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lightning16
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I'm a big JRPG fan but I'm becoming more open to western-developed RPGs after I started up Divinity Original Sin 2. Up there with the best turn-based battle systems I've ever played. Bethesda sorta scared me off of western RPGs 10 years ago after the Fallout 3 and Skyrim 1-2 punch did absolutely nothing for me. So now I'm running around trying to chase after more games like Divinity Original Sin 2 and I would love some recommendations (not necessarily Divinity-like games but just ones that play well). I checked out Wasteland 2 but I'm not sure it was for me. I found the X-COM combat/accuracy pretty frustrating when combined with an ammo management system. I missed like 4 out of 5 shots with a 70%+ chance to hit at one point and thought about the waste of ammo and sorta just dropped the game lol.
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I enjoyed what I played of Pillars of Eternity until I ran into a game breaking bug that the port studio swears is fixed. If you have another platform I'd give that a try.
Older stuff is where it's at though. Morrowind is up there with the best in the genre, Baldur's Gate 1+2 are classics (I really hope 3 comes to some sort of Switch like device at some point), KOTOR is pretty good if a bit janky, the entire Might and Magic series (barring 9) is fantastic... I'm told Planescape Torment is fantastic but haven't had a chance to play that yet. That's all I've got off the top of my head.
WonderLuigi
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I won't be negative this time, so... Level 5 used to make great games. They're seen as these "aesthetics only" devs but their fundamentals are correct. The Yokai Watch games on 3DS are IMO better than the other JRPGS for kids (Pokémon etc.).
WonderLuigi
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I had many problems with the gameplay... In fact, since I was expecting the plot, I just ignored it, so what I got was just a barebones action game. I agree that it could lead to a better game but gameplay would need to be reconsidered. And I'm not even taking about the two different control schemes!
Edit: sorry for the double post.
Guaraná
Piranha Plant
I really like DF's work and really hate how people interpret them.
Clix
Actually likes NSO
Sos Paraguayo by chance?
Guaraná
Piranha Plant
Sos Paraguayo by chance?
Clix
Actually likes NSO
Haha sorry saw your user name and when I lived in Paraguay everyone was obsessed with guaraná. Soda, in Yerba mate, juice, water, you name it lol
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I think The Origami King is the best Paper Mario game.
WonderLuigi
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Haha me too!
I can't stand Wrpg art-style it looks too bland and dull for me, unfortunately.
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This is not wrong. Easily the best PM game.
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I knew I liked you Skittzo. You’re more than just bad jokes! You also have excellent taste in Paper Mario
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Oh I'm much more than bad jokes.
I'm awful jokes, terrible jokes, horrendous jokes, offensively bad jokes, overly long jokes, and so on.
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I know its fake and a video game, but I can't ever bring myself to go on a Genocide route or even kill once in Undertale or Deltarune. It's crazy to me that folks are able to truck on Genocide attempts with the game banging it over your head multiple ways that you are being pure evil right now and you gotta stop. It hits so much different than any other game with an evil option. Don't know how folks can do it.
Raccoon
Boo
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this is a criminally based opinion
Clix
Actually likes NSO
Heck yeah. Game was amazing. And the boss battles were such a rush.
My own contribution: The original Paper Mario is superior to TTDY.
Jarmusch
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yeah, i know, first post and all. i like to live dangerously.
(actually its just my favorite, i really dont believe on anything being objectively better than another)
Beard
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I actually don’t understand why people choose to entirely skip games released exclusively on EGS. It’s the equivalent of someone skipping an exclusive on Switch, due to the barebones OS and relative lack of power. Those aren’t good reasons to skip games I’m interested in and no one has been able to make a convincing argument to skip a game released on EGS, especially ones funded by Epic. Like, there’s a very good chance they’re funding Remedy’s Alan Wake 2. If I played on PC, why would I skip that, even if it never launches on Steam?
Phantom Thief
The Ghost of Tsushima
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3D World is a significantly better game than Odyssey (Odyssey is still great)
I really like the Ubisoft formula. It’s not high art, but it’s comfort food/junk food. That’s all it needs to be.
Metroid Prime 2 was the best Metroid Prime game.
In a universe without Other M, people would look on Prime 3 far more negatively. It’s a very poor Metroid game that escapes scrutiny because of its association with two better and amazing games, and because something somehow much worse came just a couple years later.
I really like the Ubisoft formula. It’s not high art, but it’s comfort food/junk food. That’s all it needs to be.
Metroid Prime 2 was the best Metroid Prime game.
In a universe without Other M, people would look on Prime 3 far more negatively. It’s a very poor Metroid game that escapes scrutiny because of its association with two better and amazing games, and because something somehow much worse came just a couple years later.
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Okay, I have a (positive) unpopular opinion: I like Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance a lot. Even with the jank there’s an endearing quality to it, if only because you get to do shit like commandeer a room in Dracula’s castle and play interior decorator with random furniture you just ganked from random places.
Also I didn’t need a worm light to see it on my launch GBA, anyway thanks for coming to my TedEX talk
Also I didn’t need a worm light to see it on my launch GBA, anyway thanks for coming to my TedEX talk
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NFS Carbon > NFS Most Wanted 2005
While it's on the short side, Carbon's career mode is so much more replayable than Most Wanted's. Most Wanted's career is too long and too repetitive for its own good. Pursuits are fun until they get run into the ground around half-way through, as when you unlock Heat Level 4 after beating Earl, you've basically seen everything the game can throw at you. Carbon also has better visuals (no piss filter!), a wider variety of cars, the best customization in the series at that point, more engaging tracks, Drift mode as opposed to MW's godawful drag races, and rubberband AI has been restricted to the bosses, and even then its far more subdued compared to MW's rocket powered, F1 beating Audi A3's.
While it's on the short side, Carbon's career mode is so much more replayable than Most Wanted's. Most Wanted's career is too long and too repetitive for its own good. Pursuits are fun until they get run into the ground around half-way through, as when you unlock Heat Level 4 after beating Earl, you've basically seen everything the game can throw at you. Carbon also has better visuals (no piss filter!), a wider variety of cars, the best customization in the series at that point, more engaging tracks, Drift mode as opposed to MW's godawful drag races, and rubberband AI has been restricted to the bosses, and even then its far more subdued compared to MW's rocket powered, F1 beating Audi A3's.
Reinhard Schneider
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Mirror of fate is a perfectly valid 2D Castlevania. A game that adhered to and managed to perfectly translate its 3D gameplay to 2D. It oozes atmosphere, it's dark, somber and moody, and its three character/act story is genius.
While we're at it, Lords of Shadow is a great Castlevania and a valid attempt to reboot the series, it didn't deserve so much hate for what was going to be a trilogy on an alternate universe. The castlevania fandom's reaction to the LoS games was ridiculous.
You have my bow, my axe and my motherfucking army
While we're at it, Lords of Shadow is a great Castlevania and a valid attempt to reboot the series, it didn't deserve so much hate for what was going to be a trilogy on an alternate universe. The castlevania fandom's reaction to the LoS games was ridiculous.
You have my bow, my axe and my motherfucking army
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Dunno bout that second one, but I agree with that first one.
Apopheniac
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Action games as a whole are overly reliant on "react to enemy windup, dodge/block, counterattack" as their fundamental mechanic.
Clix
Actually likes NSO
You know, when I first got X/Y I didn’t like it and put it down. Two years later I went back to it and ended up really liking it a whole bunch.
My own take? Sun and Moon are the best Pokémon games and they look the best visually. They get a lot of flack by holding your hand a little too much, but without that my daughter, who was 6 at the time, wouldn’t have been able to finish it. Even with the map markers she would still get lost on an island. So I thought it was a good change.
Mazzle
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- 2D Sonic games have always been bad. Floaty controls, weird layouts, levels that don't you mechanics and escalate them and you constantly run into something and get hurt.
- Metroid games != Metroidvania. I'm sorry, but a proper Metroid game unlike that piece of shit Other M focus alomost soley on exploration (hence the Nintendo genre name Search Action), while Vanias have a much bigger emphasis on combat. In todays world most of em borrow heavily on Dark Souls and think they have to be hard as hell for every encounter. Speaking of which...
- Hollow Knight would have been a better game with an easy mode and more enjoyable if enemies weren't that hard.
- Mario games are more interesting if they feature totally new locations, enemies and NPC. Yes, the classic stuff we all know from NES/SNES is still great, but ONLY is boring. Look at Odyssey or look at Paper Mario 2. Shit's awesome and way better than those boring Paper mario games since the 3DS, where you encounted a thousand bog-standard Toads and where battles don't mean anything
- The work behing DF and especially DF Retro is great and I like the people behind them, but all that jerking off on perfect frametimes and performance that comes with it, thanks to console warriors is just the worst.
- Metroid games != Metroidvania. I'm sorry, but a proper Metroid game unlike that piece of shit Other M focus alomost soley on exploration (hence the Nintendo genre name Search Action), while Vanias have a much bigger emphasis on combat. In todays world most of em borrow heavily on Dark Souls and think they have to be hard as hell for every encounter. Speaking of which...
- Hollow Knight would have been a better game with an easy mode and more enjoyable if enemies weren't that hard.
- Mario games are more interesting if they feature totally new locations, enemies and NPC. Yes, the classic stuff we all know from NES/SNES is still great, but ONLY is boring. Look at Odyssey or look at Paper Mario 2. Shit's awesome and way better than those boring Paper mario games since the 3DS, where you encounted a thousand bog-standard Toads and where battles don't mean anything
- The work behing DF and especially DF Retro is great and I like the people behind them, but all that jerking off on perfect frametimes and performance that comes with it, thanks to console warriors is just the worst.
AngryNopon
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Final Fantasy XIII-2 is a legit great JRPG that would be remembered way more fondly if it wasn't tied to XIII.
NabiscoFelt
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See I was with you until the second sentence
MPT honestly hasn't aged visually at all (I've been playing through it for the first time)
This is just the truth though (probably, I haven't played 2 but I can't imagine it would be worse than 1)
Mekanos
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Overall I like Chrono Trigger, but I sympathize with your opinion. I’ve never quite understood its status as the greatest JRPG or one of the greatest games of all time. Individually there’s a lot I like about it, like the art style, soundtrack, combat, and general atmosphere, but I found the characters kind of slight and wasn’t terribly invested in Lavos as a central villain. Solid game, I dislike the term overrated so I’m not going to call it that, but I can think of many JRPGs I prefer.
GamerJM
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As an RPG fan, none of the Xenoblade games are very good, though I dropped X and 2 after less than 10 hours with each. 1 and 2 have sorta bland MMO combat where I never feel in control of the characters. I enjoyed what I played of X's combat more than 1 and 2 because there was more going on mechanically where I felt like I was interacting, but the game was just too dense and big outside of that and I got overwhelmed. The fact that these games are so praised tells me that what I look for in an RPG must be fundamentally different than what a lot of JRPG fans do.
Slappywag
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Sometimes I think I'm the only person I know that doesn't like FromSoft games. I see people say something like, FromSoft Zelda when, or FromSoft Harvest Moon when? and I'm like, why do you want the games to be boring dodge roll simulators? Let me cut the grass and harvest my crops without getting killed every 2 minutes, thank you very much!
Metal Gear Miyamoto
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Nintendo Switch Online is well on its way to become a better service than the virtual console.
Christo750
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I wanted to say "this." but then I noticed I can "Yeah!" you. Great touch, but I'll do both.
This.
Ayron
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— I like using the Nintendo Switch online app (not for voice chat, but for Splatoon 2 statistics).
— Out of more than 50 physical 3DS games, one of my favorite 3DS games (next to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) is … Paper Mario: Sticker Star. It‘s also my favorite Paper Mario game.
— Mario Galaxy had an amazing soundtrack, but (apart from that) disappointed me.
— Out of more than 50 physical 3DS games, one of my favorite 3DS games (next to Monster Hunter 4 Ultimate and Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia) is … Paper Mario: Sticker Star. It‘s also my favorite Paper Mario game.
— Mario Galaxy had an amazing soundtrack, but (apart from that) disappointed me.
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