The RPG Thread

Nester_sl said:

I will give it a shot when it goes on sale.


Finally got around to playing bravery default....my wife got me a 3ds for Xmas and it's had been collecting dust. 5 hours in and this thing is the Final Fantasy we deserve. Almost makes me want to mod my 3ds to play on my 75inch tv, but $300 is a bit steep...this thing needs a wiiu or ps4 port ASAP!

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Nester_sl said:

Almost makes me want to mod my 3ds to play on my 75inch tv, but $300 is a bit steep...this thing needs a wiiu or ps4 port ASAP!

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DoctorSpooge_sl said:

Yes and no. You'll be barraged with a bunch of shit that you don't understand like innocents on items - items with "Manager" or "Gladiator" or whatever on them - but immediate comprehension isn't ever required. The story mode is 30+ hours of sustained acclimation, after which the postgame presents a host of challenges that'll require more investment into the game's mechanics.

I've played 3, 4, D2 and 5, and for all except possibly D2 - and I guess 5 is yet to be determined - there's a couple ways to go about progressing, and they'll all work, whether you understand what you're doing or not. The first is to just wing it, and it works. I don't think there's really an easy way to fuck up your characters, but youcanbe grossly inefficient. The second is to follow some sort of maximization guide, which is also quite fun but there'll be classes you never try because you weren't told to experiment. This happened to me in 3 and 4, and probably would have happened in D2 except I couldn't find a decent guide and I enjoyed it way more as a consequence.

5 is so new that you'll resort to option 2, and it's fun as hell. It does have a more robust tutorial system than any prior game, also.

In short, you'll probably be lost, but you'll not be fucked. At all. The only drawback to starting with 5 is that if you fall in love with it, it's likely gonna be hard to go back to earlier games, possibly excepting D2. I'd start there anyway, though. I began Disgaea only a few months ago, and put like 80-100 hours into 3 and 4 and 30 into D2, but my playtime was abbreviated because I had my eyes on 5. So this'll be the first one that I've completely invested in.

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hodj_sl said:

The Witch from The Witch and the 100 Knights is OP as fuck (its in the Season Pass DLC, which, by the way, comes with a fucking lot of extra content)

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DoctorSpooge_sl said:

If anybody's having trouble leveling lower-level characters, use a Professor to make them giant. They get a massive AoE with C scaling that'll otko most enemies. (The Professor can cast it on herself too).

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AladainAF_sl said:

Krip - Disgaea isn't the kind of game (generally) that you finish and be like "Whelp, that was fun" then move on. It is, as stated above, "infinite". Eventually, you'll end up with situations where squads are doing hundreds of trillions of damage on normal attacks. With that said, recruit to your hearts content, there is never anything "wrong" with Disgaea either during the story or during the post-game, everything you do is fine, and everything is "fixable" (especially in D5 - in D4 and under you could screw up your skills but thats impossible here). The game actively encourages you to go OP it. I forgot if the item world is open in Chapter 4, but the moment it is, take a legendary Dark Rosary and go 20-30 floors deep. You'll see how ridiculously powerful the item world makes items. Generally, if you have a problem getting through some content (def too low, ATK not high enough) 1 trip through 20-30 floors of the item level will turn that character into a power house for the general content. Then later at the top end you'll be building items that have millions on each stat with the right innocents.

One other thing, I should recommend to everyone - when you do the Chara world, make sure you pick jumping at the end. You'll want 25 jumping on all your squads at the minimum. (Jump is the green wing icon - most start at 15 or 20).

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