Get a fair way into a jrpg

>get a fair way into a jrpg
>look up a walkthrough
>I've missed almost everything

Don't play Tales of games.

I hate missables so much. It defeats the purpose of playing the game for fun and makes you rely on a guide especially if it's a 49 hour RPG. And then you'll have to play it all over again because that single CG is missing from the gallery. Pretty fucking terrible game design.

>playing Tales of Abyss
>nearly done with the game
>turns out the game has missables out the ass and I've missed nearly everything
And that's my first and last Tales of experience.

>playing Vanquish
>over 100 statues litter the 5 hour game and it's still tedious as fuck

>playing Yakuza 4
>beat it after 60 hours of constantly doing shit
>38.6% completion

>It's a Legend of Heroes game
>the missables have a time window of "stop whatever contiguous story-important thing you're participating in, walk all the way across the city, and talk to this bumfuck NPC stuck in a corner RIGHT NOW otherwise you've missed an item until your next playthrough that renders its entire collection/series of items useless unless you have all of the constituent parts in a complete set
I really, really want to not use a guide on these games; I really do, but they make it very difficult.

Pic related pretty much
>Final Dungeon
>realize I'm missing half the swords
>the most important sword is locked behind a quest that you have to complete as you progress through the game
I'll never finish this shit

I never finished a single JRPG.

There's always some enemy 2/3rds of the way through that ends up punishing every choice I made in character building, and seeing as perseverance won't work like western games I just give up.

>jrpg
>missing anything
Haha, that's good a one!

Yeah Abyss is really REALLY bad in this regard. You HAVE to use a guide if you want to get through the side quests in most Tales games, which is a shame because that's where a shit ton of the lore is

Still a fun as fuck game, but yeah it's weirdly designed

Did they really pull the same shit as King's Field 4 where you have to find the completely mundane sword and then like 10 macguffins and then find the locked door to put the mundane sword in a tree stump to get the moonlight sword?

Reason I stopped playing FFVI and after that all jrpgs.
Fuck that genre.

>playing a jrpg

What fucking jrpgs are you playing where you're fucking up that badly?

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>This is Silver Surfer... SILVER SHIT

>LOOKS SO STUPID, I mean what the hell is wrong with him, he's just like ugh, like ugh

>JRPG has treasure maps
>instead of an actual image they're just cryptic clues
>"Treasure awaits where you least expect it"

How bad is Tales of Symphonia in that regard?

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They were meant to be nice bonuses you find in a playthrough and then you discuss about them with your friend on how cool it was you found one he missed but the guy found another pair.

Not for autists who want to 100% the game even though there's no fucking reason to.

Dragon's Dogma got me so bad with this.

So many severed questlines because I didn't know you had to continue them by finding them throughout the game world.

I even managed to fuck myself out of ever getting the only waifu character I wanted as well because I didn't get far enough into her story arc before I went to a new act.

Missable events are the worst thing in RPGs.

Danganronpa 2 has some pretty nice and harmless missables.

What is "The last remnant"

Play through Tales of Vesperia blind without missing anything.

>only way to 100% the game is to play through it 4 times
>game deletes ALL of your saves at the end

fuck you Yoko Taro

i like how lost odyssey handled it, there weren't really missables and in the worst case scenario the item could come up at a special auction.

I can't wait to see what kind of save-deletion Nier 2 has!

>jrpg missables thread
>ctrl+f
>"suikoden"
>0 results

You fuckers don't even know.

>finish true end of Automata
>deletes your entire HDD

TAROOOOOOOOOOOO

Achievement deletion, probably. Make it like you never played the game.

>playing a long RPG or long game
>stop due to work, assignments or other commitments
>don't know where the fuck you are i the game and can't get back into it properly


goddamn I hate this

Nigga, what game? Looks charming as fuck.

Is that Golden Sun: TLA? I recognize that art style but haven't played Lost Age on my Wii U yet.

>Play a Souls game
>Miss every optional boss or area

>Disgaea is only 25% off
FFFFFFF

>Play Romancing Saga
>This looks like a pretty interesting take on JRPGs!
>Everything is time windowed
>Time moves on as you fight enemies
>Everything is missable
>Everything is on a countdown
>Quests that need quests that need quests right at the start of the game
>TIME MOVES ON BY FIGHTING ENEMIES
>YOU NEED TO FIGHT ENEMIES TO GET SKILL
>IF YOU FIGHT TOO MANY ENEMIES WHILE DOING A QUEST IT MIGHT CANCEL ITSELF HALFWAY

>want to do the Clive sidequest in 2
>feel like I need to rush past other missables to do it in time

That's just your own fault for not exploring properly.
Missing places like The Great Hollow is understandable, but you're definitely doing something wrong if you miss -every- optional boss and area.

get troll

What do you think the Silver Surfer's poop smells like, hahah.

Looks like Golden sun

>look up basic stat descriptions because I don't have a manual
>password to an early game secret I'm supposed to spend most of the game figuring out is in the same post