Have you played any of Falcom's Trails games? Four of them are on steam now and they are absolutely wonderful. They have turn-based combat and I feel like they fit in with the PS2 era vibes. They are slow burns, but have some of the best world building in the biz.
I thought combat was much better in Exist Archive (it's basically the Valkyrie Profile battle system), but the lack of enemies/unique environments killed it for me. It's ridiculous how they turned asset reuse into such an art form... Play the first 10 hours of Exist and you've seen everything you've seen.
I own The Legend of Heroes: Trails in the Sky. I believe it's the first one?
That is correct.
I have the game for a while, but haven't played it yet.Just bought Tales of Berseria, so that's what I'll start tonight. Will also be my first Tales game, so we'll see how that goes.
Know that all of the NPCs get new things to say after every little story event. You learn a lot about them and the world that way and many have their own little character arcs during the game. It makes the world feel like there really are people living their lives outside of your personal journey.Cool, I'll be starting that today then.
Finished Nocturne to the neutral ending this weekend. I'm also on the final dungeon of TitS.
On the back boiler I have Radiant Historia going on but I've been on AH Final Chapter for a while now. Further back I also have a Mystery of the Emblem game going. Way way back I still have Thracia 776 to get to.
And I have Strange Journey, which I may pick up again now that I've beat Nocturne, Infinite Space, and now I've just bought the PS2 Digital Devil Saga games .
I've also been looking into Ys recently. Might play some more of that or Xanadu Next.
The battle system in Resonance of Fate is insanely awesome -- there's nothing quite like it. Everything else is a hot mess. But the story and dialogue are so bad they're funny. Fun game. tri-Ace musta been smoking a lot of pot and hash when they made that game...
I'm at the end of Default now. (took a couple of days off to play Samus Returns). Excellent RPG, but man, the complaints about the latter half of the game really were not overstated. It's fucking ridiculous. No idea what they were thinking.
Know that all of the NPCs get new things to say after every little story event. You learn a lot about them and the world that way and many have their own little character arcs during the game. It makes the world feel like there really are people living their lives outside of your personal journey.
I'm a huge fan of tri-Ace for their battle systems so that's good to hear. How tough is game so that I can be prepared when I start playing it.
I'm a huge fan of tri-Ace for their battle systems so that's good to hear. How tough is game so that I can be prepared when I start playing it.
I recently started Valkyrie Profile. This has got to be one of the worst tutorials I've ever witnessed. It's spamming information in the worst kind of way, yet still fails to tell me anything important to comprehend what's going on. I.e., I have no idea what I'm doing (insert dog scientist meme). Menus are convoluted and weird, I don't find the abilities that items supposedly gave me, I don't understand what I'm supposed to do in battles other than to wait for the single magic caster to recharge, I don't know whether a substory has concluded (or started?), or even why I can't climb on top of ladders in dungeons.
Well, the one thing I feel like tri-Ace doesn't always do a great job at is explaining things clearly to the player. Ironically, this game has perhaps the most tutorials than any of their other games I've played, and still the battle system can be a bit confusing. That being said, once you wrap your head around all of the mechanics (which wasn't that easy for me, honestly), it's not an unfair challenge at all. You just really have to make proper use of the right weapons. But it's a weird and awesome fucking system. It's like rogue-like meets traditional turn-based meets Devil May Cry -- it's fucking wild. The overworld grid system is a little frustrating, though.
The only thing to really be prepared for, though, is tedium at the beginning when going through all those tutorials and awesomeness after that.
Some maps/dungeons can be quite challenging. It's definitely not a straight-up dungeon crawl.
Just finished the A ending in Nier: Automata. I'm worried it will get snubbed during GOTY time just because of how strong the competition is this year. This game is better than any game released in 2014.
Resonance of Fate can get really, really hard. Be prepared.
Just finished the A ending in Nier: Automata. I'm worried it will get snubbed during GOTY time just because of how strong the competition is this year. This game is better than any game released in 2014.
Shin Megami Tensei 4. I would say a little more than half the way.
There are some things that seriously get on my nerve in this game design, like the delirious encounter rate and the too frequent visit to Naraku, but other than that it's a cool ride.
Shin Megami Tensei 4. I would say a little more than half the way.
There are some things that seriously get on my nerve in this game design, like the delirious encounter rate and the too frequent visit to Naraku, but other than that it's a cool ride.
Putting some solid hours in Ys VIII on Nightmare.
Anybody have any recommendations from the PS flash sale that's about to end?
I've heard great things about that Atelier trilogy for Vita, so I got the bundle.
good choice
if you haven't played one before I only got one piece of advice; don't sweat the deadlines. There's so much time to get lots of things done and get an ending (the games have multiple endings) that you'll be happy with
you can fuck up by eating up lots of days but that shouldn't happen if you plan ahead of time
I just realized that out of the 39 DS games I've beaten so far, 31 of them are JRPGs. And I still have like two or three JRPGs to go. DS is a JRPG beast.
Still and always playing Pokemon.
I don't know if this is allowed here, but I figured with my pretty decent backlog, I would ask all the JRPG experts what I should play next. These are all of the portable JRPGs on my backlog currently:
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
Xenogears
Suikoden 2
Wild Arms
The World Ends With You (iOS)
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Freedom Wars (does this count?)
Still and always playing Pokemon.
I don't know if this is allowed here, but I figured with my pretty decent backlog, I would ask all the JRPG experts what I should play next. These are all of the portable JRPGs on my backlog currently:
Digimon Story: Cyber Sleuth
Xenogears
Suikoden 2
Wild Arms
The World Ends With You (iOS)
Tactics Ogre: Let Us Cling Together
Freedom Wars (does this count?)