I'm playing Ys Book I

[Anonymous No.6162575]

This game is fun.

[Anonymous No.6162582]

>>6162575
Good on you. And yes. Yes it is.

[Anonymous No.6162909]

Today OP was not a faggot. Usually he is, but NOT today.

Why are ARPGs with LvUps so comfy?

[Anonymous No.6162927]

>>6162575
Ys 1-4 on PC Engine are fucking great. I first played the remake of Ys Books I & II on PSP and the music drew me in. The PC Engine version's soundtrack is better in my opinion though.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8NEF9Z7Bjo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TgoTm0fXBM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPXK0OkB04U
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmDgcbJv0E8

[Anonymous No.6162976]

Good thread, so far.

[Anonymous No.6163551]

This Dracula asshole was much more difficult than I expected. The moment I discovered his weakness however the fight went incredibly well.

[Anonymous No.6163584]

>>6163551
Next, try fighting him on the NES version.

[Anonymous No.6163598]

>>6162927
totally agree with you 1-4 are amazing. 4 is one of the best games i got ahold of later in life that took me right back to 13 years old. Also i really feel that the cutscenes in Ys 3 add a lot to the atmosphere of the game where in a lot of games i never gave a shit. funny story. i used to rent the copy of Ys 3 on snes from the local shop. in my twenties at a party i found out the save files on the game we’re from these two brothers that live near me. we still hang out and play old shit together now

[Anonymous No.6163607]

[Anonymous No.6163609]

>>6163607
That game is genuinely great on the TGCD.

[Anonymous No.6163621]

I've completed Origin and Oath in Felghana. Which version of 1 should I start with?

>>6162575
>stock royale at extremely low res
Anon you can do better than that. At minimum you should change the two blur9 passes to blur5 passes, which will reign in that terrible bloom shitting up your white text to somewhat reasonable levels.

[Anonymous No.6163635]

>>6163621
>I've completed Origin and Oath in Felghana. Which version of 1 should I start with?
Sharp x68 or Eternal

[Anonymous No.6163638]

>>6163621
>>6163635
Or Turbo

[Anonymous No.6163641]

>>6162927
Still mad Ys IV PCE has been demoted to "not canon".
By far my favorite Ys in both mechanics and style.

[Anonymous No.6163705]

>>6163641
Not even just "not cannon." The artbook celebrating the entire series, old and new, has none of the artwork for it.

[Anonymous No.6163709]

>>6163705
>>6163641
Falcolm died when most of the guys left after 3, 4 was saved by Hudson.

[Anonymous No.6163873]

>>6163609
wish i had more to say besides goddamn right it is

[Anonymous No.6164164]

This mantis was a goddamn asshole.
>>6163621
The royale xm29 shader already uses blur5 passes though. I play at low resolution because I use Integer Scaling and I have a 1080p monitor.

[Anonymous No.6164178]

>>6164164
Jump to the next integer, you'll only lose a trivial amount of vertical screenspace and it'll look much, much better.

[Anonymous No.6164231]

>>6164178
You mean like so?

[Anonymous No.6164434]

It's possible I overleveled for the boss because it took me 4 tries to beat him, but damn that was cool. Onto Book II it is, after just 4 hours and 45 minutes of Book I (of which 15 minutes were due to having to backtrack all the way to floor 11th just to get a fucking amulet).

[Anonymous No.6164436]

>>6164231
Exactly. 1600x1080 (only losing 60 lines from the top and bottom, well within overscan) gives you a 64% larger image and lets the shader display more detailed subpixels.

[Anonymous No.6164460]

>>6164436
Do you happen to know if there's a way for screenshots to come out without garbage pixels on them? (See the blurry section at the top of the image here >>6164231) Or even better, that the pixels don't look blurry at all, as if I was taking the screenshot on an actual 1440p monitor.

[Anonymous No.6164474]

>>6163709
This, RIP Hudson

[Anonymous No.6164486]

>>6164460
RA screenshots only display the rendered screenspace when you have GPU screenshots enabled, which is required to capture the shader. As far as I know, the only way is to manually trim the image.

[Anonymous No.6164513]

>>6164486
Ohhh. Well, thank you either way!

[Anonymous No.6164602]

>>6164513
You could add a bit of a Y axis offset to that so you aren't clipping the border at the top.

[Anonymous No.6164608]

>>6162575
combat is a fucking joke

[Anonymous No.6164779]

>>6164602
Thanks for the tip! Do you know what the standard overscan (if any) was on CRT TVs?

[Anonymous No.6164789]

>>6162575
>just walk into enemies instead of an attack animation
Ys is dogshit

[Anonymous No.6164806]

>>6162976
ADVENTURE

[Anonymous No.6164809]

>>6164779
It varies. Most console games from that era set the important UI elements inward with a lot of wiggle room so they wouldn't get cut off. +60 (1200 - 1080 = 120 / 2 = 60) would be perfectly centered, but rarely, some games are set low, some are set high, so for perfect screenshots you may need to make minor adjustments in either direction per game.

[Anonymous No.6164818]

>>6164789
>he got casual filtered by fucking jenocres

[Anonymous No.6165698]

>>6164608
Plebfilterd

[Anonymous No.6165759]

>>6163584
As someone who's played the Famicom version, Vampire isn't hard, but the Mantis and the boss who hops around constantly are fucking bullshit. Really makes me appreciate invincibility frames in other games.

[Anonymous No.6166596]

I played the first 2 on PC88 recently
Currently playing the 3rd one on and off, not really enjoying it that much though because of the gameplay style change.

[Anonymous No.6167257]

>>6164434
Huh, looks like balance is pretty different in that version of the game. Usually in Ys I, level 10 is the max, which you'd reach well before Dark Fucked, and it offers better max HP than that.

[Anonymous No.6169374]

So Book II. More environments, more adventure-like gameplay requiring you to find items to progress, these really feel like adventure games with RPG elements on top. Leveling up makes a huge difference, and it never is the tedious slog of turn-based RPGs for small gains: a level up makes the difference between having to play REALLY well and playing well.

[Anonymous No.6169458]

>>6163598
loved when this type of shit connected people back in the day. i still have a copy of sonic 3 with the 100% playthrough my friend's older brother left on the cart when they gave it to me shortly after the release of the n64.

[Anonymous No.6169917]

>>6169374
This is what made the non-remakes better imo over choosing a difficulity

[Anonymous No.6170340]

>>6169917
What did the remakes change about the Ys games? I want to play the Ys I & II remakes in the future, probably the original PC release first.

[Anonymous No.6170394]

>>6162575
wait, this isn't a NES game? oh

[Anonymous No.6172878]

>>6162575
Damn right, one of my all tiem favorites too.


>>6163641
What does it mean, as the PCE 4 is my favorite too. The beautiful cutscenes, the nods back to the original games, the jazzy music, and fun to play. Just brilliant.

[Anonymous No.6173179]

This place is fucking labyrinthian.

[Anonymous No.6173498]

There was a fucking retard in charge of this game who thought it made sense that the music would completely drown out whatever the hell the characters are saying.