J-rpgs are UNPLAYABLE now. As a kid, you could be so easily amused, but boring as hell to an adult. It's all just a few menus, stat building. And there's no complexity to the stats or anything so it takes no thought.

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Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:43:59 2015 No.2765887 [Reply] [Original]

J-rpgs are UNPLAYABLE now. As a kid, you could be so easily amused, but boring as hell to an adult. It's all just a few menus, stat building. And there's no complexity to the stats or anything so it takes no thought.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:46:37 2015 No.2765894 >>2765887 These are all the things I find enjoyable about JRPG's. The slow pace, the simple mechanics. If I wanted to play Dark Souls I'd just do it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 22:48:19 2015 No.2765896 Playing FF 12 after getting sick of JRPG is a breath of fresh air. Programming your AI is fun and very helpful

>>	Anonymous Wed Oct 28 23:13:01 2015 No.2765927 >>2765887 play JRPGs with actual battle systems like Paper Mario or Megaman Battle Network

Anonymous Wed Oct 28 23:37:22 2015 No.2765972

Remember when you were shocked by the horror movies you watched as a kid? And, when you watch them now, they're not shocking anymore because you can see through all the gimmicks and cliches, and they all look fake to you now? The same principle applies to video games.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:09:28 2015 No.2766036 >>2765896 It's a testament to how bad the games are when a few simple commands can have the game run on auto-pilot for almost all the situations.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:24:28 2015 No.2766063 >>2765927 Actually, THOSE ones are for children...

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:27:17 2015 No.2766071

>>2765896

>Program party
>go take a dump while they level up FOR you

YEah, OK...
IEvberyone always rants about how FFXII is some kind of masterpiece, but the plot is shit, the art direction is boring and generic, the music is forgettable, the characters are mostly pointless and there is no actual gameplay to the fucking thing.

And all the in-menu shit between the game playing itself, or you actually sitting there and watching battles is NOT gameplay, sorry.

At least FFI-X all make you give commands to every party member and take part in what's happening.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:29:28 2015 No.2766075 >>2766071 >Evberyone always rants about how FFXII is some kind of masterpiece No they don't, we all bitch about how the game plays itself for you. There might be some contrarian hipsters that think otherwise, but they are far outnumbered.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:32:47 2015 No.2766082

>>2765887
Bait thread.

Anyway, JRPGs appeal to a certain kind of person. You're not that kind of person, or aren't anymore.

I personally can't fucking stand soccer games, but it's one of the best selling genres on the planet. So they're OBVIOUSLY playable to someone.
JRPGs may be boring to you, but some people like the sense of adventure and classic RPG elements.

Personally, I prefer shorter games with more replay value these days. So JRPGs are out by design. They're generally very long and replay value involves a lot of doing the same things again. So it's not my cup of tea in general. I still dabble in certain odd titles and some classics though. Because they genuinely offer something that brainless action games or dull and generic WRPGs just don't.

Also, I like how you act like an ass, but then don't offer any real counter points in your OP. Like, if JRPGs are SO "unplayable", then what DO you play?

If you want people to take you seriously, then you really should think to include genuine arguments, and not just act like an asshole.

Of course, I suspect you're actually not acting. But whatever...

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:33:59 2015 No.2766084 >>2766075 Where the fuck have you been for the past decade or so? FFXII gets it's dicked daily on most gaming forums I've been to. Even /v/ loves that shit for some unholy reason.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:35:02 2015 No.2766086 >>2766084 >Dick sucked Fucking keyboard...

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:35:05 2015 No.2766087

>>2765887
Actually as an adult they are perfect. I'm btw voat, /vr/, and messing around on a few other sites. I put the controller down. Do whatever the hell I want and watch a cut scene from time to time. Sometimes I even just change the source input on my tv and watch television. Life is pretty groovy anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:39:15 2015 No.2766092 File: 3 KB, 259x195, 1.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2766087 You're an alright guy.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 00:57:52 2015 No.2766110

>>2765887
W-rpgs are UNPLAYABLE now. As a kid, you could be so easily amused, but boring as hell to an adult. It's all just a few menus, stat building. And there's no complexity to the stats or anything so it takes no thought.

Platformers are UNPLAYABLE now. As a kid, you could be so easily amused, but boring as hell to an adult. It's all just a few platforms, and jumping. And there's no complexity to the jumping or anything so it takes no thought.

RTS's are UNPLAYABLE now. As a kid, you could be so easily amused, but boring as hell to an adult. It's all just a few units, and some building. And there's no complexity to the building or anything so it takes no thought.

Seriously, you can say this about any genre. Lame thread OP.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:04:01 2015 No.2766116

>>2766075
come on... do you really miss pressing "fight" five million times? because that's all the gambits really take care of. you can really get into the metagame of setting up complicated gambit chains, or you can just autopilot the basic shit and do everything else manually.

personally, I think the setting, story, and lore are all fascinating. that's why I love it so much. it felt like a real, lived in world. I have been playing games too long to put up with a billion repetitive menu commands, anyway.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:07:03 2015 No.2766118

>>2766110
>W-rpgs are UNPLAYABLE now.

The really old ones are yeah. Newer ones aren't very good either.

>Platformers are UNPLAYABLE now.

Still challenging and fun now.

>RTS's are UNPLAYABLE now.

Starcraft is still one of the best ever.

>Seriously, you can say this about any genre. Lame thread OP.

JRPGS are really shallow, and consist of just hitting a few menus over and over again. Everything is an abstraction, because of limitations. Later games have less abstrations. Meaning these really simple games are unplayable to anyone over 5.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:08:52 2015 No.2766121 >>2766087 >I'm btw voat, /vr/ what the fuck does that even mean? It's like I put my phrase like this: wtf ds t evn mn? goddamn lazy teenagers on the internet

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:08:58 2015 No.2766124 >>2766110 I'll explain, /vr/ can't dick wave about beating a jrpg, so therefore they hate it.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:13:26 2015 No.2766129

>>2766116

Stop playing on Wait mode, casual.

Btw, you are contradicting yourself.

You either do everything manually or you "watch tjhe game play itself". You can't have both. Decide.

You problably didn't play it long enough, but I thought enough time had passed so we the FFXII is bad meme was over. We all know it is miles away many FFs. The one you really watch playing is that ridiculous FFXIII and there's no denying it.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:14:07 2015 No.2766130 >>2766118 And yet you didn't refute one of my arguments. Again, you can say this about any genre.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:15:15 2015 No.2766131 for someone who hate jayperguers you guys sure love talking about them.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:15:21 2015 No.2766132 >>2765887 I'm an adult and they're among my favorite types of games despite never having played them as a kid, so you're wrong.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:15:27 2015 No.2766134

>>2766121
o.O I'm in my 30's. It means I'm capable of being interested in multiple things at once. Yo are currently on /vr/ and voat.co is a website similar to reddit without the censorship by leftists. I think you may be too old to multitask or be interested in more than one thing at a time. Adjust your meds grandpa.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:17:41 2015 No.2766136 >>2766130 >Again, you can say this about any genre. You can but you're wrong. Platformers are platformers. There's not much to improve in the genre. j-rpgs were so god damn simplified and abstract. Just some menus and a few numbers.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:19:28 2015 No.2766140 >>2766134 >o.O >I'm in my 30's Sure.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:25:39 2015 No.2766149

>>2766140
Enjoy my final reply troll. I won't provide you with the satisfaction of further conversation. Go ahead and have your autism blowout. Some of us actually spend time on the internet as part of our profession. I'd clearly never "o.O" in a conversation off of 4chan or with a person I'm working with. You are free to believe whatever you like. I have one question though. Food service or county work digging ditches/something similar?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:26:35 2015 No.2766150 >>2766149 Wow, how mature of you.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:32:17 2015 No.2766163

Anyone who knows shit about games should know FF is a weak series. There are more tactical games (srpgs in general), more complex or demanding games (saga smt). The game's strength was in it's art

ff6 is one of the most beautiful snes games
ff7 one of the most beautiful ps1 games

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:36:07 2015 No.2766169 Final Fantasy 12 is my favorite non-vr Final Fantasy and probably my third favorite overall.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:41:30 2015 No.2766172 >>2766129 >You either do everything manually or you "watch tjhe game play itself". You can't have both. Decide. Wrong, confirmed for knowing jack shit about FFXII. Opinions discarded.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 01:57:12 2015 No.2766191 >>2766063 Why? Because no edgy and deep emoshunal storyline? or because "mature and dark" art work? Dumbass.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 02:11:02 2015 No.2766207 >>2766191 rude m8

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 02:37:23 2015 No.2766235
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>>2766191
How about because there is literally no challenge. You control like 2 characters maybe 3. No stratigies other then like 2 options. It's literally drawn like children's books to appeal to children. Do I need to go on?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 03:02:59 2015 No.2766257 the last thing i want from a game as an adult is 'challenge'. i'm looking for rote gameplay, nice character and setting design, some decent cutscenes. been playing dragons quest viii lately, it satisfies.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 03:53:04 2015 No.2766297 >>2766257 simpleton

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:09:55 2015 No.2766312 There are some JRPGs where you can win by just selecting "attack" every turn. Dungeon crawl-style ones still manage to be engaging.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:15:52 2015 No.2766317 >>2766297 suck my dick

>>	OuterLimits !!AuEReAdtyoL Thu Oct 29 04:32:45 2015 No.2766326 >>2766257 I recommend you watch youtube videos of other people playing than. That way you don't have to worry about troublesome things like challenge.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:55:24 2015 No.2766347 >>2766317 I won't for the same reason the women in your life won't. Absolutely disgusting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:56:06 2015 No.2766350 >>2766347 your missing out ;)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 04:58:09 2015 No.2766353 >>2766350 I doubt that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:00:13 2015 No.2766354 >>2766353 will you suck it or not? ;)

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:11:24 2015 No.2766361 >>2766354 no

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:16:17 2015 No.2766367 God this board is shit. REPORT TROLL THREADS HIDE TROLL TREADS IGNORE TROLL THREADS

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 05:17:28 2015 No.2766368 >>2766354 >>2766367 obvious sameFAG

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 06:26:41 2015 No.2766395 >>2766150 he's a 30 something on 4chan complaining about "censorship by leftists" did you think he would be mature

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 06:45:40 2015 No.2766402 >>2766395 there was a time when I thought that once people hit a certain age, they'd suddenly stop being retarded. now I know I was wrong.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 06:50:20 2015 No.2766403

It's an easy genre to shit at but as I've grown older I've also began seeing the merits of it. It purposely drags you down into a special kind of tempo that makes you focus on the narrative and what your characters are doing even if isn't very intensive. I'd love to create something myself and experiment with that kind of interaction

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:00:16 2015 No.2766407

>>2766235
Critics who treat 'adult' as a term of approval, instead of as a merely descriptive term, cannot be adult themselves. To be concerned about being grown up, to admire the grown up because it is grown up, to blush at the suspicion of being childish; these things are the marks of childhood and adolescence. And in childhood and adolescence they are, in moderation, healthy symptoms. Young things ought to want to grow. But to carry on into middle life or even into early manhood this concern about being adult is a mark of really arrested development. When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:12:20 2015 No.2766415

Games that "ruined" JRPGs for me:
"Story" RPG: Star Ocean - Second Story
"Grindy" RPG: Disgaea

After playing those, there was really no need to ever play another JRPG. I still played them for a few years after that, but in hindsight I feel like I really could have stopped after those without missing out on anything significant in the genre.
I really enjoyed FF12 as well, though that was really its own style of game.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 07:14:59 2015 No.2766416 >>2766407 CS Lewis was that dude. the chronicles of narnia are still the best childrens books Ive read tbh.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:35:27 2015 No.2766463

>>2766129
>The one you really watch playing is that ridiculous FFXIII and there's no denying it.

The FF that constantly kicks your ass if you aren't actively paradigm shifting? FF13 is one of the hardest FF games out there because it specifically addressed complaints that you can cruise through a great deal of the series by pressing fight.

But you wouldn't know that because you never got far enough to understand how the game is all about active paradigms, let me guess, chapter 3?

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 08:37:31 2015 No.2766471 >>2766257 >the last thing i want from a game as an adult is 'challenge' >been playing dragons quest viii lately, it satisfies Ooh, shit, you're not going to like the game after Dhoulmagus, then.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 09:20:51 2015 No.2766513 >>2766407 Well put, anon.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 10:02:24 2015 No.2766546 >>2766407 This may be a troll thread, and filled with the worst anon has to offer, but at least something awesome came out of it. Give this man a medal.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 10:15:36 2015 No.2766556 File: 145 KB, 1280x720, 1336951070200.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Sucks to be you, I'm going to play Trails in the Sky SC in about 3 hours and I'll enjoy it.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 10:34:24 2015 No.2766572
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I really enjoy 'em for their slower pace and relaxing, immersive atmospheres. It's just a feeling I don't get from those overly realistic WRPG's.

I'm looking forward to playing that new Dragon Quest with the retro mode on.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 10:42:33 2015 No.2766576

>>2766471

isn't he met somewhat early? you fight, he flees, posssibly running on water, later he returns in more powerful form? i think i'm near the end of the game and faced him initially months ago

i dont think ive died in the game, seems easy and pleasant even by rpg standards

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 10:44:14 2015 No.2766579 >>2766572 is that an earlier dq, characters look similar, what number is it

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 10:48:10 2015 No.2766582 >>2766579 It's not DQ, it is this: http://www.romhacking.net/translations/2339/

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 10:52:05 2015 No.2766586 >>2765887 >Valkyrie Profile is unplayable Yeah... this is low tier bait.

Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:01:23 2015 No.2766597

I always felt like the main fun of a JRPG comes from A: building your characters and B: boss fights, while regular fights are just fodder for character growth (and a ground for testing them out). B either requires A to be fairly extensive in order to be fun or it needs complex mechanics that stand on their own. FFIV is my favorite example of a JRPG that has none of these, on top of a painfully dated story, and is consequently a horrible chore to replay today.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 11:42:23 2015 No.2766641 jrpg's are cozy

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 18:14:56 2015 No.2767234 >>2766513 >>2766546 >people not recognizing a famous quote Society is dead.

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 18:30:25 2015 No.2767253 >wah i'm deep intellectual consumer i don't like skinner box Mhm

>>	Anonymous Thu Oct 29 20:51:55 2015 No.2767487 >>2766084 >>2766075 Most discussions I've participated in recognize it as flawed and not living up to its full potential, but ultimately still worth playing.

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 04:00:42 2015 No.2768073
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>>2765887
I agree. The amount of time spent on grinding sucks the fun out of the game.

But if you want a grinding game with "complexity to the stats" try Tactics Ogre. It's the game that defined the TRPG and it is still arguably the best in the genre.

You just can't go back though man. TFW.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 04:33:27 2015 No.2768097 >>2765887 >It's all just a few menus, stat building Yes, and it's surprisingly fun when they managed to balance it right with a bit of immersion.

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 04:36:11 2015 No.2768103

>>2768073
Grinding is easy as fuck in TO... at least the PS1 version

>Get 2 clerics, unequip weapons and give thm the best armor
>Get them to fight each other in auto-battle over night
>swap them to witches or something that can use Incubus/Paralyze.
>go into a training battle with the dudes you want to level and your grossly overleveled clerics.
>sleep/paralyze themselves and get your party members to beat on them for 1 level per hit
>catch up to the level curve safely and easily

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 04:41:06 2015 No.2768107 >>2766641 wow i've been trying to find the right word for the way they make me feel. it's like a combination of nostalgia and feeling safe while being under a warm blanket on a snowy day. cozy is perfect.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 04:51:20 2015 No.2768116 >>2766257 you sound like some boring suburban dad who gave up on life a long time ago and now just lives his life like a robot while watching his wife get fatter and fatter

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 05:11:47 2015 No.2768125 >>2766513 >>2766546 >retards not recognizing a C.S. Lewis quote jesus.....

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 05:13:46 2015 No.2768128 >>2768116 That's some very specifically detailed fantasy you got there anon. Want to talk about what that makes you feel and about your dad?

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 05:18:05 2015 No.2768130 Really only applies to Final Fantasy which is a shit tier 'baby's first' franchise in general.

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 06:19:40 2015 No.2768172
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>>2768130
Practically every JRPG is a grindfest especially including almost everything made in Japan.

Are you shitting me? Grinding is the entire backbone of JRPGs in general. Then like, yay we saved the world, just us rag-tag kids.

The few games of the whole genre that are actually any good are rare as diamonds.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 06:33:56 2015 No.2768179 >>2768172 >every JRPG is a grindfest >Grinding is the entire backbone of JRPGs in general Sorry, but you're just shit at video games, even at such simple ones as JRPGs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 06:46:41 2015 No.2768186 >>2768172 >Practically every JRPG >including almost everything made in Japan. >JRPGs >not made in Japan Both your videogame and shitposting skills need polish.

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 07:36:52 2015 No.2768217

This whole board turned to shit. Not because of the OP, but because of every one else in the thread. Everyone is calling each other names and being rude as fuck. This board once was a haven for people who couldn't stand /v/'s childishness, but now every thread is filled with hostile posters, just like over there. It's really depressing.

That said, OP, I feel you. When I was a kid I loved JRPGs, but today I just can't stand playing them. They are just way too long, and because of work and social life and family I really have no time to play for long to get invested in the games story, atmosphere etc. I still love the concept of those games as well as the style most of those games have. I just can't enjoy playing them anymore.

I'm sure of I were NEET and single I could enjoy them again. But too bad, I have a life.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 09:13:53 2015 No.2768280 >>2768217 People countering the OP is why this board still has promise. "This whole genre is unplayable" type threads are bottom tier funposting. It is exactly the type of thread that /v/ gets.

Anonymous Fri Oct 30 12:39:13 2015 No.2768485

>>2768280

No. In the old /vr/, this thread would have been largely ignored, as to discourage these type of horrid threads.

People, of course, would respond to a thread if someone actually had some well thought out criticisms and meaningful musings about the genre.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 15:03:49 2015 No.2768738 >>2766597 I always felt like FF4 had some of the tightest boss fights in the series, primarily because character customization is so limited.

>>	Anonymous Fri Oct 30 18:03:18 2015 No.2768919 >>2765887 This is why I don't play 16bit JRPGs. They are all repetitive as fuck wrt mechanics. You need to go PS1 and up to have fun with JRPGs.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 17:54:17 2015 No.2770339 >>2766407 he's right though. paper mario is a super easy rpg. not that i don't thoroughly enjoy the first two games, but for some people those easy games aren't fun

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:08:37 2015 No.2770362

>>2768172
This. Random battles are fun in the beginning but when there are encounters every 5 steps or so, they become a chore. Yeah, there are more complicated JRPGs, but those just have bigger menu trees. They give the illusion of sophistication through obfuscation. Essentially, the game play is the same.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:14:29 2015 No.2770363 >>2766136 >Platformers are platformers. There's not much to improve in the genre. Platformers can be improved by adding complexity, just like traditional shmups were improved into danmaku shmups. There are very few truly difficult platformers.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:41:05 2015 No.2770402 >>2770363 >traditional shmups were improved into danmaku shmups. kek sure thing you fucking weeb

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:41:41 2015 No.2770403 >>2770362 I think that is a radically reductionist stance to take there.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:46:19 2015 No.2770404

>>2770403
Even "complex" JRPGs boil down to finding the best attack and spamming it. Occasionally the best attack will change as new items and abilities unlock, or some gimmick fight requires a different best attack. Watch some JRPG speedruns to see how repetitive they are when played optimally.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:46:36 2015 No.2770405

>>2770363
>There are very few truly difficult platformers.

All of the Adventure Island games are very simple, but still very challenging.

I don't think complexity adds to the difficulty, I also don't think overcharged game design automatically means something is improved.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:49:33 2015 No.2770409 This board's descent into hell is unstoppable, isn't it?

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 18:51:15 2015 No.2770414

>>2770405
That's a one-dimensional kind of challenge (can you hit the tight timing window?). Modern shmups test several abilities as once. You have memorization heavy timing challenges, improvization against random patterns, and longer term resource management and planning. I don't know enough about platformers to say if there are any that reach this level of complexity, but I don't see why there shouldn't be.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 19:31:20 2015 No.2770451 >>2770404 >Occasionally the best attack will change as new items and abilities unlock, or some gimmick fight requires a different best attack. Sounds several orders of magnitude more complex than combat in non-Japanese RPGs,

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 19:41:01 2015 No.2770462 >>2770451 Try playing Baldur's Gate with the Sword Coast Stratagems mod. Or even without the mod.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 20:01:44 2015 No.2770494

>>2770462
No thank you. It's not up to my standards anymore to play games with save any time you want feature - good sign that devs didn't know by themselves how it's supposed to be played. The fact that you suggest to use user modification only confirms it.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 20:10:25 2015 No.2770501
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>>2770404
>Even "complex" JRPGs boil down to finding the best attack and spamming it.
Like any non puzzle game?
What are you even trying to argue, every combat based game boils down to using the best possible attack, JRPGs aren't any different.

Would it hurt you to get out of your ivory tower and realize how idiotic you sound?

Gradius all boils down to alternating Laser and Double depending on the stage, Doom is basically shotgun and plasma gun the game with the occasional BFG, Crash 3 is all about the bazooka once you get it and the occasional gimmick for bosses and so on, then it's fireball spam and DP for fighting games.

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 20:12:17 2015 No.2770504 >>2770501 Not at all, because in action games you have to aim and time your attacks. In JRPGs you just press A.

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>>2770504
How does that even infringe the point that it all boils down to using the best attack?
And for your info there's tons of RPGs where you have to time your attacks, even shitty games like Legend of Dragoon.

Are you legitimately retarded?

>>	Anonymous Sat Oct 31 20:26:12 2015 No.2770530 >>2770517 Nobody could possibly be dumb enough to miss the distinction between action games and selecting things from a menu. Put more effort into your trolling.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 20:56:48 2015 No.2770598

>>2770530
Wait, let me put this straight, having to select options from a menu takes somehow less skills than running around and fire at things since you appear to somehow how meta knowledge of the game structures before you even played them, let alone knowing enemies' movesets and stats of course, I bet you could speedrun games like Wizardry 4 with no problems at all.

I guess you're a master of video or photo editing too since you just need to select things and options from menus then.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 21:05:55 2015 No.2770613

>>2770598
Yes, it takes less skill, regardless of whether you read guides/wikis/etc. or not. JRPGs played normally have zero execution difficulty. Watching replays of action games gives you a much smaller advantage than reading about JRPG mechanics. If you read about how to win a JRPG battle then you can win that JRPG battle. There's no test of your ability to think under pressure, there's no test of your ability to execute complex button combos, you don't even have to memorize things unless you're speedrunning. JRPGs are a casual genre.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 21:25:50 2015 No.2770635

>>2770613
>There's no test of your ability to think under pressure, there's no test of your ability to execute complex button combos, you don't even have to memorize things unless you're speedrunning. JRPGs are a casual genre.

A lot of shmups have blind spots for bosses or weapon patterns that make levels trivial.
Action games like Tomb Raider, Metal Gear, Doom or Quake can be completed effortlessly by knowing where enemies are and their scripts.
Fighting Games like Mortal Combat or KOF have several AI flaws that can be used to completely neuter any opponent.
Sidescrollers like Biomenace or Xanadu are a joke when you know both enemies and items locations.
Platformers like Kirby or SMW2 let you skip 90% of all levels by floating out of the screen, which means literally pressing right and jumping.

Having meta knowledge about any game makes them casual games, if you truly believe what you just wrote you're only a pompous asshole who hasn't branched out of a few genres in his whole life and thinks he's a big deal.
But please, be my guest and do post your playthrough of Wizardry 4, any Lunatic Dawn game or Romancing SaGa 2, I'm sure you'll never, ever get a game over.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 21:35:33 2015 No.2770647

>>2770635
Doom and Quake (on UV/Hard or Nightmare) take execution skill even if you know the AI exploits. And they are best played multiplayer in any case.
Fighting Games are definitely supposed to be played multiplayer.
Most platformers do not have such exploits, and there are plenty of platformers that are difficult enough that casuals will never 1CC them, eg. Ghost 'n' Goblins, Battletoads, Ninja Gaiden, Castlevania 3, Bionic Commando, etc.

Wizardry 4 is legitimately difficult without external knowledge, but it's really a puzzle game not an RPG.

Anonymous Sat Oct 31 21:47:39 2015 No.2770672

>>2765887
Perhaps there's something to be said about that. FF, after a while, becomes muscle memory. Pleasant repetitiveness.
You are made to understand that, given enough time spent and grind done, you will be victorious.
It's good for building patience.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 14:17:03 2015 No.2771573 >>2765887 I disagree Im playing megami tensei on NES for the first time and I fucking love it

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 14:37:22 2015 No.2771593 >>2765887 When did /vr turn into/v?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 17:23:26 2015 No.2771827 File: 296 KB, 1366x768, 2015-11-01_00001.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2766556 I'm so glad to be back to travelling with Estelle. The first one was my GOTY and this looks like it probably will be too.

Anonymous Sun Nov 1 17:29:50 2015 No.2771846
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>>2765887
Text based games are UNPLAYABLE now. As a kid, you could be so easily immersed, but now you don't care as an adult. It's all just a few menus, maybe some map drawing. And there's almost no complexity to the puzzles or anything so it takes no thought.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 17:45:00 2015 No.2771873 File: 8 KB, 300x268, 1314689499674.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2771846 >Text based games are UNPLAYABLE now.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 17:45:39 2015 No.2771878 >>2771846 pure text adventures aren't even video games desu imo

Anonymous Sun Nov 1 17:50:16 2015 No.2771883

>>2771846
Text based games are far better now than when they were commercially viable. Most of the Annual IF Competition winners are better than anything Infocom released (and a lot of them are on-topic, because the z-machine is a pre-1999 platform):
http://ifwiki.org/index.php/The_Annual_IF_Competition

Anonymous Sun Nov 1 18:07:08 2015 No.2771921

>>2770635
But with JRPGs, you don't even need to memorize anything. You can play through them lackadaisically without reading any strategy guide and still be able to beat them. This is the reason why the games I liked most when I was young were RPGs. They're fucking easy. The only reason you need meta knowledge for JRPGs is when you deliberately make game the harder to play by using underleveled and non-optimal characters and setting artificial restrictions.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 18:21:57 2015 No.2771956 >>2771873 >>2771883 >What is satire >>2771878 Text adventures are video games but the term "Interactive fiction" is made for autists like you.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 18:47:23 2015 No.2771984 >>2771921 >to play by using underleveled and non-optimal characters and setting artificial restrictions. aka not grinding like little retarded faggot.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 19:00:45 2015 No.2772001 >>2771956 I hate the term "interactive fiction". It's used by the same people who think games are art. I call them "text adventures", but "interactive fiction" is used in the official name of the competition so I had to use it there.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 1 19:14:00 2015 No.2772023 >>2772001 Exactly. "Interactive fiction" makes me think "Oh, I'm in a library reading a goosebumps book." "Text adventures" makes me think "Fuck, I'm slaying some fucking dragons"

Anonymous Sun Nov 1 19:14:49 2015 No.2772024

>>2771984
Why didn't the developers added level caps then? If the games were meant to be challenging, they would've done so. It's obvious grinding was what they had intended. It's how these games are meant to be played. I remember an old Square poster ad claiming multiple dozens of hours of game play for each of their games. Chrono Trigger in particular had up to "80+" hours of gameplay. This many hours of gameplay can't be achieved without grinding to level 99 for every character and replaying the game at least once.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 06:25:53 2015 No.2772991 >>2765972 Maybe only if you have shit taste. My childhood was Thief, Doom, Baldur's Gate, Unreal Tournament, Deus Ex and so on. They're just as impressive as they were when I was a kid.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 06:28:54 2015 No.2772997 >>2766110 Nice try. But the problem with the first statement is that western RPGs usually -do- have complexity in their stats. Unlike JRPGs.

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 06:43:23 2015 No.2773026

>>2765887

I kinda understand OP. Back in the good old days I loved j-rpgs, nowdays they're next to unplayable to me due to how slow-paced the combat/gameplay is. Funny enough I still love the old snes era j-rpgs (because when I emulate them I can play them in turbo mode. That pretty much solves all of my issues).

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 06:59:34 2015 No.2773068

>>2772024
>Why didn't the developers added level caps then? If the games were meant to be challenging, they would've done so. It's obvious grinding was what they had intended

Why did Konami put the Konami code in their games? If the games were meant to be challenging, they would've done so. It's obvious using the Konami code was what they intended.
>>2772997
>western RPGs usually -do- have complexity in their stats
Nigga you best be joking, FF2 as much as it was a glitched mess of a game already had more stat complexity than the vast majority of WRPG of the era, Stat systems in games like The Last Remnant now make 90% of WRPG shit their pants.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:08:45 2015 No.2773162 >>2765887 Well of course it's unplayable, it's the worst final fantasy game in your image, right after FF2

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:22:17 2015 No.2773175 >>2773068 Oh it's that guy who tries to shoehorn his pet non-retro RPG into every fucking conversation. Look, nobody here gives a shit about your 360 game.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 08:49:19 2015 No.2773198 >>2773175 You surely do since you can't even understand the point of a simple sentence. Or maybe you're just grasping at straws to invalidate my main point?

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 09:16:13 2015 No.2773224

>>2773198
I'm not arguing with you about any of whatever you're sperging out about.

I'm just sick of seeing you talk up your 360 on a board where it's completely irrelevant, but good luck with that other with those other anons that clearly have you by the short hairs.

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 09:27:46 2015 No.2773237

>>2773224
I'm not even whoever you're talking about and I never owned a 360, the game's a multiplat and it was really just an example for modern games, if you want another one there's plenty of modern titles like Elminage, Unlimited Saga or the new Uncharted Waters games, if you want old games you have a plethora of JRPGs with tons of great stat systems, Dark Law, retro SaGa games and Uncharted Waters again, Tactics Ogre...

You should do something about that paranoia of yours.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 09:39:10 2015 No.2773249 >>2768107 I wish nostalgia made me feel that way. It makes me upset I don't have that safety now. Jrpgs are pretty relaxing to me because its' so repetitive and comfortable though.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 10:03:31 2015 No.2773278 >>2773237 Dude. you talk to me like I'm invested in this boring ass conversation about what stats mean. I'm not. Not at all. And it's not a multiplat, it's a 360 game that got a PC port a year later.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 10:31:59 2015 No.2773319 >>2773278 >Dude. you talk to me like I'm invested in this boring ass conversation about what stats mean. I'm not. Not at all. So you were just shitposting, good, time to report you then.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 10:39:38 2015 No.2773335 >>2772991 >absolute garbage games sans Deus Ex >muh superior childhood taste Ayyyylmao Doom is particularly shitty.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 10:42:20 2015 No.2773340 >>2773237 Muh Nigga Love those old Koei games like Uncharted Waters and Inindo.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 10:45:33 2015 No.2773347 >>2772997 >muh wrpg superior states autism LOVING EVERY LAUGH

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:30:12 2015 No.2773501 >>2773237 >a plethora of JRPGs with tons of great stat systems >Tactics Ogre Well there goes that argument... I kid, sort of. Generally I agree with you. Etrian Odyssey has made most old JRPGs unplayable at this point.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 12:45:49 2015 No.2773523 >>2773347 He does have a point though. WRPGs are much more heavily stat based than JRPGs.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:21:05 2015 No.2773568 >>2773523 Does that make them superior in any way? It's just a different stroke for different folks.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:22:44 2015 No.2773570 >>2773523 They're not really complex though. Put attack on fighters, int on wizards, agi on thieves etc. Straying away from these will only create shitty unoptmized characters.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:34:19 2015 No.2773593 >>2765887 >J-rpgs are UNPLAYABLE now. Weird, I could swear I'm playing Dragon Quest 7 and Final Fantasy 6 right now Meh, must be my imagination

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 13:50:46 2015 No.2773626 Why isn't anyone addressing these obvious troll post? This is one of many. Our mods are far and lazy faggots.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 14:44:59 2015 No.2773697 >>2768217 That is why this board needs the soothing maturity of sixth gen inclusion.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 20:45:38 2015 No.2774326 >>2765887 I agree. Nothing can make me dislike Crono Trigger though

Anonymous Mon Nov 2 21:26:06 2015 No.2774368

>>2773068
>Why did Konami put the Konami code in their games? If the games were meant to be challenging, they would've done so. It's obvious using the Konami code was what they intended.

Doesn't count. Those codes are hidden from the player. You have either get them from a strategy guide or game tip hotline and pay out-of-pocket money. Even with the codes, the gameplay is just made a little easier.

By your logic there's no such thing as easy games. All developers intend for their games to be hard. In order to increase the challenge, you have handicap yourself by chopping off some of your fingers or make yourself retarded.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 22:45:36 2015 No.2774481 File: 15 KB, 473x454, non certus.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >think about playing a JRPG >think, well in that case I might as well just read a book What are some JRPGs worth playing for their story, guys?

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 2 23:27:10 2015 No.2774546 >>2774481 Vagrant Story.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 05:49:48 2015 No.2775013 >>2768738 That's because it DID and it's one of the reasons why retards who complain about it lacking character customization are missing the point.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 05:58:20 2015 No.2775023 JRPGs are one of my favorite genres. I'm the type that wants story with my gameplay. >>2774481 Do ARPGs count? If so, try Tales of Phantasia. It SEEMS like it'll be a cliche'd "good vs evil" plot. But it isn't.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 05:59:53 2015 No.2775025 >>2774368 >or make yourself retarded. Funny to hear this from grindingtard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 06:41:17 2015 No.2775061 Etrian Odyessey has very good turn based combat, in fact, the games almost have no story at all, so story isnt the reason why people play those games.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 07:10:43 2015 No.2775074

>>2774368
>Doesn't count.
Oh it does, especially when you consider that no RPG had codes, while a lot of platformers or sidescrollers had those which were readily available even before the internet was widespread, in RPG you can grind to make life easier, in other games you just input a code on the start screen, same thing.
>By your logic there's no such thing as easy games.
On the contrary, but take that as you will.

You know you can spot a pleb when he says that grinding is totally not the most retarded choice because it's "legit" but having input cheat codes isn't, just like that moron who backpedaled saying that Wizardry 4 is a puzzle game.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 07:20:35 2015 No.2775082

>>2765887
Septerra Core.

The level design makes it unbearable now but I really loved it as a kid because it was my first JRPG ever (I always wanted to play FF7 but I couldn't because I had no PS; also in retrospect today I have to say that SC is much better than FF7 at least).

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 08:00:26 2015 No.2775104 >>2775082 >Septerra Core. >JRPG Anon...

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 08:01:59 2015 No.2775105 >>2765887 I disagree. With savestates and other emulator accoutrements they're more playable than ever.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:14:08 2015 No.2775294 >>2775104 Look, just because it's Western made doesn't mean it's not a JPRG. JRPG is a genre specifying "not a real RPG most of the time" just like ARPG is not a real RPG most of the time, or hack'n'slash in pretty much 99% of the cases.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:18:27 2015 No.2775298

>>2775082
I played this recently and the super-slow combat ruins the game. The animations take forever, the action meter takes forever, it makes regular enemies a huge pain the ass. And later in the game enemies will make themselves transparent so you have to WAIT until you can attack them again.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:19:21 2015 No.2775303
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>>2775294
>Look, just because it's Western made doesn't mean it's not a JPRG
>JRPG is a genre specifying "not a real RPG most of the time"
>ARPG is not a real RPG most of the time

Stop pulling my leg anon.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:21:31 2015 No.2775306

>>2775303
RPGs are about choices and consequences (retards from /v/ like to think that this means only "story splitting into X parts, herp derp"), not about imitating Microsoft Excel, old man.

This is not really something that your opinion is relevant on if you disagree, since my opinion is shared by the majority of the Elite Intellectual HQ of the Internet ( RPGCodex ) so that makes me automatically right.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:22:26 2015 No.2775308 >>2775306 >since my opinion is shared by the majority of the Elite Intellectual HQ of the Internet ( RPGCodex ) so that makes me automatically right. Okay, now I know that you were indeed pulling my leg.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:23:35 2015 No.2775309 >>2775308 Say that one more time and I will pull your leg again, as Quin-Gon-Chi from Mortal Kombat 4 does.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:34:05 2015 No.2775325 >>2775309 Come on son, I'm too old for this type of banter. MK is shit anyway, go play a real FG like KOF or GG

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 11:48:33 2015 No.2775340

>>2775306
>>2775294
Not the guy you're arguing with, but you're fundamentally wrong. JRPGs are just RPGs that were made by Japanese companies. They started out based on Western games and table top RPGs (FFI is basically D&D).

As time went by they developed their own specifics that make them distinct from western RPGs, but an RPG made in America or Europe even if it was in a style similar to JRPGs would still be a western RPG.

ARPGs are simply another genre which is related to RPGs, but different enough that they don't really fit under the same category. Similar to Beat 'em Ups and Fighters, coming from similar roots, even having some degree of crossover with characters. But they're also fundamentally different genres.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:05:29 2015 No.2775352 >>2774481 FFVI and Earthbound come to mind.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:11:34 2015 No.2775354

>>2774481
>What are some JRPGs worth playing for their story, guys?

I enjoy RPGs, but I don't think any exist. Certainly no RPG comes anywhere close to even a middling book. If you don't like them for the combat and exploration, RPGs are really a pretty terrible genre. You get minuscule bits of story and character development that only account for maybe 5% of the game.

If you do like the gameplay in though, then the bits of story you get as you adventure along can be a nice addition.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:12:58 2015 No.2775356 >>2775306 Those guys have been discussing "What is an RPG" for the last 10 or so years

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:34:22 2015 No.2775374 >>2775354 >Certainly no RPG comes anywhere close to even a middling book. Planescape: Torment

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:39:13 2015 No.2775382 >>2774481 Mana Khemia and Bravely Default.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:43:35 2015 No.2775391 >>2775374 Unless you're only reading D&D novels, Planescape Torment's story is really not that good. The simple fact is that games are a bad medium for telling a story.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:44:31 2015 No.2775392 >>2775391 It's as good as a "middling book". It's better than most D&D novels.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 12:52:46 2015 No.2775405 >>2775392 How old were you when you played it? Did you replay it? Are you a big reader? I guess opinions are bound to vary, but I would not agree at all.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 13:57:50 2015 No.2775464 File: 53 KB, 640x256, 5089_dbs1.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] op is a hipster elitest shit that plays only Chekoslovakian RPGs on his Amiga

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:07:33 2015 No.2775473 >>2775405 17 or 18 when i first played it, replayed it twice since then (aged 33 now). I read about 2 or 3 books a month.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:13:40 2015 No.2775484

>>2775473
Huh, and it really holds up that well for you? I only played it the once and it certainly was good for a video game, but I wouldn't call it a substitute for reading a good book. I didn't enjoy it enough to go back and replay though, so it could just come down to our tastes.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:17:08 2015 No.2775492

>>2775356
>Those guys have been discussing "What is an RPG" for the last 10 or so years
Yes, that's why our opinion makes your opinions irrelevant. Choices and consequences simply wins every time you'd make a poll nowadays.

>>2775354
This post made me feel physically sick.

>>2775391
Planescape Torment's story is better than most of the popamole fantasy books out there including (probably your favorite) the ASoIaF series.It's obviously not better than masterpieces like Lord of Light but something in the corner of my mind tells me that you didn't have those in mind when you were making your outrageous statement.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:25:06 2015 No.2775509

>>2775492
>This post made me feel physically sick.
Why?

>Planescape Torment's story is better than most of the popamole fantasy books out there
Maybe its that I don't tend to read much fantasy anyways and haven't read or seen any Game of Thrones anything. It's not a genre that interests me much in general.

I only compared it to D&D books because I had read a few of those as a teenager and PT is part of the D&D world. I put it's story about on par with some of the novels, which I count pretty low compared to most other books.

But also like I say here >>2775484 I only played the game once since I liked it well enough but it didn't blow my mind so much I wanted to replay it. So it could partially just come down to our tastes.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:28:07 2015 No.2775518

an rpg is a turn based game in which you decide the actions of a group of characters, and both the degree of their progress and the success of their actions has a degree of randomness, like throwing dice.
it doesnt need much story, or a story with branching paths, or asking you for opinions or what you want to do.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:35:09 2015 No.2775531

>>2775518
>an rpg is a turn based game
Traditionally, but not in all cases or entirely. Several RPGs have action aspects to them but are still part of the genre. Tales of Phantasia for example or Final Fantasy VI with the active time battle system which is not truly turn based.

>decide the actions of a group of characters
Not necessarily. There are single character RPGs.

>both the degree of their progress and the success of their actions has a degree of randomness
They don't all have randomness either.

>it doesnt need much story, or a story with branching paths, or asking you for opinions or what you want to do.
Opinions.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:42:17 2015 No.2775543 >>2775518 >an rpg is a turn based game An RPG doesn't have to be turn based, in theory. An RPG doesn't need to have any RNG in it at all. It doesn't need a story but choices and consequences.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 14:46:47 2015 No.2775554 >>2766415 Good taste my friend, good taste.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 15:20:26 2015 No.2775612 >>2775492 >laughing stock of the internet talks about relevancy

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 15:30:32 2015 No.2775623 >>2775612 B-but it's a tight knit group of elitists! How could they possibly be wrong about anything, ever?

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:05:36 2015 No.2775685
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>>2766071
I haven't disagreed with a post this hard in years, makes me feel alive.

Everything you hate about FF12 is what I love about it. The plot is take it or leave it, i'll give you that, because it's mostly POLITICS, which I'm fine with, but what work is that the characters are very good in this game.

I'm going to take a moment to juxtaposition the cast of FFXII with it's predecessor, FFX just for an example. Personally, I hate FFX. I think it's characters were boring and shallow. here's why. in FFX, Yuna wanted to become the ultimate summoner or whatever, and everyone else in the party was her bodyguards, therefore though there may have been little peeks into their personality, their goals and motivations were all one and the same, accompany Yuna on her journey to Zanarkand.

In FFXII we have an ensemble cast of six different characters, all brought together by fate and each having their own individual motivations & desires. There's no real main character in XII which I love because it's equally about all of them and how they interact in their world.

Art direction boring & Generic? no gameplay? this is where I know you're just reaching for bad things to say. The game takes place in a well thought out world and I enjoyed the gambit system, because I thought of it as another extension of character development, I get to determine how my party acts in battle. I would consider things like the license board and the characters personality what they would do in certain situations, and I set their gambits up accordingly.

For example, if I had Fran & Nalthier in the party, I made sure to set a gambit so that if one of them was getting ganged up on, the other would stop what they're doing and help, because they're buddies like that.

so yeah. I guess my point is... I want to go play FFXII again...

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:08:54 2015 No.2775691

RPG simply means that character has potential of growth and his skill level is more important for overcoming the obstacles than player's.
It's a fundamental difference from other types of video games(unlike that nonsense about presence of choices and consequences) and this definition also fits all RPG subgenres from dungeon crawlers and JRPGs to ARPGs and WRPGs about dialog choices.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:08:57 2015 No.2775692 >>2775023 >JRPGs are one of my favorite genres. Just fucking stop

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:17:24 2015 No.2775708 File: 49 KB, 640x635, 196885_50215_front.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2775691 >RPG simply means that character has potential of growth and his skill level is more important for overcoming the obstacles than player's. Pic related

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:21:16 2015 No.2775720

>>2775691
>>2775543
>>2775518

You're all over thinking this way too much. RPG is simply the name for the genre of games that evolved out of pencil and paper roleplaying games. All an RPG is, is a game that follows in that tradition. But by this point so many games have been made that they have spread into sub-genres.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:22:49 2015 No.2775725 >>2775692 >people aren't allowed to like genres I don't. Are you 12 or something?

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:24:40 2015 No.2775730 File: 163 KB, 500x284, Ambrosethumb.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2775720 this

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:27:23 2015 No.2775735 >>2775708 Yes, it's an ARPG.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:31:18 2015 No.2775738 >>2775735 You're legit retarded, friend.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:36:22 2015 No.2775742 >>2775738 Sorry but it's you who are retarded and knows nothing about the genre. Like for example there was fuckton of side-scrolling ARPGs on arcades, but your walnut sized brain probably refuses to call them anything besides platformers.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:48:29 2015 No.2775756

>>2775720
>All an RPG is, is a game that follows in that tradition.
= So a game that follows choices and consequences. That's all what pencil and toilet paper roleplaying games are about. Any one without choices and consequences is just a war game (i.e. like Warhammer), not a roleplaying game.

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 16:53:28 2015 No.2775763

>>2775612
>>laughing stock of the internet
Let me guess, you're from RPGWatch or RPG.net or whatever that website is called where the admins are having discussions about needing more diversity and trans characters in their roleplaying sessions and banning people for not being enthusiastic enough about it.

RPGCodex is a tiny forum (much tinier website than 4chan or Leddit) yet they are treated extremely seriously disproportionally to their size.

>>2775623
Not elitist, it's just objectively the #1 place on the Internet with the highest average IQ (for places to discuss hobbies on).

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 17:13:28 2015 No.2775787 >>2775763 No, I'm not your rival at faggotry, but yours top list of CRPGs (whatever it means) was ridiculed even on funnyjunk and 9gag.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 17:27:14 2015 No.2775798 Play Shin Megami Tensei 1 and 2 and Chrono Teigger for a decent /vr/ related JRPG experiece Nocturne proves there are still relevant /v/ related JRPGs as well. Can't think of anything more current that's great tho

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 18:57:14 2015 No.2775913 >>2775763 I think I remember you from the shortlived W2 or PoE generals in /vg/

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 20:06:29 2015 No.2776002

>>2775787
>but yours top list of CRPGs (whatever it means) was ridiculed even on funnyjunk and 9gag.

...wow. Just...wow. I am speechless. Some retard makes a 'meh-meh' and posts it on one of those retard sites and somehow that makes it legit 'ridicule' of the Codex to you? Like you're obviously a retard yourself just for browsing those sites, but goddamn, your retardation actually almost made me a bit bothered.

At least now I can rest easily know that people who call the 'dex "faggotry" are 9gagers and /v/ crossies.

>>2775913
You remember me from both. It's me, Drago Fireheart indeed!

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 20:23:46 2015 No.2776026 >>2775464 the whole point of /vr/ was for us to discuss those sort of weird games we never got to experience. This thread reads like a fucking subreddit.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 20:34:57 2015 No.2776041 >>2765927 r u 10

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 3 20:36:17 2015 No.2776043 >>2776002 That silly way of writing is unmistakable

Anonymous Tue Nov 3 21:02:22 2015 No.2776072
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Putting aside all this meaningless debate about what "JRPG" or "RPG" means (hint: it's arbitrary), I think the point OP was trying to make is the classic menu and turn-based combat (ATB is still turn based) is boring, especially considering that many of the games that it are quite simple, like FF6 is a piece of cake, the gameplay is easy and consists of choosing "ultima" over and over. Sufficiently complex and difficult turn+menu based combat can be enjoyable due to how it makes you think, but older games often were just extremely simple and therefore their gameplay is more an obstacle than anything else. The only reason these games are still remembered and rated highly today are for everything BUT their gameplay: their story, their art, their music, etc etc. And for some people the boring, slow, and brainless combat is too prevalent to enjoy even those elements which is something I can agree with. I think saying "unplayable" was a bit of an over-reaction. It's very possible to shut your brain off and spam attacks through infinite random battles. However it's also very reasonable to find that lack of engagement a turn off and to just not play it. There. Different strokes for different folks, etc etc, have a good day.

Note: You may be compelled to make posts, as I've seen here, that games like FF6 had fun and engaging combat systems. In that case, you are just wrong. If an 8 year old can easily cruise through the games ( and the standard turn-and-menu-based-combat game was easily beaten by children) then your combat is not complex and therefore is simple and therefore is boring to any adult with a brain. The first reply to this thread indicated that some people derive enjoyment from boring mechanics and that's fine but for the sake of productive discussion don't pretend that these game mechanics were complex or engaging.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 00:28:38 2015 No.2776303 >>2766235 is that you anon?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 00:31:43 2015 No.2776307 >>2768172 diamonds aren't rare

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 03:57:03 2015 No.2776496 >>2776002 Well retarded sites are created for posting retarded shit, so screencaps from AutismCodex are that popular there that you don't even need to visit them to know about it. >Drago Fireheart Sounds like a gay furry name, desu

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 04:45:33 2015 No.2776531 >>2776072 speaking of, there are some JRPGs that retains the similar "boring combat" as you mentioned, but diverts the thought process into the other aspects of the game (such as party customization), like FF5.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 04:46:51 2015 No.2776534 >>2776496 >that you don't even need to visit them Sure thing, 9gagger-/v/ anon. You're the first person who brought it up, ever, on 4chan.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 04:55:46 2015 No.2776541 >>2776534 Even heard about image watermarks? >9gagger-/v/ You understand that's it actually less embarrassing than being from codex, right?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 04:57:19 2015 No.2776542 >>2776534 Ever heard about image watermarks? >9gagger-/v/ You understand that's it actually less embarrassing than being from codex, right?

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:03:22 2015 No.2776547

>>2776541
>>2776542
Man you're super butthurt /v/-9gagger kiddie. You're literally the first person in history I've seen say that the Codex is "embarrassing". The only realistic explanation for this I can see is that you're one of the permanently buttblasted SJWs who can't stand the fact that we're both the most intellectual RPG forum on the entire Internet and the fact that we have free speech and not admins that discuss if there's enough transdiverse characters in their "pen and paper sessions" and ban those who disagree. Even the majority of 4chan would probably side with us over your 9gag/Tumblr cesspool of the Internet (I don't even care where you come from, SJW).

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:04:10 2015 No.2776549

>>2776072
>then your combat is not complex and therefore is simple and therefore is boring to any adult with a brain.
Then don't play games aimed at children (Protip:90% of videogames) and move on with your life?
>but for the sake of productive discussion don't pretend that these game mechanics were complex or engaging.
Mechanics being complex or engaging depend on the level of the player, having convoluted mechanics doesn't equal to having complex mechanics and vice-versa.
Some people think that games like FFT or Daggerfall have complex mechanics, others think they're boring and shallow, it all comes down to how experienced the player is, just like any other game.
Your dickwaving about objectively complex mechanics in games is just a pathetic way of legitimizing your opinions, I know plenty of ten years old kids that are literal monsters at Puyo Puyo and destroy me most of the times, admittedly because I never had a firm grasp of planning combos, and yet those very same kids can't play any NES or SNES MM game as well as they play Puyo Puyo or Zelda and say that it's too complicated even though today's Zelda games are far richer in terms of mechanics.
Same with every RPG, being an "adult with a brain" as you said, means anything unless you've already got tons of experience in a genre, even if you're a master of classic horis like Gradius or R-Type you're inevitably going to stumble during a transition to Danmaku, going from Mario to Umihara Kawase(both children games for the record) is not easy at all, even going from action games to certain RPGs is problematic at times, especially if you play certain games like old SRW or FE because while obscenely simple the mechanics are fucked up and the games can be very ruthless(or unfair for people like you) at times.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:09:17 2015 No.2776552 >>2776547 Kek, nice goobergate autism. Please tell me in another 3 paragraphs about how super butthurt I am.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:10:17 2015 No.2776554 >>2776552 And of course I was right. Classic.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:21:36 2015 No.2776565 File: 253 KB, 1000x627, SElvEnJ.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2776554 Classic, like classic WRPG Dark Souls?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:23:25 2015 No.2776567 >>2776565 Ok so this is it, 9gagger? This is the "ridicule"? Literally nothing implies it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:26:04 2015 No.2776568 >>2776567 Answering question with a question is a sign of aspergers, not surprising desu.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:28:56 2015 No.2776571

>>2776568
I'm not answering your shitty irrelevant question, I am replying to the picture you posted, autistic 9gagger fedora tipper. Now go back to your containment board please >>>/mlp/, or I will tell your favorite socjus diva that you were acting non-inclusive and triggering by saying the "a-word" on the Internet.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:30:59 2015 No.2776578 >>2776571 >autistic 9gagger fedora tipper I'm not the one who created that top list lol.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:31:44 2015 No.2776580 >>2776565 R E K T E K T

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:35:27 2015 No.2776581

>>2776578
>>2776580
Tell me one thing that's wrong with it you 9gagging turd.

It's ordered from #1 in the top left corner, going left to right (I don't expect you to realize that on your own, I am not a cruel man).

Anyone who'd disagree with the top 5 alone is clearly a pleb with shit taste in RPGs (although I'd change the order slightly).

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:36:26 2015 No.2776582 >>2776568 ... Why the fuck do you say "desu" after every other sentence? Are you suffering from tourettes, or just certifiable? >>2776571 To be fair, I've often fount the opinions of RPG Codex to be slightly snooty and jaded.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:37:49 2015 No.2776584 >>2776582 >fount It's ok, talking fountains are not supposed to understand human opinions to begin with.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:38:51 2015 No.2776585 >>2776582 >Why the fuck do you say "desu" after every other sentence? It's because I love animes and anime RPGs desu.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:45:44 2015 No.2776591 >>2776582 >To be fair, I've often fount the opinions of RPG Codex to be slightly snooty and jaded. There's not much you can expect from a circlejerk of close minded nerds with delusions of grandeur.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:46:20 2015 No.2776593
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>>2776581
>Anyone who'd disagree with the top 5 alone is clearly a pleb with shit taste in RPGs
Boy, I surely do love leveling in games with shittiest combat only for the purpose of unlocking dialog options.

>>2776582
baka

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:50:14 2015 No.2776595

>>2776593
So you are pleb and proud, man, you started of as a 9gag loving /v/ crossie SJW and you still keep on getting more subhuman. A gift that keeps on giving, truly.

I don't even want to know what kind of 'RPGs' you like, it's like asking a 3 year old what their favorite anyhting is.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:51:52 2015 No.2776597 >>2776595 My favorite is classic WRPG Dark Souls.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:52:21 2015 No.2776598

>>2776591
>close minded nerds
He says, about the most open minded place on the Internet. Just because we don't ban people (or try to kill them) for not supporting transAfrican genderfluid characters and don't complain about too few of them in Torment: Tides of Memera like you do doesn't mean we're close minded.

There's actual transdeviant posters on RPGCodex too, and all other kind of crazies like you that we tolerate, because we're the definition of open minded elites.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:53:24 2015 No.2776601 >>2776597 Shit taste, but I wouldn't expect anything else from someone who was born in the 2000s.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:54:06 2015 No.2776602 >>2776598 You need to relax, no SJW niggers are going to rape Chris Avellone.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:54:56 2015 No.2776603 >>2776602 Not anymore, but they were planning to. That's why he had to leave the Obsidian cvcks.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:55:05 2015 No.2776604 >>2776581 >>2776601 wait, you're serious? well fuck now THIS is classic

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:55:40 2015 No.2776606

>>2776598
Look, you can stop false flagging that hard.
This joke has got out of hand, you were funny but now you're getting old.

Nobody with a sane mind gives a shit about which kind of special seekrit club you're from, the internet isn't an authority in any way.
If you're bored and want to shitpost there's /v/ or /b/ for that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:55:59 2015 No.2776607 >>2776604 Serious about what, 9gag-san?

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 05:57:42 2015 No.2776612

>>2776606
>Nobody with a sane mind gives a shit about which kind of special seekrit club you're from, the internet isn't an authority in any way.
But literally the only reason we're talking about it is because someone (probably you) was extremely butthurt at the mention of RPGCodex (in an appropriate tone) and he started claiming all sorts of silly things about it, in his anal devastation.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:00:51 2015 No.2776615 >>2776604 >>2776606 I seriously don't know anymore, but like with everything there's slight possibility that this is for real, imagine that!

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:01:46 2015 No.2776616

>>2776612
I'm not even the guy you're arguing with, but I guess that you're seriously one of those lunatics from that place.
Behaving like a tourettic idiot isn't going to help your cause anyway, you're getting the opposite results of what you seem to want and profess.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:27:07 2015 No.2776636 >>2765887 Agree I usually give them 2-3 hours until i've seen every mechanic

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:36:12 2015 No.2776637 >>2776616 Sure you aren't.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:46:00 2015 No.2776646

>>2776637
I'd tell you to get your prozac but I doubt it would make any difference at this point since the thread has gone to shit.

If you really think there's only three people on 4chan, I don't know what to tell you, you're only making a fool of yourself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:50:50 2015 No.2776650 >>2776646 Yes, of course there's suddenly 10 people posting in a thread on /vr/ , coincidentally just when someone who's butthurt about RPGCodex appears in the thread which was completely dead before that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:55:54 2015 No.2776658 >>2767487 You haven't seen the 12 fags then. They're worse than 5,6 and 9 fags about their game, and pretty much go full on tumblr if you dont like it.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:56:19 2015 No.2776660 >>2776650 Actually I think that's attributable to the inevitable attention it's attracting from being a complete and utter derailed shitshow. People are throwing in their 2 cents and getting their X-tra Large popcorn buckets.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:56:37 2015 No.2776662

>>2776650
In fact I came here to see why this thread suddenly came up from the bottom pages.

You're just blinded by your own spite because someone offended your precious website, get over it and grow a pair, I already told you that I don't give a damn about where you come from.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:58:06 2015 No.2776665 File: 489 KB, 420x315, 1.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2776650 People like when someone publicly embarrasses themself.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:58:29 2015 No.2776667 >>2776658 Might be due to misplaced loyalty vis-a-vis Matsuno. I don't know who Squeenix thought they were fooling when he resigned due to "health reasons"

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 06:59:15 2015 No.2776669 >>2776660 >>2776662 >>2776665 >not a single new poster was added I rest my case and bow courteously like Milise Edgeworth would in Ace Attorney.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 07:00:52 2015 No.2776672 File: 15 KB, 542x133, 2015-11-04_001115128520406.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2776669

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 07:01:40 2015 No.2776673 >>2776672 >using something you can easily edit out in MSPaint as evidence I rest my case again, victorious.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 07:02:46 2015 No.2776674
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>>2776669
Are you retarded? I posted in this thread since it was made, why the fuck should you get new IPs if I was following this thread from the very beginning?
Are you that sociopathic?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 07:04:02 2015 No.2776675 >>2776674 No, I am Drago.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 07:07:51 2015 No.2776680 >>2776675 Yeah you're just an attention whore with addiction to shitposting then. Reported.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 07:09:18 2015 No.2776681 >>2776680 >announcing your reports Heh.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 08:33:47 2015 No.2776776 >>2775742 That's because they weren't action RPGs. Your definition is idiotic.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:02:35 2015 No.2776792

>>2776072
I generally agree with you. Turn based combat can be extremely challenging and fun if the options you have at your disposal are complex enough. Not quite RPGs, but roguelikes are a great example of that in the extreme. Dungeon crawlers also tend to lean on the more on that side as well.

JRPGs have an interesting history though. They began as Japanese versions of WRGPs and tabletop games. Final Fantasy specifically is very heavily based on Dungeons and Dragons.

Final Fantasys II and III, but II in particular gives the played a lot of control over the growth of their party and access to a large number of spells to give many options on how to approach it. Neither was anywhere near as popular as the first Final Fantasy.

Then Final Fantasy IV came out. Which is still part of the RPG genre, but far more streamlined and story based. You have very few options in combat and your ability customize your party and their growth is almost non-existent. Instead of growing your party and combat, the game's main focus is on it's story. As a result Final Fantasy IV was extremely popular and seen as one of the greatest games of all time.

With that, Final Fantasy IV became the template that most other JRPGs would seek to imitate. That's the point where JRPGs really became a distinct genre.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:07:27 2015 No.2776794
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>>2776776
>they weren't action RPGs
And the sky isn't blue.
Also, what definition? this one >>2775691 ? But it actually fits all types of RPG, including the side scrolling ones on arcades and consoles. Is it idiotic because some retard thinks that SotN isn't an ARPG?

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:10:34 2015 No.2776796

>>2776547
>>2775763
>>2775492
Not the guy(s) you're talking to, but I've been on the internet and into RPGs pretty much since both have existed and I don't know that I've ever even heard of RPGCodex. But the phrase " the most intellectual RPG forum on the entire Internet" is laughable.

It's also pretty hilarious that you held up Planescape Torment as an example of great video game storytelling and then used as your "proof" that you think it's better than fantasy genre fiction. I don't know whether you laugh or feel bad for you.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:12:27 2015 No.2776798

>>2775756
>Any one without choices and consequences is just a war game (i.e. like Warhammer), not a roleplaying game.

What are you talking about? War games are all about choices as well. Games in general by definition are all about choices and consequences. That's what makes them games.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:20:34 2015 No.2776805

>>2776794
The fact that that definition is so broad that it includes side scrolling arcade action games as RPGs is why it's such a bad description.

I could define a fighting game as any game where you fight opponents and then easily 80% of all games ever made would be fighting games.

Your definition is simply incorrect. Just because two genres share similar game design choices like gaining experience does not automatically make them part of the same genre.

First off, Cadash already doesn't fit your definition because XP growth is not more important than player skill. It also discards a lot of classic WPRGs like Ultima and Wizardy where player skill is FAR more important than grinding for levels.

You're also discounting that the "roleplaying" part of RPGs, which is an important aspect of the genre. Where in you explore a world with your character or characters, talking to NPCs and playing through an adventure similar to the tabletop RPGs the genre grew out of.

I'm sorry, but that definition is simply wrong in many ways and too broad in others. It's essentially worthless.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:25:44 2015 No.2776808

>>2776796
>I don't know that I've ever even heard of RPGCodex.
Yes, because it's only for Elite intellectuals. It's not laughable really, I mean sure we do use it as a joke but ultimately and objectively it is a fact. There is no better place on the internet to discuss RPGs than that, or anything else actually. However, do not mistake this for advertising - I definitely don't want any more 4channers there. You guys who register there are very low quality posters 90% of the time.

>It's also pretty hilarious that you held up Planescape Torment as an example of great video game storytelling and then used as your "proof" that you think it's better than fantasy genre fiction. I don't know whether you laugh or feel bad for you.
In other words:
>it's hilarious because I find it hilarious
name a better RPG video game storytelling than PST, come on.

It just shits on 90% of high fantasy fiction books out there (it's better than the average).

Also, not that KotOR 2 is particularly great, but it's storytelling is better than any other Star Wars universe (more like franchise) story ever told, including the original trilogy of movies. Mostly just because there's so little to compete with in this case.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:34:55 2015 No.2776820 >>2770462 SCS boils down to spellcasters doing 95% of the work, foreknowledge over on the spot improvisation, and AI abuse. It's not the shining example you think it is.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:35:21 2015 No.2776821

>>2776805
>I could define a fighting game as any game where you fight opponents and then easily 80% of all games ever made would be fighting games.
Do you even know what fighting games are?
They're one of the few actually strict and easily classifiable games out there.
>just because two genres share similar game design choices like gaining experience does not automatically make them part of the same genre.
It usually does when those are key features of a genre.
>like Ultima and Wizardy where player skill is FAR more important than grinding for levels.
Wot?
Wizardry was 50% about getting levels 40 about getting gear and 10% strategy.
You can't beat Werdna without Tiltowait or good equipment, your abilites are bound to levels so of course you need to get to a level high enough to unlock those spells.
>Where in you explore a world with your character or characters, talking to NPCs and playing through an adventure similar to the tabletop RPGs the genre grew out of.
Completely unnecessary, the classic Wizardry trilogy had barely more than 10 NPCs which were really proxies for unlocking doors and getting key items, Vagrant Story doesn't have any NPC to speak of just like the vast majority of SRPGs didn't either.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:46:02 2015 No.2776831

>>2776808
>There is no better place on the internet to discuss RPGs than that, or anything else actually.

That's exactly how I feel about the tiny community website I've been a part of for years as well. The difference is that I don't suffer under the delusion that anyone outside of our group cares.

>name a better RPG video game storytelling than PST, come on.
I agree with the other guy. PT has a good story for a video game, but video games are an inherently poor medium for storytelling.

I don't think it comes anywhere near a lot of novels. Is it better than most fantasy genre fiction? Probably, but that's really not a very high bar to set. That's why it was funny.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:47:03 2015 No.2776832 >>2776821 >They're one of the few actually strict and easily classifiable games out there. Exactly, which is why redefining them super broadly like that definiton does with RPGs would be idiotic.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 09:55:27 2015 No.2776841

>>2776832
>Exactly, which is why redefining them super broadly like that definiton does with RPGs would be idiotic.

RPGs aren't as formulaic as other genres.

Would you say Daggerfall or Morrowind are FPS?
Is Gothic a MH predecessor because you can carve monster parts and make armors and weapons out of those?
Is PSO a TPS with some melee sprinkled in it?
Is Vagrant Story a platformer?

How would you define a book like The Master and Margarita? A fantasy book? A fairytale? A satirical book?
Certain genres aren't easily classifiable, that's why most people say that certain games that have heavy RPG elements are classified as RPGs, thus the birth of A-RPG, S-RPG and so on.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:02:33 2015 No.2776849

>>2776805
It doesn't include Streets of Rage, right? It includes games which were designed, created and marketed as ARPGs not games from other genres, their main gimmick was being an RPG on arcade and they shared the essence part of RPG. You also don't understand the part about skill. It's not about how hard it is, it's about impact of character growth in comparison to player's skill. Even the best player will have troubles with naked character, while at the same time full retard can steamrolling the game with the levelcapped one. Which can be described as character's skill is more important than player's, just what said in definition.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:13:18 2015 No.2776857

>>2776841
>thus the birth of A-RPG, S-RPG and so on.

Which are separate genres from the traditional RPG. That's along the line of what I'm saying. But also that there's more that defines a traditional RPG than simply XP gain being more important than player skill. That's one debatable aspect, but not the only or defining one.

I would count daggerfall and morrowind as action RPGs. They have RPG trappings but take place in a real time environment and combat is sort of action based.

PSO is more of a Diablo derivative than an RPG offshoot and Diablo itself is an offshoot of roguelikes, as opposed to traditonal RPGs.

Monster Hunter is in virtually no way an RPG.

I haven't played Vagrant Story, but my understanding is it's an action RPG with some platforming.

>Master and Margarita
Nice pull, and purposefully hard to pin down. I think books are harder than games to pigeon hole into genres as well, but certain ones are very clear.

Regardless, ignoring all genres I would not put Planescape Torment on the same level as most novels. That's my opinion though, and you're free to disagree if you think otherwise.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:16:50 2015 No.2776859

>>2776831
>That's exactly how I feel about the tiny community website I've been a part of for years as well.
Well you're wrong about it. Because RPGCodex is not a tiny community, only tiny relatively to big websites like Leddit and 4chins. It still has at least a thousand active daily posters and maybe 5 thousand lurkers.

>but video games are an inherently poor medium for storytelling.
Said almost always by people who wouldn't even be able to define good storytelling to begin with. Just parroting stuff you read on the Internet.

The main thing what makes PS:T's story so good is the fact that it is a video game - it would NEVER work as a book (which was objectively proven by how god damn retarded the 'novelization' of it was). Same goes for all the other best of video games storylines (in other genres, i.e. Silent Hill 2, the only good Silent Hill story ever made, would never work as anything other than a video game, etc).

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:17:32 2015 No.2776860

>>2776849
Yeah I get where he's going with that definition, I just think it's much too minimalist. Whatever though, I don't know how much I care to debate it this much. If you or he wants to define RPGs that way you're free to, but I disagree with the definition. If this was some sort of official universal definition we were hashing out I'd put more effort in, but at this point it's clear we're not going to agree with each other so there's little point in going in circles.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:19:44 2015 No.2776863 >>2776859 >The main thing what makes PS:T's story so good is the fact that it is a video game This part I do agree with you on. I still don't think it was amazing, but that's fine.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:25:08 2015 No.2776872 >>2776860 Yeah, it's just the only thing that in my opinion unified every type of RPGs, which you simply dismiss as completely different genres, that's why I find it reasonable to define RPG like that.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:30:00 2015 No.2776878

>>2776872
You went with a definition broad enough that it encompasses all the sub genres. Like the description that they're just about choices and consequences, I think it's simply too broad to really mean much of anything. If it works for you then whatever, but I think it's a largely meaningless definition.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:32:33 2015 No.2776880 >>2776878 >You went with a definition broad enough that it encompasses all the sub genres. Yes and all that sub genres have an 'RPG' word in them. Don't get what you find meaningless in that, but whatever.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:37:11 2015 No.2776883 >>2776880 Shoot 'em ups and Beat 'em ups both have "em up" in the name, but I wouldn't lump the genre's together. Might as well just go with choices and consequences and change every genre to "game"

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:39:31 2015 No.2776884

>>2776878
>but I think it's a largely meaningless definition.
Every genre definition is mostly irrelevant

Mario and Jumping Flash are both platformers but the gameplay is completely different, hell even SMW is completely different from Mario 64.
SFII is different from Tekken 2 but they're still fighting games, same with Bushido Blade.
Gradius and Dodonpachi are both STGs but the base design design is completely different.
Gran Turismo and Ridge Racer have completely different philosophies behind their design but still a common background.
ReVolt is a kart game like Crash Team Racing but they have some pretty different design choices.

RPGs aren't any different, you're making a big fuss over a generic label, it's like complaining that a tomato isn't anything like an apple, but it's still fruit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:41:44 2015 No.2776886 >>2776883 >Shoot 'em ups and Beat 'em ups both have "em up" I think it's really dumb analogy.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:46:18 2015 No.2776891 >>2776886 Now you know how I feel about your argument in a nutshell.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 10:51:34 2015 No.2776897 >>2776891 Maybe you can describe then what share genres with "em up" in their name which other genres don't have?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 11:02:35 2015 No.2776908 >>2776897 Maybe you can re-write that sentence in English?

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 11:06:11 2015 No.2776916 >>2765887 yeah they suck

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 4 15:26:45 2015 No.2777159 >>2776650 >someone who's butthurt about RPGCodex Literally no one in this thread is butthurt about RPGCodex. They're mocking you for thinking it makes you special.

Anonymous Wed Nov 4 16:32:50 2015 No.2777248

>>2765887
If you base your whole opinion around JRPGs on DQ or FF, sure.

There are a number of JRPGs that have quite a bit of depth to their mechanics.

I would say if you're looking for depth in SNES RPGs, you probably won't find it. Although there are games that go against the norm and have something different.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 04:59:45 2015 No.2778252 >>2776582 Recently I have noticed desu and sempai shit everywhere. Have we gone back in time?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:02:35 2015 No.2778257 >>2778252 In addition to the awesome and creative, 'Chans attract the mentally ill. I suppose it has always been so, though it is still quite jarring when one manages to turn up.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:02:39 2015 No.2778258 >>2778252 Our Japanese overlord has filtered twitter speak (t b h, s m h and other)

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:08:52 2015 No.2778267 >>2778258 Ah, word-filter faggotry. Something we have in common with Something Awful, it would seem.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:42:25 2015 No.2778289 >>2778258 desu baka senpai?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:43:27 2015 No.2778291 >>2778289 tb* / sm* / fa* respectively Cool!

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:47:00 2015 No.2778293 >>2778291 kek

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:49:14 2015 No.2778294 >>2778293 That's C-u-ck

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:53:52 2015 No.2778298 >>2778257 This, dude from the best forum on the internet clearly has real non-meme autism.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 05:55:46 2015 No.2778303

>>2778298
Oh looks like you're still butthurt that your forum is shit and only good for shitposting while the Codex is the best place on the Internet for intellectual discussions of all kinds (but mostly RPGs), but we don't want you there because you're a filthy 4channer (most likely already registered there as 'Neckbeard Shitlord').

~Drago Fireheart

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 07:44:05 2015 No.2778378

>>2765887
yeah i feel ya. i used to love jrpgs, but i manly play games like mario and such nowadays because im tired of menus, cutscenes and dialogue and repetitiveness, i just want a challenge that i can win or lose. jrpgs arent challenges, theyre more like books where every page requires pressing A a dozen times to turn

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 07:51:42 2015 No.2778383 >>2765887 >MOST J-rpgs are UNPLAYABLE now That, I can agree with.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 09:04:54 2015 No.2778453 >>2778303 I hate RPGCodex because they're constantly insulting all the classic RPGs of my childhood, Final Fantasy 7+, Persona 4, Oblivion, Fallout 3, you name it, they hate it. Shaking my h.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 09:14:07 2015 No.2778465 >>2778453 Same here.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 09:35:28 2015 No.2778492 >>2778453 >Fallout 3 Uh, how old ARE you?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 09:37:12 2015 No.2778493 >>2778492 What's the problem? I was 12 when Fallout 3 came out. I'm 19 now.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 09:46:37 2015 No.2778504 >>2778453 Nice false flagging, but they actually like buggy Fallout 3 with more reading and Final Fantasy 7 (as long as it's a weeaboo clone).

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 09:50:30 2015 No.2778507

>>2778504
Are you retarded? New Vegas is great for what it is - all bad things about it stem from the fact that they had to use the Fallout 3 engine and shit. And no, we don't like Final Fantasy VII, not even the weaboos do.

Pathetic strawmanning scum.

~Drago Fireheart

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:29:16 2015 No.2778538 >>2778507 >>>/v/ >>>RedditCodex >>>global rule 13

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:30:48 2015 No.2778540 >>2778538 Butthurt 4chan SJW mad that his favorite game of all time, Undertale, is nothing but another overrated weeb garbage spiced up with feminisms.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:34:16 2015 No.2778547 This thread is a mess to follow, but is the RPGCodex guy really the one saying the definition of an RPG is any game that you grind for XP until it's near impossible to lose?

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:35:24 2015 No.2778549 >>2778540 >>>wrongplanet.net

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:37:37 2015 No.2778553 >>2778547 No? I said that the definition of an RPG game is choices and consequences you butthurt SJW strawmanning turd. ~Drago Fireheart

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:49:23 2015 No.2778568 >>2778553 Ohh my god really? That's the one definition that's even worse than his. That literally covers all games ever.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:50:40 2015 No.2778569 >>2778568 Buttblasted feminist-ally trying to save face. Heil Codex. Heil white race!

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:53:06 2015 No.2778570

>>2778569
lol is that your response?

Are you really serious, that's how the most intelligent, intellectual RPG forum on the internet defines an RPG? Choices and consequences?

At this point I don't know if this is 10/10 baiting or you people are really that retarded.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:55:30 2015 No.2778573

>>2778570
>Are you really serious, that's how the most intelligent, intellectual RPG forum on the internet defines an RPG? Choices and consequences?
Yes. Feel free to register on the forum and find out why, but I bet you wouldn't even think about trying that because you're a scared SJW who knows he's gonna get intellectually raped and tastefully torn apart by our superior logic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:58:04 2015 No.2778578 >>2778573 Name me a game of any genre that is not about choices and consequences. Your definition of course includes RPG games, because it's the basic definition of any game. Also, I hate women. :)

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:58:32 2015 No.2778580 >>2778553 Look at this little faggot, signing his name to posts n' shit!

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 10:59:10 2015 No.2778581 >>2778578 >Also, I hate women. :) So? That's what I said, you're a "feminist-ally" / SJW. >>2778580 Problem? ~Drago Fireheart

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:00:37 2015 No.2778585
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Wow, this thread looks heated. I still play, and complete, tons of jrpgs. I always embellish the stories in my head. You know, imagine motivations for characters' actions or make up personalities for generic NPCs. It's super enjoyable and adds a little more conscious interaction with the medium, you guys should try it sometime.

I'm a librarian and mediocre novelist so I guess that's where I'm coming from. Always keep a good book handy for the overworld trips to dungeons/grinding times; although I hardly ever feel the need to grind in most games after the NES era.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:03:08 2015 No.2778589

>>2778581
Nice responding only to that part friend. How being a misogynist makes one a feminist ally or SJW I don't know, but let's drop that gag and get back on track.

Can you name me a game that isn't designed around choices and consequences? Ohh most intelligent overlord of wisdom.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:05:08 2015 No.2778596 >>2778589 It's about the AMOUNT of choices and consequences (compared to other genres) you dumb fucking inbred SJW cunt. It's like saying "oh yeah well CS:GO is a platformer like Supper Mario because you can jump in there too!". You fucking idiot.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:07:55 2015 No.2778604 >>2778596 Tetris is my favorite RPG, literally choices and consequences: the game.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:09:09 2015 No.2778607

>>2778596
But everything you do in any game is all about choices and consequences. Literally. Tetris, Mario, everything. If anything, especially old RPGs are the worse as evidenced by FFIV where for large portions of the game your only real choice is attack, defend or run.

Name me any game, ANY GAME that's that's fundamentally built on a basis of making choices and then dealing with the consequences. Do you jump on the goomba or over it? Do you put your block on the left or the right? Move pawn first or knight?

Anything, come on.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:10:14 2015 No.2778609 >>2778607 >Name me any game, ANY GAME that's that's not fundamentally fixed and waiting. :)

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:12:46 2015 No.2778615 [SPOILER]

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>>2778596
Dude, all your posts are half name-calling. Never been to RPG Codex myself, but is this what they're like when angry? Shit, you guys should all have grown out of getting legitimately angry over internet arguments years ago.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:13:32 2015 No.2778617

>>2778604
Congrats, you managed to find one of the least choices and consequences meme-games out there for your pathetic attempt at a shitpost.

>>2778607
No, you fucking retarded idiot. Linear mechanics based on press a button something happens are NOT choices and consequences. The choices and consequences need to be made *in universe* (realized in the universe and acknowledged in the universe). The game cares fuck all what you do with a "goomba" whatever that is - that's just the game's arbitrary mechanics - nothing in the universe reacts to the "goomba" being placed somewhere.

Fucking sub 100 IQ SJW sheep.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:18:55 2015 No.2778626 [DELETED]

>>2778617
You're a complete idiot, your definition is beyond retarded and this whole thing is hilarious. I thought at first you were the XP guy, but this is even better. Enjoy screaming about SJWs because your definition is so awful that insults are your only hope of winning an argument.

I'm going to go makes some choices and see what the consequences are. :)

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:20:36 2015 No.2778628

>>2778626
>You're a complete idiot

>gets completely rhetorically rekt
>"wah you're a complete idiot"
>+emojis

Once again, the inferior 4chan SJ/v/ shitposter meets a Elite PC Master Race Codexer and ends up being pounded to an amorphous blob. Congratulations.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:22:52 2015 No.2778629 New poster here and also a cute girl, man these RPGCodex guys are so Alpha and so smart, they really showed you 4chan guys what losers you are. No wonder they us while you stay permavirgins.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:23:35 2015 No.2778631 >Actually responding to obvious bait /vr/ pls, hide and report.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:28:34 2015 No.2778638 >>2778631 Eh, bored at work.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:32:16 2015 No.2778643 >>2778638 Must be boring no doubt if your "work" is to shitpost on 4chan and to look for things that offends sheep to get mad about from your mom's basement.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:37:25 2015 No.2778653 >>2778643 Woah, man, I'm only >>2778615 Calm down.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:39:24 2015 No.2778658

>>2778628
The definition you are giving is simply ridiculous. I will grant there's a possibility that a decent definition for the RPG genre exists which could incorporate the way choices and consequences work which is specific to the genre.

But if it does, you're not explaining effectively it at all. What you are saying is so broad and ill defined that it means virtually nothing. You reduce your posts to slurs and swearing as an attempt to cover up that what you're saying is completely ridiculous and so broad that it would define chess, Panel de Pon and Street Fighter all as RPGs.

There's no other word for that than idiotic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:55:42 2015 No.2778676 >>2778658 >The definition you are giving is simply ridiculous And yet almost universally agreed upon by wise old meisters who have been discussing "what is an RPG" since way before you were born, kid. Go reblog how angry you are on your Tumblr blog.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:56:48 2015 No.2778679
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>>2778643
Sorry, I just found it too funny that the guy claiming to be from the most intellectual forum on the internet was making some of the silliest broad stroke definitions I've ever seen and swearing up and down like a 13 year old. There's just something delightful about shutting down someone who's both stupid and angry.

Even though I did and still do suspect he's just a fisherman imitating him for laughs I couldn't resist. I have leaves to rake though so I'll leave it here.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 11:59:31 2015 No.2778683

>>2778676
The RPG genre didn't exist when I was born. If they really do have a solid definition of the RPG genre, then you're just explaining it so badly that it makes no sense. I don't know which is funnier honestly.

Also I'm not on tumblr, nor angry. This has been the best part of my day so far. I seriously can't stop laughing, it's so great. Anyways, leaves. Have fun with your intellectuals, friend. :)

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 12:02:55 2015 No.2778684 File: 38 KB, 650x175, the most intellectual forum.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2778679 >the silliest broad stroke definitions I've ever seen and swearing up and down like a 13 year old. Not surprising.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 12:13:40 2015 No.2778702 >>2778684 Man, forum IDs get me every time. I haven't used a nice cringe-worthy net handle since the school days.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 12:38:56 2015 No.2778741

>>2778453
From my experience, you'll find someone there that gets all snooty about one thing or another.

The thing I've found in a lot of people there though is a general dislike or sometimes even hatred of other genres.

I don't see why it's impossible to enjoy both RPGs and action games. They both can have depth to their gameplay, they just require somewhat different skillsets.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:11:04 2015 No.2778775 >>2778702 There's nothing cringe worthy about it. Both the nicknames you see are meant as jokes by the posters. Also >not recognizing sexbad, one of Brote Ams Pill's friends Pathetic.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:16:56 2015 No.2778782

>>2778741
That tends to happen with a lot of genres. Whatever it is, it's deepest fans become convinced it's the best genre or even the only really good genre.

I think when people get very invested in one thing like that, so that it takes up a lot of their time or at least a lot of their gaming time they feel the need to convince themselves their time isn't being wasted. The easiest way to do that is to dismiss other genres as being too casual, to difficult, too story based, not enough or whatever. That's my guess anyways.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:19:27 2015 No.2778789 >>2778775 >Brote Ams Pill' I had to google that because I'd never heard of it. All that came up was a bunch of reddit, youtube, tumblr and twitter. Sorry I'm not up to date on your social media celebrities.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:20:01 2015 No.2778790 >J-rpgs are UNPLAYABLE now That's funny, I'm 25 years old and 90% of what I play is PS1/SNES era JRPGs. Glorious menu based combat master race.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:21:06 2015 No.2778792 >>2778789 >implying BroteamPill is a social media celebrity He is the 2nd incarnation of the Prophet Mohammed.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:24:10 2015 No.2778801 >>2778782 As good as any other explanation, I guess. Personally, I just get bored. Action games feel great after playing a long RPG. The reverse is true too.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:25:49 2015 No.2778804
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>>2778792
Why doesn't it surprise me that now you're toting youtube ecelebs as proof that your forum is the greatest hive of wisdom anywhere?

Also just for the record, "lel ironic" cringeworthy screen names are still pretty lame.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:27:19 2015 No.2778808 >>2778804 It's not "lel ironic", you inbred socjust turd. It's meant to be funny. Not "lel ironic". I guess hipster shits like you wouldn't know the difference.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:29:08 2015 No.2778815

>>2778801
For me there are just too many types of games that I like to ever want to pin myself down to just one genre. It can make it hard to decide what to play next, and I'll tend to go in cycles. Playing one heavily for a while and then movin onto another. But with so many amazing games out there, I'm happy for that to be the hard decision to make.

I usually have some sort of RPG/strategy game/roguelike on the go in addition to whatever more action oriented game or genre I'm into at the time though.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:30:26 2015 No.2778819 >>2778808 Nice try. How about you swear like a child some more and see if it makes your argument any better. It's working great so far.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:31:42 2015 No.2778825 >>2778808 >socjust turd Also, using this as your insult when you're the one posting reddit/tumblr/youtube celebs is comedy gold.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:32:31 2015 No.2778827 >>2778819 >swear like a child That's what you're doing not me tee hee xd ~ Drago F.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:37:01 2015 No.2778838 >>2778585 >3.09mb fammie...

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:38:53 2015 No.2778843

>>2778827
That's like 0/10 man. Come on, are you even trying at this point?

Also just for giggles, why the social justice tilt to your trolling? I haven't said anything even vaguely social justicey and don't even have any social media accounts. So why go with 'tumbrfag' and 'socjust turd' Is that just your one go to put down you use on everything? Your insults lose a lot of impact when they don't relate at all to who you're insulting. It's kind of weird, honestly.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:41:39 2015 No.2778848 >>2778843 1) I don't need to try. I win by means of existing alone. I am ubermensch, you are untermensch. Hitler is on my side. 2) Only soc.jus. losers get butthurt about RPGCodex. No one else would have reasons to get mad over "some RPG forum".

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:51:43 2015 No.2778868 This thread gave me the herp.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:51:52 2015 No.2778870 >>2778848 >No one else would have reasons to get mad over "some RPG forum". True, everyone just points finger and laughs.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:55:01 2015 No.2778876 >>2778868 it gave me hopw roewur ne >>2778870 but, you see, no one does as I said before, RPGCodex is like the Forbes to 4chan's Dailymail and Reddit's Huffingtonpost, when it comes to the amount of respect they get from various RPG making devs

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:56:27 2015 No.2778879

>>2778848
>No one else would have reasons to get mad over "some RPG forum".

You perhaps misunderstand. I don't care one way or the other about the forum. I'm simply pointing out that the RPG definition you are saying you got from them is laughably ridiculous.

Whether that's because their definition is really that bad, or you're just not intelligent enough to relay it accurately I don't know. But either way, someone claiming to be from the "Elite Intellectual HQ of the Internet" and then speaking the way you are is rather humorous.

There's no butthurt about anything, your definitions are laughable and I'm laughing at you over them.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 13:59:57 2015 No.2778883

>>2778879
>I'm simply pointing out that the RPG definition you are saying you got from them is laughably ridiculous.
No, you are not pointing it out. You are just saying that, you didn't actually showed a single point how it's not literally the most perfect definition of RPGs.

I'm guessing that the definition of RPG to a sheep like you is:
>it has stats/leveling/xp
>it has a funtasy story, yeeah!
>it has character building!!
and of course
>it has romance, tee hee~!
and that none of your favorite RPGs are in the RPGCodex top 10 of RPGs.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:00:29 2015 No.2778884

>>2765887
It's all about the story, pal. That's literally the reason jRPGs got popular, because no other genre could provide interesting stories back then because game design was more concerned with making things fun or challenging.

They declined in popularity because nowadays you can tell a good story in a first person shooter (Bioshock) or a puzzle game (Portal), or even western RPGs have more involved mechanics, so jRPGs have nothing to offer nowadays.

Think of them like of reading a book with some puzzle minigames (fights) in the way.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:02:09 2015 No.2778891 >>2778884 >It's all about the story, pal. That's literally the reason jRPGs got popular, I hope you mean it's because their stories were always appropriately infantile, not 'deep' or 'good' (as in 'good writing').

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:04:12 2015 No.2778897 >>2778884 >or even western RPGs have more involved mechanics a good one.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:06:52 2015 No.2778906

>>2778883
>you didn't actually showed a single point how it's not literally the most perfect definition of RPGs.

Except that the way you've described it is also so broad that easily half the games in existence would then be defined as RPGs.

RPGs are simply the video game genre that evolved out of table top pencil and paper roleplaying games. They've come so far and changed so much over the years, splitting off into various other genres like strategy and action. Roguelikes are another branch on the same tree, not RPGs exactly but also born out of pencil and paper table top games.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:08:33 2015 No.2778913 >>2778897 Most JRPGs outside of SaGa games are very simple and streamlined compared to western RPGs. Especially after Final Fantasy IV which defined the genre and is one of the most simple, stripped down "RPG" games ever at that point.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:09:15 2015 No.2778914

>>2778897
I fucking bet that this is the same guy who refuses C&C as definition of RPGs.

Fucking weaboo shitter.

>>2778906
>also so broad that easily half the games in existence would then be defined as RPGs.
It fucking isn't you mongoloid.

Read it again. There's painfully few games marketed as RPGs that actually have, IN UNIVERSE ACKNOWLEDGED CHOICES AND CONSEQUENCES (in universe).

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:12:19 2015 No.2778917 >>2778914 The screen of a Panel De Pon game is that game's universe. Every choice you make in it affects the world of it. What you're actually talking about is setting and theme.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:14:52 2015 No.2778923 >>2765887 baka desu senpai

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:17:39 2015 No.2778931 >>2778775 Hey, original guy you responded to here. You'll never believe this, but I know sexbad personally. Funny guy. And, come on, ALL handles are cringe-worthy, even if you pretend they're ironic.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:21:15 2015 No.2778939 >>2778838 Eh, it's a shitty phone pic, anon. Slip of etiquette, I know.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:25:47 2015 No.2778947

Ah, the good old "what defines a RPG" debate.

Really, the problem is that video game genres as a whole are not very good, and only describe one or two mechanics within the game. You can have two games in the same genre that are entirely different.

Video game genres generally don't take into account setting, themes, or pretty much anything aside from some mechanical component. And then of course you have JRPG and WRPG, and no one can agree on whether that refers to the geographical location they were made in, or some common thematic element shared in those games. Either way, it's stupid and tells you very little of value.

"action adventure" is probably the worst genre name. You might as well just say "it's a video game".

tl;dr: this argument is completely pointless and never goes anywhere. Everyone is going to have different definitions that are influenced by their own experience.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:29:34 2015 No.2778953 File: 207 KB, 650x617, 1411886940197.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2778947 We got a sane one here, fellas. Douse him with shitposts till he mind breaks.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:35:32 2015 No.2778964

>>2778947
jRPGs and western RPGs are pretty much two unrelated genres. Their names describe that they're both inspired by tabletop RPGs, but they don't have that much in common.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l_rvM6hubs8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8aiEsIW9IM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmkdoz5LjdE

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:36:56 2015 No.2778967

>>2778914
Also let me politely remind you that in your original post here >>2775306 all you say is that RPGs are "choices and consequences (retards from /v/ like to think that this means only "story splitting into X parts, herp derp"), not about imitating Microsoft Excel, old man"

It's only after I pointed out how ridiculously broad that definition is that you then went on about "AMOUNT" of choices here >>2778596 . Until I pointed out that was just as broad and ill defining.

Only now are you insisting (in all caps) that it's the in universe acknowledged choices that are really important.

Like I said earlier, I don't discount that some of the people at RPG Codex have a very good definition of what an RPG is that somehow relates to choices and consequences.

But if they do, you are doing it (and all of them) a great disservice. Describing it so badly that the definition makes almost no sense and pulls under it's umbrella multitudes of games that are by no other definition RPGs. Then you surround it all with the most childish vitriolic insults you can imagine. As well as possibly or possibly not hails to Hitler and claims of personal brilliance.

I don't know or really care anything about RPGCodex, but you personally are a very sad, angry and I'm sorry to say probably stupid person. I'd feel bad for you if you weren't such an asshole.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:40:17 2015 No.2778969

>>2778964
They're very different now, but they were both born out of the same cloth so to speak. JRPGs started as Japanese versions of western RPGs and table top games. Final Fantasy I is almost literally a D&D video game.

They quickly diverged though and are now very different with only a few sort of cross overs. The SaGa games are a little more western in feel and the (non retro) Etrian Odyssey series have a very japanese aesthetic, but more traditionally western dungeon crawler game design.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:45:21 2015 No.2778975

>>2778964
It depends on what aspect of the games you're looking at or deem more important.

If you're just looking at mechanics, most are really not all that different.

If you're looking at setting, theme, etc., there are differences, but there are still games that break the mold.

Demon's Souls and Dark Souls are the games that really have spurred this debate in recent years. They seem to be very much WRPGs, but you do find japanese influences here and there.

So you have some that just say they are a JRPG because it's made in Japan. Then you have some folks that say it's a WRPG that's just made in Japan. The J and W not being indicative of where they were made, but thematic elements.

But then the problem arises from the fact that you're attributing thematic elements to a particular region. This wouldn't be a problem if it weren't for the fact that there are games that are exceptions, that don't fit the typical mold of either JRPG or WRPG.

And then you find thematic elements JRPGs are known for in other genres and elements WRPGs are known for in other genres.

This is why I think making a distinction is completely pointless. They're all RPGs. Add whatever modifiers to that you want. Grimdark shit, weeb shit, etc.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 14:55:24 2015 No.2779001 >>2778947 I agree, and it's not just games. Movies and music are quite similar.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:07:44 2015 No.2779018

>>2778947

action adventure is an action game with exploration + puzzles + (optional) items that give you new abilities.

Metroid, Zelda, and Ecco the Dolphin are action adventure games. It always seemed a very recognizable and clear genre to me.
I guess it could be combined with other genre, you could see Metroid as action adventure-platformer, even Zombies ate my neighbour could be seen as an action adventure-top down shooter.
Nintendo used to say the Metroid Prime games were "first person adventures", not first person shooters.

RPGs are games in which you control one character or a party of characters, who have stats, and they level up these stats by defeating enemies in their adventure.
Ideally there should be randomness in the leveling up (you may have bad luck and your characters stats improve very little after leveling up), and in the success of the attacks (missed attacks, same attack does different ammounts of damage each time you use it, critical hits) but you should have a large degree of freedom and choice when deciding how to level up the characters, as in, classes, attacks they learn, etc.

An rpg doesnt have to be like a choose your own adventure book.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:12:53 2015 No.2779036 >>2778931 >You'll never believe this, but I know sexbad personally. As in, in real life? Did he put his dragon dildo inside you?

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:16:15 2015 No.2779039

>>2779018
The problem is that you can fit in stuff that clearly is not meant to fit depending on how vague you want to be.

Most games have action of some sort, most games have some kind of adventure.

Most people would call Metroid a platformer though. Although now we have the term "metroidvania" which is used to pretty much describe any kind of non-linear platformer.

Plenty of games can fit in your definition of RPGs that aren't RPGs. Every single game, actions are dictated by stats, it's just that in some, the stats are not visible to the player.

And there are also RPGs that are quite deterministic and cut out any kind of random element. The Souls games, for one. There are no dice rolls or randomness at all. You either hit or you don't. The damage you do is the damage you do.

I think you could definitely draw a distinction between RPGs that depend more on a "physical acuity" skillset and those that depend on a "mental acuity" skillset.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:23:06 2015 No.2779060

>>2778967
Man you really are on the leftmost part of the bell curve aren't you?

Since it is impossible for you to understand what "choices and consequences" are , it was necessary to "unpack" it into simpler and simpler terms.

The quality of an RPG is defined by the amount of it's choices and consequences (=a m o u n t), which are not just splitting the rail roads of the story into multiple parts like the game where you cut your finger to find Shaun. Even the shittiest RPGs have more choices and consequences than other genres - like platformers, but since the retard (you) then tried to counter it "b-b-but if I put a goober right or left, that's a choice and consequence too, and you can do lots of stuff like this in Mario!!" (hence implying that it too has the appropriate amount of C&C), we come to the fact that the choices and consequences have to be made and acknowledged in universe, by the Dunegon Master (who is played by the computer), not by some arbitrary game mechanics or the peripherals of the device that is running the game.

To say it in, in the simplest possible way, a computer RPG is defined by THE SAME STANDARDS that a pen and paper roleplaying game is defined == choices and consequences. The more choices you can make that are acknowledged by the DM and rewarded with consequences (both positive and negative), the better the pnp RPG is.

Literally the same fucking thing counts for cRPGs, except a cRPG is limited by the fact that the DM is the computer itself, so it has less potential for acknowledging C&C than a human being due to it's artificial limitations.

Holy fucking shit.

Just one last time, I will try to explain it using fitting examples:

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:27:57 2015 No.2779067
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>>2778964
>Combat systems is the worst part of JRPGs
>Dark Souls and Monster Hunter are western RPGs which happened to be made in the East
>Fallout 3's combat as example of something good.
What the fuck?

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:29:37 2015 No.2779068

>>2779060
Everything you say applies perfectly to roguelikes as well, and if you tried to tell any roguelike fan that they're in the same genre as RPGs they'd burn you at the stake.

Your definition is ridiculous or you're too stupid and overly concerned with cursing to communicate it in a meaningful way. Sorry...

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:31:06 2015 No.2779069

>>2779060
(cont.)

>a good RPG implementation of choices and consequences (that also covers the "but it's not about splitting the rail road" part):
In Planescape: Torment, if you mindlessly kill enough innocents, not only can you face potentially an alternative and technically satisfactory ending to your journey, you also unlock a special weapon in the first half of the game which is pretty much one of the best weapons in the game already, one that is also fittingly meant to be used by the character class that has the easiest time killing countless innocents.

>the simplest example of what RPGs are absolutely not about
"In Oblivion, my character class is a Paladin, so I will only do paladin-like things! Herp derp!!" To quote one of the wisest posters on RPGCodex "I don't give a slightest fuck about make-believe "i-am-a-paladin-so-i-will-only-do-paladinlike-things" bullshit, because there is only my computer and me, and neither of us cares." => the computer doesn't care about your 'paladin-like' behaviour, so when you're doing that, you're not actually roleplaying. At all. At best it could be called LARPing.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:33:12 2015 No.2779071

>>2779067
Monster Hunter is in no way an RPG. It's a loot collecting boss hunting action game. The only things it has in common with typical RPGs is that you have swords and clubs and can collect equipment.

But then some people try to claim Diablo is an RPG. Ultimately this guy is right >>2778947 genre names are largely worthless. They're handy for broadly categorizing things, but not much beyond that. Spending time truing to tightly define them is almost always a futile effort.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:34:05 2015 No.2779073

>>2779068
I am extremely doubtful that it applies to roguelikes in general, but if a roguelike fits those standards, well then tough shit, it is an RPG. Which, by the way, the normies themselves say that roguelikes are - "a subgenre of RPGs".

So I couldn't care less about the autistic roguelike fans you claim to know/represent who would get offended by calling that genre a RPG.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:35:31 2015 No.2779075

>>2779067
Extra Credits like to appear knowledgeable, but they mostly just have surface level shit.

The combat can seem like the worst part of JRPGs if all you know is Final Fantasy or Dragon Quest.

Even then, I feel like some folks take Final Fantasy's overall contributions for granted. The job system and the ATB system were some of the best things to happen in JRPGs.

And really the bigger problem is not the lack of good combat mechanics, but rather poor enemy design. You have potential for a lot of depth and strategy, even in something as old as FF1, but the problem is that enemies are just too easily beaten.

Some games, it almost feels like enemies were made with very little knowledge of the battle system.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:38:49 2015 No.2779080

>>2779069
>the computer doesn't care about your 'paladin-like' behaviour, so when you're doing that, you're not actually roleplaying.

This is actually related to why I like FFII so much. You don't make a mage by selecting "mage" from a menu. You make a mage by having your character act like a mage, and the more they do that the better they get at magic.

Also, not an RPG. But the roguelike Powder has a brilliant deity system whereby all the gods are watching everything they do and they like and dislike certain actions. Casting spells, attacking or not attacking helpless monsters, making noise, eating certain things etc etc. It also leads to a game where to be a good cleric, you really have to act like a good cleric. Quite interesting.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:41:24 2015 No.2779084 The only good RPG ever made is a rocket propelled grenade anyway.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:42:52 2015 No.2779090

>>2779073
I seriously can't tell if you mean what you're saying or just spewing random nonsense. Rougelikes and RPGs were born from the same roots as computer versions of table top games. But they've diverged significantly such that they're distinctly different genres that no normal person would confuse.

To lump them in with RPGs would be pointless. They have different genre names because they're fundamentally very different. That they involve choices that lead to consequences is obvious. They're games.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:45:48 2015 No.2779096

>>2779090
>that no normal person would confuse.
Again, let me re-iterate - the normie encyclopaedia itself says that roguelikes are a sub-genre of RPGs. Just because it says that doesn't make it true, of course, but it shows that the majority of people seems to be content with calling rogue-like a sub-genre of RPGs.

You're the one who's spewing random nonsense here, family senpai.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:51:21 2015 No.2779108

>>2779096
They're obviously related genres, but that's like calling beat 'em ups a sub genre of fighters. One could probably make that argument, but it would be pointless. The reason for genre names is to give a general idea of what a game is like. Roguelikes and RPGs developed out of the same roots but are very, very different games. So labeling them both as RPGs isn't just pointless, it's deliberately confusing.

Which is why no one, anywhere calls them Rogue-RPGs or roguelikerpgs or anything like that. They call them roguelikes because it's the word that denotes that specific type of game.

Serious question, are you over the age of 20? Because this really feels like I'm trying to have a conversation with a 15 year old.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 15:59:05 2015 No.2779114

What kills jRPG's for me mostly: really long and non-interactive custcenes and stupidly high random encounter rates.
The first means I don't interact with a game for a long time and it makes a clear line between game time and "let's watch a shitty movie" time.
The seconds means I get to repeat the same motions over and over again just to get somewhere. I like exploring the game environment and making me go through half a dozen random encounters just to see what's down that corridor or enjoy a view (mostly in 3D games tho) is extremely unsatisfying.
Ultimately, it's all just unnecessary padding.

And the latter seems to tie into this
>>2779075
>And really the bigger problem is not the lack of good combat mechanics, but rather poor enemy design. You have potential for a lot of depth and strategy, even in something as old as FF1, but the problem is that enemies are just too easily beaten.
Usually there's some kind of weakness or critical hit system. Usually your enemies are just single targets (as in you target it or don't, there's no location damage). Usually it's very easy to break that system after you played a bit and your game sessions ends up looking at this
>random encounter triggers -> intro animation -> hopefully you attack first -> select critical strike -> select critical strike -> select critical strike -> wait for animations to finish -> if you're unlucky the enemy isn't dead -> wait for each separate enemy animation to finish -> repeat your turn -> if enemy dead then wait for outro animation and the loot/xp screen
walk around for a couple of minutes and repeat because another random battle triggered
fuck
that
noise
Space out the battles, make enemies more unique, give enemies more tools, etc. Of course this requires significantly more dev time, it's much easier to make the enemy AI always just go for the jugular and then tell it to pick a weaker attack at easier difficulties or to make randomized encounter triggers instead of hand placing them on the map.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 16:39:29 2015 No.2779157

>>2779039

For me Metroidvania is just a "kind" term for Metroid clone. Like calling Crusader of Centry "Zeltry" instead of just Zelda clone.

Most games have some sort of action or adventure, but most would be be very recognizable first as action platformers, or beat em ups, or run and gun games, or first person shooters, before being seen as action adventure games.

I never played the souls games, but to me you arent role playing if you control your character directly, completely and perfectly, there should always be some degree of randomness representing the throwing the dice of role playing games.

Anonymous Thu Nov 5 16:54:08 2015 No.2779178

>>2779114
Basically it's "use whatever your best attack is". Which unfortunately a lot of games boil down to.

>>2779157
>I never played the souls games, but to me you arent role playing if you control your character directly, completely and perfectly, there should always be some degree of randomness representing the throwing the dice of role playing games.

And this shows that there are people that just want and expect different things from RPGs.

For me, there's really no reason why video games should adhere to dice rolls. Pen and paper RPGs do so because that's pretty much the only way of doing things. I really don't think folks meant for the dice to be some inherent special aspect of RPGs. It's just a tool.

I'm not saying dice rolls are outdated or anything, I'm just saying video games are capable of doing something that can't be done in a pnp RPG, so I think it makes sense that some folks would really like that.

>>	Anonymous Thu Nov 5 20:09:52 2015 No.2779417 There's an assload of bad JRPGs out there, but the good ones are really satisfying. Even poorly balanced ones, like Phantasy Star on SMS.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 04:02:42 2015 No.2780090 I like RPGCodex but I have no idea what the heck happened in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 04:29:11 2015 No.2780119 >>2765887 That's what I like about them. Time feels slow once you get into the rhythm of one and after what feels like a thousand battles you look at the clock and barely an hour has passed. It's nice and breaks you away from reality.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 04:51:42 2015 No.2780130

>>2780090

~~~DRAGO FIREHEART~~~ is attempting to show us what a erudite game sage and utter pussy-slayer he is by acting like a complete knob to virtually everyone in the thread. He's also quite keen that everyone should know he belongs to some gay-ass forum filled with people who probably look and sound like Mort Goldman from Family Guy.

That about bring you up to speed? ;)

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 08:54:22 2015 No.2780327 Long time RPGCodex member here. Never heard of this Drago guy, but I apologize for his autism.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 09:31:42 2015 No.2780360

>>2780090
>>2780327
He's a false flagger that lurks around here and shits up threads, anons on /vr/ are either senile so they don't remember him or downright retarded so they actually respond to him or worse, they're dumb senile idiots who get all buttflustered about a guy who's evidently baiting and pick his bait every time.

Now stop replying to this cancerous thread.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 09:47:09 2015 No.2780379

>>2780327
>Long time RPGCodex member here. Never heard of this Drago guy,

Bullshit. There's no way you don't know him if you're a "long time RPGCodex member".
http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/index.php?members/dragofireheart.8273/

I'm guessing you're one of the 'long time' members who registered after September 2014.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 09:49:05 2015 No.2780382

>>2780130
>>2780327
>>2780360
I'd barely heard of RPGCodex before this thread. I know the name but have never been there. It was pretty funny though that the guy claiming to be from there and describing it as the premiere place of erudite discussion of RPGs on the internet would both act like a complete dipshit and put forth the most ridiculous definition of RPGs ever.

It was just too fun not to keep shutting him down and see what idiotic thing he'd say next. I'd feel bad for letting the thread go to shit, but it was bait from OP so whatever.

Question for >>2780327 though, are these real pulls from the forum? >>2779069 I don't discount that I'm sure there are some cool people there who get into good conversations, but the second part is pretty cringe worthy.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 09:51:09 2015 No.2780387

>>2780382
>Question for >>2780327 though
Yeah, ask the false flagger who pretends to be from RPGCodex instead of literally fucking google the quote which is explicitly taken from the signature of another RPGCodex member.

I'm guessing you are replying to yourself there.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 09:59:08 2015 No.2780401

>>2780382
Nope, all the things they said are lies. RPGCodex is a very friendly and welcoming place. Our number one priority is diversity in our userbase and posts, so lately we've been searching for more PoC to register on our forums. Our administration consists of 1 male, 1 female, 2 transwomen and a Jewish person to reflect our desires. All posts made by male posters have to be reviewed by the administration before they're approved in order to protect our safe spaces.

I'm really sorry for the misrepresentation of RPGCodex that you got in this thread!

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:00:36 2015 No.2780403 >>2780387 lol Am I replying to myself now? I don't care that much, I was just asking out of curiosity. Sorry if it offended you.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:01:49 2015 No.2780406 >>2780401 Cool. Enjoy your forum then. :)

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:02:58 2015 No.2780408 >>2780382 I'm >>2780327. I don't know, man, I've just been a lurker there for years and years. I'm not some sperg elitist, I just like rpgs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:04:18 2015 No.2780412 >>2780408 Yeah, sure you are. Do you even know who's the main administrator, you fucker?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:05:47 2015 No.2780415 >>2780401 Ohh and I'll probably get scolded for asking instead of googling, but is one of the transwomen formerly Shidoshi of Gamefan, now Mollipen? I know she transitioned recently and is big into JRPGs, being one of the head translators of Suiko 2

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:08:34 2015 No.2780423 >>2780379 Dude, a lot of people there are fucking retards. I don't memorize people's IDs because I don't give a shit. Been there since like 2005.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:10:15 2015 No.2780424 >>2780412 Nope, I don't know or care. I think you guys take internet celebrity way too far.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:13:05 2015 No.2780426 >>2780424 >internet celebrity Are you serious, you pathetic troll? It's saying you're "a long time 4chan lurker" and then not knowing who "moot" is.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:14:07 2015 No.2780428 >>2780415 No, but nice to see you pull out your 'internet celebrities'.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:18:29 2015 No.2780435

>>2780428
It's not so much an internet thing. I was a huge fan of gamefan when it was around and three of the editors do a podcast now which I enjoy. So it seemed like a fair guess.

Ironically I tried playing Suikoden 2 after hearing it was largely translated by two of them, and found it's translation really terrible to the point I couldn't bring myself to keep playing.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:21:34 2015 No.2780438 >>2780435 From what I hear, Suikoden 2 was not half as great as it should have been with a competent localization.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:27:16 2015 No.2780440

>>2780438
>>2780438
The first one didn't impress me much which is why I put 2 off for so long. If everything else was great I may have stuck with it, but it wasn't so I didn't. I'm super picky about RPGs by this point though, having played so many over the years it now takes one doing something really great or special to keep my interest long enough.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:27:50 2015 No.2780442
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>>2768172
>he had to grind to get through FF6 and PS4.

Jesus H Christ son, this isn't how you come out to people as a pleb. At least mention a game where some grinding is required, like Dragon Warrior 1.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 10:56:50 2015 No.2780480 >>2780426 Calm down, man. You're getting way too upset about some random fuck being a longtime member of your secret club. And who's moot?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 11:00:20 2015 No.2780489 >>2780480 Worst 'troll' of the month.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 11:02:53 2015 No.2780495 >>2780480 You've never heard of Moot? He was the founder of ebaum's world before it went through the name change and became reddit. How does anyone on the internet for more than 5 minutes not fucking know this?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 11:04:29 2015 No.2780496 >>2780489 Obviously the "who's moot" comment is in jest. God you social spergs are hard to connect with.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 11:50:40 2015 No.2780557 >>2774481 suikoden

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 12:30:22 2015 No.2780603

>>2779178

You see that the Souls games arent much of an rpg, when many of its fans say they are/were former Zelda fans, and that Souls games are "Zelda for adults".
Zelda was never an rpg, except perhaps 2 on NES.
Souls games are pretty much action games.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 13:16:18 2015 No.2780656 >>2780603 Almost everyone refers to Zelda as action adventure. I thought the Soul series games were more metroidvania style, at least from what I've heard.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 13:38:09 2015 No.2780687

>>2771921
Go show me your zero death run of a SMT game, anon. I'm sure it'll be easy for you, you don't even need to read a strategy guide, promise :^)
Stop acting like you know what you're fucking talking about because you played Pokemon and Paper Mario, kid.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 13:44:34 2015 No.2780696 >>2780687 Don't you know, anon? Every single jrpg in existence is press x to win and all the cutscenes run about three hours.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 14:01:34 2015 No.2780718 I just installed Septerra Core because of this thread and the sound is tearing during videos what am I supposed to do? >>2780696

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 14:31:01 2015 No.2780742 >>2778628 I have never met a legit troll before. Most of the time, I just assume people have different opinions. But there is no way that you can say all of this stuff and actually mean it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 14:45:20 2015 No.2780751 >b young thug. Didn't get into jrpgs at their peak. >b old thug. Into most genres of video games except jrpgs because of this reason.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 15:16:05 2015 No.2780780 >Anon just now realized that JRPG's are garbage You're kinda slow, ain't ya?

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 16:08:20 2015 No.2780842

>>2775074

It's easy to spot people who didn't grow up during the pre-internet era. Cheat codes certainly weren't readily available games for because they're not included in the original packaging of the games when you bought them. Unless you purchased strategy guides, called tip hotlines, or had friends who knew these cheats, there's no way of knowing these built-in cheats or that these games had cheats to begin with.

Most RPGs, at least the ones I've played, I finished them within 30 to 40 hours, which is pretty much the average. In every one of them, I always spend some time grinding in every new area before proceeding forward. It's impossible to advance without grinding at least a little in each area. The only reasons I would spend more time than I normally do to finish a RPG were because I didn't have access to many games and/or I enjoyed that particular game.

What are your definitions of grinding and playing RPGs "correctly"? Do you read GameFaqs or whatever's your source for game info before playing RPGs? Do you follow "formulas" for character creation and combat? I don't see how playing a RPG efficiently using meta knowledge gleaned from external sources (rather through your own efforts) makes you a better player than a "pleb" who plays a game using default strategies.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 16:31:32 2015 No.2780869

>>2780842
>Unless you purchased strategy guides, called tip hotlines, or had friends who knew these cheats, there's no way of knowing these built-in cheats or that these games had cheats to begin with.
Good job answering your own question.
>I always spend some time grinding in every new area before proceeding forward. It's impossible to advance without grinding at least a little in each area.
You mean you actively walk around for the sole purpose of triggering random encounters when you could get everything you need just by exploring a dungeon and going where you need to go? That's your own problem, you simply need to not run away from battles to be up to the challenge, if you can't progress with the tools you have a the moment then you're either playing Wizardry or you're playing it wrong.
>What are your definitions of grinding and playing RPGs "correctly"?
Grinding is fighting for the sake of getting exp. money or whatever you need, grinding is basically fighting battles that are not triggered by any other purpose than naturally exploring or completing a questline, there's some extremely obnoxious people that would argue that doing sidequests is grinding too but I'm not one of those and I think it's pointless bullshit.
Playing a game correctly is when you don't need to grind to complete the game, simple as that.
>Do you read GameFaqs or whatever's your source for game info before playing RPGs?
That would defeat the purpose of playing a game in the first place, like, watching a let's play of Monkey Island or Sonic before playing the game.
>Do you follow "formulas" for character creation and combat?
Not really, unless a game strictly adheres to those, I rather prefer to experiment and do things my way.
> I don't see how playing a RPG efficiently using meta knowledge gleaned from external sources
That's what you fail to understand, playing a RPG effectively is exactly NOT using external sources, it's figuring out things on your own.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 16:41:57 2015 No.2780883

>>2780869
>You mean you actively walk around for the sole purpose of triggering random encounters when you could get everything you need just by exploring a dungeon and going where you need to go? That's your own problem, you simply need to not run away from battles to be up to the challenge, if you can't progress with the tools you have a the moment then you're either playing Wizardry or you're playing it wrong.
>I played one fucking RPG in my entire life so I think I'm a pro on the subject.
Shut the fuck up you stupid elitist prick. I'm not the anon you replied to but, for fuck's sake, there's tons of RPG's where some amount of grinding is expected.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 17:02:46 2015 No.2780907 >>2780883 And a massive amount of them people complete on low-level/no leveling runs for shits and giggles. Final Fantasy X comes to mind.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 17:31:38 2015 No.2780940 >>2780883 >>I played one fucking RPG in my entire life so I think I'm a pro on the subject. I played much more RPGs than you ever will son, that's precisely why I'm saying that grinding is unneeded and the first sign of scrubs.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 17:41:27 2015 No.2780953 Patience is a skill you don't have.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 19:36:45 2015 No.2781108 >>2780953 This. You have to be patient to get the most wisdom out of Codexers. Pearls before swine in this thread.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 19:55:58 2015 No.2781138 >>2765887 poor dude xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD Kentuchy Route Zero >> Chrono Trigger >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> All videogames this Anon No.2765887 love

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:03:43 2015 No.2781150 >>2766191 >le edgy screamer

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:09:31 2015 No.2781153 File: 444 KB, 456x642, PS_GCN_PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor_enGB.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2766191 Well, I mean... there's the fact that it's intended for ages 3 and up...

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:16:14 2015 No.2781160 >>2781138 Bet this is the guy who was arguing against the Codex all along in this thread. You can see it easily because he uses emojis.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:19:52 2015 No.2781163 >>2781153 that is about offensive content I think. There are a shitload of colourful games with no offensive or mature content at all that are much harder than the average RPG, like the first Rayman or PLOK! Not that Paper Mario is hard btw.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:38:53 2015 No.2781183
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what exactly its an action rpg?
i see people comparing games like terranigma and fucking mario rpg, what the heck.

and more importantly, why is zelda always out of this? its because the shitty story?

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:41:21 2015 No.2781189 File: 68 KB, 350x333, 1312624084210.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2766463 >FF13 is one of the hardest FF games out there

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:51:40 2015 No.2781206

>>2781183
"Action RPG" is a term that should never have been coined. Basically it's a game that has RPG elements like EXP, Leveling Up, equipping different weapons, etc, but is not a Turn based, Menu based, combat system.

Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, etc is basically a "Mario Party Combat" RPG, if you ask me.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 20:52:42 2015 No.2781208 >>2781189 When you say "one of" you can basically say, "in the set of all games that aren't Final Fantasy Mystic Quest" and it's certainly one of the hardest ff games.

Anonymous Fri Nov 6 21:21:48 2015 No.2781243

>>2780940
Nah, it's obvious you haven't played that many for you to say no RPG ever requires grinding. Either that or you have a very flexible definition of grinding.

>Can't beat the boss?
>Go "explore" some more or "farm money" to buy more items and gear or "go look for secret areas"

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 21:30:19 2015 No.2781253 File: 21 KB, 657x438, thief.gif [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2781189 imagine if this guy plays Wizadry IV https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jn2L4AAkh68 FF 13 ONE OF THE HARDEST GAMESSS HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAhaahsnaxjc

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 21:43:56 2015 No.2781262 I'm actually gutting a SNES (broken - I'm not a monster) to repurpose as a case for my PI for the express purpose of playing RPGs. Your tastes have changed, mine have not.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 21:47:25 2015 No.2781268 >>2781262 Mine haven't either. I didn't like JRPGs back when they started becoming a thing even on the NES (DQ and FF). Ultima, Wizardry, Gold Box games, etc were VASTLY superior. JRPGs are oversimplistic bullshit.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 21:51:06 2015 No.2781273 >>2781268 I'm including JRPG and Western RPGs in that....

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:07:54 2015 No.2781297 >>2781183 Zelda (except 2 on NES) doesnt have a single rpg element, it is an action adventure game like Ecco the Dolphin or Metroid. Game with towns and npcs that give you tips doesnt mean rpg.

>>	Anonymous Fri Nov 6 22:10:57 2015 No.2781303 File: 179 KB, 660x590, GAMESAREART.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] i love Chrono Trigger and Ultima IV , both are really GREAT games. I LOVE JRPGS AND CRPGS

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 04:24:08 2015 No.2781646 >>2781303 >I LOVE JRPGS AND CRPGS I like you, anon.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 05:37:22 2015 No.2781702

>>2781243
You're the one who's having problem with bosses, not me.

And again, I still played more RPGs than you, you just suck at those.
And you know why this is true? Because you cling to exploring being grinding.
RPGs where made for exploration, that exploration was the first factor that prevented grinding because you obviously wanted to know whether there were secrets or cool places to see in Dragon Warrior, you needed to explore the maps in Wizardry to find stairs or events that would allow you to get keys or go further down in the dungeons, and because of that you would fight random encounters which would naturally make you gain levels, money or loot.
The fact that you disregard exploring is exactly the pitiful excuse of those who follow guides because they don't have the patience to explore and find things on their own, so they have everything pointed out to them, do not play the game as it's supposed to be played and then whine about needing to grind, or worse, you actually run away from random encounters while exploring.

And you know what's even worse? There are even games that downright block grinding, like Shadow Tower, Front Mission 2 or Valkyrie Profile, because the amount of enemies and loot is finite, so you can't grind, and if you do have trouble with those that's entirely your own fault for not knowing how to play the game.
There are games with fixed stats like Romancing SaGa 2 or 3 that makes the enemies tougher the more fights you get in or simply by having high HPs, so the only thing you can grind is weapon proficiencies(which do not grow nearly as fast as your Battle Rank or HP) and money, which is next ot worthless in SaGa because the loot you find by exploring is way better than 90% of the stuff you can buy.
There are games like Dark Law where you can lose stats permanently and enemies not only gets tougher by completing more quests, but disappear once you get to a certain level so you can only fight enemies that are much stronger than you.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 06:54:52 2015 No.2781759 >>2781646 I hope this is a samefag. >two people dumb enough to think that JRPGs cannot be CRPGs

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 13:45:56 2015 No.2782271 >>2781759 Of course JRPGS can be made for computer, or be made with a more western influence. But the JRPG is a distinctly different genre from the W/CRPG. They came out of the same roots and are still related, but not the same thing.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 14:31:52 2015 No.2782352
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I think Final Fantasy IV was the birth of what we now call JRPGs. In the start Japanese RPGs were essentially copies of western style RPGs and tabletop games. Final Fantasy in particular is heavily based on Dungeons and Dragons P&P rules and combat mechanics. A lot of it's monsters and their likenesses are even taken straight from the Monster Manual.

FF's 2 and 3 continued a similar tradition of a game based around party building and world exploration. The focus was on mechanics and character leveling strategy. They do well enough, but not amazingly.

Then Final Fantasy IV comes along. It drops all the need for strategy or planning in party building. The game is pre-optimized to give you the right classes and abilities you will need to make it through the game.

Instead of combat and leveling strategy, the focus is instead on the story and characters. It was advertised like shown here as "the RPG for everyone." It's still part of the RPG genre and in the Final Fantasy line of games. But it's also fundamentally different. It's a story centric game rather than a stat building one. A blend between a western style RPG game and a visual novel, which is a distinctly Japanese genre.

Then the important part to all this was that Final Fantasy IV was an instant mega hit. One of the best reviewed games of all time and every other JRPG since took notes from it.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 14:46:00 2015 No.2782373 >>2782352 It's notable that your picture is for the Easy version of FFIV, though.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 14:48:00 2015 No.2782375 >>2781702 That guy got wrecked.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 14:57:50 2015 No.2782396

>>2782352
>It drops all the need for strategy or planning in party building. The game is pre-optimized to give you the right classes and abilities you will need to make it through the game.
>every other JRPG since took notes from it.
Like FFV?
>A blend between a western style RPG game and a visual novel which is a distinctly Japanese genre.
Like Fallout?

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:13:21 2015 No.2782509

>>2782352
It's still worth mentioning though that there are JRPGs that are not like that, and do put an importance on stat building and battle tactics.

Wizardry was quite popular in Japan, and it spawned a whole bunch of other stuff. The SMT series, for one. They may be comparatively fewer games like this, but I think there's enough where you can't just have blanket statements like "all JRPGs focus on story and have rudimentary gameplay".

FFIV definitely set a precedent, but I feel like among most FF games, it's one that people don't go back to often because there's very little variety and the story is pretty generic.

Plenty of JRPGs took notes from it, but they definitely improved upon it. There are plenty of "story focused" JRPGs that give you at least some level of customization and require some kind of strategy during battles.

I think some games really tried to have both. What WRPGs benefit from is that a lot of developers are happy to use DnD rulesets, which has the benefit of years and years of refinements. Whereas I think Japanese developers would feel that using some battle system that's already there is not very original.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:29:17 2015 No.2782530 >>2781759 crpgs and jrpgs, they are two completely different genres. ''c''rpg and ''j''rpg , they are only the names of his origin. for example , Undertale not is a japanese game and is a jrpg like mother

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 16:48:24 2015 No.2782550 >>2782530 This, so much. This random anon's definitions of what xRPG is is much better than common sense / what everyone else uses the definitions as.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 18:23:42 2015 No.2782668

>>2781702

Now, you're back backpedaling. You claimed that no RPG ever requires grinding, then you said you still played more RPGs than me when I mentioned RPGs that require grinding do exist. You basically proved my point by providing examples of RPGs where grinding is prevented or discouraged. These games are actually designed to be challenging unlike games that allow grinding like Mother, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, FF6, DQ, Langrisser, etc. Just because you deliberately make them difficult by going through speedruns and playing with bad gear doesn't elevate them above casual games. What's the point of experimenting (not that there's much to experiment with) when you discover the fastest and most efficient way to power up in these games is to grind?

I never said that I opposed exploration. I actually like it very much myself. You're making a strawman. I was just making an argument that exploration is functionally the same as grinding. As much as I like exploring though, I realized that in many JRPGs, exploration is mostly pointless. There's a lot of large areas and mazes, but most lead to dead ends, empty areas, or treasure chests filled with crap or items of little use. Powerful items generally don't appear until later in the games. But, by that time you're already powerful, making those items redundant for your purposes. Take FF6, for example, towards the end, you get to explore a lot of areas for items, but so what, you can just go to Kefta's tower and kill him by having everyone cast Ultima. Unlike you, I don't need to do mental gymnastics and lie to myself that JRPGs are meant for exploration. The fact is the majority of JRPGs are highly linear and have minimal exploration as evident by the fact of empty, pointless areas being the norm. Why do you think you're a better player than "scrubs" when in the end you still have to reach minimal level/stat requirements before being able to progress to new areas? What the hell is "gaining levels naturally"?

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 19:09:36 2015 No.2782751

>>2782668
>What's the point of experimenting (not that there's much to experiment with) when you discover the fastest and most efficient way to power up in these games is to grind?
To not being a drooling grinding retard who uses a loophole left for 6 year old kids?

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 19:12:18 2015 No.2782760

>>2782668
>when you discover the fastest and most efficient way to power up in these games is to grind?
>The most efficient way to power up is literally fighting for hours when you could simply get as strong as needed by playing the game normally.
>I was just making an argument that exploration is functionally the same as grinding.

Jesus christ, stop embarassing yourself.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 19:33:38 2015 No.2782798 >>2782760 That's what you get for arguing with the guy who hates on RPGCodex (probably).

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 19:44:07 2015 No.2782813 >>2782668 Every game is linear if you boil it down enough and exclude any kind of optional content.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 19:52:21 2015 No.2782824

>>2782751
To be fair, in a properly balanced game, there really shouldn't be a strategy that can be used to just make the game piss easy.

Particularly in RPGs where you have to maintain your HP, MP, and anything else, people are going to be looking for the most cost-effective way to deal with each problem.

And then you add that most random battles in RPGs are pretty uneventful, so of course people are going to want to be done with it as quick as possible. Who wants to spend multiple turns dealing with some shit goblins or whatever?

Ideally, you should HAVE to use good strategy in order to avoid death. This is why some RPGs are sometimes incorrectly called difficult, because the game actually expects you to formulate strategies beyond "spam your best attack".

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 20:37:43 2015 No.2782901

>>2782751
>>2782760

How is it even a loop hole when it's a main feature of the majority of these games? Is anything that doesn't make the game artificially difficult for you a loop hole? Most JRPGs were made for kids, and you expect a deep game play style? You're just applying personalized standards for playing these games that you made up completely in your heads due your rabid fanboyism.

I don't know how I'm embarrassing myself when I'm merely pointing out a workable strategy. The fact that gamers like you want to take the "high road" by insisting that these games could only be played "properly" in your unique, personalized way while scoffing at other viable play styles leads me to believe the main issue with you guys isn't about the game play at all, but about vigorously defending the genre against the casual stigma at all costs because you guys hold these games in high esteem. Fact is JRPGs don't hold a candle in terms of difficulty against other genres like space shooters. But you refuse to acknowledge this fact and imply that JRPGs are no easier that other genres.

>>2782798

RPGCodex was created in 2007. I haven't peruse its contents in detail, but regardless of whatever opinions that are held by people there, it's illogical to apply their standards and opinions retroactively to gamers who played retro rpgs at the time they came out, which is prior to the creation of the site. Is this the site where you got brainwashed on the "proper" way in which to play RPGs?

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 21:07:44 2015 No.2782946 >>2782901 >RPGCodex was created in 2007. No? It's been around since 2002.

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 21:14:06 2015 No.2782957 You guys are still going at it hammer-and-tongs. Jesus...

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:17:33 2015 No.2783128 is this really what we all got out of bed this morning for to be elitist about video games of all things why are we even still playing them

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:20:35 2015 No.2783132 >>2783128 They're fun

>>	Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:25:40 2015 No.2783139 >>2783128 >got out of bed this morning >not having existential crises from the comfort of your warm blankets lmao git gud

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:41:59 2015 No.2783159

>>2782396
FFV which was easier than III and then was less popular again than IV. Cementing the direction the series would take going forward.

Fallout is an exception, visual novels are largely a Japanese genre. JRPGs really a blend of C/WRPGs and visual novels.

>>2782509
Certainly there are more and less extreme examples, but I think it's the overall trend that's important.

>>2782373
But that it had an easy version is a good point. It was the game made to be beatable by anyone. Even the "hard" version takes all the strategy and guesswork from the previous games out. It makes sure at every point you always have the right party with the right spells and gear to beat what the game has in store for you. The only thing the player can possibly mess up is not having leveled enough if they're genuinely bad at it.

Anonymous Sat Nov 7 23:58:17 2015 No.2783185

>>2783159
I don't think the overall trend is styled after FFIV. You are right, FFIV takes a lot of challenge away from the player by making it so you have no choice in who your party is.

Not every JRPG is like that. In fact, I think that's probably the only JRPG I've played where your party is chosen for you and there is no character customization. Most will either let you have customization, the ability to choose from a variety of characters, or both.

Just look at how quickly the problem was fixed. The very next game saw the return of the job system, and ever since FFIV, there's never been a FF that has been quite so rigid.

This is why I think it's so hard to go back to IV, as it offers little to no replay value. Although III is hard to go back to as well, since V massively improved the job system.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:04:47 2015 No.2783196

>>2783185
>>2783185
I think IV is where there was a tipping point though, between games about leveling and party building and ones more about story. While more mechanical JRPGs did get made, almost all of the ones made after FFIV are easier than the ones before.

There are exceptions of course and certain JRPG series that feel more western. Pokemon ironically has always had a more western feel and Etrian Odyssey definitely does.

Also we may find it hard to go back to IV, but it's still seen as a beloved classic in Japan.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 00:10:57 2015 No.2783208

>>2782668
>What's the point of experimenting (not that there's much to experiment with) when you discover the fastest and most efficient way to power up in these games is to grind?

Not the guy you're talking to, but in my opinion it's because the fastest way through isn't necessarily the most fun.

The fastest way through FFI is all fighters, but it's also the most boring. The fastest way through FFII is to hit your own party members for an hour and then steamroll the game. But doing that completely ruins it. The fun of a game isn't necessarily just beating it in the fastest time possible, it can be in simply enjoying and playing with the systems it has.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 01:12:36 2015 No.2783292

>>2783196
>almost all of the ones made after FFIV are easier than the ones before.

There are more challenging JRPGs that came out after just from the fact that there are significantly more JRPGs that existed after.

I'm really curious what JRPGs you've played, because most of the older ones (let's say pre-FFIV) I've played were completely brain dead.

Also, there are more ways of having challenging gameplay than just party building and stat management.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:09:51 2015 No.2783548
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>>2782901
>when I'm merely pointing out a workable strategy.
What's workable about a strategy that requires you to play more hours of gameplay than an actually intelligent one because you're too dumb to figure out which tools you need to use?
> but about vigorously defending the genre against the casual stigma at all costs because you guys hold these games in high esteem
No you dumb motherfucker, it's people like you that insist on saying that the genre is for casual while making points only a braindead retard would do.
> Fact is JRPGs don't hold a candle in terms of difficulty against other genres like space shooters.
Oh please, here come the SHMUPfag, you've already proven to have the mental elasticity of a peanut since for you getting to the bathroom properly is again, banging your head on the door for hours since it breaks instead of searching for the key.
Your precious games of memorization are literally based on what the vast majority of games except puzzle games is, memorizing stages, don't act like there's some deep strategy about games that were designed to make you waste as much quarters as possible because of deliberate bullshit, you wanna stroke your ego about the difficulty of your genre? Be my guest, you're only making yourself look like a complete asshole.

But since you've begging so hard for a complete smackdown I guess I'll reply seriously to your previous post this time to make sure you'll understand how bloody retarded, pretentious and ignorant you are.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:11:21 2015 No.2783549
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>>2783548

>You claimed that no RPG ever requires grinding, then you said you still played more RPGs than me when I mentioned RPGs that require grinding do exist.
Mentioning games where grinding isn't required doesn't even invalidate my previous point by the virtue of them existing, if anything it even reinforces it since you are the one who said that RPGs are all about grinding and "reading a guide will never let you get a game over", but when poeple mention that there's lots of game where grinding isn't even materially possible it's backpedaling. Ok then, Why don't we talk about all those garbage shmups like Raptor that don't require any effort at all because of how fucking easy they are? Or are you going to tell me that "real players" play for the score or something? Because playing for the score in shmups can be very well compared to making a speedrun in a RPG.
>These games are actually designed to be challenging unlike games that allow grinding like Mother, Chrono Trigger, Secret of Mana, FF6, DQ, Langrisser
So what? Are you going to tell me that all SHMUPs or action games are designed to be challenging? Are you denying that the vast majority of games in EVERY GENRE isn't designed to appeal to the masses and so very easy to play and get into? Like, Crash Bandicoot 3, Magical Pop'n or Bonk are really made for elitist hardcore action players such as yourself, right?
> Just because you deliberately make them difficult by going through speedruns and playing with bad gear doesn't elevate them above casual games.
Speedruns are the exactly complete opposite of that you motherfucking idiot, how do you think anyone's going to speedrun a game of maths by using additions instead of multiplications? How the fuck are you even getting that idea? Did you even watch any RPG speedrun? They all revolve about getting the BEST possible functional gear available as fast as possible.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:12:50 2015 No.2783552
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>>2783549
>I was just making an argument that exploration is functionally the same as grinding.
Oh, right, so let me ask you, why make exploration at all when you can just make a long corridor with random encounters along the way of your checkpoints like any other sidescroller? It's not like one of the staples of RPGs is the possibility of being rewarded by exploring, it can't possibly be that entire RPGs subgenres like roguelikes are based around that?
I mean, why the fuck would they even put optional dungeons or secrets that allow you to get good stuff quickly and easily when you can just grind for 10 hours to get the same results, amirite?
>I realized that in many JRPGs, exploration is mostly pointless. There's a lot of large areas and mazes, but most lead to dead ends, empty areas, or treasure chests filled with crap or items of little use.
>You know, I realized that in many SHMUPs, going for the score is mostly pointless, there's alot of enemies placements that will get you shot down 90% of the times or give you a bad placement that will most likely screw you over for something that isn't even required to finish the game.
Are you dumb, motherfucker? Do you know what a labyrinth is made for? Do you complain about Sexy Parodius having dead ends in the tunnels during the second stage in the public baths too? You're whining about the game's not giving you what you want on a silver plate because you literally find exploration to be not fun, exploring doesn't mean having loot everywhere you bumbling autistic fuck, especially in dungeons.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:14:31 2015 No.2783553
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>>2783552
>Powerful items generally don't appear until later in the games. But, by that time you're already powerful, making those items redundant for your purposes.
Wait, you're telling me that you should have access to endgame stuff right off the bat(which you can anyway, see SaGa Frontier), in a genre that's basically maths disguised by cool pixels? Those things are "redundant" for two simple motives:
You grind like a retard for hours so by the time you get those of course they're next to useless, too bad you could have spent those 10 hours of grinding doing something else with your life and when you did get those things they should actually had more than a purpose since they're literally those 10 extra hours you just wasted instead of using your brain.
Next point is exactly a counterpoint to this:
>Take FF6, for example, towards the end, you get to explore a lot of areas for items, but so what, you can just go to Kefta's tower and kill him by having everyone cast Ultima.
Why should I grind Ultima when I can just get a Genji Glove, Offering, some Fixed dice or another good weapon from a certain few chests and just use those abilities that are embedded on items and don't require any battle to develop?
Are you telling me your way is the only way to beat Kefka easily? Is it smarter for you to grind for Ultima when you can simply explore a few dungeons and get items that grant you abilities right off the bat? Oh right, you're already too powerful for those.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:16:19 2015 No.2783554
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>>2783553
>Unlike you, I don't need to do mental gymnastics and lie to myself that JRPGs are meant for exploration.
What mental gymnastic? Denying that games that were born out of desire for adventure and exploration is mental gymnastic, denying that games whose staple and archetype is going through dark, moist dungeons to fight monsters and getting loot is mental gymnastic, denying that games who struggled to create huge worlds for you to explore is mental gymnastic.
Why bother making Daggerfall when you can just make a gauntlet of battles followed by an intermission screen?
Why bother making huge dungeons in Diablo with a lot of dead ends and traps?
Why bother making large worlds in today's MMOs at all? I mean, who wants that right? It's not like RPGs were created with exploration in mind, all of these surely prove the contrary.
>The fact is the majority of JRPGs are highly linear and have minimal exploration as evident by the fact of empty, pointless areas being the norm.
The majority of sidescrollers is press right to win, the majority means nothing because it's made to make money and appeal to the biggest audience possible, and no, don't tell me SHMUPs were magically different because they're not, there's lots of garbage titles there too like in every genre with Cho Aniki being possibly the most famous one, the only difference is that it's a genre that only a handful of autists like yourself liked to the death and so they made less games to begin with because no sane person wanted to spend hours memorizing paths and playing for the score to brag about it on the internet 20 years later. And let's not forget about cancer like Tohou.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 05:17:24 2015 No.2783558
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>>2783554
Not to mention, the vast maority of earth's surface is pointless y'know, empty, boring areas, who would have thunk that? Who can possibly want to see what's behind that forest? Fucking people and their curiosity I swear, why can't they all play boring corridors with the same formations of enemies for hours, why are people risking their lives IRL climbing the Everest when there's just snow and rocks?
>Why do you think you're a better player than "scrubs" when in the end you still have to reach minimal level/stat requirements before being able to progress to new areas?
For the same reason you assholes brag about scores or your games being better than others, finding a new minimal limit or completion time is the hard mode of that kind of games and the complete opposite of your optimal way which require banging your head on you controller for hours I could have spent playing another game. You can't even understand the basic flow of a genre so simple to get, you have troubles understanding that proper leveling is simply playing the games like they're supposed to be played, an adventure with a world to explore.
But again, RPGs are for casuals amirite?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 08:08:57 2015 No.2783717 Video games are pointless. You're just pressing plastic buttons and then some electrical impulses happen in a little plastic box. All is for nothing. All is void. Surrender yourself to the void.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 08:17:28 2015 No.2783727 >>2783717 YOU HAVE FAILED ME; I DISAVOW YOU ALL.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 08:27:25 2015 No.2783735 >>2766071 >ff12 >fans call it a masterpiece you sure your not thinking of ff7?

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 08:29:07 2015 No.2783738 >>2783553 thou fvrious

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 08:56:30 2015 No.2783770

>>2783292
>There are more challenging JRPGs that came out after just from the fact that there are significantly more JRPGs that existed after.

Well obviously. And of course there are games like the SaGas that are more complex and difficult. But many JPRGs follow the IV mold of basically handing you a group of pre-made characters that the player doesn't have to spent time optimizing if they don't want to.

There is difficulty in JRPGs, but it's rarely the kind of planning that WRPGs are more heavily based on.

As for JRPGs, I've played many. All FFs to IX, DQ 1-4, 8,9. SaGa1-3, Rom SaGa 2, PS I-IV, the Lunars, a host of one offs.

>Also, there are more ways of having challenging gameplay than just party building and stat management.

No disagreement there at all.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 09:22:00 2015 No.2783807 >>2765887 Switch over to some Romance of the Three Kingdoms scrub.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 11:06:44 2015 No.2783948 Why must RPGs be turn-based menufests anyway? It's called role-playing game, not rote-waiting game.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 13:24:59 2015 No.2784131

>>2783948
They don't. Which is why the whole genre of action RPGs exists. Traditionally they are turn based because the genre evolved out of pencil and paper tabletop roleplaying games where people take turns in combat. Both turn and action based games can be complex in their own ways.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 13:39:29 2015 No.2784168 >>2783717 >he needs to press buttons to play game Loser.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 16:30:52 2015 No.2784501

>>2778578

tell me about any interaction with electronics that is not about is not about choices and consequences

... or, if a monkey randomly hiting a keyboar...shakespeare

in other words, you can imagine what that anon implied with his definition. Sequentially pressing F, U, C, K, Y, O, then U has a consequence of producing a rude response, but you can use your brain to know that its not what he meant.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 18:03:26 2015 No.2784647
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>>2783548
>>2783549
>>2783552
>>2783553
>>2783554

My main argument was that grinding is the standard strategy for playing JRPGs, so I'm not going to debate your other points because it will digress into a discussion of personal values and philosophy.

Grinding IS the de facto strategy for JRPGs, excluding the very small percentage of those that actually require some thought and planning in playing them. This is the official position, and it takes precedence over the sanctimonious opinions of some deluded gamer on the internet. In picture I've posted is the evidence where grinding is strongly recommended in the game manuals. If you don't grind then you're not playing the game correctly.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 18:35:09 2015 No.2784710

>>2784647
>My main argument was that grinding is the standard strategy for playing JRPGs, so I'm not going to debate your other points because it will digress into a discussion of personal values and philosophy.
So you're basically backing down like the little bitch you are because you can't find any good personal rebuttal, good.
>Grinding IS the de facto strategy for JRPGs
Decided by who?
> This is the official position
I didn't know there was an official organization that decided what's the best way of playing a game.
>and it takes precedence over the sanctimonious opinions of some deluded gamer on the internet.
Sure, if only you could muster anything that could prove what's "official", too bad you can't, nobody can.
>. In picture I've posted is the evidence where grinding is strongly recommended in the game manuals. If you don't grind then you're not playing the game correctly.
Seriously?
Seriously man?

You're gonna tell me games' manuals are the official and only right way to play a game?
The same manuals who often include incorrect informaton and highly questionable strategies?
The same manuals who are often completely rewritten by localizers, see Working Designs?
The same manuals who are the epithome of mediocrity and incompleteness?
Have you actually took the time to compare what's written in a game's manual and the actual guides and see how much stuff is conveniently omitted that would actually make the game easier?

Just to take one of your examples, sure, you could grind for stats in FFL, or you cannot if you make a party of monsters anyway so half of that "official way of playing JRPG" is already false, but why should I grind for levels when I can just buy me some Giant equipment which makes me almost completely invincible until a long way into the game?

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 18:44:21 2015 No.2784726

>>2784710
And let's not forget, I could always say fuck you and decide to play with just one character, hog all the money to buy good gear and then recruit others along the way since their level scales with that of my character.
But of course, let's not forget that that statement is really only true if you have a party of humans or espers, monsters work completely differently so you can't grind anything for them.

You're fucking pathetic man, at least pick games you've played before making example that could be used against you.
Or are you gonna say that the official way of playing a game with mulitple races is using ony one of those?
Not to mention
>Grinding in a A-rpg.

And with this is good night, I've wasted enough time discussing with a try hard like you.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 21:45:32 2015 No.2785015

>>2784710
>So you're basically backing down like the little bitch you are because you can't find any good personal rebuttal, good.

You should consolidate your rambling posts into more concise points. I'm not going reply to every statement you've written. All of your opinions are based on the premise that only your personal way of playing the game is the correct way of playing the game "as intended by the developers" while the players who grind are "scrubs".

>You're gonna tell me games' manuals are the official and only right way to play a game?

It's the official way but not the only way. Why is playing the game according to the instructions of the game manual wrong?

>The same manuals who often include incorrect informaton and highly questionable strategies?
>The same manuals who are often completely rewritten by localizers, see Working Designs?
>The same manuals who are the epithome of mediocrity and incompleteness?

Oh, now you're saying the manuals are inaccurate? Please point out where they're wrong and why. Most of the translation issues pertain to in-game dialogue, not with the game play instructions.

>You're fucking pathetic man, at least pick games you've played before making example that could be used against you.

I've played those games before. Otherwise, I wouldn't have mentioned them. You should make relevant counterarguments instead of making kneejerk, unfounded accusations.

>Grinding in a A-rpg.

How is it different that grinding in a turn-based RPG? The purpose is still the same.

Anonymous Sun Nov 8 21:52:24 2015 No.2785026

>>2785015
cont'd

>Just to take one of your examples, sure, you could grind for stats in FFL, or you cannot if you make a party of monsters anyway so half of that "official way of playing JRPG" is already false, but why should I grind for levels when I can just buy me some Giant equipment which makes me almost completely invincible until a long way into the game.

You're trying using an exception to prove a rule. No, exceptions don't prove rules. In fact, the manual recommends against making a party of all monsters. So did you try to beat the game using only a party of monsters? I bet you didn't. There's no "Giant equipment" at the stores that makes you almost invincible in the game. Now I know you haven't read the manual and probably never even played that game before.

>And with this is good night, I've wasted enough time discussing with a try hard like you.

Good nite to u too. I hope u have a wonderful wek.

>>	Anonymous Sun Nov 8 21:59:19 2015 No.2785036 >>2765887 Trolls take notice: THIS is how you get responses to your retarded thread and keep it going for fucking WEEKS.

Anonymous Mon Nov 9 09:16:00 2015 No.2785787

>>2784501
>tell me about any interaction with electronics that is not about is not about choices and consequences

I'm not sure if English isn't your first language, but that sentence makes no sense. Think about what you mean and ask again and then we'll see.

And no I can't just imagine what he implied with his definition, that's ridiculous. It would be like me saying "RPGs are games that have numbers in them." You can't say it's not true, because RPGs do have numbers in them. But also that definition is so vague that it covers the majority of games.

It would be completely ridiculous to then claim that there's obviously a lot more to that definition, but you have to infer it for yourself. That defeats the entire point of defining something in the first place.

Choices and consequences literally defines almost every game, ever. Using it as a definition of what makes an RPG is completely pointless.

>>2785015
>>2785026
Not the guy you're arguing with, but I really do think you're hung up on grinding. Yes because RPGs make it possible to grind, it's an aspect of most of them. But it's not the defining point that makes them RPGs. There are RPGs that discourage or negate grinding and it doesn't make them not RPGs.

Also randomly for the record, I have played through FFL with a party of all monsters and it's quite fun. I love that game though.

Anonymous Mon Nov 9 11:21:42 2015 No.2785916

>>2784501
It's funny, because you're arguing against the anti-RPGCodexer, even though he is arguing against choices and consequences himself. And your argument is so retarded that you're actually supporting the RPGCodex Holy Truth of What an RPG is Defined By.

>>	Anonymous Mon Nov 9 21:26:57 2015 No.2786929 Try roguelikes

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 04:36:31 2015 No.2787530 >>2785015 Grinding in action rpgs is actually fun, I personally tend to enjoy grinding in action rpgs because combat is fun in them. Combat isn't fun in jrpgs so grinding isn't fun.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 05:03:12 2015 No.2787550 >>2787530 >grinding >fun = autism

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 05:56:20 2015 No.2787586 >>2787550 >greentext >doesn't contribute to the discussion = shitposting

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 06:06:26 2015 No.2787610 >>2787586 Just because it was a concise post it doesn't mean it didn't contribute. All the main points of it were summed up in three words.

Anonymous Tue Nov 10 09:57:19 2015 No.2787765

>>2787610
Not really though. There's not necessarily anything autistic about grinding. Maybe walking just back and forth on the same two tiles for hours. But most people will just go wander a bit and have some fights. It can be nice in that it's just relaxing and meditative.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 10:03:59 2015 No.2787782 the poster below has shit taste in rpgs

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 11:35:35 2015 No.2787915 i like jrpgs

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 11:36:35 2015 No.2787919 >>2787915 I mean I really like jrpgs

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 11:37:36 2015 No.2787920 >>2787919 like I really really like jrpgs

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 11:38:26 2015 No.2787923 >>2787782 >implying taste isn't subjective

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 11:38:37 2015 No.2787924 >>2787920 like 4 reals

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 11:42:30 2015 No.2787928 >>2787924 It's okay, you got it over 500 no need to push further. Don't worry though, we'll start the thread up again soon.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 11:43:55 2015 No.2787929 >>2787928 indeed. As far as b8 goes this was top quality.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 12:18:50 2015 No.2787952 There needs to be a /vr/ Troll Hall of Fame for shit like this. OP is a magnificent bastard.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 12:35:11 2015 No.2787981 >>2787952 Yeah. Someone should archive this. I'm too lazy.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 12:47:40 2015 No.2787996 >>2787952 >>2785036 I posted this in complete seriousness.

Anonymous Tue Nov 10 14:09:57 2015 No.2788127

>>2787952
I doubt anyone in this thread was actually trolling. It's just a clash of people with good taste (who don't play JRPGs) with weaboos, and even within that the former it was split into actual elite Codexers vs merely pretending to have taste /v/kids.

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 15:48:42 2015 No.2788248 It could've been a good board... rip in shitter poor chan

>>	Anonymous Tue Nov 10 15:57:36 2015 No.2788256 >>2788248 Good, go back to your safe spaces.

>>	Anonymous Wed Nov 11 15:42:02 2015 No.2789884 >>2788256 funny, considering how shitting on something anonymously is playing it safe

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