/vr/ - Retro Games

>>5664787
I'm sure RS2 will end up surprising you quite a bit, especially if you're new to the series.
Mind that it's a lot more complex and richer than it appears and doesn't hold your hand, so if you happen to have any doubts of questions drop by and ask, we'll make sure to help you without ruining the adventure for you.
RS2 is a very open and carefully crafted game, with a lot of options, depth and a surprising amount of player input all around, there's a lot of content and a lot of ways to complete quests, some of which are not immediately evident, the fact that it also doesn't force you to proceed in a definite way and instead gives you the choice to play however you like will make it great for further replays, especially to see where a different decision will lead you.

I hope you enjoy it as much as most of us here do, and if you're new to it all, I hope it will make you play the rest of the series as well.

Well, just beat the Seven Heroes and finished the game, still can't believe how even little bugfixes like the Wind Cutter fix can change so much balance in that battle and damn, Ninjas are stronk if you play aggressively.

Now, to wait for the patches for new game+...
I guess I'll restart a game anyway because I want to properly try out the Onmyouji class, and I kind of screwed up my progress anyway, didn't even see what happens if you max out the tree in the garden.

The ending always gets me though, no matter how many times I see it, it really is moving.

On a side note, the various rings available in the maze of memories are really interesting, they seem to give a 4+boost to single stats, which is pretty enormous, I don't know wheter you can get doubles, but if you do you can get some batshit insane potential like maxing out the tacticians' already obscene firepower, they're also pretty good to balance out weak starter classes and make them more relevant through the endgame, lots of experimenting can be done really.

So, what do you think about royals or general nobility in the series?
Compared to other series SaGa has a quite prominent number or characters with titles, I guess only Fire Emblem has more nobles as playable characters.
Now that I think about it there aren't many nobles in today's JRPGs are there?

>>2664503
It was pretty neat for its time, especially in a series devoid of minigames.

I think maybe having more unit types would be better, formations and special orders are already good enough to keep the game interesting, maybe make more battle events for people other then Mikhail since he's the only one who makes that minigame worthwhile.
Having some rewards for those would be nice too, like some kind of salary like RomaSaGa 2 in the case of Monica/Mikhail since you're basically annexing territories or getting special items for other characters, there's a lot of room to improve it really.