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CrookedB posted:Wizardry I-II-III: The Story of Llylgamyn for SNES should keep you occupied. There's an English translation patch. Highly recommended. I only ever played the NES versions of Wizardry 1 & 2, I think I'll give this a shot.
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I never played it but wasn't 7th Saga pretty much a wRPG? At least that's the impression I got.
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Paperhouse posted:There's also Darkstone, which as far as I'm aware is just a not-as-good Diablo rip off but I've never actually played it Darkstone had some good bits and some very, very janky bits. On the other hand, it is a game that will let you run right to the last boss right from the beginning of the game, so if you want to try and finish off a Diablo clone in ~20 minutes, this is the game for you.
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Are there any upcoming JRPGs that look promising other than Last Story/Pandora's Tower and Tales of Graces F?
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Are there any upcoming JRPGs that look promising other than Last Story/Pandora's Tower and Tales of Graces F? I'm pretty pumped for the PS3 version of Ni no Kuni. It's been confirmed that it will be localized for North America and Europe, unlike the DS version. We won't get a real giant spellbook though, just a digital version in the game. As someone previously mentioned, Atelier Meruru is getting localized. Final Fantasy XIII-2. 
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Nov 18, 2011 03:44
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I'm the one person who actually liked FFXIII so I'll probably at least rent FFXIII-2 from Gamefly. I've never played an Atelier game, but the new one is for the PS3 so I can't play it. Although I do have to get one so I can play Tales of Graces F...  drat you Bamco for convincing me to get a 360 so I could play Tales of Vesperia and then releasing the next Tales game on PS3. 
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Nov 18, 2011 03:57
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm the one person who actually liked FFXIII so I'll probably at least rent FFXIII-2 from Gamefly. If you're a JRPG fan then get a PS3 and probably a PSP too. You'll be in heaven (providing that you don't go broke first). I liked FFXIII too.  I will play the sequel but not until it goes on sale a couple of times first.
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HondaCivet posted:If you're a JRPG fan then get a PS3 and probably a PSP too. You'll be in heaven (providing that you don't go broke first). A PS3? Really? Maybe a DS or PSP, but JRPGs don't exist on console.
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Nov 18, 2011 05:18
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PSP is incredible for JRPGS.
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DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:A PS3? Really? Maybe a DS or PSP, but JRPGs don't exist on console. Mostly true, now that I think about it. However pretty much any decent Japanese console game that isn't Nintendo's is going to come out on PS3, RPG or not. Plus you've got access to backwards compatibility and the PS1 classics in the PSN store. It's not great but there's a lot to do. The PSP is a no-brainer though unless you're really adamant about only playing with HD graphics or something.
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DOUBLE CLICK HERE posted:A PS3? Really? Maybe a DS or PSP, but JRPGs don't exist on console. Valkyria Chronicles is reason enough is you like strategy RPGs.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:I'm the one person who actually liked FFXIII so I'll probably at least rent FFXIII-2 from Gamefly. If you want to try an Atelier game there is one for the DS if you've got one. It's nowhere near as good as the PS3 ones though. Also we're getting Ni No Kuni? gently caress yes between that and Meruru's release being confirmed this has been some good news for my JRPG cravings.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Blood Omen: Legacy of Kain Oh hell yeah. If you can get over the evil load times this game just DRIPS character from every crack. Kain has a little color commentary for every single item you can pick up. Its amazing (and part of what makes the load times so atrocious) Tactics ogre and Final Fantasy Tactics while not strictly wrpg playstation games are alot more down to earth and alot more customizable than your average jrpg. Plus theyre great games so thats a plus. (plus isnt FFT actually available on mobile now with the WOTL translation?)
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Has anyone who hated Oblivion tried Skyrim? If so, how did you like it? I hate Bethesda and everything they stand for, but I'm still thinking of renting Skyrim. This happens every time they release a game. I'm just too optimistic I guess; I don't want to hate any game. I know there's the whole subforum devoted to Skyrim, but I don't think anyone there will be very receptive to my question.
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Conduit for Sale! posted:Has anyone who hated Oblivion tried Skyrim? If so, how did you like it? I would say it depends on why you hated Oblivion. If you felt Oblivion was a good idea bogged down by poor design choices then...maybe. If you don't like the idea of a sandbox RPG, then you probably won't like Skyrim.
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I'm not sure I would say I hated Oblivion, but I had such a bad experience thanks to the enemy level scaling system that I'm extremely resistant against playing Skyrim. No matter how many assurances people give me that it's been changed for the better, the fact that there is any level scaling whatsoever is kind of a deal breaker. I loved most other aspects of Oblivion (I put in about 30 hours without touching the main quest at all), though I guess the lack of different voice actors got annoying/silly after a while and I hear that's better now.
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Nate RFB posted:I'm not sure I would say I hated Oblivion, but I had such a bad experience thanks to the enemy level scaling system that I'm extremely resistant against playing Skyrim. No matter how many assurances people give me that it's been changed for the better, the fact that there is any level scaling whatsoever is kind of a deal breaker. I loved most other aspects of Oblivion (I put in about 30 hours without touching the main quest at all), though I guess the lack of different voice actors got annoying/silly after a while and I hear that's better now. Don't be a whiny baby and play Skyrim. I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the best games ever made.
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Nate RFB posted:I'm not sure I would say I hated Oblivion, but I had such a bad experience thanks to the enemy level scaling system that I'm extremely resistant against playing Skyrim. No matter how many assurances people give me that it's been changed for the better, the fact that there is any level scaling whatsoever is kind of a deal breaker. I loved most other aspects of Oblivion (I put in about 30 hours without touching the main quest at all), though I guess the lack of different voice actors got annoying/silly after a while and I hear that's better now. Seriously, you will obviously love Skyrim if you put 30 into Oblivion. Go play Skyrim and I'm saying that as a person who doesn't really care for it.
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YOURFRIEND posted:Don't be a whiny baby and play Skyrim. I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the best games ever made. Well then, I guess that settles that.
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YOURFRIEND posted:Don't be a whiny baby and play Skyrim. I am not exaggerating when I say it is one of the best games ever made. Says the guy with the loving Morrowind avatar
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Wendell posted:Says the guy with the loving Morrowind avatar I think morrowind is a terrible game that has aged really really poorly and someone bought this for me for that reason.
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I couldn't play vanilla Oblivion for more than 5 hours before quitting but Skyrim is pretty great.
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YOURFRIEND posted:I think morrowind is a terrible game that has aged really really poorly and someone bought this for me for that reason. Oh. Well then that actually adds to the strength of your position. Keep up the good work!
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Wait for a mod to remove level scaling before buying if it's a dealbreaker for you.
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How would I go about playing The Last Story in the US? Dumb question I'm sure, but I've never imported games before.
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Douche Bag posted:How would I go about playing The Last Story in the US? Dumb question I'm sure, but I've never imported games before. Find on online retailer that ships overseas, (I think Game.co.uk is what I used for Xenoblade), then homebrew your wii to get around region locking. There's a thread somewhere that explains better than I could how to do so. Also, get Xenoblade as practice (the op for Xenoblade explains how to get and play the game as well). Edit: Found the thread: http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3075676, although to be honest the OP for Xenoblade may be better because the information information there is focused on playing an import. Cake Attack fucked around with this message at 19:44 on Nov 18, 2011 |
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My big question here: As someone who enjoys nonviolent solutions to problems in RPGs, how friendly in Skyrim to that? The speech and dialogue options seem fairly limited and most of the "this is awesome" stuff seems to boil down to killin' or stealin'.
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Cake Attack posted:Also, get Xenoblade as practice And because it owns.
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To be honest, Skyrim is not that big on nonviolent solutions to quests. There are a fraction - and there's so many quests in the game that you would still have a lot to do - but most of the major questlines I've seen (some of the assassin's guild, some of the mages' guild, some of the main plot) involve sneaking, or fighting, or some combination of the two. There is other stuff to do, like buying and decorating your house, but you are going to be fighting to earn the money for that. The speech perk tree is pretty much just getting better at selling and buying things. Dialogue is also usually limited to a few choices.
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Sionak posted:To be honest, Skyrim is not that big on nonviolent solutions to quests. There are a fraction - and there's so many quests in the game that you would still have a lot to do - but most of the major questlines I've seen (some of the assassin's guild, some of the mages' guild, some of the main plot) involve sneaking, or fighting, or some combination of the two. That's a drat shame, because I'm pretty sure I cleared around 75% of the quests in Fallout New Vegas using the Speech option, and those usually netted you the best rewards, too.
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ImpAtom posted:My big question here: As someone who enjoys nonviolent solutions to problems in RPGs, how friendly in Skyrim to that? The speech and dialogue options seem fairly limited and most of the "this is awesome" stuff seems to boil down to killin' or stealin'. There are several ways to solve problems in Skyrim. For example, you could kill a wizard with a sword, or a mace, or an axe. You could also kill the wizard with magic, or perhaps a two handed weapon. If you're truly daring, you could try to sneak up on the wizard, and kill him via a backstab.
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Cake Attack posted:Find on online retailer that ships overseas, (I think Game.co.uk is what I used for Xenoblade), then homebrew your wii to get around region locking. There's a thread somewhere that explains better than I could how to do so. Also, get Xenoblade as practice (the op for Xenoblade explains how to get and play the game as well). Ugh, that sounds complicated as hell. Couldn't I just buy a European Wii?
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Douche Bag posted:Ugh, that sounds complicated as hell. Couldn't I just buy a European Wii? Well, yes, if you're willing to overlook the fact that your paying an extra couple hundred dollars for convenience. Plus I'm not sure how power works (would you need a transformer, or could you just use an american power cord and be just fine?)
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Douche Bag posted:Ugh, that sounds complicated as hell. Couldn't I just buy a European Wii? No joke, it takes five minutes. You just need a 2 gig SD Card and the programs you need to softmod it are all self-explanatory and very user-friendly (unless you also want USB Loader to play games off a harddrive to save wear and tear, but even then that would only add an additional 10 minutes assuming you have a USB stick or harddrive that's already partitioned for FAT32).
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Douche Bag posted:Ugh, that sounds complicated as hell. Couldn't I just buy a European Wii? It isn't at all. There's a program called ModMii that's incredibly easy to use and will put everything you need on your SD card. All you have to do is put the SD card in your Wii and run the program. Calaveron posted:No joke, it takes five minutes. You just need a 2 gig SD Card and the programs you need to softmod it are all self-explanatory and very user-friendly (unless you also want USB Loader to play games off a harddrive to save wear and tear, but even then that would only add an additional 10 minutes assuming you have a USB stick or harddrive that's already partitioned for FAT32). ModMii will install CFG USB Loader too. e: also you can format your USB drive as anything you want if you're just using it to run games off of. It only needs to be FAT32 if you want to run apps off of it (which isn't necessary at all, and it doesn't even work for me) Conduit for Sale! fucked around with this message at 21:31 on Nov 18, 2011 |
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ImpAtom posted:My big question here: As someone who enjoys nonviolent solutions to problems in RPGs, how friendly in Skyrim to that? The speech and dialogue options seem fairly limited and most of the "this is awesome" stuff seems to boil down to killin' or stealin'. Also as far as I know, nearly every dialog option can be bypassed by throwing money at the person.
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Thanks for the answers.  I really loved New Vegas primarily because I could take alternate solutions to so many quests and I guess I was holding out hope that it might just be something that people were overlooking due to the fun of sending guys flying into orbit with magical shouts. Ah well.
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ImpAtom posted:Thanks for the answers. The reason is because Obsidian made New Vegas, and those guys know how to make a world feel alive. Can't make a good engine to save their lives, but they know what to do with one.
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I decided to give Neverwinter Nights 2 a spin, but when I go to create a character, no body loads to show what I look like. I already ran the updater to get it to the latest version. 
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ImpAtom posted:Thanks for the answers. I'm only maybe 5 or 6 hours into the game and moved away from the main quest pretty early, but so far I'm just as disappointed as you. I was hoping they'd take a few more pages out of Fallout's book besides perks, but so far most of what I'm doing involves delving into some dungeons and killing everything in sight, which would be more interesting if the combat was great, but it's really not. Still better than Oblivion's combat, though. In fact so far I'd say this is probably better than Oblivion in just about every way save for the Thieves Guild not being anywhere near as cool this time (At least so far). Again, I'm sure it'll pick up soon, I just think that what seems to be the core experience of the game (Going into a cave and killing everything in sight) should be a bit more interesting mechanically.
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