/vr/ - Retro Games

Why is this the most downloaded ROM of all time?

>>9638681
Arguably the best Digimon game but still grindy, obtuse and lacking in many quality of life improvements.

>mogs your favoure JRPG
heh, nothin personnel, old man.

>>7963910
Wtf? Does it? I'm British so I've only ever played the PAL version. Always thought it was retarded they had to call it "Digimon World 2003" because 2 was never released here. But I never knew it had any more or different content to the US/JP versions. What is different?

Thoughts on this convoluted, grindy but fun as fuck mess? I'm replaying it for the first time in 16 years tonight.

The combat still sucked but everything else about it was really cool and stylish.

I remember loving this game when I was younger, but I revisited it this year and realized it was horribly paced, had terrible backtracking problems, a pretty terrible translation (EOPs unite) NPC triggers that make absolutely no sense (hello Guilmon, fuck you and your 8lue card), and half the game was just hanging around Oinkmon and listening to the same shitty music. The ending absolutely blows and the...."shortcut" system is extremely obtuse and annoying to navigate.

The PAL version fixed some of these issues but only to a certain extent.

Either way, I still enjoyed it, but I definitely enjoyed it in spite of everything that was holding it back. Battle system was pretty fun, the Digivolution system was nuts, the 3D graphics were impressive, the 2D graphics and sprites fit the environment, the music (except in the Asuka server) was super good, the environments were interesting and surreal, and I don't think I'll ever forget that footstep sound. Cozy.

Anyone else have a game like this - something that has nuggets of good gameplay wrapped in a burrito of shit?

Is there any place to buy pal ps1 jewel cases and stickers. I have a load of rare pal ps1 games I want to sell but most of the cases are fucked. Anyone have any experience with resurfacing. The games all work and there are no holes in them but the scratches look horrendous of course.

Pic related, mostly because when your team gets KO'd before you've saved at the Inn for the first time, it's game over and the intro sequence takes decades to get through. The only time I did make it through a few towns/cities, I had to give the game back to a friend/library/can't remember.