The RPG Thread

Wish Sega would start talking about what exactly they meant by a "string of high quality PC ports" too. Resonance of Fate PC please. There's not many JRPGs I'd ever take the time to replay, but that one's right near the top of the list.

Xenogears please. You could even keep the anime cutscenes for all I care. That combat system, especially the gear battles, would be perfect for a remake.

Its funny i was with a client who liked RPGs earlier and i brought up Xenogears and he was clueless, but i remember how amazing the combat system and story were.

Got Thief, Metallia, Zetta to about 25 mil stats/ 80 mil hp. Baal on normal mode still oneshots me 6 times over, but I can hurt him now! Nicked him for about 2% of his hp. We'll leave aside for the moment the fact that there's 4 of them, in addition to his minions.

I am enjoying Tales of, but i do think i prefer the combat system used in ToVesperia a bit more - The open world zones are kinda sparse of enemies and the early Hellion roaming bosses are always a bit beyond the level you could be doing them at.. I dont want to buy a guide but i feel im missing tons of potential costumes!

TJT_sl said:

Have any of you tried Age of Decadence? Really interesting RPG that is a bit off the beaten path. I love the setting (post-apocalyptic basically) and it is full of unreliable narrators and all kinds of interesting mechanics.

Took me quite a while to break out of my tried and true RPG habits to truly enjoy what this game was offering.

I highly recommend it.

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No idea how I missed a turn/tile based RPG on PC...
Looks good will check it out when I can.

All I can say about Age of Decadence is: try the demo. It should give you a pretty good idea of what the game is like, and how godawful the combat system is. Not even talking about the difficulty, just how slow and clunky the whole thing is. That said you can play the game with little to no combat at all, so maybe you'll like the story and setting enough to overlook the combat.

Anyone picked up Final Fantasy VII for iOS? How is it? I've got an iPad Air II and noticed games like Hearthstone run really well on it. I'm kind of itching to play it again. I have my original PSX discs but prefer sitting in the living room in the comfy chair with the TV on.

Angelwatch_sl said:

Anyone picked up Final Fantasy VII for iOS? How is it? I've got an iPad Air II and noticed games like Hearthstone run really well on it. I'm kind of itching to play it again. I have my original PSX discs but prefer sitting in the living room in the comfy chair with the TV on.

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I'm not a fan of any port where the d-pad/shoulder buttons are on screen so YMMV. It & tactics run well that I've found, its just more annoying not having a tactile feel to it. My finger natively wants to continue moving/sliding in any given direction so it may be something you get used to.

So I tried Divinity: Original Sin and didn't care for it much. I like turn based combat in RPGs as much as action combat but I didn't like the movement and how slow the game felt while running around and also didn't like that I couldn't re-map the hotkeys (or at least, didn't see any way too in the game options). Outside of combat the game just felt a little to slow and clunky for me but that style of game is usually something I like. Two other suggestions I had gotten were Wasteland 2 and Pillar of Eternity. How are those in regards to the above?

I vastly preferred Pillars of Eternity over wasteland 2, but I bet I will be the only one with that opinion.

Try both, see which one hooks you better.

I'd probably rate PoE and WL2 about the same. Both are solid, but also rather flawed games. I haven't actually finished either one yet though. WL2 because the DC introduced a bunch of new bugs, including a couple game-breakers, and they still haven't patched it yet. Patch is supposedly due next week finally, along with a follow up hotfix that should get rid of the memory leak in the version of Unity 5 they're using. Haven't finished PoE because I restarted the game like half a dozen times getting my party designed just right, and then they dropped a patch on me that made large, sweeping balance changes.

Basically, do you want a modern version of Wasteland/Fallout or do you want a modern version of Baldur's Gate?

PoE is 50% off on Steam right now if that makes the choice any easier.

So i think im near the end of Tales and

Hmm i did talk to everyone - but near the end alot of shit happens to the point that Rose will only give 1 particular response - then suddenly the bitch has a f ton of things to discuss but its so near the end - I guess if it has a strong post game it will make sense bc i feel alot of shit cant be done atm.