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  • newtmonkey
    [Playing] Ultima II (A2), Super Mario RPG (SNES), Phantasy Star II (MD) | [Finished] Ember (PC)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Just finished Ember. It was a nice little surprise; not a bad game for a tablet/phone game port.
    Thac0
    Thac0
    Interesting that you liked it, had it floating around in my wishlist for a while, eventually removed it because of mobile origin + general dislike for hack & slash genre. The aesthetics have a certain charm, nice to hear it is not shovelware.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Thac0
    Don't get me wrong, it's not anything amazing, but it's decent. It's not really hack & slash like Diablo, more like a very simple Baldur's Gate. It only really drags during the last 10% of the game imo.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Elden Ring (PC), Ember (PC), Elminage (PSP), Wild Arms (PSX) | [Finished] Queen's Wish (PC)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Just finished Queen's Wish. A 40-hour slog that would have been a decent enough 20-hour trifle.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Elden Ring (PC), Queen's Wish (PC), Elminage (PSP), Wild Arms (PSX) | [Finished] Operencia (PC)
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    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    For Operencia, my party was: Mage, Joska (STR/INT split damage dealer), Mezey (STR/VIG split tank), and Kela (STR damage dealer). It's good to see that the game allows for different types of parties!
    Lyre Mors
    Lyre Mors
    You liking Wild ARMs? Generally feels pretty underrated to me. I'm a fan. Great setting, some very cool lore, nice atmosphere, interesting challenge spikes, beautiful soundtrack, great "exploration" spirtework, generally fun and satisfying puzzling that doesn't get in the way.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Yeah, Wild Arms is great. Awesome soundtrack and exploration, and I really like the magic system, which gives you some great flexibility even from the start.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Elden Ring (PC), Operencia (PC), Elminage (PSP), Wild Arms (PSX) | [Finished] Final Fantasy VIII (PSX)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Just completed FF8. It's my least favorite in the series (out of FF1-8), but I found it to be enjoyable enough. Poor story, worse characters, but awesome backgrounds and the junction/GF system is fun.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Exile (PC), Elminage: Original (PSP), FF8 (PSX) | [Finished] Shard of Spring (Apple II)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Just completed Shard of Spring. It's very basic, but surprisingly fun with some good combat and dungeon delving. Worth a play for fans of Ultima III.
    A horse of course
    No!
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] AD&D: Secret of the Silver Blades (PC), Shard of Spring (Apple II) | [Finished] Final Fantasy V (SFC)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Finally completed FF5 after a year or two of on and off playing. I've completed FF1-7 now, and I'd rank it toward the top of the series overall.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Final Fantasy V (SFC), AD&D: Secret of the Silver Blades (PC) | [Finished] Ys III (PCE)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Ys III was much shorter than I remember. PCE version blows the SNES version away in every aspect except parallax scrolling, with noticeably better hit detection—it actually plays like a decent action game. Great soundtrack.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Final Fantasy V (SFC), AD&D: Secret of the Silver Blades (PC) | [Finished] Ys I/II (PCE)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Just finished Ys I/II on PCE. Great music, fun boss fights, but lots of big empty mazes bring it down toward the end.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Final Fantasy V (SFC), AD&D: Secret of the Silver Blades (PC) | [Finished] Phantasie (Apple II)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Just finished Phantasie. Great game, especially for 1985!
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Final Fantasy V (SFC), Phantasie (Apple) | [Finished] Lurking Immortui (PC)
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Just finished Lurking Immortui now. Awesome game, highly recommended for fans of Ultima III-V.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Final Fantasy V (SFC), Lurking Immortui (PC), Artifact Adventure (PC) | [Finished] Mother (FC)
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    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    It's really great imo, but only if you are into the 8-bit JRPGs (or perhaps the more exploration-focused parts of FF5/6). The story is basically non-existent, it's definitely a throwback to DQ3, just completely wide open for exploration.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    I definitely recommend choosing the airship as your artifact, as it allows you to go pretty much anywhere in the game right from the start. Having said that, the first time I tried it, it didn't hook me at all either. Second try took about an hour for it to interest me.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    But I also love Dragon Quest 2/3 and the nonlinear parts of FF5/6, so ymmv.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Dark Souls III (PC), Yomi wo Saku Hana (Switch), Mother (FC) | [Finished] Breath of Fire II (SFC)
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    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    I am going with Pyro in DS3 (first time through was greatsword melee). Tons of fun and it gets overpowered from midgame. I mentioned this in the DS3 thread, but I could not believe how trivial Pontiff Sulyvahn and the Dancer were with Pyro. It's like a different game.
    NJClaw
    NJClaw
    My biggest surprise with a pyromancer is how much it can trivialize Midir. You can take him down in just a couple of minutes, while usually it's the longest and grindiest fight in the game.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    I didn't do much of the DLC the first time through, so it's good to hear I can trivialize that fight too haha.
    newtmonkey
    [Playing] Dark Souls III (PC), Yomi wo Saku Hana (Switch), Breath of Fire II (SFC) | [Finished] Dark Souls II: SOTFS (PC)
    newtmonkey
    [Now playing] Baldur's Gate (PC), Diablo (PC), Bloodborne (PSNOW) | [Last finished] Dark Souls III (PC)
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    NJClaw
    NJClaw
    Personally, I love everything from Demon's Souls to Sekiro. I can see where each entry fails, but that doesn't stop me from enjoying what it gets right. They are part of the very short list of games I enjoyed enough to try ironman runs.
    NJClaw
    NJClaw
    Bloodborne is an incredibly good game, but it's painful to play on such a shitty hardware. With hacks it maintains 60 FPS most of the time on the PS5, but the drops to 20-30 in the most crowded areas are like knives in the eyes.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Well, we can only hope that Bloodborne somehow gets ported to PC one of these days (so that I can actually play it, and you can enjoy it on better hardware). Once I finish Lords of the Fallen (it's okay) I'll probably tackle Sekiro next.
    newtmonkey
    [Now playing] Baldur's Gate (PC), Diablo (PC), Dark Souls (PC) | [Last finished] Curse of the Azure Bonds (PC)
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    NJClaw
    NJClaw
    I think the only things preventing it from becoming a REAL genre-defining success are a couple of very absurd design choices that can only be explained with Owlcat's inexperience. I still can't believe they left in the game stuff like Entangle lasting for multiple IRL minutes even outside of combat.
    Thac0
    Thac0
    Also at least according to Tacgnol the adventure module is fucking shit in the second half, and Owlcat had to do one hell of patching it up so it made sense. Which explains the rapid decline of quality in the second half of the game, as ressources get stretched thin.
    Tacgnol
    Tacgnol
    Yeah they made quite a bit of effort to fill in plot holes and generally expand the narrative. One of the big criticisms of the AP is that Nyrissa gets fuck all characterisation or presence until the final book. Owlcat tried to give her more presence throughout the entire AP.
    newtmonkey
    [Now playing] Final Fantasy VIII (PSX), Pathfinder: Kingmaker (PC) | [Just finished] Curse of the Azure Bonds (PC)
    Citizen
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    newtmonkey
    [Now playing] Final Fantasy 8 (PSX), Curse of the Azure Bonds (PC), Realms Of Antiquity (TI-99) | [Just finished] Ultima III: Exodus (PC)
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    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    I like the junction system and the backgrounds haha. There's really not much to recommend about it, but I want to finish all the FF games from 1-9, and all I have left to complete is 5, 8, and 9.
    Thac0
    Thac0
    It has so much potential, but the game is constantly tripping over it's own feet. Junctioning would be pretty cool, if not for the amount of spells junctioned influencing your stats that much. That makes casting a junctioned spell actively stupid in almost all cases, and turns the game into a boring auto attack slog.
    The backgrounds are nice tho.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Agreed. It's too bad they never revisited the junction system. Imagine a nonlinear game where you could go explore the world to hunt down powerful spells to junction to stats, etc. It's shame such an interesting system was stuck in such a ridiculous game.
    newtmonkey
    [Now playing] Breath of Fire II (SFC), Tenchi Souzou (SFC), Realms Of Antiquity (TI-99), Ultima III: Exodus (PC)
    newtmonkey
    [Now playing] Inindo (SFC), Stranger of Sword City (PC), Star Ocean (SFC), Lurking Immortui (PC)
    CryptRat
    CryptRat
    The Dark Heart of Uukrul is definitely somewhere on the very top of the list of games I never even try but need to play.
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    It's a great great with a very tight design, but maybe a bit too much focused on puzzles (at the expense of combat and character development) for me. It's still a lot of fun, so I hope to complete it this year.
    newtmonkey
    [Currently playing] Illusion of Gaia, Stranger of Sword City, Ultima: Exodus, The Dark Heart of Uukrul
    Maxie
    how many of these do you actually enjoy
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Listed in my profile now? All of them are enjoyable.
    newtmonkey
    [Currently playing] Stranger of Sword City, Estpolis Denki, Ultima: Exodus, The Dark Heart of Uukrul
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    Thac0
    Thac0
    Yeah I almost assumed as such. Even the modern generic "hard" JRPGs like SaGa and SMT are several notches below Isometric rpgs on max difficulty when it comes to challenge. Even mild shit like PoE on max is harder than any JRPG.

    I guess it has always been this way then, with western blobbers being the pinnacle of difficulty usually.
    Grauken
    Grauken
    Eh, I think that is overstated, played DW2 on the NES a couple of years ago and don't remember it being particularly hard
    newtmonkey
    newtmonkey
    Many JRPG fans are brain damaged, there is no other explanation. All you need to do is read GameFAQS boards and also the FAQs to realize this. A lot of these people enjoy spending hours and hours grinding easy combats so they can sail through the game "to enjoy the story" lol.
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