What are you playing?

Gummy Panda

I'm currently playing through Mario & Luigi RPG 3!!! (or bowser's inside story) and I received Etrian Odyssey today. Still waiting on Suikoden Tierkreis from play-asia.

Mario & Luigi RPG 3 is a great fun game that turns the typical turn based combat into a system that requires flex skill from the player.

Etrian Odyssey on the other hand is a dungeon crawler lacking on story. It's extremely hard. I hadn't even completed the first mission and I've nearly had my party wipe several times. Using the DS's bottom screen to draw the dungeon map is very interesting aswell.

Retr0gamer

I only played a bit of Etrian Odyssey. I got to the second floor and got my ass handed to me by some weird deer creature. It's really tough and old school.

The only RPG I'm really concentrating on at the moment is Pokemon Green Leaf which is excellent and very addictive.

CodeMonkey

I am playing Person3 on the ps2.

I've played Etrian Odyssey 2 and quite enjoyed it.

Sephiroth_dude

Retr0gamer wrote: »

I only played a bit of Etrian Odyssey..

Never heard of that,what console is that on?

Trying to finish rogue galaxy but Im stuck ona flipping boss .

GothPunk

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Never heard of that,what console is that on?

Only one of the greatest consoles of all time, the DS. Which reminds me I've been neglecting my DS, poor thing, I'll have to get EO at some point.

As usual, I'm playing far too many games, many of which are JRPGs.

Persona 3 FES: I'm starting to get into the swing of things now, enjoying it a helluva lot and surprised at the sudden introduction of lots of new characters.

(Like some hippie-Jesus looking dude who shot some guy.)

Digital Devil Saga: Only one of the greatest games I've ever played. It's time my lovelies, if you haven't bought this game you need to get down to your local GameStop, root through the P to T section of the PS2 section and bask in the glory of this game. It's only a tenner. (Beware if you're playing on a PS3 though, it can take a few times reseting the game to get it to start up, but once it does start there are no issues in game).
SMT: Lucifer' Call: Playing this and DDS every now and then, usually devote a couple of hours at the weekend to playing them. This game is such a joy to play, communicating with demons is always a blast.
Demon's Souls: Does this count as a JRPG, possibly not, but it was delivered yesterday so I'm going to talk about it. I got as far as the first boss, which was kinda easy (turpentine + sword = fire sword = phalanx death). Really enjoying it so far, it's exceeded my expectations, although it's not quite as hard as I thought it would be - I'm sure it'll bring on the pain in due course. It's like a much darker and deeper Severance. (Except with more RPG and online elements and without the beating enemies with their compatriot's severed limbs...)

An honourable mention go to Star Ocean: First Departure: and Final Fantasy VII: which I was playing quite a bit, but then I got my PSPgo... I'll have to get back into them this weekend. Or not, I have enough games to play. :pac:

Retr0gamer

Pokemon has made me it's bitch. Up until 3 in the morning last night playing it. Think I'll start on Mother 3 when I finish. I heard it could well be the best JRPG ever made.

Gummy Panda

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Pokemon has made me it's bitch. Up until 3 in the morning last night playing it. Think I'll start on Mother 3 when I finish. I heard it could well be the best JRPG ever made.

Speaking of mother 3. My wii is now homebrew enabled to play the fan translation

Retr0gamer

Jermey Parish was talking about Shin Megami Tensei on the gamespite blog. Says he has had it for 2 days but somehow managed to sink 10 hours into it and it sounds like he is loving it. Can't wait!

Gummy Panda

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Jermey Parish was talking about Shin Megami Tensei on the gamespite blog. Says he has had it for 2 days but somehow managed to sink 10 hours into it and it sounds like he is loving it. Can't wait!

I wish he'd get an episode of ATB up. Apparently it was recorded before thanksgiving.

RedXIV

anyone any suggestions for what to get off PSN? I've only got the European one so should i just invest in the US store?

Coz i just finished Grandia 2 again

Retr0gamer

RPG-wise?

The european store is pretty ****. Everything available on it is on the US PSN except the EU games all have terrible pal conversions with slowdown, slower music and hideous black borders.

Definitely get your games from the US and Jap PSN!

noodler

When you talk about all the best JRPGs being on the DS Retro, do you just mean Mario and Pokemon games?

mise

Its been a while sine I played an RPG, and even longer since I finished one, but I started Lost Odyssey a little while ago.. And all was going well til I got to the first boss!, Grilgan I think. Gonna have to grind a bit to beat him methinks, and I must be awful.

Enjoying it nonetheless.. switching between it and Dragon Age for a break, in between bouts of MW2, Uncharted and Forza

Retr0gamer

The first boss of lost odyssey is by far the hardest. I recommend changing rings to beat him. You'll do more damage with the right elemental.

As for the best RPGs on the DS, there's nothing wrong with Pokemon and the Mario games There's also Etrian Odyssey 1 and 2, The World ends with You and loads of othrs I can't think of because I'm too hung over You can't discount the excellent GBA RPGs as well.

mise

Retr0gamer wrote: »

The first boss of lost odyssey is by far the hardest. I recommend changing rings to beat him. You'll do more damage with the right elemental.

Yup just beat Grilgan there with a bit of magic.. tough for a first boss tho!

Just remembered how much I liked the intro to the game as well.

Mr Trade In

I am playing Mana Khemia Student Alliance for Psp, I was playing Persona on Psp but have misplaced the disc also looking forward to starting Tales of the World tonight.

Retr0gamer

I'm back on the wagon. I started back into Persona 4 and I'm appreciating it a hell of a lot more after taking a break from it. It wasn't clevergoing straight into it after finishing P3.

Sephiroth_dude

Still playing tales of vesperia,got back into it last night for the first time in months and finally got past that boss I was stuck on.

CodeMonkey

Almost done Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor on the ds.

Sephiroth_dude

Im back playing rogue galaxy again seeing if I can finish it once and for all.

Kiith

I'm gonna buy myself a DS in the next few days, with Pokemon and The World Ends with You. Any other must have rpg's?

CodeMonkey

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Final Fantasy 4
Chrono Trigger
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor

Those are the big ones I think.

Sephiroth_dude

CodeMonkey wrote: »

The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass
The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Final Fantasy 4
Chrono Trigger
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor

Those are the big ones I think.

Are you playing chrono trigger on the ps?

CodeMonkey

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Are you playing chrono trigger on the ps?

I am playing Zelda Spirit Tracks at the moment but I've played Chrono Trigger on the DS. Just listing some games for Kiith.

Sephiroth_dude

Oh

Gummy Panda

I'm playing suikoden tierkreis.

Really enjoying it so far. I don't see what peoples problems are with it. It's suikoden designed for portable device and suits it perfectly.

Retr0gamer

It's just the Suikoden hardcore moaning that the game doesn't fit into the Suikoden timeline and universe and that it's more of a traditional RPG story rather than the more war and politics based Suikoden storylines.

super_furry

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Im back playing rogue galaxy again seeing if I can finish it once and for all.

Hmmmm I might go back for another run-through. Absolutely loved that game.

I'm debating whether or not to pick up Magna Carta II and I'm giving FFVIII another go - this time on PSP. I'm actually enjoying it a lot more than I did first time around, I think it's because I'm not disappointed that it's not FFVII now and I can appreciate it for what it is.

Retr0gamer

The second time around you understand how the junction system actually works. Unfortunately you also understand how easy it is to break the game. I ended up playing through the game the second time around using only physical attacks becasue they became so powerful when I found out how to break the game with junctioned magic and prioritising the learning and us of +1 stats at level up.

carbonkid

I still have to give FFVIII another go over...i didnt realise how much more important collecting the spells were to using them till half way through.

Whats the point in having spells is you just ment to store them o_O

Retr0gamer

Thats one flaw with the game, a pretty big one

noodler

God drawing was lame. Last time I played it through I at least had my strongest magic user draw to cut down on turns.

finalfantasist

Mario and Luigi Bowsers Inside Story, Final Fantasy 12 and Star Ocean Second Evolution.

Aurongroove

Final Fantasy Tactics A2, it;s not bad, but I've reached that awkward stage where I've already beaten it, and got montblanc and them, but some of the new missions arent appearing.


for example, the bangaa/nu mou of the rupies, I've fought on both sides but the next mission won't appear, nor will certain other mission I know shoudl be appearing. I'm not one to look up walkthroughs though, but it's stupid the thing wont appear when I've compleated every single mission that has appeard so far! and all level of brightmoor and finished the damn game

Zerroth

Olds cool SNES games!

Have recently finished Actraiser (not really an RPG), Soul Blazer and Illusion of Time. Now playing through Terranigma!

carbonkid

Just starting FFV now. Cant put my finger on it but theres something i really like about snes games visually. Looks wise everything seems more complete or together than any of the psx games.

Suppose FF wont be bringing back in the ability to control an air/sailing ship around the world map.

Retr0gamer

Zerroth wrote: »

Olds cool SNES games!

Have recently finished Actraiser (not really an RPG), Soul Blazer and Illusion of Time. Now playing through Terranigma!

Actraiser is excellent but a very strange game. The sim parts and platforming parts aren't great at all but the game taken as a whole is brilliant. No faulting the soundtrack either. I really must play the rest of the Quintet Quadrilogy like you are doing.

Ramza

Tales of Hearts

CodeMonkey

Just started Persona 4 and I like it. It fixes a lot of little annoying stuff in P3 like including a shortcut key to travel to other destinations instead of running to the end of the mini area.

Also being familiar with the terminology of the SMT world like bufu equals ice spells helps getting into the game a lot easier.

elekid

Aurongroove wrote: »

Final Fantasy Tactics A2

Me too and enjoying it a lot more than expected. I've got 205 quests out of 300 done with a game time of 60 hours so it's pretty long.

From what I hear the methods of unlocking certain quests are not so easy to find by yourself, in typical FF style.

Dragons Revenge

CodeMonkey wrote: »

Just started Persona 4 and I like it. It fixes a lot of little annoying stuff in P3 like including a shortcut key to travel to other destinations instead of running to the end of the mini area.

Also being familiar with the terminology of the SMT world like bufu equals ice spells helps getting into the game a lot easier.

I just brought P4 myself. I'm juggling b/t that and P3 right now. It took me a while to understand which spell is which element. The Japanese name stat buff spells (or stat-lowering) I'll never be able to commit to memory.

Damn I love the music in both those games.

I'm also playing Assassin's Creed and Odin's Sphere.

carbonkid

Im bit confused...is Persona 4 an anime first thats made into a game? Looks interesting!

Retr0gamer

It's a game series, there's no anime. It's a spin-off from the main Shin Megami Tensei series of games from atlus designed to be more appealing to a more casual audience. It's also brilliant.

carbonkid

Would you recommend starting from the first one or just hope right in at P4? Actually cant find a P1 game anywhere...even on eurogamer or amazon o_O

Wanna give this one a try...looks bit different ^^

Dragons Revenge

Retr0gamer wrote: »

It's a game series, there's no anime. It's a spin-off from the main Shin Megami Tensei series of games from atlus designed to be more appealing to a more casual audience. It's also brilliant.

There is an anime, actually. It came out like 2 or 3 years ago.

You can start the games from any point; they're completely non - canon. The first two are OOP and extremely difficult to find for less than insanely expensive. The original was remade for the PSP, but reviews are less than stellar.

You may as well start from 4 and work your way back.

noodler

Dragons Revenge wrote: »

There is an anime, actually. It came out like 2 or 3 years ago.

You can start the games from any point; they're completely non - canon. The first two are OOP and extremely difficult to find for less than insanely expensive. The original was remade for the PSP, but reviews are less than stellar.

You may as well start from 4 and work your way back.

Agreed, I did 4 first and am now about 50 or so floors into Tartarus in 3.

No real problems doing it that way.

super_furry

Just started Magna Carta II. It looks brilliant - really atmospheric and well done but the voice acting is hideous, with the main character the most annoying since Tidus whinged his way through FFX. I've actually turned off the voices now. It also does the annoying old RPG standard of cutting away to two cardboard cutouts of the characters for dialogue.

Still though, there's enough there to keep me playing.

Dragons Revenge

I was curious about the Magna Carta games. I may pick them up one of these days.

You know who was really bad in FFX? Yuna.

Gummy Panda

I'm back playing DQ IV. it's made me realise why Japanese love DQ more then FF.

Got all the choosen bar one. Just need to grind fir that boss fight.

Retr0gamer

I really want to play the DQ games on the DS. While I hear 4 is great 5 is supposedly amazing.

Dragons Revenge

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Never heard of that,what console is that on?

Trying to finish rogue galaxy but Im stuck ona flipping boss .

Which boss? I just finished it a couple weeks ago. I was stuck in a dungeon for almost a week (the two towers one), but ended up leveling up like mad, and so the rest of the game was cake.

I'm Juggling Persona 3 and 4 right now. (Lotta Persona fans here)