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Etrian Odyssey Community Thread: The Ongoing Adventures of Fight and Heal
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I think Etrian Odyssey X Mystery Dungeon should get a mention as well.
I'll see if I can trim something to fit it into the FAQ part. I don't think it really should be with the main entries section.
I feel you can cut the classes section, or replace it with a bunch of pictures.
For now, I fit MDxEO into the FAQ part for now with a link to the thread L~A made yesterday.
As for classes section, I kind of hate to toss out all the nice banners after DandyCroc worked on them!. That said, that section is rather large, over 7000 characters. I'd kind of hate to just cut the entire section because people new to the series might find the overview helpful, but I'm definitely open to ideas for condensing it. Maybe like group them by game and remove some/all of the description text?
Any new(er)comers to the series have an opinion on the usefulness of the class section? Us old EO farts don't really need it, it's there for you young'n's.
As for classes section, I kind of hate to toss out all the nice banners after DandyCroc worked on them!. That said, that section is rather large, over 7000 characters. I'd kind of hate to just cut the entire section because people new to the series might find the overview helpful, but I'm definitely open to ideas for condensing it. Maybe like group them by game and remove some/all of the description text?
Any new(er)comers to the series have an opinion on the usefulness of the class section? Us old EO farts don't really need it, it's there for you young'n's.
I say you leave the paragraph and remove all the text below the images, leaving just the images.
That would save space but just the images with no context looks weird to me when previewing.
Maybe I'll check with Dandy about designing fewer, larger images to include class stuff. Moving the text into images would cut about 6000 characters from the post which would be nice, plenty of room to expand other sections.
Yeah, I will when there is room, like make another heading under the main entries and I'll include PQ, too, since it's kind of in the same boat (EO game with Persona skin).
E_Darkness
Member
The bright future of Etrian Odyssey: anime trope DLC.
Looking forward to the Beach Episode and the Festival Episode.
Looking forward to the Beach Episode and the Festival Episode.
Naked Chloe you say?
Going for that Fire Emblem: Awakening audience.
E_Darkness
Member
The one lesson that can be learnt from Fire Emblem: Awakening is that waifus sell.
No special portraits for male characters though.
They probably already realized that with Persona.
tonyh24613
Member
The other DLC is a money grinding one, huh. I'm pretty poor right now, and still not quite understand how food selling works. But the DLC looks useless at end game.
oh what
missed opportunity, Atlus
at least you get to see that image where all 3 are together
Chrom's ass is a sight I'll never forget.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Now all we need is for EOV to be a mobile exclusive so we can it a day, close the thread, and mass suicide.
I also wish we had male portraits, not everyone is a straight male, Atlus! I feel conflicted about the DLC, I like to give my favorite series monies but at the same time I don't like to support this kind of DLC... unless the bath stuff is actually cool and not just the portraits.
Money grinding? There's always a way to get easy money but I'm not sure what you can do in Untold 2.
I also wish we had male portraits, not everyone is a straight male, Atlus! I feel conflicted about the DLC, I like to give my favorite series monies but at the same time I don't like to support this kind of DLC... unless the bath stuff is actually cool and not just the portraits.
Money grinding? There's always a way to get easy money but I'm not sure what you can do in Untold 2.
I haven't played Untold yet (It was a jump ball between EOIV and Untold). It's definitely on my to-play list though!
Ah, I might have to hunt down a copy of EO3 from ebay then. I really want to play all of the main games in the series, so I plan on going through Untold, then the EO2 remake, and hopefully by then i'll have secured a copy of EO3.
IS kmew exactly what they were doing~
Well there is an assorted quest with it so... maybe?
SliceSabre
Banned
I can only hope it provides something worthwhile at all levels of the games rather than something only useful early in the game.
It'll only be available when you reach the 12th floor, and recommends you to be level 27 at least.
There will almost certainly be more DLCs to come, and if they're going with the Fire Emblem: Awakening route for them I hope they'll at least give us something similar to Apotheosis.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
hopefully.
I hope it's a challenge or at least interesting, but that sounds good at least. Even if whatever you get from the quest will be useless for the end game.
EO3 is currently $19.99CDN from videogamesplus.ca as part of their Atlus sale, lowest price i'd seen for a while so bought one myself
SliceSabre
Banned
Ahh, well that makes me feel a bit better about it then.
chaobreaker
Member
I played and beaten EO1 years ago and thought it was fun romp. Granted I cheesed most of the early game exploiting poison damage on Alchemists spells to kill FOEs, but it was still pretty challenging.
I tried EO2 later but I found it to be more of the same so I skipped it.
I got EO4 on my 3DS in a eshop sale months ago but I stopped playing it early on. I guess my team build sucks or something but I'm barely managing dungeons like I did in the first game. I guess the lack of cheesy skills like the all the poison and defence buffing skills from EO1 are mostly gone.
I tried EO2 later but I found it to be more of the same so I skipped it.
I got EO4 on my 3DS in a eshop sale months ago but I stopped playing it early on. I guess my team build sucks or something but I'm barely managing dungeons like I did in the first game. I guess the lack of cheesy skills like the all the poison and defence buffing skills from EO1 are mostly gone.
More proof of EO V(ita)
You're not going to bring Arianna and Chloe in swimsuits for the endgame?
Watch as these special portraits confer stats bonuses.
crabhammer
Member
I'm fine with the Untold series' story mode and anime tropey stuff, but I really hope EOV is clean of all that kind of stuff. D:
E_Darkness
Member
Gotta legitimize the purchase with stat bonuses!
My answer is in the FAQ section of the OP.
Others will probably have their own opinions to chime in with.
EO3 is currently $19.99CDN from videogamesplus.ca as part of their Atlus sale, lowest price i'd seen for a while so bought one myself
Thanks for the heads up. Gonna get this as soon as I can.
III, IV or Untold are the best games to start out with, as they have the most refined mechanics and friendlier difficulty curves (IV in particular). Personally I'd suggest you begin with Untold classic mode (or the first game outright if the clunkier and somewhat outdated mechanics and balance don't deter you) as it has the best introduction to the setting of the Etrian Odyssey games, which has influences in the later installments.
Untold 2 is gonna introduce the charisma stat, which influences the prices at shops and decreases enemies' performance.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Those Visual Bonuses are going to distract me!
EO4, it's easily the best game to start this amazing series.
You're going to spend extra time choosing their action, get distracted, and forget what turn you're on and die horribly to a preventable attack you forgot about.
E_Darkness
Member
EO3 is currently $19.99CDN from videogamesplus.ca as part of their Atlus sale, lowest price i'd seen for a while so bought one myself
I... I don't have the money...
I could go without eating for a week...
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Eating is overrated.
So is EO 3, the second worst game in the series behind 4.
It's still better than most other games out there but man, it's got some questionable design decisions all around.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Why are you doing this to me, it's because the games aren't difficult or what?
God bless Expert mode.
tonyh24613
Member
I wonder if the cooking, marketing, selling system is a faster way to get profit, still too early to tell. By the way, I changed Chloe's class to medic, her force break is kind of overpowered.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
Take one wild fucking guess what happens.
No, you don't get money for guessing correctly, only a heavy sigh.
Things that bug me about three.
1. I don't like subclassing in this series. When they first announced three I was so excited. Subclasses are one of my favorite things in RPGS and EO is one of my favorite series. Two great things that go great together? In execution though it both made things too complex on the surface and instead of expanding the really viable classes at the end by taking a bit from here and there it dramatically shrunk the options down to about 4 or 5 really great builds and then a bunch of sub optimal ones. 4 does fix this by having more balanced classes to begin with and many more builds that work just fine, though part of it is because it's a dramatically easier game.
2. I really don't like the story. Too much talking about this boring, boilerplate plot (it's better than 4's even worse attempt at it) It's not cool or mysterious like 1/2 at all. It's overly chatty, not very well written, and goes on too long.
3. I find most of the new classes to be awful. I pretty much only like Princess and Buccaneer (and the rebranded Alchemist was fine too, but barely a new class) while the rest just fell flat. Super disappointed in Monk, Farmer, Beast Tamer, Robot and not overly fond of the rest.
EO IV is even worse because while it has better classes it is also far too easy, has an even worse story and has those horrible sub dungeons and no real giant mega dungeon. It's a damn shame.
Not to be all doom and gloom there are some things I like about 3 and 4.
1. Princess is dope!
2. 6th slot shenanigans was also fun.
3. I like the sea map minigame and the way 3 did those extra boss fights for leveling.
4. I do like the revamped limit system of 3/4.
5. IV's demo is amazing.
6. I like shiny monsters...though maybe they are a bit too common.
7. Subclassing did do a good job with how it handled additional weapons.
I think subclassing and the awful stories are here to stay but I hope against hope that 5 only has one giant dungeon and an actual honest hard mode. I'll be settled with that.
Mauricio_Magus
Banned
Maze 5 is sooo good. I'm glad you liked the game a lot, are you thinking on diving into other titles of the series after finishing with 4?
1. I'm not the biggest fan of subclassing, but Atlus creating Grimoires is even worse, holy shit what were they thinking. And it was fine in 4, in 3 there was some awful shit like Princess/Monk being shit compared to Monk/Princess. That didn't happen at all in 4.
2. I like the story, I do agree than 1 and 2 were more about the atmosphere and it's great, but 3 is just a game I love so much, I felt like it was the right amount of story and that we didn't need a fucking STORY mode.
3. Awful classes? 3? I can't. At least we agree that Princess is love.
EO4 would be perfect if it wasn't so god damn easy, gimme an Expert mode please.
I try to stay positive about this series, but I won't lie, the direction it has and continues to take isn't something I love... Floor Jump, Picnic Mode, Story Mode, DLC... sigh. I'm happy that the MD game and EO5 got announced at least.
So the same thing for EO2 except without subclasses? There's only a few options there, barring one-slot wonders that cover the rest (e.g., Painless spam). Though I do agree that their quest for more "balance" across the board led themselves to less and less difficult design.
That and most the boss fights became strict rotational based where EO1/EO2 had a lot of X/Y/Z% chances per turn instead. And then weird things like Ur-Child's day/night differences that were just ... whatever.
I have high hopes for PQ's Risky mode helping for future games. Please. I beg of it.