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Honest Thief posted:somehow the ys game timeline all happens in a span of what two three years? apart from origins of course, but Adol is the ripe old age of 24 by Monstrum Nox time I think he’s like sixteen when the games started, so more like eight years.
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Subjunctive posted:What’s the best Ys to get started with if all I know about them is that people seem to think they’re cool? Bump Era: Ys 1 and 2. I'd skip this two-part game as an introduction due to its archaic level design and bullshit bosses. Try later. 3D Era: Ark of Napishtim is a fun if easy entry point. Oath in Felghana and Origins are more polished and evenly challenged. Try any one. Party Era: Skip Memories of Celceta. A fairly bog standard JRPG that ends abruptly with no real resolution. Open World Era: Lacrimosa of Dana is a classic and easily appproachable. It's got some Metroid, Tower Defence, and time travel thrown in there. The sequel Monstrum Nox suffers from a drab setting and no fishing minigame, but has stronger combat and better paced Tower Defence levels. Never played SEVEN and nobody liked Ys V. Inspector Gesicht fucked around with this message at 16:03 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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Subjunctive posted:What’s the best Ys to get started with if all I know about them is that people seem to think they’re cool? Origin
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Origin is remarkable for taking the paper thin lore from a then fifteen year old game, placing the entire action inside a single dungeon, and from them spinning a surprisingly enteraining story. You could easily make more Ys games where Adol never shows up.
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Feb 18, 2024 16:06
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memories of celceta’s one of the best ones
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Feb 18, 2024 16:06
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play every Ys game except 5/Kefin
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Subjunctive posted:What’s the best Ys to get started with if all I know about them is that people seem to think they’re cool? Ys VIII for the best game where Adol has a party Ys I & II if the bump system sounds/looks fun and you want to see where it all got started From there you can just go about anywhere there are no real misses except Meowywitch posted:play every Ys game except 5/Kefin
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Feb 18, 2024 16:22
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Probably skip DS classic Ys Strategy too
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Sakurazuka posted:Probably skip DS classic Ys Strategy too The red haired guy on the cover isn't even Adol, but some dude called Abel. It was a misjudged spinoff since the series has been niche for decades, so it was likely an unrelated game that had an old brand slapped onto it. 64 days until Eiyuden releases.
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Inspector Gesicht posted:64 days until Eiyuden releases. 
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Honest Thief posted:somehow the ys game timeline all happens in a span of what two three years? apart from origins of course, but Adol is the ripe old age of 24 by Monstrum Nox time You have to realize that canonically, there are a hundred Ys games installments, so they still have to squeeze in 9 plots in the remaining 30-40 years of Adol's life
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Feb 18, 2024 16:46
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adol can't even take a vacation w/o getting dragged into some bullshit
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You're not going to see Adol past his twenties. Link was 23 in the last Zelda game, yet he still doesn't need a razor to shave. Pretty boys are eternal.
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Last Celebration posted:But on the other hand if you have Steam, VIII is on sale for like $15 so that’s probably a good value too! Thanks to everyone for their enthusiastic assistance! VIII is also verified on the Deck, so I’ll see how that one catches me.
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Zack in Crisis Core is kind of a punk atm, wonder when he will be badass. the antagonists are kind of big drama queens atm.
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They need to make a Ys game with a 50 year old Adol with a big beard and an eye patch.
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An evil lich could ressurect Adol's corpse and he'd still break control by complete accident through an irresistible compulsion to go on an adventure
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Or an irresistible compulsion to destroy a boat.
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Cannot wait for the Ys game about Adol's canonical failed expedition to the North Pole.
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Ys 5 is such a forgotten Ys game that Falcom still hasn't remade it like they did 3 and 4. It's the only Ys game you have to play via emulation as the only other version is the PS2 version and nobody liked the PS2 remakes Though with the original PC-88 versions getting a release on Switch maybe that'll change. Not that I'd be raring to play them but I'd love to see Switch/PC versions of the original 3/4/5
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Catgirl Al Capone posted:An evil lich could ressurect Adol's corpse and he'd still break control by complete accident through an irresistible compulsion to go on an adventure this has kind of happened already
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Ys 5 is such a forgotten Ys game that Falcom still hasn't remade it like they did 3 and 4. It's the only Ys game you have to play via emulation as the only other version is the PS2 version and nobody liked the PS2 remakes There are references to the events of Ys 5 in both 8 and 9 so they at least haven't totally forgotten about it.
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SatoshiMiwa posted:Ys 5 is such a forgotten Ys game that Falcom still hasn't remade it like they did 3 and 4. It's the only Ys game you have to play via emulation as the only other version is the PS2 version and nobody liked the PS2 remakes I watched a video on V recently, probably part of the reason it hasn’t been touched much is because it was received horribly for multiple reasons (jank design, no PC version because Falcom were trying to transition to consoles) which is part of why V to VI had such a huge gap.
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lol there’s a $1000 bundle of NIS games and DLC, discounted to $750!
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I've tried to play Ys Origin like 3 times and I always get stuck on the stupid worm boss. That thing is ridiculously brutal. I'd kinda like to try 8 or maybe Oath? I assume 8 is relatively easy like most modern action RPGs, dunno about Oath. I think it's very funny that studio has Ys which requires basically zero lore knowledge to play, and Trails which at this point you have to play about 300 hours of game before playing the new one. Interesting split strategy, I guess abraham linksys fucked around with this message at 18:51 on Feb 18, 2024 |
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I give you my blessing to start with Trails through Daybreak, out later this year
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abraham linksys posted:I've tried to play Ys Origin like 3 times and I always get stuck on the stupid worm boss. That thing is ridiculously brutal. I'd kinda like to try 8 or maybe Oath? I assume 8 is relatively easy like most modern action RPGs, dunno about Oath. Levels make a huge difference in Origin (and most older Ys games) and it's very easy to get to that boss underlevelled. IIRC correctly there's a pretty decent grinding spot just before that I usually use to grab a couple of extra levels.
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these chapters in Crisis Core are fast, even when taking time to do clear as many missions as I can. finally got to meeting my waifu Aerith for the first time. this church is a falling hazard, how many people are gonna fall down here
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fridge corn posted:Ys VIII
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Terper posted:I give you my blessing to start with Trails through Daybreak, out later this year Is this an actual reset or is it going to be more of a Yakuza 7 where it's like "ok here's a whole bunch of people you don't know but all you need to know is they're neat"
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It's still the same continent and timeline, but a different country (Calvard this time) with new main characters.
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abraham linksys posted:Is this an actual reset or is it going to be more of a Yakuza 7 where it's like "ok here's a whole bunch of people you don't know but all you need to know is they're neat" I think there’s significantly less neat people since the Cold Steel games were partly paying off the setup in Trails From Zero to Azure, but yeah it’s a Yakuza Like A Dragon setting/protagonist reset. Tbh you can really just start with any game in the Trails “saga”, like playing Cold Steel III as your first or Trails in the Sky Third Chapter is a bad idea but you’re not gonna be completely lost if you play Sky First Chapter, Trails From Zero, or Cold Steel I as your first one in practice. It’s neat having stuff you don’t know about, imho, it’s like Dragonball Z or Witcher III (if you never watched Dragonball or read the Witcher books).
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abraham linksys posted:Is this an actual reset or is it going to be more of a Yakuza 7 where it's like "ok here's a whole bunch of people you don't know but all you need to know is they're neat"
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also yeah you can start trails with the start of any subseries. the devs themselves have advertised them as such.
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Ys VIII (like all of the party-based games) is significantly easier than Origin/Oath.
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abraham linksys posted:I've tried to play Ys Origin like 3 times and I always get stuck on the stupid worm boss. That thing is ridiculously brutal. I'd kinda like to try 8 or maybe Oath? I assume 8 is relatively easy like most modern action RPGs, dunno about Oath. have you found all the attack upgrades? i found that missing even one was the difference between having to master a fight and cruising through on autopilot
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It's easy to overlook the NPC who looks like Macaulay Culkins who upgrades your poo poo.
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Subjunctive posted:What’s the best Ys to get started with if all I know about them is that people seem to think they’re cool? Ys 8 (Lacrimosa of Dana) or Ys Origin. Oath in Felghana is cool too, but I think it's actually even harder than Origin was, and imo Origin is right there with Ys 8 as the best Ys game.
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Last Celebration posted:I watched a video on V recently, probably part of the reason it hasn’t been touched much is because it was received horribly for multiple reasons (jank design, no PC version because Falcom were trying to transition to consoles) which is part of why V to VI had such a huge gap. I get Falcom wanting to move to consoles at the time as the PC-88 was on its last legs and nobody was sure what would be the next home computer games platform. But doing Ys 5 on Super Famicom was puzzling given the Playstation was out (granted it's first year) and was probably a better home for a new Ys game not to mention easier for Falcom to work with given its size at the time
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