/v/ - Video Games

>>16723491

I've been meaning to get around to playing Divinity lately. That could actually work, though it's pretty expensive if we both have to buy our own copies.

Another one I can't believe I forgot is Baldur's Gate. I played a lot of BG2 when I was a kid. I don't know what the situation is with the modern releases, or if gemrb is a viable path to a multiplayer playthrough of the games.

>>16723502

It is a lot of fun. It just gets frustrating when you get fucked over and spend 45 minutes doing nothing. Turning darkling is alright, and lets you fuck over other players and gain some experience in the process, but having to lose all your assets in the process is totally shit, especially because it dumps you without any money in the end.

I made this thread actually because I got in that situation as a magician, and immediately after coming out of darkling, I got sniped on the overworld by another player and lost my magic attack. I didn't have cash because of darkling, and I went through the water to get back to the castle because a thief was on the other path, and a water monster used waterfall and destroyed my physical weapon, leaving me with no money, no magic attacks, and no physical attacks. I spent the next hour trying to grind enough money back up to buy a simple magic attack, but every time I got anywhere close, a CPU player would come back and fuck me up again and steal all my money.

Never use AT as a dump stat. If you end up in an unfortunate position, you have no way of recovering.

>>16723517

Depends on how the gameplay is implemented. Tales games do it alright, but they don't give any decent control outside of combat. In games with a real-time battle system like Baldur's Gate, it can work alright. I don't remember how dialogue worked in multiplayer, though.

Dokapon works by being competitive, but the balance is too poor for my tastes.

In Final Fantasy games with the feature and a few other RPGs, multiplayer is literally equivalent to handing a controller around, as only one controller has control at a time. Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles handles it OK, but the need for a bunch of GBAs makes it annoying. We're doing Dokapon Kingdom via an emulator in the first place, so we'd have to figure out that weird setup.

I like RPGs, and I like the idea of doing them with other people, either competitively or cooperatively. I just don't know a lot of games that do this very well at all.

>>16723484

90%+ of Dragon Quest 9 can be played co-op with 1-3 other players

These count?