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The 2017 RPG Discussion Thread
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I kind of agree. We have quite a few good looking RPGs coming but there isn't a lot of noise here. I wonder how much an active OP would have helped this. I guess part of the reason is probably the Horizon, Switch, BoTW honeymoon combo.
The lack of update for the OP is disappointing though. In previous years I enjoyed checking the OP for updates to see new additions, changes or things i may have forgotten. Knowing this one is dead in the water makes me skip straight to the end of the thread.
ElectricThunder
Member
...Well, that's about how it goes with Grimoire.
I mean, on the other hand, the issue with his compatriots is that slim to nothing happens either way! Wolf Mittag on Darghul is still likely, mysteriously wanderlusting/working his way around south/southeast Asia out of contact 99% of the last great years:
http://www.darghul.com/home.html
Ultimate Newcomer: GOLD occasionally posts vague, non-English updates about just about anything but here and there yearly:
http://www.newcomer.hu/index.html
So, if Grimoire can actually, finally happen this time----it'll be excellent to close the book on this exceedingly eccentric chapter of cRPG history and hopefully somehow spur along the other crazy megaproject folks to also reach out boldly at long last.
I mean, on the other hand, the issue with his compatriots is that slim to nothing happens either way! Wolf Mittag on Darghul is still likely, mysteriously wanderlusting/working his way around south/southeast Asia out of contact 99% of the last great years:
http://www.darghul.com/home.html
Ultimate Newcomer: GOLD occasionally posts vague, non-English updates about just about anything but here and there yearly:
http://www.newcomer.hu/index.html
So, if Grimoire can actually, finally happen this time----it'll be excellent to close the book on this exceedingly eccentric chapter of cRPG history and hopefully somehow spur along the other crazy megaproject folks to also reach out boldly at long last.
Starcrawlers has a release date: May 16th.
There's a new trailer to go with the announcement as well.
There's a new trailer to go with the announcement as well.
ElectricThunder
Member
I have such crazy high hopes for Starcrawlers---the long-dreamed prospect of A Dungeon Crawler....but with post-release support even a fraction of how good they were about doing Early Access? The stuff of dreams compared to the usual/continually failing paradigm of "Black Box it up, dump it on launch, pray nothing catches fire too much, fade away into the horizon wringing hands about what's done is done".
SatelliteOfLove
Member
2Q 2017: The Son of "Fuck Your Wallet"
Turning and turning in the widening gyre
The falcon cannot hear the falconer;
Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere
The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
The best lack all conviction, while the worst
Are full of passionate intensity.
Surely some revelation is at hand;
Surely the Second Coming is at hand.
The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out
When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi
Troubles my sight: a waste of desert sand;
A shape with lion body and the head of a man,
A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun,
Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it
Wind shadows of the indignant desert birds.
The darkness drops again but now I know
That twenty centuries of stony sleep
Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle,
And what rough beast, its hour come round at last,
Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?
Most of my time recently has been spent playing Battle Brothers. It hasn't been discussed a lot in here, but I highly recommend giving it a look.
Grimoire's release is certainly going to be interesting. Expeditions: Viking in a little over a week too! What a year it's going to be.
Grimoire's release is certainly going to be interesting. Expeditions: Viking in a little over a week too! What a year it's going to be.
Rad Shadow
Banned
Currently playing persona 5.
When I'm done with that I think I'm going to dive into an older title in my backlog.
Maybe I'll finish I am Setsuna.
Who knows.
When I'm done with that I think I'm going to dive into an older title in my backlog.
Maybe I'll finish I am Setsuna.
Who knows.
It is actually happening...isn't it
*looks outside for locusts*
Im stuck in a gaming rut!
Help
Persona 4 Golden - 15 hours in
Planescape Torement - 10 hours in
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 40 hours in
Red Dead Redemption - Half way through (No idea about hours)
Im not generally a JRPG guy but Im enjoying Persona's characters, its mystery and its gameplay loop but the loop gets draining.
Planescape, I took a break after encountering a pretty big bug halting my progress, I recently went back and found away around it. But its so hard to re-immerse myself. As well as the journal system/quest log isnt the greatest.
Zelda got interrupted by Andromeda, and I just haven't gone back since. Its gameplay is great even though Im a story/character guy.
I know its not an RPG but Red Dead first half is solid, great characters, great atmosphere and nice presentation. Then I get to mexico and I seem to stop caring.
Any ideas? I've been thinking about just moving onto Horizon: Zero Dawn which has my interest.
Help
Persona 4 Golden - 15 hours in
Planescape Torement - 10 hours in
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 40 hours in
Red Dead Redemption - Half way through (No idea about hours)
Im not generally a JRPG guy but Im enjoying Persona's characters, its mystery and its gameplay loop but the loop gets draining.
Planescape, I took a break after encountering a pretty big bug halting my progress, I recently went back and found away around it. But its so hard to re-immerse myself. As well as the journal system/quest log isnt the greatest.
Zelda got interrupted by Andromeda, and I just haven't gone back since. Its gameplay is great even though Im a story/character guy.
I know its not an RPG but Red Dead first half is solid, great characters, great atmosphere and nice presentation. Then I get to mexico and I seem to stop caring.
Any ideas? I've been thinking about just moving onto Horizon: Zero Dawn which has my interest.
So what's actually the story behind this game? I saw the bizarre steam community comments post earlier on this page. First I've heard of it.
My Inner Nerd is Krakken to play this.
Intheflorsh
Banned
I can't wait for this.
Glad to see these guys started making games with an engine built in the past decade. Everything about it sounds neat.
Bronetta
Ask me about the moon landing or the temperature at which jet fuel burns. You may be surprised at what you learn.
Im stuck in a gaming rut!
Help
Persona 4 Golden - 15 hours in
Planescape Torement - 10 hours in
Zelda: Breath of the Wild - 40 hours in
Red Dead Redemption - Half way through (No idea about hours)
Im not generally a JRPG guy but Im enjoying Persona's characters, its mystery and its gameplay loop but the loop gets draining.
Planescape, I took a break after encountering a pretty big bug halting my progress, I recently went back and found away around it. But its so hard to re-immerse myself. As well as the journal system/quest log isnt the greatest.
Zelda got interrupted by Andromeda, and I just haven't gone back since. Its gameplay is great even though Im a story/character guy.
I know its not an RPG but Red Dead first half is solid, great characters, great atmosphere and nice presentation. Then I get to mexico and I seem to stop caring.
Any ideas? I've been thinking about just moving onto Horizon: Zero Dawn which has my interest.
Persona 4 Golden. If you're a story/character guy it has the most and best of the bunch.
Mix it up with a bit of something else. I usually have an online game I go to in between single player games. Stuff like Rocket League or Overwatch or Mario Kart 8 Deluxe.
Unlocks in 19 hours! Assuming no micro-issues of course.
I'll be on the party creation screen for most of the weekend, even if it goes off without a hitch. <3
I expect you'll be much the same, lol.
Oh I missed this.
It's waaaaay too long a story to get into, but the cliff notes is that it started off as a Wizardry spin-off a million years ago, and one dude has been working on it ever since. Said dude (Cleve Blakemore) is a raving lunatic on the level of Derek Smart.
bati
Member
I can't wait for this.
Hyped af. Age of Decadence was amazing.
I can't wait for this.
This is going to be incredible. Can't wait.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
Which it has missed
To the surprise of nobody.
ThoseDeafMutes
Member
I'm just shattered since now I won't be able to put my new 4k hdr tv through it's paces with The Greatest Game Of All Time
It's not just a game, it's an experience.
PayOffWizard
Member
Can anyone recommend me a decent TRPG along the lines of Banner Saga and jeanne d'arc?
Have you tried the obvious ones, Final Fantasy Tactics and Tactics Ogre: Let Us Clinge Together? Both available for the PSP/Vita afaik, since you mentioned Jeanne d'Arc.
PayOffWizard
Member
Yeah i went through a phase of playing all of those. Im tempted by the Disgaea games but im not a huge fan of the art and the story look stupid.
Disgaea 5 is fantastic, but yeah, best to just ignore the story. The art is what it is also, but the sprites at least look fine so it's something you'll quickly forget about after you've lost yourself in the myriad different gameplay systems the game has. Disgaea 2 supposedly has an okay story, but if it's compared to the other games in the series, it's not saying much. Haven't played it personally.
If you have a 3DS, check out Stella Glow for a solid SRPG similar to Jeanne d'Arc with a fun story. Then there are the Fire Emblem games, a bit different with not-as-awful-as-Disgaea-but-still-bad stories but good, challenging gameplay. Fire Emblem Awakening is probably your best bet if you haven't played them before.
His Majesty
Banned
I played it at launch and the story was rather disappointing. I quit after finishing act 2 of 3. The lore behind the world is pretty interesting but it's not presented that well.
A lot has changed since launch though so no idea about the current state of the game.
A lot has changed since launch though so no idea about the current state of the game.
PoE's story is serviceable and does a fine job for a playthrough or maybe even two, but I had a bigger problem with how goddamn dry the writing is for the most part. Some good characters and bits of dialogue here and there that make it worth that one playthrough, though.
Just... Skip the weird backer short stories, i.e. all the NPCs with yellow (iirc) names.
Just... Skip the weird backer short stories, i.e. all the NPCs with yellow (iirc) names.
LurkerPrime
Member
Except The Vulture! IIRC he's in the NeoGAF inn (located in the main city) or thereabouts.
But yeah, dry is a good way to describe PoE's writing. It wants to do some really profound stuff, but struggles to deliver that in an engaging way to the player. It's kind of... hollow, or maybe unsatisfying? Something like that.
I haven't played the xpacs, though.
tbf some of them are really good