newtmonkey

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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.

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No, I will ignore and unignore you as often as I like.

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.

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.

how many of these do you actually enjoy

Listed in my profile now? All of them are enjoyable.

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.

Eh, I think that is overstated, played DW2 on the NES a couple of years ago and don't remember it being particularly hard

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.

Just don't cry when you finish DQ2.

I finished it when I was a kid, replaying it now

I finished this earlier today and instead of crying I had a glass of cognac.

But, honestly, I didn't get the combat and the underlying system at all. Stats hardly matter, and "dancing" around the enemies isn't much fun. There are like four worthwhile encounters in the entire game that aren't just a "hop around the enemy until it dies".

Yeah, that is a problem that all real time blobbers share to a degree, at least from those I have experienced. It is certainly more fun with turn based combat.
Grimrocks combat is bearable, better in the second entry, and I found it more fun with ranged heavy parties since it almost handles like an odd shooter rpg hybrid and the ammo management part kicks in.
You play that genre for the dungeons.

Maybe try MMX if you have a heart for the Heroes of Might and Magic series, it is turn based, gridlocked and pretty good. Not as good as Grimrock tho, I never finished it since it heavily drops off a few dozen hours in imo.
Wiz8 is a good recommendation aswell, but do yourself a favor and speedhack the game. Ultra slow gameplay otherwise.

I guess it's just the culture of the site. It's hyper focused, and nothing outside of that focus get attention. It just seems like this place should be doing cartwheels over games like Lurking I/II, Swords & Sorcery, Dungeons of Chaos, and Legends of Amberland (maybe there were some news posts about LoA).

I've not played M&M1 and I don't remember 3 well, I love the series and there are things I really like about M&M2, the combat system, the class quests. The optional levels in the castles are cool levels. Cool gfx, save in town instead of forced ironman of early Wizardries, the UI is perfect (no need for a mouse when there's no pointing).

Cryptrat, if you've ever got like 50-70 hours to spare, definitely consider playing M&M1. I really think if you liked the combat and optional stuff in M&M2 you'd love M&M1. The interface is basically the same. I've now put maybe 10-12 hours into M&M2 and I prefer M&M1 for exploration and combat (though M&M2 is definitely great).

Once I get the information I'm looking for, I remove everyone from my blocklist other than the genuine shitposters, so it's only temporary.

You're just rubbing salt.

I can't remember why I ignored you, it was probably a mistake while I was drunkenly ignoring a long stretch of the typical RPGCodex anime people, posters who have never played a CRPG outside of two or three released in the late 90s, etc. etc.

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