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What JRPG are you currently playing?

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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I just youtubed the other 2 endings. The 4th ending has an extra boss fight but the requirements to get it are silly.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,022 ✭✭✭Naphiel


    I went and got the other two endings myself. It really takes almost no time at all and you're strong enough to fly through the game, even on hard mode.


  • Registered Users Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Sieghardt


    platinumed 13-2, now THERE'S an extra ending not worth the effort


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,200 ✭✭✭Mindkiller


    Secret endings are a load of ass. Alternative endings are even worse.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Mindkiller wrote: »
    Secret endings are a load of ass. Alternative endings are even worse.

    I'd agree with this mostly but a recent exception was Nier where the new game plus added so much to the experience and completely changed how you felt about the game.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Fergus_


    Just picked up FFXIII-2 and FFXII Revenant Wings :)


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭penev10


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I'd agree with this mostly but a recent exception was Nier where the new game plus added so much to the experience and completely changed how you felt about the game.
    I have Nier on my playlist and intend giving it a go soon, how long is an average playthrough? seeing as how you have to beat it twice!


  • Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭manicmonoliths


    penev10 wrote: »
    I have Nier on my playlist and intend giving it a go soon, how long is an average playthrough? seeing as how you have to beat it twice!

    First playthrough in which I mostly ignored sidequests was about 15 hours. It felt the ideal length to be honest. Second playthrough could easily be done in less than half that, although I'm attempting a lot of the quests this time around.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    The new game plus took me two evenings to get through so wasn't too bad. You only have to go through the second half of the game again and since you are levelled up and know where to go it's much quicker.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Social & Fun Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 36,787 CMod ✭✭✭✭ancapailldorcha


    Sieghardt wrote: »
    platinumed 13-2, now THERE'S an extra ending not worth the effort

    I just went onto Youtube to see it, such as it was. Whoever at SE thought people would enjoy playing slots for hours and hours ought to be fired.

    We sat again for an hour and a half discussing maps and figures and always getting back to that most damnable creation of the perverted ingenuity of man - the County of Tyrone.

    H. H. Asquith



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  • Registered Users Posts: 171 ✭✭dmcdante


    I have started to play NEIR but i am finding it really boring just been to the junk yard how long does it take to pick up cause i am finding it hard to play at the moment i love the soundtrack but seems to put me to sleep for some reason


  • Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭manicmonoliths


    dmcdante wrote: »
    I have started to play NEIR but i am finding it really boring just been to the junk yard how long does it take to pick up cause i am finding it hard to play at the moment i love the soundtrack but seems to put me to sleep for some reason

    Junk yard is fairly tedious but the game does pick up a lot after the boss there and and then again significantly at around the midway point. Combat can be slow paced enough unless you make liberal use of the Grimoire skills.

    Also a note to anyone playing this for the first time, leave the subtitles on! You'll miss a lot of cut scene dialogue which takes place in some of the game's languages if you're like me and prefer to switch them off.


  • Registered Users Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Sieghardt


    I just went onto Youtube to see it, such as it was. Whoever at SE thought people would enjoy playing slots for hours and hours ought to be fired.

    and whoever thought people would enjoy the clock puzzles, let alone two areas in a row with dozens of them, deserves much much worse

    Playing Ys: The Oath in Felghana now, extremely fun


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,352 ✭✭✭funky penguin


    I noticed the Ys series on PSN a while ago, are they any good? Which is the best to start with?


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Stayed up until 4 am last night only to be hit with final Boss difficulty spike syndrome in Xenoblade. Oh well at least levelling up makes a huge difference in this game so only think I have two levels to gain and there's tonnes of quests to level on.
    I noticed the Ys series on PSN a while ago, are they any good? Which is the best to start with?

    They're all absolutely superb action RPGs. Blindingly fast paced and so much fun. Best to start with Ys Oath in Felghana or Ys Seven. Oath in Felghana is considered the absolute pinnacle of action RPGs by many. Ys Origins is worth picking up as well although the first game is a little obtuse, so much so they included a walkthrough with it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    So the final boss in Xenoblade is completed. I'm glad I took time to do some quests beforehand because there's a load of massive high level areas I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

    Seems the team could go through the whole game without having a totally off the wall bananas ending like Xenogears and Xenosaga had. The big difference here though is that the ending in Xenoblade was deeply satisfying.

    Overall it's got an amazing story, brilliant battle system and a huge and beautiful world to explore. In particular I loved the characters and how maturely they were handled. For example Shulk has visions of the future and people dying and throughout the game he tries to save them. However he can't save everyone. In your usual JRPG the character would do a Squall or Sephiroth and have some existential breakdown, which I've always found a bit silly and shatters the suspension of disbelief that they have real emotions. Shulk just gets on with it like any normal person as do the rest of the cast.

    I really loved this game and I'd say that other than Dark Souls it's the best RPG of this console generation.


  • Registered Users Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Fergus_


    I picked up Dragon Quest IX from gamestop today, will give it a whack later on.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭penev10


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    So the final boss in Xenoblade is completed. I'm glad I took time to do some quests beforehand because there's a load of massive high level areas I wouldn't have noticed otherwise.

    Seems the team could go through the whole game without having a totally off the wall bananas ending like Xenogears and Xenosaga had. The big difference here though is that the ending in Xenoblade was deeply satisfying.

    Overall it's got an amazing story, brilliant battle system and a huge and beautiful world to explore. In particular I loved the characters and how maturely they were handled. For example Shulk has visions of the future and people dying and throughout the game he tries to save them. However he can't save everyone. In your usual JRPG the character would do a Squall or Sephiroth and have some existential breakdown, which I've always found a bit silly and shatters the suspension of disbelief that they have real emotions. Shulk just gets on with it like any normal person as do the rest of the cast.

    I really loved this game and I'd say that other than Dark Souls it's the best RPG of this console generation.
    Must go back to Xenoblade, have heard nothing but gushing reports. Got about 30% through I reckon (area after the jungle, islands I think) but got bored.

    The combat is engaging but became a rote of cooldown maintenance and in the chaos I didn't really feel I could impart much strategy. I tried other character combinations but the other characters felt very specialised and vulnerable. I'm sure I just haven't got "it" yet.


  • Registered Users Posts: 312 ✭✭manicmonoliths


    Recently finished Baten Kaitos Origins, so glad I decided to import it, it's a fantastic game. Improves on everything from the original, especially the voice acting. Combat is very different, much more fast paced and challenging, you get a great sense of achievement from pulling off a long combo. There are some annoying aspects, one part of the main story involves a lot of back tracking through a very tedious area and a lot of the side quests are glorified fetch quests. Difficulty can spike on occassion but nothing too frustrating though. Music is great as you'd expect from the first game and the vast bulk of it is new music, not that there's anything wrong with the remixed tracks from the original.

    I'd highly recommend it to fans of the first game. Don't think we see many RPGs of this type these days. I'd also recommend the first game to those who haven't played it. The story of the prequel is much more meaningful if you're familiar with the story of the first game.

    I really wish this series had more fans and sales. It'd be great to see another game in the series, but given that this game in particular was a major flop in the US, it seems unlikely. Monolith Soft seem to be gaining popularity after Xenoblade, so maybe there's a chance. Tri-Cresendo who were co-developers for Baten Kaitos don't seem to have done much since except Eternal Sonata which I personally found poor, could never really get past the annoying characters and repetitive combat.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    I really loved the original Baiten Kaitos but it was a very long burner. It took me a while to fully understand the battle system and it only got interesting once your deck really expanded. Once it did though it was an amazing battle system.


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  • Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭jaxdasher


    Playing Yakuza 4 at the moment, more of an RPG brawler like Shenmue but more adult. Love it.


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Yakuza is defo an RPG, it just hides it very well. Sure it has random battles!


  • Registered Users Posts: 779 ✭✭✭jaxdasher


    Ive been looking up and down for Resonance of Fate. Anyone can help?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,883 ✭✭✭megaten


    You should be able to get it off any popular site fairly cheaply.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,896 ✭✭✭penev10


    Go to the last boss in Devil Survivor 2 last night. Disappointed that I'll definitely have to grind now if I want to beat the game as it's one of those marathon, keep-moving-the-goal-posts type battles that requires high HP/MP rather than any particular strategy.

    It's a shame as I'd managed not to grind up until now, relying on adapting my party set-up for each battle. The grinding opportunities in the game are horrible as well. There are permanently available "Free Battles" but they always contain weaker enemies which give you feck all XP.

    Starting to regret taking the hardest route now as I've a feeling this might've been a better choice for NG+.


  • Registered Users Posts: 591 ✭✭✭Sieghardt


    Playing Phantasy Star Online 2 right now, utterly amazing game, the combat is really good, better than nearly every action game I've played except Bayonetta and there's some brilliant ideas like the emergency interrupt events that I think will be copied by a lot of other games in the future


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 1,066 ✭✭✭elekid


    Retr0gamer wrote: »
    I really loved this game and I'd say that other than Dark Souls it's the best RPG of this console generation.

    Just finished Xenoblade and I couldn't agree more. I loved everything about it, especially the characters and the massive world. 140 hour of gameplay as well, I think I've been playing it for the last month and a half or so!


  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    Back playing DQ9 again and loving it. Really like Dragon Quests storytelling where every town is it's own self contained drama.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,356 ✭✭✭seraphimvc


    finished xenoblade and Last story lately. Two of the best jrpg I've played since ages!!

    Personally i think xenoblade is chattered to younger players, alot of teenagers chattered elements in the game that i don't quite like them lol

    Last story is more 'mature' and truly is the FF successor albeit i bet sagakuchi missed the old graphics team. The voice acting is horrible but luckily Zeal and Celista's voices are fine. I also suspect that the translation of the dialogue was hugely altered from the original. The modern english usage is really bothering me the whole game.

    God damn i am so glad i have wii :D


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  • Moderators, Category Moderators, Computer Games Moderators Posts: 50,697 CMod ✭✭✭✭Retr0gamer


    seraphimvc wrote: »
    Personally i think xenoblade is chattered to younger players, alot of teenagers chattered elements in the game that i don't quite like them lol

    Ah now, it was hardly kingdom hearts.

    Funny you should say that, I found Xenoblade a lot more mature than any of the FF games.


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