/v/ - Video Games

>>15380640

>Any game that expects you to use both by default doesn't count.

>Souls games, Nioh and Dragon's Dogma count

Huh?

>eldritch knight

To me eldritch conveys immeasurable age, is it supposed to just mean magical ability?

>no game where you play as re awakened ancient magus, slow to regain your full powers as an effect of hibernation but your understanding of the nature of magic is so vastly different from normal magic users that when you do you become as gods

What would an ancient cook class be like? Or an eldritch merchant?

Would an eldritch beast tamer call for abominations normal folk have trouble comprehending, not to mention an eldritch summoner?

>>15380648

I've done raw only melee runs of Souls games before, and I've done mixed runs where I imbue weapons with magic and fire.

Not sure on Nioh since I hate loot grinds and gave up once I realised I'd be farming loot instead of actually having fun.

>>15380648

Of the class in the souls series most by default are melee focused, faith casters with some melee ability or magic users with an emergency option in melee. Main exceptions being Pyromancer, 3's Assassin, Demon's Souls Royalty and maybe DS1's wanderer/thief (you have the stats to use magic, just not the items, which are trivial to obtain.). It's fully possible to play the game as a non-magic user, and indeed that's always what the promo material shows. In Dragon's Dogma 7/9 of the classes, including all the starting ones, aren't magic/martial hybrids.

>>15380750

Checking various dictionaries

>strange or unnatural especially in a way that inspires fear

>eerie; weird; spooky

>Strange or unearthly; eerie.

None have anything to do with age. Arcane magic, in most settings (and the only video games set in Eberron are utter shit), fits the qualities those definitions ask for.

>>15380640

>>15380763

Pretty sure the term you're looking for is more "Magic Knight" or "Mage Knight" than anything.

>>15380759

Nioh's magic and nijutsu are mostly for support. The support is really nice, and you can get some moments where they do good damage like using suzaku with guardian talismans against large enemies (umibozu) where he hits multiple times, juggling hino-enma with shuriken/kunai, and chaining explosive trap (or daiba-washi + guardian spirit charm) into ground stab into another explosive trap on humanoids.. However, for the most part you're going to be hitting shit with a katana and sometimes imbuing it with your guardian spirit.

Geneforge????

>>15381394

Pretty sure the series expects you to be a mage to some degree.

Oh right, also played The Elder Scrolls. Playing a class without magic in those is generally a stupid move (no utility spells), but technically possible.

>>15381752

What game?

>>15385098

That's pretty clearly Disgaea, though the class sucks in the early games (zero synergy between abilities) and I haven't played the later ones.

>>15385109

1 of the games lets her cast magic after normal attacks.

>>15380769

Fucking this. There's absolutely no need to use retarded nerd words like "eldritch". Something more concise and clear like mage knight is more to the point.

>>15380750

>>15380763

>>15380769

>>15385129

Eldritch Knight is a prestige class in D&D which does exactly what he's asking for. It's why he's using a term you find odd.

>>15385670

>i think that was the first one.

You sure? I don't recall any class having extra abilities in the first game.

>>15380763

"Eldritch" does have connotations of age regardless of what your dictionaries say

>>15380763

But note they are not the primary connotations despite what the poster you're replying to thinks

>>15385670

what is the best way to play disgaea from the start to finish?

>>15393262

if you play them out of chronological order its going to feel awkward going back to earlier iterations. but id say the disparity between 4, 5 and D2 are not as big as the time between 1 and 4. there are plenty of quality of life changes between the games that it would be difficult to play 5 and go back to 1.

monsters were crappy in the first game ,but every game they try something a little different with them, from transforming them into temporary weapons to access powerful attacks early on and as they key to some late game strategies, or as hardy mounts for slow or squishy units.

one of my favorite changes for example, items usually have npcs in them that you can encounter when using that item as a key(it is not destroyed, it is in fact empowered) to a random dungeon. they give the item bonus stats while they reside in it, and when you find them and beat them up the stat is increased and you can then move that npc freely to different items to provide the bonuses to the new item instead. in earlier games they must be transferred directly to another item but starting with disgaea 3s vita port (which came out after 4 mind you), you have an inventory for these guys so that you dont have to keep a bunch of junk items just to hold them. i couldnt live without that any more.

>>15393262

>Order

1 -> 2 -> D2 -> 5

Skip 3. 4 is optional.

>Gameplay

Use only generics. Abuse the fuck out of ninjas and gunners in Disgaea 1.

>>15393262

If you don't want to spend thousands of hours, I'd say 1 for the story, then 5 for the gameplay.

Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup has death knights (necromancer fighter), chaos knights (chaos god powered fighters), skalds (fighters with spells that augment their fighting abilities), and whatever the fuck else you want.

Because you can skill into anything your gay ass heart desires

>>15393537

>Tales of Maj'Eyal is a free

>look it up

>free on their homesite

>cost money on (((steam)))

Why does anyone use that piece of shit?

>>15394104

its also on gog which is pretty much the same thing as free

I'm sure there are lots of WRPGs where you can be the transexual magic knight of your dreams.

>>15393600

How many undead can death knights get? Need they all be humanoid?