JRPG general discussion

Varik

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Always remember seeing all four games in game and I regret not buying them now.

Saw the anime, and decided to have a look for them when i went looking saw all of them and just didn't do anything.

Would love to get this but it'll be another game in the unplayed list, and with few exceptions I'm not buying new games until the backlog is down a bit.

Retr0gamer

I passed up on them back in the day. I had enough RPGS to play and the .hack games just weren't that great.

sniper_samurai

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I passed up on them back in the day. I had enough RPGS to play and the .hack games just weren't that great.

Got the original 4 games on the PS2 and have to agree, while not bad games they got stale very quickly. Found the novelisation of the story to be more interesting than the actual games themselves due to focusing on the main plot.

super_furry

Think I still have all four of them on the PS2 but I only played the first two. The other two are still sealed somewhere. They were good and the fake MMO concept was fun but there were some really annoying voice acting and scripting. I still can't see or hear "mon ami" without wanting to claw my face off.

I remember reading Tad William's Otherland series at the time and there seemed to be a lot of crossover in terms of setting and theme.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McGCbJ0w93E

megaten

Played the first two of the original quadriliogy when I was a teen and enjoyed the series as a whole a lot. I don't know if I could go back and finish them but I'll definitely give the GU trilogy a try since we never got them when they originally came out.

Retr0gamer

I think those games are only expensive because they are genuinely rare rather than any good. The last few are very hard to find. Pretty sure the 5th part never even made it to the west.

Xenji

I found the them a good deviation after putting in 80-100 hours into the likes of Suikoden and DQ, you could finish them in about 20 hours and were interesting, mid tier yes but still enjoyable if you did not binge through the series.

Yeah, frägment came out nearly two years after Quarantine in Japan but never made it west.

super_furry

Holy ****, just saw the prices these are going for now. Time to get myself to ebay!

Retr0gamer

Where you find the time for all these RPGS Xenji I don't know 😊 it killed me putting 120 hours into zelda.

Xenji

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Where you find the time for all these RPGS Xenji I don't know 😊 it killed me putting 120 hours into zelda.

Developing insomnia as a teenager and a modded PS2 at the time, coupled now with girlfriend who is mad into gaming along with work requiring travelling.

Retr0gamer

I used to get through a RPG a week in school and college. Not anymore.

Xenji

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I used to get through a RPG a week in school and college. Not anymore.

It is harder now if it is a console or PC game, I still have not even finished Persona 5 yet, but I can still get through handheld games fairly quickly.

Sieghardt

.hack IMOQ has pretty weak gameplay but an AMAZING story and tons of great characters

GU has better gameplay but the story and characters arent as good

it's a little odd to me that they're only doing GU, .hack is a sorta all in or nothing deal, to understand most of the story you need to play all the games, watch all the anime and a bunch of supplemental stuff and even then it doesnt answer everything

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Xenji wrote: »

It is harder now if it is a console or PC game, I still have not even finished Persona 5 yet, but I can still get through handheld games fairly quickly.

I've not finished Persona 5 either, just playing at night.

I find I play through handheld stuff faster, used to travel more but it's the same now I don't as often.

Traveling to London next week but no idea what game to bring with me to play, not a long journey but it'll go faster. Maybe my Vita for a change, don't want to be caught up in a game though, maybe I'll replay Breath of Fire 4 or something.

Sephiroth_dude

Xenji wrote: »

It is harder now if it is a console or PC game, I still have not even finished Persona 5 yet, but I can still get through handheld games fairly quickly.

You still haven't finished persona 5 :eek:? I was sure you'd have it finished by Easter Sunday

Pac1Man

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy wrote: »

Traveling to London next week but no idea what game to bring with me to play, not a long journey but it'll go faster. Maybe my Vita for a change, don't want to be caught up in a game though, maybe I'll replay Breath of Fire 4 or something.

Maybe stay away from anything flame related.

megaten

I think I go through console games quicker. Even if I have my 3DS with me I'd rather just read a book in an environment with loads of distractions. I think its probably going to take me a decade to get through all the 3DS games I want to play.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

megaten wrote: »

Even if I have my 3DS with me I'd rather just read a book in an environment with loads of distractions. I think its probably going to take me a decade to get through all the 3DS games I want to play.

I'd like to get a Kindle or something, I've trouble with text sizes in some books.
I feel like that too, like Fantasy Life is meant to be long and Persona Q. Actually not just with 3DS stuff I've a ton of stuff in backlog.

Xenji

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

You still haven't finished persona 5 :eek:? I was sure you'd have it finished by Easter Sunday

Just started on the second last palace

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Xenji wrote: »

Just started on the second last palace

Much further than me, I'm only like almost finished the 3rd Palace

Gunmonkey

Hironobu Sakaguchi (Final Fantasy, Lost Odyssey, Blue Dragon, The Last Story) to announce a new JRPG on the 22nd.

http://gematsu.com/2017/06/hironobu-sakaguchi-announce-new-game-june-22

Talk it just could be a console port of Terra Battle, a mobile game that has been promised to port over.

super_furry

Am I doing something wrong or is there a load of grinding required in Persona 4? I'm at the second dungeon, got the the Shadow boss and it feels like I'm well under-levelled and under-powered. My party is level 16 across the board and I've seem mentions that they should be at 25 or so.

Retr0gamer

super_furry wrote: »

Am I doing something wrong or is there a load of grinding required in Persona 4? I'm at the second dungeon, got the the Shadow boss and it feels like I'm well under-levelled and under-powered. My party is level 16 across the board and I've seem mentions that they should be at 25 or so.

No grinding required. Make sure you explore every floor of the dungeon before going to the next level and try to fight as many battles as you can.

SMT games can make you feel under levelled but the use use of stat buffs and debuffs are required in these games. They help enormously.

I also find gamefaq guides way over state the recommended levels in RPGs.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

super_furry wrote: »

Am I doing something wrong or is there a load of grinding required in Persona 4? I'm at the second dungeon, got the the Shadow boss and it feels like I'm well under-levelled and under-powered. My party is level 16 across the board and I've seem mentions that they should be at 25 or so.

I don't think I was 25 anyway, I was level 19 I think and just finished the 3rd palace. I think I used Oni and he's strong to physical attacks and no elemental weakness. If you level up the Moon social link I think you get more exp.
Maybe that will help?

Sephiroth_dude

Summon knight has been delayed again till August it seems .

Sephiroth_dude

This arrived today

Xenji

Nice, going to wait for the PS4 eX+ version.

Xanadu Next is actually half price now on Steam as well for the summer sale.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

I didn't get any souvenirs from Symphonic Odysseys, they were expensive only these flyers but that's okay they're so cute. I love the pinky!

Sephiroth_dude

^^^^ Would have loved too have been at that.

Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

^^^^ Would have loved too have been at that.

Worth it for the Q and A, he's very ... like you could meet him in a pub for a chat kinda guy. Had a great night met up a friend. The seats were super high up for the concert but it actually wasn't that bad.