JRPG general discussion

Xenji · 05-12-2015 10:45pm

Zodiac: Orcanon Odyssey is getting a PS4/Vita release next year, although it has got mixed reviews as an IOS game, the story is by Kazushige Nojima.

Xenji · 15-12-2015 5:12pm

Tales of Berseria Trailer #2

K.O.Kiki · 20-12-2015 1:33am

Dragon's Dogma PC trailer, HYYYYPE!!

Kiith · 20-12-2015 11:07am

Is Rogue Galaxy any good? Fancy playing a JRPG, and i see it was released on the PS4 recently. I remember liking it for the hour or so that i played of it a few years ago, but not much else.

Retr0gamer · 20-12-2015 12:25pm

Kiith wrote: »

Is Rogue Galaxy any good? Fancy playing a JRPG, and i see it was released on the PS4 recently. I remember liking it for the hour or so that i played of it a few years ago, but not much else.

Didn't get on with it myself. It's just way too long and the dungeons take hours to complete.

Sieghardt · 20-12-2015 12:52pm

Kiith wrote: »

Is Rogue Galaxy any good? Fancy playing a JRPG, and i see it was released on the PS4 recently. I remember liking it for the hour or so that i played of it a few years ago, but not much else.

Not really, it starts off in good fashion with a seemingly interesting setting and style but as usual in level 5 fashion it all falls apart with awful gameplay and story later on.

The actiony gameplay seems fun at first but instead of adding depth to the combat as they go, they add TERRIBLE gimmicks, like enemies that have shields you need to break by using a specific shield breaker gun on them and overpowered AoE attacks. Instead of having fun sword & gun battles it devolves into just popping all the shields with the gun then using an AoE attack to wipe everything out

It's a real shame because Skies of Arcadia in space sounds like the best idea ever

megaten · 21-12-2015 1:01pm

Kiith wrote: »

Is Rogue Galaxy any good? Fancy playing a JRPG, and i see it was released on the PS4 recently. I remember liking it for the hour or so that i played of it a few years ago, but not much else.

It's disappointing and painfully mediocre.

Xenji · 21-12-2015 7:31pm

Confirmed to be coming west on PS4 and PC.

Retr0gamer · 21-12-2015 9:19pm

Anyone else excited about SMT4 Final? I love the art direction it is taking, it's very punk and its reflected in the music and look.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3EFjFJgX3g

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1nLcqaec4I

Pac1Man · 30-12-2015 4:10am

Has anyone ever bought from the NIS America online store? There is something there I'm desperate to get my hands on which is out of stock in the Europe site. There is no mention of shipping costs when I go to the checkout. Almost seems too good to be true!

Sieghardt · 30-12-2015 6:24pm

Pac1Man wrote: »

Has anyone ever bought from the NIS America online store? There is something there I'm desperate to get my hands on which is out of stock in the Europe site. There is no mention of shipping costs when I go to the checkout. Almost seems too good to be true!

I used to buy from them regularly until they stopped shipping to europe entirely to force people to use their ridiculously overpriced european store

Pac1Man · 30-12-2015 10:58pm

Bugger.

Thanks.

Retr0gamer · 31-12-2015 4:20pm

So closing in on the end of SMT Nocturne but still got a fair bit to go since the game is ramping up... And I'm addicted to Xenoblade X.

The story was pretty sparse but it's really kicking into gear now. All the antagonist's reasons are forming and the dungeon design has ramped up in complexity and they are a huge amount of fun to figure out.

It's gone from an awesome game to best RPG of all time material. On to the fifth Kalpa if I want the true demon ending!

RedXIV · 31-12-2015 4:59pm

Holy Crap, FF portal app just announced final fantasy 9 coming to pc and smartphones!

****ing love that game!

stefanovich · 02-01-2016 11:19am

Sieghardt wrote: »

I used to buy from them regularly until they stopped shipping to europe entirely to force people to use their ridiculously overpriced european store

Perhaps you could use something like https://www.shipito.com/ ?

They give you a US postal address you can use and then they forward it on. We've used them in the past and they were great.

Sieghardt · 04-01-2016 12:37am

stefanovich wrote: »

Perhaps you could use something like https://www.shipito.com/ ?

They give you a US postal address you can use and then they forward it on. We've used them in the past and they were great.

Yeah I've done this before and it does work, but it'll drive up the price quite a bit. Worth trying if they only have something on the US store but otherwise it ends up even more expensive than the already overpriced EU store

Kirby · 04-01-2016 6:12am

The "engrish" on that shipito site is fairly offputting.

K.O.Kiki · 06-01-2016 1:28pm

RedXIV wrote: »

Holy Crap, FF portal app just announced final fantasy 9 coming to pc and smartphones!

****ing love that game!

Best FF.

Fite me.

Xenji · 06-01-2016 7:45pm

FF IX on Steam has gone from January 2016 to Early 2016.

Retr0gamer · 06-01-2016 9:28pm

Xenji wrote: »

FF IX on Steam has gone from January 2016 to Early 2016.

Seems like it could well be the definitive version of the game with full HD movies. Unlike VII and VIII square kept the render files so can render them in high quality.

Xenji · 06-01-2016 9:40pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Seems like it could well be the definitive version of the game with full HD movies. Unlike VII and VIII square kept the render files so can render them in high quality.

Hopefully, only played it again last year, but will be getting it again.

Retr0gamer · 06-01-2016 9:44pm

Hope they can increase the framerate. As much as I give out about the framerate in the battles in FF7 it's even worse in FF9

Sephiroth_dude · 06-01-2016 9:47pm

Hopefully it gets a ps4 release.

Retr0gamer · 06-01-2016 10:13pm

Sephiroth_dude wrote: »

Hopefully it gets a ps4 release.

Put money on it.

If there's one thing Squaresoft likes more than disappointing fans it's taking their money.

Sephiroth_dude · 06-01-2016 11:09pm

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Put money on it.

If there's one thing Squaresoft likes more than disappointing fans it's taking their money.

They can take my money anytime

Sonics2k · 07-01-2016 11:09am

RedXIV wrote: »

Holy Crap, FF portal app just announced final fantasy 9 coming to pc and smartphones!

****ing love that game!

Massively underrated game, can't wait to play it again.

Retr0gamer · 11-01-2016 1:06am

Great video on Parasite Eve that even goes into its connection with FF7. Thought the game was excellent when I played it two years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaWh0rTPIw

sniper_samurai · 11-01-2016 1:21am

Retr0gamer wrote: »

Great video on Parasite Eve that even goes into its connection with FF7. Thought the game was excellent when I played it two years ago.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHaWh0rTPIw

Never played the first one. Remember having to pick up 3 copies of PE2 back in the day though. Bought it with Spiderman on a 2 for £50 deal in Virgin. Got through the first disc and inserted the second disc to find that nothing happened, reset the PS1 and loaded disc 2 directly only to find that it was in Spanish and incompatible with my English language save file. Brought it back and got it replaced only for the second copy to have the same problem:pac:. Ended up bringing that back and swapping it for Tony Hawk 2.

I later wnet and got a second hand copy in Gamesworld, where I specifically made got them to check that disc 2 wasn't in Spanish before I bought it:P.

FYI both copies from Virgin had labels for the UK version on the disc

Retr0gamer · 11-01-2016 9:56am

I played PE2 first as well since PE1 wasn't released on this side of the pond. I remember it being a fairly crappy but gorgeous looking Resi clone. I was surprised how different, and how much better the first one was.

super_furry · 15-01-2016 4:59pm

Finally getting stuck into Trails in the Sky and enjoying in more than any other JRPG in years. It's a slow enough start and the tutorial is overly wordy but once you get out of that, it really opens up into such a compelling game. About 12 hours in and all I want to do is play more.

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