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I have never played a Gothic or Witcher title, actually. Are they similar?
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BadAstronaut posted:I have never played a Gothic or Witcher title, actually. Are they similar? Gothic is similar Witcher isn't. Both of those franchises have that delicious Eastern European flavor where there are bugs that make no sense, incomprehensible design decisions, and dialog and attitudes that seem like they didn't translate the whole script.
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Sep 19, 2013 16:32
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Barudak posted:Gothic is similar Witcher isn't. Both of those franchises have that delicious Eastern European flavor where there are bugs that make no sense, incomprehensible design decisions, and dialog and attitudes that seem like they didn't translate the whole script. That stuff is true, but I wouldn't say it's what defines the games. BadAstronaut posted:I have never played a Gothic or Witcher title, actually. Are they similar? The Witcher kind of has some Gothic vibes but overall isn't that similar. The Witcher 1 and 2 are wonderful games(and almost totally different from each other gameplay-wise, I feel I should mention), though Witcher 1 comes with a few caveats - bad combat, a bad first chapter, and a tedious aspect to the second chapter that seems to cause a lot of people to quit. You should play these games. For some reason, playing The Witcher always felt like playing Baldur's Gate to me. It's not an aspect of the gameplay, it's just a feeling. I can't really explain it.
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Sep 19, 2013 16:35
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Can one skip the first and go straight to Witcher 2? Or is the first still worth playing, in and of itself?
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Sep 19, 2013 16:41
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BadAstronaut posted:Can one skip the first and go straight to Witcher 2? Or is the first still worth playing, in and of itself? Feel free to skip the first witcher, its janky and slow and unless you have a tolerance for that kind of thing you will probably quit before you get to the real prize. Witcher 2 on the other hand is a real game and one of the best rpgs of the past decade. You can import a save from the first game, but it only affects a few conversations here and there. You can find finished save games for all the different possibilities at the witcher nexus if you still want to have those convos without playing (or really understanding) the first game i guess.
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Sep 19, 2013 17:08
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BadAstronaut posted:Can one skip the first and go straight to Witcher 2? Or is the first still worth playing, in and of itself? I like the non-combat aspects of the first a lot, but if you skip it and go straight to the second you won't miss that much.
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Sep 19, 2013 17:27
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Witcher 1 is ridiculously slow and unengaging. If you care at all about having interesting gameplay to connect all the quests and dialogue bits together, you probably won't enjoy it. Witcher 2 is still slow and full of backtracking, but at least the gameplay is actually fun. The plot also has pretty much no connection to the first game, so you're really missing nothing by skipping it.
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Sep 19, 2013 17:34
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Cardiovorax posted:Witcher 1 is ridiculously slow and unengaging. If you care at all about having interesting gameplay to connect all the quests and dialogue bits together, you probably won't enjoy it. Witcher 2 is still slow and full of backtracking, but at least the gameplay is actually fun. The plot also has pretty much no connection to the first game, so you're really missing nothing by skipping it. Eh, I dunno--I liked the gameplay in Witcher 1 enough to play through it multiple times. It is a little weird though in that it does its best to convince you that it's an action RPG with at least partially twitch-based combat when it's really not, at all. (Witcher 2 on the other hand most certainly is) I actually thought the combat was varied and interesting, though not particularly balanced. I missed the different sword styles in the Witcher 2. The backtracking is really bad though in Witcher 1, there's no doubt about it. Especially in Act 3--the rich person district is the most boring area of the game IMO. (I know everyone talks about the swamp as the area they hate the most but I actually liked it a lot once I realized I could just run past enemies) Honestly I think they're both good games that are worth playing, they're just very different. It's almost like comparing apples and oranges.
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Sep 19, 2013 18:55
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Genpei Turtle posted:Eh, I dunno--I liked the gameplay in Witcher 1 enough to play through it multiple times. It is a little weird though in that it does its best to convince you that it's an action RPG with at least partially twitch-based combat when it's really not, at all.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:03
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BadAstronaut posted:And Nehrim is stable, solid, worth playing etc etc? I don't need to play Oblivion itself for any particular reason. Yeah I forgot to mention Nehrim. You could just play that. Its a fantastic total conversion, and as said already, its very easy to setup.
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Sep 19, 2013 19:16
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School's caused my sleep patterns to gently caress up terribly and I tend to spend a bunch of time awake when most of my friends are asleep so I've been looking for some games to waste some of my spare time on. Doesn't need to be RPG specific I guess, but mostly looking for games with as good of writing quality as possible by video game standards. Since I moved for school and didn't take a bunch of stuff with me, I'm limited to what I can run on a laptop that's barely good enough to handle Team Fortress 2, a DSLite, a PSP that might not work, and a couple older consoles I picked up cheap (SNES, PS1). No real preferences on genre/setting type. I've played through pretty much every pre-PS3 Final Fantasy game, Chrono Trigger, Planescape:Torment, Wild Arms 1/2, and Fallout 1/2.
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Sep 19, 2013 22:43
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Zerilan posted:No real preferences on genre/setting type. I've played through pretty much every pre-PS3 Final Fantasy game, Chrono Trigger, Planescape:Torment, Wild Arms 1/2, and Fallout 1/2. Baldur's Gate & Icewind Dale series'?
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Sep 19, 2013 22:45
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I'm unbelievably pissed, just found out the sequel to Skyrim is an MMO.
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Sep 20, 2013 03:40
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That's not the sequel to Skyrim and it's made by a separate team so it's not getting in the way of the next TES game.
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Sep 20, 2013 03:46
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Yeah Zenimax formed a whole different studio for it. I'm sure they have to confer with lead creative guys at Bethesda Softworks to make sure all of the stuff is right for Elder Scrolls but from what I understand it's headed up by some Dark Age of Camelot people.
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Sep 20, 2013 03:59
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Well they waited 5 years between TES games last time so I certainly hope it isn't any longer because of their terrible MMO.
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Sep 20, 2013 04:40
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FuzzySlippers posted:Well they waited 5 years between TES games last time so I certainly hope it isn't any longer because of their terrible MMO. It took 5 years because they were making Fallout 3, and you're gonna be waiting a bit since I think they are working on Fallout 4.
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Sep 20, 2013 04:46
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So the latest issue of Retro Gamer magazine has a cover story on the SNES Shadowrun game, and the producers they interviewed let on to something (crossposted from the Retro Gaming Megathread)Miyamotos RGB NES posted:According to the producers, Shadowrun on the SNES has a secret that after 20 years no one has figured out. They vaguely mentioned something about doing something near the first street lamp in the game (in the town square where you let the dog out of the cage).
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Sep 20, 2013 04:47
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Lazy Programming posted:It took 5 years because they were making Fallout 3, and you're gonna be waiting a bit since I think they are working on Fallout 4. I wish they would skip the foreplay and hand any work after engine development on Fallout 4 over to Obsidian and get to work on TES5. Though I guess their second swing at making a Fallout might turn out a lot better.
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Sep 20, 2013 05:32
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FuzzySlippers posted:Well they waited 5 years between TES games last time so I certainly hope it isn't any longer because of their terrible MMO. Bethesda isn't really putting too many of their own resources into the MMO. That's being made by another company.
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Sep 20, 2013 05:45
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iastudent posted:So the latest issue of Retro Gamer magazine has a cover story on the SNES Shadowrun game, and the producers they interviewed let on to something (crossposted from the Retro Gaming Megathread) I would love to hear what this is -- I scoured the gently caress out of that game so many times.
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Sep 20, 2013 14:05
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Gaggins posted:I would love to hear what this is -- I scoured the gently caress out of that game so many times. There's a thread on RG's forum with people further looking into it http://www.retrogamer.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&p=925197 A friend looked into it last night and managed to replicate the beeps talked about there, but nothing else happened.
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So I'm starting Valkyrie Profile (The PSX version) for the first time. just got through the prologue and got my 3rd Einherjar member (some Lord in a black suit, died in place of his servant). Is there anything not obvious I should be made aware of? Any tricks to deal with the time limit?
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Sep 22, 2013 03:09
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You should be made aware that you are almost certainly not going to get the good ending unless you consult a guide.
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Sep 22, 2013 03:19
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:So I'm starting Valkyrie Profile (The PSX version) for the first time. just got through the prologue and got my 3rd Einherjar member (some Lord in a black suit, died in place of his servant). Is there anything not obvious I should be made aware of? Any tricks to deal with the time limit? I'm going to quote myself here: ImpAtom posted:The requirements for the A ending are as follows: You can view your Seal Rating in Lenneth's status screen, where every other character has a Hero Value. If you haven't already, I recommend playing on Hard. Hard is actually easier than Normal and has more content. It's very easy to get the A ending. The hard part is getting the A ending and getting all the rewards from Odin. ImpAtom fucked around with this message at 03:32 on Sep 22, 2013 |
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Sep 22, 2013 03:27
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ZenMasterBullshit posted:So I'm starting Valkyrie Profile (The PSX version) for the first time. just got through the prologue and got my 3rd Einherjar member (some Lord in a black suit, died in place of his servant). Is there anything not obvious I should be made aware of? Any tricks to deal with the time limit? At no point should you give Odin any artifacts. Dude doesn't deserve them. If they're useless you can just sell them back later for mad DMP. Some weapons don't give you all three attacks. You can check which ones they don't give by pressing triangle and going to the second page of whatever pops up. If that cuts out a useful attack, change the order of attacks in...one of the menus. In Lezard's Tower you'll find a Creation Gem. Equip it on Valkyrie and transmute Fairy Bottle|Manual of Resurrection (changes if you're on Normal or Hard) to get an Orihalcon. Transmute that to get the Creation Jewel. You can now transmute things into absolutely broken poo poo. (don't sell anything you can't buy back before you get it) Buy another Orihalcon and transmute that with the Creation Jewel to get a really good sword for Valkyrie. The time limit is only really burdensome in the first few chapters when you're getting a ton of Einherjar. By the end of the game it's pretty slack. You get tons of party exp by going through dungeons, so feel free to toss that at any Einherjar you don't want to use and just throw them up to Odin. It's not that valuable to have a large set of characters to pick from in this game. Be sure to keep a couple extra mages around, though. They can be useful in some fights.
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Sep 22, 2013 20:50
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In Dragon Quest V on DS, what's the point of the Whealbrook (that's it, right?) bluestone? Or other stones? I just got the letter from my dad, about 5 hours into the game, and the old lady in the inn tells me there is likely to be a bluestone in one of the rocks. This would entail returning to the cave of 1000 random encounters to find a rock for what purpose?
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Sep 23, 2013 00:18
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FuzzySlippers posted:I wish they would skip the foreplay and hand any work after engine development on Fallout 4 over to Obsidian and get to work on TES5. I liked fallout 3, but there is no debate from my part about New Vegas. It is the superior game of the two.
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BadAstronaut posted:In Dragon Quest V on DS, what's the point of the Whealbrook (that's it, right?) bluestone? Or other stones? I just got the letter from my dad, about 5 hours into the game, and the old lady in the inn tells me there is likely to be a bluestone in one of the rocks. This would entail returning to the cave of 1000 random encounters to find a rock for what purpose? It's to get a knick-knack which upgrades into another knick-knack.
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Sep 23, 2013 06:29
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Do I want said knick-knack?
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Sep 23, 2013 06:43
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Of course you do! Why do you play RPGs if you don't like getting knick-knacks, useless or otherwise?
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I'm sorry - I don't know what I was thinking. I shall retrieve the knick knack forthwith.  Edit: Wait, is the stone of whealbrook in my inventory the same thing I'm actually looking for? Ie, it's the correct thing, just not called bluestone once you already have it...? BadAstronaut fucked around with this message at 19:58 on Sep 23, 2013 |
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Sep 23, 2013 19:38
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BadAstronaut posted:I'm sorry - I don't know what I was thinking. I shall retrieve the knick knack forthwith. The stone of whealbrook lets the old lady notify you about the bluestone, which you can now pick up.
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Sep 23, 2013 20:17
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Seeing how some here have played Shadow Tower Abyss, has anybody here played Hungry Ghosts for PS2? It was a Japan only title and I'm wondering if it is worth picking up. Some more information on it here: http://www.hardcoregaming101.net/hungryghosts/hungryghosts.htm
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Sep 25, 2013 03:52
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Friendly Factory posted:So here's a list of retro-style jRPG games on the PC: Barkley's Shut-Up and Jam Gaiden Not really but sort of: Half-Minute Hero
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Sep 25, 2013 03:56
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Friendly Factory posted:So here's a list of retro-style jRPG games on the PC: There's a straight up Breath of Fire IV PC port that's not too bad but not as retro as that stuff. Definitely Barkley, and there's actually some RPG Maker games that aren't terrible. A Blurred Line is a cool sci-fi styled one, Hero's Realm is pretty much a lost SNES games, and goon-made Last Scenario, which is Final Fantasy but less stupid with some solid gameplay.
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Sep 25, 2013 04:17
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Friendly Factory posted:So here's a list of retro-style jRPG games on the PC: You specifically need menu battlers? Because Ys I & II are on Steam and those games are old as poo poo.
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If you like Suikoden and can find it, Legion Saga III is pretty alright. The other two not so much. Completely forgot about The Way. If you like crazy bullshit and tons of characters it owns hard. VVV Million Ghosts fucked around with this message at 04:43 on Sep 25, 2013 |
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