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I know this is a shitpost so please excuse a brief sincere moment from me
When I was a teen I played Final Fantasy X, whose plot involves a group of young people who discover their religion is totally false, and their reaction is to go kill god about it. That meant a lot to me as a confused kid who grew up in a deeply religious culture. Also blitzball is the best minigame in the FF series don't @ me
FFX has no business being so good. Lulu or Riku are basically transition goals.
It's like 20 hours before you're fully out of the tutorial but it's so playable after. Definitely prefer X-2
Definitely prefer X-2
this is one of the least plausible opinions i have ever heard. nice try :posad:
NGL, would love a JRPG setting be an urban fantasy with 30-something joe schmo salarymen, as opposed to high schoolers.
Yakuza's good, but I was thinking something more like a Persona game where you hang out with your friend group.
just a friend group of 30 somethings hanging out in a crappy city
me irl :doomer:
Shame they only had like 8 months to make it, start to finish. Still has some of the best moments and characters of the whole series. A remaster would do it so much justice.
mafia is the closest thing 30-something joe schmo salarymen gets to a friend group
Was watching sopranos during the early part of the pandemic, and ngl a big part of the experience is appreciating the occasional comraderie.
Would be cool if Atlus tried a different setting. Iirc Shin Megami Tensei series is also in a high school
Persona 6: Tokyo Story -- it's still a 200 hour game, but it's a family drama about dealing with intergenerational gaps
Catherine, but that was just a weird one-off game that bears no relation except art style. That said, it wouldn't be too hard to replicate the Persona "formula" onto an adult cast, or even strike a middle ground with a college setting (if they you want to keep the academic aspect). Would be effectively a spin-off of a spin-off, though.
I've always been interested in Yakuza and wanted to get Zero, but never took the plunge.
Catherine has the MC in his 30s hanging out with his pals. It's made by the same devs as Persona and more or less is what I'm looking for in regards to aesthetics but it's a puzzle game, not an RPG.
It honestly kinda feels like Western RPGs are good by accident. They're almost always horrible except once in a while you get a New Vegas or a
Disco(Does Disco even count? The Witcher might be better)If I had to pick one or the other I'd ride or die for JRPG gang any day though.
I've always thought of Disco as western but it feels bizarre to classify a game about communism made by people form a former soviet state "western".
I think JRPG and scope creep is completely fair too, but once in a while you get some innovative and fun systems out of it. Which I prefer to stagnant gameplay.
I’ve always thought of Disco as western but it feels bizarre to classify a game about communism made by people form a former soviet state “western”.
I guess it's kinda like the debate about whether champagne is still champagne if it's not made in the Champagne region of France. Imo it depends on the context you're talking about. If you're trying to specifically ascertain where a sparkling wine was made, then no, non Champagne sparkling wine is not champagne. However, if you're just talking about the characteristics of the sparkling wine, then a lot of non-Champagne sparkling wine is basically identical for all practical purposes.
JRPG and Western RPG are just shorthands to group certain types of games together based on shared characteristics. It's entirely possible for a "Western" dev to make a JRPG style game and vice versa.
In that context, I think Disco can be regarded as a "Western" RPG but not a close fit into the overall archetype.
Nah, I've always associated eastern Europeans with being really into WRPGs. Eastern Europeans have created two massive Fallout mods and not the 3d Fallouts, but Fallout 2 lol:
https://kotaku.com/huge-fallout-2-mod-finally-translated-from-russian-into-1847051042
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fallout_1.5:_Resurrection
The name of the genre used to be CRPG, where C stands for computer. I believe the name changed some time during the 00s.
In this context western says more about the gameplay systems. I haven't played Disco Elysium but I believe you have skills and there are chances of doing things successfully or failing and stuff like that
Cris Tales is a JRPG from a Columbian developer
Japanese-American RPGs: Broke into the God of Poop Sandwiches' house with your friends to kill him.
I could do the combat if it wasn't for the animations
Good Lord how did anyone ever finish one of those games? It's 5-10 minutes to finish a combat by watching the same attack animations over and over, and then you go eight steps and it happens again
I dunno, I kind of like those outfits that use 100x more material than a plain tshirt and jeans, but somehow also defy gravity and somehow still less modest than a bikini.
I theoretically like JRPGs but outside of Pokemon games I never make time to play them. Just got to much other stuff to play to commit 50-100h into one.
If you haven't seen/listened to it: State of the Arc does like a 21 hour breakdown of the game.
