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Is Japan even capable of making an actual RPG?

>>14874026

I am burned on jrpgs after getting really bored with final fantasy games. I just hate story, characters, pacing and fucking everything in those games. Its trash you shouldn't get into ever.

Because they bore me. It's an anime with grinding to get to the story parts. What's the friggin point?

because i'm a poorfag, and I don't like the idea of having one eye on a gameFAQs guide and the other on the game because all the good JRPGs are incredibly complex. Hell, even playing persona 5 I followed a guide religiously.

>>14874026

>Why aren't you playing a JRPG right now /v/?

Because JRPGs are objectively awful

JRPG is shit, even so called masterpieces like Chrono Triggered are shit by today's standards, they are just a bunch of cliche stories and grindy mechanics.

>>14874054

>It's an anime with grinding to get to the story parts

A bad anime at that too. With worst fucking story pacing just to make it as long as possible. You think you defeated final boss and may finally relax but NOPE THERE ARE ALSO 5 MORE BOSSES AND THE LAST ONE HAS LIKE 10 FORMS AND ALL OF THEM HAVE AOE THAT INSTAKILL PARTY UNLESS YOU KNOW THE TRICK SPELL TO COUNTER THAT

>>14874060

Those "masterpieces" where shit from the beginning with series like Ultima having games before them.

OP why did you have to make such a low effort thread

I don't wanna make posts in a thread that might get bumplocked, deleted or just shitposted to oblivion like its getting now

couldn't you have at least said what JRPG you were playing yourself (assuming its Atelier) and why you are or aren't liking it?

>>14874070

Man are you an IGN writer?

>>14874033

That's a silly question.

>>14874042

Yeh that's a real issue for me. The time investment you've got to make in truly great JRPGs hurts.

Because they're absolute shit.

>>14874026

Why did she pee herself? I wonder what it smells like haha

>>14874146

no, it's just a crease.

>>14874156

A wet stinky crease.

>>14874111 ✅

>>14874179

UUUUUGH THICC

Why do you faggots start threads with "why aren't you doing X' when you know that just attracts low effort shitposting every time.

Is it better to buy Ys 8 or the new shining game?

I haven't played a good JRPG in a long time. Any suggestions?

>>14874033

No developer can. Only table top gives you the freedom necessary for a real RPG.

Why aren't you making bad shitposting threads right now /v/?

>>14874033

Yes they're called JRPGs.

>>14874026

I was until a few weeks ago. I was playing Trails in the Sky SC and really enjoying it but then I reached fucking chapter 8 and they expect me to go around the entire world map again. The first two thirds of this game was already recycling most of the areas from the first game so this is now the third time that I have to go to all these places and I just can't fucking be bothered. I should probably just power through it before I completely forget everything.

Does anyone know if 3rd chapter re-uses the same map again? Because I really like these games but I do not want to play what is basically the same game three times.

>>14876962

>He thinks that's a big backlog

How naive you are.

I've pretty much accepted that I'm never going to be able to play all the games I'd like to, and now I just play whatever I feel like at the time without thinking about what I "should" be playing.

>>14876962

Well, let's start with the obvious:

>Skies of Arcadia Legends

You need to play this. It's the good shit. It's got problems, and there's a lot in it that makes parts of it maybe not as good as parts of other games, but when it's good it's great. It's the one game on the list I can unambiguously tell that you will enjoy it.

>Vagrant Story

Since you're enjoying Disgaea I think you'll probably enjoy Vagrant Story. Not because it's cute or funny, but because it is a massive number-cruncher of a game.

>Rogue Galaxy

Rogue Galaxy is a Level 5 game, and Level 5 games are a very specific sort of experience. So if you're not in the mood to play a Level 5 game, you're probably not going to enjoy Rogue Galaxy.

The only Level 5 game that I've played that isn't a complete Level 5 game is Dragon Quest 8, in case you were curious.

>Grandia 2

Perfectly good game, but I would recommend find Grandia 1 as well. Grandia 2 is basically just a remake of Grandia 1's disc 2, covering many of the same beats.

You can skip Grandia 3, though. The battle system is refined and fun, and the ability system is great, but the actual game itself is pretty terrible.

>>14874070

That is exactly what makes them all fun and better than anything that western/marxist devs create.

>>14876443

You a special kind of retard or what?

>>14880970

3rd chapter reuses almost nothing. Its a very unusual game.

And I understand the feel but tank through it. You can make it in a long sitting if you go hard enough and its so fucking worth it. Its rare that I experience such an emotional high from anything like I did from the ending of that game. Despite its numerous flaws I can't give it any lower than 10/10

>>14876453

Chrono Cross

Any good jRPG romhacks that have a new campaign?

>>14881130

Alright thanks anon, I'll continue with it one I'm finished with Arcanum which is fuking excellent but since it's a WRPG I won't discuss it in this thread.

And you're right about the emotional high. I rarely get emotionally invested in a video game but SC has had me feeling things throughout.

>>14874026

Literally fucking sophie, what the hell OP, how'd you read my mind?

>>14881163

Are there dual techs?

>>14881163

>RPG Maker

>Non-lewd

I don't understand.

Looks good though, I like a complex class/skill system.

>>14881163

>skills that increase your stat growth

What is mandatory equipped skills

>>14874026

i have been playing Final Fantasy Tactics advance 2, so far it seems like kiddy shit,

>>14881111

holy fuck those digits

>>14876962

>I hope Disgaea 3 Absence of Detention lives up to these first two games.

You poor, poor soul.

Play it anyways but it's probably the worst of the series. D2 > 5 > 2 > 1 > 3 (Never played 4)

>>14874033

No. The Nips are soulless meat robots who do not understand free will.

>>14874026

I stopped playing Sophie because I got stuck after the book gets her doll body. I know book/doll is supposed to be a playable character, but the event is "stuck." I also can't do alchemy or explore because I need to get ingredients from places that aren't unlocked. I got sick of trying to get event RNG(?) to cooperate and I haven't been able to find the will to pick it back up. Are all the Atelier games like this? I like the cute girls and the comfy atmosphere but the randomness of events tied to progress seems annoying.

>>14882152

>whats wrong with 3?

The story in Disgaea 3 is horrid compared to the rest of the series, It falls flat at being disgaea and doesn't even make it to be mediocre story in any regard.

The Game-play is fine though and allows for breaking the game faster than ever before with Puppy Paw Stick item cloning.

The Vita version gives Generic humaniods their own unique abilities as well.

If you're going to be trying to kill Baal or Land of Carnage PPS will take you places really REALLY fast.

Disgaea 4's story was such a pallet cleaner after 3 though. Probably the closest the series has come to having a great story like the first one again.

As for the Vita versions of them, they're straight upgrades over the PS3 versions last I remember.

Xenoblade 2, about 40 hours in, really enjoying it, thought it was shit for the first 10 hours

Pokemon Red for the 100000th time I have a retroachievements account

Pokemon Sun via citra, played it twice on 3ds but never got further than the fourth trial. It's running kind of shit because I've an AMD graphics card.

That's it for now. Considering starting up a Shin Megami Tensei game

Why is there even such a thing as W and J RPGs? And why are each of them so persistent on embodying the same weaknesses and strengths 90% of the time?

You have JRPGs with simple lore but interesting presentation, unique aesthetics, shitty combat systems but cool spells, cringy dialogue etc most of the time

You have WRPGs with deep, complex lore but boring as fuck presentation, overused fantasy aesthetics, better combat systems but dull stereotypical spells, much better dialogue etc.

Why can't people just encapsulate the exciting storytelling and cool worldbuilding of a JRPG with the deep history and non autistic dialogue of a WRPG? WHY DOES THIS DICHOTOMY EVEN EXIST???

>>14881307

>Not playing in japanese

Wew

>>14882921

>waste of time

so if a person enjoys them for whatever reason, it's a waste of time? thanks for clarifying anon

PS you're fucking retarded

I'm playing Persona 4 for the first time.

Though i'm neglecting it nowadays.

>>14882923

Do they really enjoy the game or do staring blankly and fidgeting with menus for while

>>14876962

honestly, DQ I-III, and Final Fantasy V and VI shouldn't take you all that long to beat if you just want to start knockin some shit off of your list.

>>14881136

I can't think of a more overwhelmingly mediocre title.

>>14874026

I'm debating starting FF8 or FFXII

>>14883030

>FF8

That's weird one, even for FF standards.

Don't grind levels, farm spells to junction them/AP to unlock utility skills.

>FFXII

Single player MMO.

Very slow in original version without speed boost.

Otherwise it isn't hard, unless you go fight optional bosses and three superbosses.

>overwhelmingly mediocre title

They kind of ran out of money for disc 2, so it does make sense.

>>14883052

yea even before disc 2 it had issues. the combat system seemed intriguing at first but it really isn't. even by typical jrpg standards there is a TON of dialogue at the end of each little section , pretty high encounter rate with awful load times and not a lot of enemy variety in each section. the mechs weren't all that different from the regular fighting outside of fuel management and that only really matters twice throughout the game and it was their one big gimmick and I feel like they could have done more to differentiate the mech fighting from the normal fighting.

>>14883052

As much as FF8 isint like the rest of the series I honestly love it for how different it is, but also how you can break it in mere minutes from starting the game by just rushing to get card so you don't have to level up.

Then the shitfest of bullshit power creep begins where after playing a children's card game with everyone in a hick town you turn the cards into a random assortment of garbage then into pure magic and slap them on your characters so they have stupid stats, and this is just the first hour or so of gameplay.

Fucking Magical if you know what your doing, otherwise it's just kind of a mediocre experience all the way through

I dunno what it is but any game that lets me pick it apart at the seams and break it and bend it to my will feels great.

And im going through FF11's story again it saddens me people haven't seen the story in this game considering how well it's written and presented. Id go as far as to say it's one of the best in the series just on the writing alone.

>>14882885

>WHY DOES THIS DICHOTOMY EVEN EXIST???

Even without the regional descriptor you would notice a difference in these games for the same reason other identical genres tend to articulate in different ways between cultures. Simply put what sells well in japan isn't what will sell well in America so those markets adapt to their primary audience. This isn't to say that all japanese or western RPG's are going to conform to one template.

>>14883091

>the mechs weren't all that different from the regular fighting outside of fuel management and that only really matters twice throughout the game and it was their one big gimmick and I feel like they could have done more to differentiate the mech fighting from the normal fighting.

It really seems it was waste.

Also mechs weren't much different anyway.

>>14883184

>As much as FF8 isn't like the rest of the series I honestly love it for how different it is, but also how you can break it in mere minutes from starting the game by just rushing to get card so you don't have to level up.

I never bothered with that card game, it felt kind of cheap for me.

>Then the shitfest of bullshit power creep begins where after playing a children's card game with everyone in a hick town you turn the cards into a random assortment of garbage then into pure magic and slap them on your characters so they have stupid stats, and this is just the first hour or so of gameplay.

I prefer to wait until you get 10 wizard stones to change them into -ga spells to boost strength.

It carried me through almost three discs in this game.

>Fucking Magical if you know what your doing, otherwise it's just kind of a mediocre experience all the way through

I know, my patience for it ran out and I stopped playing it on Disc 3. Shortly before moon.

>FF11's story again it saddens me people haven't seen the story in this game considering how well it's written and presented. Id go as far as to say it's one of the best in the series just on the writing alone.

It's MMO and I never touched this from that reason. Also I suck at multiplayer games.

>>14881072

Not a remake, an adaptation. Remake implies it's the same story with some tweaks and changes. Adaptation uses the same narrative in a different setting. Grandia 2 is the darker and edgier adaptation of Grandia 1. The characters are different, but they all fit into the same roles right down to the winged sisters.

>>14874179

>play bravely default

>oh boy, a new asterisk! I wonder what the (((player version))) is like!

>oh boy, a side quest! I wonder what asterisks I'll get from that!

>oh man, some of these jobs are really neat. I wonder what ability I'll get next if I level it up again?

<play bravely second

<Oh! New asterisks that weren't in the game before. Oh… it's not as exciting is it?

<Oh, side quests. Maybe I'll get better asterisks there!

<Oh… They're the asterisks from the previous game, and you can only choose between two

<the asterisk I want means to side with the train of thought I just don't agree with. What to do?

<At least I know straight away if leveling a job will be worth my time. Too bad I don't like most of what I see to come, and there aren't enough job combinations interesting enough to me to make me want to drop freelancer on one of my guys for the examine ability.

Does anyone else share this feel?

I also have an issue with the moonbase that took place of norende. In norende, you could get all the things up to level 10, and then a bonus level for something extra good, like alternate costumes for your party. That's not present in the moonbase. Another goodie from a full norende is the exp/jp bracelets and the pg bracelet. Because of my slow playing pace, I unlocked these very early on and was able to buy them with a little bit of grind near the start. Once I put them on, it's like the troubles of grinding for levels magically disappeared, and if you set the encounter rate high enough, you could easily become overleveled by just running to and from objectives and searching the map for treasure. Since this is gone in Bravely Second, I had to resort to setting the encounter rate to +100%, but I'm not getting any where close to feeling like I'm riding the exp/jp curve as nicely as I did in Bravely Default. The increased rate also means I'm making a lot more trips back to an inn instead of reaching quest markers. When I look at the difficulty setting, it says easy, normal, and hard all award the same amount of exp/jp/pg. If that's the case, then easy is the compromise of journos wanting the "skip combat" button and hard is the "it's not like have something better to do with your time, so grind for another 4 hours before you reach the next objective" button. I don't remember if difficulty was like this in Bravely Default (probably because I didn't go looking to ease the grind). But the best thing about Bravely Default having those bracelets was towards the end. Those who've reached it know what I'm talking about. On the last few cycles, I had already reached max level and maxed out all the jobs on all the characters, and it was like the game reached a perfect balance. Even better was that towards the end when you have to fight all the bosses, 4v4, based on a theme between them, I had absolute fun theory crafting and testing out all sorts of loadouts to eventually get through that ordeal. My only issue was that on the very last cycle you had to do it again, except you couldn't change loadouts in between the 4v4s. I'll admit, I gave up on that shit and just went to finish the game but I had my fill at that point anyway

I'm still not that deep into Bravely Second, but the enthusiasm I had with the first game just isn't present, so I'm making progress at a snail's pace.

I'm thinking about swallowing my pride and setting the difficulty to easy and then doing a bunch of back-to-back 1 turn fights to make up for the lack of the exp/jp accessory. Then keep trying normal again until it feels like I'm on the same curve that I was on Bravely Default. Should I do that, or does this problem correct itself down the line?

>>14882921

>general sweeping comment #51432

thanks for your input!

>>14882885

>Why can't people just encapsulate the exciting storytelling and cool worldbuilding of a JRPG with the deep history and non autistic dialogue of a WRPG?

You mean like Anachronox?

>>14883373

>It's MMO

>I suck at multiplayer games

Good news for you then Anon since basically the entire game can be done with NPC helpers. You dont even need to interact with other players to be honest if you are going for just the Missions since you out can out gear and out level the areas before you go to them.

The entry level gear at 99 is more than enough to clear basically all of them on your own.

>>14876453

Mother 3

>>14885732

Except she didn't feel the need to explain anything to the protagonist, which is waved off as "would you have believed me?" in the later dialogue. Though her ending is good enough to make up for it.

>>14883394

So you can skip right to 2?

>>14887096

No, Grandia 1 and Grandia 2 are two separate stories set in two separate worlds. They have no real connection to one another other than recurring spells and monsters – similar to Final Fantasy.

What we're saying is that Grandia 2 feels very derivative of the second half of Grandia 1. It covers many of the same story beats, the plot feels very similar, the character arcs, etc.

It's like if there was a sequel to Lord of the Rings starring Frito Plaggins, and he has to destroy the One Bracelet, and the story started while he was already in Mordor.

>>14885732

This game really surprised me. I thought it was mediocre at first but it got really good. Hilda is best witch and you are correct, she dindunuffin.

What JRPGs have some fun combat/gameplay?

>>14880970

>Trails SC

Should you stick through Chapter 8 you'll be rewarded with the final chapter, a chapter probably longer than Chapters 7,6 and 5 combined, in a completely new area(and a recycled Glorious).

>The Third

It's more "remixes" of places than reusing them, for example the castle in Grancel is now all dark and filled with spooky ghosts, and the Glorious is now given a black paint job. It's a pretty straightforward, kind of linear game, likened to Ys Origins where you're "climbing" a mysterious "tower" and you go from familiar images to new areas.

It also has some really kickass final dungeon music, as well as kickass final dungeon in general. FC and to an extent SC's final dungeons felt really dragged out and boring but The 3rd builds it up really well and this music is just great. Plus it has a neat gimmick and the final boss is neat too.

>>14888457

Give examples of anime you like and anime games that were "above acceptable levels" to you then.

can't play gothic 2 a visual crash keeps corrupting my save

could you recommend a challenging jrpg that I could play on PC right now

>>14885732

Toushin Toshi by Imageepoch is great too. Stella Glow is made by Imageepoch. It's shame all good studios died.

>>14889122

>>14896082

Recommend me JRPGs with a post-apoc atmosphere like Digital Devil Saga.

>>14885732

The problem with Stella Glow, the really big problem, is that it's incredibly slow. The actual strategy gameplay moves so incredibly slowly. Fire Emblem Awakening is another tactical JRPG for the same system that shows how to make the gameplay fast, simply by speeding up the slow, slow, slow animations that Stella Glow doesn't let you skip. As stated, Hilda is best witch and has a perfect body. It gets bonus points for being able to smugly tell the bitchy girl that you're a masochist and thus not affected when she's just throwing insults at you, even if it doesn't affect anything but the one or two lines of dialogue she gives in response.

I need to play one of mine since they're all starting to pile up. My PS2 is being retarded though, so I will have to borrow one of my cousins' when I can.

>>14876962

Play Wild Arms next anon.

>>14874026

it turns out, I only ever liked a handful of Square RPGs and Dragon Warrior. almost every other JRPG I've hated

>>14888457

>ywn be this butthurt about japanese video games

>>14882885

>WRPGS have better combat than JRPGs

Not always. They're usually deeper and more complex, but that doesn't always mean better. The problem with complex combat systems in RPGs is that you're eventually going to get to a point where you've figured out the best tactic to beat every type of enemy/enemy party you come across, at which point each fight just becomes a matter of going through the motions. Even when you encounter a new enemy it rarely takes more than one fight with them to figure out how to beat them as quickly and efficiently as possible. RPGs with simple combat systems have this problem too, but because they're so simple the fights go by much more faster. With complex battle systems, fights much longer and you're just doing the same attacks, casting the same spells and attacking the same areas over and over again. It's tedious as fuck. I'm not against deep and complex combat; I'm just saying they have their disadvantages.

That being said, a lot WRPGs don't even have good combat despite being deeper. No JRPG has combat as good as, say, the Wizardry games or Temple of the Elemental Evil, but most of them have combat superior to what's found in games like Planescape Torment, Arcanum and Toddgames©®™✡.

>>14883030

>FFXII

unironically my favorite FF since IV. Pirate the zodiac version, it's got quality of life changes that are absolutely critical to enjoying it

>>14899931

What about the recent pc version? I haven't played XII

>>14900122

the "recent" pc/ps4 versions are the international zodiac version that has been available/pirateable on ps2 for years now. trust me when i say just pirate/emulate them. if you have a PC that can run the native PC version you have a PC powerful enough to emulate it at a higher resolution

>>14876962

>LoH Trails of Cold Steel 1 & 2

Only play these if you have a very high tolerance for Otaku bait. The characters are all stock shounen and harem cliches, it takes a long time before the combat gets interesting, and the entire first game is just a drawn out prologue for the second. I like them in spite of these things, but they are not by any means standout or essential games in the genre.

I don't have the space or equipment for a good PS3 setup. Maybe one day I'll get a new monitor with built-in speakers.

Sengoku Rance

>>14902337

It's pretty good. I think there was a remake of it for the PSP so you might look into playing that version instead.

>>14902337

anything published by Atlus before 2012 or so tends to be good to great

Found out recently that Atelier Lydie and Suelle got a fitgirl pack so now I'm on that. Only past the intro after the painted world so far.

Because JRPG might as well stand for junior RPG, they are all simplified to hell.

>>14913973

>if you are a weeb you must be halfchan

Bad news newfag, imageboards started in Japan and have always been full of weebs.

I hate JRPGs but I'm not stupid enough to think those that do like them must be an uneducated immigrant like yourself.

Trying Persona 5 it's alright but the severe lack of teacher-fucking is leaving an itch I need to scratch. Thinking of loading up Legend of Mana again but then I remember those ruins. Fucking hate the ruins. That being said, I wouldn't mind something similar to Legend of Mana in how the world feels and is styled, but with maybe a bit more emphasis on exploration. I really felt that LoM's world was so interesting but since everything was sort of broken up into stages I didn't get a chance to really check it out.

>>14914330

>Phantom Brave

that, and Grim Grimoire are great games.

>>14914330

Phantom Brave and Makai Kingdom are grind heaven, the roof for grinding in that game is so goddamn high; Phantom Brave you grind your units and their items and the abilities on the characters and on the items its insane.

>>14914330

La Pucelle Tacticts was pretty boring for me. But out of all those I did beat GrimGrimoire and ZHP. Loved ZHP and it had 2 spiritual successors. The Guided Fate Paradox and The Guided Fate Ultimatum. GFP improves on some things in ZHP and is pretty damn hard at times (stage 3 boss and final boss are hell). Yet I found it no where near as charming as ZHP. Avoid GFU. It butchers the gameplay to Mystery Dungeon tier while having a worse story. Also buy anything NISA related used if you can't emulate.

>>14914330

Makai Kingdom has had its extended PSP port (Phantom Kingdom Portable) fan-translated, as has La Pucelle (La Pucelle: Ragnarok). Not sure if the latter manages to undo the censorship Mastiff did to the PS2 version.

>>14916015

I was saying both extended versions got English patches, though I assume the ported content from the PS2 originals just uses script rips instead of ground up translation (which would have to be done for new content).

>What got censored anyway?

>[La Pucelle Tactics] was released in North America with nearly every cross removed, included those on Prier and Alouette's clothing; the shape of Croix's gun and the spell animations (except holy panels) were altered. The Dark World was originally hell. Croix's cigarette was removed from his character portraits and sprites. Mastiff explained the changes in an interview with 1UP.com before the game's release; according to Bill Schwarz of the company, "There are well organized forces that work hard to punish software makers and sellers for what they consider religious transgressions. As a very small and brand new publisher without deep pockets we need to pick and choose our battles. Had we thought the crosses were meaningful we would have fought. But they weren't. And we'd much rather have the game widely available then face disappointed gamers who cannot find the title. It was the right decision, though as we grow as company we may make different calls in the future."

>>14916071

> both

Ahhh okay, i gotcha now.

> censoring crosses and cigarettes

fuckin wew

>>14916220

Funny thing is that Shadow Hearts II came west the same year (as Shadow Hearts: Covenant) without apparently attracting the so-call "well organized forces" to punish it for not showing the Catholic church in the best light (which isn't to say the church in the series is evil, more that a number of the visible members the player does encounter aren't especially good). Then again, Midway wasn't exactly a new publisher by the PS2 era, assuming (((Schwarz))) was telling the truth.

>>14914330

>So it'll be kind of like a less eventful version of Trails FC

More like a cross between Trails FC and Persona.

>>14874026

I'm waiting until I can get my hands on Persona 2.

>>14916396

Hope you aren't thinking a physical copy of EP PS1. That shit's stupid expensive these days, on par with the likes of Suikoden II and Tales of Eternia.

>>14916290

> "well organized forces"

> (((Schwarz)))

really activates my almonds

>>14916327

Oh i see. That doesn't sound too bad.

>>14917392

Think I also heard Mastiff censored some visuals from Gurumin (that being from the era before Falcom made a deal with XSEED, resulting in stuff like Mastiff getting Gurumin, Bamco horribly machine translating LoH III-V, and Konami handling Ys VI), but being that the game was originally a PC release in Japan that subsequently got ported to the PSP, and that being the version brought west at the time, changes might have been inherent to the Japanese PSP version as well if it was meant as an "all ages" suited release (the way eroge gets non-pornographic console versions at times). Granted, I'm not personally certain what the case is, and at the same time I highly doubt the Steam release they put out is apt to be more risque to match the JP original, at least without fan-made patches or something.

I'm actually not playing a JRPG right now, because I'm too busy with Baldur's Gate, but I'm thinking about coming back to Nocturne after I finish it, or maybe something more light-hearted for a change. I actually would love to play some animu sci-fi JRPG with mystery elements. The new Digimon games looked cool for that but I would have to play the previous entries first, any recommendations?

Does the Megaman Starforce series count as a JRPG?

I think im nearly halfway through by now.

>>14883765

>mention all of this

>don't mention coup de gravy

Still want to fucking kill myself from that shit

>>14918451

the english gurumin release on steam didn't censor the naked savepoint thing, i'm not sure how much else was changed.

the release was buggy and the game still suffers from some save file related crashes that make 100% completion impossible (in happy mode anyway).

>>14918461

>The new Digimon games looked cool for that but I would have to play the previous entries first, any recommendations?

If you're talking about the Digimon Story games most of them are largely self contained.

You can skip the first few games unless you specifically want to play them for their stories as Cyber Sleuth/Hacker's Memory aren't related to them other than the battle system.

I also recommend that unless you need them to be portable you should play them on the PS4 instead of the Vita because there are slight slowdowns on the Vita.

>>14918868

Didn't Gurumin launch on Steam during the Greenlight garbage and they bribed everybody with free copies of the game so they could get their foot in the door?

Looking at their releases I'm not sure how they're still around unless they're doing other shit in the background, they've done maybe 3 games per generation, on average, going back to the PS1. .

>>14888457

>t. thinks every RPG should have an open world

>>14876962

I didn't mess with felonies and item world much when I played it on the PS2, I am on my PC playthrough and its worth the increased EXP gain. The trick is to form a stack by the felony portal whatever it was called and toss in everybody but the bottom dude, everybody in the stack gets the felonies. Probs best to just use the main char for that and keep his felonies low because reasons.

Because I don't want to play one right now

I'll play whatever the fuck I want

Bitch

Does RockMan.EXE 4.5 count as a jRPG? Playing it with the patch that makes it play like a normal BN game.

>>14937263

>Scherazard Harvey

At last I know which VA sounded like a granny that was trying far too hard to sound sexy and seductive (and failing at it)

What a fucking disaster of a voice actor.

>>14937680

Exactly.

> spoiler

i-is that canon?

>>14937263

>In Disgaea Hour/Afternoon of Darkness, Etna's english VA is Amanda Winn Lee, who isn't all that bad. She also voices:

>

>> Argilla in SMT DDS

>

>> Yukiko from the Persona 4 games and spin-offs

>

>> Ichiko Ohya from Persona 5

>

>> Heather Mason in Silent Hill 3.

>

>She did some anime roles but not many, and not many more games beyond these either.

You are aware that Amanda Winn Lee was one of the primary money people/directors in ADV Films, right?

>>14902337

the grinding is the only bad thing about it and that bullshit lake throwing stone minigame

>>14914038

It's made by Team Ninja, they knew exactly which ones would be most popular.

>>14937977

> ADV Films

Never even heard of it until just now, so no

>>14938311

I know about ADV, I didn't realize Disgaea 1 Etna was Heather.

>>14938311

>Never even heard of it until just now, so no

>MUST BE !8 YEARS OF AGE OR OLDER TO POST

>>14941087

Is the angel a concubine too?

I was trying to play the Phantasy Star 1 remake for PS2, but damn, those japs put zero effort into it. The main protagonist is a cutie though.

>>14948454

I'm drunk as fuck and even I can see DM is 1/10th of a meter, not 10 meters.

>>14937296

Its an MMOJRPG

>>14949641

I like how the male side of the hotspring is like some low res trash scan, but the female side is high quality and cleaned up.

>>14948327

>Let me teach you love Laharl.

>Sleeps in his room.

>Lessons

Yes, I was pretty sure that was suppose to be the joke.

>>14950063

Priorities man.

>Laharl age

Sorry, I didn't actually remember it and was just saying a number.

>Laharl

>1313 (Disgaea)

>1316 (Disgaea 2)

So according to biblical times that would be marring age.

>>14948454

>look at Liezerota's arms and legs

>compare to body

That's beyond fucking anorexia, this art style is garbage. The artist needs to put some meat on those brittle bones, they're just fucking branches of a small tree wrapped in some skin, the part with leaves is where the hands start. It's bad enough the feet he makes are pegleg-tier wide and big, this shit goes too far.

>>14874026

>Why aren't you playing a JRPG right now /v/?

i am

>If you are which one?

im currently playing dragons dogma. just started BBL post-daimon for the 1st time.

loving this combat system. thoroughly enjoying the loli system.

prior to this the last JRPG i played was blue reflection. atelier firis, and before that nier automata.

the next one i plan on playing is the upcoming dragon quest thats already out in jp depending on the (((localization)))

>>14874026

phantasy star 4, its quite fun and easy to get into because of very engaging and ever moving story

Just finished Shadow Hearts 2. The end twist was dumb and I preferred Shadow Hearts 1 for the more palpable horror themes. I imagine the second game got much better reviews than the first because they let you play without the judgement ring, which was too difficult for game journos.

Going from fighting God to fighting a chump in a daft cape is definitely a step backwards. No desire to play number 3.