Great soundtracks are just sooooooooo awesome and can keep a game relevant for that much longer if the tracks are the kind I can listen to anywere
Yeah a great soundtrack can make you remember a game for a long time. Speaking of which. Say Rah weren't you going to do something with a game with great music? *glare*
Yeah a great soundtrack can make you remember a game for a long time. Speaking of which. Say Rah weren't you going to do something with a game with great music? *glare*
Oh right Tetris!
Lovely game, amazing soundtrack!
*cough*
>....>
<...<
*sigh* Your even worse than Clones when it comes to stalling. 
Speaking of which. Go finish Vesperia Clones. It's almost been half a year.
Rah has so much crap to finish tho XD
Rah has so much crap to finish tho XD
Me throwing four 100+hour JRPG's at him probably won't help. 
Ahh Suikoden talk.
Not enough of it these days. The second definitely sits as one of the best JRPGs I've ever played. Still surprised Sony hasn't tossed it on PSN considering how much actual physical copies go for these days... Well I shouldn't say that, I haven't actually logged into PSN in ages.
For the record, Shadow Hearts (and by extension Koudelka even though it's more a strategy game in a way) is my favorite JRPG. The sequels aren't quite on the same level but still good. I'll refrain from mentioning the soundtrack though, just so I don't descend into asofhafhahfoah.
Okay I lied. Just one but well... This is the standard I hold all boss battle themes to so indulge me a sec.
Ohhhh a Suikoden fan! I actually still haven't finished V even though I have it, I think it's pretty cool although to be honest but one of my issues was Suikoden V wasn't so much the core game but the camera had this annoying distance thing I felt like I was missing out on a lot of details with it. I think I'll try to finish it someday. I remember the gamefaqs consensus being that it was the closest one to II for a lot of people.
I definitely enjoyed Shadow Hearts plenty though, although I only played the second one. I remember thinking the whole time that the first one was probably pretty great also even though I had not gotten around to it. They refer to the first one a lot in the second one, a lot about Alice and stuff but yeah I never actually to playing it.
Xenoblade!
Loving it so far, particularly the open world aspect. Seems like something you don't often see in JRPGs, at least in my experience, and its most refreshing.
Silly Nintendo sticking great big spoilers in the trailers... but otherwise it seems like a major plus for the New 3DS XL.
Yeah I really enjoyed that one (as I gushed about somewhere earlier on), I find it pretty much was highly entertaining all the way up to and including the end, probably easily my favorite game of the year 2012.
Great soundtracks and great games tend go together. Shadow hearts is definitely a thing I need to play.
You know Suikoden has a pretty amazing OST also IMO (both I and II), by the amazing Miki Higashino..
Plus the opening...
Ok ok I'll stop haha.
Me throwing four 100+hour JRPG's at him probably won't help.
Yeah, that's about how long AT2 and Ar noSurge have/are taking me.
I would lie if I said it's worse for it. The length is nice.
Kefka: Covenant was a very good game, I wasn't so crazy about the third one (From the New World) but that's mostly cause of the shift in tone. The first two handle the whole gothic horror bit that I'm absolutely nuts about so well, and I know it probably sounds cheap to whine about the third going a softer. Alternate history I'm an absolute sucker for, and the first covering right around WWI makes me insanely happy since that's one of my favorite time periods as far as world history goes.
Gushgushgush.
Suikoden 5 I haven't come back to in a loooong time but I do recall the camera being wonky as hell, so I can't blame you there in the least. I wasn't terribly fond of 4 myself aside from the fact that whoo, pirates, but three having the different protagonists and switching between them was something I'm rather fond of. Also ducks. It's a super underrated game for sure though, I can't exactly blame folks considering 2 was so amazing but 3 definitely had its merits too.
Yeah, that's about how long AT2 and Ar noSurge have/are taking me.
I would lie if I said it's worse for it. The length is nice.
Also that massive replay value. Admittedly Ar nosurge is a little lacking on the replay front.
Also that massive replay value. Admittedly Ar nosurge is a little lacking on the replay front.
I think that mostly has to do with there only being 1 heroine per hero(which there are there 2 of), with the 3rd option being a early cut to the story and the bad end.
I wish there was a Kanon route. Oh well.
Kefka: Covenant was a very good game, I wasn't so crazy about the third one (From the New World) but that's mostly cause of the shift in tone. The first two handle the whole gothic horror bit that I'm absolutely nuts about so well, and I know it probably sounds cheap to whine about the third going a softer. Alternate history I'm an absolute sucker for, and the first covering right around WWI makes me insanely happy since that's one of my favorite time periods as far as world history goes.
Gushgushgush.
Suikoden 5 I haven't come back to in a loooong time but I do recall the camera being wonky as hell, so I can't blame you there in the least.
See now I always wanted to try 4! It sounded at least interesting, seems like another instance where it was perhaps a bit underrated.
It's funny I was thinking as I was watching all those Shadow Hearts vids how much it reminded me of Devil Homura and all the sort of weird Pentagrammy gothicy things going on there. I guess it's a safe bet if there's a lot of weird symbols at night and vampires or something Anima will gravitate towards it one way or another. 
Actually do you remember Sierra from Suikoden 2? Or even the whole Neclord thing? I thought she was a lot of fun..
I'm tempted to try Koudelka out too while I am at it, sounds like it could be a good trip.
I gotta say Karin and Yuri were two of my favorite JRPG people, had so much fun playing that game..
See now I always wanted to try 4! It sounded at least interesting, seems like another instance where it was perhaps a bit underrated.
It's funny I was thinking as I was watching all those Shadow Hearts vids how much it reminded me of Devil Homura and all the sort of weird Pentagrammy gothicy things going on there. I guess it's a safe bet if there's a lot of weird symbols at night and vampires or something Anima will gravitate towards it one way or another.
Actually do you remember Sierra from Suikoden 2? Or even the whole Neclord thing? I thought she was a lot of fun..
I'm tempted to try Koudelka out too while I am at it, sounds like it could be a good trip.
I gotta say Karin and Yuri were two of my favorite JRPG people, had so much fun playing that game..
Oh 4 was definitely interesting and I do appreciate the fact that it hops back into the past so it gives us a bit more time with some of the... older cast. X3 A lot of folks dislike it a whole lot more than I did though and I'm still not entirely sure why to be honest. :S Maybe cause it was different and change is scary.
It's true! For years I've told people that if they want to bribe me into watching or playing things, just mention if it has anything remotely gothic horror, demons, vampires etc and I'll probably be all over it. I'm not exactly complicated. >____> The beastiaries are great too since each critter has its own little story and I'm a sucker for that kind of thing.
Neclord actually makes me giggle a bit cause back when I played Suikoden 1 for the first time, I *really* struggled with his fight (same with the zombie dragon boss) but all future replays it wasn't really all that bad cause I understood the mechanics a whole lot better. Having him come back in 2 and still be tied to Victor's story made me insanely happy cause self referential stuff is so much fun and the series as a whole has always been great for that (like with Georg first showing up in 2 and then getting his story proper in 5). Ahhh, I actually really want to replay 5 since it's been far too long. 
Koudelka is wonderful! I mean it shows its age a bit and it is more of a strategy game compared to the later parts being proper RPGs but it definitely laid the groundwork down for the horror aspect of the series. Koudelka herself makes an appearance in SH1 and it's another case like with Suikoden where characters throughout the series will show up in later entries. Alice and Yuri's relationship is probablyyyy one of my all-time favorites and (not exactly spoilers since you've played Covenant) the fact that they went off the bad ending of 1 was something that for me worked all too well (the bad ending is emotionally devastating for me ) since 2's good ending makes working through 1 for the good ending make more sense in a way. I'm trying to be vague a bit just in case you do decide to go through it. :3 It kind of reminded me of Fatal Frame in that the whole series there thrives on running off the worst possible endings sometimes. X3
I hope that book made sense. A mix of fangirling and coffee not quite being in my system yet leads to far too much asfsaufghua.
Oh 4 was definitely interesting and I do appreciate the fact that it hops back into the past so it gives us a bit more time with some of the... older cast. X3 A lot of folks dislike it a whole lot more than I did though and I'm still not entirely sure why to be honest. :S Maybe cause it was different and change is scary.
Neclord actually makes me giggle a bit cause back when I played Suikoden 1 for the first time, I *really* struggled with his fight (same with the zombie dragon boss) but all future replays it wasn't really all that bad cause I understood the mechanics a whole lot better. Having him come back in 2 and still be tied to Victor's story made me insanely happy cause self referential stuff is so much fun and the series as a whole has always been great for that (like with Georg first showing up in 2 and then getting his story proper in 5). Ahhh, I actually really want to replay 5 since it's been far too long.
Koudelka is wonderful! I mean it shows its age a bit and it is more of a strategy game compared to the later parts being proper RPGs but it definitely laid the groundwork down for the horror aspect of the series. Koudelka herself makes an appearance in SH1 and it's another case like with Suikoden where characters throughout the series will show up in later entries. Alice and Yuri's relationship is probablyyyy one of my all-time favorites and (not exactly spoilers since you've played Covenant) the fact that they went off the bad ending of 1 was something that for me worked all too well (the bad ending is emotionally devastating for me
I hope that book made sense. A mix of fangirling and coffee not quite being in my system yet leads to far too much asfsaufghua.
Yay, now I just want to try both, they sound like a lot of fun.
And Fatal Frame also! Gosh so many games I missed that seemed like they had so much goin on, ah, just need to spend a whole weekend just playing them at some point.
Yeah Neclord was a challenge for me also, I mean, I thought I could win just by playing it like every other fight nope he made sure that didn't happen, the game could really stick it to you at times. In Suikoden 2 they gave you Sierra and Kahn and Victor's crazy speech haha oh that was a good one.
Speaking of endings I always appreciated the gradations in the Suikoden series, the good, sort of middle, and bad ending possibilities in Suikoden 2. I was also impressed they created an ending for that desertion option partway through the series, made everything a bit more engaging.
so yeah ah nice to hear about this vastly undersung series, I bet Koudelka and SH1 are pretty cheap at this point so maybe I'll dive right in! 
. Edit: Whoa actually not so much, but still not in like Suikoden 2 territory or something.
And your fan-gush makes perfect sense I can translate it well since I speak the same tongue haha.
Silent Hill 2 > Any other horror game
Although the mention of Fatal Frame reminded me that the most recent title for the Wii-U is heading West which is very interesting.
Oh god this game haha
Well I guess maybe I should try a VN....... maybe.
Which ones did you guys like the most again? Zero's escape, Virtue's last Danganropa? Or like, 999, curse of the Grisaian Reward?
Good first VN's are stuff like Phoenix wright, Danganronpa, 999, Katawa shoujo. Just go for any of them.
Oh ok, just wondering if people liked one more than any other one, like Danganropa 1 vs 2 or Zero's.. er.. virtue's.. last escape? Damn, me and titles.
Virtue's Last Reward is for 3DS (and don't have a Vita) I should probably just go for that one.
Guest_Puddi III_*
Saya no Uta is probably the best VN to start with....
Oh ok, just wondering if people liked one more than any other one, like Danganropa 1 vs 2 or Zero's.. er.. virtue's.. last escape? Damn, me and titles.
Virtue's Last Reward is for 3DS (and don't have a Vita) I should probably just go for that one.
But I'm a rebel and I don't play by the rules!
Especially as I drink lemonade and snack on bagel chips! Next to my Jiji cat doll!
Retour en haut