/vr/ - Retro Games

>>6382175
It really surprised me just how good DQ3 was. Like, even with a story that was barely there it was just a large game with a lot to do and places to explore. It was a hell of a lot of fun. It was really hard to choose if I loved DQ5 over 3 because they were both great.

As for retro JRPG's.

Skies of Arcadia is my favourite game of all time, so I love that quite a lot. The sense of adventure is something that I adored, the world, the characters, hell even the story were great to me. Even if the encounter rate was high it really never bothered me and never ruined my experience with the game.

I also really loved Lunar 1 for this reason as well, lovely little game that has a lot of charm and adventure behind it. Great characters and I liked that each guy had a girl they loved in the party, it's just such a wholesome game in that regard. Good soundtrack too, I loved the map theme to for having that feeling of fun adventures with friends.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wLNgGLb7-eE

Phantasy Star for the SMS is such a cool 8-bit JRPG. It was my favourite until I played DQ3, but it's such a cool game otherwise. The first person dungeons, the large sprites for enemies, and even exploring three worlds. The OST can be a bit grating at time but overall it's a pretty good JRPG and very unique in terms of early 8-bit ones.

Also if it counts, Pokémon Gen 1 and 2. I may have played and finished them when I was a kid but I think they were the first games to really make me feel that sense of adventure that I loved. Plus I was pretty much the perfect age to adore them.

Currently going through DQ7 myself, in an attempt to go through all DQ games, but afterwards I think I'll finally go back to Suikoden II and finish it, been putting it off for 4 years.

>>6252614
I wouldn't say a game has ever made me rethink life or change my opinion on anything, but I can give one game the benefit of actually being a life changing game beyond me finishing it and actually made me believe that I have some form of dumb luck that'd make sure I get through anything I should fail/die at, and succeed. It's an odd way to put it but whenever I think about the odds of any of this happening and turning into my favour it must be pretty low.

Back in 2012 I found Skies of Arcadia for £10 in a charity shop. A place I shouldn't have been at the time and only went there because my mum told me a game was there and I should check it out if I want. I bought it, and finished it throughout the year. It instantly became my favourite game of all time due to the feeling of adventure this game gave off that I had never felt before or since.

Fast forward to 2015 I enter uni for the first time and hated everything about it, didn't like the people I was with and disliked the whole ordeal, I wanted to drop out. I decided despite /v/ saying otherwise to attend the vidya soc at uni, and when I got there I found some people discussing vidya I liked, which led me to question their tastes and turned out one guy's favourite game was Skies of Arcadia just like mine and we become good friend over this. Completely turned around my uni experience. By the end of the year I had around 10+ friends with great taste in vidya, anime, movies etc. Friends that I still keep in contact with to this day. To add onto this, one of these friends even helped me out in my final year project to achieve a very high passing grade just because we were friends, and was the reason I basically graduated.

Always wonder what the odds were of going to this specific uni, meeting these specific people with one having my favourite game as their favourite and even having a friend give me help to pass when I needed it most.

I honestly wonder where my life would be without Skies of Arcadia.