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Looper posted:itt post about things you like, sincerely I really enjoyed playing Persona 2: Innocent Sin (PSP), cause of the music, writing, and characters, and that cool thing some RPGs do where NPCs have little mini arcs over the course of the game, even if the actual gameplay was kinda slow!  It'll always suck the US never got EPP, though.Also got fond memories of FE8, which I replayed recently and still liked, and getting Golden Sun TLA used at Gamestop for like, $10 and having a ton of fun too, even if it probably won't hold up now.
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as someone who got stardew valley like a month ago on ios, it's a really nice chill time, but i feel like there could definitely be more cool secret stuff and mysteries a la early harvest moons! also little weeky variety tv shows like mechas and such! (though all i remember of playing mfomt when a kid was that i was really bad at it and everyone hated me  )Tired Moritz posted:HM games are just as routine as SV, let's not kid ourselves. This is basically the inverse of people coming in complaining that a game is too "anime". getting into a routine is basically the end point for all harvest moons and hm likes!! 
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Jun 28, 2019 02:58
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sorry if it seemed kinda out of nowhere, i just wanted to post about stardew in a thread i follow! rf4 had a pretty ridiculous amount of unique npc dialogue iirc?? it's been a while but i'm pretty sure there's like no repeats for a year or two?
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Jun 28, 2019 04:39
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how bad exactly is the postgame stuff in octopath?  oh, this just came to mind: what are some rpgs that are (probably) pretty flawed in a lot of ways, but that you still really enjoy anyways? for me one that comes to mind is golden sun tla!
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Jul 21, 2019 04:41
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Amppelix posted:Why is FF (and FF-adjacent games) so enamoured with the 9999 damage cap anyway? I've never understood it and it never seems to make the mechanics more interesting. because it looks cool  Barudak posted:1st its hidden behind a sidequest chain that has confusing progression requirements and no hint it leads to the end game. Upon unlocking the end game you will probably need to grind 20-40 levels on each character at minimum. Sure, you can beat it at 65 or so with a smart setup but theres a reason you dont. that all sounds like the bad parts of endgames of old rpgs combined into one bad mess (iirc)... also, giving an item that would have been helpful earlier at the very end instead of like a fancy medal is just kind of ????
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Jul 21, 2019 20:07
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i'm wondering if rune factory 4s is gonna have some new stuff, or if it'll just be a port of the 3ds ver?
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i feel like teddie was wayy hornier than morgana, maybe?? (they both seem kinda Meh tho)
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Nov 14, 2019 03:30
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i've heard people be kinda down on sword of mana, but i'm curious as to why? was the plot changed for the worse from the original GB game or smth?
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Nov 28, 2019 02:24
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kirbysuperstar posted:Sword of Mana has a bit where the characters sit and wonder if the guy named Dark Lord is really a bad guy or not   The Colonel posted:that doesn't sound any worse than the original adventures of mana script, a game that alternates between a guy resurrecting a chocobo into a superpowered cyborg and every single female character you meet existing to say "i am the girlfriend of the boy in the village. i will travel with you *walks for five minutes* oh no i've been cursed and will now die goodbye" lol i remember hearing that the og game was kind of a downer, but thinking about it yeah iirc like 90% of the char deaths in that are women?? apparently there were two remakes of the original game, did the more recent one fix that issue?
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i've just started playing ff7 (switch) for the first time and i'm about to enter Shinra HQ, is there anything important i should know, game-wise?
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Dec 21, 2019 18:26
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the only good persona things are: the persona 1 manga, persona 2, and some songs from the later games anyhow, ff7 is a pretty fun time even with some of the questionable minigames (marching, fort condor)
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Dec 26, 2019 20:17
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Andrast posted:There's a Persona 1 manga? yeah! iirc it's been scanlated for a few years now (fun fact, the same mangaka also did majin tensei 1's manga); there's other manga adaptations from the megaten series too but i think only a few have gotten scanlated overall??
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Dec 26, 2019 22:01
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The Colonel posted:i like the maken x manga done by the author of dorohedoro that's basically just dorohedoro action scenes like a couple years before they started dorohedoro lol, how did it end? (tbh, i always forget maken x...)
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Dec 26, 2019 22:25
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WaltherFeng posted:At the end of BoFIV Ryu speaks and it's kinda funny because everyone is shocked but it's not like he was mute in the first place (He doesn't have any written dialogue but he clearly speaks and gestures during conversations) both Persona 2s do that, with Tatsuya and Maya swapping roles as silent protag and the other speaking (also i think with the cameos/flashbacks of the p1 protag in ep??)
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Jan 5, 2020 23:07
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Neddy Seagoon posted:
afaik that was a thing only in the first GS (which i never got to play), TLA lets you backtrack to get any djinn and there's no perma-missables there?? i could be wrong though cause i haven't played TLA in several years, but when i played GS3 (which incidentally crushed my hopes) a big issue for me was that there were perma-missables unlike in TLA
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Jan 6, 2020 08:39
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i've been playing collection of mana recently, and while ffa doesn't exactly have a super shakespearean plot and translation, plus the moment probably would have landed better if there was more development with the characters... the fact that you gotta hit A to finish off amanda after she gets bit by medusa (which reminds me of zombie movies??) instead of it just being a cutscene + manually walk over to her afterwards hits pretty hard 
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Jan 19, 2020 06:22
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Looper posted:it boggles my mind that more games don't do stuff like this yeah, like the only other game i can think of (+ remembered about) that does it is mgs3 + pw! are there any others?The Colonel posted:tbh i really dislike ffa's writing purely because it lays on scenes like that so thickly and consistently and it makes sure especially to do it whenever it introduces a woman who has any amount of plot relevance so far it's just been the character i mentioned that has it happen to her + it uncursed parrot bard lester, but maybe it happens moreso later in (never played ffa before)? i can see how it'd get a bit silly + tiresome after the like 4th time tho! (edited a bit) Booky fucked around with this message at 07:22 on Jan 19, 2020 |
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Libluini posted:I think it happens three times in total, but only if you realize one important thing while playing and play to the very end. ahh, i see. out of curiosity, what is the one important thing?
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Jan 19, 2020 19:05
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in my heart of hearts i know it will never happen, but all the megatens + p2 remakes translated and on the switch would be great!! 
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The Colonel posted:it's a game directed by a guy who wrote a bunch of famously weird playstation rpgs (linda cube, ore no shikabane, abarenbou princess) and iirc according to an interview the way the game got made is that he came up with the idea and tried pitching it to a bunch of studios and nobody would pick it up so he got depressed and put it on his blog with a note saying "please someone let me make this game" and then like years later a studio contacted him about it that guy seems like he does a lot of cool and more exploratory(this is the right term i think??) looks at rpgs and the premises in em, so it's really nice his work is getting more notice! linda cube is the pre-apocalyptic noah's ark rpg, right?
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tatsuya works alright as a silent protag because he's basically just this awkward quiet dude when voiced anyways, but maya becoming silent in ep was always a kinda confusing choice, imo.
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yuna deserves her dream bf (also the 100% ending of X-2 is shown a bit at the end of X iirc )
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these boss themes rule, but there's a ton more out there that are great! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWE0nlhpdq8 Persona 2: Innocent Sin (PSX ver) - Knights of the Holy Spear
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how is xenoblade chronicles? is it good? the remaster is coming out soon (on the switch), so i was thinking about getting it, but i'm not very familiar with xenoblade other than that it got a lot of praise back on the wii.
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maybe there could be a general goon rpg discord for this thread and it could also have other smaller rpg series/threads in it?  there might already be one though!edit: oh if theres not, i'd be down to create one!
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Jun 25, 2020 04:54
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ah well, i decided to make a casual one anyways for general rpgs and megaten plus some other rpg series (i dunno if some of them already have their own discords though)! this is only a temporary invite for a day, but if anyone's late + interested they can just pm me! https://discord.gg/jvbg3M
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kirbysuperstar posted:I thought Skill Crack was neat but otherwise I think I liked Majin Tensei more than Devil Survivor honestly. count me in for bouncing off of DeSu1 Overclocked too after like an hour or two! majin tensei (1, haven't played 2 with the patch yet) has its flaws like obnoxiously large maps, slow enemy phases, and only 16 inventory slots total, but it's what i think of (besides srw and fe) when srpgs come up instead of DeSu's fusion.
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Endorph posted:What harvest moon/story of seasons games are generally considered the best? I've been playing the Mineral Town remake and mostly enjoying it, could go for some more, but the only other ones I've played much of are 64 and a bit of the gamecube version of Wonderful Life. personally i really like RF4(S) (Special fixes a few bugs and makes the 3rd arc easier to activate) and DS Cute (which fixed a lot of the bugs that DS had; the downside is that the non fomt bachelors are mostly kinda Meh imo)! never played 64 or BTN (which was later used as the base for FoMT with some changes) but they seem pretty well regarded too
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TurnipFritter posted:
the best bachelors in ds cute were the fomt ones that you needed a gamepak of m/fomt put into the gba slot of the ds to unlock!! (in jp ds cute, the secret bachelorettes were the only ones u could marry... )
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TurnipFritter posted:did they at least move in with you, or was it another friends of mineral town-style "they only show up for special events" moment i think they move in with you (and it doesn't end the game; i wanna say that DS ended the game if you married a fomt bachelorette tho i might be getting mixed up), but they each only visited the Valley like once a week so it takes longer to get their heart events and LP up and stuff?? (e: according to fogu, it doesn't end your game in DS Cute https://fogu.com/hm6/forgirl_marriage.php)
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The Colonel posted:that's fomt, but they removed it from the remake...  actually, that was just by putting a block of Golden Lumber on your field on fomt (changed in the remake), you couldn't use it to build your house!hm ds/cute let you build farm buildings out of various materials (better materials = sturdier during storms) and the most expensive was Golden Lumber, but no one yelled at you for doing it iirc! (also rf4 is Very Good)
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Commander Keene posted:Did the steam or switch releases of FF7 ever retranslate it? I think the PSX version has a fan retranslation, but I'm wondering if it ever got an official second pass. afaik, the new (like 2014??) rerelease of the pc version fixed up some lines (which the switch etc versions carry over), but i don't think it's a whole second pass
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didn't paper mario ttyd have a character's implications they were trans removed from some tls of the script? that + some of the fe examples seems like a top down NoA/E mandate i guess??  oh yeah a goemon game got mentioned: i dunno much about the series but iirc the tled line had a much harsher slur used in a scene than the og line (which is uhhhh afaik 'newhalf' or smth?? tho its still a pretty bad trans "gag" no matter what) before it got changed in a patch, which imo is mostly for the better Acerbatus posted:I actually don't, what games have done that? i might be getting internally mixed up with the celeste example but i think stardew valley had a p weak localization in other languages, maybeee??? i know undertale got done by like, 8-4 tho
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Endorph posted:'newhalf' is a harsh slur that is mostly used in porn and exploitative reality/variety shows. it literally means 'half man, half woman.' in that sense it's closer to 'shemale' than 'tranny' so i guess you could call that part of the translation an error, but saying it was a 'much harsher slur' isn't really true at all. regardless yelling at the translator and sending him death threats isn't really the way to resolve that. aaah i see, thanks for the info about the term and mario! i was under the impression that newhalf was wayyy less offensive as a term than the word that got used in its stead... personally to me it probably should have gotten rewritten in the tl (whenever i read a slur in a translated thing its always really jarring and like, a bad gut punch feeling), but i don't really envy anyone who had to finangle a translation out of that whole deal and yeah, its really weird that that whole really cool element would be taken out in the eng (and uhh german too??) tls of ttyd and the fe examples. im really curious about why the changes got done and if its like, a nintendo branch getting pissy about queer stuff or some weird tl mandates or something?? oh right i just remembered that harvest moon ds cute took out the ability to "best friends" the 4 secret bachelorettes in the english version too!!
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The Colonel posted:honestly it's not worth fixating on even for how bad it is alone because like half of goemon 3's jokes are along those lines. it's a ridiculously unfunny game. even in goemon 2 half of the jokes can be summarized as "goemon walks into the house, a beautiful woman is in the house... but then the beautiful woman uncovers her face and they've got five o clock shadow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" the impression i'm getting here is that goemon overall sounds kinda bad and not just that one scene, and 3 is the persona 4 of writing for uhh... action games?? and wow @ endorph i didn't know that the slur in the initial celeste tl had that much history behind it, jeez! would you happen to know how the protests against it first kicked off?
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i like TDI's lps cause im too lazy to play 80 hour jrpgs and also i don't have a ps2 and also they're funny imo tho generally i watch/read lots of lps cause it's nice to see a look at a game thats neat or interesting and maybe laugh
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gimme the GOD drat candy posted:they do good designs aside from the weird boobs  , the weird boobs are just kind of doofy to see on a nice designrecently i think that artist did some FE Heroes art for a character and that flaw seems to have been ironed out at the least maybe??
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The Colonel posted:i like that the plot of smt nine starts out as "after the world got nuked in smt1, all of society moved to living in vr" and ends as "10 years later, all of humanity went extinct and the virtual world preserved their identities and memories as the gods of law made plans to direct the newly recreted humans into living in the real world, and you must decide whether it's better to live under our god that tells us the best way to rebuild or find a way to rebuild ourselves" is there finally a plot summary for nine??  that sounds real wild!oh yea aren't there people still around post-time skip in smt1 and by smt2? did they decide vr sucks and we don't need gods to rebuild (except the Law people)
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megami tensei 2 has the Lost Arm status ailment, when the protag's arm with the comp gets cut off and you gotta get a new one while taking damage
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oh yeah ff5 had the Old ailment, where your stats got gradually lowered iirc!
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