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RPG challenge runs Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 08:39:06 f599be No.16071391

What was your most challenging RPG achievement? What took the most skill and strategy to pull off? Outside of PvP. I want to compile a list of hard rpgs and their challenges.

For example, doing a no-damage boss rush on hardest setting. Or clearing a roguelike with the worst class/race/gear etc. Any examples?

For me it was Baldur's Gate 2 solo finish on hardest setting. But I did that a really long time ago, can't really recall how hard it was today.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:02:30 31cad8 No.16071451

>No damage boss rush in Oath in Felghana

Is that actually possible though? As far as I know some bosses like the crystal larvae are impossible to not take damage on.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:04:29 307e76 No.16071462

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I don't know if it counts, but playing Dwarf Fortress adventure mode with a biter (a wrestler who fights 100% only by biting) and trying to get as far as possible. This is actually pretty difficult, because you get stabbed in the head a lot while biting, but it's satisfying to run out of town and bite a grizzly bear in the neck and shake it to death. I developed the skill enough that I was killing bandits by crushing their skulls in my dwarf jaws.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:05:26 1e4be2 No.16071465

There's literally no point in doing these challenge runs, they don't take any kind of motor skill, so once you've come up with a method of clearing the challenge, there's no need to actually do it anymore.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:07:07 f599be No.16071476

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>>16071451

yep it's possible

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:08:17 f599be No.16071484

>>16071465

coming up with the method and executing it for the first time is the challenge. Afterwards you can find other challenges, or play another game, fuck off.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:10:59 31cad8 No.16071495

>>16071476

>Not nightmare

I guess.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:11:59 396e4f No.16071500

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Tough call, one of the hardest things I can recall was beating the Sylph summon spirits in Tales of Symphonia on Mania at an extremely low level. I've also got some very impressive Challenge Mode times in Phantasy Star Online.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:17:27 f599be No.16071521

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>>16071495

Nightmare no damage

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:18:24 396e4f No.16071528

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Oh and I've beaten Dullahan in Golden Sun 2 on hard mode at what is probably very close to the lowest possible level. I remember it taking hours to slowly chip down its health with a clever class-/Djinni-unleash survival strategy I came up. Many of the bosses in the Golden Sun games can simply be spammed with summons to wipe them out before you get pulverized, but this boss is an exception at low levels where it's basically suicidal because of the reduced stats from releasing your Djinn. You need a strategy that can both keep you alive and somehow deal enough damage consistently to overcome the amount of health the boss itself heals at regular intervals.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:19:53 f599be No.16071533

>>16071528

Interesting, I liked GS1, never tried 2.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:26:56 4f66d1 No.16071552

I beat Brigandine (PS1 SRPG) on hard, with Leonia, doing a no recruitment run, and doing no attacks until I recruited Aldis, meaning most of your starting monsters get whittled away by upkeep while you sit around with only one castle. It was fun, although unfortunately it still has the same problem as the main game, that once you can get rolling the difficulty falls way off. At least the time limit is an issue for a change.

I once saw a guy that claimed to beat it with knights only (no summons whatsoever) but after playing it as much as I have I find that hard to believe. I do want to try a "all knights must attack every turn" run at some point though.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:30:22 396e4f No.16071560

>>16071391

>For me it was Baldur's Gate 2 solo finish on hardest setting.

Honestly you're going to need to specify a lot more for this to mean anything. The isometric PC RPGs of the late '90s/early '00s that took too many cues from tabletop games were designed to a fault to be savescummed. In a game that strongly encourages quicksaving and quickloading for fucking everything, the accomplishment amounts to basically the difficulty of a single battle.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:30:26 e1f001 No.16071561

>>16071391

>What was your most challenging RPG achievement?

In the days before unlocking achievements were even a thing, I had this idea that if you beat Shadow Hearts with a perfect judgement score rating, something amazing would happen. Many resets, many such cases.

Nothing happpened

Nothing also happened in Shadow Hearts 2

Same for Shadow Hearts 3

I suspect that I went thru some sort of autism that the game unlocked in myself. I did have the need to do anything like this before or after.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 09:55:47 f49885 No.16071628

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>>16071462

ok nao dis b epic monica

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 11:46:10 f599be No.16071793

Well I'm play Ys 7 on nightmare and its kicking my ass, again. But fun as heck

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 11:56:10 1f38f0 No.16071804

>>16071521

>9 views

Did you make this video?You played great.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 12:13:06 e7e4fb No.16071833

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>>16071391

I finished Rance Magnum without jerking off even once.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 18:44:19 6d7e47 No.16072829

>>16071833

Is there a new Rance translation that I missed, or is this just from some random preview?

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 20:25:18 63463e No.16073241

Hardcore runs of BG1/2 are pretty rough. Made a lot easier by playing the shorty races for their saving throw bonus, but still scary. Level 1 Dark Souls 2 runs can get pretty rough since unlike DaS1, you can't just get a 100 stability shield and/or fast roll your way to victory. Final Fantasy Tactics has plenty of challenge runs, including solo Ramza, and single class challenges like using 5 Chemists and ONLY using Chemist skills. I enjoyed a FF6 challenge run where I only used Celes/Setzer/Edgar for the second half of the game.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 21:13:50 e295c0 No.16073473

Getting all ultimate personas in Persona PSP Snow Queen Quest

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 21:14:37 e28ddb No.16073478

>>16072829

He's using a machine translator.

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 21:15:05 e295c0 No.16073482

>>16073473

on Hard difficulty as well

Anonymous 02/02/19 (Sat) 23:20:02 6d7e47 No.16074024

>>16073478

Ah, shit. At least we should be getting a translation for the already translated Sengoku Rance soon.

What are they even thinking?

Best case scenario nobody buys it, because everybody already played it and they drop the other translations.

Anonymous 02/03/19 (Sun) 03:52:26 f151ac No.16075035

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>>16073478

No, I cleared the moon version with some text hooking in 2015, I think. I'll see if I still have a version with the UI patched to English and the scripts exposed if you're interested.

>>16074024

Money. They know everyone wants Rance and not Evenicle or Beat Blades Haruka or whatever. Now, when they did it for the love of the medium as fan TLs, that wasn't a problem. Now a days they're holding the more popular games hostage until they sell shit that's both significantly less complicated to finish and significantly less likely to sell on it's own.

And if you want to swear at a particular kike; related and a former /a/ tripfag Arunaru are the reasons why we didn't get Rance Quest in 2016.

Anonymous 02/03/19 (Sun) 03:57:42 f151ac No.16075049

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>>16074024

>>16075035

>Arunaru

In particular you can thank that cunt for all memes, eyecancer, continuity breaking name or location changes or more affectionately dubbed wordshit found in official Alicesoft localizations. His current projects include a take on Sengoku because the free patch everyone and their grandmother already played is just not making them any shekels.

Anonymous 02/03/19 (Sun) 06:09:14 215e36 No.16075350

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>>16071391

I was doing a run in lunar 2 with solo/main character only. And only using starting weapon ( the crappy little dagger). I got pretty far too, over halfway through the game. But then work and school stuff got in the way and then I just never got back to it. I've been meaning to try that or something like that again. I also had a similar idea for replaying Fallout 3 or New Vegas by dressing up like Rorschach from Watchmen and only using my bare Fists to handle everything.