/jp/ - Otaku Culture

[Anonymous No.]

JRPG General!

Discuss what games you are currently playing, which ones you finished, which ones are in your backlog, anything about the genre really.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449689
> anything about the genre really.
totally subtle attempt at generating definition shitstorms right there

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

Are there any JRPGs that have an interesting story, are hard, and don't allow grinding?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449704
get a load of this guy.

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>8449713
it's an honest question.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449704
>and don't allow grinding
I don't think so.

[Anonymous No.]

If I were to make an RPG game, what would /jp/ like to see in it.

Do you have any mechanics from other games that you really enjoyed?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449764
Real time battle system like in the Tales series. And the affection system from certain Tales games as well. It never goes as far as dating or whatever, but depending on certain dialogue options chosen throughout the game, you get special endings with certain characters.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449704

The closest I can think of is FF8, or FE without arena abuse, but one of those isn't a JRPG and the other has a totally broken leveling system.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449764
I'm a big fan of the rolling meters in Mother 2.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449764
I enjoyed Seiken Densetsu mechanics but using magic should not stop the game.
I don't really like FF style battle.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

I only saw this video for the first time quite recently:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TCB93FfLsU

Dark knights silently watching villages being burned was my favorite fantasy trope. It was cool in Lodoss War too.

[Anonymous No.]

So I was thinking of playing FF9 for the sixth time.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449853
>FF

er, FE

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449853
is it that good?

[Anonymous No.]

Please discontinue posting pictures of my waifu.

[Anonymous No.]

I have an itching to play Wild Arms 2 again, mainly to see my waifu in action again.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449704
Why would a game just outright not allow grinding? That would be pretty silly.

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>8449787
Which Fire Emblem do you think is best? I've never played one before, but I've been interested in the series for a while so I guess it's about time to give it a shot.

[Anonymous No.]

"Xenoblade is the best JRPG of this generation at the least; it may be the best I've ever played, period. This is the game that Square Enix has been trying to make for the last ten years and failing every time. It's the game that the last two Final Fantasies wish they were. It has well written, realistic (especially for a JRPG) characters, a story that seems very down to earth and relate-able but at the same time manages to surprise at multiple turns, a combat system that takes the best aspects of MMO's and never really lets you get bored, and a quest system that any new RPG coming out should adopt immediately. It has taken most, if not all the tedium out of the genre while keeping all the fun (and numbers) intact. It's not without its weaknesses but they are so minor and so cosmetic I'm not even sure every player will notice them. For the record, I put nearly 110 hours into the game before I beat it - none of it was grinding either. Just exploring and finding shit and expanding the story through optional cut-scenes between characters and extra quests. The best part is you can skip all of that extra stuff and still have just as much fun with the game. Xenoblade is literally as little or as much as you make of it. Play this game."

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>8449927
Because it's designed to be challenging? If you can freely grind to increase your character's strength, then all hurdles in a game can easily be bypassed. I thought Fire Emblem didn't allow grinding (or it was limited, at least), so I thought there may have been more games like that.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449878
yes

[Anonymous No.]

I'm trying to drag myself through persona 2 IS but I'm just not feeling it. The story is hilarious at least

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449956
there are games where all "grinding" will not help you much because strategy is much more important. Fire Emblem is like that. (I recommend 7 as the first game if you never played one. 4 Is the best game though.)

Also the touhou fan RPG GoS is very strategy-based.

[Anonymous No.]

I lost my entire FE folder. My Etrian Odyssey folder also.

Does anyone have that big Etrian Odyssey picture of Primevil? I can't find it on danbooru...

[Anonymous No.]

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[Anonymous No.]

Can someone tell me what's the 2d jrpg fan translated game is called again, that looks like it was made with rpgmaker. It starts with yokai getting sick because of some fog and the main characters are all girls. Game starts with you beating up a gate guard that's also a girl.
That's all i remember sadly since i didn't play on.

[Anonymous No.]

Who's your favorite FE9 girl /jp/?

I love Nephenee, Mia, Jill, and Ilyana all equally.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450025
not girls, those are touhous in GoS.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450029
.... I'm straight and I think I preferred the males in that game

[Anonymous No.]

Finished the new Strawberry Bose rpg a while back. I was disappointed by how easy it was and many other things about the game. The first game was definitely better.

Now I'm going through some of the other games from c81 at a much slower pace than I did with maroku.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450016
It's a very high res image of a paladin and a healer and a landshark and a ranger and someone else all fighting Primevil.

And the picture only has three colors, red, white, and black.

I've posted it here many times before...

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450029

Lethe.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450080
I love her too but I never got much use out of the Laguz in FE9.

Their transformation thing just sucks.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450032
ok i'm going to guess the game is popular because it has these "touhous" in it and not because of the interesting story?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450092
mostly the gameplay. Also cool sprites and BGM.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450092
gameplay. Stories nothing spectacular

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450087

I used her all the time in FE9, one of my favorite units. I hated Laguz in FE10 though, outside of the royals.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450080
Best girl, terrible unit.
I don't like the game anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450087
>>8450105
Lethe was great in FE9, she transformed at the start of the chapter and wrecked shit. Enough Lagux stones to help with the transformation gauge too.

She, and every other non-royal laguz sucked in FE10 though.

[Anonymous No.]

Been thinking about marathoning the .hack series on a PS2 emulator and then watching the anime. Worth the download time?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450016

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450114
Why don't you buy the games? You can probably get them all for like 15 dollars altogether.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450113
>>8450105
Laguz royals were terribly overpowered. They started out overpowered and ended up overpowered.

That's why I never used them. I'd bring Vika and Lethe's sister with me to end game, even though they weren't all that great.

I mean Vika was good, but her strength cap is kind of low.

[Anonymous No.]

I've been replaying Saturn rpgs. Right now I'm nearing the end of Shining the Holy Ark again and in the middle of a Leon playthrough in Dragon Force.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450116
gee... thanks

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450123
Also, Vika was the only new person in FE10 that I didn't passionately hate.

I hated all the other new guys. Fuck the dawn brigade, seriously.

During the dawn brigade chapters I'd only use Jill, Sothe, and what's her face the white haired girl who I also hated but I couldn't get rid of her so I just used her anyway.

Of course, that made it terribly difficult to beat the latter dawn brigade chapters on hard mode, what with only have three usable units. Especially during the last chapter when you have to hold off Ike's attack in that one fort.

[Anonymous No.]

while the hard mode in FE8 is mostly smooth sailing in comparison to other games, the sheer flood of Swordmasters/Great Knights/Paladins/Warriors/Valkyries/Rangers near Riev in chapter 19 made me spit take

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450123
Vika, the stoner raven chick. Man, I love her. I hate how she was so utterly unusable. You get her in Part One, for three chapters. Then next time you get her it's in Part Four, near the end. Unless you've been saving BEXP, she has no use whatsoever. And even after pumping her full with it, she's still rather useless. A terrible loss because I love her art.

[Anonymous No.]

do fe 9-10 still have rgn stat progression which could utterly fuck up your characters?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450146
Yeah it can be hard enough holding the gate, and getting to Riev is something.

It's probably one of my favorite FE battles ever though. I love the defense oriented ones.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450156
If by rgn you mean RNG, then yeah it is still random. But to me, it felt like the stat weights were much heavier for appropriate classes. For example, to me it felt like Mage classes only had a 10% or less chance to get a point of Str on level up.
And besides, a LITTLE bit of Str is okay on even Mage classes for the more powerful, heavier tomes. Of course, Illyana goes too far with that and her stat weight for Str is way too high, but I love her too much to not have used her anyway.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450156
in FE9 you can get rings for certain units that change their stat progression

like Mia has a swordsmen ring that increases the stats that are important to swordsmen

also, after beating the game once I think that you can just unlock an option that basically does the same thing for all units

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450168
Ilyana is a boss even if she has more strength than she'd ever need.

[Anonymous No.]

i played through Riviera like 6 times already.
And it seems like i've found my waifu

I am going to begin playing the Rune Factory games.
Maybe I'll consider buying Atelier Totori, but not much cash at hands, sigh.

[Anonymous No.]

Waiting for Compile Hearts new game - 'Mugen souls'. Regardless of its turnbase action, I think its cool.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450156

Yes, they do have random stat gains (mostly), but you can abuse BEXP and soft resets in FE9 to usually avoid that, and you can abuse BEXP on characters with maxed stats in 10 as well, due to how they tried to fix BEXP abuse from FE9.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450151
Yeah, Vika's biggest problem is that she's only available for like 5 chapters before endgame.

I don't think she's that useless though. Her growths are all very high even if her caps are low.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450168
that does sound better. Maybe I'll try them hoping it's not too hardcore for me

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449704

Valkyrie Profile: Covenant of the Plume

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450193
Problem is, growths don't really mean shit when you'll only level her up three or four times. After that it's BEXP, which grants you a guaranteed bonus in 3 stats, but randomly. So you'll only experience those nice growths two to four times, other than that, it's twiddling your thumbs as you pump her full of BEXP.
Don't get me wrong, I love Vika. Used her in Endgame one or two times, but she really pales in comparison to other units. It's ridiculous to have the best chick only be available in 5 or so chapters.

[Anonymous No.]

dat villainess

[Anonymous No.]

We having a Fire Emblem thread or something?
http://www.youtube.com/user/RDParodies/featured

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450229
I don't rely on pumping her with BEXP. During the last few chapters you get her before endgame, I use Vika exclusively. I'll take her along with a healer, and Ike or someone (with their weapons unequipped, of course) and then spend like 3 hours having her solo the chapter.

It's not easy, of course, and I've only done that on regular difficulty. On hard mode I doubt that it would be a viable option.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449704
There was a game for SNES, its name escapes me. You were basically the final boss and the longer you took to hunt down the heroes the more power you lost. It made grinding literally impossible and counterproductive.

[Anonymous No.]

So has anyone on /jp/ beaten Primevil without cheating?

I used a guide that showed what all of his moves would be up until turn 60 if your team had only one buff active and stuff like that. And it was still very difficult.

I can't imagine not cheating... I mean, are you just suppose to guess when when Primevil is about to use his thunder/frost/fire kill everyone attacks, so that your paladin can use a corresponding block? Or when he's about to use his automatic kill everyone attack, so you can have resurrection ready on one character?

And then he has immunity spells that need to be dispelled, and I think that he heals himself, and all of those status ailments... fuck's sake.

And does anyone have any idea what picture I'm talking about here? I can't find it anywhere.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450323
This it?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450390
bless you anon

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450395
If you ever need to find something that has been posted on /jp/ once before try digging through the archive.

http://archive.foolz.us/jp/thread/7355084/#7355476

[Anonymous No.]

I also enjoyed Bahamut Lagoon quite a lot. Especially the indirect control with the dragons is kinda neat.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450426
that game had NTR before it was cool

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450418
Hey I remember that thread. That was my thread.

[Anonymous No.]

I'm playing through Xenosaga Episode 1 for the first time. Pretty much just waiting for the game to be over, but I think I'm not even half way through it. I just got done reboarding the Elsa and finding Kos-Mos after the whole seizing operation thing. The cutscenes nearly put me to sleep on multiple occasions. Any reason people think this is better than Xenogears?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450114

The first four .hack games are pretty grueling and painful to play. Story is cool but it's up to you if that makes it worth it.

I really like the //G.U. games though. I thought //Trilogy sucked though, it's just the three //G.U. games condensed into 45 minutes, unless you're talking about a different movie.

>>8450108

Did your Lethe get really bad stat growths or something? I tore shit up with her, and had her solo that red dragon bitch. Perhaps I just got lucky with my level ups.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450440
yessir that was quite the shitstorm

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450446
>Any reason people think this is better than Xenogears?
People think that?
Never heard this myself

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450457
With me, Lethe usually lags a bit in strength towards the end.

I'd still use her, of course, but not for dragons.

Nope Mia and Nephenee would be taking out the dragons.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450465

I used Mia and Nephenee too. I started using Nephenee right away because I thought she was cute, and it turned out to be the best investment ever.

Also Haar, holy shit.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450479
Eh I've never liked using Haar too much, he's really slow.

I like Jill much better.

Also, Nephenne is almost on par with Ike she's so broken, y/y?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450233
Cima?! What are you doing in Haman's clothes?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450485
Personally, I used both Haar and Jill, because Wyvern Knights are generally all around great.
And so Haar could get a waifu.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450122
Huh? The original 4 .hack games come pretty steep nowadays, because of scarcity. Quarantine in particular is pretty expensive. Not to mention you're not even really supporting the developer any more, you're just lining some collector's pocket. Nothing really wrong with pirating something like that unless you actually feel the need to own the game for collection purposes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450485

Definitely, she's ridiculous in both games.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450502
yes they certainly make a cute pair

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450506
>The original 4 .hack games come pretty steep nowadays, because of scarcity

They're in almost every Gamestop around. I bought my copies used, and they still had the OVA discs in them.

[Anonymous No.]

so is Etrian Odyssey hard as fuck or is it just me

and where does "Etrian Odyssey" come from if the original Japanese title is "The Nine Rings of Yggdrasil"

[Anonymous No.]

Never thought I'd see the day where there was a succesful Fire Emblem thread on /jp/.
Not like I was hoping for it, I just never thought I'd see it, that's all. Nice one guys.
Also, Soren is best girl

[Anonymous No.]

[Anonymous No.]

Why wasn't FE6 ever released in the US anyway?

And why aren't most of the Tales games released either?

[Mobile Hutina No.]

>>8449704
Charles Barkley's Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden

Dead serious. Though it's not all that very hard.

>>8450146
>only 14 enemies
pfffft

>>8450552
Soren? Not Lucius? You don't know shit about Fire Emblem girls.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450605
Lucius made my penis very, very confus back in the day

[Anonymous No.]

I didn't realize that Lute was a girl until my third playthrough of FE8.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450605
I don't recall things being that bad... is that modded so that there are more enemies?

[Crix !!nLvSV/0cRma No.]

Why isn't there Hector Emblem.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450541
Huh, really? I just assumed because they were so much on amazon they'd be hard to find.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450549
>>8450549

世界樹の迷宮
Where on earth did you get the 9 Rings of Yggdrasil?

>The game was originally to be released internationally as Yggdrasil Labyrinth, but was renamed to avoid any possible confusion with Yggdra Union (a game published in North America by Atlus a year earlier) or Deep Labyrinth.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450605
I was ofcourse talking FE9/10 only. Lucius is clearly the best girl in FE7. She was the first character that got me gender-confused in my life, which is why she'll always have a special place in my heart.

>>8450628
Lucius? Sure. Soren? Okay. But Lute? How could you possibly confused Lute for a male?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450651
>Where on earth did you get the 9 Rings of Yggdrasil?

I think that I read it on some artwork from pixiv or something...

[Anonymous No.]

So I want to start with FE. With which game should I begin?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450681
6 and 7 are pretty good to start, not too old and not post-series 3d redesign either

[Anonymous No.]

I find the OP pic amusing considering that's the very game I'm playing at the moment. Kind of painful playing it after playing 2 to death. I really kind of hate Justin. 3 is somewhere in my backlog as well, along with FE10.

New Year's resolution was to work through my backlog of anything I've legitimately spent money on. Started with Vagrant Story, but gave up after about 7 hours of pure torture. Opted to send it to a friend that wanted it to get it out of my backlog. Interesting story, though. I need to find a decent LP for it.

Starting with my PSX games, so I've got Thousand Arms after I finish Grandia.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450703
FE10 is a fun game, and it can be pretty hard, but the story is fucking stupid.

Even for an FE game, I mean.

And the way the game is organized into segments, and you can only use certain units in certain segments, is just awful.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450681
I have only beaten FE7 and the DS remake of the first one (ugh, those 3D models...), but I'm having fun "replaying" Book 1 of Monshou no Nazo. I feel it's a bit... primitive, but you could give it a try, coming with a remake of the original and all.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450724
>hasn't played FE9

Get off your ass and go play it anon.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>8450703
Vagrant Story was fun once you figured out the combat system IMO.

The girls in Thousand Arms were moe but the music and story was really average. I never did beat it once I saw all the date scenes.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450734
B-but it's for the Cube...
I tried emulating it a few hours ago and couldn't get the FMVs to run at 100% speed.
And I wouldn't play anything that runs at less than 99% speed and 95% accuracy.
I have all (minus 1 and Gaiden) the previous games ready to play, though.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450748
The combat system just felt so clunky and needlessly difficult. Also felt like I was just getting nowhere really slowly. Probably the environments.

[Anonymous No.]

I started playing Chrono Trigger since I never played it when I had my SNES. It was good until my keyboard crapped out on me. It's difficult to play with an on-screen keyboard, as I'm sure you can imagine. I think I'll purchase a PS3 controller to play with. The game was pretty good. I've been listening to the soundtrack for the past couple of days.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>8450633
Nah. It's been a long time since that screenshot, but there was that same amount of enemies in hard mode yesterday (an odd coincidence) and I don't think it was different in normal mode.
Granted, I hadn't killed more than a handful since I was just trying to hold them off that playthrough, but still.

>>8450652
Ah, I see. Very well then.

But still, dem hips.

>>8450652
Lute does kinda seem like a young boy. Or rather, how a lot of young boys are in Japanezey games.

>>8450726
Yeah, that's definitely what I like least about FE10, the segments thing. Stopped playing at the start of seg 3 since it just feels a bit silly somehow.

>>8450765
What, really? How old is your computer? My 3.5yo laptop can handle it quite well.

[Anonymous No.]

Currently listening to the FF9 OST which I haven't heard in fucking years

[Anonymous No.]

Currently playing through Hyperdimension Neptunia. Really great game. Going to tackle Lost Odyssey next.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449896
>Lilka as your waifu.

Mah nigga

I was thinking of playing Wild Arms 2 again, only because I have a save right before entering the spiral tower, but I last played it 8 years ago, so I forgot most of the story.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>8452171
That feeling when you can't remember what happened in the games you played 12 years ago.

[Crix !!nLvSV/0cRma No.]

What's the best gamecube/wii emulator?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452205
Dolphin

[Anonymous No.]

>>8451754
shit son the segments thing may suck but you need to finish, if only for the final boss fight

[Anonymous No.]

what's the best playstation/playstation 2 emulator?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452213
A Playstation 3

[Anonymous No.]

Decided to go through my SMT collection, starting with Nocturne. Good fun so far.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450703
>Thousand Arms

You sir, a gentleman and a scholar.

Everything about thousand arms was perfect, except the battle system. I loved it.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452213
epsxe and pcsx2

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452198
I just now realized how Anastasia was rather fond of Ashley in the game.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449896
Here's the millennium puzzle theme, it makes for fantastic background music.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452243
Full retard, forgot the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k1kwFzLqsOw

here you go

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>8452243
I can already remember it in my head.

[Anonymous No.]

>Jrpg

http://insomnia.ac/commentary/on_role-playing_games/

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452247
Nostalgia bomb

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452242
>>8452198
>>8452171
>>8449896
How come the first game got Alter Code F and nothing for WA2?

IIRC, this was very well received in Japan.

[speedlolita !7OUTspeedo No.]

>>8452213
An actual PlayStation 2.

Get FreeMcBoot installed and ESR and you're done.

Here's my current outlay, although I have a debug PS2. FreeMcBoot / ESR method is much easier though.

[Anonymous No.]

I never had a playstation ;_;

[Anonymous No.]

Why is Lilka so hnggggg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEtoIiq9CzY

[Anonymous No.]

What was your preferred EO team /jp/?

Granted you need the same exact specific setup for endgame, at least in the first one.

But before that, who did you go with?

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>8452287
She just is dude. Can't explain it.

[Anonymous No.]

Been playing an actual Saga game.

Fuck all the rare weapons. Who's the madman that made them so hard to get and not make them that much better than your generic shop weapon?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452333
>Not Saga Frontier

Shame on you.

Here is a song from Masashi Hamauzu to motivate you play SF2

Todesengel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDPPV5Xgzwc

[Anonymous No.]

About to finish my first Xillia playthrough. Probably going to end up throwing money at Bamco for costume DLC against my better judgement.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452311
EO 2.- Front: dark hunter, paladin, ronin Back: medic & gunner

EO3.- Front: shogun/buccaneer, princess/farmer, buccaneer/ninja Back: zodiac/arbalist & monk/ninja

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452349
Already played that dude. Getting all the skills for all weapons sure was time consuming when you don't abuse high spark rate enemies. Also, gotta love the SF2 final boss and others saga bosses reference on this one.

I assume this axe that transform in a chainsaw with some legend about one hitting kill a god is also a reference.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8449787
>FF8
>interesting story
>hard
>doesn't allow grinding
Hahaha! Where do you want me to start?

The entire world trains kids for war and throws them into battlefields for their exams.
The protagonist is an anti-social wannabe who doesn't tell his friends to fuck off only when you have a choice for it. After several hours, it gets annoying.
TWEEST!
And this is want I remember about it from when I played on 1998.

Due to the junction system and that everything depends on the amount of magic that each character has, you can spend hours doing Draw until everyone has complete sets of magic and because of that, you easily reach Lv.99 before you even get Ifrit, which leads to all the monsters having high level magics right at the beginning of the game.

And after you get Aura and Meltdown/Doomtrain, the only strategy that you will need for the bosses is Aura->Meltdown/Doomtrain->Renzokuken ad infinitum. When you fight Omega, if you die before you can do anything to it, you only need to spam Hero Drinks and repeat the previous strategy.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452384
whops, forgot mah pic.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452413
You forgot how the PC/Japanese releases were insanely broken due to the Pocketstation game.

[Anonymous No.]

Just finished my second runthrough of Yggdra Union. Felt kinda bad killing loli Malice.

Then again, the game makes you kill a shitload of good characters.

[Anonymous No.]

Dragon Warrior, the original!

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450605
I killed Riev now. That was something. He sure is scary on Hard Mode with his Aura, even uber Tana was afraid.
Good that uber Gerik Ranger was able to kill all the Great Knights and Swordmasters on the other side. Bad that I screwed up anywhere else on the map and didn't even get to visit the secret shop.

pic related, it's my ace in this run. Why is she so dope. Gerik, Ross and Artur are also superstars all of a sudden. Good that the rest has Sacred weapons to make up.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452685
I love Tana also.

It's too bad that when you promote her to wyrven rider, you lose her unique sprite

but I hate pegasuses (pegasi?)

they're the dumbest mythological animals ever

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452704
as a lvl 8 Falcoknight, she currently has 16 Def and 27 Spd. 21 Def with the Vidofnir. Wiki says she has 20% Def growth.

So yeah.

[Anonymous No.]

I love Tana's puffy 80's hairstyle.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452568
start a new game
name the hero 'Jason'
???

[Anonymous No.]

>>8452744
Jason?

McCore and to a lesser extent, Tekrelious, are my default names in RPGs. Unless I'm playing girls, then I make up something 'girlish'.

Why Jason?

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>>8452802
easter-egg
(at least it is for the us version)

[Anonymous No.]

The OP image makes a little giddy inside, as I just finished replaying Grandia 1(JP version to make the experience interesting).

Currentlt playing Xenogears for the first time, and not really enjoying it very much, even though I've only been hearing good things about it for over 10 years. I'm sure it's going to get better from where I am right now, but at the moment it's a bit of a snore.

[Anonymous No.]

playing square enix ones

got a new ps3 so dont really know what to play

recommendations would be appreciated

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>>8452812
Where are you?

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>>8452819
Still really early on, I'm assuming. Just met/fought Bart in the desert. We're in some cave.

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>>8452822
Keep on playing, you'll have to play for many hours until the real story starts.
Personally I didn't enjoy much the first half of the game but jeez, the last part is so awesome I started crying while playing.

[Anonymous No.]

/jp/ is officially over. Threads about JRPGs and tagging on booru sites with 100+ replies, and our janitor deletes loli threads.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8453159
ｇｏ　ｈｏｍｅ　ａｎｄ　ｂｅ　ａ　ｆａｍｉｌｙ　ｍａｎ!

[Anonymous No.]

I've picked up Legend of Legaia again.
Other than that I've considered editing FFT some more. Sprite editing is such a trial and error process though. It's so hard to make a trappy Ramza when you have so little space to work with.

[Youmu Konpaku !MyonHUTINA No.]

>>8452685
It was surprisingly easy for me to do when I did it a couple days ago, had Gilliam holding off the left side while the right was cleared out, then Ephraim cut a path to Riev and Eirika two-hit him with her stupidly overpowered sacred twin. Riev only had a 6% crit chance and it wouldn't have one-shot her anyways. I like the Ephraim/Eirika support (for multiple reasons~).
Sieg ya next map! hurr hurr hurr

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>8452816
Resonance of Fate (good gameplay, but it's pretty repetitive and deceptively simple)
Nier (for the story & music)
Valkyria Chronicles (great all around)

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>8453703
and the only good Square Enix game is The Last Remnant, which isn't on PS3. Sorry bro.

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>>8453644
the biggest trouble turned out to be unpredictable guys streaming in from the top and bottom right. That sniper can double Cormag with a javelin? Riiiiight. So I had to rush Riev and missed my opportunity to grab some Physic staffs.

[Anonymous No.]

Been playing Valkyrie Profile 2 lately, the facial expressions during the cut scenes are pretty funny

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>>8453706
>>and the only good Square Enix game
>only

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>>8453785
Who are you quoting?

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>>8453796
>>8453785 is quoting >>8453706

[Anonymous No.]

WRPG > JRPG

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>>8452273
I think Open PS2 Loader is better than ESR, if you have a fat PS2 that you can put an internal hard drive in. Saves you from having to burn a bunch of disks, and the lasers on those old PS2s always seem to go sooner or later. I know mine is damn near useless these days.

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>>8453802
Might and Magic is the only worthwhile one.

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>>8453703

I just finished Nier the other day. It started off so good and it just couldn't keep up the pace. I knew things were going downhill when I got to the Forest of Myth, and then came part 2 of the game... ugh.

The music is fantastic though, and the story had some cool moments.

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­>>8453805 Who are you quoting?

[Dexwyde !mbHjxjfHlA No.]

>>8454911
How many times did you play through it? New game+ has a lot more story to it, which is what made me really like the game. Playthroughs 3 and 4 only have different endings though I think.

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>>8455075

I'm gonna do a second playthrough for ending B at the very least.

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>>8454979
Green colored text naturally follows the inclusion of a "greater than" symbol, two of which are required to quote a post. And to answer your question, >>8453805 was quoting >>8453796, >>8453785, and >>8453708

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>>8455107
http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/who-are-you-quoting

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>>8455107
> Green colored text naturally follows the inclusion of a "greater than" symbol
NUH UH

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>>8455115
Reported.

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>>8455136
Then explain your own greentext, if it did not come from the inclusion of a "greater than" symbol in your post.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8455141
Damn it I was making the dumb joke that...fuck it, you're autistic.

[Anonymous No.]

So has anything been said about whether Graces will have the original voices? I'm not keen on paying for a half-assed product.

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>>8454979
>>8453796
Who are you quoting?

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I'm thinking about playing FFXII just to see where I stand on the battle system and Matsuno plots/characters in general. I'm kinda expecting "politicians on the opposite end of the continent from the main characters scheming" to be in full effect.

[ZUN !barYV1VtIA No.]

>>8457642
That feel when Matsuno didn't get to work on the whole game.

So maybe 50% political intrigue.

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>>8457670
Are the playable characters only even vaguely tangential to the plot, at least?

[Anonymous No.]

Playing through Etrian Odyssey III right now, at a really slow pace. Maybe half-an-hour to an hour on the shitter twice a week.

I tried to play this when it first came out, and I got completely sucked in. I played nonstop for about a week and a half before forcing myself to stop. Good thing these games don't count the time you've invested.

I like the pace I'm at right now. I don't get the urge to play very often, but when I do, I get really into it for just the right amount of time -- enough to feel satisfied with my progress, but not enough to feel all "holy shit I just dumped half my day into grinding FOEs what is wrong with me"

I can't find any EO images on this hard drive, so here, have an artist's rendition of a scene that should be nostalgic to many on /jp/ -- the PSO lobby.

[Anonymous No.]

This thread is perfect.

Which Atelier game that's on the PS2 is the best/one I should play first?

Any other good staple JRPGs for PS2 you recommend?

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>>8457743
Mana Khemia's the best, but it'll be torture going backwards from it because of all the little improvements it made everywhere.
As for other RPGs, there's too many to name. What kind specifically? What have you played and liked?

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>>8457743
Not that I care, but why aren't you posting this in the Gust thread?

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>>8457784

I lost track of it, and saw this one first while looking for it. If you can link it for me that would be awesome, but I'd also like to know about other JRPGs too, so.

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>>8457701
Two of them, the main one and his girlfriend, are only enjoying the ride while Basch takes his part on the story.

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>>8457743
Valkyrie Profile 2 if you liked the first one.

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>>8457743
Mana Khemia for the most badass male alchemist to date.

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>>8462089
And by Mana Khemia I meant Atelier Iris.

[Anonymous No.]

Just started Der Langrisser earlier. I've played through the beginning of this so many times yet I always end up quitting for some reason.

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>>8462964
Some harder stage gets you?

[Anonymous No.]

Are there any games similar to FFT, Tactics Ogre/Ogre Battle, Fire Emblem, that kind of thing that you'd feel like recommending?

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>>8465306
maybe SRW? You need to like mecha at least a bit. But the music is very much worth it.

[Anonymous No.]

still playing AnK

theres a translated guide out for some of the crafts right now, but i seriously hope they translate the quartzes and some of the story because my japanese is beyond horrible

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>>8465316
You need to like mecha... at least a bit? Anon, I don't think anybody who doesn't have _at least_ a moderate mecha obsession would like playing SRT.

[Anonymous No.]

Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana

The alchemy sistem is kinda shit. I was expecting something like MK

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>>8465316
oh yes, forgot to add those too, I played a few of them. I guess I could play those I didn't yet. but for some reason I always feel obliged to watch the shows they use before playing a game.
Thanks for the suggestion anyways.

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>>8465332
I'm only mildly interested in /m/ matters and I still loved blowing shit up with Zeorymer.

[Anonymous No.]

Just started Live-A-Live. I heard this game has a couple of good TWEEESTS.

Just finished the Present Day chapter and moving on to the Wild West.

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I started playing Suikoden V again and I think I'm around a third or halfway through. It's definitely gotten better since the intro of the game but recruiting just seems kind of weird. Like, I'm getting more characters that are for the mass land/sea battles instead of ones I can use in the regular dungeons.

It's a little annoying because I was also looking at Suikosource for information about getting recruits and some of their tips for getting them were off or didn't have the right information, either.

Aside that the game's pretty fun though, it has a nice sense of humor and most of the characters are pretty interesting.

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>>8465361
Recently finished it myself, it was indeed pretty good. The field battle cut-ins and duel coreography were pretty sweet.

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>>8465356
OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO OERSTED IS ODIO

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>>8465432
>He thinks I don't already know that.
You're still an asshole for spoiling that.

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>>8465437
You're right.
I only spoiled it because I'm jealous that there will be people who get to play through the game without knowing it.

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>>8465356
It's not bad. I liked the "sad end" the most.

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>>8465361
Been a while since I completed it, good game but way too easy in my opinion.

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>>8465449
well yeah, there was that final boss going down in one-two turns if you were serious about it thing

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>>8465471
That's because they had to account for Otters.

[Anonymous No.]

Elwin is kind of a dick.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8450703 here.
Can't believe this thread is still here.

Finished my run of Grandia, despite the game trying to freeze up at the Zil Padon destruction cutscene (it figures my disc would be scratched that far into the game). Finished at around 65 hours. Taking a break to watch Aquarion and do the PSO2 second alpha before I start Thousand Arms. I'll be doing Rhapsody after that and then... probably moving on to my Gamecube list before moving to my larger PS2 backlog.

'Bout how long should I be expecting on Thousand Arms, you think? I'm kind of looking forward to getting to Tales of Symphonia as soon as I can.

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>>8452333
You have to buy them, Schiavona (Long Sword) and Morglay (Two Handed Sword) are some of the best shop weapons. You can also buy Garal weapons in Uso, and Kjar Bow in Kjaraht/North Estamir if I am not mistaken, the weapons are expensive though.

If you want better weapons, you have to forge metals onto them, but that makes them near impossible to repair unless you use the same metal you forge them with.

If you see a red text during the forging process, it's a harmonic metal, which means the weapon will advance in level after you use techs that consume Weapon Durability. If you need metal, go to Bayre Plateau, Aurefont, or the underwater caverns of Crystal lake and mine ore.

[~ニソクソ~ !nK0b2EQkPU No.]

>>8449704
Chrono cross

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>>8472297
Not too long IIRC. Around 40 hours or so.

Prepare to fap when you see Wyna.

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>>8449704
dunno how you might feel about the stories but I can list some games you can't grind in.

Unlimited SaGa
Last Remnant
Romancing SaGa
Lost Odyssey
Chrono Cross
Suikoden

Off the top of my head. Also several SaGa games get harder as you grind since enemies scale with your stats. You need to fight some to fight bosses but if you level enough for dullahans and such to start appearing you're in for a world of hurt.

Also why isn't this on /v/?

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>>8478181
...Uh, you can grind in most of those.

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>>8478187
Lost odyssey and suikoden use scaling exp. You can grind but you would need 1000 fights per level.

chrono cross gives you stats after every boss, you cannot grind.

Last remnant and romancing SaGa PS2 use the BR system. Trying to grind in the usual sense will cause you to not gain stats or get shit stats while the enemies jump up past you and bosses wreck your shit. You can grind in very specific ways in TLR but anybody not familiar with the game won't figure that out.

Unlimited SaGa has your stats determined by the panels you get after a quest. fighting serves no purpose other than leveling magic and getting items, and the more you fight some types of monsters the opposite grow in power.

So how exactly can you grind in these?

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>>8478191
You just said how. Do you want me to just quote your post for you?

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>>8478192
So fighting shitty monsters, gaining no stats and inflating your BR is grinding?

You know your BR isn't your character level right

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>>8478198
It's a poor question in the first place. You can grind in anything where any act that can be done indefinitely yields reward every time. I don't know if he meant grinding for exp or not.

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>>8478198
Diminishing returns are still returns, champ. Are you unfamiliar with what grinding actually is? Taking forever to get an inconsequential gain is very much grinding. By your definitions, very few SRPGs have grinding because the gains are so minor for the effort required. Some RPGs using geometrically increasing experience requirements to control progression, some use progressively lowering experience rewarded. It's the exact same principle.

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>>8462964
Oh wow. Someone that actually knows about it and the translation? I thought it was just a few people on a forum and a handful of others.

It's a good game. However know that you're in for a very frustrating, completely bullshit game, but I like how many classes there are, and the branching story paths add replayability.

There are four story paths: Light (generic), Imperial, Independent, Chaos/Dark. From your screenshot it looks like you're on, well, not Light. I'm not sure exactly which that is.

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>>8478219
There are no returns
You get no stats

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>>8478237
Need me to quote your own post for you?

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>>8478266
Get shit stats means your stats remain the same. BR is not your level. BR is not your stats. BR is only a reflection of how many fights you're completed.

If you're referring to people actually fighting 1000 battles to level once they hit the 1 exp limit I suppose it's possible. If they spent a few years doing it

[Anonymous No.]

Is Last Remnant any good? I've heard so many different opinions.

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>>8478642
It's almost like the only way to actually know how it is is playing it

[Anonymous No.]

>Is Last Remnant any good? I've heard so many different opinions.

Last Remnant is alright, although most people think the main character is a total idiot. The PC version is the definitive version, with a whole lot of tweaks (like no requirement to use the stunted generic members) and some new content. It can feel a little hands off at times, since characters don't always have the right option available for them and sometimes all your options can be condensed into "keep attacking" and "get out of deadlock".

There's one event that earns my ire (or at least annoyance), because it's just so utterly pointless. You can probably guess what it is if you've already played the game before.

You may want to wait for a (probably Steam) sale regardless.

[Anonymous No.]

Anyone care recommend any "easy"(=doesn't require much grinding) jrpgs with good story. I've played all final fantasies before 10, Suikodens, Valkyrie Chronicles and Dragon Quests. I like to play jrgs because of their Japanese styled stories but I really dislike time consuming grinding. Thats why I mostly just read VNs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8478730
the Legend of Heroes

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>>8478730
I don't remember doing any grinding in Atelier Iris 2.

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>>8478821

Make that any Gust game in general.

[Anonymous No.]

My PSP stick broke, so all it can handle is games with lots of menus.
Reccomend me some jrpgs.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8478730
>jrpgs with good story
wait, you don't like them for the gameplay?

[Anonymous No.]

I find it quite hilarious that /jp/ is infinitely better at discussing games than /v/ is. That place is a shithole, only good during the late night/early morning period.

Is it because /jp/'s users are significantly older?

>>8472297
I'm near the Sea of Mermaids, the last dungeon I recall was the twin towers and the volcano. How much longer do I have until Disc 2? Is Disc 2 longer or shorter than the first?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8479014
>Is it because /jp/'s users are significantly older?
Do you even have to ask?

[Anonymous No.]

>>8479014
You almost finished Disc 1.
Disc 2 is pretty long too from what I remember.

[Anonymous No.]

>>8478881
bump

[Anonymous No.]

Nowadays I only bother with RPGs that at least allow me to steer the story in the direction I want. Sadly, in the last five years not a whole lot of RPGs from both sides of the world managed to pull that off.

Luckily, there's still this. Feb 28, all of my hype.

[Anonymous No.]

saved from page 15

[Anonymous No.]

>>8486449
i think the videogame thread i made on page 15 is a lot cooler than this one tbh