should I turn on battle rank for the carry over on new playthroughs?

>>3469527
>I have no idea what the game is supposed to be
>Is it just go to point A fight monsters go to point B fight more monsters?
>I just make attack chains and they die
Yes, that's unironically the whole game.

>>3469536
I tried doing that for Ameya and got straight up walled by the frogs at the start
Probably depends on the character and your gear

shit game
shit gacha
shit community
shit series
shit company
shit enix
shitga

>>3469527
>I have no idea what the game is supposed to be
>Is it just go to point A fight monsters go to point B fight more monsters?
I mean, you are melting frozen people. I'm pretty sure you have to choose who to melt and they all tell you about Final Emperor.

i remember many ages ago (i think it existed after fallout 1 for a few years) of some australian lone developer who made his own fallout clone but, instead of nuclear war, it was an alt-future with UFOs or something like that.

anyway, he only made a demo of it and then discontinued it because it would be too much work to create the whole thing.

have no idea what the name of it was and tried finding it a few times but with no success. maybe some of the players here might remember it.

>>3463338
I wish there was more Orc oriented RPG's

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>>3463268
I have been tracking Landtraveller for years to see if would become popular, but it didn't and now the game is free to play with no multiplayer option. It is like Minecraft meets furries, that meets RPG Maker (the game has an rpg maker atmosphere and the dev used to post on rpg maker forums). I took a look and it is not for me, I prefer playing with a bunch of other players. If someone is interested in the single-player mode, go ahead. Free on Steam.

>>3468947
>Minecraft meets furries, that meets RPG Maker
this is the most offputting thing i've read all month. congratulations.

>>3468804
I figured out what this was - Omega Syndrome.

>>3459472
Here is what I liked:
>characters look good
>beeing able to make rules and auto fight
>changing your jobs and how you want and how you like
>fun secrets and bazar
>hunting mission that ends in fighting one super boss with some story tidbits
>having secret summons
>dungeons beeing actually bigger than they appear

Here is what I didn't like
>although fixed in zodiac (not open certain item boxes or you won't get the zodiac spear)
>not beeing able to save sets of commands to swap them out
>story is nonesensical after the half (and even then is not even that fun, oh no my husbando died I am so sad and walk with le skimpy minirock)
>character arcs kinda meh

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>>3469280
>. We will never get things like glorious FF V to X again.
FFX is really not that good

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>>3469250
>Star Ocean, SaGa, Kingdom Hearts, all games for idiots
I would actually like to hear your list of JRPGs that are apparently not for idiots. It also seems incredibly moronic to include Star Ocean considering it was basically a different company for the majority of its lifespan. I also always considered the holy unrighteous hate it gets as a litmus test to see who actually likes JRPG and has a good judge of what's important which is to say you're demonstrating the opposite.

>>3469186
>Haven't played an FF game in a while and this is seriously making me question if Final Fantasy has just always been shit. Is FF the worst JRPG franchise ever?
Yes. There's very few good FF games depending on what you're looking for.
XII, X-2, XI, V & II are the interesting ones but if you're not into it post ATB then yeah, you're probably not going to enjoy it unless you get into the story.

>>3469531
>XII, X-2, XI, V & II are the interesting ones
But anon, I'm playing 12 right now and there's nothing interesting about this.

>>3467250
Which version should I play then?

>>3467240
My problem with Elminage 1's dungeons is that they are intricate but feel somewhat procedurally generated and have next to no placed content. It takes a lot of busywork to explore every nook and cranny but there's little reward. With CoH2 I can see chests in the distance and try to find out how to reach them, or simply how to reach the other side of the dungeon to progress to the next region. That's another thing I like a lot about CoH2, it feels like Wizardry 6-8 / Grimoire where all the maps are connected together and you go to different regions on foot like it's an open world rather than just selecting them from a menu like in Elminage or Dungeon Travelers 2.

>>3467313
the ps1 version

How are you supposed to use devils without destroying your party affinity? A party full of those blue gnomes?

Also are idols good?

>>3467584
Are those Japanese only?

>>3466136
Skyrim is a game that greatly benefits from simply not using healing spells or potions. A different game when you gotta use all the other options, actually focus on the game. Healing spells especially is like baby mode difficulty.

>>3463767
I noticed my enjoyment of RPGs improved significantly once I just started to freely use consumables and items with charges without giving a fuck about hoarding them.

You sometimes get access to more gameplay mechanics and features you'd miss otherwise in the case of potions with cool effects or items with cool charges, you don't have to waste time juggling inventory slots and trying to work out a way to fit everything you weren't planning on using anyways, because you burned through it, and if you could've gone through the whole game hoarding every single consumable item and not needing to save it for some crucial point anyways then you're not going to miss them being gone.

>>3467851
DeS had infinite health items that could be farmed, you could carry 99x of each herb (equivalent to light, medium, heavy heal potions in other games). No cooldown and you could spam them as fast as you wanted.

DS introduced estus, you could carry 5 or 10 of them, using them plays an animation thats quite slow, locks you in place, can be interrupted, and if you run out you only get more by visiting a bonfire, but that respawns all killed enemies, so you couldn't cheese by clearing shit out, getting more potions, then running back. However there were still consumable items you could use to full heal that could be farmed and stacked. But much more rare.

DS2/DS3 had estus, as well as more frequent and common healing consumables that could be bought/farmed/stacked.

>>3469517
>You sometimes get access to more gameplay mechanics and features
Rikku in FFX is a benchwarmer or the best character, depending on how much of a hoarder the player is.

>>3464022
All the PSX era RE games

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Reminder that he gets off scot free and there is nothing you can do about it.

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>>3469245
Just beat it. Goddamn, what a soulful game. Highly recommended to anyone who's addicted to the genre like myself and looking for something good.

>>3469389
>Literally costs less then that new shitty werewolf game
You know what, yeah. I WILL buy it

>>3469318
Ugly chads do that, handsome chad we can't do that so we play as your standard chad

I always choose the averagr height for my characters even though I'm 5'3 irl

>>3469484
>they read on some obscure forum that the original where better. Also no one played the original
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>3469484
I actually watched a retrospective recently and the main complaints seem to be "the old CGI cutscenes were cooler" and "Tab lets you find super tiny items easier"
Is it just mental illness? These are nothingburgers.

>>3469488
>I actually watched a retrospective recently
You have to be 18 to post here.

>>3468942
>Pic related
>And people thing BG3 was a change instead of the same shit
Lmao

>>3469486
kids born in 2016 are 18 now anon...

They're OK games. The idea of playing them always sounds more fun than playing them actually is. They're not great, but they're not terrible.

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>>3469466
I like PoE, but I would gladly they sink into obscurity if it erased the rest of Obsidian's catalogue of games and fanbase. These are easily the only games this company has made that are worth playing, everything else is complete garbage by comparison and attracts the worst idiots.

>>3469498
They could've been great, ifcuckifornian cuckolds wouldn't be negenerate negroids.

>>3469466
Only if those are your only games to play.

>>3469466
Just finished my first run of 1 (complete 100%) and 2 (skipped all dlcs beside the ice one).
First one is good imo, not a lot of choices, but the story works, my main complaint would be that, without metagaming, it can be frustrating because it pushes you to missions that are very hard at the start. But I enjoyed it, will try another build in the near future.
Second one feels rushed, lots of choices but no effects, the boat gets tedious pretty soon, the endings are so moronic that destroying the world is the only one that made some kind of sense to me... Dialogue is embarrassing with characters making quips all the time, the romances are awful and so poorly written that why bother, barely any choice from game 1 had effects on the game...
Overall underwhelming and killed my interest in avowed. I don't give a fuck about what happens in the setting after poe2.

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I love PoE!

>>3468483
Been posting on SFC since the 2000s, why do you hate the place

>>3469101
Truthfully, it's been like 20 years since I visited the place. Didn't get banned but remember the mods being faggots.
Then again, I was pretty young at the time so it's more likely that I was the faggot.

>>3468871
The MC is actually kinda mediocre until late game when he gets some absurdly strong swords.
Meanwhile during the early game he suffers from the lack of equipment. He starts with a middle sword and doesn't get to upgrade it until chapter 4, almost halfway through the game.

>>3468821
Like another anon said, level 15+ before promoting a character.
Maybe look up the unrecruited characters if you're worried about missing them. Otherwise it's pretty easy to go into blind.

>>3469216
I see, I'm Dr. Casey if you remember me. 20 years ago I'd have been a dumb 16 year old. But yeah, SFC was pretty ugly in the mid to late 2000s. The place is more mellow now.

>>3469162
Nah it's an honest question. I've put thousands of hours into mmos and I'm burned out. I still find FF11 interesting and I've watched a review of the modern mechanics a few months ago. I believe you can hire npcs now but the overall mechanics haven't changed much? Xp loss on death, etc. I think it's a cool game but I missed out on my chance to enjoy it. Just curious. Looking for a real answer from a player.

>>3462777
I mean the .hack games are the most literal interpretation of this. You play as a kid stuck inside an MMO.

>>3469165
>Xp loss on death
This was removed a long time ago, you don't even need to rest to recuperate anymore. You can get through it all very fast if you want to be fast.
https://www.bg-wiki.com/ffxi/Quickstart_1-119_Guide
It should go on sale for $10 in a few days probably, then you'll have 14 days free and there's probably going to be a free login campaign for the remainder of the month but you'll have to sub first and it'll be prorata

>>3469515
If you do end up trying it out, take the time to set up Ashita or Windower, I like Ashita v4, and dgvoodoo. An Xbox SeX controller is recommended. If you have questions ask here or on /vm/ and I will help.

>>3468908
>Offline XI when?
I pray every day. I'm hoping CBU III put Komoto and a few others onto the job but I don't think it'll happen soon.
Komoto will prob go back to his usual XIV role in Dawntrail and the other XI devs will continue to work on the new adventuring foray/exploration zone.
Private servers still suck for this, it's hardlocked into CoP with some treasures atm with a bunch of stuff still not supported.
>>3469159
>4 months playing 12 hour per day tho right?
Depends on how efficient you are. For a first timer it takes a while, for vets going through following a guide it's not too bad.
RoE & RoV dramatically boost levelling speed, time it well with challenges and you're zooming.
I got a bit of a comparison of the levelling process recently. It took me a good amount of time to get to 70 on WAR without doing all that, but going through and doing MNK after a bunch of rhapsodies stuff, not needing to do limit break quests and spamming lvling in parties in zi'tah and other zones I hit 70 really fast. The gain experience challenge is very broken for this along with the exp boosts from RoV.

Ultimately how much value you get from an XI sub depends on your free time. I get why the sub can feel bad. If you only play a few hours a week it's a steep sub price but if you play a couple hours every day it stings less.
>>3469518
I'll also +1 on Ashita V4. Takes a bit of time to learn but it's definitely worth it. Same with DGvoodoo if you want stuff like clean nearest neighbour texture filtering.
Ashita V4 will require you to prob use discord but only to browse the V4 plugins channel, once you get the repos of the extra plugins you want you don't really need to use it too much.

>>3469370
Thank you for your service

>>3469262
>>3469007
So the lines are just directly referenced but given new context in larger Black Souls lore. Neat.

>>3469370
NERD

So you think if I bought BS2 1000 times it'd motivate EMMM to finish DRH? Legitimate question.

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>>3469371
Both Lorde and Lindamea are better off as men.

>>3467925
Me and all my friends fucking absolutely loved Monster Rancher 2 back in the day, we'd play it everyday for hours laughing and smiling. But we all thought Monster Rancher 3 was the worst thing in the universe, we seethed with the force an exploding sun because of how much of a pathetic letdown the 3rd game was

How the hell does Monster Rancher 2 work on the Switch? Seems like you'd have to play it on a console that can read CDs, as you need CDs to spawn monsters, right?

>>3467925
>just bought this, what do I think of it?
Worst threads, by far. Did you at least play a little of it to hold a conversation over?
I’ll be nice and throw you bone. Do NOT look up too much about this game unless you want to turn it into a mindless mechanical process. If you want to have the most fun you can, accept that you will flounder and fail, and probably (definitely) miss stuff. Look things up sparingly, if at all.
There’s a wonderful community that spend decades solving this game and they did a great job. But once you know the code any chance of casually enjoying it is pretty much over because you’ll have to purposefully avoid the very easy method to be completely efficient. But when you’re ready for that day, you’ll have a whole other set of fun breaking the game.

>>3468498
Honestly you can avoid having to learn all the mechanical autism if you just make sure to use a Nuts Oil and a Mint Leaf once a week. That alone should keep your Lifespan fairly stable.

>>3468498
This guy Monster Ranchers. Excellent advice, don't peel back the layers too quickly when dealing with sim games.

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>>3468498
Yup, pretty much.
A lot of the appeal of MR is that sort of 'unknown' factor, that in turns makes the game feel more complex and reacting to what you do.
The way monsters respond to things, their different quirks, and especially their animations, are all designed in a way to give the illusion that the monsters are as real as they can be. Never being too sure of what could happen next is one of the core appeals of it casually.
There's fun to be had knowing all the mechanics, but it's one of those things where once you learn them, it's really hard to not see everything for what it is, at least in the game you learned.

>>3432971
Why can't any modern JRPG capture this feeling of exploration and discovery?

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Galcian has used the crystals to pull the lost continent of Soltis from the depths, used it to nuke Valua, and holed himself up inside with a giant force field, so its probably a good time to regroup. After getting back to our base all the pirates we helped out/beat up over the course of the game show up to lend us a hand in our time of need, and it doesn't take long before we have an entire armada of our own, so its time to kick some butt. Galcian meets our forces in a giant island sized floating fortress, and after wading through the line of battle, we engage it in ship to ship combat until it is disabled, then it becomes a dungeon which we break into then fight our way to the bridge to beat the hell out of this dude once and for all.

https://youtu.be/Ek4xtxzhbqo?si=1u3fT_NtZN-Q-Dok

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>>3468180
Fuck yeah

>>3468105
Ys 8

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With the loss of Galcian, Ramirez goes insane, which is bad news because he's in control of the silver gigas, a weapon capable of wiping out the entire planet. We enter Soltis through the very first dungeon we encountered on our journey, which was a broken off chunk of the continent all along and has rejoined with it. As we get further into the Soltis things get more alien and dangerous, first navigating the crumbling ruins of a dead civilization then hopping between teleporters as we get deeper into its still beating and technologically advanced guts. After finally reaching Ramirez and facing him in battle, he merges with the silver gigas and becomes a giant death star. (yes really) These fights are seriously not easy, even with shitloads of consumables one slip up and its over. The pressure is so intense that if you fall down the boss will never let you get your momentum back and just crush you.

https://youtu.be/PIKuFI8lHcA?si=ugM9V08EpJSBbzuC