>>3467349
Try reading scifi fantasy shounen manga and you'll get it

Segagaga and Moon: Remix RPG Adventure be considered satirical?
The former makes a comment on Jap work culture inside Sega, but in an exaggerated way as playing like an RPG whole. The latter I heard was about the player cleaning up after the RPG hero, who would've been the protagonist, causing trouble or something.

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Here OP, you stupid fuck.
I'll save your thread for you.

Now get strapped in, we're on the express line to page 11. Thank-you for understanding.

>>3470623
1 and 4? Run it down for me.

>>3467349
The dev lore I’ve heard is that sakaguchi intended for final fantasy to be his last game before retiring but it was so successful that the execs ordered a sequel. He was checked out so he phoned in FFII not intending for it to be successful, but it ended up being another hit. Each time a sequel was ordered the team (under sakaguchi’s guidance) would make it more absurd than the previous installment. This culminated with FFIV in which the party travels to the moon on a flying whale. If it’s is true then I’d guess they probably realized they had something special and decided for take it seriously around FFVI or VII.

>>3467914
Because most of the time it speaks to being lazy. It's just an easy path for literally anyone to put out at least SOMETHING, and usually that means it's barely a game.

It's correlative, not causative, though I know lots of people object to to stock assets on principle.

>>3467914
The premise and the initial introduction make you think it's an excuse for masturbation. The kingdom building, combat system, economics and warfare sequences are all great and thought out, though. The metaphysics that get introduced are also pretty cool.

>>3467939
>Missed the easily missable party member
>Lost the tank lady, thought it was scripted
I am really thinking about doing it all over again but I'm really far in. Second visit to the hobbit kingdom to be exact

>>3468114
If it makes you feel any better, neither are are all that good in battle (though the Elf does help in a bunch of wars and some quests).

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>>3467694
Genuinely one of my favorite games, not because it's the best game ever made, but because I think it's the closest game to the ideal dream game people always warn you not to make when you first open rpg maker.

Balia best girl btw.

>>3470583
DLC 3 ties him in pretty hard with Hastur.

>>3470566
Current Alices

>>3470537
Technically, he did pray for someone to come and separate "Alice" and his new friend but the "joke" is that it's actually "Alice"'s prayer that was responsible of summoning Leaf.
It's his thing, everyone including his son think he sinned, and he did, but, it's not a sin that did much.

>>3470568
>>3470572
I feel deeply attacked. (I don't)

>>3469960
The Fagles version is clearly the superior translation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkirTpsVW7A
Has this been brought up in these threads before?

post her ASS we are 57 posts deep wtf is wrong with you!?

>>3470482
Agree on most things but I will add a couple of my opinions:

Quina is shit.

The second half of the game doesn't utilize the main party and focuses soley on Zidane and Garnet. Yes they got more focus on the first half but its still unfortunate their arcs pretty much end halfway through the game.

Necron came out of nowhere. Nothing can defend this. They had a chance to tie it with ExDeath from FFV which would have been a sweet nod, but no.

Agree about stealing though its annoying that it tempts you so since the main character is the thief.

Kuja is an underrated imo and should not have been redeemed. People only hate him cause he's girly but he literally wins every battle against the heroes.

Chocobo hot and cold is a guilty pleasure and it also helps it leads you to the superboss.


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>>3470742
Whose ass? Be more specific. Queen Brahne?

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>>3470742
>>3470753
N E X T G E N

>>3470751
>People only hate him cause he's girly
My problem is less with Kuja himself as with the writing around him.
>haha yes I'm the sinister bad guy and I'm going to do mysterious bad guy stuff for obscure personal reasons that won't make any sense for 2-3 more discs because it's all tied into the japvoluted metaphysics of the setting. And in the meantime you're going to watch Steiner gradually learn how to not be an oblivious retard all the time.
Yes I'm being glib I'm not in the mood to go in depth.
>Yes they got more focus on the first half but its still unfortunate their arcs pretty much end halfway through the game
To me, that's part of the problem. With all the focus on side characters, Zidane and Kuja seem to be going through the motions for too much of the story.

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>>3468509
The only issue with Elden Ring as a pantheon is that all the other gods outside the Greater Will are so untouched in the story that you can't really talk about them as a pantheon.

But it's basically Greek Mythos in terms of the exploits of the demigods and Zeus/Radagon cheating on/divorcing Hera/Rennala with mortals/Extremely Complex Masturbation.

>>3468190
Why are you saying they’re gross and horrible like that’s a bad thing?

>>3468585
i dont get it neither, thats the cool part. like Demiurge world

>>3468577
The fact that they aren’t talked about is the cool part

>>3468634
Yeah but that just means there's not much to say about them either.
The mystery of them is cool, but we've got nothing but the mystery.

>>3470722
it's definitely been the hardest fight i've seen so far, maybe casually wandering into providence as the first world after the initial world was a bad idea

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>finally have enough magic stones and stuff to upgrade that Feather Spear
>instantly feel regret because 2H guns have a lot of cool moves and upgrading the Hyperion Bazooka also requires Magic Stones
And reincarnation continues to be weird. Blath rolled the 2H Sword role, but actually lost 2H Sword skill and gained a ton of 2H gun skill.

Has the soundtrack been ripped?

>>3470757
No, official soundtrack should come out soon though

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*blocks your monopoly path*

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>>3470442
Yeah. Innocent Rules actually had one of the better villains in the series, I feel. Kaamos gets a shitload of screentime, has motivations behind her actions, and her motivations are actually relatable too. Given the shitty situation she got roped into.

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>>3470453
b-b-BIG

>>3470431
I find it extra funny the party ends the fight thinking they've successfully convinced Idea to stop, when the real truth is there probably isn't enough time to run through more hero candidates because the next Calamity is due soon and waiting around a meadow.

>>3470371
This and so much more is why I couldn't enjoy Kludge.
Nothing felt real. Nothing felt thematically connected. And ultimately, there felt like there were no stakes.
I think at least that portion of how I feel about Kludge is fairly objective.
Subjectively, I think Kludge failed in the scenes, too- but this largely has to do with how I didn't find the majority of the cast appealing.
In general, the side-cast was much more interesting to me than the main cast.

Dita was badly handled, and I think is sort of the epitome of Hakika's "Don't want to write X as a bad character" syndrome. I feel like her whole character would have greatly benefited from being in a position where she could actually take charge like the protagonist she's supposed to be, instead of the awkward story half measure we got. Any number of things could have and would have been better.

Kuu is fine, and I can understand the overall theming hakika went for. Not in any means bad, just not my preference.

Lusica is also fine, but feels a little bit over the top. I think I was a little disappointed that her role as a mechanic didn't actually mean much- and this kind of bleeds over into my disappointment with how robots were handled in Kludge. It's the land of machines. Why don't the machines matter? Why aren't the robots cool? Yeah I get Ordowald's decaying, but still.

Yubeil? 10/10, can think of no criticism at this time, other than maybe "We should have gotten her in Colony instead"- but unfortunately, the story demands that that wouldn't have made sense. The alternative to that is "Should have been in a better game."


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>>3470747
Before getting into the game, I thought I would like Lusica the most, but I actually ended up liking Yubeil and Yolnaya the most. Vyner and Reda were great too. Dita’s alright, her purple ass is good just like Maria’s, but she leaves a lot to be desired. Lusica and Faria were the biggest disappointments of the cast if you ask me, they’re just compete weirdos.
Kludge’s cast had a problem with not bringing back any returning characters, so the cast seems weak on its own when compared to awake and colony’s all-star cast. There was a big lack of an audience surrogate character like Rabi in colony too, which hampered the story. Imagine if instead of Faria, we got Auris in the party at the halfway point. It would’ve been a million times better. You can just imagine it yourself.
And with this line of thinking, I can guarantee thirst’s cast will be much better just because they have both Nazuna and Uula to bounce off of.

>>3470252
The whole thing is three steps forward, but three steps back.

>>3470483
Disagree
As it stands, BBI is about the only big strength DD1 has over DD2

>>3470483
This

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god i wish this game had better optimization to run on my toaster

whats fucked is that I can run better looking games no probo

>>3470689
That’s nice. I disagree with that, too.

>>3470683
lol
lmao even

>>3470654
>believing PR
lol

>>3470686
>>3470692
t. filtered and mad about it

>>3469466
First one is playable (with the expansions). Second one... first one is playable.

>>3469607
Yeah. 2 is pretty good, but 1 is just a slog.

>>3470172
The white map probably didn't make much of a difference, especially in the GC version where EXP gains are boosted, but yeah, not using the captain stripes is really your own fault.

>>3470177
>not using the captain stripes is really your own fault
I figured it would make ship battles a bit more interesting. It did. I also tried doing some of the end-game bounties with a party of three, which was interesting as well.

>>3469530
>>3470141
Hydra and Zelos can also be silenced, which kinda makes things easier.
Hydra only get one scripted heal, and Zelos waste turns trying to use magic.

>>3461872
>>3462260
>>3464637
thinking back on this, I came with a theory that Valuans were the purple civilization that moved to Yellow after the anciant yellow were annihilated.
Part of it is after noticing a lack of anciant ruins of the yellow civilization.

What version of this game should I legally purchase?

>>3470675
she's emotionally-aware and kind of the glue between various people
despite being some commoner street urchin, she gets along with and influences powerful important people like ashe and larsa
also she has the nicest rear to look at

>>3470682
>generic trait asspull
>cliche stereotype asspull
>ass asspull

>>3470691
>low quality bait

>>3470714
bet you can't find another person who remotely cares about Penelo
inb4 samefagging commences

>>3470732
she's the most likeable of them

>magister uses ricochet on an oil barrel, bouncing the shot into me and paladin cork
>oil spills all over the place
>2nd magister throws an oil flask in between the oil slick and a lit torch nearby to bridge the gap
>whole thing explodes and sets me and cork on fire
unironically kino

bump b4 bed

gonna try a hydro mage with a little necro for decaying touch, wish me luck bros

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>>3467118
It's pretty fun, and less underpowered than I thought it'd be, though I'm getting much more mileage out of the water totem I'm able to summon than combo'ing decaying touch with regen. Petrifying touch is honestly a huge help though, never played dorf before and I'm glad I decided to this time.

It's kinda weird though; when an enemy has chilled for 2 turns, I can't freeze him with another application of chilled like I could if he only was chilled for 1 turn. Also, should I dip my water staff into a poison barrel for a little extra damage, or is that gonna fuck me over in the long run? I noticed that if I melee an enemy with a poison staff and they're standing on ice/water, it turns the surface into poison

if you stop getting new skills at the end of act 2, what's the appeal of act 3 & 4

>>3470715
you sound like a retard, so, yeah, play the OC.

>>3470724
fuck you, but i'll consider it

>>3470715
I've never played a NWN game either. You won't get any good willed recommendation here everyone is an elitist fuck with a superiority complex. A friend of mine says to play the main game as well but I always disagree with him when it comes to video games so I doubt I'll like it. He has been recommending BG3 non stop so I ignored it on Steam and just started Dark Messiah. I'm already having fun.

>>3470227
Yeah pretty much, that’s what I was trying to say by “J or W”.

>>3470719
I don't know what a W RPG is. LIke, Witcher 3 and Skyrim and Mass Effect? Barely RPGs?

Shit thread, OP. Learn to ask a question that seeks a definite object.

>>3470723
You don't know what a C RPG is either because it only means "computer RPG", as opposed to "tabletop".

>>3470725
Sorry anon :(
All I want are named pre-defined party members dying in RPGs