/vr/ - Retro Games

>>9680851

I love stuff like this. They always make it look so cute.

Lets post some jap localisation version of western vidya.

>>6530120

>>5675464
I prefer Ultima's original Japanese box art to the butchered western release of this classic JRPG.

How do I into this series?

What are some Computer to Console Arperguer conversions you'd recommend? I really love NES Ultima and Might and Magic.
SNES and Playstation Wizardry remakes are great.

Any CRPG ported to Nintendo or Sega

Yes, the Paladin is a girl too.

>>5014591
I could be wrong, but the artist for that Ultima III comic is Makikazu Ohmori, even if you didn't ask. I remember looking him up because of how mindblowingly good those comics were for a throwaway strategy guide. Beautiful fucking painted artwork

pic unrelated but still a qt

There is literally nothing original about JRPGs. In the good old days Japanese were not at the edge of technology, they were making cheap knockoffs of American designs (like China does now).

One such case is Dragon Quest and subsequently ALL JRPGs. In 1983 Yuji Horii and Koichi Nakamura attended a computer show in San Francisco, where they first play Wizardry. They love it, so when they go back to Japan they buy it and decide to create a game like it.

Now, the way most people tell the story paints them under a positive light. This is absolute bollocks. Basically, they ripped off Wizardry’s system, but they dumbed it down (some people claim this to be a stroke of genius, FFS) and Ultima’s overhead view. They pretty much ripped everything off Wizardry and Ultima III (especially that): combat system, random encounters, maps, you name it. The difference was the graphics style, which was created by Akira-the cliché of Anime crapness-Toriyama. All in all a substandard, cheap, knockoff.

All JRPGs since then cloned a clone. But computer RPGs moved significantly since 1983 (a date the Japanese are still stuck too). Garriott introduced morality and a keyword based conversation system in the next Ultima instalment and removed random encounters. Computer RPGs moved away from the usual dungeon crawl hack’n’slash towards the attempt to allow players to role play. They were given moral choices, freedom to explore and act as they pleased, etc. Combat systems evolved as well, with some games moving towards real time combat. Other games introduced NPCs who were acting independently through the game world (like Wizardry VII).

All these developments were lost to the Japanese, who continue to make Wizardry III and Ultima III clones to this day.

>>3131701
80s and early 90s probably

I bought all of these games on GOG last year (even IX) without ever really digging into them, but with a long break on the horizon, I feel like it's time for me to really get into this series. But first, a few questions:

Do I need to play all of them in order?
Do these games heavily favor certain builds?
Are VIII and IX that bad?

So general Ultima thread, I guess.

Ulitma thread!

Best/worst game?
Favorite moments?
Best/worst spin off?
Best/worst console version?

>>2631898
I just ordered pic related CIB for like 24$ or so on ebay (it's the US version, I'm just posting this pic because it's the better looking cover.) I wanna know some peoples thoughts on this.

That aside, I bought Brave Fencer Musashi, Dragon Warrior Monsters 2, and Kings Field recently as well, I was looking for other things, mostly for better SNES controllers because I've been fooling around with various 3rd party ones, but I haven't had any luck with that yet.

Is that warrior a guy or a girl?