/vr/ - Retro Games

>>2891875
>implying there were good RPGs before Fallout 3 and Mass Effect 2

>>2891876
Nice b8 m8.

>>2891875
BoF3 has a lot of really really annoying segments to counterbalance the good parts of the game. You're not even at the worst of them.

4 was better

>>2891875
They lied, m8

>>2892463

Not the worst, but definitely mediocre and got overshadowed by Chrono Cross releasing a month or so later than it. It's still the only video game I have ever fallen asleep while playing.

>>2892476

>>2891917
The good part of the game is the fishing though. The encounter rate is bullshit in this one.

I certainly never said that...

>>2891934
3. Epic tale of Ryus life
4. Ancient evil awakens

>>2892463
Thee worst RPG translation on psx?

>>2892476
watching u m8

>best RPG on PS
>what is final fantasy tactics

>>2892834
How is Final Fantasy Tactics a RPG?
Shining Force is a RPG, Final Fantasy Tactics is pure turn-based strategy.

>>2892895
You take the role of a floating cursor that tells people to do things

>>2892895
RPG is a pretty broad genre

I could see FFT being considered one, or at the very least a strategy game with heavy RPG elements

>>2892902
lol

>>2891875
I don't know who on earth told you to play Breath of Fire III over IV, but they're nuts.

>>2891875
I kind of enjoyed those parts, as long as they didn't involve Garr pulling on a fucking rope.

>>2891875
Actually my favorite PSX JRPG

>>2892516

3. A retard kid fannying about accomplishing fuck all

4. The trials of a god and his counterpart within a war torn empire

>>2894715
>tfw got the vinegar on the first try
>tfw could never ever ever ever do it again after that

>>2894832
>4. The trials of a god and his counterpart within a war torn empire
lolno

>>2895115
Not him, but I think that's a pretty succinct description of IV. I don't agree with his take on III, but I think IV is a much better game overall. The best in the series easily in my opinion.

>>2895116

It's a series where I really might just rank them based on reverse release order.

>>2895129
Wow, really? I would agree on V being the worst, but after that my picks would be IV best, then II, III and finally I. Though I don't dislike any of them, even V though it feels like a totally different series in a lot of ways.

What did you not enjoy about IV?

>>2895136
>Wow, really? I would agree on V being the worst


I would agree on you being a shit head. V's just the best the series has to offer it's one of the best games on the system

also when he said he ranks them based on reverse order he's literally saying that each sequel was better than the game it followed.

Learn to goddamn read.

Wow, really? I would agree on V being the worst


I would agree on you being a shit head. V's not just the best the series has to offer it's one of the best games on the system

also when he said he ranks them based on reverse order he's literally saying that each sequel was better than the game it followed.

Learn to goddamn read.

>>2895136

No,

5 4 3 2 1. Best to Worst.

>>2895136
>Wow, really? I would agree on V being the worst


I would agree on you being a shit head. V's not just the best the series has to offer it's one of the best games on the system

also when he said he ranks them based on reverse order he's literally saying that each sequel was better than the game it followed.

Learn to goddamn read.

>>2895136
Normally I'm not elitist about taste, but when I hear someone say Dragon Quarter was bad I instantly disregard their taste in RPGs. The game was a goddamn masterpiece in many ways.

Best rpg coming through

Pic related-

>>2892895
sRPG IS THA GENRE

>>2892895
>rpgs aren't turn based strategy role playing games

you level up and put some shinny swords and shit

There you have a rpg

>>2892507
The only thing keeping the encounter rate tolerable is the fact that a fast, hard hitting pointman(read: Ryu, or Momo if you can tolerate her low accuracy) in an Attack formation with Blitz will wipe out encounters before they have a chance to do anything.

>>2895597
>>2895598
>>2895651
I shouldn't have even mentioned DQ, I don't even think I made it half way through but what I played didn't grab me. To be fair though, that's true of every single PS2 era RPG I tried. I was super big into them since the NES/GB days and when they got really big in the PS1 era I played through almost every one that came out.

By the end of the generation I was really burnt out on the whole genre and actually for many years (until Etrian Odyssey), BoF IV was the last JRPG I loved enough that I actually finished it.

I tried many, many when PS2 came along but every one including V bored me long before I finished. These days though I've been going back and dabbling with them a little more so if you guys are that passionate about it maybe I should try it out again.

Did it ever get a PC release? I don't know if I have a working PS2 anymore, it's been in storage for years and those things were built like shit.

>>2895598
>each sequel was better than the game it followed.
Yeah I did misread. Ahh well.

>>2891875
That doesn't look like Suikoden II, nigga.

>2016
>Not playing lunar

>>2898558
>not playing the Sega CD version of Lunar

>>2897707
Suikoden is one of the most overrated series ever.

>>2896669
I played the entire last half of the game with Rei/Ryu/Momo in line formation for maximum speed

>>2891875
>psx

Final Fantasy 8

>>2897707
That's a dank picture. :)

>>2891875
>>2904180

Seriously, people needs to stop referring to the PS1 as PSX.

What's up with this shit? Have you ever thought what will happen once the real PSX is released?

>>2904353
I seriously have no idea why people do it, it was called the psx during SOME marketing ploys and that was it. Once the actual PSX released there was absolutely no justification for calling it that, there barely was any in the first place.

>>2904180
>>2904353
>>2904358
*yawn*

This troll again?

>>2904361
>facts are trolling
okay

>>2892463
Man that game was hot garbage.

>>2897707
He's right. Awesome game.

>>2904363

Don't you have an SNES thread to shit up faggot?

>>2904378
I don't know who you think I am.

>>2904353
>people needs to stop

Make me, nerd.

>>2904380

The exact same piece of shit that sperged out in the "Best Looking SNES Games" thread.

>>2904391
I'm not him, I'm just a person who finds referring to the PS as the PSX very annoying.

>>2904396

PSX, you mean.

>>2904364
>hot garbage
what the actual what

>>2904525

I think he either means it was shit and heavily hyped/advertised, or it was shit and popular. Maybe a bit of both.

I certainly remember it being everywhere when I was a kid, my local TRU had a kiosk with it going for awhile. It had ads everywhere.

>>2904525
>>2904606
Someone's never smelled hot garbage before.

>tfw I went to the transfer station during a reno wtih my dad during the hottest days of summer and some faggot just threw like 20 gallons of rotten milk and it was strewn all across the concrete

I puked in the pile of garbage we were unloading.

I wanted to die.

>>2901959

I knew it wouldnt take long for this bait to show up

>>2904353
>What's up with this shit?

I'm not sure who exactly, but in video game magazines before and around the time of the PS1 release it was often called the PSX. Gamefan did it a lot I remember. For me that's where the term stuck a little.

Also the "real" PSX was virtually unheard of, and even people who did know about it knew it wasn't what people meant when they used the term.

>>2904687
I know it's the >lel hipster troll opinion but Suiko1 and Persona came out at around the same time. Persona was so amazing then Suikoden felt like a generic fantasy romp again. It also didn't help that most of it seems political and realistic then you just fight a big dragon to win. The elves dying was cool though.


Suiko 2 was just so badly written and the combat so dull that I barely ever got anywhere in it.

>>2905023
>Persona was so amazing
amazingly clunky and boring you mean.
>The elves dying was cool though.
Okay, you're a good person.

>>2905023
>Suiko 2 was just so badly written and the combat so dull that I barely ever got anywhere in it.

Exactly. The lousy SRPG parts really didn't help either.
I guess people just search "best rpg psx" in google, instead of actually playing the game.

>>2904358
In America, it was never called the PSX. This is literally a /vr/ thing, which people use as bait. It is the PS1, period.

>>2905052
>This is literally a /vr/ thing
You are objectively wrong.

>>2905078
Troll harder.

No one in America says PSX. Idk why I'm even responding to you because your reply is just going to be another troll.

>>2905086
>No one in America says PSX
Back when I posted on GameFAQs people used that term all the time.

>>2905086
"PSX" was a big thing in several gaming magazines back in the 90's. Some used PS1, some used PSX. It was interchangeable to some people back then.

>>2905113
Well, growing up, I never heard anyone use the term "PSX" in person. Everyone referred to it as the "playstation" or "PS1"; from friends to game store employees.

>>2905118
>PS1

And ask yourself why, kiddo.

>>2905142
wut

>>2905164
He's insulting you by calling you a kid. Nobody called it the PS1 until the PS2 showed face.

>>2905190
Oh ok
>Nobody called it the PS1 until the PS2 showed face.

No, it was called PS1 or PS since its inception, at least where I am from. I was 8 when I got a PS for Christmas.

>>2905042
Clunky I'll give you, but so was Suikoden. Boring through? That I can't agree with at all.

>>2905201
>>2905190
PS, PS1 and PSX are the things I remember it being called. I remember PSX being the most common, but that could have been the college I was in at the time where that term happened to be used a lot.

>>2905201
>>2905293

PS1 wasn't a thing until the PS2 was announced, and by that time, the slim "PSOne" model came out so naturally people started calling the old grey one "PS1", but before that, it was always called PSX on magazines, and officially just PS.

>>2905296
Maybe not where you were. I distinctly remember being calling it a PS1. That's why the PSOne name was funny when it was annoucend.

>>2905308

Actually I'm not sure how people abbreviated it back then because I didn't have access to the internet in 1994/1995, and all the magazines just called it either PlayStation or PSX.
People I would talk to IRL would just call it "the Play".

but if what you say it's true, I'm curious, what do you think was the reasoning behind calling it "PS1" before the PS2 or PSOne were announced?
Also where are you from?

>>2905312
I remember Gamefan and the internet mostly calling it PSX. At the college I went to near Toronto Canada people either called it PS1 or PSX most of the time.

Why we called it PS1 or where it came from I'm not sure. But I do remember there being talk about them calling the portable model the PSOne after the PS1 so I know with certainty that at least where I was PS1 came first.

>>2905312
>People I would talk to IRL would just call it "the Play".
lol wat

>Also where are you from?
Louisiana

>>2891875
I was lured in by the art, but in the end I was quite dissapointed with the story and gameplay. The parts taking place in the past had an unique atmosphere, cool music and I liked them, but the main storyline was too standard.

>>2891875
That's not Parasite Eve.

>>2892834
lol next you'll claim all the zelda games are rpgs

I liked BoF1 back in the day so was excited for BoF2's release. When it came out, I bought it and grew quite bored of it pretty early in the game. I didn't even get all the characters.

I got further in BoF3 than I did in 2, but just as before, I grew bored of it at some point or other. I think after an onion/potato thing joined the party who is, IIRC, the final party member.

After two games in a row bored me so much that I never finished them, I skipped BoF4. Should I give the others another go or does anyone else agree that 2 and 3 were snorefests? Should I try 4 out after all?

>>2905436
I only played it because I heard you play as a dragon. But I didn't know that it's a waste of energy to transform outside of boss battles.

I got to the time skip, but I haven't touched it in months.