if the following list is the definitive way to experience the games
Emulated:
Persona 1 - PSP version with original music patch
Persona 2 IS/EP - PSP version with eng patch
Play on platforms where available:
Persona 3 FES and maybe Portable
Persona 4 Golden
Bonus original Catherine, I heard full body was controversial
am I missing anything? aware of persona 3 remake but I want to play the original first since it's available ITT we post your least favorite, most hated boss in all of RPG-land. For me it's this fucker.
"Looking for Baal?" No you fucking piece of shit I'm looking for you so I can fist your sorry ass to death.
Seriously on any difficulty he can be a problem. When you first encounter him he blindsides you. On hardcore he's one of the most terrifying things to go up against. He's fast, he slows you down a ton, he face-tanks you, and every character has a hard time with him if not properly prepared.
Fuck you Duriel you chink of utter fucking horse smegma. 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? Never played a JRPG where should I start? Started up the game and already paralyzed because I can't pick who to play as.
I would've picked Gray because he looks and sounds the coolest, but of course I had to google before and apparently he's not recommended for a first playthrough. How true is this? Looking through my backlog of games in my steam and noticed last time i played this game was back in 2016.
Anything i should know b4 replaying this game again?
Few things I remember hating from my last playthrough was the god awful maze of sewers to get to talk to the nosferatu clan leader as well as getting insta killed by the werewolf on the observatory telescope map.
also curious why no one made more world of darkness shit into vidya rpgs. starting v:tm for the first time but keep getting crashes even with the unofficial patch. Has anyone played this game recently? wtf am i supposed to do Flight-Plan, now defunct, is one of Japan's under-appreciated secrets.
They developed the Black/Matrix series, Summon Night series, Eternal Poison, Sacred Blaze, and had their hand in Utawarerumono's battle segments.
This thread is for discussion and play of Flight-Plan's catalogue. What party should I use? I want to use a Princess for sure. I'd love to play an rpg in which the good playthrough is the hard mode and the evil playthrough is the easy mode, for an actual change. You don't deserve a pat for being a goody two shoes if it grants you all the extra XP and loot. Why are there no RPGs that take place entirely during caveman times? 
I really want to start playing Daggerfall but immediately I've ran into the issue of the control configuration being an insurmountable hurdle (I haven't even left the room you start the game in yet).
I'm playing on a laptop and already the command configuration is a non-starter, 'look up' and 'look down' are, respectively, controlled by the "insert" and "delete" keys (above the backspace key, pic related). I played around for over 10 minutes and I just know that there is no way I could get to further quests with such a janky setup.
My question is two-fold.. 1) is there a keyboard configuration I could use to make my laptop (pic related) feel somewhat playable for Daggerfall?and 2) I have a USB N64 Controller and I have a USB Gamecube controller.. but I don't think either of those have enough buttons to fully assign every function of Daggerfall to a specific button or whatever - I'm all-in for playing this game so if I have to buy an Xbox controller or w/e then so be it. Googling has failed me so far so I'm here asking youse lot Who is your favorite underrated Monster Girl enemy from any JRPG\WRPG and why?
I have a lot that I like, mostly from JRPG and of any species, but my favorites are the hereby depicted serpentine babes:
Final Fantasy 9 - Madam Lamia
Final Fantasy 9 - Marilith
Really dig the color schemes, the perfect hybridization of monster-like features together with humanoid features, the femininty in the mannerism of Madam Lamia and how Marilith's body merges into a serpentine tail.
Both very underrated designs. New slow burn Disco Elysium dropped
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gXfotjezs-E I'm early into the game what are the best medal setups? How is there not a single thread??!! are you not existed about the powerful Electron engine becoming popularized leading to incredible free content? Finished Elex 2. Decided to try this since they updated it for the new consoles and it runs well now. Sara is pretty hot. anyone else replaying it in anticipation of the remaster?
personally enjoying wotltweakv2.52 + /Optional Patches/smart_encounters Thoughts on the wasteland series? He's kind of an imbecile, isn't he? I haven't played Diablo 2 in a long time and I'm itching to play it again, the game is due to a sale soon. Is the Resurrected multiplayer actually active?
>Just play Path of Dia-
Didn't care for it, I'll admit it does a lot of things right but I didn't really like it much. Too many modern HnS design aspects in a game that wasn't designed for it. Lets get this shit started
discuss a possible xenogears remake (not developed by sq*are en*x), xenosaga HD, future of xenoblade It's been a while since I've seen one of these. Which is your favorite game? Vehicle? Bounty? Share some stories about your journeys in the wasteland. Apparently it won Kusoge if the year award in Japan. Thaos did nothing wrong
It actually took me a good while to finish this game, despite really liking it, so a lot of the story at the end went over my head. For instance, what bad things the main character did in the past, aside from betraying the atheist girl who is impossible to find on the wiki
The last battle was pretty lame, but the White March dlc made up for it I've been playing this game for about 5 hours now and it is SO GODDAMN BORING. I don't have anything against slow burn story telling but this is the worst kind of fetch quest busy work bullshit making me run around the same town and the same three fields doing stuff liking finding cat food or killing the same tired mobs for drops to cash in. It's annoying, stupid and I hate it. And I made a thread to say I hate it. he worked 400 years for free >Arcanum
>Planescape Torment
>Baldur's Gate 1 & 2
>Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim
>Fallout 1, 2, New Vegas, 3
>Underrail
>CDDA, Project Zomboid
>Dwarf Fortress, Rimworld, Caves of Qud
>DCSS, Red Rogue, Pixel Dungeon, Tales of Maj Eyal
>Undertale
>Disco Elysium
>Terraria, Minecraft
>Hollow Knight (it was mid)
>STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl (dogshit, bad gunplay, sights unusable)
>Pillars of Eternity 1 (it was dogshit)
>SW:KOTOR (didn't like it, too old for this shit)
>Outer Worlds (it was shit)
The following games/series looked not worth playing so I just watched their gameplay and story: Vampire the Masquerade, Gothic, Witcher, Mass Effect.
There's nothing left to play. What now? just got the collection on steam for cheap so i can finally finish the series. never had 5 growing up, so while i had a hero that spanned from 1 to 4 with maxed out stats, i never had the opportunity to transfer him to the final game. too bad i lost the floppy he was on like 19 years ago. not that i have a floppy drive anymore even if i still had the disk...
anyway, what's the best way to play, and why is it starting a thief and giving him magic? I had a dream the other night where I was playing a Final Fantasy Tactics/Disgaea style SRPG where you commanded a crew of pirates and engaged in ship battles with other pirates/naval forces. There were ship battle portions where you would shoot at each other with cannons and then combat portions where you'd board the opponents ship using swordfighting classes and long range gun classes. There were also engineer classes who would man cannons/repair leaking holes. I'm incredibly frustrated because of how fun the game seemed in my dream, and was wondering if there's any existing pirate-themed RPG's that might cure the un-scratchable itch I now have? Hey guys, first thread here, you guys that already played tabletop rpg, how was your first or best session? what sistem was it I didn't know that the cancelled Baten Kaitos DS game still has an IGN page.
>https://www.ign.com/games/baten-kaitos-ds
Evidently there was even a possible 2011 3DS Baten Kaitos game but still a fart in the wind. Let's have a comfy Daggerfall thread >Be me
>Am old
>Never played an rpg, not even pokeymans
>Kinda feel lie trying- so...
Decided to try Chrono Trigger coz everyone agrees It's fantastic, got confused with the tutorial robot guy at the fair who's clearly there to teach the dumbest of the dumb how to do things. I seem to be dumber than the dumbest of the dumb.
Wat do? (other than kms)
Thanks for your precious time, lads. >steals all the credit for Uematsu's masterpiece The effects of DnD on the cRPG genre have been horrendous. Every single game in the existence is a alpha strike simulator where you stun, get stunned or oneshot your opponents I'm playing FF13 for the first time
I'm up to chapter 9, on the Palamecia
I knew before playing that this game would be a hallway simulator, but holy fuck I did not realize it would be this bad
there are some fights where the only meaningful choice I make is which enemy to target first. some fights don't even have that, I just kill them with my default paradigm
it's almost a shame I like the story, otherwise I would have dropped the game by now
upgrade system seems interesting but it looks like a huge time sink, and the game is pretty easy anyways
vanille a cute, fang sexo
thanks for coming to my TEDx talk With everyone excited to play the remaster, I think it's finally time to break down and play the original for the first time. Are the Ar Tonelico games any good? why does the enhanced version look so fucking bad 
Thoughts on progressive stat systems vs static stat systems?
I'm trying to design an RPG stat and leveling system. I can't decide which style I want to go with. Static ones seem to be more traditional, where you choose (or roll) your stats at the beginning, and barring few exceptions, they remain the same. Sort of like in Fallout where you can get implants, bobbleheads, or perks to raise your SPECIAL stats, but it's limited so you aren't meant to get everything to 10 on every character. These systems are pretty good for constantly feeling the consequences of your character, even as you get more advanced. Your starting 3 in strength is always going to limit your ability to use Physical weapons, or carry heavy things.
Then there's the system that I mostly know from Elder Scrolls (my main inspiration for this game), where the skills you advance determine what Attributes you can raise at level up. If done properly, it's possible to get all attributes to 100, or you can fall horribly short at high levels based on how well you optimize. The issue then becomes "How do you make playing at low attribute levels acceptable and normal while still making high levels something desirable" If your starting Spell Points feels like it's already enough, why should a player put points into Intelligence? If your starting speed is fast enough, why put more points into speed? It's not necessarily a hard question to answer, but it's the approach and method that holds all the nuance.
People who have played many older RPGs, what games do these sorts of stat systems good and bad, and Elaborate on why. >JRPG
>Takes place in medieval time period
>Toward the end, you find the ruins of a modern or techno city, station, etc.
>Turns out civ. shit the bed so bad, everything reverted back to stone age and things are building back
Every time. Why does Japan have a hard on for this concept? what are the best ffvii mods to use? Ive only ever played ps1 version. ideally something that ups the difficulty, adds some interesting new quests or content but doesnt fuck up the story with cringe OC. Is there any game with the same feeling of being an adventurer? Do we just remember it fondly because we were kids? >Irreversibly ruins the public perception of the definition of the term "Role Playing Game" in the context of video games
Imagine what gaming would have been like without dragonquest (which also made half of gamers think that slimes are even more Japanese goombas rather than macroscopic single-cell organisms). More like SlimeThemepark, ROFL. why is this game so hard?
i always get lost in the dungeons is this game good or a meme? >Install SCS for the improved AI and play on a lower difficulty setting it'll be fun, they said.
First major encounter there's a billion bandits and a cleric among them. If you roll poorly and don’t stop them from casting Slow on your entire party, there’s literally no way to win. You absolutely need to beeline straight to any mage to prevent them from dumping spells on you, all ranged units even skeletons keep kiting your melee, etc.
I don’t even want to think about what the later fights look like when I’m already getting filtered. To reiterate my method, I assume the unanswered questions and mysteries in FF8 are a consequence of abandoned plot threads. Ideas which were carried over and expanded on in later games.
I merely draw on these narrative elements to fill in the blanks.
Granted, these theories will sound more grand, fleshed out, and impossible to fit into the game's existing narrative. But then again, this is a game where nobody mentioned that monsters rain down from the moon until it was about to happen. Conveniently, the game's terms menu says the moon has an influence on people to make them forget.
This fantasy world contrivance leaves room for a lot of possibilities. But also makes a lot of things impossible, storytelling wise. Gay, bestiality, turn-based weenie slop gay sex simulator. And they still don't stfu about how AMAZING they want us to think it is. FU. It's once again AE's birthday month. Do you have fond memories of their games? Shorter RPGs with loads of post-game content are way better than bloated RPGs with nothing to do after the story ends. Would you rather have Romancing SaGa 4 or Last Remnant 2? What's a top notch, high up there rpg, not by the gameplay or graphics but mainly because of its WRITING?
The kind of lecture that leaves you changed, a little bit more broken, or wise RIFTS: Promise of Power is getting remade. This was an old N-Gage CRPG from 2005 that was reviewed well and has a tiny cult following but was nearly impossible to play because the Ngage smartphone platform was discontinued 1 month after this game came out.
Anyone around here ever play this lost little gem?
The remake is being funded on Backerkit here:
https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/palladium-books-inc/rifts-promise-of-power-reforged Game is an 8 or a 9 until Act 2-3, then nosedives into a 7. Act 1 was obsessively polished after years in EA then they dropped the ball and cut a ton of content which left Act 2 and especially Act 3 with plot threads that just go nowhere. Game feels unfinished narratively, and now they've abandoned it. Also, massive pacing issues when you get to Act 3, as your character gets pulled in 6 different directions and all urgency evaporates as it's so disjointed.
Voice acting and mocap are some of the best I've ever seen.
Reactivity is the best I've ever seen in a 3D rpg
Gameplay is a big step down from DoS2
Definitely the best CRPG since DA:O but they made so many poor decisions late into development that it will only ever be a flawed gem.
None of the people who gave this game awards or 10/10 reviews actually progressed to Act 3 or finished the game. I'm looking to play some good JRPGs and finally have the genre click, but I can't find what I want
I want well made action gameplay or at least engaging and thoughtful turn based gameplay, but every JRPG I've tried is so mindless, despite the usually excellent presentation
Basically, what JRPGs are actually challenging, satisfying and doesn't waste my time with grinding or battle transitions constantly? Is the series worth going back to check out? It's so clearly an influential series but I never ever see anyone bring it up outside what it's influenced or the mmo one in a vacuum. Post memorable rpg moments. Which RPG does the samurai job/class best? How's the writing in this game?
Something I don't like about a lot of Japanese games and anime is that the writing comes off as very juvenile.
For context. One of the worst games I played in this regard was Tails Daybreak. The writing was probably one of the worst I've ever played. I could only get about 5-6 hours in because I had to put it down for good. ...that traumatized you as a kid.
Pic related for me. I remember looking for a cute picture of my Lim-Lim in the Bestiary and instead I saw this (and Lemures underneath, but those were actually worthless as enemies). Games I've played and liked:
DOS 1&2
BG 1&2
Disco Elysium
Pathfinder: Kingmaker
Fallout 1&2
Shit I won't play:
The new Pathfinder
BG3
PoE (it was trash).
I played a few more but I either didn't like them or forgot about.
Please hook me with up with something good, preferably with gameplay mechanics that make me think I'm smarter than I actually am :) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qA6Za0hahyw
The holy roman catholic church aproves FFVI. So does anyone knows wht is gonna be the next fallout , a remaster ?, or new game like: " fallout 5" or " fallout California" some name like that I hate this game so much
>game controls feel nowhere near as good as before
>boring and tedious gameplay loop
>slow plot and pacing, too many incoherent side quests and stories
>environments are nice aesthetically but poorly executed in layout
>world is disconnected (plot reason is lazy)
>plot is decent at best, with too obvious "plot twists"
>Hazbin Hotel final boss
>Technikki is hot >Fixes every issue Breath of the Wild had
>Combat, atmosphere and world design on par with Bloodborne and Elden Ring
>Exploration and lore on par with MorroBliviRim
>Quests on par with the Witcher 3
>Story and emotional moments better than God of War and RDR2 combined Should I play Napishtim or Origin after 1&2? I'm tired of pretending like this isn't a top 3 DQ game On your first run of an RPG, which class do you usually pick? What's you're favorite archetype/hybrid that's your go to in every rpg? For me, it's always potions and flower picking that buffs my mediocre magic skills. So I guess a drug mage. Square root of 912.04 is 30.2 What's the closest that Western RPGs have to this fight? I keep comparing it to to Metaphor Refantazio, and by all metrics Metaphor should've done better
>Well known studio that makes games their target audience likes (regardless of what this board likes)
>Released months earlier, good reviews and seemingly good sales
Yet here comes 33, out of nowhere, by a studio no one's heard of
>Sells a crap ton of copies, more then Metaphor in a shorter time
>Better reviews, highly stylized the way ATLUS games are
>It's not anime
Like, the fuck? I'm thinking as objectively as I can and the most noticeable difference is in aesthetics. We never see JRPG's outta the west, and then when we get one, it does better then the JP one?
It's confusing, discuss >load up Morrowind
>start new character
>make it to Balmora
>leave town
>die to Cliff Racers
>uninstall
I've done this every 1-2 years and this is still the farthest I've gotten in the game. Is there something I'm just not getting or do I just need to approach creation differently? More similar than you'd think. How do I get into Saga if I got filtered by Unlimited?Are they all as weird and esoteric as Unlimited Saga? I tried that game for 20 minutes and have never been more filtered Does it get better?
I got filtered by Dragon's Dogma 1 and played 10 hours (finished the Lure of the Abyss mission) as a sorcerer, but I just can't enjoy the game. Keep dying to motherfucking bandits and think the whole damage formula is boogus.
I want to enjoy the game, but the world feels dated, the whole pawn thing seems stupid to me and I can't suspend the belief when playing, just seems like I'm gameying to game. I have been meaning to get the game for a while now, do I just emulate it via Citra or buy it alongside the Switch2? I've had this game in my Steam library for years. Should I play it? I want a real nitty gritty JRPG that I can play with a controller. Nothing too modern, my PC is potato. I played Tales of Arise a while back, it was okay. How are the previous games in the franchise? I've heard they were generally better. I also bought the Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky a couple years back and never touched it. How is that?
Pic unrelated, but if you have any recommendations with similar vibes, I'd be down. Have you ever 100%'ed a Bethesda RPG? 
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