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3711526 No.3711526 [Reply] [Original]

Do any of the older western PC RPGs have a story on par with Final Fantasy Tactics?

>> No.3711532

I don't think many western games with good stories are RPGs

>> No.3711553

>>3711532
Are they all just dungeon crawls?

>> No.3711560

>You are Werdna
>You want revenge
Pottery

>> No.3711581

>>3711553
Is that a bad thing?

>> No.3711584

Suikoden 2.

>> No.3711596
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>> No.3711604

>>3711584
Suikoden ain't western bro

>> No.3711614

>story
Spotted the genre fiction pleb.

>> No.3711630

>>3711614
what's that supposed to mean

>> No.3711650

Planesape torment
Betrayal at Krondor
Ultima 4-6
Fallout 1
Arcanum

>> No.3711657

>>3711650
>Betrayal at Krondor
What's that game like?

>> No.3711749

>>3711614
Says someone posting on a board about old video games

>> No.3711752

>>3711614
*rattles tits* GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION GENRE FICTION

>> No.3711761

>>3711526
Tactics Ogre was better I mean in the end it was just a bunch of south slavs mass murdering each other.

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>>3711526
now that i think about it, not really.

pic related is probably my all-time all-time favoritest pc game. but it wasn't that the story was so baroque and full of twists. it was just a really good presentation of a really interesting setting. the story of U5 doesn't really make much sense without U4, or the general tenor of those games: that is, that garriott was basically trying to show people that computer games weren't all about combat and violence. when he made U4 he made the game about becoming just a good person. but it's not overdone and stupid, because he put you in a sandbox world that let you do anything you wanted. so you *could* steal and kill people, and it was fun, but in the end the game was better. but origin also didn't give you a rich and complex backstory for the same reasons, because the game was still about you as the avatar playing it.

as anons have suggested, P:T does some pretty amazing stuff with narrative. to this day FF6 *still* blows me away: not only for what occurs in act 2, but how the game ends. but FF6 isn't western, of course, so that doesn't count.

FFT is pretty boss.

>> No.3711864

>PC
No, but home computers are a different story.

>> No.3711872

>>3711657

Pretty good, it has a 3D world and a day/night cycle. The battle system is turn based

>> No.3712549

>>3711596
BaK's storyline and characters are amazing. Enough said.

>> No.3712634

>>3711526
Tactics Ogre

>> No.3714001

>>3711630
Catch-all "insult" by people who only read books taught in high school for those who read Sci-Fi, Fantasy, and Spy books.

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>>3711526


Pic related.

But in all seriousness, I would have recommended some of the mid-late Ultimas (7 probably being my favorite), P:ST if you count it as "older", Geneforge, and Falling Stars.

>> No.3714025

>>3711614
Oh shut the fuck up you pedofag, just because you read one of Shakey's shittier plays doesn't mean you're in some kind of special club.