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Hey, /vr/. I've been crazy bored lately. Recommend me one of those hidden gem RPGs or Action/Adventure games from days long past. I've played all the "top rated" and most of the "hidden gems", but I figure you guys will be able to shift me in the right direction.

>> No.4254124

JRPGs are a shitty brainlet genre played by weeabo losers with no life. Go grind at your day job, you fucking dweeb.

>> No.4254125

>>4254124
Where the fuck did I say "JRPG" in my post?

>> No.4254126
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4254126

>I've played all the "top rated" and most of the "hidden gems"
It might be helpful if you gave some examples.
Have you played the River King games?

>> No.4254132

>>4254125
Just /v/ crossboarders whose only form of talking about video games involves shitposting

>> No.4254134
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>>4254115
check out the translation threads on here, There has been a wave of good stuff this year.

>> No.4254145

>>4254134
I never played the games, but isn't MOTHER the same game as Earthbound....?

>> No.4254148

>>4254145
Earthbound is the official English title for Mother 2.
Mother 1 was originally supposed to be released as Earthbound and was later unofficially published as Earthbound Zero and recently officially as Earthbound Beginnings.

>> No.4254152

>>4254134
There's a couple on here I haven't tried. Thanks for the list. Daikaijuu Monogatari looks neat.

I do a lot of translations and romhacks.

>> No.4254242

>>4254134
>lists ogre battle 64 for n64
>ogre battle and tactics ogre nowhere to be seen for snes

>> No.4254250
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>>4254115

>> No.4254253

>>4254242
N64 needs some padding.

>> No.4254256
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>>4254115
Have you played to the magic candle?

>> No.4254259

>>4254253
What about the other N64 RPG like Nushi Tsuri 64 or Super Robot Wars 64?

>> No.4254295

NES:
Crystalis
Destiny of an Emperor
Faria - A World of Mystery & Danger!
Faxanadu
Lagrange Point
Sugoro Quest - The Quest of Dice Heroes
Sweet Home

SNES:
Der Langrisser
Dragon Squadron Danzarb
Emerald Dragon
Energy Breaker
Eternal Filenia
Kouryuu Densetsu Villgust
Kyuuyaku Megami Tensei
Mystic Ark
Robotrek
Treasure Hunter G
Treasure of the Rudras

>> No.4254314

>>4254253
There are a couple japanese ones like Robopon and River King

I saw a list here a couple months ago and it had maybe 15 rpgs

>> No.4254341
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>>4254134
>Only three Dragon Quest games

>> No.4254384

>>4254124
OP's pic related is an SRPG, not really close to simplicity that JRPGs have, though Bahamut Lagoon is piss easy

>> No.4254386

>>4254126
What's the appeal of these games. How are they good

>> No.4254442

>>4254124
still mad because the lack of JRPGs buried the Pretendo 69, eh?

>> No.4254542

>>4254386
You throw rocks at forest critters and fish to save your sick sister.
They are soothing and have a relaxing rural atmosphere.

>> No.4254817

Play terranigma

>> No.4255830

>>4254134
>No Dual Orb II
>No Dark Law- Meaning of Death
>No dragon squadron danzarb
>No Ganpuru Gunmans Proof

>> No.4255831

>>4254341
There are only two Dragon Quest games worth playing.

>> No.4255879

>>4255830
>No Dual Orb II
>No Dark Law- Meaning of Death
How are those anyway? I've played a little of Dark Law but not enough to get a decent impression of it besides that I really wish they hadn't chopped off a third of the screen for the status bar.

>> No.4257145
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4257145

Thank me later

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DNpRN3U8Zo

>> No.4257221

>>4257145
I think I'd play any game she's in

>> No.4257382
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4257382

Arc The Lad Collection, DoReMi Fantasy. Monster World series, Hebereke, GBA Batman games, bunch of unappreciated shit on GBC as well like Survival Kids and Azure Dreams et c

>> No.4257394

>>4254132
More like only form of talking.

>> No.4257736

>>4257382
Arc the Lad was actually pretty awesome.

>> No.4258051

Beyond Oasis is a good one

>> No.4258065
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Hidden gems you say?

>> No.4258095

>>4255879
Dual Orb II has nice visuals but is incredibly generic. Wouldn't call it a must play.

>> No.4258109
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Magic of Scheherazade for NES, hybrid of action-RPG and traditional JRPG, with an amazing fucking soundtrack.

https://youtu.be/SvBRURRas58

>> No.4259736

>>4255879
I finished Dark Law but I barely remember anything from it. I remember it being pretty unconventional for a JRPG, and pretty unforgiving too, but with lots of tedium (I think random encounters were super long?). Almost nothing was explained in-game so you had to do mass trial and error to figure out what anything in town does or else look up a guide. I remember there were lots of "pixel hunt" quests where you had to go around checking everything in the area with no clues until you activate whatever it is to move the plot forward.

Sorry, that probably doesn't help very much.

>> No.4259968
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>>4254115
Brandish
King's Field I,II,III
Shadow Tower
Vagrant Story
Parasite Eve
Breath of Fire I,II,III,IV
Alundra (also look at Alundra 2 although it isn't in the same continuity as the first game)
Landstalkers
Dark Savior
Also play Eternal Ring, Breath of Fire V, King's Field IV and Shadow Tower Abyss

>> No.4261390

>mfw there's no more RPG like the Mother series setting in real-world instead of fantasy-world or scifi-world

>> No.4261398

>>4261390

Gokujo Boukentai
GOD: Growth or Devolution
Hourai Gakuen No Bouken
Persona series
PAL: Shinken Densetsu

And those are just the ones with urban fantasy settings

>> No.4261409

>>4261398
>Gokujo Boukentai
>GOD: Growth or Devolution
>Hourai Gakuen No Bouken
If onle there were fan translations

>> No.4261416

http://i.4cdn.org/vr/1505230966147.png

Where do I get translated copies of these games? Most of the time I can find a ROM, but it's raw.

I'm specifically interested in Emerald Dragon, Star Ocean, Seiken Densetsu 3, Dark Half, (any and every Fire Emblem), Romancing Saga, and Rudra no Hihou.

I'd add Terranigma, but I managed to find a hard copy of that at a gaming store in my town.

>> No.4261445

>>4254115
Crystalis
Sweet Home
Illusion of Gaia
Soul Blazer
Terranigma
Live A Live
Bahamut Lagoon
Chaos Seed - Fuusui Kairoki
Hourai Gakuen no Bouken! - Tenkousei Scramble
Inindo - Way of the Ninja
Rudra no Hihou
Treasure Hunter G

>> No.4261891

>>4261416
romhacking dot net

>> No.4261951

>>4258109
Based. Thats my fave action rpg on nes. The time travel aspects were mind blowing as a kid.

>> No.4262512

>>4254115
Glory Of Heracles IV for the SNES, playing it just now and it's not bad
it has sort of a FF3 job system and you can switch between jobs during battle

>> No.4263428

OP here again.

Thanks for all the suggestions in this thread. I really appreciate the ideas, the hacks, the translations, and the games. I've played nearly all of them already, but there definitely were some I hadn't, and I've made a list.

>> No.4263602

>>4254542
They shouldn't have shoehorned the pointless random battles. Really destroys the comfy atmosphere.