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Bongo Bill posted:Glory of Heracles on the DS was an enjoyably bland experience. Simple and breezy, with a good rhythm to it. It had timed hits, and the weird MP system encouraged you to change up your tactics without turning into something that demands a lot of effort to understand. One of the Glory of Heracles games had a really cool concept. You were dead and you could go around possessing different people and it had kind of an open-ended plot so you could approach it from different angles depending on who all you possessed. I had it on Super Famicom while I was over in Japan but didn't get very far into it.
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BadAstronaut posted:What a great game. The DS release didn't hook me as much, but man I played the hell out of the GBA original. Golden Sun is one of the biggest victims of hype ever imo. Being one of the earliest, if not the first, GBA RPGs that also happens to be very pretty and a real good soundtrack (one of Motoi Sakuraba's best if you ask me) it got a lot of praise lavished on it for existing. Then years later as nostalgia and hype faded the backlash came as people realized that it wasn't as great as advertised. So it became awful. When the truth is, I think, that it's an above average game that does some interesting things on the standard jrpg formula.
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Golden sun really needs to move about 2x as fast, at which point is becomes a pretty reasonable game for its era. The music and graphics are great though for a GBS game, no question.
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That song always makes me think of Valkyrie Profile (for obvious reasons.)
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Dr Pepper posted:Golden Sun is one of the biggest victims of hype ever imo. I think ultimately what helped it is that it was an RPG that came out at a time when the GBA was starved for anything in the genre.
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mechacop posted:Other than Phantasy Star 1, anyone got an 8 or 16-bit NON-PC game that's a challenging 1st person dungeon crawler? Preferably something where I'd need to bust out my graph paper again.. The original Shining in the Darkness for the Mega Drive is a nice little 16-bit 1st person dungeon crawler.
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mechacop posted:Other than Phantasy Star 1, anyone got an 8 or 16-bit NON-PC game that's a challenging 1st person dungeon crawler? Preferably something where I'd need to bust out my graph paper again.. Warriors of the Eternal Sun
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Libluini posted:The original Shining in the Darkness for the Mega Drive is a nice little 16-bit 1st person dungeon crawler. and it helps you understand the plot of shining force 3
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Tallgeese posted:Decent RPGMaker games include: add Nocturne: Rebirth, which now has an english translation
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cheetah7071 posted:Golden sun really needs to move about 2x as fast, at which point is becomes a pretty reasonable game for its era. That and to maybe put a sock in it when it comes to chatter because conversations in a handheld game have no reason to go on for ten minutes when you can gleam onto what to do in two.
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Tallgeese posted:Decent RPGMaker games include: Anything translated by vgperson, too.
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Dackel posted:add Nocturne: Rebirth, which now has an english translation Wow, that looks good. I'll play that after Dragon's Dogma is done.
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Getsuya posted:The best RPGmaker games are the free horror games that Japan is constantly making. Most of them get translated and a lot of them are really good. Try Witch's House. Most of the RPGmaker games Vgperson translated are good. http://vgperson.com/games/ My personal pick from there is Wadanohara and the Great Blue Sea. I haven't played many games that make feel such a wide range of emotions. It does a really good job shifting tones without being abrupt.
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mechacop posted:Other than Phantasy Star 1, anyone got an 8 or 16-bit NON-PC game that's a challenging 1st person dungeon crawler? Preferably something where I'd need to bust out my graph paper again.. Dungeon Magic, Swords & Serpents, Arcana, the Japan-only Dream Maze, and of course lots of ports of Ultima, Might & Magic, Dungeon Master, etc.
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There was also a Bard's Tale port on NES. Probably not held up well after all these years, I'd guess.
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Some Star Ocean 5 info. Includes crafting, crafting crafting, random crafting, and at least 4 more types of crafting.
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HGH posted:Some Star Ocean 5 info. Includes crafting, crafting crafting, random crafting, and at least 4 more types of crafting. Wouldn't be an SO game without it.
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boxart is...decent, I guess? I forgot there's a PS3 version coming out. edit: Valkyria Chronicles remaster is coming Spring, and the details basically make it a PC port with better resolutions. Tae fucked around with this message at 16:41 on Jan 25, 2016 |
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Is the VC1 remaster on the ps4 just the pc version or are they fixing things? ^ oh. That's disappointing.
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Man, it may just be because I'm exercising while playing which might be throwing off my strategic planning ability, but Fort Zeikden or whatever is kicking my butt in FFT. I'm about level 10, and my party is 2 monks, 2 time mages (one with white as backup, one with black). Delita's a knight mostly because he's horribly under-leveled and can't survive hits any other way. I think I'm over-estimating the Monk's damage and under-estimating how much defensive ability I need. I think if I switch my Monks to Knights they won't lose that much damage while gaining a bunch of durability (especially since one of them has Chakra). They both have Move +1 and boots, plus the Time Mages can haste them, so I don't think them being slower will be too much of a problem. I'm also thinking of switching my Time Mages back to WHite/Black so they can have more utility. Haste is great but it still misses enough that it's not dependable.
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Tae posted:boxart is...decent, I guess? ps3 version is only for japan.
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Getsuya posted:Man, it may just be because I'm exercising while playing which might be throwing off my strategic planning ability, but Fort Zeikden or whatever is kicking my butt in FFT. I'm about level 10, and my party is 2 monks, 2 time mages (one with white as backup, one with black). Delita's a knight mostly because he's horribly under-leveled and can't survive hits any other way. I recently beat this with knight, time mage (sub black), chemist, archer. It was kind of tough but not too bad. One important thing to keep in mind is that monk destruction doesn't really lift off until later. Also chemist is better than white magic in just about every way. Try and get auto-potion on your mages too.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:ps3 version is only for japan. I have to wonder, I know the PS4 hasn't been selling so well in Japan but how well does PS3 games still sell comparatively? Have they all moved on to mobile games and pachinko?
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Getsuya posted:Man, it may just be because I'm exercising while playing which might be throwing off my strategic planning ability, but Fort Zeikden or whatever is kicking my butt in FFT. I'm about level 10, and my party is 2 monks, 2 time mages (one with white as backup, one with black). Delita's a knight mostly because he's horribly under-leveled and can't survive hits any other way. Give your monks basic skill with accumulate learned. Damage will ramp up rapidly.
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HGH posted:Some Star Ocean 5 info. Includes crafting, crafting crafting, random crafting, and at least 4 more types of crafting.  at least welch looks less horrifying than her SO4 version
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Mr. Fortitude posted:I have to wonder, I know the PS4 hasn't been selling so well in Japan but how well does PS3 games still sell comparatively? Have they all moved on to mobile games and pachinko? PS3 games probably sell better because people actually have PS3's in Japan. PS4's are losing out to laptops and Japanese studios figuring out PC ports.
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CAPTAIN CAPSLOCK posted:
Wow, her face is way better than the pink haired main girl's ugly mug.
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Neddy Seagoon posted:PS3 games probably sell better because people actually have PS3's in Japan. PS4's are losing out to laptops and Japanese studios figuring out PC ports. nah, ps3 versions sell worse than ps4 versions most of the time, but vita versions usually beat the ps4 soooo http://gematsu.com/tag/media-create-sales
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That must create a weird situation, where PS4 games sell like poo poo in Japan but the Vita does well but over here it's the inverse to the point that most Vita games are getting ported to PC anyway.
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Mr. Fortitude posted:most Vita games are getting ported to PC anyway. I wish.
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I loved the Vita when I was in Japan. It had all the great waifu VN game ports and even some original waifu VN games.
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So what is the best Mistwalker game? I've only played Blue Dragon but I liked that. I mean, it was pretty loving stupid, but I liked the combat and music a lot.
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NikkolasKing posted:So what is the best Mistwalker game? I've only played Blue Dragon but I liked that. I mean, it was pretty loving stupid, but I liked the combat and music a lot. Lost Odyssey, no contest. Blue Dragon managed to have an entire cast of characters that I actively hated, which is an impressive achievement.
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last story lost odyssey is good too but i liked LS better
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Last Story's game play is pretty unique too, kind of a cover based action RPG, I guess? Lost Odyssey was good but the combat was basically FF8 only everyone could press a button at the right time to to more damage, not just Squall.
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NikkolasKing posted:So what is the best Mistwalker game? I've only played Blue Dragon but I liked that. I mean, it was pretty loving stupid, but I liked the combat and music a lot. Terra Battle.
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Wendell posted:Wow, her face is way better than the pink haired main girl's ugly mug.  I think it's her gigantic eyeballs that make this the weirdest
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