I really want to play a Final Fantasy game at some point, but always seem to find something else play. Same thing goes for Dragon Quest games. I could ask everyone here which game from each series you recommend, but would I actually play it? Probably not. 😔
As for a single game I own, I will probably never play Disgaea 5. It's been so long since I bought it.
I've been staring sideways at Divinity II for over two years now.
I got it because my friend suggested we play multiplayer online while it was on sale, but then he was never actually wanted to play once I installed it.
I liked isometrics 20 years ago, because they felt like they were pushing what you could do in a video game setting. Now, they seem like the go-to budget solution for developers. Which is fine. But, like, you're not getting an FF7Remake or a DQ11.
Its just a lot of very small text. I tend to play on my living room television, so everything is very small and far away. Back when my face was shoved up against a CRT screen, I got to appreciate the fine details. You get a lot of granular choices that don't always have a meaningful impact on the direction of the game. The games are loooong. Easily 60-100 hours, if you're a reflexive completionist like me.
It just feels like an enormous time commitment when free time is in short supply. Back in school, when I felt like I had hours to kill every day and days to kill every break, I chewed through shit like this.
Maybe I'll get back into CRPGs when I retire.
I got it at launch, and it had a bug that corrupted your save after TWENTY TO THIRTY HOURS.
I played the first act TWICE before i realized that it was a irreparable and inevitable glitch.
Any time I boot it up and make a character I remember that I've gotta fight bugs for an hour, and then break out of prison for like 10 hours and....
I just shut the game down. Absolutely my answer as well. Its a shame. I adored the combat.
I feel the same way. I've bopped around a little bit in the opening areas and just couldn't get into it.
I had a lot of fun with it, I've been meaning to do another playthrough. I recommend including Fane and Ifan in your party.
Portal 2
I started playing it around when my mom died
It's really good. I loved the first one. I played the multiplayer with a friend.
Just... yeah
Heh, I played the multiplayer with a friend too but never played the solo.
Return of the Obra Dinn, because I don't think it's the kind of game that you can leave and come back to.
Core functionality of the game is actually a log and it's very easy to revisit things to help your memory. But i found it so compelling, i rushed through it in two settings. It's a truly unique and wonderful game and i can't recommend it enough.
it makes my eye hurt looking at it unfortunately, even though i normally would like the aesthetic
Spec Ops: The Line
It's part of ✨️~The Narrative Games Canon~✨️ so I'm gonna have to get around to playing it eventually but it's not like I'm chomping at the bit to pick it up lol
one of the genius decisions of that game was to make it a boring-as-shit cover shooter so no one could interpret it as advocating for war.
i liked everything about the game. And then ADHS brain went "nope, lets play something with shiny lights" and i never touched it again. :thonk-cri:
It started to feel like I was running out of stuff to do on day 2, but when the second area opened up there was more than enough to do to fill each day, so I got hooked again.
Valkyria Chronicles, I always start it then bail because the mechanics are so clunky.
Experience it vicariously through KBash's excellent video
Edit: wrong series lol nevermind. I still recommend watching his video on Valkyrie Profile
Any game that I have on my computer. It's super old and I haven't even had it turned on since like the first year of covid. And with how expensive upgrading my PC would be and how broke I am, it's just not gonna happen.
Persona 5. I'm doomed to get through the 30 hour tutorial portion, give up for a while, and restart so I refresh my memory for all eternity.
Final Fantasy 7- One of my earliest memories of the PS1 was watching a friend play FF7. I've always wanted to play it and I finally got it about a year ago after dragging my feet for a while. I started playing it, but it's been on my backlog for a while now. Funny thing is that I played and completed the spinoff/prequel Crisis Core.
Hollow Knight- Another game that I started playing, but keeps going into the backlog. I like the visuals, but for whatever reason I'm just not hooked enough to continue and finish it. Been in my collection for 3-4 years now.
Shin Megami Tensei/Persona series- Take your pick of any game in the series and it's probably one stuck in my backlog. I actually got deep into SMT [1] and 4, but kind of just got tired of the grind. I played up until the just after the first boss in SMT 5 and I got P5 Royal only to play up until the first cutscene. Not really sure why I keep trying to get into the series at this point:doomer:
Hollow Knight- Another game that I started playing, but keeps going into the backlog. I like the visuals, but for whatever reason I’m just not hooked enough to continue and finish it.
Mid game gets to be a lot of running from one end of the map to the other to complete a quest. Or getting lost trying to solve a puzzle.
I enjoyed it in the moment, but it definitely dragged
I actually got deep into SMT [1] and 4
SMT I actually gets really easy at a certain point of the game. Even if you run away from every encounter you should have little difficulty at beating the final bosses of the fuckhuge final dungeon. SMT I and II are both excellent games, but they have a heavy bias towards physical damage as well.
SMT if is based on the premise that you liked SMT 1 and 2, but also wish to get frustrated while playing a game like that.
Nocturne rightfully gets the reputation of being difficult, but I love the challenge of that game (and it eases off with the difficulty after Ikebukuro)
Strange Journey's gameplay is kinda mid, but the story and characters are amazing. That's what kept me going through that great game.
You've already played IV and V - I haven't.
The Megami Tensei games for the NES... MT1 is ass, but 2 is surprisingly really good. The music is great and seems better balanced than SMT 1 or 2 (I haven't finished it yet). It's kinda grindy at times though.
I heard Majin Tensei 1 is bad, but Majin Tensei 2 is a quite fun strategy-RPG in the style of say Super Robot Wars or (I believe) Fire Emblem. Great music too.
The Last Bible series is closer to generic fantasy slop than a megaten game - I guess play it if you're a completionist.
Soul Hackers is quite charming and silly, but otherwise fairly average.
Persona 1 is IMO great, but that is a minority opinion - people complain about it dislike the combat and high encounter rate. Also, the PS1 version has way better music (but the english localization is horrible) - thankfully a patch for the PSP port exists.
Persona 2: Innocent Sin has a fantastic story, but ass gameplay (on the PSP. Apparently the PS1 version is fine) - Eternal Punishment fixes all the issues, but is, well... a sequel.
Persona 3 has a great story, but is quite slow in the beginning.
Persona 4 is mostly known for its atmosphere and characters, as well as a great villain. It is however the most weeb-brained of the entire series.
Persona 5 has good, fun gameplay (if arguably too easy), but the story only gets interesting in the final third of the game. It is however
P5 premise spoiler
what I call a 1970s new left group simulator.
there's even more games but I won't talk about them, because I either haven't finished them or don't have much to say about them.
I burnt out in Hollow Knight too and was probably around mid game. Crisis Core is just a much shorter game, I think I finished it in a day or two. I'd recommend playing FF7, or any JRPG from that era through an emulator so you can speed up the combat.
Resident Evil remakes. I got too spooked once Mr. X was initiated. The footsteps just gave me constant anxiety. Great game if you ask me. Played them all as a kid growing up so maybe that's why it spooks me so much, childhood nostalgia fear.
Play Final Fantasy 7 and limit yourself to 20 minutes a day.
FF7 is still the greatest jrpg narrative yet
I feel like you need to just part it out, when i watched king of the hill in its entirety, i just did it one episode a day. I don't really like to watch tv shows and this is how I was able to get through it.
That's a good idea. I'm assuming I should just play the original and not follow the remakes?
I really love Final Fantasy 7. What I think is play the original first, try to keep in mind the year that they made the game, then play the remake.
The remake is half fan-service and half commentary and it doesn't make total sense without having played the original in my opinion. I'm not sure if it is even a good game, I liked it, but it's strange as it has merit on a different dimension outside good and bad video game. Much like how the last two episodes of Evangelion are bad anime but are great within context/meta.
Ignore Crisis Core and Dirge of Cerberus, they provide no meaningful insight or lore to the game in my opinion. At worse they destroy the good world building set up by the original game.
The movie Advent Children is harmless in my opinion, it's stupid but sometimes realistically depicts what the characters may be feeling after the events of the game.
Sounds good! I'll post about it when I eventually play it. Older games don't bother me.
I like it a lot so far (10 hours in). They removed weapon durability which is I don't like, but everything else feels good.
Weapon durability kind of made the games intimidating to me, felt arbitrary, why do you like it?
It was an interesting resource to consider and manage. It made it so I had be smart about repairs and upgrades (especially late game). Also stopped me from just spamming special weapons all game.
I prefer VI (Opera Scene!), and I think it's an easier play for newcomers as well.
FF7 was one of the few games I had for the PS1 so I played it through multiple times. Never beat Ruby or Emerald though, having to grind out multiple Mimic or Knights of the Round was just brutal.
Undertale is such a small time commitment compared to New Vegas. It's a very compact, truly charming game whose characters and music will carry you through whatever objections you've had to it before. :trans-undertale:
the new Mod Organiser program makes it easier than ever before! also nexus' vortex can do whole load orders at once, allegedly
Vortex is a bit more capable in my experience, but it probably depends on the game and the mods you're using.
im a rat who had to be dragged kicking and screaming from Wrye Bash so my opinions are basically inadmissible on actual functionality & ease-of-use
Fire Emblem (any of them). I think I would really like them, but I just don't have time to get to them. There's frankly a lot of stuff in my library which I might never get to.
